Are The “Alt-Left” & Alt-Right &

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The 2017 Trump

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August 11, 2017 – August 23, 2017

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 Former Mueller Deputy On Trump:
'Government Is Going To Kill This Guy'
By Joe Concha
08/11/17 09:51 AM EDT
CNN counterterrorism analyst Phil Mudd warned that
President Trump is agitating the government, saying
during a Thursday afternoon interview with CNN anchor
Jake Tapper that the U.S. government
"is going to kill this guy."
Mudd, who served as deputy director to former FBI
Director Robert Mueller, said Trump's defense of Russian
President Vladimir Putin has compelled federal employees
"at Langley, Foggy Bottom, CIA and State" to try to take
Trump down.
"Let me give you one bottom line as a
former government official. Government is
going to kill this guy," Mudd, a staunch
critic of Trump, said on "The Lead."
"He defends Vladimir Putin. There are
State Department and CIA officers coming
home, and at Langley and Foggy Bottom,
CIA and State, they’re saying, 'This is how
you defend us?' " he continued.
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Mudd also broached Trump's recent announcement of a
ban on transgender soldiers in the military as another
reason some in the government are turning on him.
"We saw the same thing in his transgender
comments. What is the military saying to
him on transgender? 'Show us the policy.'
You know what that means inside
government? 'Ain’t going to happen,' " he
said.
Mudd pivoted to a newly revealed July FBI raid on the
home of former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort
to emphasize his point about the mistrust between the
intelligence community and the president.
"What did the Department of Justice say on
Paul Manafort? 'You can say what you
want, a judge told us we had cause to
search his home early in the morning
because we don’t trust the guy who was
your campaign manager.' The government
is going to kill this guy because he doesn't
support them," he concluded.
Leaks out of the White House and the intelligence
community have occurred on a regular basis since Trump
took office.
Many in Washington, including Democrats, expressed
concern last week after transcripts of Trump’s phone calls
with foreign leaders were leaked to The Washington Post,
citing national security concerns.
“This is beyond the pale and will have a
chilling effect going forward on the ability of
the commander in chief to have candid
discussions with his counterparts,” Ned
Price, a former National Security Council
official under former President Obama, told
The Hill.
“Granted, the White House contributed to
this atmosphere by welcoming the free-for-
all environment, where anonymous leaks
are commonplace. But we must draw the
line somewhere.”
 When Is A Russian 'Hack' Not A Hack?
Evidence Suggests DNC Email Hack Was An Inside Job
By Jennifer Kerns
| Aug 11, 2017, 11:56 AM
One year ago, the news broke that the Democratic National
Committee had been hacked. Tongues began wagging and
fingers began pointing that Russia was behind it. However,
Democrats might want to get the Kremlin on the phone
and offer an apology because a new report suggests the
DNC hack may not have been a "hack" at all.
It could have been an inside job.
According to a new report at The Nation, forensic experts
and former national security advisers have quietly gathered
over the last several months to examine the breach and
they have determined the DNC email hack heard ‘round
the world was conducted from within the DNC.
The report says that "forensic investigators, intelligence
analysts, system designers, program architects, and
computer scientists of long experience and strongly
credentialed are now producing evidence disproving the
official version of key events last year. Their work is
intricate and continues at a kinetic pace as we speak."
The group found that
"there was no hack of the Democratic
National Committee's system on July 5 last
year—not by the Russians, not by anyone
else."
The report continues,
"Hard science now demonstrates it was a
leak—a download executed locally with a
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memory key or a similarly portable data-
storage device. In short, it was an inside
job by someone with access to the DNC's
system."
So, who leaked the emails?
Was it someone at the DNC who, after a bruising primary
season, didn't like Hillary Clinton? It's possible.
Could it have been the infamous Awan brothers who acted
not only as IT aides to Congress, but as IT consultants to
the DNC? It's not only possible, but feasible given what we
know now.
Or could it have been the DNC itself, leaking emails
disguised as a hack to illicit sympathy and to create
confusion in the election?
No one knows just yet, but investigators are getting closer
to pinpointing the source.
Until they do, it looks like the DNC owes a big apology to
Russia and to President Trump.
For a year the DNC allowed Russia to take the fall for a
hack that never happened. They also suggested that then-
candidate Trump would condone such criminal activity,
when it's been demonstrated that Democrats are the ones
who clearly have a problem keeping information
technology safe.
First, it was Hillary Clinton storing emails on her own
personal server, bleaching 33,000 emails and destroying
BlackBerry SIM cards.
Next, it was Huma Abedin storing official State
Department emails on her laptop at home which she shared
with her husband Anthony Weiner – known in the sexting
world as "Carlos Danger" – clearly someone who has little
self-control over his own devices, both electronic and
otherwise. Law enforcement believed the laptop had been
hacked, according to the official FBI search warrant.
Next came the revelation that former DNC chairwoman
and Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., knowingly
allowed an IT aide to remain on staff after law
enforcement discovered he had breached the House
Intelligence Committee and House Foreign Affairs
Committee mainframes. In fact, she helped him
circumvent the House ban on his employ by turning him
into an "adviser" who continued to have access to dozens
of top Congress members' documents and emails. She
provided Imran Awan the password to her iPad containing
DNC emails around the time the "hack" took place.
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Of course, people probably won't hear much about this on
the evening news. The mainstream media is great at
pushing fake Russian narratives that even The New York
Times calls "sensational, unverified." However, the media
is not as good at admitting when the trail has gone cold.
Yet another Russian collusion fairytale turns to dust for the
Democrats as it is discovered that the only "hacks" at the
DNC are the ones who sit in the press office.
 Trump: Kim Jong Un 'Will Regret It Fast'
If He Attacks Guam, US Allies
By Alex Pappas
Published August 11, 2017
President Trump said Friday that North Korean leader Kim
Jong Un will "regret it fast" if he threatens or attacks any
U.S. territory or ally, while acknowledging his team is
considering military options “very carefully.”
“If he does anything with respect to Guam
or any place else that's an American
territory or an American ally, he will truly
regret it and he will regret it fast,” Trump
told reporters Friday afternoon at his New
Jersey golf club.
The warning was the latest escalation in what has become
a war of words between the two countries. Trump has
spent the week turning up the heat on North Korea,
specifically warning the regime of real consequences if it
carries out an attack on Guam, the U.S. territory the
country has threatened.
“This man will not get away with what he’s
doing, believe me,” Trump said of Kim.
Later Friday, Trump met with his national security team
and told reporters he’s still hoping for a “peaceful
solution.”
"Hopefully it will all work out,” he said.
“Nobody loves a peaceful solution better
than President Trump, that I can tell you.”
The president made the comments after meeting Friday
afternoon with UN ambassador Nikki Haley, Secretary of
State Rex Tillerson and national security adviser H.R.
McMaster.
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“We think that lots of good things could
happen and we could also have a bad
solution,” he said.
Pressed by a reporter if that meant war with North Korea,
Trump replied:
“I think you know the answer to that.”
Again referencing Pyongyang’s threats of attacking an
U.S. territory, the president issued a warning.
“If anything happens to Guam, there’s
going to be big, big trouble in North Korea."
Earlier Friday, the president warned North Korea on
Twitter that the United States’ military was “locked and
loaded,” and urged the rogue regime’s dictator to “find
another path.”
“Military solutions are now fully in place,
locked and loaded, should North Korea act
unwisely. Hopefully Kim Jong Un will find
another path!” the president tweeted Friday
morning.
Asked by a reporter Friday what he meant by military
solutions, he said:
“We are looking at that very carefully, and I
hope that they are going to fully understand
the gravity of what I said. And what I said is
what I mean.”
Trump added:
“Those words are very, very easy to
understand.”
The regime has recently made several threats to the United
States amid a new United Nations sanctions package that
was passed unanimously last week.
North Korea’s state news agency most recently warned
“even a single shell dropped on the Korean
Peninsula might lead to the outbreak of …
thermonuclear war.”
“We consider the U.S. no more than a lump
which we can beat to a jelly any time,” the
Korean Central News Agency said, quoting
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Institute of International Studies researcher
Kang Kum Chol.
The president is meeting Friday afternoon with Nikki
Haley, the U.S. ambassador to the United States, and
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and is expected to address
the media afterwards.
 TRUMP’s Lawyer Just EXPOSED
Lynch’s WORST Nightmare On Live TV (VIDEO)
By John Webber
Posted On August 11, 2017

The emails now reveal that an email went from the FBI, to
the DOJ all the way up to Obama’s White House.

This is Loretta Lynch and Obama’s

worst nightmare.

They thought they had gotten away with this ILLEGAL

meeting that may have convinced Lynch not to bring
charges against Hillary Clinton. These emails can prove
collusion and obstruction of justice.

Jay Sekulow – President Trump’s lawyer, just won a Sekulow goes on to show these emails on LIVE TV and
lawsuit against the Justice Department that revealed new they’re worse than anyone imagined.
details about the tarmac meeting between Loretta Lynch
and Bill Clinton. WATCH the video below then SHARE on
Facebook so we can make it go viral!
The Justice Department had to release 413 pages of
documents from the infamous June 2016 tarmac meeting.
This comes after James Comey testified under oath that
there WERE no documents. But it gets even worse.

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 Brent Bozell: During Crisis,
Media Try To ‘Rally American People’
Against Trump
By NB Staff
August 11, 2017 11:25 AM EDT
Media Research Center President Brent Bozell appeared
on the Fox Business Channel, Friday, to decry journalists
hammering Donald Trump’s response to the North Korean
threat. Bozell marveled,
“In the last three days, the national news
media have given more attention criticizing
the Commander-in-Chief of the United
States than criticizing the man who is
saying he is going to drop an atomic bomb
on an American territory.”
The MRC President attacked this as an example of “the
news media [trying]to rally the American people against
the Commander-in-Chief.” He concluded,
“There is nothing mainstream about the
news media anymore. As we have said
many times, they want this man removed
from office. This is the degree to which
they're willing to go.”
A transcript is below:
Varney and Co.
8/11/17
10:06am ET
STUART VARNEY: Now this. The mainstream media continues
to hammer President Trump for his tough talk on North Korea.
Roll that tape.
[Montage of journalists bashing Trump on North Korea.]
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VARNEY: Bluster, that is what it is. Joining us now, Brent Bozell,
President of the Media Research Center. Brent, I'm so surprised
that the media’s critique of the President focuses almost entirely
on his language, not the position he staked out in this crisis, but
the language he has used. What say you?
BRENT BOZELL: Yeah. Well, to the point that we have never
heard this kind of bluster from an American president, how is this
for a quote? “We will obliterate Japan, a rain of ruin, the likes of
which they have never, the world has never seen before. That
was Harry Truman, 1945. How about this? “Quickly and
overwhelming retaliate and end that country as they know it.” Bill
Clinton talking about North Korea, 1993. Exactly the terminology
that Donald Trump has been using, an can you recall anyone
ever criticizing Bill Clinton for that? To what degree are they
criticizing Donald Trump? I want you to think about this. I want
audience to think about this very carefully.
In the last three days the national news media have the given
more attention criticizing the Commander-in-Chief of the United
States than criticizing the man who is saying he is going to drop
an atomic bomb on American territory.
VARNEY: Yeah, think about it. It is astonishing, isn't it? It is
astonishing this should be the case and they are criticizing the
language used as opposed to this extraordinary crisis which has
developed. And he is the commander-in-chief of the United
States of America. It is astonishing. You and I have spoken
countless times, I have often, always said, I'm sure that things
are going to turn. I thought that things would turn in this particular
crisis but they hate him so much, they are so contemptuous, they
just can't change their line of attack.
BOZELL: I can't recall anytime in modern American history or
maybe in history at all, where the news media tried to rally the
American people against the Commander-in-Chief. It is always
been a case, no matter who the president was, that in a time of
war, whether it was 9/11 or anything else, the country rallied
behind the commander-in-chief by the media.
These attacks, Stuart, are not coming just from left-wing radical
guests. They're coming from the likes of NBC anchor Lester Holt,
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CNN anchor Jake Tapper and others. This is the quote, un quote,
mainstream press. There is nothing mainstream about the news
media anymore. As we have said many times, they want this
man removed from office. This is the degree to which they're
willing to go.
VARNEY: I think you summed it up precisely. Brent Bozell,
thanks for joining us.
 Dina Habib Powell: McMaster’s Huma Abedin
This Is What The Swamp Looks Like.
Daniel Greenfield
August 11, 2017
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom
Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical
left and Islamic terrorism.
The media dubbed her the Republican Huma Abedin.
She’s been one of the most powerful women in two
Republican administrations. She’s friends with Valerie
Jarrett. And you’ve never heard her name.
Flash back to the spring of this year.
Cameras flashed as Aya Hijazi sat next to President
Trump. Media reports described her as an imprisoned
rescue worker who had been released from Egypt after
administration intervention.
Aya Hijazi was also the photogenic face of a campaign
against the post-Brotherhood Egyptian government. If you
believed the stories, Hijazi had learned French and Spanish
while in prison. Photos showed her reading Maya
Angelou's ‘I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings’ behind
bars. Snaps from that calculated photoshoot would be used
to illustrate countless media sob stories about her plight in
prison.
Mohamed Hassanein, her husband, received far less
attention. As did the other arrested members of the Belady
Foundation which had been accused of using street
children in Muslim Brotherhood riots.
Aya’s cause was quickly taken up by all the usual suspects.
Hillary Clinton had met with President Sisi and called for
Hijazi’s release. Rep. Gerry Connolly, the go-to guy for
Muslim Brotherhood front groups, had blustered, "The
Egyptian government mistakes American resolve.” Avril
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Haines, the former indie bookstore owner who had been
appointed by Obama as Deputy Director of the CIA and
Deputy National Security Advisor, despite having no
relevant experience, met with Hijazi’s family and issued a
statement demanding her release.
None of this meant that Hassanein and Hijazi were guilty
of the charges. Politically they appeared to be closer to the
left than to the Islamists. Hijazi hasn’t worn a hijab outside
of her imprisonment.
But the larger question is whose interests were being
served by bringing her to the White House?
In a PBS interview, Aya Hijazi challenged President
Trump’s praise for Egypt’s leader. She accused him of
keeping “thousands of wrongly imprisoned people” in
prison. “It’s not just for fighting terrorism,” she insisted.
And she made a point of correcting President Trump on
the Muslim Brotherhood.
"It seemed like he had this idea that... it
was at the time of the Muslim
Brotherhood," Hijazi said. "So, he was like,
'So was your arrest — be at the time of the
Brotherhood?' And I said, no. And then he
said, 'Oh, it was at the time of Sisi.' And he
was taken aback. It seemed, like, different
to what he had in mind."
The media had agitated for Hijazi because it served its
agenda of opposing Sisi and supporting the Brotherhood.
Bringing Hijazi to the White House appeared to serve the
same agenda. She was meant as an object lesson to Trump
that the real bad guys weren’t the Brotherhood, but the
Egyptian military.
Hijazi was escorted back from Egypt by Dina Habib
Powell. And Habib Powell was there sitting opposite
Ivanka and Jared at the meeting with President Trump. In
the media, Powell is often associated with Ivanka. And
indeed, Ivanka posed with Hijazi in a widely circulated
photo. But she is also so much more.
Dina Habib Powell was an influential figure in the Bush
administration. The Egyptian-American immigrant had
served as a gatekeeper for George W. Bush. If you wanted
a job, you went through her. Barely 30, Habib Powell had
more power than many of the big Bush era names you do
know.
Then she took on the mission of promoting America to the
Muslim world at the State Department. There were cultural
exchanges with Iran and money for Lebanon and the
Palestinian Authority. Afterward it was off to make
millions through philanthropy at the Goldman Sachs
Foundation.
When President Trump took office, Avril Haines was
replaced by K. T. McFarland at the National Security
Council. McFarland had worked at the Pentagon under
Reagan and her views on Islamic terror were forthright.
"Global Islamist jihad is at war with all of Western
Civilization," she said after the Charlie Hebdo attacks. She
called for profiling terrorists and an end to the big lie of
political correctness.
"They have launched a guerrilla war
against us in our own neighborhoods. They
shout 'Allahu Akbar, The Prophet is
Avenged.' We’re still calling it 'workplace
violence,' 'senseless killings' or 'man-
caused disasters.' Our leaders insist these
are criminal acts, not acts of war."
Of the Muslim Brotherhood, McFarland correctly pointed
out that, “The Muslim Brotherhood was the godfather of
al-Qaeda. The number 2 guy in al-Qaeda was Muslim
Brotherhood.”
When Flynn was forced out and McMaster took over, there
was no room for her views at the NSC.
At an NSC meeting, H.R. McMaster insisted that Islamic
terror had nothing to do with Islam. The use of “radical
Islamic terrorism” was a mistake. McFarland was in
attendance.
Before long, McMaster had pushed out McFarland and
replaced her with Dina Habib Powell.
Habib Powell had all the right friends. Like Valerie Jarrett.
Arianna Huffington praised the White House for bringing
her in. Her ex-husband heads up Teneo Strategy: the
organization created by the same man who made the
Clinton Foundation happen and which employed Huma
Abedin.
You could see her posing next to Huma, Arianna and a
Saudi princess. You can see her photographed at the
American Task Force of Palestine gala. The ATFP was
originally Rashid Khalidi’s American Committee on
Jerusalem. Khalidi was the former PLO spokesman at the
center of the Obama tape scandal. And Habib Powell was
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there as a presenter at the Middle East Institute after a
speech by the PLO’s Hanan Ashrawi.
Unlike McFarland, Habib Powell had no national security
background. But though her parents were Christians, she
had the “right” views on Islam. In Egypt, she had
described how Bush after September 11 had, “visited a
mosque, took off his shoes and paid his respects.” "I see
the president talk of Islam as a religion of peace, I see him
host an iftar every year.” Habib Powell had attended such
an iftar dinner.
While President Trump fights to restrict Muslim
immigration, back in the Bush era, Habib Powell had
bragged on CNN,
“Over 90% of student visas are now issued
in under a week, and that is in the Middle
East.”
Habib Powell has been described as the Republican Huma
Abedin. And she was quoted as saying that Abedin
“feels a deep responsibility to encourage
more mutual understanding between her
beliefs and culture and American culture.”
Within a short time, Habib Powell became the Senior
Counselor for Economic Initiatives, the Deputy National
Security Advisor for Strategy and was being put forward
as Chief of Staff. If Kelly doesn’t work out, the effort to
move her up will resume. And then the gatekeeper will be
back at the gate.
Dina Habib Powell is a deep part of the Republican
establishment. Her top role at the NSC represents
McMaster’s vision for our approach to Islam. And it’s an
echo of the failed approach of the Bush years. Flynn made
the NSC into a tool that matched Trump’s vision.
McMaster is remaking it to match Jeb Bush’s vision.
The Hijazi stunt was the public manifestation of an effort
to pull Trump away from President Sisi and guide him into
the same old swamp of pushing democracy and political
change in Egypt. There is worse taking place behind the
scenes. The NSC purge of personnel who understand the
threat of Islamic terrorism is not a mere political power
struggle, it’s policy. McMaster is just the public face of it.
The swamp is deeper than most understand or imagine.
When you come to the city of government buildings and
lobbyists, it’s all around you. And if you take a wrong
step, it sucks you in. The real power doesn’t belong to the
politicians you elect, but to bureaucrats and staffers, to the
people who, like Huma Abedin or Dina Habib Powell, are
talented at knowing the right people.
 When we talk about the swamp, it’s not an organization. time, if you don’t wake up resisting it and go to bed
It’s a way of life. If you’re not fighting the swamp all the fighting free of it, you will drown in it.

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 Dear President Trump:
What The F* Business Is Venezuela Of Ours?
Posted By Mish
August 11, 2017 8:12:23

Dear President Trump, forgive my harsh language, but

since you and your staff can use harsh language, why can’t Ten Questions for Trump
anyone else?
1. Are you willing to “own” the problems in Venezuela?
That’s a minor question. Since you are busy, I prefer an 2. What does “necessary” mean?
answer to this question: 3. Did US nation building in Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan work?
4. Did not Vietnam turn out OK starting the moment we
left?
What the F Business is Venezuela of
5. Did the US intervene to stop hyperinflation in
Ours?
Zimbabwe? Argentina?
6. Are there not more repressive regimes in Africa?
I ask because you stated: 7. What’s different about Venezuela?
8. By any chance is this about oil?
“We have many options for Venezuela 9. Other than oil, what the F business is Venezuela of
including a possible military option if ours?
necessary.” 10. Regardless of your threats and concerns, when has US
nation building ever worked?

I thank you in advance for your answers.

Bonus Question

Dear Mr. President, I almost forgot: How do you propose

we pay for a military solution in Venezuela?

I voted for you and would appreciate some answers.

Unless you can provide answers, I strongly suggest we do

Dear President Trump, here are some additional questions not need another quagmire, we cannot afford another
that I am sure are on the minds of nearly everyone familiar quagmire, and we should stay the F* out of it.
with the story.
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Putin: North Korea Doesn't Have Nuclear Weapons, It Has
Trillions In Minerals Russian President Exposes Truth
Behind World War 3 Tensions With Kim Jong-Un
By: Jay Greenberg |@Neonnettle
11th August 2017 @ 11.21am
Russian President Vladimir Putin reveals the truth behind WW3
threat
Russian President Vladimir Putin has blown the whistle on
the real reason that the world is on the brink of all-out
nuclear war.
According to Mr. Putin, the story being pushed in the
mainstream media that North Korea has nuclear weapons
is a complete fabrication designed convince the public that
the hermit nation is a global threat.
"[North Korea] don't have any nuclear
weapons. This is a lie being forced on the
people by the corporate-owned Western
media", said Putin during an emotionally
charged Q&A session in Sochi.
"They know they can easily provoke the
North Koreans and they will react, but the
story that they are a threat is false."
"I will tell you the facts about North Korea:
They don't have nuclear bombs. They don't
have Western-controlled banks. They don't
depend on the US dollar. What they do
have is a land full of wealth in unmined
minerals."
According to Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov,
President Putin has
"had some time away to reflect" on the US-
North Korean conflict and believes that the
situation has "gone too far".
Putin went on to say that Kim Jong-un
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"would never launch a real attack, it'd be
suicidal. Pyongyang knows this and so
does Washington".
At an event on Tuesday on the topic of Americans over-
using opioids, Donald Trump said:
"North Korea best not make any more
threats to the United States. They will be
met with fire and fury like the world has
never seen."
President Trump made the comment in response to an
article in the Washington Post that stated:
North Korea has successfully produced a
miniaturized nuclear warhead that can fit
inside its missiles, crossing a key threshold
on the path to becoming a full-fledged
nuclear power, U.S. intelligence officials
have concluded in a confidential
assessment.
The analysis, completed last month by the Defense
Intelligence Agency, comes on the heels of another
intelligence assessment that sharply raises the official
estimate for the total number of bombs in the communist
country’s atomic arsenal. The United States calculated last
month that up to 60 nuclear weapons are now controlled
by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
Up to now, the only real evidence of North Korea having
weapons of mass destruction is what is being pushed in the
mainstream media.
According to Mr. Putin, it's
"the same thing that happened in Iraq and
Libya".
In the situations with both Iraq and Lybia, both countries
were invaded by the West and their leaders were executed
for war crimes without any real proof.

What Putin has stated about the real reasons for attacking
North Korea also ring true.
Their banking system isn't controlled by the IMF and they
don't have a Rothschild-controlled world bank, nor are
they dependent on the US dollar.
It's also reported that the country has between $6-10
trillion in untapped natural resources.
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According to Quartz, below the nation’s mostly
mountainous surface are vast mineral reserves, including
iron, gold, magnesite, zinc, copper, limestone,
molybdenum, graphite, and more—all told about 200 kinds
of minerals.
Also present are large amounts of rare earth metals, which
factories in nearby countries need to make smartphones
and other high-tech products. Estimates as to the value of
the nation’s mineral resources have varied greatly over the
years, made difficult by secrecy and lack of access.
North Korea itself has made what are likely exaggerated
claims about them. According to one estimate from a
South Korean state-owned mining company, they’re worth
over $6 trillion.
Another from a South Korean research institute puts the
amount closer to $10 trillion.
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By Joseph Natoli
August 11, 2017
“He’s not going anywhere.”
— Michael Moore
Some are hopefully expecting the Trump Days to end
before he tweets us into a nuclear blitz with North Korea.
President Trump’s declaration that “North
Korea best not make any more threats to
the United States” of course resulted in
another threat from North Korea. The New
York Times reported, “The ad-libbed
comments embodied Mr. Trump’s overall
approach to foreign policy, an
improvisational style that often leaves his
national security team in the dark about
what he is going to say or do.” (Glenn
Thrush and Peter Baker, “Trump’s Threat
to North Korea was Improvised,” Aug. 9,
2017).
Defense Secretary Mattis rushed in to revise Trump’s
words:
“actions” not “threats” would be the line Kim
Jong Un had to cross before we engaged
in “overwhelming response.” Cease any
consideration of actions that would lead to
the end of its regime and destruction of its
people,”
Mattis’s words should have been Trump’s words. But they
were not because Trump is impervious to the counsel of
others, perhaps because his experience and erudition
regarding international diplomacy is so remarkable. Of
course, if he was elected to “deconstruct” any such
qualifications, his sort of shoot from the hip diplomacy
should appeal to his supporters.
Regardless of all that, it is clear that Kim Jong Un uses the
same style as Trump so it is possible to imagine that our
end is in the hands of two warring volatile ego maniacs,
avoiding any armchair psychiatry and employing the same
school yard analytics as Trump and Kim Jong Un.
Those hopefully expecting that Trump will deconstruct the
Administrative State are of course not looking forward to
his end, nor are they contemplating that he might lead
them to their own end. Once all that deconstruction, pace
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Derrida, is ended then presumably, Trump will have made
America great again. That may take two terms, a full eight
years. And then Trump will end and his face will go on
Mt. Rushmore. If that has not dissolved in “fire and fury.”
Those who discount politics and keep their eye on the Dow
might then discount the importance of Trump in or out of
the presidency.
But that is a ruse thrown about by those whose hands are
controlling more and more of the governmental throttles
that could obstruct their market free play. And President
Trump is their enabler, the one issuing their carte blanche.
The climbing stock market would most likely climb faster
with Pence at the helm as a Pax Republicana would settle
on two branches of government. The Republican Party
could breathe easier over its pet projects, namely,
globalized free trade and entitlement “reformation,” if
Trump were gone and Pence was in his place. But the
Republican Party will earn the ire of the Trump supporters
if they bring impeachment charges against Trump. That
would put them on about an equal level of opprobrium as
the Democratic Party.
This brings us to the realization that Trump supporters
would prefer to see the end of both political parties and all
politics and all government run by politicians than the end
of Trump’s presidency. How U.S. politics has gotten to
this vanishing point takes us from and beyond the scope of
the topic of Trump’s end to a time before, a “Path to
Trump” exploration.
Conservative purists would like to see Trump gone.
They are offended by Trump’s violation of “true”
Conservatism, which David Brooks describes grandly:
The very essence of conservatism is the
belief that politics is a limited activity, and
that the most important realms are pre-
political: conscience, faith, culture, family
and community. (“The Conservative
Intellectual Crisis,” NYTimes, Oct. 28,
2016). These “most important realms” are
trashed with every new Trump tweet, which
unnerves all those who go on as if some
 ideal, conscionable, compassionate
Conservatism ever existed.
For all those unnerved by Trump’s presidency, he is a
crisis that must end.
Following Naomi Klein’s “shock doctrine,” we could
surmise that the Trump presidency is the shock, “creating
chaos daily” in her words, and that what comes in response
will be a more deeply etched plutocratic order that will
make all already resident plutocrats happy.
In short, what is envisioned here is an entrenchment of
Trump’s pro-corporate, government de-regulating,
environmental degrading policies, including corporate
leadership of government departments and agencies. But
without Trump. He was the crisis that brought Neoliberal
economic policies to the rescue, with so much gratitude
from all.
What else lies in the wake of Trump’s end?
What Trump has torn apart and ridiculed, the Democratic
Party included, to the joy of his supporters, will not be re-
built easily, just as those supporters will not easily go
away. Trump’s end will not be theirs. But they will inherit
from Trump a presidential establishment of a world of
xenophobia and racism, of mockery of government and
politics, of deregulating toward prosperity, of global
warming denial, of Twitter as public discourse, of personal
attacks as presidential and a tearing of a cohering fabric of
a civil society.
Trump ends but the world he has suddenly shifted us into
is not one we can just wish away.
For example, how easy will it be to go back to the idea that
“fake” news can be objectively assessed to be true or
false? Or how easy will it be to get a rational response to
an argument based on “alternative facts”? How quickly
will a legacy press be able to shut down an online moshpit
of screeds and venomous screams? He’s a buffoonish
leader in the eyes of those who eye the U.S. closely and
who must surely conclude that U.S. electorate is indeed a
very malleable body, rather like Robert Mugabe whom
many Zimbabweans support regardless of what chicanery
he is up to. It is difficult to see who will get us out of this
total collapse in worldwide respect.
However, the Dow Jones is not collapsing. Ending Trump
might equate with ending the Dow’s climb. We can return
to globalization and entitlement reformation and other
Neoliberal desires after Trump ends but right now, he is a
crisis that is already energizing a bullish market.
Wishing for Trump’s end would be like wishing for the
end of the goose laying the golden eggs. It may be that
Steve Bannon has a sort of U.S. Uber Alles mission, which
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Trump sees as a workable discourse to latch onto. But
Trump’s real goal is transparent: monetize the presidency
and leave office with the coffers of the Trump Empire
overflowing. This is not an indictable matter in a country
whose business is business, or, more descriptively, making
a profit, for the “general Welfare,” any way and any where
you can. Regardless of what Mueller’s investigation
reveals, Trump’s financial arrangements may not seem at
all reprehensible to those who engage in the same.
In short, it would be very much against the grain of the
way we do business in the U.S. to end Trump’s days by
going after his profit making, even when he is monetizing
the presidency right in front of our faces.
Wage earners are not looking for Trump’s regime to end
because it promises them so much that political parties,
government, and Wall Street cannot give them. They
expect Trump will be the leverage positioned against all
employers to win for them their piece of the pie. This is
surely a kind of hope in a noblesse oblige felt by super-
luminaries like Trump who dispense their beneficence as
the mood inclines them.
On a darker side, Trump has promised to purge the country
of the “unhomgeneous” elements, which in an already
seriously multi-cultural country can only mean anyone
who does not share your delineation of the necessary
homogeneous attributes. That is a mission that has endured
in the loathsome abyss of the American mass psyche and
one that Trump has brought into the Oval Office. Trump’s
ending then would end that easy and presidentially
championed access of the worst in our natures into the
light of day.
Because Trump comes on the scene promising to end so
much that so many hate, that a focus should be on his
presence not his end. His presence on the political scene is
a welcomed relief; his end would be mourned.
Those who believe this are desperate for anything and
anyone who does not resemble in any way a forty odd year
status quo that has thrown their middle class security out
the window and frozen an underclass in place. Zizek
preferred Trump to Hillary because he would surely shake
up the system and she would run in the same ruts that have
led to plutocracy.
If there was a common attitude pervading the American
mass psyche of wage earners on the eve of the presidential
election, I believe it was: “Anything is better than what
we’ve got now.” This was destruction of the status quo
without any rationale or rationalizing of such destruction.
It was just better in the way you just want something
wiped clean without thinking of consequences.
If you travel about the U.S., most certainly in the Rust Belt
states, you will clearly see evidence supporting the case for
ending whatever over the past forty or so years has led to
this. You can Uber, of course, to only the gentrified, gated
compound areas of any American town but beware if your
car breaks down in Bonfire of the Vanities manner.
But in a plutocracy which extends to the “obscenely” rich
(although Americans are in no way hardwired to view a lot
of money as obscene) and the 20% professional class
serving them, both doing nicely on their dividends,
interests, retainer fees, royalties, everything but wages,
there is little reason to venture outside the Green Zone of
prosperity. Only, perhaps, like in a raiding Viking manner
to make a strictly financial engagement to gentrify
potentially gentrifiable real estate.
Trump’s end may only come when those greedily waiting
for the cookies he promises to drop in their laps are ready
to end that reign. With a Congress ready and able to pass
the dream legislation of Neoliberals, the legislation that
will return to them the kind of financial speculative
wilding” that led to the 2007 Great Recession, there is no
power consensus to end Trump’s regime. The White
House drama, most especially Trump’s own, is no more
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than an annoyance to those waiting for the slots to give out
the big wins.
Trump’s end comes when this crowd wakes up one day
and thinks Trump is a bigger liability to conservative,
neoliberal ideology than he’s worth, that he’s so imploded
himself that he can’t give them what they want. That
power consensus then is that he was all along a crisis
generating only a daily chaos, via twitter, that will now be
repaired and resolved by the recuperative powers of The
Market.
The difficult work of destroying a democratic political
order, a trust in its elections, a bonding level of civility, a
respect for the importance of the Fourth Estate, and a
comprehension of the “general Welfare” is work already
being done by President Trump. It is a legacy that has
weakened any Liberal/Leftist platform, even beyond how
that Democratic Party has weakened itself since Clinton
announced the end of “Big Government. What Trump has
not weakened and endures beyond Trump’s end is profit as
a plan, monetizing everything from ties and steaks to the
presidency as a way forward.
 MSNBC Panel All Agree: Trump
A ‘Borderline Irrational Leader’ Like Kim Jong-Un
By Kyle Drennen
August 11, 2017 12:27 PM EDT
On her 9 a.m. ET hour show, MSNBC host Stephanie
Ruhle and her panel of political analysts all agreed that
Donald Trump was just as dangerous, if not more so, that
North Korea dictator Kim Jong-un. Ruhle began the
segment by fretting:
“President Trump, we started with ‘fire
and fury,’ now ‘fully locked and
loaded’....But we’re talking about the
threat of nuclear war.”
Former Obama State Department official and Time
magazine editor Richard Stengel sneered:
“You know, it’s disturbing. Apart from
the fact that he seems to have borrowed
the North Korean speechwriters, what’s
disturbing is language like ‘locked and
loaded’ is not diplomatic language....Trump
using this bombastic language is that it can
potentially cause a miscalculation, a
mistake....we can have a terrible nuclear
potential mistake.”
Ruhle then turned to “Republican interpreter” Robert
Traynham to “dissect” Trump’s words. Traynham
acknowledged that the President “believes the soft
rhetoric, you know, these nuance statements, no disrespect
to the State Department, has not worked. He’s got point
there. He’s got a valid point.” However, he then compared
Trump to the brutal North Korean leader:
You’re also dealing with a very
emotional leader. When he’s offended,
he’s offended.... And so, that’s the
dangerous thing here, is that you have
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two very emotional leaders, dare I say
borderline irrational, and they both have
their thumb on the nuclear button and
that’s what’s really, really, really scary
here.
Ruhle eagerly seized on that
characterization: “...in terms of upping the
ante, two borderline irrational leaders,
Kim Jong-un and President Trump,
these are two gentlemen who are not afraid
of a fight, neither who back down, both who
insist on having the last word.” Turning to
Slate’s Michael Pesca, she worried: “Given
that, that is the two individuals we’re
working with, where could this go?”
Pesca actually argued that Kim Jong-un was more rational
than Trump:
“Well, first of all, I’d say Kim Jong-un is
rational. He’s evil, he’s despotic, but
nothing he’s done is not in his interest,
in terms of pursuing nuclear.”
Later in the exchange, he warned:
“Donald Trump is talking about, ‘If these
threats continue, you’re gonna get fire and
fury.’ Unless he delivers the fire and fury,
which I hope to God he doesn’t...I hate
even saying this on TV, because if we
convince him that he made a red line, he
might act on the red line.”
Stengel implored:
“There’s no action that can or should be
taken by either side....And the idea that
these guys are in a bargain and a kind of
dare is a terrible situation....There’s a lot of
negotiation and diplomacy that can happen
here, rather than this threatening crazy
language.”
The biased panel discussion was brought to viewers by
GEICO, Office Depot, and Bird’s Eye.
Here is a full transcript of the August 11 segment:
9:09 AM ET
STEPHANIE RUHLE: Now we have to turn to my stellar panel
this morning. Richard Stengel served as Undersecretary for
Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs at the State Department
under President Obama, Robert Traynham, a former
Bush/Cheney senior adviser, both MSNBC Senior Political
Analysts. And Slate’s Mike Pesca, host of The Gist podcast.
Richard, I gotta start with you. President Trump, we started with
“fire and fury,” now “fully locked and loaded.” You know, Kelly
O’Donnell...
RICHARD STENGEL: Alliteration, Stephanie.
RUHLE: ...saying off-hand this is branding. But we’re talking
about the threat of nuclear war. We’re talking about a nuclear
nation. What do you make of all this?
STENGEL: You know, it’s disturbing. Apart from the fact that he
seems to have borrowed the North Korean speechwriters, what’s
disturbing is language like “locked and loaded” is not diplomatic
language. It may might mean something to the North Koreans,
but what does it mean to our allies, to the South Koreans, to
Japan. They don’t know how to interpret this. And part of the
problem with Trump using this bombastic language is that it can
potentially cause a miscalculation, a mistake. Because nobody
knows how it’s done. The way it’s traditionally done is the
language comes to the NSC, it’s worked through the State
Department and everybody else, it’s sent out to the allies so
everybody’s on the same page, they know what it is. Now nobody
knows what he means. And that means we can have a terrible
nuclear potential mistake.
RUHLE: We have a Republican interpreter in the house today.
So Robert, I want to share more of what President Trump said
and maybe you can dissect it.
DONALD TRUMP: We are preparing for many different
alternative events at North Korea. He has disrespected our
country greatly, he has said things that are horrific. And with me
he’s not getting away with it.
RUHLE: How do you interpret that, “with me he’s not getting
away with that”? There's no diplomacy here. And many Trump
supporters would say who needs diplomats.
ROBERT TRAYNHAM: Yeah, I’m going to try to thread a needle
here. The positive to this is I think Donald Trump believes that
we’ve been disrespected for the last generation when it comes to
North Korea. I think he believes he inherited a mess, George W.
Bush, Barack Obama. I think he believes the soft rhetoric, you
know, these nuance statements, no disrespect to the State
Department, has not worked. He’s got point there. He’s got a
valid point. You’re also dealing with –
RUHLE: Well, we haven’t had a nuclear war with North Korea.
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TRAYNHAM: Of course, of course. You’re also dealing with a
very emotional leader. When he’s offended, he’s offended.
RUHLE: Which one are you talking about?
TRAYNHAM: Well, that’s my second point. And so, that’s the
dangerous thing here, is that you have two very emotional
leaders, dare I say borderline irrational, and they both have their
thumb on the nuclear button and that’s what’s really, really, really
scary here.
But Donald Trump has got, I think, a major point here that I don’t
think he’s very articulate in expressing: “The situation that I’ve
inherited is broken. This nuance stuff that we’ve tried over the
last 20 years has not worked. The reality is, I inherited this mess
and I’m try something different.” I'm not condoning it, but to your
point, I’m trying to interpret what he’s thinking.
RUHLE: Understood. Michael, in terms of upping the ante, two
borderline irrational leaders, Kim Jong-un and President Trump,
these are two gentlemen who are not afraid of a fight, neither
who back down, both who insist on having the last word. Given
that, that is the two individuals we’re working with, where could
this go?
MIKE PESCA: Well, first of all, I’d say Kim Jong-un is rational.
He’s evil, he’s despotic, but nothing he’s done is not in his
interest, in terms of pursuing nuclear.
(...)
PESCA: But think about the part where we’re communicating
deterrence. Donald Trump is talking about, “If these threats
continue, you’re gonna get fire and fury.” Unless he delivers the
fire and fury, which I hope to God he doesn’t –
TRAYNHAM: It’s his red line.
PESCA: Yeah, he – I hate even saying this on TV, because if we
convince him that he made a red line, he might act on the red
line. But think about what happens if he doesn’t act on this red
line. The entire message of deterrence gets weakened. Maybe
the North Koreans then start thinking, “Huh, maybe the United
States doesn’t really retaliate no matter what we do. It just
weakens our entire strategy of communicating,“You cannot use a
nuclear missile or else you’ll get destroyed.”
STENGEL: There’s no action that can or should be taken by
either side. I mean, one reason that we haven’t had this resolve
over all these generations is there are no good options, there are
no good military options. And the idea that these guys are in a
bargain and a kind of dare is a terrible situation. And so, the idea
is to have something that people have talked about, military-to-
military talks so that there aren’t mistakes. There’s a lot of
negotiation and diplomacy that can happen here, rather than this
threatening crazy language.
(...)
 Advocates Stage First Big
Texas Protest Against Border Wall
Nomaan Merchant & John L. Mone Associated Press
2:25 P.M Saturday, Aug. 12, 2017

MISSION It ended at La Lomita, a tiny century-old chapel just south

of the levee. Some people quietly prayed inside the chapel
Hundreds of protesters wearing white and chanting in as a rally went on outside.
English and Spanish marched Saturday in Texas’ first
major protest against a border wall, crossing the earthen
Rio Grande levee where President Donald Trump’s
administration wants to build part of the first phase.

The protesters launched what’s expected to be a fierce

movement against Trump’s best-known immigration
policy priority. Many of the participants acknowledged
they might not be able to stop a project that the U.S.
government is already planning, but they hoped to draw
national attention to the cause and persuade lawmakers
who have yet to sign off on funding for the project.

“We might seem small and insignificant.

Maybe we are,” said Anthoney Saenz, a
19-year-old native of the Rio Grande
Valley, the southernmost point of Texas
and a region where Trump has proposed
putting 60 miles of wall as part of a $1.6
billion proposal. “But when our voices come
together,” Saenz said, “when we band
together as a community to try to get a
voice out there, we have to hope we get
heard.”
Organizers of Saturday’s protest wanted to make clear the
depth of local opposition to the border wall, which as
proposed would cut through a federally protected wildlife
refuge and split apart several border towns. Some 40
groups took part in the protest, from environmentalists to
landowners’ rights groups to immigrant advocates.
Father Roy Snipes gives the thumbs-up sign to a supporter after he
lead a procession to the La Lomita Chapel along a levee toward the
Rio Grande to oppose the wall the U.S. government wants to build on
the river separating Texas and Mexico, Saturday, Aug. 12, 2017, in
Mission, Texas. The area would be the target of new barrier
construction under the Trump administration’s current plan. (AP
Photo/Eric Gay) Associated Press
While the U.S. House has passed a spending with funding
for the wall, it faces an uncertain future in the Senate,
where Democrats and some Republicans have spoken
against it.
Government contractors have already been taking soil
samples along the Rio Grande levees and have begun to
examine property ownership records for the land
condemnation lawsuits a border wall would likely require,
according to local officials and landowners near the river.

The procession set out just after dawn from Our Lady of
Guadalupe, a towering church in the border city of
Mission. Saenz, an altar server at Our Lady of Guadalupe,
led the group wearing a white cassock and carrying a
burner with smoky incense.
The procession grew as it headed south toward the Rio
Grande, the winding river that separates the United States
and Mexico in Texas. The marchers walked uphill on a dirt
path onto the levees, built well north of the river to protect
border cities in the valley from flooding.
A map released by U.S. Customs and Border Protection
shows tentative plans to build 28 miles of wall on the levee
in Hidalgo County, the most populous county of the valley.
Sections of fencing already stand on about 20 miles of the
levee in Hidalgo County, built under the Secure Fence Act
of 2006.
The remaining 32 miles would go in sections farther west
in Starr County, potentially sealing off or splitting some
border towns from the river and consigning homes and
farmland to what some derisively call “the Mexican side.”

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Under the current proposal, the wall would seal La Lomita
on the southern side of the levee. It would also cut through
the Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge, a verdant
sanctuary for 400 species of birds and nearly half of the
butterfly species found in North America. The U.S.
Department of Homeland Security can waive
environmental reviews to build more quickly, and has
already issued a waiver for proposed construction in San
Diego.
Scott Nicol, co-chair of the Sierra Club’s Borderlands
campaign and an organizer of Saturday’s rally, said some
people who were neutral or quiet about the last U.S.
government effort to build a border barrier are speaking
against it this time.
“Because people have seen the walls go
up and see what they do, it’s not sort of an
abstract, imagined concept,” Nicol said.
“There’s a lot more opposition to it now
than there was 10 years ago.”
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Marie Montalvo, a resident of San Benito, said she had
been followed by the Border Patrol during a recent visit to
Santa Ana to take pictures.
“I want my nieces and nephews, and the
children of the Rio Grande Valley, to know
that I was completely against this,”
Montalvo said.
Coming Monday
According to a Border Patrol map shown to local officials
and stakeholders last week, and obtained by American-
Statesman investigative reporter Jeremy Schwartz, the
agency has preliminary plans to wall off nearly the entirety
of Hidalgo County’s southern edge. In neighboring Starr
County, the map shows substantial border wall segments
would be built in Rio Grande City, west of Sullivan City
and a lengthy stretch from Roma to the southern tip of
Falcon Lake. Subscribers can read the story now, online
at MyStatesman.com.
 Trump Outbursts Wipe
$1 Trillion Off Markets
Sat Aug 12, 2017 9:3AM

The yen has also registered its biggest weekly gain since
May against the dollar amid speculation that investors of
Japan, as the biggest creditor nation, would repatriate their
funds should a war break out.

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Wednesday warded

off - at least for now – the prospect of massive losses on
the Wall Street market after stressing that there was “no
imminent threat of war” and that Americans could “sleep
well at night.”

The recent escalation in the Korean crisis has dampened interest in

risk assets such as equities and industrial commodities. However, his boss’s unpredictable behavior is unlikely to
leave nervous traders pacified and the market doldrums
US President Donald Trump’s may persist.
brinkmanship in the escalating tensions
with North Korea has taken a heavy toll
on global markets, wiping $1 trillion off
the value of shares worldwide.

US stocks on Friday ended with their worst weekly loss

since March after Trump ratcheted up his fiery rhetoric,
saying in a tweet:

"Military solutions are now fully in place,

locked and loaded” against North Korea.

A day earlier, the Standard & Poor's 500 index posted its US President Donald Trump ratcheted up his fiery rhetoric on
biggest single-day drop in nearly three months following Friday, saying "military solutions are now fully in place, locked and
loaded” against North Korea
Trump’s warning to unleash "fire and fury" if Pyongyang
continued its nuclear weapons expansion.
On Friday, an MSCI index of stocks across the globe
posted its largest weekly drop since the week before
North Korea responded to the threat with a promise to land
Trump won the US presidential election in November.
missiles near the US Pacific territory of Guam.
Trump’s outbursts have chiefly affected Asian markets,
Nervous traders have scrambled to take refuge in
with the tense mood dragging shares in the continent
traditional safe havens such as gold, silver, bonds,
lower.
Japanese yen and Swiss franc, dampening interest in risk
assets such as equities and industrial commodities.
Several indexes closed lower overnight. According to the
Associated Press, South Korea's Kospi lost 1.7 percent,
Gold has risen to its highest level in almost two months,
while Hong Kong's Hang Seng slid 2 percent. Australia's
while the Swiss franc has powered against the US dollar
S&P/ASX 200 dropped 1.2 percent, while Japan was
and seen its biggest one-day gain against the euro in more
closed on a public holiday.
than two and a half years.

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 Major Pillars Of US Power,
Including Democrats & Media, Want Trump Out
– John Pilger
Published Time: 12 Aug, 2017 16:02
© Shannon Stapleton / Reuters
The so-called Deep State wants President Donald Trump
removed from office over fears of what a NATO rollback
in Europe would do to the profit margins of the defense
industry, journalist, film-maker and author, John Pilger,
told RT’s Going Underground.
When asked by Going Underground host Afshin Rattansi
if there was a "Deep State coup" against Donald Trump
over his willingness to forge a partnership with Moscow,
Pilger agreed with that proposition.
“There is a rolling coup attempt against the
President of the United States at the
moment, there’s no question about that,”
Pilger responded. “They want him out. All
the major pillars of power in the United
States, plus the Democratic Party, plus
most of the media, want Trump out.”
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The reason for this massive effort to reverse the will of the
American election process is directly related to the defense
sector, which fears that any attempt by Trump to roll back
NATO forces on Russia’s border would damage their
bottom line.
“If you take away that whole NATO-backed
circus, serious circus, which has lined up
on Russia’s Western border - a completely
threatening presence of NATO forces on
the very borderland through which Hitler
invaded the Soviet Union in 1941 - if you
take that away then what happens to the
great armaments companies, the
producers of the F-35, the Lockheed
Martin, Raytheon…," Pilger surmised.
The root of the problem, he explained, also extended to US
legislators who have done
“sweetheart deals with the arms companies
and the… nuclear weapons industry.”
“What happens to the whole pyramid,” he
asked.
Pilger went on to condemn the latest round of anti-Russia
sanctions, which effectively nullified the Intermediate-
Range Nuclear Weapons Treaty, signed into force by
former US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Premier
Mikhail Gorbachev and which effectively ended the Cold
War.
“That very treaty, and I haven’t seen this in
the newspapers at all, that very treaty is
wiped out in these latest sanctions. That
ends the last treaty that might stop a
nuclear attack.”
 Is Trump Spear-Heading A Bluff On North Korea?
Tom Luongo
Sat, Aug 12, 2017
With the entire world on pins and needles about North
Korea, it is useful to step back and look at the big picture.
President Trump has said from the beginning that he wants
a different dynamic in U.S. relations with China, and not
just on trade.
Ratcheting up the rhetoric and putting Kim Jong Un in an
ever-tighter noose is a game of brinksmanship that worries
many, including me. But, it’s only under extreme pressure
do catastrophic (in the evolutionary biology/mathematical
sense) events occur.
If you want to radically change the dynamic then you have
to apply extreme pressure. I feel this is what Trump and
his advisors are doing. They are appearing to “have the
strength to force the moment to its crisis” to quote T.S.
Eliot.
And that strength or purpose is creating large movements.
Trump is a bully. It’s what he does, at least publicly. The
response so far from China has been to denounce the idea
of regime change in Pyongyang.
The response from Russia, through Foreign Minister (and
top diplomat in the world right now), Sergei Lavrov was to
announce a deal brokered between it, North Korea and
China to get what Trump wants; no potential for nukes in
North Korea.
"Russia together with China developed a
plan which proposes 'double freezing': Kim
Jong-un should freeze nuclear tests and
stop launching any types of ballistic
missiles, while US and South Korea should
freeze large-scale drills which are used as
a pretext for the North’s tests."
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While also getting China what it wants, no regime change.
Lavrov also insists that this is also academic as Russia
insists that North Korea does not have a nuclear weapon.
I don’t think that matters much to Trump. I think he sees
this as the start to a global draw-down on nuclear weapons
going forward. But, it would also mean that he has to put
paid his promise at his inauguration that the U.S. would no
longer seek to change the government it doesn’t like.
Here is his golden opportunity to then make a deal to do
just that.
The unanimous vote of the U.N. Security Council to put on
greater sanctions is your clue that this time it’s serious.
Russia and China are willing to assist Trump in getting
North Korea, and, by extension, Iran to give up its
ambitions for a nuclear weapon but only with certain other
guarantees.
And, the first of which is to back off on any military
intervention on the Korean peninsula.
But, Trump is going to have to give up something else to
make this work. Just threatening everyone with the
prospect of ICBM’s flying does not the framework for a
deal make. It’s the opening offer.
It’s not the final one. China and Russia will demand then
that Trump back off in one or two of Iran, Ukraine, Syria
and Afghanistan, four places where U.S. intervention is the
proximate cause for the chaos we are all dealing with.
My guess is that Afghanistan is the bargaining chip he’s
dangling. He’ll have to add in Iran in some fashion. The
sanctions bill doesn’t give him much leeway with Ukraine.
Syria is pretty much a mop-up operation.
North Korea needs to be reunited with the rest of the
global economy. However, given the last sixty years of
U.S. foreign policy it is right to assume that having nuclear
weapons makes one immune to regime change operations
except the half-hearted ones we fling at Putin which he
swats away like gnats during a fishing trip.
Winning this battle would change the dynamic not only of
U.S./Chinese/Russian relations but it would also change
the dynamic between Trump and the U.S. Deep State he’s Because if he does pull this off, he will have the neocons
been fighting a pitched battle against. by the proverbial throat to continue undoing the damage
they’ve done to the world.

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 Trump, DEFCON 1, Wile E. Coyote
And Run For The Fallout Shelter
Author: Phil Butler
12.08.2017
Is mutually assured nuclear annihilation is everything that
we can expect from the “peace loving” Mr. Trump?
American foreign policy has now entered its Vaudeville
stage. The latest far out act being convincing the dumbest
Americans that North Korea is a threat to the US at all.
President Donald Trump’s madman assertions and
swagger recently are made even more horrific by
mainstream media’s apparent shift into his corner. By the
time you’re done reading this, fallout shelters may be back
in vogue.
For those too young to recollect, Vaudeville entertainment
was the fad in the US in the early 20th century famous for
a mixture of burlesque comedy and song and dance. The
presidency of Donald Trump, so far, has been a marque
extravaganza of all three. His song has changed with
regard to reconciliation with Russia, but rabid rhetoric on
North Korea seems about to go ballistic – literally. A little
more than a week ago Trump rubber stamped a sanctions
bill that rolled Russia and Iran into the same rogue state
ball as North Korea. Today North Korea is in the nuclear
crosshairs! Please excuse, but is it just me, or does this
darkening situation resemble impossible coincidence?
Wow! The term we use in social media so often is the only
one that fits here. But wait, the new Trump war drums are
drummed by formerly hostile tribes.
If my thought process here seems disjointed it’s only
because I am reeling alongside my colleagues at all the
news from former Trump haters. It’s almost as if “The
Donald” made a deal with Bibi and AIPAC to roll out
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some Israel hate in exchange for turning the heat down on
the billionaire dealmaker. More on possible Trump
wheeling and dealing for himself in a minute, but get this
from Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post first.
“Why we fear a North Korean nuclear
attack”, by the former Fort Worth Star –
Telegram city government reporter,
Lindsey Bever reveals two things about
America right now.
First and foremost, we are out to lunch and completely out
of control of our government. Secondly, a large segment of
our society is just dumb enough to believe a prissy tail
eager “Bever” professing to know nuclear armaments.
Trump is about to call DEFCON 1 (nuclear war
imminent) and the Washington Post puts up a girl’s strike
assessment alongside a psychological profile of
Americans’ fear quotient! Good God, read the lead where
she quotes The Atlantic tabloid:
“Thirty minutes, that’s about how long it
would take a nuclear-tipped intercontinental
ballistic missile launched from North Korea
to reach Los Angeles.”
The WP reporter tweaks her readers talking about
miniaturized warheads the North Koreans could stick in
their ACME rockets. Then she inserts the propaganda that
is perilously close to becoming a nuclear armed power.
Finally, she cites a biased pole (conducted by the new
Nazis) and leveraged by the Chicago Council on Global
Affairs (corporate and individually funded think tank) that
said Americans are horrified Kim Jong-un will blow
America to bits.
On July 28, 2017, North Korea successfully tested its
second intercontinental ballistic missile, and the Pentagon
(plus Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu) have Donald Trump in
Dr. Strangelove mode (see Stanley Kubrick classic films).
Yes, “Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop
Worrying and Love the Bomb”, had all the elements of
good Vaudeville entertainment. And now the Washington
Swamp Trump promised to drain is dancing like “Singing
in the Rain” (see Gene Kelly, great American dancer).
The narrative, the strangely idiotic rhetoric and hysteria, it
all puts me in mind of a charade. And then there’s the
allegations most of Kim Jong-un’s missiles are fake, Paper
Mache toys used in big military parades (see The
Independent). What are we to make of the disparity? One-
minute US defense experts say Pyongyang is playing
charades with superpowers, and the next instant nuclear
Armageddon is upon St. Louis, Missouri! Okay America,
which is it – Wile E. Coyote ACME rockets, or deadly
hypersonic doomsday weapons? Trump, the US Congress,
Jeff Bezos and the western oligarchs, and the Israel lobby
say we’re doomed. I say North Korea could not hit Guam
with a FedEx package if Kim Jong-un’s life depended on
it. They blast some rocket fuel and jettison some scrap
metal into the Sea of Japan and America’s military
industrial complex begins developing countermeasure
named “Roadrunner”.
Returning to President Trump and the AIPAC lobbyist
who recently twisted Washington into knots over Russia
sanctions. I cannot be the only one on Earth who smells
“deal” all over the billionaire known for his brokering the
fantastical. Here’s what I think about the sanctions, Trump,
and how Israel ultimately sees a win.
Netanyahu and his bunch want Iran – dead, dead, dead,
dead, dead. In fact, the only way these Zionists can get a
nation of “Greater Israel” is for the whole Middle East to
be either dead, dying, or begging. Ergo we have Arab
Spring, Syria, refugee central in Europe, and ISIL etc.
.
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Israel is an asbestos building standing in the middle of a
town burning down – and nobody but me notices? Trump
and Bibi, Trump and the Saudis, Trump harping on Iran
and North Korea even before he took office – you don’t
have to be a rocket scientist to figure who is who. Fast
forward to the Russia, Iran, North Korea sanctions and the
plan seems cemented. Russia cannot be totally
marginalized unless certified as a rogue state. Now sleepy
Americans allow “the swamp” to meld a superpower with
marginal states. For the Israel play, first North Korea
becomes the “target” – perhaps even for a limited war.
Then Iran and/or Russia get looped in, they become a new
“Axis of Evil”, and World War III is a tenuous Cold War
with a real Armageddon on the horizon. In the meantime
Netanyahu has already destroyed Syria for the foreseeable
future, and a war with Iran adds the potential for greater
Israeli land grabs. Trust me, it’s not inconceivable.
Finally, whether or not my ranting theories are true, it’s a
certainty a shift into another gear has taken place in
Washington. Maybe Trump was onboard all along. Or
maybe the “deal” was something about saving his hide?
Only the globalists bent on these endless wars will know
for certain. All I know, is that I’m taking my family to
Crete and I’ll consider the wind patterns and remote caves
there – just in case. If war does not come, we’ll enjoy the
hospitality, sunshine, and beaches.
 If War Comes, Don’t Blame The ‘Military-Industrial
Complex’ – Things Are Even Worse Than You Think
James George JATRAS
12.08.2017
As the drumbeat intensifies for what might turn out to be
anything but a «splendid little war» against North Korea, it
is appropriate to take stock of the ongoing, seemingly
successful effort to strip President Donald Trump of his
authority to make any foreign and national security
policies that fly against the wishes of the so-called
Military-Industrial Complex, or MIC. A Google search for
«Military-Industrial Complex» (in quotation marks) with
«Trump» yields almost 450,000 hits from all sources and
almost 26,000 from just news sources.
During the 2016 campaign and into the initial weeks of his
administration, Trump was sometimes described as a threat
to the MIC. But over time, with the appointment to his
administration of more generals and establishment figures
(including some allegedly tied to George Soros) while
purging Trump loyalists, it’s no surprise that his policies
increasingly seem less a departure from those of previous
administrations than a continuation of them (for example,
welcoming Montenegro into NATO). Some now say
that Trump is the MIC’s best friend and maybe always
was.
There are those who deny that the MIC exists at all. One
self-described conservative blogger writing in the pro-war,
pro-intervention, and mostly neoconservative National
Review refers to the very existence of the MIC as a
«myth» peddled by the «conspiracy-minded». Sure, it is
conceded, it was appropriate to refer to such a concept
back when President Dwight Eisenhower warned against it
in 1961 upon his impending departure from the White
House, because back then the military consumed some 10
percent of the American GDP. But now, when the
percentage is nominally just 3.2 percent, less than $600
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billion per year, the term supposedly is inapplicable.
(There are those who argue that the real cost annually is
over $1 trillion, but why quibble.)
There is a germ of truth contained in the reference to
money. Compared to the «wars of choice» that have
characterized US global behavior since the end of the Cold
War with the Soviet Union, the MIC of the 1950s and
1960s was relatively less likely to embark upon foreign
military escapades. The existence of a world-class nuclear-
armed foe in the form of the USSR moderated tendencies
toward adventurism. The most serious «combat» the
classic MIC preferred to engage in was inter-service
battles for budgetary bounty. Reportedly, once General
Curtis LeMay, head of the Air Force’s Strategic Air
Command, was briefed by a junior officer who repeatedly
referred to the USSR as «the enemy». LeMay supposedly
interrupted to correct him: «Young man, the Soviet Union
is our adversary. Our enemy is the Navy».
But today the «Military-Industrial Complex» is an archaic
term that doesn’t begin to describe the complexity and
influence of current structures. Indeed, even in
Eisenhower’s day the MIC was more than a simple duplex
consisting of the Pentagon and military contractors but
also included an essential third leg: the Congressional
committees that provide the money constituting the MIC’s
lifeblood. (Reportedly, an earlier draft of the speech used
the term «military-industrial-Congressional» complex, a
fuller description of what has come to be called the «Iron
Triangle». Asked about the omission from the final
text, Eisenhower is said to have answered: «It was more
than enough to take on the military and private industry. I
couldn't take on the Congress as well».)
Not only did the Iron Triangle continue to expand during
the Cold War, when production of military hardware
established itself as the money-making nucleus of the
MIC, it swelled to even greater proportions after the
designated enemy, the USSR, went out of business in
1991. While for one brief shining moment there was naïve
discussion of a «Peace Dividend» that would provide relief
for American taxpayers from whose shoulders the burden
of a «long twilight struggle» against communism (in John
Kennedy’s phrase) had been lifted, that notion faded
quickly. Instead, not only did the «hard» side of the MIC
maintain itself – first in Iraq to fight «naked aggression»
by Saddam Hussein in Kuwait, then in the Balkans in the
1990s as part of NATO’s determination to go «out of area
or out of business» – it then branched out into «soft» areas
of control.
In the past quarter century what began as Eisenhower’s
MIC has become a multifaceted, hybrid entity
encompassing an astonishing range and depth in both the
public and private sectors. To a large extent, the contours
of what former Congressional staffer Mike Lofgren has
called the «Deep State» (which largely through Lofgren’s
efforts has since become a household word) are those of
the incestuous «expert» community that dominates
mainstream media thinking but extend beyond it to include
elements of all three branches of the US government,
private business (especially the financial industry,
government contractors, information technology), think
tanks, NGOs (many of which are anything but
«nongovernmental» but are funded by US official agencies
and those of our «allies», satellites, and clients), higher
education (especially the recipients of massive research
grants from the Department of Defense), and the two
political parties and their campaign operatives, plus the
multitude of lobbyists, campaign consultants, pollsters,
spin doctors, media wizards, lawyers, and other
functionaries.
Comparing the MIC of 1961 to its descendant, the Deep
State of today, is like comparing a horse and buggy to a
Formula One racecar. The Deep State’s principals enjoy
power and privileges that would have brought a blush to
the cheeks of members of the old Soviet nomenklatura, of
which it is reminiscent.
Indeed, the Deep State’s creepy resemblance to its late
Soviet counterpart is manifest in its budding venture into
the realm of seeking to brand domestic American dissent
as treason, to the hearty approval of the loony Left. As
described by Daniel McAdams of the Ron Paul Institute
for Peace and Prosperity:
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‘The government would never compile, analyze, and
target private news outlets just because they deviate from
the official neocon Washington line.
‘Perhaps not yet. But some US government funded «non-
governmental» organizations are already doing just that.
‘The German Marshall Fund has less to do with Germany
these days than it did when founded after WWII as a show
of appreciation for the US Marshall Fund. These days it’s
mostly funded by the US government, allied governments
(especially in the Russia-hating Baltics), neocon grant-
making foundations, and the military-industrial complex.
Through its strangely Soviet-sounding »Alliance for
Securing Democracy» project it has launched something
called «Hamilton 68: A New Tool to Track Russian
Disinformation on Twitter».
‘This project monitors 600 Twitter accounts that the
German Marshall Fund claims are «accounts that are
involved in promoting Russian influence and
disinformation goals». Which accounts does this monitor?
It won’t tell us. How does it choose which ones to
monitor? It won’t tell us. To what end? Frighteningly, it
won’t tell us.
‘How ironic that something called the German Marshall
Fund is bringing Stasi-like tactics to silence alternative
media and opinions in the United States!’
The Soviet nomenklatura gave up without a fight. It’s
unlikely its American counterpart will. Whether Trump in
the end decides to fight or to seek accommodation is still
under debate. Some suggest that by signing the recent bill
imposing sanctions on Russia, Iran, and North Korea, he
has already surrendered. But either way, war or not, things
are going to get very rocky.
 N. Korea 'On Standby To Launch,' State-Run Paper Says
In Response To Trump's Latest Warnings
By Joseph Weber
Published August 12, 2017
North Korea took its turn Saturday in the country’s
escalating, back-and-fourth with President Trump, with the
state-run newspaper saying leader Kim Jung Un’s
revolutionary army is “capable of fighting any war the
U.S. wants.”
The assertion was made in an editorial that also states the
Paektusan army is now “on the standby to launch fire into
its mainland, waiting for an order of final attack."
The editorial also argues that the United States "finds itself
in an ever worsening dilemma, being thrown into the grip
of extreme security unrest by the DPRK. This is
tragicomedy of its own making. … If the Trump
administration does not want the American empire to meet
its tragic doom in its tenure, they had better talk and act
properly."
DPRK stands for North Korea's official name, the
Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
The editorial appears to be in response to a series of
comments made by Trump in recent days, most recently
Friday that the United States is “locked and loaded.”
The president's recent comments are in response to Kim
threatening a missile attack on U.S. territory Guam.
Trump, meanwhile, continues to pursue a diplomatic
solution to North Korea’s purported development of a
nuclear warhead that could reach the United States and
other countries on an intercontinental ballistic missile.
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The White House says Trump has a phone conversation
Friday with Chinese President Xi Jinping in which the
leaders reiterated their commitment to the de-
nuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.
The president also saluted Xi for China's recent United
Nations vote to impose tougher sanctions on North Korea,
in response the country’s escalating pursuit of nuclear
weapons, according to the White House.
As the crisis has unfolded, Trump has alternated praising
China for its help and chiding it for not doing more.
The White House says Trump also told Xi he looked
forward to seeing him in China later this year.
During Trump’s phone conversation Friday with Xi, the
Chinese leader also requested that the U.S. and North
Korea tone down their recent rhetoric and avoid actions
that could worsen tensions between the two nations,
Chinese Central Television reported.
“At present, the relevant parties must maintain restraint
and avoid words and deeds that would exacerbate the
tension on the Korean Peninsula,” Xi was quoted as
saying.
Trump has urged China to pressure North Korea to halt its
nuclear weapons program, which North Korea says is
nearing the capability of targeting the United States.
China is the North’s biggest economic partner and source
of aid, but says it alone can’t compel Pyongyang to end its
nuclear and missile programs.
Trump also spoke this weekend with Guam Gov.
Eddie Calvo, reassuring him that U.S. military forces stand
ready to ensure the safety and security of the U.S. territory,
a White House statement said.
Meanwhile, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe pledged
Saturday to do “everything, to the best of my ability,” to
protect his nation’s people as tensions escalate over North
Korea’s plans to send missiles over Japan toward Guam.
On Friday, Japan’s Defense Ministry said it was deploying The Associated Press contributed to this report.
four surface-to-air Patriot interceptors in western Japan to
respond to a possible risk of fragments falling from
missiles.

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 North Korea War Of Words
Escalates As China Orders Trump To Back Off
NORTH Korean Nuclear War Threats Will Continue If US President
Donald Trump Insists On His War Of Words With Kim
Jong-Un, China Has Warned.
By Zoie O'Brien
PUBLISHED: 18:39, Sat, Aug 12, 2017 | UPDATED: 19:02, Sat, Aug 12, 2017
GETTY - North Korea latest: Donald Trump and President Xi
Jinping talk over North
The leader of the North has vowed he would blast missiles
over Japan and onto the US territory of Guam.
Jong-Un told state media he could smash Intercontinental
Ballistic Missiles (ICBMs) into mainland US as aggression
from both sides ramped up.
But the Chinese have ordered Trump to calm his rhetoric
against their neighbour.
During a phone call between the pair, President Jinping
said on Saturday “concerned parties” should avoid
“remarks and actions” that could escalate tensions on the
Korean peninsula.
Speaking with Trump on the phone, the Chinese leader
called for calm, according to the state-run New China
News Agency.
The President said China wants to ensure stability in the
region - and he said he will work with the US -despite
Trump’s constant criticism of China.
While Kim Jong-Un makes threats against world peace
Trump has vowed to respond with “fire and fury”.
China has imposed economic sanctions on North Korea, in
favour of a peaceful solution.
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A call between the presidents took place late Friday
evening on the East Coast, the LA Times reported.
GETTY - North Korea war of words with Donald Trump escalates as
China tells US to back off
Trump on Friday said the US military was “locked and
loaded” and recently the Red Army in China was awarded
to “be ready” to fight.
A Chinese Communist Party tabloid - The Global Times -
reported China would not allow the overthrow of the North
Korean Government.
The paper said the Government would not assist North
Korea if the US was retaliating to an attack - but that it
would support the Jong-Un regime if Trump and the South
carry out strikes and overthrow the North Korean
government.
The publication said:
"If the US and South Korea carry out
strikes and try to overthrow the North
Korean regime and change the political
pattern of the Korean Peninsula, China will
prevent them from doing so."
In an editorial Washington and Pyongyang were accused
of playing a "reckless game" that could lead to
"miscalculations and a strategic 'war'".
 The Global Times said:

“Beijing is not able to persuade Washington

or Pyongyang to back down at this time.
"It needs to make clear its stance to all
sides and make them understand that
when their actions jeopardise China's
interests, China will respond with a firm
hand."

Donald Trump has mocked China online, telling Twitter

GETTY - North Korea accuses Trump of aggression as jets fly over fans the nation must do more over the North Korean threat.
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 Trump To Investigate Alleged
Chinese Trade Violationsby
Stephen Lendman - Stephenlendman.Org
8-12-2017
On Friday, Trump pressed China’s Xi Jinping to act tough
against North Korea’s nuclear and ballistic missile
programs.
They’re essential deterrents against feared US aggression,
posing no threat to any nations except in self-defense if
attacked.
On Saturday, the White House announced plans to
investigate Beijing for alleged intellectual property
violations. On Monday, Trump is expected to sign a memo
authorizing it. Severe trade penalties could follow,
including tariffs on Chinese steel and other imports.
Although the Constitution grants Congress tariff-
imposition authority, congressional legislation delegates
the power to presidents under the following circumstances:
• under the 1917 Trading with the Enemy Act against
any nation as long as America is at war somewhere;
• under the 1977 Emergency Economic Powers Act
during a real or invented national emergency; no
legitimate one existed in America since WW II ended;
• under the 1974 Trade Act, permitting across-the-board
tariffs based on an allegedly needing to confront an
“adverse impact on national security from imports;” and
• under the 1962 Trade Expansion Act, targeting certain
industries.
If targeted, China will almost certainly retaliate, sparking a
trade war, assuring losers, not winners.
Reportedly, Trump intends using 1974 Trade Act
authority, permitting the imposition of tariffs and other
barriers on Chinese imports, circumventing World Trade
Organization mechanisms for dealing with trade disputes.
.
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Days earlier, Beijing’s Commerce Ministry spokesman
Gao Feng said bilateral trade is
“mutually beneficial. Cooperation would
benefit both sides and fighting would hurt
both.”
Trump apparently intends using trade as a stick to get
tougher Chinese action on North Korea, a foolhardy effort
Beijing rejects.
An investigation if undertaken could take months or
longer. In their Friday phone conversation, Xi stressed the
importance of resolving the North Korean issue
diplomatically.
A Beijing Foreign Ministry statement urged the
“relevant sides (to) avoid words and actions
that exacerbate tensions.”
According to China expert Yun Sun, Beijing
“operate(s) from the conviction that China
remains and will always be the No. 1
strategic threat to the US, so the issue of
North Korea will be used against China -
through sanctions, provocations and
everything else.”
America’s regional military footprint remains a hugely
provocative issue for China’s leadership.
An attack on North Korea leading to the overthrow of its
government could result in US troops on China’s border,
what Beijing considers unacceptable.
US-initiated trade war would hugely complicate things
further, severely damaging bilateral relations more than
already.
 Bristling In Mad Kim’s Crosshairs: Inside Trump’s Air
Force And Naval Bases On Guam Where An Awesome
Arsenal Is Locked, Loaded And Ready To Launch Fire And
Fury On North Korea
• Exclusive First Look At Trump's Arsenal Of Ships, Plans And Weaponry In Guam
• Includes F-16 Fighter Jets Lined Up Along A Runway Ready To Scramble In An Instant
• Comes As President Trump Ratcheted Up His Rhetoric Promising 'Fire And Fury'
By Caroline Graham For The Mail On Sunday
Published: 20:55 EDT, 12 August 2017 | Updated: 23:20 EDT, 13 August 2017

The guns are locked and loaded, the F-16 fighter jets line
up along the runway ready to scramble at a moment’s
notice and the military, as their motto proudly proclaims,
are ‘Ready to fight tonight’.

Yesterday, The Mail on Sunday became the first

newspaper to visit both major military bases on Guam, the
tiny Pacific island in the crosshairs of the growing crisis
between North Korea and the US that could lead to the
terrifying prospect of thermonuclear war.

In the latest round of a series of escalating and terrifying
threats, North Korean tyrant Kim Jong-un’s Stalinist
regime has vowed to fire four ballistic missiles at the
island.
As President Trump ratcheted up his bellicose rhetoric,
promising ‘fire and fury like the world has never seen’, the
7,000 US military personnel on the island calmly prepared
for battle.
Two SSN 688-class submarines and their supply ship, the USS Emory
S Land, in Apra Harbour. The subs are equipped with 12 Vertical
Launch System tubes for firing Tomahawk cruise missiles that can
carry nuclear warheads. At 360ft and 6,927 tons submerged, they are
powered by nuclear reactors and are perfect for strike warfare
‘We are constantly in a high state of
readiness,’ said military spokesman Greg
Kuntz. ‘The systems are here, we are in
place and we are ready to go.’
The Mail on Sunday visited Naval Base Guam and
Andersen Air Force Base on the US territory and vital
strategic outpost, population 162,000, just 2,000 miles
from the North Korean capital, Pyongyang, from where
Jong Un has threatened to launch his weapons, possibly as
early as next week, to create a ‘historic enveloping fire’
around the tropical isle.

We witnessed first-hand the extraordinary, multi-billion-

pound military might the world’s greatest superpower has
amassed on Guam.

President Trump has ratcheted up his bellicose rhetoric, promising
‘fire and fury like the world has never seen’, the 7,000 US military
personnel on the island calmly prepared for battle
They include £1.7 billion nuclear-powered attack
submarines, B-1B Lancer bombers capable of
‘obliterating’ North Korea’s underground missile bunkers,
littoral combat ships designed for a sea- to-land invasion
and the biggest weapons cache in the Pacific, 7,500 tons of
explosives and munitions, stored in dozens of igloo-shaped
reinforced concrete bunkers.

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The collection of firepower nestling under swaying palm
trees and languishing in crystal-clear tropical waters was a
breathtaking – if surreal – sight.

Naval Base Guam is a 15-minute drive from the tourist

centre of Tumon, a bustling area filled with shops selling
trinkets emblazoned with the stars and stripes and Guam’s
motto: ‘Where America’s Day Begins’ (because of its
geographical location, Guam is the first US land mass to
see sunrise).

The Mail on Sunday's Caroline Graham: We witnessed first-hand the

extraordinary, multi-billion-pound military might the world’s
greatest superpower has amassed on Guam

Guam became a US territory in 1898 during the Spanish-

American war. Residents do not pay American taxes or
vote in presidential elections but are US citizens by birth.
The moist tropical air is thick and causes everyone,
especially those in uniform, to sweat profusely within
seconds of leaving an air-conditioned car or building.

At Shamrock’s Irish bar, manager and former soldier Sean

Hale, 37, whose mother is from Tipperary, said business
has slumped since the crisis escalated in recent days. He
said: ‘Normally we’re packed on Friday and Saturday
nights but it’s dead this week. The guys are staying on THE BACKBONE OF AMERICA'S BOMBER
base.
FORCE
‘They are not drinking. They are hanging in
their dorms, going to the gym. They know
they have to be ready to go at a moment’s
notice.’

Driving past postcard-perfect beaches filled with tourists,

mostly from South Korea and Japan, stray chickens run
along the grass verges outside ubiquitous American staples
like McDonald’s and KFC.

In the latest round of a series of escalating and terrifying

The BL-1B carries the largest payload in the USAF and holds almost
threats, North Korean tyrant Kim Jong Un’s Stalinist
50 world records for speed and range.
regime has vowed to fire four ballistic missiles at the
island
The BI-1B Lancer is the backbone of America's long-range
bomber force.

It carries the largest payload in the USAF and holds almost

50 world records for speed and range.
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 Xi To Trump: Show Restraint
On N. Korea, Crisis Must Have Peaceful Resolution
Published Time: 12 Aug, 2017 05:35 Edited Time: 13 Aug, 2017 06:40
US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping (R) ©
Saul Loeb / Reuters
Chinese President Xi Jinping discussed the tense situation
around North Korea with US President Donald Trump
over the phone, urging the “relevant side” to exercise
restraint, state TV said.
“President Trump and President Xi agreed
North Korea must stop its provocative and
escalatory behavior,” the statement from
the White House said, as cited by Reuters.
The Chinese leader told his US counterpart that the crisis
needs a peaceful resolution and it is in the joint interests of
China and the United States to maintain peace on the
Korean Peninsula.
“The relevant side must at present exercise
restraint, and avoid words and actions that
exacerbate tensions on the Korean
Peninsula,” Chinese state media said,
Reuters reported.
Xi also reiterated his support for a nuclear-free North
Korea.
The conversation took place after a series of threats made
by Trump to the North Korean leadership, which in turn
promised to target the vicinity of Guam in its next missile
test. Japan said it would take down the missiles if such a
.
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launch through its airspace took place, while Trump
warned that the US has military solutions “locked and
loaded.”
While not publicly stating how it would proceed in the
event of a US attack on Pyongyang, Beijing strongly
hinted that it would oppose such actions. An editorial in
the state-run outlet the Global Times, published by the
Communist Party’s official People’s Daily, suggested that
China would seek to prevent an attack on North Korea
while remaining neutral if Pyongyang launched an attack.
“If North Korea launches missiles that
threaten US soil first and the US retaliates,
China will stay neutral,” the Global Times
wrote.
But should the US and its allies attempt to
“overthrow the North Korean regime and
change the political pattern of the Korean
Peninsula,” Beijing would “prevent them
from doing so,” it said.
Guam, a US territory in the Pacific, has been repeatedly
reassured that it’s “safe.” Trump told the population of the
strategic island, a third of which is occupied by US bases,
that “we are with you a thousand percent.” However,
Guam’s Office of Civil Defense began distributing
information preparing residents for a missile attack.
“Do not look at the flash or fireball – it can
blind you. Lie flat on the ground and cover
your head,” the information sheet
instructed, also offering advice on how to
wash in case of radioactive contamination.
Pyongyang has demanded that the US and South Korea
call off their annual mass-scale wargames, which Seoul
says will proceed as planned in August despite the recent
escalation in tensions.
 China Shows Readiness To 'Punish Anyone' Who
Destabilizes Korean Peninsula
© AP Photo/ Ng Han Guan, File - Politics
12:18 12.08.2017(Updated 23:55 12.08.2017)
China "will stay neutral" if North Korea launches missiles
threatening the United States, according to an op-ed in the
influential Chinese newspaper Global Times. At the same
time, Beijing will respond if the US and South Korea strike
first and try to overthrow the North Korean regime.
"China opposes both nuclear proliferation
and war on the Korean Peninsula. It will not
encourage any side to stir up military
conflict, and will firmly resist any side that
wants to change the status quo of the
areas where China's interests are
concerned. … The Korean Peninsula is
where the strategic interests of all sides
converge, and no side should try to be the
absolute dominator of the region," the
publication read.
According to The Washington Post, The Global Times is
"not an official mouthpiece" of the Chinese Communist
Party, however, the statement seems to accurately reflect
Beijing’s official stance on the matter.
The publication came after US President Donald Trump
stepped up his rhetoric against North Korea, threatening
Pyongyang with a military solution.
Commenting on the war of words between the US and
North Korea, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said
that the risk of a full-fledged war between the US and
North Korea is "very high."
Ba Dianjun, director of the Center for Northeast Asia
at Jilin University, underscored that despite the Mutual Aid
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and Cooperation Friendship Treaty between China and
North Korea, Beijing will not come to help if Pyongyang
attacks first.
"At the same time, if the US strikes first and
starts a war on the Korean Peninsula,
China and other countries, including
Russia, Japan and South Korea, will be
against it. In the current situation a little
spark can ignite a fire in the region. The
potential conflict would expand and result
in tremendous damages to the neighboring
nations. Such powers as China and Russia
are against escalating the tensions. At the
same time, one should not forget that
Beijing and Moscow do not favor the policy
of the North Korean regime. But they are
also against Washington’s threats and a
military solution," the expert told Sputnik
China.
According to Konstantin Asmolov, an expert at the
Institute for Far Eastern Studies at the Russian Academy
of Sciences, the publication in The Global Times clearly
reflects Beijing’s official position.
"The message clearly says that Beijing will
punish anyone who escalates tensions
on the Korean Peninsula," Asmolov pointed
out.
The expert added that China sent a stern warning over the
situation in the region.
"On the one hand, China says that North
Korea should not make any reckless
moves and if Pyongyang launches
aggression Beijing will not come to help. At
the same time, China will respond if the US
decides to attack North Korea," Asmolov
said.
The expert did not predict a full-fledged conflict in the
region, but yet taking into account the current level
of tensions, the situation risks spinning out of control.
In turn, Tong Zhao, a fellow in Carnegie’s Nuclear Policy
Program based at the Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global
Policy, said that North Korea will not engage in an open
military confrontation.
"Pyongyang understands that if it launches
a nuclear missile this would risk provoking
nuclear war. North Korea just wants
to show off its military power," Tong said
in an interview with Sputnik.
Tensions on the Korean Peninsula have recently intensified
due to North Korea's multiple nuclear tests and ballistic
missile launches, conducted in violation of UN Security
Council resolutions.
Last month, Pyongyang conducted two tests
of intercontinental ballistic missiles. According to the
Korean Central News Agency, the latest launch on July 28
was successful; the missile reached the altitude of 3,725
kilometers and traveled 998 kilometers, for about 47
minutes, before falling into the Sea of Japan.
The US and North Korea have exchanged a series
of warmongering statements over the recent week.
For example, US President Donald Trump said that North
Korea "will be met with fire and fury" if Pyongyang does
not reign in its "threats to the US."
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In response, North Korean state-run news agency KCNA
reported that the North Korean Strategic Force is carefully
considering examining the operational plan for making an
"enveloping fire at the areas around Guam" with ballistic
missiles.
On Thursday, Trump told reporters,
"Let's see what he [North Korean leader
Kim Jong-un] does with Guam. He does
something in Guam, it will be an event the
likes of which nobody’s seen before what
will happen in North Korea."
The US president later stated that US military solutions are
"fully in place, locked and loaded" should North Korea
"act unwisely."
Russia has repeatedly voiced concern over the escalation
on the Korean peninsula. During Chinese President Xi
Jinping's visit to Moscow earlier this summer, the Russian
and Chinese foreign ministries issued a joint statement
proposing ways to de-escalate the situation. Moscow and
Beijing called on Pyongyang to stop nuclear tests and
urged Washington and Seoul to refrain from conducting
joint drills.
 Why A War With North Korea Is Unlikely
Here Are Three Scenarios For The North Korean Crisis.
North Korea Announced A Detailed Plan To Launch A Salvo Of Ballistic
Missiles Toward The US Pacific Territory Of Guam, A Major Military
Hub And Home To US Bombers [AP Photo/Ahn Young-Joon]
By Stein Tonnesson - @Steintonnesson
12 August 2017
The recent flurry of threats between Kim Jong-un and
Donald Trump has caused much consternation. Threats can
indeed be dangerous but only when they are followed up
by hostile action.
The latest important developments in this crisis have been
North Korea's July 4 and July 28 tests of long-range
missiles that may be able to reach the American continent,
and the UN Security Council's unanimous decision on
August 5 to impose new harsh sanctions on North Korea.
These sanctions may cause much hardship for the North
Korean population, and if China and Russia implement
them loyally, they may also harm the ruling class in
Pyongyang.
I see three scenarios for how the Korean crisis can develop
in the next year: War, permanent crisis or a negotiated
deal. The first is least likely, the second very likely, and
the third more likely than war.
Why is war unlikely?
No one wants war. It would spell the end of the Kim
dynasty (Kim Il-sung 1912–94; Kim Jong-il 1941–2011;
Kim Jong-un 1984- ), and could cause a tremendous
disaster in South Korea, maybe also in Japan - if North
Korea were able and willing to launch a nuclear attack on
its former colonial master.
Although not directly, the US would also be harmed in this
scenario. If it decides to launch a military attack against
North Korea, then this could cause an uproar in South
Korea, causing the US to lose its Korean ally.
Moreover, the White House and the Pentagon are no doubt
aware that the North Korean regime is not a ripe fruit
ready to fall, as it relies on a disciplined army and
population. The power of the Kim dynasty is based on
fear, faith and pride. People live in constant fear of the
government. Yet many combine their fear with faith in the
"great leader". North Koreans are immensely proud of
their nation and its history. Together these three factors
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provide for a high level of discipline. Although North
Korea's main weapons and command centres might be
quickly destroyed through US precision-bombing, North
Korea's command structure would most likely function in
the opening phase of a war, thus allowing Kim to launch
massive artillery and missile attacks against the South
Korean capital Seoul, with its more than ten million
inhabitants.
Why is war still possible? The risk of war increases if Kim
decides to launch new missile or nuclear tests and Trump
then decides to send aircraft carriers, submarines and
troops to the Korean peninsula in an attempt to force Kim
to the negotiating table. Either side might then convince
itself that the other is about to attack, and conclude that a
pre-emptive strike is necessary. Both sides know how
advantageous it will be to strike first.
Will the crisis just continue?
A permanent crisis is likely, since the US and North
Korean objectives are incompatible. Kim doggedly pursues
his aim to have the same capacity as Russia and China to
strike the American continent. This would deter US attacks
against his country. A succession of US presidents have
seen this as totally unacceptable. Trump has said "it will
not happen". The US has made it a precondition for
negotiating with North Korea that it totally give up its
nuclear weapons. This makes it all but impossible to reach
a negotiated deal between the two sides.
The North Korean nuclear crisis has already lasted for a
long time. Trump is trying to overcome George W Bush
and Barack Obama's "strategic patience" by forcing North
Korea with Chinese help to give up its nuclear weapons.
Kim, however, defies Chinese advice and Beijing does not
want to provoke a total crisis with the country it helped to
save in the Korean War.
The most likely scenario is therefore permanent crisis. The
current situation is particularly difficult for Kim Jong-un,
since Russia and China have decided to join the US in
applying sanctions. Their reasons, however, have much to
do with a need to avoid too much US hostility against
themselves. If the relationship between the US and
Russia/China worsens, if the US becomes preoccupied
with a crisis somewhere else, or if the internal political
crisis in Washington prevents Trump from pursuing US
foreign policy goals, then the pressure on North Korea will
lessen.
Is there a way out?
The most promising venue now for negotiations may be
talks between the two Koreas. Moon Jae-in, who took over
as South Korean president in May this year, has since tried
at once to establish trust with Donald Trump and engage in
rapprochement, including military-to-military talks, with
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North Korea. When Trump made his "fire and fury" threat,
Moon Jae-in called him to protest. Trump accepted the call
and talked with Moon for an hour. At ASEAN's foreign
minister summit in Manila on August 5-6, the South
Korean, Chinese and Russian foreign ministers met
separately with North Korean foreign minister Ri Su-jong.
Russia and China seek a temporary agreement whereby
North Korea abstains from any further missile and nuclear
tests, while the US and South Korea pledge to abstain from
further military exercises of the kind that led to acute crisis
in March-May this year. Such a temporary agreement
would not satisfy the US demand that North Korea
abandon its nuclear weapons, so the US would probably
not sign such an agreement. Yet Trump might allow his
South Korean ally to make a temporary deal in order to
buy time and deflect the ongoing crisis.
Moon Jae-in is a would-be agent of peace. If Kim Jong-un
could make his first travel outside North Korea to Seoul in
return for presidents Kim Dae-jung and Roh Moo-yun's
visits to Pyongyang in 2000 and 2007, then it would be an
important step on the road to peace in Korea.
 White House Plotters Working To 'Eject' Trump, Says
Former Communications Chief Anthony Scaramucci
‘The President Is Not A Representative Of The Political Establishment
Class, So For Whatever Reason The People Have Made A Decision That
They Want To Eject Him,’ Mr Scaramucci Says
Alexandra Wilts Washington DC
August 13, 2017

Donald Trump’s former communications director has said
there are people in Washington trying to topple the
President.
Anthony Scaramucci, who was sacked last month after just
10 days on the job, said there are “elements” within the
White House trying to “eject” Mr. Trump.
“What happens in Washington... is the
President is not a representative of the
political establishment class, so for
whatever reason the people have made a
decision that they want to eject him,” Mr.
Scaramucci told ABC.
“I think there are elements inside of
Washington, also inclusive in the White
House, that are not necessarily abetting the
President’s interests or his agenda.”
When asked to identify the individuals, he said he had
already “named some names”.
He added that Mr. Trump needed to bring in “more
loyalists” to carry out his agenda.
The controversial orders Donald Trump has already
issued
During his brief time working for the President, Mr
Scaramucci turned the White House upside down. His
hiring led to the departures of both Sean Spicer and Reince
Priebus, Mr. Trump’s former press secretary and chief of
staff, respectively.
Mr. Scaramucci told New Yorker reporter Adam Lizza that
Mr. Priebus was a “paranoid schizophrenic, a paranoiac”
and accused him of leaking information to journalists. The
following day, Mr. Trump announced on Twitter that he
was replacing Mr. Priebus with John Kelly, the Secretary
of Homeland Security.
One of Mr. Kelly's first tasks in his new role appears to
have been removing Mr. Scaramucci as communications
director.
Mr. Scaramucci told ABC on Sunday that he “obviously
paid the consequences” for his profanity-laced call to Mr
Lizza in which the ex-communications director also
bashed White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon as well
as Mr. Priebus.
“For the record, I thought that was off the
record,” Mr. Scaramucci said, adding that
Mr. Lizza's decision to record the call was
“a very deceitful thing that he did.”

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Mr. Lizza told CNN that Mr. Scaramucci did know the “well obviously I wished they would've
conversation was given me a bar of soap and told me to
wash my mouth out in the bathroom and
“100 percent on the record.” move on.”

When asked if he thought he deserved to be fired, Mr.

Scaramucci said,

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 Could Mike Pence Be The Next President?
How Gerald Ford Picked Up The Pieces After Nixon
By Newsweek Archives
8/13/17 At 8:00 AM
Newsweek published this story under the
headline of “FORD AS MR. RIGHT” on
August 11, 1975. In honor of the 43rd
anniversary this week of Gerald Ford
becoming president of the U.S., Newsweek
is republishing the story.
He was a man of the Congress, a heartland commoner
whose ambitions never ran higher than speaker of the
house, and for a long while his old chums simply assumed
his discomfort in his new station. But one of them, House
Minority Leader John Rhodes, saw him on business
recently and asked in sudden wonderment: "You really
love the damn job, don't you?"
"Yes," said the president of the United States, "I do."
He does. Hardly a year ago Gerald Ford was, by the
eyewitness testimony of his own son Jack, a slowed-down
case - a man who had run out his string in Congress and
had a accepted the vice presidency as a graceful way into
retirement. Even in the euphoria over this swearing-in,
nobody thought of him as much more than a caretaker
between Richard Nixon and some Democratic Mr.
Right. But Ford has come now to the eve of the first
anniversary of his accidental presidency, with a calm and a
competence that have surprised everybody except himself.
He has made this languid season the summer of Jerry Ford
- and whether or not it last, he is, as one unadmiring
political scientist put it, "the right guy in the right place at
the right time."
His second honeymoon is part luck, part skill and part a
palpable national nostalgia for the politics of normalcy. It
seems not to trouble Ford's countrymen that his style is
bland, his program largely negative, his relationship with
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Congress increasingly contentious. His polls, though
fading, are fat - particularly when he is matched against
any known Republican or Democratic challenger. His
press in aglow with accounts of his confidence and his
command of the job. His opposition is in a fret over his
popularity and its own disarray. His people are almost
eerily serene in the face of recession inflation and a dicey
peace; it is a measure of their content, and America's
mood, that they can solemnly compare Jerry Ford to
Calvin Coolidge - and mean it as a compliment.
His current high is, as all but the most committed
Fordomanes understand, a fragile condition. One
Republican field worker, fresh back from a cross-country
tour, reported the president's standing "positive - and skin
deep." It rests partly on the recovery of the Mayaguez from
Cambodia, partly on Ford's mastery of a muddled
Democratic Congress in a series of veto fights. But the
afterglow of Mayaguez is already dimming in the polls.
The vetoes have put Capitol Hill in a garrison mood; in the
past fortnight alone, Congress has shot down Ford's latest
plan to decontrol oil prices, locked in the embargo on arms
for Turkey and steamrollered through a $2 billion health
bill without Ford's signature. The economy is still sickly,
the world still uncertain, the president still likable but
uninspiring to a fault.
Yet Ford and his people are gambling that he can prevail
over all of it - and at least of this season, he has. They
concede that he is a plain man; they argue that its is
enough for this time that, as one old friend put it, he comes
across to America as "a very nice person" - and that he is
not Richard Nixon. They grant that the economy is rocky;
Ford, in an interview with Newsweek, countered only that
it is getting better, and that he will get by politically if
inflation and unemployment are trending downward next
Election Day. They agree that he has put a freeze on bold
new programs; they argue that the economy required it,
and besides, in the words of one senior staffer, "new and
bold can also be crappy." And they affirm that Ford is not
only on top of his job but happy in it. "He's really at home
with himself," says Jack Ford, an engagingly fresh young
man who has come home from Forestry school to work in
his father's campaign. "This has recharged him as a man."
PLAIN OLD JERRY
The temperature hovered at 90, the humidity was stifling,
and the long queue of tourists stood wilting through waits
of an hour and more for a conducted dash through the
public rooms of the White House. Ford had seen them and
fretted for their comfort - and suddenly, on less than five
minutes notice to his bodyguards, he popped outside to
greet them. He started at the head of the line, chatting and
shaking hands. His shirt quickly soaked through. Great
drops of perspiration beaded on his face and dripped from
his nose, making blot marks on his tie. But he stuck it out
for 45 minutes to the end of the queue - by then 3,000
tourists long.
A year in the Imperium has not spoiled him. His ankle
socks droop. He butchers polysyllabic words. He still says
"judge-a-ment" - by now, one old Ford hand believes, out
of good-natured perversity. He calls visitors "sir." He looks
uncomfortable when he walks into a room and everybody
stands up. The help brings him his English muffins now,
but he himself got up at 3:30 one recent morning to take
the First Dog, Liberty, out for a necessary walk on the
South Lawn. He is not nearly so comfortable with his title
as with his work - not, at least, in the company of old
friends. One of them, William Whyte, U.S. Steel's chief
lobbyist, phoned him early on and started out, "Mr.
president -"
"Is this Mr. Whyte?" answered Ford.
"It's Bill Whyte," said Whyte.
"Well, it's Jerry Ford," said Ford.
All of this adds up to what might be called the DHB Factor
- the quality of unabashed ordinariness that requires even
Ford's sourest critics to start out with the concession that
he is a Decent Human Being. He is, and both he and his
handlers recognize DHB as his most precious political
asset. It is, for one thing, what separates him and his
Administration from the Nixon past; Ford, in his
conversation with Newsweek, placed the restoration of
trust in government No. 1 on his list of achievements in his
first year. It is, for another, a kind of campaign promise - a
pledge of candor and common decency at the top - and
Ford's people have already begun test-marketing it for
1976. "The Democrats can conceivably nominate
someone as honest and straightforward as the president,"
staff counselor Robert T. Hartmann says comfortably, "but
they aren't gonna get anybody who can top him."
There is no visible artifice about it. Ford is a man of
common speech and touch. He came to the presidency
burdened by the suspicion that he was not smart enough
for it; even now, one heavily degreed adviser rates him
neither brilliant nor surpassingly bright but just plain
"sound and sensible." He can be a hard-shell Main Street
conservative reading a welfare budget or an unemployment
chart - and a soft touch confronted with suffering in the
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flesh. On a recent prowl in the White House, he struck up a
conversation with a staff slide projectionist who was
leaving after twenty years.
"Why are you leaving?" asked Ford.
"Because nobody asked me to stay," said the projectionist.
"Well, I'm asking you to stay," said Ford - and the next
morning, in his regular state-of-the-nation conference with
staff coordinator Donald Rumsfeld, the case for keeping
the projectionist on leapfrogged over inflation, recession
and the woes of the world to the head of the day's agenda.
A PRESIDENT AT WORK
A member of the group of old pals who make up the Ford
kitchen Cabinet sat in front of his TV set one evening last
spring, watching the president hedge, fudge and waffle his
way through a network interview. The counselor stood the
pain for 45 minutes, then flicked off the set and began
scribbling notes about how spongy Ford had seemed.
"How'd I do?" the president asked him next day. "Jerry,
you stunk, you just stunk," said the friend, and proceeded
to explain why. Ford laughed and sucked at his pipe. "I
appreciate that, he said.
The Open Presidency began as the Ragged Presidency -
Ford himself uncertain of his footing, his staff mismatched
and unguided, their joint product a flow of mistakes
ranging from the packaging of the Nixon pardon to the
unbuttoning of the WIN campaign. There are still bad
bloopers, most recently Ford's failure (on Henry
Kissinger's advice) to invite Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn for
tea, let alone sympathy. But Rumsfeld, intense and prison-
pale, has imposed some order on the chaos, and Ford has
evolved a working style of his own. He consumes paper,
staring at 6 a.m. - not just decision memos but the tabbed
material supporting them. He invites dissent, and
sometimes heeds it. He dominates meetings instead of
merely moderating them. He has even learned to be
grumpy; once, when a staff wrangle over minutiae ran on
too long, he cut in evenly: "Look, fellas, you're wasting
your time and you're wasting mine."
Still, openness has somehow survived tidiness. Five
staffers (Kissinger, Rumsfeld, Hartmann, counsel Philip
Buchen, political adviser John Marsh) retain "peeking
privileges" - the license to pop in on Ford without
appointments - and more than a dozen other aides and
Cabinet officials see him regularly. In addition, once every
six or seven weeks, the president convenes the kitchen
Cabinet - in the Cabinet room, not the kitchen - for some
sleeves-up, call-me-Jerry straight talk. They are a clubby
crowd; their antecedents are Congressional (Melvin Laird,
William Scranton, Charles Goodell) or corporate (Whyte,
Procter & Gamble's Bryce Harlow, Hewlett-Packard's
David Packard), and their collective tilt is strongly - but
not unrelievedly - conservative. It was the kitchen Cabinet
that prodded Ford to confront Congress over spending; it
was the kitchen Cabinet as well that reminded him that he
ought in the process to express his sympathy for the
unemployed.
THE PLEASANT SURPRISE QUOTIENT
The family noticed it first, in the satellite relays and the
wire photo of Ford's awkward early meetings with foreign
heads of state. Shot after shot showed him standing or
walking stiffly with his fingers laced tightly across his
midsection, like a curate strolling through a cloister. They
recognized his body language for what it was - a sign that
he was uptight on what for him was brand-new terrain.
Finally, Jack braced him with it: "Why don't you walk with
them like you do with Carl Albert?" It took awhile - but
now, sometimes, he does.
Nobody quite knows when Ford really started feeling
presidential Jack imagines that it was the day he took the
oath; others close to him date it to his first veto victories,
or his speech at Tulane University declaring an end to the
Indochina misadventure, or the winter conferences at Vail
that produced his economic and energy programs. What no
one doubts is that, terms of the sheer capacity to cope, he
has grown into his job - has discovered where the buttons
are and developed a growing sure-handedness about
pushing them. Self-doubt is not one of Ford's vices, or his
virtues. He has, he told Newsweek mildly, made no serious
mistakes at all thus far - not the pardon, not WIN, not the
lack of social programs. "Nothing substantively, no," he
said. ". . . I really don't think there is anything major that I
would do differently."
Not even Ford's most loyal employees subscribe to his
zero-defect view of his presidency. But he has
demonstrated that he can manage, and has accordingly
profited from a kind of Pleasant Surprise Quotient - the
discovery that he can after all govern and chew gum at the
same time. His report card:
In economics, Ford settled on his basic premise early on:
that inflation was more ruinous to more people than
recession and that it could be contained only at the cost of
some pain in added unemployment. His rare candor in
saying so has won him high marks, even among liberals
who object to his policies. He can, moreover, claim with
some statistical support that Fordonomics is working - that
the slump is bottoming out and that inflation has come
down from double to single-digit levels. But his
willingness to tolerate recession-level rates of joblessness
through Election Day and beyond remains a high political
risk. And his anti-inflationary strategy sometimes seems at
war with his benign view of big business - his passive
acceptance of two major aluminum price increases in a
year, for example, or his own push for deregulation of the
price of domestic oil.
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In energy, Ford's signal achievement thus far has been to
force the attention of Congress to the fact that there is a
squeeze and that something ought to be done about it. "He
got the mule's attention," conceded one Democratic Senate
staffer. But he has run into resistance both with his basic
program - raising oil prices in the hope of cutting down
demand and stimulating new production - and with his
efforts to bludgeon it through Congress. The mule, as a
result, has dug in its heels. The House refused last week to
grant Ford the gradual price-decontrol plan he had sent up;
Ford in turn threatened to veto a six-month extension of
existing price ceilings. The outcome of this game of
chicken could thus be an explosive rather than a gradual
rise in gasoline and home-heating costs - a jump that could
re-ignite inflation and seriously depress the president's
stock for 1976.
In foreign affairs, for all Ford's diminishing innocence
abroad, his policies still come down to two words: Henry
Kissinger. Ford's people insist that it is not a Svengali-
Trilby relationship but a fundamental harmony of views;
still, it is Kissinger (or his deputy, Brent Scowcroft) who
conducts Ford through the daily global tour d'horizon and
the periodic depth seminars at which the basic outlines of
U.S. policy take form. The partnership thus far has
liquidated the Vietnam war, at no visible political cost to
the president; has scored a domestic political coup with the
retrieval of the Mayaguez, and has got the Israeli-Egyptian
negotiations back on track toward an interim agreement.
But the Ford-Kissinger world order is full of unraveling
ends, from Panama to Portugal to Turkey to Korea, and it
is currently under sharpening criticism at its very
foundation - a detente whose benefits have sometimes
seemed to flow disproportionately from West to East.
It is the issues the president has not addressed that trouble
his critics and comfort his potential Democratic
challengers; his domestic record in their view is almost
barren of programmatic ideas for the nation's social ills,
and even an old Ford hand concedes that it is "spotty." The
president himself told Newsweek that his domestic council
will move out into the countryside this fall to collect
suggestions at public hearings, and that he may well have
something positive to offer next year on such matters as
health insurance - if the state of the economy permits. But
no one inside the White House or out expects the offerings
to be visionary in design or grand in scale. Ford's rhetoric
of late has been a running sermon on the evils of big
government and big spending; he means it, and believes
that he is tune with his times. "There is no free lunch," says
one senior staffer, "and the American people know there is
no free lunch. There are only hard choices."
AT WAR WITH THE HILL
They went out on the Sequoia one evening a fortnight ago,
Ford setting the dress code for his guests from Congress by
shucking his jacket and tie as soon as he stepped aboard. In
the deepening twilight, the president buttonholed Thomas
P. (Tip) O'Neill, the billowy, scarlet-nosed leader of the
House Democratic majority, and playfully asked if he was
prepared to help out on the Turkish arms question. "The
hell I am," boomed Tip. Ford laughed appreciatively, and
next day, through an intermediary, sent the Majority
Leader - "my Irish friend" - a cigar.
Personal relations along Pennsylvania Avenue have vastly
improved since Nixon, whose idea of consultation was an
easelful of flip-charts and a monologue on what the White
House expected of Congress. Ford is still Jerry on Capitol
Hill. But institutional relations between the Republican
president and the Democratic Congress have fallen into a
kind of sour stasis. Ford has attempted with some success
to make Congress the goat of his austerity economics this
year and his run for a full term in 1976. He has vetoed no
fewer than 36 bills - the modern first-year record was
Harry Truman's 25 in 1945-46 - and until lately has made
almost all of the vetoes stick.
But his victories have had their cost - a dangerous buildup
of frustration among a majority that came to Washington
billed as veto-proof and for a time believed it. The
atmosphere of confrontation has eroded trust in Ford and
his Administration. It has incited opposition to Ford's
wishes as a matter of simple institutional pride; the air was
smoky with vengeance last week when the House
stampeded the health bill to passage over Ford's veto, and
even Republican leader Rhodes thought better of speaking
up for the president. And it has framed Ford himself as a
target for partisan attack, even as he has sought to set up
Congress. Tip O'Neill smokes Ford's cigars and laughs at
Ford's jokes, but their camaraderie ends there. "Jeez, he's
more conservative than Nixon ever was," grumped the
leader. "Celluloid collar and high button shoes - that's his
thinking."
CATCH '76
"It's a pity," said Senate Democratic Whip Robert Byrd,
walking away from a leadership meeting with Ford, "that
he's such a nice guy."
"Bob," responded Minority Leade Hugh Scott, "what
you're really saying is that it's a pity he's not a Democrat."
Self-pity is in fact a condition of the Democratic Party in
this summer of Jerry Ford. All the hornbook rules
presidential politics decree that he ought to be a pushover -
that nice guys indeed finish last when burdened, as Ford is,
with high unemployment, rising prices, the memory of
scandal and a do-little domestic record. But the Democrats
.
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have yet to find his match among their slate-gray field of
contenders; the measure of their poverty is that their
hottest property, Edward M. Kennedy remains unavailable
- and that even he runs 7 points behind Ford in the latest
Harris poll. Dwight Eisenhower wove a similar spell out of
similarly plain ingredients. "Ford," says Sanford Weiner, a
San Francisco campaign consultant, "might be everybody's
favorite uncle, the way Ike was everybody's favorite
grandfather. No one knew what Ike's policies were. They
didn't give a damn - they liked him."
The greening of Ford, and the disarray of the Democrats,
have bought the president time to quiet an incipient right-
wing mutiny in his own party, and he has gone about it
with uncommon skill for a man bred up in the
Congressional district politics of Grand Rapids. He has
been aided immeasurably by Ronald Reagan's endless
temporizing at his Elsinore on the Pacific. But Ford has
mainly helped himself, with the Mayaguez incident, the
war on spending, and the strategic distancing of his own
campaign from Nelson Rockefeller's. The rightward
gestures have undercut Ronnie even in Reagan country.
"Reagan," says Ford's man Hartmann, "is not really a long-
range serious problem."
Yet Ford remains vulnerable to events, some within his
control, some far beyond it. His own economists predict
continuing high unemployment through Election Day; his
response is that maybe they will be wrong. Inflation, for all
his labors, has been only incompletely contained. His
energy policies will jack up the costs of driving, heating,
manufacturing, farming and practically everything else.
His conduct of world affairs has yet to be challenged by
any crisis more serious than a facedown with Cambodia's
match wood navy. His wife's fragility was underscored
once again when she had to beg off part of her taxing
social schedule in Europe last week.
And Catch '76 for Gerald Ford remains Gerald Ford. He is
unquestionably a man for this season - a kind of antihero
whose homely virtues of thrift, honesty, hard work and
modesty about the capacities of government exactly suit a
diminished national mood. What he has yet to demonstrate
is any larger capacity for leadership - for defining goals
and mobilizing the energies of a nation behind them. His
gamble is that that sort of leadership is an idea whose time
has come and gone, at least for now. If he wins, he will
have his place among the commoner presidents he admires
- the Trumans and the Eisenhowers who triumphed by
their identity with the ordinary man. If he loses, the
analogies will indeed be with Calvin Coolidge, and they
will no longer be meant to flatter Jerry Ford.
 Trump Condemns ‘Display Of Hatred, Bigotry & Violence
On Many Sides’ After Charlottesville Clashes
Published Time: 13 Aug, 2017 01:04 Edited Time: 13 Aug, 2017 15:50
President Trump has condemned the violent clashes and a
car ramming incident in Charlottesville, Virginia, saying
that “the division must stop.” The statement has, however,
angered his critics who insist he should have singled out
white nationalists.
“We condemn in the strongest possible
terms this egregious display of hatred,
bigotry and violence on many sides,”
Trump said in a Saturday address, adding
that he has been “closely following” the
events in Charlottesville.
“I just got off the phone with the governor of
Virginia, Terry McAuliffe, and we agreed
that the hate and the division must stop,
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and must stop right now,” he said, adding,
“We have to come together as Americans
with love for our nation and true affection
for each other.”
“No matter our color, creed, religion, our
political party, we are all Americans first,”
Trump said.
While Trump noted that the division “has
been going on for a long, long time” he
added that it “has no place in America.”
Trump later offered condolences to the victim of an
apparent car attack in Charlottesville, which has been
identified as a 32-year-old woman. The car rammed
through a crowd of people taking part in the opposing
rallies of “Unite the Right” protesters and counter-
demonstrators and hitting other vehicles. RT America’s
Alex Rubinstein reported that the people marching at the
scene were anti-fascist demonstrators.
“Condolences to the family of the young
woman killed today, and best regards to all
of those injured, in Charlottesville, Virginia.
So sad!” Trump tweeted.
It was not immediately clear what motivated the driver of
the car, which smashed into another vehicle and tossed
people in the air before speedily reversing, but police say
they are treating the incident as homicide.
The apparent attack was preceded by confrontations
between the “alt-Right” and the anti-fascists, which at
times spilled over into violent brawls. A total of 35 people
are reported to have been injured in Saturday’s violence,
including 19 who were hit by the car. Five people are still
in critical condition, the University of Virginia Medical
Center said in its latest updates.
Two more people were killed just outside Charlottesville
on Saturday as a police helicopter crashed in a wooded
area on Old Farm Road in Albemarle County. Reports
suggest that the helicopter was earlier circling above the
crowds, monitoring the protests.
First Lady Melania Trump also criticized the violence in
Virginia, tweeting:
 “Our country encourages freedom of
speech, but let's communicate w/o hate in
our hearts. No good comes from violence.”

However, many Trump critics, including media outlets

generally critical of Trump, have taken the Saturday
statements as a sign the president is unwilling to directly
criticize the far-right nationalists, who are considered to be
pro-Trump.

Some have lashed out on Trump on Twitter for seemingly

blaming “many sides” rather than the white supremacists,
whom they consider to be responsible for the violence.

Saturday’s demonstration was originally meant as a right-

wing protest against the removal of the statue of
Confederate General Robert E. Lee from Emancipation
Park, known as the Lee Park before it was renamed by the
decision of the city council in June. On Facebook, the
“Unite the Right” rally’s aim was also described as to

“unify the right-wing against a totalitarian

Others have disagreed with the idea that the white
nationalists were solely to blame, saying that both sides
engaged in clashes throughout the day. Right-wing writer
Mike Cernovich tweeted a photo of protesters with
Confederate flags facing off with a black masked man
holding an improvised aerosol can flamethrower, who is
pointing the flame at the group of white nationalists. He
argued that the critics of the far-right “ignore half of this
picture.”
Communist crackdown” and “affirm the
right of Southerners and white people to
organize for their interests just like any
other group is able to do.”
However, it attracted crowds of counter-demonstrators,
which included anti-fascist and Black Lives Matter
protesters. Clashes between these groups and the far-right
protesters resulted in the city proclaiming a state of
emergency.

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 Hannity Exposes Assassination
Threat Against President Trump
Cristina Laila
Aug 13th, 2017 1:27 Pm

Conservative radio host and best selling

author, Sean Hannity exposed a person
on Twitter who went by the username
‘lorie4040’ for making assassination
threats against President Trump.

To no ones surprise, the liberals came out in full force,

blaming President Trump for the violence on Saturday
after White Nationalists clashed with left-wing Antifa in
Charlottesville leaving many injured and one dead. These
same liberals never wring their hands when conservatives
are stabbed, shot, ran over and killed by left-wing Antifa,
Islamic terrorists or Black Lives Matter terrorists; it’s only
evil when white supremacists do it and it’s all Trump’s
fault.

A person named ‘Lorie Wise’ with the Twitter handle

‘lorie4040’ sent a series of assassination threats against
President Trump on Saturday. As soon as Hannity exposed
her, she panicked and deleted her tweets.

The tweets have since been deleted, however we have

screenshots:

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 Multiple High-Level U.S. Officials
Publicly Warn Of Government Plot
To Assassinate Trump
By Jay Syrmopoulos
August 13, 2017

The exchange is 43 minutes into the clip below:

Washington, D.C. – In recent weeks there has been an

ominous and steady stream of high-level officials
intimating that President Trump could become the victim
of a coup de tête, or even the potential plan to assassinate
him.
One of the most vocal opponents of Trump, former CIA
Director John Brennan, while speaking at the Aspen
Security Conference, noted that if the administration
attempts to fire special counsel Robert Mueller,
government officials should refuse to follow the orders of
the president.
Brennan appearing alongside deep state crony, Director of
National Intelligence James Clapper, and told Blitzer they
have full confidence in Mueller.
“Absolutely. It was an inspired choice- they
don’t come any better, ” Brennan said,
noting that “If Mueller is fired, I hope our
elected reps will stand up and say enough
is enough.”

“I think it’s the obligation of some executive
branch officials to refuse to carry that out. I
would just hope that this is not going to be
a partisan issue. That Republicans,
Democrats are going to see that the future
of this government is at stake and
something needs to be done for the good
of the future,” Brennan told CNN’s Wolf
Blitzer at the Aspen Security Forum.
Essentially, Brennan is calling for a coup against the
sitting president should Mueller be fired by Trump. It
should be noted that the appointment of Mueller as special
counsel happened due to James Comey leaking to the New
York Times. Without question, the deep state protects their
own and Trump is the consummate outsider to the deeply
entrenched bureaucracy of the U.S. security services –
which in many ways have much more power and control
than any president.
On a side note, it’s been revealed that many of the
investigators Mueller has hired are former Clinton
supporters – a seemingly major conflict of interest given
the fact that Clinton was Trump’s opponent in the 2016
election, as well as the impetus behind starting the fake
Russiagate hype.
In addition to Brennan’s statements, CNN counterterrorism
expert, and former deputy director to former FBI Director
Mueller at the FBI, Phil Mudd, warned during an interview
this week with Jake Tapper that the U.S. government
“is going to kill this guy.”
Mudd claimed outright that Trump’s continued defense of
Russian President Vladimir Putin has compelled federal
employees “at Langley, Foggy Bottom, CIA and State” to
try to take Trump down.

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 “Let me give you one bottom line as a
former government official. Government
is going to kill this guy,” Mudd said.
“He defends Vladimir Putin. There are
State Department and CIA officers coming
home, and at Langley and Foggy Bottom,
CIA and State, they’re saying, ‘This is how
you defend us?'” he continued.
Evidencing a continual drive within the security apparatus
to marginalize the Trump presidency, and keep the
administration in line, deep state operatives within the
government have been leaking transcripts of Trump’s
phone calls with foreign leaders to the leading government
propaganda outlet in the U.S. – the Washington Post.
Leaders on both sides of the aisle have expressed national
security concerns about the continual attempts to
undermine the U.S. president.
“This is beyond the pale and will have a
chilling effect going forward on the ability of
the commander in chief to have candid
discussions with his counterparts,” Ned
Price, a former National Security Council
official under former President Obama, told
The Hill. “Granted, the White House
contributed to this atmosphere by
welcoming the free-for-all environment,
where anonymous leaks are commonplace.
But we must draw the line somewhere,”
Price continued.
This all comes on the heels of a pastor dropping a
bombshell, publicly noting that in a meeting with a senior
Republican Congressman, he was told of a plot to “remove
Trump suddenly from office.”
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Pastor Rodney Howard-Browne, during an appearance on
Revival Ministries International, said he spent three hours
“from 9:30 in the evening until 12:30am
with one of the senior ranking members of
Congress.”
The pastor said he told the story on the CBN network but
“they cut it out” and thus made a decision
“to go public with this because we have to.”
Howard-Browne stated that he initially thought the senior
GOP representative meant that he would soon be
impeached or indicted, but was stunned to learn that
something much more nefarious was in the works –
prompting him to go public with the information.
“He said there is a plot on Capitol Hill to
take the president out, I said you mean
by impeachment or by indictment – he
said no, to take him out, he will be
removed suddenly from office,” said
Howard-Browne, before adding, “you
can read between the lines.”
The pastor, who refused to specifically name the
congressman, did note that the representative had been in
office since 1996. The representative reportedly went on to
tell Howard-Browne
“there’s nothing we can do to stop it.”
It is important to note that pointing this out is not an
endorsement of Trump. It is to illustrate how the shadow
government behind the scenes forces their puppets to do
their bidding. If you ever wonder why every president flip
flops on promises once they get into office, it’s because of
these forces behind the scenes pulling their strings.
People must remain vigilant, as the writing by the deep
state seems to be on the wall.
 David Duke Slams Trump ‘Attack’:
‘We Were Peaceful … Attacked By Same Radical Leftists
Who Attacked Your Supporters’
Samantha Chang
August 13, 2017

Duke apparently wanted the president to support his group,

and got enraged when he disavowed it. Again.

The alt-left antifa pinheads in Charlottesville conflate the

police that protect them with the racist KKK. (Image:
screengrab)

Leftist dummies who blame President Trump for the

Charlottesville march should take note that alt-right white
supremacist David Duke attacked Trump for
condemning his group.

There goes the mainstream media narrative that President

Trump is aligned with the fringe white supremacist
movement.

In fact, Trump has repeatedly condemned and disavowed

them, unlike Democrats, who openly encourage the
radical-left antifa to continue their violent rallies.

Duke was furious after Trump called for an end of

violence after skirmishes erupted in Charlottesville,
Virginia, on Saturday.

David Duke also slammed Democratic Virginia governor

Terry McAuliffe, saying the left has repeatedly engaged
in violence and looting for the past seven months while
liberals applauded them. Duke is a racist jerk, but he’s
right about that.

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The brouhaha erupted when a couple hundred neo-Nazis
held a “Unite the Right” rally to protest the removal of a
statue of confederate general Robert E. Lee.
The rally, which was held Friday night at the University of
Virginia, was largely peaceful but turned violent Saturday
morning after angry leftists showed up and started
throwing fists.
Governor McAuliffe has since declared a state of
emergency to ensure no more violence occurs.
This could have been your president: Hillary Clinton’s longtime
mentor was celebrated Democratic Senator Robert Byrd, a former
Ku Klux Klan leader. (Image: Twitter)
Violence on either side is wrong. Neo-nazis should be
condemned and stamped out. But so should the radical-left
antifa, which has caused hundreds of millions of dollars in
property damage and physical injury while “resisting” and
protesting a duly-elected president for the past 7 months.
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Liberals refuse to condemn alt-left antifa that have repeatedly
attacked Trump supporters. This photo is not from Charlottesville.
(Image: screengrab)
Both groups are terrorists and should be prosecuted to the
fullest extent of the law. They do not represent everyday
Americans or the greatness of the United States.
Shortly after the violence exploded at Charlottesville, a
bipartisan consensus of Republican and Democratic
lawmakers condemned the fringe white supremacist
movement.
Republican Senators Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz were
among the first lawmakers to publicly disavow and
condemn the neo-Nazis.
To all the clueless leftists, here’s a history lesson: The
Democrats created the KKK. Republicans fought to
eradicate the racist hate group. When trying to conflate the
fringe, white-supremacist movement with everyone the
right, don’t get it twisted.
 Remember who the real Nazi is: Democratic mega-donor
George Soros, who’s bankrolling the violent antifa riots
around the world. In his youth, Soros was an actual
member of the Nazi party. Let that sink in.

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 Why Won't Trump Call Out Radical White Terrorism?
It Is Precisely At Moments Like This That An American President Should
Speak Up Directly On Behalf Of The American Creed.
Joshua Roberts / Reuters & Jeffrey Goldberg
Aug 13, 2017
On November 15, 2015, as the world grappled with the
horrors of a multipronged ISIS attack in Paris, Donald
Trump, who was then an improbable but officially
declared candidate for the presidency, tweeted,
“When will President Obama issue the
words RADICAL ISLAMIC TERRORISM?
He can’t say it, and unless he will, the
problem will not be solved!”
I raise the subject of this tweet, and the sentiment that
motivated it, in light of President Trump’s remarkable
reaction to the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, this
weekend.
“We condemn in the strongest possible
terms this egregious display of hatred,
bigotry and violence on many sides, on
many sides,” he said.
Trump, when presented with the chance to denounce, in
plain, direct language, individuals who could fairly be
described as “white supremacist terrorists,” or with some
other equivalent formulation, instead resorted to
euphemism and moral equivalence.
Trump’s position on the matter of President Obama’s anti-
terrorism rhetoric did not place him outside the Republican
mainstream. Obama’s critics argued throughout his
presidency that his unwillingness to embrace the
incantatory rhetoric of civilizational struggle—his
reluctance to cast such groups as al-Qaeda and ISIS as
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vanguards of an all-encompassing ideological and
theological challenge to the West—meant that, at the very
least, he misunderstood the nature of the threat, or, more
malignantly, that he understood the nature of the threat but
was, through omission, declaring a kind of neutrality in the
conflict between the United States and its principal
adversary.
It is true that Obama calibrated his rhetoric on the subject
of terrorism to a degree even his closest advisers
sometimes found frustrating. They hoped that, on
occasion, he would at least acknowledge the legitimacy of
Americans’ fears about Islamist terrorism before
proceeding to explain those fears away. But Obama had a
plausible rationale for avoiding the sort of language his
eventual successor demanded that he deploy. He believed
that any sort of rhetorical overreaction to the threat of
Islamist terrorism by an American president would create
panic, and would also spark a xenophobic response that
would do damage to America’s image, and to Americans
Muslims themselves.
He also took a view opposite to that of Donald Trump:
Bringing Islam itself to the forefront of the conversation
about terrorism would create a backlash in the Muslim
world that would do real harm to the armed anti-terrorism
campaigns he was then leading. Obama, over the eight
years he served as president, ordered the killings of more
Muslim terrorists, in more Muslim countries, than any of
his predecessors. On this subject, he spoke so softly he
could barely be heard, but he carried a lethal stick. His
goal was to eradicate Muslim terrorists without alienating
the great mass of Muslims unsympathetic to the theology
and tactics of those terrorists.
I spoke with Obama on a number of occasions about the
dilemmas he faced in his fight against Islamist terror. I was
one of those who thought he was rhetorically wanting, but
I also came to understand that he labored under no
illusions about the nature of the threat, and of the problem
afflicting Islamic civilization. There is a need, he told me
once, for “Islam as a whole” to challenge the radicals, “to
challenge that interpretation of Islam, to isolate it, and to
undergo a vigorous discussion within their community
about how Islam works as part of a peaceful, modern
society.” Refracting this conflict through the prism of a
“clash of civilizations” of the sort imagined by the late
political scientist Samuel Huntington would do no one any
good. “I do not persuade peaceful, tolerant Muslims to
engage in that debate if I’m not sensitive to their concern
that they are being tagged with a broad brush,” Obama
said.
Muslim radicals do seek the sort of civilizational clash that
Obama tried to avoid, but reality has delivered them
something else: a clash within their civilization, between
fundamentalists and modernizers, between a small but
murderous minority and a much larger number of Muslims
who seek to co-exist with other cultures and religious
groups. It is up to the worldwide community of Muslims,
Obama believed, to shape the Muslim future. It was not the
job of the president of the United States to insert himself
unnecessarily into this debate, by using rhetoric that would
be polarizing and dangerous.
Trump, in his remarks on Saturday, refused to align
himself against the so-called alt-right protest movement.
His decision to maintain a neutral stance on the activities
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of the racist and anti-Semitic right has opened him to
charges of hypocrisy; Trump is now refusing to speak
plainly about the nature of a particular terrorist threat, a sin
he continually ascribed to his predecessor.
But the issue here is substantially larger than mere
hypocrisy. Obama carefully measured his rhetoric in the
war against Islamist terrorism because he hoped to avoid
inserting the U.S. into the middle of an internecine struggle
consuming another civilization. But the struggle in
Charlottesville is a struggle within our own civilization,
within Trump’s own civilization. It is precisely at moments
like this that an American president should speak up
directly on behalf of the American creed, on behalf of
Americans who reject tribalism and seek pluralism, on
behalf of the idea that blood-and-soil nationalism is
antithetical to the American idea itself. Trump’s refusal to
call out radical white terrorism for what it is, at precisely
the moment America needs its leadership to take a unified
stand against hatred, marks what might be the lowest
moment of his presidency to date.
 As His Friend Calls For Trump’s Murder, Robert Mueller
Tries To Bankrupt Trump Associates Into Submission
By Alex Thomas -
08.13.2017 @8:29 PM EDT

Deep state operative Mueller using

financial terrorism to turn Trump
associates
(INTELLIHUB) — Special Counsel Robert Mueller and
his 16 member team of lawyers tasked with taking out the
elected president are now openly conducting a classic
fishing expedition that has absolutely nothing to do with
so-called Russian collusion and everything to do with
taking out Trump by any means necessary.
From raiding Paul Manafort’s home looking for financial
transactions that have nothing to do with Donald Trump to
going after retired general Michael Flynn, Mueller has
shown that his “investigation” is a transparent farce that is
being held together by fake mainstream news reports and
overall hate for Donald Trump the person.
In other words, the man legally elected as President of the
United States may be taken out by deep state operatives, in
government and the media, not because of any wrongdoing
but because they disagree with his policies.
A recent report in the liberal Daily Beast confirms this
stunning fact, complete with proof that former Trump
associates are being purposefully bankrupted in order to
hopefully turn them against the president, regardless if
they have any real dirt on him or not.
“Former Trump campaign chairman Paul
Manafort parted ways with WilmerHale, the
law firm defending him, earlier this week.
That was largely because Bob Mueller’s
16-lawyer Russia probe—which is targeting
him—has shifted its focus and is drilling
down on tax issues, which aren’t
WilmerHale’s specialty. But the parting of
ways with WilmerHale was also in part
because Manafort’s finances are
increasingly strained, according to sources
familiar with the situation,” reported The
Daily Beast.
“Paul Manafort’s resolve is limitless, but his
resources are not,” a source close to
Manafort told the paper.
Using financial terrorism to turn a former Trump associate
isn’t unique to Manafort’s case as highly decorated former
general Michael Flynn is also feeling the strain of having
to defend himself from deep state invented lies happily
peddled by the compliant mainstream media.
“Manafort isn’t the only person facing
financial challenges because of the legal
costs of responding to Mueller’s probe.
Michael Flynn, the retired general and
deposed National Security Adviser, is
struggling mightily with his mounting legal
bills, according to a source familiar with his
situation. The expenses has put his family’s
finances under significant duress, the
source said, and it’s expected he will soon
create a legal defense fund to keep from
going bankrupt,” the report continued.
Amazingly, as Mueller looks to bankrupt Trump allies, his
own friends in the intelligence community continue to
openly attack the president, with one going as far as to call
for Trump’s murder during an appearance on CNN.
Former CIA operative Philip Mudd, who also just so
happens to have been deputy director of the FBI under
Robert Mueller, not only openly admitted the deep state
war against Trump but actually stated that the government
will kill him.
“In yet another stunning display of the very
real deep state war being waged against
Donald Trump, CNN talking head and
former CIA agent Philip Mudd has openly
threatened the president with murder,”
Intellihub News reported.
“Let me give you one bottom line – as a
former government official, the
government’s gonna kill this guy,” Mudd
stunningly revealed.
Keep in mind that fired FBI Director James Comey is also
a close personal friend of Robert Mueller, a fact that
obviously shows a transparent conflict of interest in
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wrongdoing by Trump himself.
As longtime conservative attorney David Rivkin rightfully
noted,
“It’s obvious that it has morphed into an
open-ended investigation that is way
.
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beyond the Russian collusion, and the only
unifying principle seems to be that it covers
people who are close to Trump or worked
with Trump.”
“And that is a classical definition of a
fishing expedition.”
 EXCLUSIVE: Former Trump Adviser Says He Will ‘Blow’
McMaster, Drudge ‘The F**k Out’ If Bannon Is Ousted
Alex Pfeiffer
White House Correspondent
10:44 PM 08/13/2017
Sam Nunberg, a former political adviser to Donald Trump,
warned Sunday of dire consequences for National Security
Adviser H.R. McMaster and Matt Drudge if White House
chief strategist Steve Bannon is pushed out of the West
Wing.
“If Steve is fired by the White House and a
bunch of generals take over the White
House there will be hell to pay,” Nunberg, a
longtime Trump aide who left the
presidential campaign in August 2015, told
The Daily Caller in an exclusive interview.
His comments came after an Axios report that claimed
Bannon’s job is in jeopardy due to damaging leaks against
McMaster and anger over a recent book touting Bannon’s
role on the Trump presidential campaign.
Nunberg told TheDC that he was “very perturbed” by the
Axios story and tied in Bannon’s reported downfall to the
Drudge Report, which continues to link to stories that are
negative to the White House chief strategist.
“Matt should go back into his hobbit hole in
Miami and listen to techno,” the former
Trump campaign adviser said. “Matt should
understand that people like me can blow
him the fook up. F-o-o-k, Conor McGregor.
Blow him the fook up [sic].” (Nunberg was
referencing Irish MMA fighter Conor
McGregor, who pronounces “fuck” as
“fook.”)
Drudge has not made it known why he doesn’t favor
Bannon on his site. However, he has previously suspected
Bannon of leaking in to an email reviewed by TheDC, and
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he is known to link to articles that paint reported Bannon
foe Jared Kushner in a positive light.
“Matt should understand there will be
serious fucking consequences if he
continues this jihad against Steve Bannon,”
Nunberg told TheDC. “I was somebody
with [Trump] for four and half fucking years
who understood and came up with a
formula to win…Matt Drudge is somebody
who wants web traffic.”
He added,
“I’ll get conservative radio to talk about how
Matt Drudge pushed out Steve Bannon so
McMaster can control the White House.”
The conflict between McMaster and Bannon spilled out
into the open Sunday with McMaster unable to say if he
can work alongside the chief strategist during an
appearance on “Meet the Press.” Throughout TheDC’s
interview, Nunberg focused on the idea that he and
Bannon know the voter base that elected the brash New
York real estate developer president.
“Nobody elected Donald Trump for
McMaster to be in the West Wing,” the
former adviser said.
He went on to say that McMaster nor White
House chief of staff John Kelly can “hide
behind their service.” Like Drudge,
Nunberg said he would “blow” McMaster
“the fook out [sic].”
“This is politics. This is not military. You
want to go into the political arena, let’s do
it,” Nunberg said.
“I’ve never served. They made major
sacrifices, but I would also remind
them…these guys have not won a war
since World War II,” Nunberg stated.
“Steve Bannon with Donald Trump won the
biggest war in modern day history in 2016.”
“Nobody elected Donald Trump to send
50,000 fucking troops to Afghanistan to
 stay there in perpetuity,” Nunberg added,
alluding to a plan reportedly supported by
McMaster. “Nobody elected Donald Trump
to stay in the Paris accords, which
McMaster wanted. Nobody elected him to
kowtow to Iran, which McMaster wants.”
(RELATED: ‘Everything The President Wants To Do,
McMaster Opposes,’ Former NSC Officials Say)
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The Axios report cited individuals familiar with Trump’s
thinking and Nunberg told TheDC,
“Whoever in Jon Swan’s Axios piece is
familiar with Trump’s thinking should get
fucking familiar with the president’s base.”
Correction: Nunberg said “hobbit hole,” not “hobble
hole.”
Trump Wants To Destabilize Latin America By Threatening
Caracas With Force – Venezuelan FM
Published Time: 13 Aug, 2017 00:56 Edited Time: 13 Aug, 2017 12:55
Threats of a military operation against Venezuela are an
attempt by US President Donald Trump to drag Latin
America into a conflict and destabilize the continent, said
Jorge Arreaza, the Venezuelan foreign minister.
“Venezuela rejects in the most categorical
and convincing manner the unfriendly and
hostile statements by US President Donald
Trump... in which he threatens a military
invasion against our homeland,” Arreaza
told broadcaster Venezuelana de
Televisión.
According to the minister, Trump’s real aim is not
Venezuela, but the whole Latin American continent, which
he wants to see in turmoil.
“The reckless threats of President Donald
Trump are designed to draw Latin America
and the Caribbean into a conflict that will
irrevocably violate stability, peace and
security in our region,” he said.
Despite its complicated relations with Caracas, the South
American trade bloc Mercosur also said that it rejects the
use of force against Venezuela, Reuters reported.
Mercosur members regard dialogue and diplomacy as the
only possible option for achieving democracy in
Venezuela, a statement by Argentina’s Foreign Ministry
said.
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The bloc's founding members – Brazil, Argentina,
Paraguay and Uruguay – opted to indefinitely suspend
Venezuela’s participation last week, saying that Caracas
had failed to include essential Mercosur’s trade and human
rights norms into domestic legislation.
On Friday, Trump blasted Venezuela’s leader, President
Nicolas Maduro, as a “dictator,” saying that the crisis in
the country could prompt a US military response.
“The people are suffering and they are
dying. We have many options for
Venezuela, including a possible military
option if necessary,” Trump said.
However, the US Department of Defense
said that “the Pentagon has received no
orders” from the president regarding a
Venezuela operation.
The White House also claimed that it had declined
Maduro’s request to have a phone call with Trump, saying
the US leader “will gladly speak” with his Venezuelan
counterpart “as soon as democracy is restored.”
Earlier this week, Washington imposed sanctions on eight
Venezuelan officials, including President Maduro and the
brother of late ex-President Hugo Chavez.
The restrictions were introduced after the US labeled as
“illegitimate” the Constituent Assembly elections, which
took place in Venezuela in June.
The opposition in the country also refused to recognize the
vote, with the move adding even more tension to the
unstable situation in the country.
Venezuela has been gripped by violent protests since
April, which have already led to around 120 deaths,
according to Reuters.
 Steve Bannon’s Enemies See A Friend In John Kelly
Steve Bannon’s Job Is On The Line Again, As John Kelly
Orders An ‘End To The Drama.’
Asawin Suebsaeng
08.13.17 9:00 PM ET
Steve Bannon’s enemies in the Trump administration are
once again out for blood—and this time, they feel
emboldened by newly installed White House Chief of Staff
John Kelly, who has called for an “end to the drama,”
senior officials say.
Kelly, in his various conversations with other White House
aides, has heard from at least three White House officials
that “Bannon is a problem,” according to one Bannon
colleague.
Some Trump officials have been quick to blame Bannon
for ongoing tensions, which often stem from heated, vocal
ideological disagreements between Bannon and his fellow
Trump advisers. Those same officials are all-but-openly
hoping that Kelly brings the axe down on Bannon in the
coming weeks, if not sooner.
“[Kelly] has made it clear to everyone he…
wants an end to the drama,” one senior
Trump administration official told The Daily
Beast, describing Kelly’s desire for reining
in Trump’s staff. Officials spoke on the
condition of anonymity because they were
not cleared to discuss internal matters.
Other officials are expecting, if not an outright sacking, an
“effective demotion” of Bannon, as one senior White
House official characterized it. Under such a scenario, the
White House chief strategist’s portfolio would be reduced,
though he’d remain inside the building. Multiple
administration sources said that Kelly has been advised in
the past week to have Bannon sever his working
relationship with his own personal PR operation that
functions outside the confines of the federal government.
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But the man lampooned as Trump’s Grim Reaper has been
near death before only to hold on and even regain his
influence inside the White House. Bannon’s allies in the
administration are planning on laying low for now, but
remain confident that the chief strategist’s importance to
Trump’s hardcore nationalist, anti-immigration supporters
and media allies will prove too great to have him sent off.
According to multiple sources close to Bannon and the
president, Bannon, in conversations with associates and
friends, has described Trump as “one of us” and a fellow
right-wing “nationalist.” Those sources believe, as Bannon
has indicated to them, that Trump still wants Bannon
working in the administration, despite pressure to kick him
to the curb.
Still, the president is said to be annoyed by Bannon’s
alleged shenanigans and public image as Trump’s grand
puppet master. And it’s not the first time.
In the past, the president was notably furious with Bannon
after Time magazine put his top aide on the cover in
February as the “Great Manipulator.” According to White
House sources, it became a running joke among Trump’s
top advisers that Bannon had deigned to “sign a copy for”
Trump, who hates being overshadowed in the news media.
More recently, the president has been piqued by the
spotlight Bannon received in reporter Joshua Green’s new
book, Devil’s Bargain.
Neither the White House communications shop nor
Bannon commented on this story.
One person who doesn’t think he’s on the verge of getting
canned is Bannon himself, according to those with direct
knowledge of the situation. Bannon has also told associates
that Kelly isn’t itching to fire him, and he genuinely sees
Kelly as an ally, not as the possible executioner.
His relationship with the new chief of staff has been
neither adversarial nor hostile in the way that it is with
several other prominent White House officials. Bannon has
previously said that he helped land Kelly his prior job as
Trump’s secretary of the Department of Homeland
Security, and Bannon supported Kelly’s ascension to the
position of White House chief of staff. The two have
known each other for years and have acted cordially,
despite not being ideological kindred spirits. Nearly a
decade ago, Bannon helped produce a film about Marines
and troops who fought in pivotal battles in Iraq. Kelly
endorsed and hosted screenings of the documentary and
said he was “very impressed” with it.
Still, Bannon and his allies, both in and outside the White
House, are expecting his opponents in Trump-world to
“play dirty,” as one source close to Bannon put it.
According to this source, Bannon and associates are
“expecting some people” in the administration to try to
“smear him with,” among other things, the killing at the
Charlottesville white-supremacist gathering that occurred
on Saturday.
Outside critics of Bannon, including recently fired White
House communications director Anthony Scaramucci, said
this weekend that Bannon and Breitbart (“Bannonbart,” as
The Mooch said) are badly damaging Trump with their far-
right, nationalist “influence.” Scaramucci strongly
suggested on Sunday morning that in the wake of the
Charlottesville attack, it was time for Bannon—another
“leaker,” as The Mooch intimated—to hit the road.
It’s not just Scaramucci publicly fueling speculation that
Bannon is on an island inside the White House.
On Sunday morning, national security adviser H.R.
McMaster was asked three times by NBC’s Meet the Press
host Chuck Todd whether he can still work with Bannon,
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given the circumstances and their mutual penchant for
infighting. McMaster, who has privately blamed Bannon
for engineering recent leak and smear campaigns against
him—which Bannon has denied orchestrating—would not
give a straight answer.
Still, with Kelly seriously weighing his options, there are
some Trump advisers and confidants who are actively
concerned about the kind of damage a disgruntled, ejected
Bannon could do if exiled from the administration, given
the influence he wields among influential pro-Trump
media outlets and the heavy-hitter GOP donors the Mercer
family.
“There are some who are genuinely
worried about what he could do from the
outside, if thrown out,” a White House
official conceded.
Whatever the outcome of Kelly’s review, Bannon has
previously discussed with allies what life after the White
House could look like for him. One thing about which he
has privately fantasized is returning to conservative media
and launching the vast, Fox-News-rivalling media empire
that he had envisioned with Roger Ailes shortly before
Ailes died earlier this year.
In May, one source close to President Trump’s chief
strategist described Bannon’s unrealized dream project as
“Bannon TV.”
 Globalist McMaster Calls Soros-Promoted False Flag In Charlottesville A Terror Attack
McMaster Calls Charlottesville Attack Terror
By Mallory Shelbourne
08/13/17 12:01 PM EDT
National security advisor H.R. McMaster on Sunday said
the car attack at a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville,
Va. was terrorism.
“I certainly think any time that you commit
an attack against people to incite fear, it is
terrorism. It meets the definition of
terrorism,” McMaster told ABC’s “This
Week."
McMaster’s comments come one day after a vehicle
mowed down a group of counter-protesters at the white
supremacist rally, leaving one person dead and multiple
others injured.
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James Alex Fields Jr., 20, of Ohio was arrested
and charged with second-degree murder in the car attack,
and federal officials have opened a civil rights
investigation.
McMaster on Sunday called for the United States to
“extinguish in our nation” the “hatred and bigotry” on
display in Virginia.
“We have to do that by asking ourselves
what are we teaching our children around
the dinner table. What are we teaching our
children in school?” he asked.
“We ought to be teaching them about what
makes America exceptional, and that’s our
commitment to the rights of every
individual, liberty, freedom, respect for
each other regardless of race, religion, and
so forth.”
President Trump received criticism following his statement
after the attack when he condemned hatred and bigotry but
put the blame on “many sides.”
 Mueller’s Special Counsel Effort Has Become Nothing
More Than Taxpayer Funded “Opposition Research” To
Defeat Trump In 2020
By Ethan Huff
Sunday, August 13, 2017
The mainstream media can’t stop gushing over Robert S.
Mueller III for “sacrificially” leaving his prestigious $3.4
million partner job at a top law firm in order to take the
lowly public servant position of investigating the
conspiracy theory that Donald Trump worked with the
Kremlin to seize the 2016 election. But as it turns out, a
closer look at Mueller’s actions and who he’s hiring to
help him fulfill his duties as special counsel suggest that
he’s actually working on behalf of the Obamas and the
Clintons to oust the current president and pave the way for
a Trump defeat in 2020.
Pretty much the entire investigative team that Mueller has
put together so far has direct financial ties either to Barack
Obama or to Hillary Clinton. Mueller’s most recent hire,
former Department of Justice (DOJ) attorney Greg Andres,
is a perfect example of this. Andres worked in the White
House during the Obama regime and served directly under
former Attorney General Eric Holder, who is on the record
as having lied under oath before the House Government
Reform and Oversight Committee regarding the alleged
improper confiscation of phone records.
The 16th lawyer that Mueller has hired thus far, Andres
served at the DOJ between 2010 and 2012 and presided
over the criminal division, where he oversaw the fraud unit
and helped manage the program responsible for going after
illegal foreign bribery. One of the specific cases that
Andres oversaw was the prosecution of Texas financier
Robert Allen Stanford, who was reportedly convicted in
2012 of operating an $8 billion Ponzi scheme. Interestingly
enough, Andres is also married to Ronnie Abrams, a U.S.
district judge in Manhattan who was nominated to the
bench in 2011 by none other than Barack Obama.
By law, Mueller MUST step down from his position due
to serious conflicts of interest
Andres isn’t the only one, though. Mueller has hired
several others with connections to Obama and Clinton,
.
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including Michael Dreeben, the DOJ’s deputy solicitor
general. Dreeben reportedly donated $1,000 to Hillary
Clinton’s Senate political action committee (PAC), known
as “Friends of Hillary,” while she ran for public office in
New York state. Another is Jeannie Rhee, who reportedly
donated at least $5,400 to the Friends of Hillary PAC.
Oh, but there’s more. A man by the name of Andrew
Weissman, the most senior lawyer on Mueller’s special
counsel team, is currently occupying the top position
within the DOJ’s fraud unit. Weissman served as the FBI’s
general counsel and then-assistant director to Mueller at
the time when Mueller was FBI director. Before he worked
at either the FBI or the DOJ, Weissman donated on six
separate occasions to PACs for Obama, totaling $4,700.
Or how about James Quarles, a former assistant special
prosecutor for the Watergate Special Prosecution Force,
who has donated more than 12 times to Democratic Party
PACs since the late 1980s? Yeah, he’s on Mueller’s team,
too – a who’s who of Democratic Party insiders who are
just chomping at the bit to see the President impeached on
some phony, drummed-up charge.
“Already, this investigation has become suspect,” stated
Representative Trent Franks, a Republican from Arizona,
about the need for Mueller to resign immediately due to
these heinous conflicts of interest. “Reports have revealed
at least four members of Mueller’s team on the Russia
probe donated to support Hillary Clinton for President, as
President Trump pointed out. These obviously deliberate
partisan hirings do not help convey impartiality.”
“Until Mueller resigns, he will be in clear violation of the
law, a reality that fundamentally undermines his role as
Special Counsel and attending ability to execute the law.”
 'Dreamers' Deadline Looms For Trump
By Rafael Bernal
08/13/17 10:30 AM EDT
The Trump administration is stuck between a rock and a
hard place as a deadline approaches for Texas and nine
other states to file suit against the Deferred Action for
Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
Neither the White House nor the Justice Department have
said whether they’ll defend the Obama-era program that’s
set to be challenged in court unless the administration
rescinds it by Sept. 5.
That puts the administration in difficult territory,
particularly given President Trump’s vow to protect
recipients of the program, known as Dreamers.
Under DACA, nearly 800,000 undocumented immigrants
brought to the United States as children were given a work
permit and protected from deportation.
An extension of DACA and a similar program, Deferred
Action for Parents of Americans (DAPA), were blocked by
United States District Judge Andrew Hanen in 2015, in a
case that ultimately ended in a 4-4 tie in the Supreme
Court that effectively ended both programs.
The DACA extension would have made the program
available to a larger group of people, and DAPA would
have provided similar benefits to an estimated 3.6 million
undocumented immigrants with American-born children.
The suit centered on the ability of states to provide driver's
licenses to program beneficiaries, arguing it would be too
burdensome for states.
A separate case against the original DACA was thrown out
in 2015, when a 5th Circuit appeals court dismissed similar
arguments by the state of Mississippi and a union of
federal immigration agents as not "sufficiently concrete."
The new lawsuit, led by Texas Attorney General Ken
Paxton (R), is expected to seek out Hanen's court, which is
widely seen as favorable to the challenge.
Trump campaigned against DACA, but he has gone on
record saying he would treat Dreamers with “heart.”
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Attorney General Jeff Sessions and White House adviser
Stephen Miller are seen as internal opponents of extending
benefits to any class of undocumented immigrants.
While several officials, starting with Trump and White
House chief of staff John Kelly, have voiced sympathy for
Dreamers, the administration's view of the program's legal
standing is suspect.
In a press conference on a separate immigration bill last
week, Miller wouldn’t say whether the White House would
defend DACA.
“Well, we are not going to make an
announcement on that today because there
is ongoing litigation, and DOJ and DHS are
reviewing that,” Miller said in response to a
question from The Hill.
While Trump has voiced support for Dreamers, it's unclear
to what extent he supports the program.
The president has described DACA and
DAPA as “President Obama’s two illegal
executive amnesties.”
Still, Trump renewed DACA in June in the same memo in
which he formally terminated DAPA and a DACA
extension. Both DAPA and the extension had previously
been blocked by courts, so their official termination had no
real-world effects on individual immigrants.
But in a one-line statement within that memo, Trump
allowed DACA to continue as an official policy,
maintaining benefits for the nearly 800,000 beneficiaries
of the program and allowing new qualifying applicants to
join.
“It's a decision that I make and it's a
decision that's very, very hard to make. I
really understand the situation now,” Trump
said to reporters aboard Air Force One last
month.
“I understand the situation very well. What
I'd like to do is a comprehensive
immigration plan. But our country and
political forces are not ready yet.”
Kelly repeatedly asked Congress, while he was secretary
of Homeland Security, for a legislative vehicle to
permanently regularize DACA recipients’ status.
The White House batted down one such proposal, the
DREAM Act, presented by Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-
S.C.) and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) last month. At that
presentation, Durbin said the two senators were in
communication with White House officials on the matter,
but declined to name them.
Kelly has publicly voiced doubts about whether the
program could sustain a legal challenge.
Meanwhile, opponents of the program are
pressuring Trump not only to avoid a defense, but also to
cancel it outright.
“If the administration chooses not to defend
DACA in court, then the program may
simply die a quiet legal death,” Steven
Camarota, director of research at the
Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), a
think tank that advocates for reduced
immigration, wrote for the National Review.
“But there is no need to wait; the president
should take this opportunity and honor his
campaign pledge to end the program,”
he added.
The legal challenge faces a number of obstacles, which
could serve as a reason for Trump to punt on any action.
“There's no guarantee that the state of
Texas will be allowed by Judge Hanen to
convert a challenge of DAPA to a challenge
of DACA,” said Thomas A. Saenz,
president and general counsel of the
Mexican American Legal Defense Fund
(MALDEF).
“If I were the Trump administration, I would
not respond by Sept. 5.”
The fact that it has been in effect for five years will make it
harder for Paxton to prove that DACA could cause
irreparable harm to the plaintiffs, a necessary burden for a
preliminary injunction, Saenz said.
If Hanen refuses to grant an injunction, the case would
have to be settled on its merits, a process that could be
time-consuming and complex.
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Still, many on both sides of the issue believe the court
challenge — whether through its merits or because of the
venue — presents a real threat.
That's in part because many observers expect the case to
follow the same path as the 2015 case that ended DAPA
and the DACA expansion. Many of the program's
supporters believe the judicial deck is unfairly stacked
against DACA, with unsympathetic courts and plaintiffs,
and a reluctant defense — if any defense is mounted —
with Sessions at the helm.
The program's opponents see the program as an exemplary
case of executive overreach.
“By unilaterally issuing work permits and
deportation relief to a large class of illegal
immigrants, President Obama effectively
rewrote immigration law,” Camarota wrote.
But the impending court challenge has fewer supporters
than the 2015 case, suggesting some attorneys general see
a closer parallel with the case that originally upheld
DACA. Of the 26 states that signed on against DAPA,
only 10 are supporting Paxton's suit.
And administration officials’ reluctance to speak out
against the program has emboldened its supporters, who
believe they can make their case with so-far-silent allies
within the Trump administration.
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on
Monday filed open records requests in the 10 states that
are threatening court action in an attempt to identify
whether administration officials have collaborated with
Paxton or other attorneys general to lay the groundwork
for the case.
“If there is any, or has been any,
coordination between state and federal
officials and employees, it unveils a level of
hypocrisy," said Lorella Praeli, a former
Dreamer who is director of immigration
policy and campaigns at the ACLU.
“Are employees working against [Trump's]
wishes and a decision he's already made
and a promise that he's made? Are they
looking to undermine his authority? We
don't know,” she added.
 New York Magazine Attacks
The Nation For Questioning Russian Hacking Narrative
Elizabeth Vos
August 13, 2017

officers known as VIPS, or Veteran

Intelligence Professionals for Sanity, who
published a memorandum sent to
President Trump that cited the
Forensicator’s work. That the
Foreniscator‘s findings were the starting
point for a memorandum sent by
experienced intelligence veterans such as
Bill Binney, Ray McGovern and Skip
A few days ago, New York Magazine published an article Folden as well as many others, speaks to
attacking Patrick Lawrence‘s coverage of new information the significance of the Forensicator‘s work.
from an anonymous analyst known as the Forensicator.
Patrick Lawrence is a foreign correspondent at The Nation,
the oldest continuously published weekly magazine in
America. His article mentioned Disobedient Media‘s
report on analysis published by the Forensicator which
suggests that files published by Guccifer 2.0 had been
copied locally, not hacked, which has serious implications
for the Russian Hacking narrative and for the DNC.

The New York Magazine‘s coverage of the issue was

disconcertingly inaccurate. They characterize the
Forensicator as having claimed that DNC information
must have been leaked by an insider. The New York Mag
wrote:

“Yesterday, The Nation published an article

by journalist Patrick Lawrence purporting to
demonstrate that last summer’s pivotal
DNC hack was, in fact, an inside job.”

However, the Forensicator’s work only purports that the

Guccifer 2.0 files were copied locally, and that the
information was not hacked. The Forensicator‘s work
never attempts to positively identify the perpetrators of the
DNC leak or the identity of Guccifer 2.0. The
Forensicator‘s analysis simply shows in a methodical and The New York Magazine dismissed these highly
precise manner who it could not have been; namely, credentialed individuals, instead focusing on some of the
Russian hackers supposedly behind the Guccifer 2.0 individuals who had tweeted The Nation’s article, in order
persona. to somehow discredit the contents of the article by
association. Such a dishonest framing device does not
address the contents of the analysis in any way, and
The author of the sardonic article, Brian Feldman, also
represents a small fraction of those who have reported on
took to Twitter to express his views on the subject:
this important analysis.
In their coverage of this topic, The New
This intellectual dishonesty continues when
York Mag ignores the voices of a well
Lawrence’s work is called “the extremely
respected group of former intelligence
long-winded product of a crank.”
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The sarcasm which drips from the entire piece by the New Ray McGovern, a cofounder of VIPS, has appeared
York Magazine seems to be intended as an attack on the on RT to speak about the implications of the Forensicator’s
reputation of the author, Patrick Lawrence, and the analysis, in addition to appearances with
publication, The Nation. Mr. Feldman spends little to no LarouchePAC and others.
time making coherent criticisms of the article’s content
and its cited sources.

Fascinatingly, the New York Magazine article not only fails

to substantively counter the Forensicator or VIPS’s
conclusions, it also does not provide any substantive
evidence that the DNC was hacked.

The piece also neglects to mention that

authorities have never analyzed the DNC
servers, instead relying on the word of the
private company Crowdstrike.

Disobedient Media previously reported the analysis of

Consortium News reported the
Adam Carter, which suggested that the Guccifer 2.0
memorandum published by VIPS, which
persona may have been perpetrated by Crowdstrike in
corroborated some important aspects of
concert with the DNC to pre-emptively smear any DNC
the Forensicator’s analysis, and cited their
information published by Wikileaks. Crowdstrike has
work. Signatories on the document
notable connections to the Atlantic Council, a think tank
included William Binney, former NSA
sponsored in part by controversial financier George Soros.
Technical Director for World Geopolitical
and Military Analysis, Skip Folden,
Adam Carter also published a response to the New York independent analyst, retired IBM Program
Mag article earlier today, which delves into the line-by- Manager for Information Technology
line misrepresentations in the piece. Carter writes: US, Ray McGovern, former U.S. Army
Infantry/Intelligence officer and CIA analyst,
and others, which are shown in full below,
via the report by Consortium News.
“Feldman misrepresents the goals of the
article, VIPS’ interest and the goal of the
researchers/analysts that all of this relates
to.”

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 Hacking Shadowplay: ‘Guccifer’
Claims ‘Guccifer 2.0’ Is US Government Entity
© Photo: Pixabay - World
03:53 13.08.2017
The Eastern European hacker known as “Guccifer” has
reached out to US reporters from prison in Romania to
argue the case that he should stay where he is, and not be
sent to America. He also speculated that Guccifer 2.0 is a
scheme orchestrated by the National Security Agency and
US State Department.
Guccifer, whose real name is Marcel Lehel Lazar, was
arrested in 2014 for hacking Hillary Clinton's former
political aide Sidney Blumenthal. Lazar first revealed
to the world that Clinton was using a non-secure private
email address while serving as the US Secretary of State.
Lazar admitted to accessing personal email and social
media accounts of approximately 100 American citizens
by using Russian proxy servers because they were "the
fastest." In 2016 he was sentenced to 52 months in US
prison after he finishes a seven-year sentence in Romania
for hacking crimes committed there.
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On Friday, Lazar told Fox News senior executive producer
Pamela Browne that in an upcoming court hearing
in Romania he would be asking to serve his second
sentence in his native country, where his wife and family
live.
During the interview, Lazar asserted that he believed
Guccifer 2.0, the hacker behind multiple US Democratic
National Committee (DNC) leaks, to be a fabrication
by the US government — an "inside job." He said the idea
came from one of his State Department handlers during his
extradition plane ride to the US in spring 2016. The
government employee, assigned to make sure Lazar
arrived safely to an American jail, mentioned:
"What would your opinion be if another
Guccifer showed up?"
"I think Guccifer two-zero is something
made from some guys at the State
Department. Some guys from the cyber
command of the NSA, and some guys
from the Vault, Vault 7 of the CIA…I'm
in this business for sort of 15 years now,
this is my take," Lazar said.
"The Russians are more skillful than this
to let tracks in the documents [point]
to them…so this is made by the other guys
who wanted [to point] to the Russians."
Riot Police Open Up With Flashbang Grenades And Pepper Spray
On Antifascist Protesters Who Hit Them With SILLY STRING As
Thousands Gather In Cities Across America In Solidarity With
Victims Of Charlottesville's 'Unite The Right' Rally
 Antifascist Protesters Gathered In Cities In New York, California, Washington, Florida And Elsewhere Sunday
 In Seattle, People Angry That They Were Blocked From Counter-Protesting A Pro-Trump Rally Faced Off With Cops
 They Sprayed Them With Silly String - Resulting In Police Deploying Flashbang Grenades And Pepper Spray
 They Were Inspired By The Shocking Violence Seen During Protests In Charlottesville, Virginia, On Saturday
 One Person Died And 19 Were Injured When A Far-Right Protester Drove His Car Into A Group In Charlottesville
 Some On Sunday Had Gathered In Support Of Those Hurt; Others Protested Alleged Government Complicity
 Many Were Upset About Donald Trump's Lackluster Response In Which He Blamed Both Sides Of The Protest
 Far-Right Groups Also Held Their Own Rallies, Protests And Counter-Protests, Leading To Intense Friction
By James Wilkinson For Dailymail.Com
Published: 18:37 EDT, 13 August 2017 | Updated: 21:54 EDT, 14 August 2017

Thousands gathered in cities across the US on Sunday in

response to the shocking violence seen at Charlottesville's
'Unite the Right' rally on Saturday.

Anti-fascist groups, Black Lives Matter supporters and

others gathered in cities in states from coast to coast,
including a planned march on Trump Tower in New York,
a candlelight vigil in Florida and a rally in a public square
in Cleveland.

In many cities the events were loud but peaceable -

however, things took a nasty turn in Seattle, Washington,
when antifascist protesters were blocked from reaching a NEW YORK: A march against white nationalists was held
pro-Trump 'Freedom Rally' in Westlake Park. outside the Trump Tower in New York yesterday, with
demonstrators calling on tough action against racism
The antifascist group - some holding signs with anarchy
symbols - faced off with police in riot gear and sprayed
them with Silly String.

A brief scuffle was captured about 45 minutes into this

Facebook video, as protesters appeared to rush police,
leading to them pushing back to maintain the line and stop
them reaching the pro-Trump rally.

Police also deployed flashbang grenades and pepper spray

against protesters, who chanted 'The cops and the Klan
work hand-in-hand,' and 'Who do you protect, who do you
serve?'

There were also reports of fireworks being used against

police. At least one protester has been arrested. NEW YORK: The planned march in New York was held
outside the hotel bearing the President's name amid
widespread condemnation of his response to the crisis

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CHICAGO: A sign proclaiming Heather Heyer, the anti-
fascist protester who was killed when a car crashed into a
crowd in Charlottesville, a heroine and a puppet of US
Attorney General Jeff Sessions were on display yesterday
in Chicago
WASHINGTON, DC: Euguene Puryear leads a march
from the White House to a statue of Confederate General
Albert Pike

SEATTLE: Some of those at the front appeared to charge

the police, who pushed back. The line was restored. The
SEATTLE: Riot cops opened up with pepper spray and scenes came as a response to violence and death at a far-
flashbang grenades on antifascist protesters after clashes in right rally in Charlotteville, Virginia, on Saturday
the city. Police were stopped in the protesters reaching a
pro-Trump rally in Westlake Park, leading to anger and
friction

SEATTLE: At least one person was arrested in the clash

between police and the antifascist protesters. Members of
the crowd saw the line as the police protecting the right-
wing rally group
SEATTLE: Tensions rose after some of the protesters
sprayed a front line of police officers with Silly String,
amid chants of 'The cops and the Klan work hand-in-hand,'
and 'Who do you protect, who do you serve?'

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 Also out in force were far-right groups composed of white
supremacists, white nationalists, alt-right members and
others similar political groups - some counter-protesting
the antifascist marches, others holding their own rallies.

SEATTLE: There were also what appeared to be fireworks

being let off near the antifascist crowds, which were also
rubbing shoulders with far-right protesters who had left the
park to demonstrate in the streets

WASHINGTON, D.C.: Thousands gathered outside the

White House and on the National Mall to protest after
Donald Trump was seen to give a feeble response to white
supremacists after antifascist protesters were hurt in
Virginia on Saturday

Some in the countrywide protests objected to President

Trump's lackluster response to the Charlottesville violence;
some showed up in support of the activists who were
injured and killed when a white supremacist; still others
protested what they saw as police complicity in fascist
violence.

Protesters in some southern states pushed for the removal

of Confederate monuments - the issue that initially
prompted white nationalists to gather in Charlottesville.

'People need to wake up, recognize that and resist it as

fearlessly as it needs to be done,' said Carl Dix, a leader of ATLANTA: A protester climbs a Confederate monument
the Refuse Fascism group organizing demonstrations in with a chain in an attempt to topple it on Sunday. The
New York, San Francisco and other cities, said by phone Charlotteville, Virginia violence came after a far-right
from Charlottesville on Sunday afternoon. protest against the planned removal of a Confederate statue

'This can't be allowed to fester and to grow because we've

seen what happened in the past when that was allowed. It
has to be confronted.'
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NEW YORK: Police blocked off the sidewalk outside
Trump Tower in New York ahead of the city's marches
and rallies, forcing protesters to camp out on the other side
of the street. The outcry came after clashes at
Charlottesville's 'Unite the Right' rally

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VIRGINIA: Marcus Martin (left

and right), who was hailed as a hero when he pushed his
fiancee out of the path of the car that claimed the life of
Heather Heyer, 32, appears emotional in a memorial to the
slain woman
NEW YORK: Secret Service agents and NYPD officers
blocked off and patrolled Fifth Avenue, where Trump
Tower is located, and forced the protesters to shout their
anger from across the street (pictured: the sidewalk
opposite Trump Tower)

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VIRGINIA: Martin, whose leg

was broken when white supremacist James Alex Fields Jr
CHICAGO: Protesters gather outside a Trump building in allegedly drove into a crowd, killing Heyer and injuring 18
the city, calling for an end to white supremacy and racial others, was joined by friends and supporters
divides in the United States

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 They also opposed plans to remove a Confederate statue in
the Virginia college town, and hundreds of other people
came to protest the rally.

The groups clashed in street brawls, with hundreds of

people throwing punches, hurling water bottles and beating
each other with sticks and shields.

Eventually, a car rammed into a peaceful crowd of anti-

white-nationalist protesters, killing Heather Hayer, 32.

A state police helicopter monitoring the events also

crashed into the woods, killing two troopers. In all, dozens
of people were injured. The cause of the crash is under
PHILADELPHIA: Luke Mueller holds up a sign with a investigation.
quote from neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer praising
Donald Trump for not singling out white supremacists in
the wake of the alleged murder in Charlottesville

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VIRGINIA: This makeshift

memorial was constructed at the spot where the fatal
collision occurred; mourners left flowers, balloons and
candles to remember the dead by well into the night
LOS ANGELES: Protesters in the California city also
objected to Trump's remarks in the wake of the terrifying
and brutal alleged murder

Charlottesville descended into violence Saturday after neo- CHARLOTTESVILLE, VIRGINIA: A woman is seen
Nazis, skinheads, Ku Klux Klan members and other white lighting a candle at the scene of the crash, which injured
nationalists gathered to 'take America back'. 19 people and killed a 32-year-old woman

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CHARLOTTESVILLE, VIRGINIA: People hug during a
vigil at the spot where white supremacist James Alex ATLANTA: Protesters climb and spray-paint a
Fields Jr allegedly drove his car into a group of people Confederate monument at Piedmont Park on Sunday prior
before reversing over them to attempting to topple it using a chain

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VIRGINIA: Brittney Cain-Conley

(center, in hat), lead organizer for religious antifascist
group Congregate Charlottesville, addresses the crowd at
ATLANTA: Protesters appeared to reference the
the memorial site
dismantling of a statue of Saddam Hussein during the
invasion of Iraq in 2003, with banners claiming 'The
people want the fall of the regime'

HOUSTON, TEXAS: Ericka Chaves (center) is seen at a

City Hall vigil. Her daughter, Natalie Romero, 20, was one
of many who sustained injuries when a car plowed into her
and 19 others on Saturday

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ATLANTA: The peace monument at the 14th Street WASHINGTON, D.C.: Earlier on Sunday, crowds had
entrance depicts an angel of peace stilling the hand of a surrounded the White House with banners and chants. As
Confederate soldier about to fire his rifle night fell, the mood changed to a more somber one as
people held a candlelight vigil

ATLANTA: A police officer approaches protesters,

stepping past a photograph of Heather Heyer, 32, who was WASHINGTON, D.C.: Some protesters remained, but the
killed when a white supremacist drove into a crowd of tone of their placards was less accusatory and more
antifascist protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia, on hopeful - such as this Martin Luther King quote
Saturday

WASHINGTON, D.C.: Some protesters formed a peace

symbol out of tea candles, accompanying a picture calling
for unity across the races

ATLANTA: Atlanta Police Department Major Timothy

Peek moves into Piedmont Park to help prevent protesters
from toppling a Confederate monument with a chain

WASHINGTON, D.C.: Others waves American flags

while surrounded by gentle candlelight

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WASHINGTON, D.C.: Heather Heyer's face was seen
across the country in protests and vigils; her death made
her a symbol of brave protest against hatred
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Crowds rejected the notion that
patriotism need be tied to racial divides as they waved
American flags while at the vigil
WASHINGTON, D.C.: People of all races and groups
gathered on Pennsylvania Avenue in order to show
solidarity with the victims of the violence that took place
this weekend
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WASHINGTON, D.C.: Another gathering took place here,
in front of the statue of Confederate General Albert Pike,
the only member of the Confederate military with an
outdoor statue in the capital
WASHINGTON, D.C.: The crowd outside the Albert Pike
memorial held a moment's silence in recognition of
Heyer's death
DALLAS: A statue of Robert E Lee stands in the
background as Kristian Hernandez, co-chair of the North
Texas Group of Democratic Socialists of America, leads a
demonstration against white supremacy and a candlelight
vigil on Sunday

DALLAS: Leslie Decker, left, and Ashley Sheets attend
the candlelight vigil in Lee Park. Protesters decrying
hatred and racism converged around the country to
counteract the white supremacist rally that spiraled into
deadly violence in Virginia
NEW YORK: A protestor, who was marching on 5th
Avenue against white supremacy and racism on sunday, is
held on the ground while being arrested by New York City
Police officers
NEW YORK: The city had been heavy with protesters all
day, particularly around Trump properties, after what
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many saw as the president's failure to decisively condemn
violence by white supremacists
NEW YORK: People holding signs including 'Cops &
Klan go hand in hand' march through Midtown Manhattan
on Sunday as they rally against white supremacy
NEW YORK: Protesters hold up traffic in busy Midtown
Manhattan as they protest against racism and white
supremacy in the USA, in the wake of the Charlottesville
incident
HARRISONBURG, VIRGINIA: Brenda Diaz-Castro
holds a sign during a candlelight vigil on Sunday,
demanding 'No Nazis, No KKK, No fascist USA'
 CHICAGO: More protesters hold up flowers in memory of
Heather Heyer

CHICAGO: Heyer herself became something akin to a

folk hero thanks to her death

GREENSBORO, N.C.: Greensboro City Councilwoman

Yvonne Johnson (left) listens during a rally (right) to
mourn the violence in Charlottesville

CHICAGO: Protests in the streets turned into a celebration

of life as protesters held up flowers in memory of Heather
Heyer and to salute those allegedly injured by white
supremacist James Alex Fields Jr

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CHICAGO: Black Lives Matter protesters were present at
many of the events across the US, including this gathering
CHICAGO: Many protesters referred to the attacks as
'white nationalist terrorism' or some variation of the phrase
LAS VEGAS: Crowds stand in solidarity with the
Charlottesville victims during a vigil at the Reverend Dr
Martin Luther King Jr Memorial Statue in North Las
Vegas
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LAS VEGAS: Aja Hawkins participates in a vigil for those
hurt and killed in the alleged attack on Saturday
Earlier on Sunday Jason Kessler - the man who organized
Saturday's ill-fated 'Unite the Right' rally - attempted to
shift blame for the death onto the city.
Massive boos and cries of 'shame' rang out as he tried to
blame the death of Heather Heyer 32, who was killed by a
white supremacist protester, on the city of Charlottesville.
Kessler explained that he had applied and was granted a
permit to assemble yesterday, and had arranged security
and liaised with police for the protest.
But earlier this week, the city ordered Saturday's rally to be
relocated out of Emancipation Park to a larger one, further
out of the city, citing safety reasons.
'They rescinded permission,' he said. 'We fought them in
federal court and we beat them in federal court. [But] it
upended all our security arrangements.'
He also blamed the local police, who he said 'refused to do
their job' and failed to 'follow through with security
arrangements' that protected protesters and counter
protesters.
He went on to 'condemn the violence yesterday' and said
he 'would like to disavow any folks getting hurt' but he
was quickly drowned out by the boos and jeers of the
crowd.
Members of the crowd then moved in on Kessler, with one
man swinging blows and another woman tackling him and
sending him sprawling into bushes. He was then spirited
away by police.
Police say James Alex Fields Jr (pictured on Saturday, in
glasses and white shirt) was responsible for killing Heyer
and injuring 19 other people by driving his car into them
then backing up over some of his alleged victims
Fields is seen here holding a shield at the Unite the Right
rally in Emancipation Park on Saturday
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Protesters amass on the National
Mall earlier on Sunday in order to show solidarity against
the violence seen in Charlottesville at the far-right rally on
Saturday
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WASHINGTON, D.C.: Protesters gathered outside the
White House on Sunday, objecting to what they see as a
president who tacitly encourages white supremacists and
fascists
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Outside the White House,
protesters gather to express their concern over the rise of
fascists, white supremacists, neo-Nazis and other far-right
groups
WASHINGTON, D.C.: The nationwide rallies come after
the violence that occurred in the wake of the 'Unite the
Right' rally, which was described by the Southern Poverty
Law Center as 'the largest hate-gathering of its kind in
decades' in the US
WASHINGTON, D.C.: This protester chose to directly WASHINGTON, D.C.: Participants at the Capitol
contrast Adolf Hitler and Martin Luther King during a solidarity rally applaud as a speaker addresses them about
gathering in the Capitol on Sunday their protest

WASHINGTON, D.C.: Protesters gather at the World War

II Memorial on the National Mall, some of them in protest
against the Donald Trump's feeble response to the alleged
murder of an anti-fascist protester on Saturday
LOS ANGELES: The home of Hollywood brought out
famous antifascist fighters Indiana Jones and Wonder
Woman to protest Saturday's rally, which attracted
members of neo-Nazi groups and the Ku Klux Klan

WASHINGTON, D.C.: Protesters gather by the National

Mall reflecting pool in solidarity with those hurt on
Saturday. Trump spoke out against the 'hatred, bigotry and
violence, on many sides' rather than directing ire
specifically at white supremacists

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 city's 'Solidarity Against Hate,' which was a counter-
protest to the Westlake Park 'Freedom Rally' group

LOS ANGELES: Several people held up signs outside CHICAGO: The violence in Charlottesville brought out
City Hall (left) demanding people 'Remember Heather thousands of supportive people across America, who were
Heyer'. Other protesters had signs with lines such as horrified by what they saw as a rising tide of rightwing
'Silence = Violence' violence

LOS ANGELES: Donald Trump was a feature in many

protest signs, such as the one seen on the left of this photo. PLYMOUTH, MASS.: Demonstrators from around
Trump has a strong support base within far-right groups, Massachusetts gathered on Sunday in solidarity with those
and it's been speculated that he does not wish to alienate injured and killed in the Charlottesville protests
them

SEATTLE: Tae Phoenix, a singer-songwriter and activist, PLYMOUTH, MASS.: The Massachusetts protesters were
hands out signs in Denny Park as people gather for the fewer in number than those in New York and Chicago, but
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no less passionate, calling for equal rights and mutual
respect

PITTSBORO, N.C.: Dylan Field, 11, stands on the

PLYMOUTH, MASS.: This protester objected to the Confederate monument at the Chatham County
claims that some far-right members made that they are just
Courthouse for a vigil commemorating the victims of the
'patriotic' - since their vision of 'America' excludes non-
riot in Charlottesville
whites

PITTSBORO, N.C.: Protesters - including some wearing

DURHAM, N.C.: Thousands gathered in a plaza in T-shirts reading 'Religious Left' - protest around the
downtown Durham in support of the victims of the Confederate monument at the Chatham County
Charlotteville white supremacist rally Courthouse

DURHAM, N.C.: North Carolina had a number of such PITTSBORO, N.C.: A driver-by gives the protesters a
gatherings - but this was, perhaps, the most well-attended thumbs-up as they demand an end to racism while
of them protesting outside the Chatham County Courthouse
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CHARLESTON, S.C.: Rev. Nelson Rivers calls for a
removal of a monument to pro-slavery politician John C.
Calhoun during a demonstration at White Point Garden.
The Charlottesville clashes came about when far-right
protesters objecting to the removal of a Charlottesville
statue of a Confederate general met antifascist counter-
protesters
WINCHESTER, VIRGINIA: Jaanet Gauthier (center) of
Berkeley Springs, West Virginia, protests against racism
and violence on the front lawn of the Shenandoah Valley
Civil War Museum
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WINCHESTER, VIRGINIA: People in Winchester,
around 80 miles from Charlottesville, gather to encourage
acceptance of all people regardless of color
Prominent white nationalist Richard Spencer, who
attended Saturday's rally, denied all responsibility for the
violence. He blamed the counter-protesters and police.
Adding to the fury felt by those on the left was what was
seen by some as Donald Trump's mealy-mouthed response
to the crash that claimed Heyer's life.
The president - who has a substantial far-right following,
and was openly supported by the Ku Klux Klan, among
other white supremacist groups, during the election - spoke
out after the incident.
But instead of condemning the violent right-wing attacker,
he complained of 'this egregious display of hatred, bigotry
and violence on many sides - on many sides.'
The repetition of 'many sides' led to some, including neo-
Nazi website The Daily Stormer, saying that Trump was
blaming the antifascist victims as much as the white
supremacist attacker in an effort to avoid condemning far-
right extremists.
'No condemnation at all,' the Stormer wrote, 'When asked
to condemn he just walked out of the room. Really, really
good. God bless him.
The White House later added that the condemnation
'includes white Supremacists, KKK, neo-Nazi and all
extremist groups.'
However, Trump has remained noticeably quiet since the
White House's remarks.
FREDERICKSBURG, VIRGINIA: Kim Wyman of
Spotsylvania, Virginia, joined more than 60 demonstrators
at the intersection of the Blue and Gray Parkway and
William Street to protest against hate and racism

OAKLAND: A protester dressed as Wonder Woman -
whose comicbook adventures saw her fighting Hitler's
Third Reich - protests neo-Nazis. including those seen at
the Charlotteville protests on Saturday
NEW YORK: A Black Lives Matter protester marches in
Manhattan in protest at the violence that occurred at the
Charlotteville 'Unite the Right' counter-protest
NEW YORK: Protesters, some of whom are from Black
Lives Matter, hold a banner that reads 'Honor the dead,
fight like hell' as they block Manhattan's Sixth Avenue
amid traffic
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NEW YORK: Protester Sherry Wolf argues with police to
allow protesters to march in an effort to show solidarity
with victims of the violence that took place in
Charlottesville
NEW YORK: Thousands gathered across the US on
Sunday - including in New York (pictured) as protests and
counter-protests formed in the wake of the shocking
violence inflicted at the Charlottesville, Virginia 'Unite the
Right' protest on Saturday
NEW YORK: The fiercely liberal city of New York
largely saw leftwing protesters, but there were right-wing
counter-protesters too, including this pro-Trump supporter
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VIRGINIA: A woman tackles CHARLOTTESVILLE, VIRGINIA: A protester shouts
Jason Kessler, organizer of the Saturday protest, on anti-Nazi chants at Kessler, an alt-right blogger. He
Sunday after his press conference fell into chaos when it claimed that the city's decision to refuse Kessler's request
was swamped by protesters for a rally permit led to the violence

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VIRGINIA: Kessler had tried to

blame the city and cops for the death of Heather Heyer 32,
who was killed by a white supremacist protester who had
attended Kessler's rally

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VIRGINIA: Kessler is seen here

addressing the press while protesters hold placards reading
'Shame!' and showing swastikas with lines drawn through
them

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CHARLOTTESVILLE, VIRGINIA: Kessler is seen left NEW YORK: Protesters walk down Fifth Avenue with
during his press conference and right fleeing after signs calling the president a 'racist coward' and demanding
protesters surrounded him and began shouting furiously people 'resist against white supremacy'

NEW YORK: Others invoked wider objections to the

NEW YORK: Many of those marching in New York Trump administration and inequality in the US, including
(pictured) objected to the President condemning both sides Black Lives Matter signs (far left) and gay rights placards
of the Charlottesville protest - even after a far-right (center, rear)
member drove into a group of leftwingers

NEW YORK: A drummer keeps time as protesters chant

NEW YORK: Trump did have some supporters outside his out marching songs in their continued protest through
tower, such as this man in a Make America Great Again Manhattan. Here, they are passing by Columbus Circle, at
hat - who then appeared to get into a heated argument with the edge of Central Park - and close to a major Trump
an anti-Trump protester building

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NEW YORK: Many in Trump's home city were there in NEW YORK: City Advocate Letitia James, left, wait her
solidarity with the fallen of Charlottesville, and to turn to speak as City Comptroller Scott Stringer address
condemn the president protesters in Brooklyn at the 'Peace and Sanity' rally

NEW YORK: The New York protest - called a 'Peace and

Sanity' rally - came a day after one died and 19 injured NEW YORK: City Advocate Letitia James, center, address
after James Alex Fields Jr drove his car into Black Lives protesters at a 'Peace and Sanity' rally in Brooklyn borough
Matter and antifascist protesters of New York. Some protesters also objected to the rising
nuclear tensions between the US and North Korea

NEW YORK: Trump's administration - characterized as a

'regime' - received a lot of heat in New York; many signs
were bilingual with both English and Spanish spellings NEW YORK: City Councilman Brad Lander, center,
address protesters at a 'Peace and Sanity' rally in Brooklyn

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 Trump Warns Xi: Trade War
With China Begins Monday
By Tyler Durden
Aug 14, 2017 3:36 AM
As if there weren't enough geopolitical and social stress
points in the world to fill a lifetime of "sleepy, vacationy"
Augusts, late on Friday night President Trump spoke to
Chinese President Xi Jinping and told him that he's
preparing to order an investigation into Chinese trade
practices next week, according to NBC. Politico confirms
that Trump is ready to launch a new trade crackdown on
China next week, citing an administration official, a step
that Trump delayed two weeks ago under the guidance of
his new Chief of Staff Gen. Kelly, but now appears
imminent. It is also an escalation which most analysts
agree will launch a trade war between Washington and
Beijing.
As Politico details, Trump on Monday will call for an
investigation into China over allegations that the nation
violated U.S. intellectual property rights and forced
technology transfers, the official said. While it's unclear
how much detail Trump will get into in the announcement,
administration officials expect U.S. Trade Representative
Robert Lighthizer to open an investigation against China
under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974. The ordering
of the investigation will not immediately impose sanctions
but could lead to steep tariffs on Chinese goods. Trump
has expressed frustration in recent months over what he
sees as China's unfair trade policies.
As we discussed two weeks ago, Trump had planned to
launch the trade investigation more than a week ago, but
he delayed the move in favor of securing China's support
for expanded U.N. sanctions against North Korea, the
senior administration official said.
The pending announcement also comes amid heightened
tension between the United States and China, even after
the Trump administration scored a victory in persuading
Beijing to sign onto new United Nations sanctions on
North Korea. Still, Trump has delayed trade action before,
amid pressure from business groups and major trading
partners:
Two Commerce Department reports examining whether to
restrict steel and aluminum imports on national security
grounds were expected by the end of June but have been
bottled up in an internal review. Trading partners raised
threats of retaliation and domestic steel users complained
of being hurt by price increases and restricted supply.
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The trade investigation will immediately strain relations
between the U.S. and China as the two countries wrestle
with the unpredictable situation over North Korea. Should
Trump follow through, the move will lay the groundwork
for Trump to impose tariffs against Chinese imports, which
will mark a significant escalation in his efforts to reshape
the trade relationship between the world's two largest
economies. In other words, even if there is now
conventional war announced with either North Korea or
Venezuela, Trump's next step is to launch a trade war
against China.
"The United States government can, and
does, work with countries to address
serious concerns such as North Korea
while also pursuing measures to address
economic concerns, such as the theft of
U.S. intellectual property," a U.S. National
Security Council official said.
It wasn't immediately clear how China would react to
the move.
When reports of the potential trade investigation first
emerged more than a week ago, China's Commerce
Ministry stressed the importance of U.S.-China trade ties
and of resolving differences "through dialogue and
consultation."
"We would like to emphasize that the
Chinese government has always attached
importance to intellectual property
protection," a spokesman said. "The results
are there for all to see."
Trump, who has been residing at his golf club in
Bedminster, New Jersey, for the past week, plans to return
to Washington on Monday to officially announce the trade
investigation. The decision will not only take action
against alleged Chinese violations of U.S. companies'
intellectual property rights, but could also be perceived as
an attempt by the U.S. government to crank up the
pressure on Beijing to rein in North Korea.
"I think China can do a lot more," Trump
told reporters on Thursday. "And I think
China will do a lot more."
As CNN adds, the trade investigation is expected to be
only one part of a multi-pronged push by the Trump
administration to counter perceived Chinese trade abuses.
The administration has been eyeing other moves to
rebalance the U.S.-China trading relationship. But analysts
have cautioned that Trump faces a huge challenge in his
desire to significantly reduce the U.S. trade deficit with
China, which last year stood at more than $300 billion.
"Protection measures against some
specific items, such as steel and aluminum,
may gain political favors, but are not likely
to be of much help to rebalance trade,"
economists at the Institute of International
Finance wrote in a research note this week.
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Meanwhile, as we reported previously,
China state media signaled the nation
would hit back immediately against any
trade measures, as it has done in past
episodes.
This time around, the need to project strength domestically
is compounded by the looming twice-a-decade leadership
reshuffle that may further entrench President Xi Jinping’s
power.
Chinese officials have mulled stemming U.S. imports
should retaliation be necessary. Under a draft plan,
soybeans have been singled out as the top product that can
be dialed back, according to people familiar with the
matter. Autos, aircraft and rare-earth commodities have
also been identified as potential categories for restriction,
the people said.
Still, Trump's offensive comes at a very sensitive time for
Beijing: just weeks ahead of the 19th Party Congress,
when Xi Jinping wants everything in his economy to be
perfect.
"Ahead of the 19th Party Congress, the last
thing that China will want is a trade war,"
said Callum Henderson, a managing
director for Asia-Pacific at Eurasia Group in
Singapore.
"It is also important that Beijing does not
look weak in this context. As such, expect a
cautious, proportional response."
Of course, ultimately the big question - as Bloomberg puts
it - is whether the Trump administration is willing to risk a
trade war as it ups the ante. The IMF warned last month
that “inward-looking” policies could derail a global
recovery that has so far been resilient to raising tensions
over trade. The problem, for both the US and China, is that
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as Trump gets increasingly more focused on distracting
from his numerous domestic scandals, he is likely to take
ever more drastic action in the foreign arena, whether that
means "hot war" with North Korea, or trade war with
China.
“So far, it’s all been posturing, with little
action,”’ said Scott Kennedy, a U.S.-China
expert at the Center for Strategic and
International Studies in Washington.
“Pressure is building to do something, so
the U.S. doesn’t look like a complete paper
tiger.”
And while we await the formal announcement on Monday
and China's retaliation, below again is a breakdown of the
biggest US state winners and losers if and when trade war
with China breaks out, from "Winners And Losers When
Trade War Breaks Out Between The US And China"
***
Who stands to lose - and win - if the U.S. takes aim at the
unbalanced trade relationship with China? With total
bilateral trade of more than half a trillion dollars a year, the
list of potential losers is very long as Bloomberg analyzed
recently. The most notable examples include:
 U.S. companies such as Apple Inc., which assemble
their products in China for sale in the U.S., and those
tapping demand in China’s expanding consumer
market.
 U.S. agricultural and transport-equipment firms, which
meet China’s demand for soy beans and aircraft.
 Manufacturing firms from the U.S. that import
intermediate products from China as an input into their
production process.
 Retailers including Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and the U.S.
consumers that benefit from low-price imported
consumer electronics, clothes and furniture.
 Other trade partners caught in the crossfire of poorly-
targeted tariffs. On steel, for example, U.S. direct
imports from China account for less than 3% of the
total -- below Vietnam.
And while conventional wisdom is that the US has a
chronic trade deficit with China - it does - the U.S. also
runs a nearly $17 billion trade surplus with China for
agricultural products. China consumes about half of U.S.
soybean exports, America’s second largest planted field
crop. Soybean farms are mostly located in the the upper
Midwest (Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Minnesota and
Nebraska). The volumes are so significant that a spike in
soybean exports was a noticeable contributor to GDP
growth in the second half of last year as readers may
recall. China is also a major buyer of U.S. aircraft, perhaps
the only areas of manufacturing where the U.S. retains a
competitive edge (though not for much longer). The U.S.
also has an $8 billion dollar trade surplus with China in the
transportation equipment category.
How about geographically?
It may come as a surprise that on a state-by-state basis,
eight U.S. states are running surpluses with China, six
of which supported Trump in last year’s presidential
election, including West Virginia. In 2016, Louisiana
registered the largest surplus, at 2.9% of the state’s GDP.
Louisiana’s exports to China are likely inflated given that
The biggest losers? Mississippi, Georgia, Illinois and
California, all of which maintain deficits at more than 3%
of GDP.
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U.S. Trade Balance With China by Product
60% of U.S. soybean exports are shipped through the Gulf
coast. Washington state was second at 1.6% of GDP,
largely due to aerospace exports.
Tennessee maintains the largest trade deficit with China at
6.5% of GDP, meaning tariff-induced increases in the
price of imports could have the biggest impact on this
state.
For the sake of brevity, we will not discuss another, more
troubling, aspect of conventional wisdom, namely that
trade wars almost inevitably lead to real wars. Aside for
the US military industrial complex, there are no winners
there.
 Study Finds 3.5 Million Ghost Voters In US –
More Than The Entire Population Of 21 States
Jim Hoft
Aug 14th, 2017 10:38 Am

My tabulation of Judicial Watch’s state-by-

state results yielded 462 counties where
the registration rate exceeded 100 percent.
There were 3,551,760 more people
registered to vote than adult U.S. citizens
who inhabit these counties.

There are 21 states that don’t have a

population of 3.5 million.

A new study by Judicial Watch found

that there are at least 3.5 million more
people registered to vote than are alive
among the US voting age adults.

Deroy Murdock at National Review reported:

Some 3.5 million more people are

registered to vote in the U.S. than are alive
among America’s adult citizens. Such
staggering inaccuracy is an engraved
invitation to voter fraud.
The Election Integrity Project of Judicial
Watch — a Washington-based legal-
watchdog group — analyzed data from the
U.S. Census Bureau’s 2011–2015
American Community Survey and last
month’s statistics from the federal Election
Assistance Commission. The latter
included figures provided by 38 states. There are eleven counties in California with more
According to Judicial Watch, eleven states registered voters than voting age adults in the county.
gave the EAC insufficient or questionable
information. Pennsylvania’s legitimate
numbers place it just below the over- Ten of the Eleven counties voted for Hillary Clinton.
registration threshold.
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 Bannon In Limbo As Trump
Faces Growing Calls For The Strategist’s Ouster
By MAGGIE HABERMAN And GLENN THRUSH
AUG. 14, 2017
Steve Bannon, President Trump’s chief strategist, has been
criticized as being emblematic of the far-right nationalism
that turned violent in Virginia last weekend. Can he
salvage his role in the White House?
By A.J. CHAVAR and CHRIS CIRILLO on Publish Date
August 14, 2017. Photo by Al Drago/The New York
Times.
Rupert Murdoch has repeatedly urged President Trump to
fire him. Anthony Scaramucci, the president’s former
communications director, thrashed him on television as a
white nationalist. Lt. Gen. H. R. McMaster, the national
security adviser, refused to even say he could work with
him.
For months, Mr. Trump has considered ousting Stephen K.
Bannon, the White House chief strategist and relentless
nationalist who ran the Breitbart website and called it a
“platform for the alt-right.” Mr. Trump has sent Mr.
Bannon to a kind of internal exile, and has not met face-to-
face for more than a week with a man who was once a
fixture in the Oval Office, according to aides and friends of
the president.
So far, Mr. Trump has not been able to follow through — a
product of his dislike of confrontation, the bonds of a
foxhole friendship forged during the 2016 presidential
campaign and concerns about what mischief Mr. Bannon
might do once he leaves the protective custody of the West
Wing.
Not least, Mr. Bannon embodies the defiant populism at
the core of the president’s agenda. Despite being
marginalized, Mr. Bannon consulted with the president
repeatedly over the weekend as Mr. Trump struggled to
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respond to the neo-Nazi rally in Charlottesville, Va. In
general, Mr. Bannon has cautioned the president not to
criticize far-right activists too severely for fear of
antagonizing a small but energetic part of his base.
But what once endeared him to the president has now
become a major liability. After the president waited two
days to blame white supremacists for the violence in
Charlottesville, there is new pressure from Mr. Trump’s
critics to dismiss Mr. Bannon.
“I don’t think that White House has a chance of
functioning properly as long as there’s a resident lunatic
fringe,” said Mark Salter, a longtime adviser to Senator
John McCain, Republican of Arizona. At best, he said, Mr.
Bannon seems willing to “tolerate something that’s
intolerable” in Mr. Trump’s base.
Mr. Bannon also has admirers, including Representative
Mark Meadows, the North Carolina Republican and the
chairman of the House Freedom Caucus, who said that
without Mr. Bannon, “there is a concern among
conservatives that Washington, D.C., will influence the
president in a way that moves him away from those voters
that put him in the White House.”
And Representative Steve King, Republican of Iowa and
an immigration hard-liner, said that shoving out Mr.
Bannon would leave conservatives “crushed.”
Mr. Bannon, who adamantly rejects claims that he is a
racist or a sympathizer of white supremacists, is in trouble
with John F. Kelly, a retired Marine general and the new
White House chief of staff. Mr. Kelly has told Mr.
Trump’s top staff that he will not tolerate Mr. Bannon’s
shadowland machinations, according to a dozen current
and former Trump aides and associates with knowledge of
the situation.
Mr. Bannon’s purported crimes: Leaking nasty stories
about General McMaster and other colleagues he deems
insufficiently populist; feuding bitterly with Mr. Trump’s
son-in-law, Jared Kushner; and creating his own cadre
within the West Wing that operates outside the chain of
command.
One of his main sins in the eyes of the president is
appearing to revel in the perception that he is the
mastermind behind the rise of a pliable Mr. Trump. The
president was deeply annoyed at a Time magazine cover
article that described Mr. Bannon as the real power and
brains behind the Trump throne. Mr. Trump was equally
put off by a recent book, “Devil’s Bargain,” by the
Bloomberg Businessweek writer Joshua Green, which
lavished credit for Mr. Trump’s election on Mr. Bannon.
Others say Mr. Bannon’s continued presence in the White
House is not serving the president’s interests.
“He’s got to move more into the mainstream, he’s got to
be more into where the moderates are and the independents
are,” Mr. Scaramucci, referring to the president, said in an
interview on Sunday on ABC’s “This Week.” “And so if
he does that, he’ll have a very successful legislative
agenda that he’ll be able to execute. And if he doesn’t do
that, you’re going to see inertia and you’re going to see
this resistance from more of the establishment senators that
he needs to curry favor with.” Mr. Scaramucci is on
friendly terms with Mr. Kushner.
Others say the problem is not Mr. Bannon’s closeness to
the far right, it is that he has not done enough for them.
“I do think he’s in trouble, but it’s trouble of his own
making,” said Roger J. Stone Jr., Mr. Trump’s sometime
adviser, who has publicly criticized Mr. Bannon as
ineffective. “I don’t know why conservatives would be
upset about him being fired. He has not delivered for
them.”
Top administration officials like to joke that working for
Mr. Trump is like toiling in the court of Henry VIII. Mick
Mulvaney, the president’s budget director, recently handed
out copies of the play “A Man for All Seasons,” about the
last years of Sir Thomas More, Henry’s chancellor, who
was executed for failing to endorse Henry’s split with
Rome. Mr. Bannon read it, according to a person familiar
with the situation, and was amused when an associate
compared him to More.
From the start, Mr. Bannon, 63, has told people in his orbit
that he never expected to last in his current position longer
than eight months to a year, and hoped to ram through as
much of his agenda as he could while he stood in the
president’s favor. More recently he has told friends that he
is working in the White House one day at a time, and
constantly asks himself whether he could better pursue his
to-do list — including cracking down on legal and illegal
immigration — on the outside.
But the choice might not be his. At a recent dinner at the
White House with Mr. Kushner and Mr. Kelly, before Mr.
Trump decamped for a working vacation at his private golf
club in Bedminster, N.J., the president listened while one
of the guests, Mr. Murdoch, a founder of Fox News, said
Mr. Bannon had to go.
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Mr. Trump offered little pushback, according to a person
familiar with the conversation, and vented his frustrations
about Mr. Bannon. Mr. Murdoch is close to Mr. Kushner,
who has been in open warfare with Mr. Bannon since the
spring.
But Mr. Trump has expressed similar sentiments in the
past, then backed off. Just a week earlier, as Mr. Trump
ruminated on whether to dismiss his chief of staff at the
time, Reince Priebus, he was pushed by Mr. Kushner and
others to dismiss Mr. Bannon as well. Mr. Trump signaled
to allies that he was pretty much there.
Someone — people close to the situation are still unsure
whether it was initiated by Mr. Bannon or his cadre of
administration allies — mustered a counteroffensive. Mr.
Meadows reached out to the president and told him that he
would lose his base without Mr. Bannon.
Mr. Bannon’s ability to hang on as Mr. Trump’s in-house
populist is in part because of his connections to a handful
of ultrarich political patrons, including Sheldon G.
Adelson, the pro-Israel casino magnate who is based in
Las Vegas.
He is especially close to the reclusive conservative
billionaire Robert Mercer and his daughter, Rebekah, who
is a frequent sounding board for Mr. Bannon. In April, Mr.
Mercer received assurances from Mr. Trump that he was
not about to fire Mr. Bannon over his war with Mr.
Kushner and moderates like Gary D. Cohn, the chairman
of the National Economic Council and a top Trump
adviser.
But Mr. Trump still publicly flayed Mr. Bannon, insulting
him as a guy “who works for me.” It was a far cry from the
lofty status Mr. Bannon enjoyed when he joined Mr.
Trump’s faltering campaign in August 2016, when as a
rich former investment banker he held the status of a near-
peer and hell-raiser who shared his candidate’s daredevil
approach to politics.
Mr. Bannon has not fared well in West Wing politics. His
bonds with the president seem to be fraying daily, and Mr.
Bannon has told friends his status as “staff” — compared
with Mr. Kushner’s familial relationship with the president
— will ultimately dictate his departure. But he has been
adamant in maintaining that his loyalty to Mr. Trump will
survive, and has suggested that he might direct his energies
at creating a movement to challenge mainstream
Republicans too timid to pursue the president’s agenda,
like Speaker Paul D. Ryan.
Mr. Bannon’s cause is being damaged, people close to the
president say, by a war he is waging against General
McMaster. It has taken on a life of its own, with several
alt-right websites faithful to Mr. Bannon tearing into the
national security adviser.
A person close to Mr. Bannon said that Mr. Bannon has
denied that he had anything to do with the campaign
against General McMaster, and said he has tried
unsuccessfully to stem the tide of negative news coverage
about the national security adviser, whom he believes to be
prodding the president toward possible war with North
Korea and Venezuela. But other White House aides have
noted that Mr. Bannon has not publicly rebuked the
websites over the stories.
At the least, he is also no longer Mr. Trump’s
indispensable man. Mr. Bannon’s protégé, chief
speechwriter and policy director, Stephen Miller, shares
his populist agenda — centered on a controversial
immigration crackdown — and has become one of the
president’s favorite aides. Despite his image in the news
media as a confrontational ideologue, Mr. Miller has
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proved to be a deft operator who has ingratiated himself to
Mr. Kushner.
Still, Mr. Bannon is a survivor. He has been left for dead
before. Mr. Trump is mercurial, and can easily change his
mind.
This spring, as Mr. Kushner pressured Mr. Trump to fire
Mr. Bannon, the president shot back at his son-in-law. He
was not going to get rid of him, he said, just because Mr.
Kushner wanted him to go.
Correction: August 14, 2017
An earlier version of this article misstated the publication
for which Joshua Green works. It is Bloomberg
Businessweek, not The Atlantic.
 Donald Trump, Neo-Nazi Recruiter-In-Chief
The President Does Not Merely "Play Footsie" With The White
Supremacists Who Terrorized Charlottesville. He's The Lead
Proponent Of Their Worldview.
By Bob Moser
August 14, 2017
On Saturday afternoon in Maumee, Ohio, it fell to a pair of
Associated Press reporters to break the news to Samantha
Bloom that her 20-year-old son was an alleged terrorist
and murderer. The reporters found her outside her son’s
apartment building, where she’d gone to feed his cat while
he was away in Virginia for the weekend. “I just knew
there was an—,” she said, struggling to take it all in. “He
did mention, what is it ... allbright?”
“Alt-right,” one of the reporters gently
corrected her, and proceeded to inform her
what the term really means: organized
white supremacy.
“I didn’t know it was white supremacist,”
Bloom said. “I thought it had something to
do with Trump.”
She had the last part correct. Unite the Right, the “alt-
right” rally in Charlottesville that attracted the largest
contingent of white supremacists in recent American
history—and culminated, police say, in Bloom’s son
plowing his Dodge Challenger into a line of counter-
protesters, killing Heather Heyer and injuring 19 others—
had everything to do with President Donald Trump. This
was not a rally in support of a Confederate statue; as The
Atlantic’s Matt Thompson put it, it was a “pride march”
for America’s resurgent white supremacists. No masks; no
hoods; no shame. And why should there be? The ideology
on parade not only has official sanction and mainstream
respectability in 2017; it also happens to be the ideology of
the president of the United States.
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“From this day forward a new vision will
govern our land,” Trump promised in his
apocalyptic “American Carnage” inaugural
address. “From this day forward, it’s only
going to be America first, America first.” It
was, as Slate’s Jamelle Bouie wrote, the
“one real, coherent defining theme for his
administration—the only thing that counts
is America. And the only Americans who
count are white.”
After this weekend, surely, it is finally time to retire the
euphemisms about Trump and the movement he leads. The
storm troopers and meme-wielders of the “alt-right” (not to
mention the “new right” and “alt-light”) no longer get to
define themselves by cutesy names designed to obscure
their neo-Nazism. And, if facts still mean anything in
America, Trump will also be recognized henceforth for
what he is: the chief recruiter and Dear Leader of a gang of
domestic terrorists.
Trump’s reaction to the horrors in Charlottesville left no
doubt about this. But for all the clamor and condemnation
of his Saturday statement, when he went off-script to
condemn “violence on many sides, many sides,” almost
everybody in the world of “normies” still got it wrong.
What was so offensive about Trump’s statement on
Saturday, to most observers, was the “moral equivalence”
he drew between the neo-Nazis and the counter-protesters
who confronted them in Charlottesville. “Trump spoke in
platitudes; he was a man looking for gray areas where
there are none,” Jelani Cobb wrote at The New Yorker.
That’s far too generous an assessment. Trump was not
merely equating Richard Spencer, David Duke, and
Charlottesville’s resident fascist agitator Jason Kessler
with anti–white supremacists like Heather Heyer. He
wasn’t speaking of “gray areas.” He was endorsing
domestic terrorism in the name of white supremacy, in the
only vaguely passable way that a president could. The
president went off-script and spoke from his gut when he
blamed the violence on “many sides.” And his minions
heard it for exactly what it was.
 “There was virtually no counter-signaling of
us at all,” said a commenter on Daily
Stormer, which bills itself as “The World’s
Most Genocidal Website.” “He said he
loves us all. Also refused to answer a
question about white nationalists
supporting him. No condemnation at all.
When asked to condemn, he just walked
out of the room. Really, really good. God
bless him.”
In the coming days and weeks, Trump will undoubtedly
take pains to clean up the mess he left on Saturday. He will
get on script and echo the sentiment belatedly tweeted by
his daughter, Ivanka, on Sunday:
“There should be no place in society for
racism, white supremacy and neo-nazis.”
He may even symbolically purge his
administration of some of its leading white
supremacists: Steve Bannon, Stephen
Miller, Sebastian Gorka, Kris Kobach. And
a lot of people will be fooled. Some will
continue to maintain, as Samantha Bloom
did on Saturday, that “Trump’s not a
supremacist.”
But Trump’s foot soldiers will know better. When he
veered from his prepared remarks on Saturday, he spoke
his real truth.
It is no coincidence, as NBC’s Benjy Sarlin
observed, that “Trump tends to interpret
any request to condemn hate as a personal
attack.” Of course he does: It is personal
for Trump, just as surely as it is for Spencer
or Duke or Bannon. The president is the
most powerful hate-monger in America. He
is the imperial wizard of the new white
supremacy. He is “GEOTUS” to his
followers on 4chan and Daily Stormer:
“God Emperor of the United States.”
It’s hard to conceive of an acronym that would please this
president more.
Before this weekend, the chief form of terror practiced by
Trump’s white nationalists was online. As Angela Nagle
writes in her indispensable book about the “alt-right,” Kill
All Normies:
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Multiple journalists and citizens have described in
horrifying detail the attacks and threats against those who
criticize Trump or figures of the online Trumpian right,
especially if the critic is female, black or Jewish, but also if
they’re a “cuckservative.” They now have the ability to
send thousands of the most obsessed, unhinged and angry
people on the Internet after someone if they dare to speak
against the president or his prominent alt-light and alt-right
fans.
Trump has long endorsed that form of terror, too, with
equally unmistakable signaling—namely, retweeting some
of the worst. He’s also sent clear wavelengths not only
through his anti-Hispanic hate speech, but with (among
other things) his failure to denounce David Duke after his
campaign endorsement; his drumbeat of degradation of
women like “bleeding” Megyn Kelly; and, more tangibly,
his reorienting the federal government’s counter-domestic-
terrorism efforts to focus only on Islamic extremism, not
white supremacists.
Trump does not merely “play footsie” with the new white-
supremacist movement in America, as Jennifer Rubin
wrote in an otherwise blistering condemnation of his
“moral idiocy” at The Washington Post on Sunday. He
embodies the movement—in his rhetoric, in his actions,
and in his person. Just as white people created America
and made it great, in the view of the white nationalists,
Trump built his business empire all on his own, with no
help from his real-estate mogul father. And just like the
neo-Nazis—who spent Sunday spreading Alex Jones’s
message that Charlottesville was a George Soros
conspiracy—Trump is always blameless. And if you
challenge his paranoid version of truth, he will not engage
with you, he will not try to persuade you—any more than
Spencer or Daily Stormer founder Andrew Anglin will. He
will mock you, and intimidate you. Rhetorical violence is
his stock-in-trade.
Perhaps most important, Trump’s vision of the world is
identical to the apocalyptic fantasies of “white genocide”
peddled by his followers. What, after all, is white
supremacy in America in 2017? It is, first and foremost, an
expression of delusional self-regard and white male
entitlement run riot. It is the insistence that some people—
white American males—are inherently better than others,
and deserve preferential treatment. To his supporters, and
to himself, Donald Trump is the living embodiment of
Hitler’s concept of Aryan Herrenvolk (“Aryan Master
Race”). He is our first neo-Nazi president. And until we
acknowledge that unthinkable truth, and treat Trump’s
presidency as the anti-democratic crisis that it is, he will
not be the last.
Bob Moser is the New Republic’s editor-at-large.
 The Latest: Trump Condemns
KKK, Neo-Nazis As 'Thugs'
Aug 14, 12:49 PM EDT
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Latest on President Donald
Trump and the weekend's violence and death in
Charlottesville, Virginia (all times local):
12:45 p.m.
President Donald Trump is saying that "racism is evil" as
he condemns the KKK, neo-Nazis and white supremacists
as "criminals and thugs."
He is speaking in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the
White House after meeting with Attorney General Jeff
Sessions and FBI director Christopher Wray about the
race-fueled violence Saturday in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Trump has come under fire for his comments Saturday that
"many sides" are to blame for the violence. In those
remarks, he did not single out white supremacists or any
other hate group, even as Republican lawmakers and
others in his White House did condemn them by name.
---
11 a.m.
President Donald Trump is back at the White House and
ignoring shouted questions about the race-fueled clashes in
in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Trump briefly waved as he walked alone into the building,
which is under renovation. He did not respond to loud
queries from reporters about whether he condemns white
supremacists and whether he condemns the actions of neo-
Nazis.
One woman was killed Saturday when a car plowed into a
group of counter-protesters who'd gathered to oppose a
rally by white nationalists and others who oppose a plan to
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remove from a Charlottesville park of a statue of
Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.
Trump has said "many sides" are to blame for violence.
The president is in Washington for one day during a
working vacation mostly in Bedminster, New Jersey.
---
9:20 a.m.
The CEO of the nation's third largest pharmaceutical
company is resigning from the President's American
Manufacturing Council citing "a responsibility to take a
stand against intolerance and extremism."
President Donald Trump lashed out almost immediately
Monday at Merck CEO Kenneth Frazier on Twitter, saying
Frazier
"will have more time to LOWER RIPOFF
DRUG PRICES!"
Frazier's resignation comes shortly after a violent
confrontation between white supremacists and protesters in
Charlottesville, Virginia, that left one person dead and 19
injured.
He said in a tweet on Monday that the
country's leaders must "honor our
fundamental values by clearly rejecting
expressions of hatred, bigotry and group
supremacy."
Trump responded to Saturday's violence in Charlottesville
by blaming bigotry on "many sides." He has not explicitly
condemned the white supremacists.
---
9:15 a.m.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions is telling ABC's "Good
Morning America" that the death of a woman in
Charlottesville, Virginia, "does meet the definition of
domestic terrorism in our statute."
Sessions said the Justice Department is pursuing the case
"in every way."
He added:
"You can be sure we will charge and
advance the investigation towards the most
serious charges that can be brought,
because this is an unequivocally
unacceptable and evil attack that cannot be
accepted in America."
Sessions also says he is meeting with President Donald
Trump and officials from the FBI on Monday to discuss
the recent violence in Charlottesville, Virginia.
---
7:00 a.m.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions says "too much has been
read into" President Donald Trump's statement Saturday
amid violence at a protest in Charlottesville, Virginia,
related to the removal of a Confederate monument.
In several television interviews on Monday, Sessions said
Trump had "explicitly condemned" violence and that "he
totally opposes" the values espoused by white supremacy
organizations. Trump referenced violence "on many sides."
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He tells NBC News that Trump " will be speaking to the
people today" although he isn't sure what Trump will say.
Sessions added:
"He's been firm on this from the beginning.
He is appalled by this."
---
3:44 a.m.
As President Donald Trump remained out of sight and
silent, pressure mounted from both sides of the aisle for
him to explicitly condemn white supremacists and hate
groups involved in deadly, race-fueled clashes in
Charlottesville, Virginia.
Trump, who has been at his New Jersey golf club on a
working vacation, was set to make a one-day return to
Washington on Monday to sign an executive action on
China's trade practices. But he will likely be unable to
escape questions and criticism for his initial response to
the Saturday's violence, for which he blamed bigotry on
"many sides."
The White House tried to stem the damage on Sunday.
Senior aides were dispatched to the morning news shows,
yet they struggled at times to explain the president's
position. A new White House statement on Sunday
explicitly denounced the Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazi
groups, but it was attributed to an unnamed spokesperson
and not the president himself.
 Charlottesville: Myths & Questions;
Fake History And Deeper Thinking
By Gary Corseri
August 14, 2017
"The content of one's character...."--Martin
Luther King
ONLY REMEMBERING ONES HUMANITY CAN
DEFEAT SLAVERY
I think there are many questions that surround the incident
in Charlottesville…, but our media, our “historians,” and
too many academicians fix or fixate on one line of
questioning or inquiry. Then, they “stick to their guns,”
shut off further investigation, further probing.
About the Lee statue, I had to wonder:
“Why now?”
I’ve been to Charlottesville a few times in recent years; I
have thought it one of the more pleasant small cities in the
U.S. I don’t know how long Lee’s statue has graced the
park there (frankly, I never looked for it), but I do believe
R.E.L. has been dead and gone about 1 & 1/2 centuries!
(Side bar: After meeting Lee–was it at Andersonville?–to
end the hostilities, U.S. Grant–not known for compliments
or blandishments–told his comrades he thought Lee one of
the noblest human beings he had ever met–“the first
gentleman of the South,” if memory serves me….
Was it really necessary to remove the statue now? Wasn’t
that setting up a conflict? Is it too much to expect our
elected officials to exercise foresight and good judgment?
And, why permit a rightist group to protest the proposed
removal of the statue, and then fail to enforce adequate
police protection and enforcement when “outsiders” from
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the Left and the Right show up armed and prepared for
battle?
The whole operation sounds like the Keystone Kops!
(Even a crashing helicopter gets blamed on “Nazis”!)
There is more than a little infantilism in the way our MSM
immediately places all blame for all odious actions on the
doorsteps of the most despised groups! Didn’t we used to
see this kind of reflexive (but not reflective) behavior in
the pre-Civil Rights South? Then the despised groups
were “the Niggers.” One just had to attach that name to
any kind of deplorable act–and it was “case dismissed” and
“hang them!” Have we learned so little from Martin
Luther King about the need to judge people according to
“the content of their character” and “not the color of their
skin”? When did we fall back into simplistic mind-traps?
Too much television? Too much tweeting? Santayana
warned: those who do not learn the lessons of history are
doomed to repeat them!
We have not learned well! We skim the surface of a world
of facts and there are precious few guides to take us
deeper, beneath the waves, to explore the living, coral
reefs. As Barbara Tuchman notes in her redoubtable THE
MARCH OF FOLLY, we are apt to bluster and assume
improbable and insupportable positions, and we dare not
“lose face.” We dig in our heels–even into our graves and
others’!
The media, and our elite, “Deep State,” etc. encouraged
Trump’s campaign to give him primacy above the other 16
Republican contenders–lots of free publicity; “face-time,”
etc. They encouraged his candidacy to sucker-punch the
Right, never believing Trump could prevail against HRC.
(I suspect they sucker-punched Bernie’s supporters, too;
again, to give HRC’s very flawed campaign a gloss of
legitimacy!)
“Fake news” is not nearly as big a problem as what I call
“fake history”! We grow up with it, imbibe it with
mama’s milk and sugary cereal. The Civil War is one
gross example!
A lot of “privileged,” “victorious” “Yankees” have been
harping on “ignorant, racist, redneck” Southerners for
generations! (“Two things are infinite,” Einstein
remarked: “the Universe, and human stupidity!”) In fact,
most Southern whites back in Lee’s time were poor as dirt
“share-croppers” scraping by on the boss-man’s land; and
if they were “fortunate” enough to have their own parcel of
land and one or two slaves working with them, they were
all–blacks, as well as whites–better off for that! (And,
they were probably better off–or no worse off–than the
“indentured servants” flooding northern shores, with
women slaving away dawn to dusk in the textile mills of
New England, bent over looms, and new men dying in the
coal pits of Pennsylvania.) The “plantation system” had
been with the American “Republic” from the beginning;
it’s a major part of the Constitution–that 6/10 human
clause! (Imagine: one rich bastard with a hundred and
fifty slaves–about how many Washington and Jefferson
had!–gets 1 vote for himself and 90 more for his slaves!)
That system made Northerners fat and wealthy, too, helped
build the banks and factories, and built the ships that sold
cotton products to England, and picked up rum and more
slaves on the return voyage! It worked quite well–for the
fat cats!–until the North became an industrializing
powerhouse–with better railroads, armaments, transports,
communications, and 3 times as many people as the
South! Then the North decided it didn’t really need the
South so much, but it did need to expand into the
“Western territories” it had conquered from
Mexico and now needed to conquer from
the soon-to-be massacred Plains “Indians”
(called “savages,” btw by our hero of
“democracy,” the principal author of our
Declaration of Independence!).
We’d best get our history right! There have been terrible
abuses on all sides. All sides were at fault in
Charlottesville, including our elected officials. (As far as I
can tell, the police there were “just following orders.” Not
a great rationale, of course, but it does attribute blame to
the dumbfounded officials who should have known better!)
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“Whoever controls the information controls the
imagination,” Orwell taught us. In the US today,
information is controlled by 6 major corporations! From
the cartoons that the kids watch on weekends to the
spurious “fake news” channels that glut television, radio,
newspapers and the Internet–6 major league “guideposts”
in a nation of 1/3 billion diverse, questioning, struggling
and credulous, and sometimes seeking souls!
No wonder we have so much trouble making peace
abroad! How can we have peace abroad when we have no
peace within? If we immediately disparage our “enemies”
as “lunatics,” how can we trust them, how can we trust
ourselves?
We are as divided as we have been at any time I can
remember–as divided as we were when I marched against
war during the Vietnam War! Some of those who marched
with me, ate the National Guard’s teargas with me, took
the slurs, lost jobs or friends or family–denounced the
departing or returning soldiers! But I spoke out against
that, too. What was the point? They were doing the best
they knew–just as I was. We needed dialogue, not
antipathy. It was the higher-up-liars and dissimulators
who needed lambasting–not the foot-soldiers for war or
peace! As often as not, foot-soldiers are victims, too:
those who were never taught how to think for themselves!
We must begin again! Learn to think clearly again. Brush
off the cobwebs that choke our minds! The enemy of my
enemy is NOT my enemy! He/she is simply–the enemy of
my enemy! In time, he/she may become a friend. We may
become allies in some matters, adversarial in others. But,
we had better talk things through, we had better learn and
re-learn how to communicate with more than 140
characters! Share music; share songs; share books. Honor
one’s heritage and respect another’s.
“Oh what a crooked web we weave
when first we practice to deceive.”
–Sir Walter Scott
 Friedman's Advice: Can Democrats
(And The Media) Accept Where Trump Is Right?
Tim Graham
August 14, 2017 7:12 AM EDT
From the In Case You Missed It file: last week, New York
Times columnist Thomas Friedman advised the Democrats
to embrace some of Donald Trump's beliefs, because
"Some things are true even if Donald Trump believes
them!" If they hope to attract Trump voters in the
midterms they will have to make some moves toward the
president.
First, Friedman had to dismiss that Trump ever does
anything constructive with his beliefs:
"Trump connects with these gut issues and
takes them in a destructive direction. It’s
vital for Democrats to connect with them
and take them in a constructive direction."
This was his list:
 We can’t take in every immigrant who wants to
come here; we need, metaphorically speaking, a high
wall that assures Americans we can control our border
with a big gate that lets as many people in legally as
we can effectively absorb as citizens.
 The Muslim world does have a problem with
pluralism — gender pluralism, religious pluralism and
intellectual pluralism — and suggesting that terrorism
has nothing to do with that fact is naïve; countering
violent extremism means constructively engaging with
Muslim leaders on this issue.
 Americans want a president focused on growing
the economic pie, not just redistributing it. We do
have a trade problem with China, which has reformed
and closed instead of reformed and opened. We have
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an even bigger problem with automation wiping out
middle-skilled work and we need to generate more
blue-collar jobs to anchor communities.
 Political correctness on college campuses has run
ridiculously riot. Americans want leaders to be
comfortable expressing patriotism and love of country
when globalization is erasing national identities.
America is not perfect, but it is, more often than not, a
force for good in the world.
Friedman concluded,
"Voters don’t listen through their ears. They
listen through their stomachs. And when
you connect with voters in their guts, they
feel respected, and when they feel
respected, they will listen to anything —
including big issues that are true even if
Democrats believe them. Such as the fact
that a majority of Americans like
Obamacare and want to see it built to last,
and a majority of Americans do not like the
way Trump is despoiling the environment
and bringing back coal."
Now, as an intellectual exercise, ask yourself:
On which of these issues have the network news people
acknowledged Friedman's list? Have the networks covered
political correctness on college campuses? Not really.
Have the liberal media underlined the Muslim world's
problem with pluralism? No, they're too busy obsessing
over Trump's problem with Muslims. Have the networks
acknowledged that we can't take in every immigrant?
Please.
Tom Friedman ought to be challenging his own media
colleagues to see if they can be less ideological and more
objective than the Democratic Party hardliners. Because
right now, they sound exactly like Democratic Party
hardliners.
And from last week's evidence, they're probably not going
to interview Friedman and talk about this column.
 Trump Denounces White
Supremacists After Backlash
By Justin Sink , Margaret Talev , And Arit John
August 14, 2017, 11:57 AM CDT August 14, 2017, 1:46 PM CDT
Trump Says Bigotry, Violence Have No Place in America
President Donald Trump called out white supremacists for
their role in the deadly violence over the weekend in
Virginia as the administration sought to counter a backlash
against his initial failure to directly hold hate groups
accountable.
“Racism is evil and those who cause
violence in its name are criminals and
thugs, including the KKK, neo-Nazis, white
supremacists, and other hate groups that
are repugnant to everything we hold dear
as Americans,” Trump said on Monday at
the White House.
Trump’s statement, carried live on national television,
came amid growing bipartisan condemnation of his early
reaction blaming “many sides” for the weekend violence in
Charlottesville, Virginia. On Aug. 12, a participant in a
white supremacist rally there rammed a group of counter-
demonstrators with a vehicle, killing one woman and
injuring at least 19 others.
Republican and Democratic lawmakers assailed his initial
response as inadequate. Merck & Co. Chief Executive
Officer Ken Frazier resigned Monday in protest from
Trump’s manufacturing council, saying “America’s
leaders must honor our fundamental values” by rejecting
expressions of hatred, bigotry and group supremacy.
Trump’s job approval fell to 34 percent in the daily Gallup
tracking poll, its lowest level ever in the poll.
The White House hastily arranged Trump’s statement as
the weekend barrage of criticism intensified Monday,
summoning the White House pool of reporters without
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advance notice. He stood at a lectern reading prepared
remarks and took no questions.
‘Held Accountable’
“To anyone who acted criminally in this
weekend’s racist violence, you will be held
accountable,” Trump said,
adding that he had just met with Attorney General Jeff
Sessions and FBI Director Chris Wray for an update on a
federal civil rights investigation into the incident.
“We must love each other, show affection
for each other and unite together in
condemnation of hatred bigotry and
violence,” he added.
House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi of California
blasted Trump’s delay in denouncing supremacists for the
violence and called on him to fire his chief strategist,
Stephen Bannon, whom she called “an alt-right white
supremacist sympathizer.”
“From the beginning, President Trump has
sheltered and encouraged the forces of
bigotry and discrimination,” Pelosi said in a
statement emailed to reporters. “President
Trump’s failure to immediately denounce
white supremacy is well in line with the
unmistakable conduct of his Administration
toward immigrants, Muslims, and
communities of color.”
Video images of the violence surrounding the white
supremacist rally played out on U.S. and global television
throughout the weekend, galvanizing the public. Many of
the participants openly carried guns as they came to protest
the removal of a statue of Confederate war general Robert
E. Lee. Photos showed a group white men using large
metal poles to beat a black man crouching on his knees.
Alex Fields Jr., 20, who drove into the counter-protesters,
was charged with second-degree murder in the death of
Heather Heyer, 32. Two Virginia state troopers who were
observing the demonstrations died in a helicopter crash.
Trump said Saturday that “many sides” bore blame for the
violence, without directly repudiating racial supremacists.
After criticism of the response from across political
spectrum, the White House on Sunday released a statement
saying that “of course” the president included white
supremacists, neo-Nazis “and all extremist groups” in that
statement.
Trump Response
After Frazier resigned from the White House advisory
group Monday, Trump responded angrily less than an hour
later on Twitter, suggesting the CEO should use the extra
time to focus on lowering “ripoff drug prices.” The
presidential tweet fed a storm of criticism throughout the
morning Monday.
Sessions, in a round of TV interviews on Monday, insisted
that Trump was opposed to white supremacist values and
would be saying more.
But many Republicans indicated Trump already had let a
crucial moment pass.
“He missed an opportunity to be very
explicit here,” Senator Lindsey Graham, a
South Carolina Republican, told Fox News
on Sunday. “These groups seem to believe
they have a friend in Donald Trump in the
White House.”
Trump’s “America First” campaign and his bellicose
rhetoric drew support from many right-wing fringe groups
during the presidential campaign. He has repeatedly drawn
criticism for his handling of issues related to minority
groups.
During the presidential campaign, Trump retweeted praise
from the social media accounts of white supremacists. His
social media director, Dan Scavino, now a White House
employee, also posted an image to Trump’s Twitter
account that showed a Star of David near the head of
Hillary Clinton as money rained down, which opponents
and Jewish groups criticized as anti-Semitic.
Public Controversies
When asked initially during the presidential campaign
about receiving the endorsement of David Duke, Trump
said he didn’t know anything about the former Ku Klux
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Klan leader. After days of criticism, Trump later said that
he disavowed him.
He also has waded into public controversies with
statements that his critics consider racially tinged. Trump
for years suggested without evidence that former President
Barack Obama was born outside of the United States, only
saying he accepted the U.S. citizenship of the nation’s first
African-American president after clinching the Republican
presidential nomination. In 1989, he paid for a full page ad
in the New York Times calling for the death penalty for a
group of black teenagers known as the Central Park Five,
who were convicted but later exonerated of raping a white
woman.
After Trump won the White House, Trump’s staffing
decisions also drew criticism. Bannon, the president’s
senior adviser, was the former editor of Breitbart and had
described the website as a "platform for the alt-right."
Sebastian Gorka, one of the president’s counterterrorism
advisers, has come under fire for his family’s ties to a
Hungarian group called Vitezi Rend that collaborated with
the Nazis during World War II. And white supremacist
leader Richard Spencer has said he worked with Trump
adviser Stephen Miller while they were both students at
Duke University, though Miller has said he completely
repudiates Spencer.
Those aides were the driving force behind the president’s
early move to ban travel from several Muslim-majority
countries. That effort drew criticism from a wide swath of
companies, with more than 160 technology firms,
including Amazon.com Inc., Facebook Inc., and Google
corporate parent Alphabet Inc. who joined a legal brief
criticizing the executive order. Technology firms have also
criticized the administration’s efforts to restrict access to
H-1B visas for high-skilled workers, and eliminate an
Obama administration program that would have provided
visas for foreign entrepreneurs who received startup
funding.
Last month, Trump announced that he was moving to ban
all trans-gender service members from the military, in
another move that drew bipartisan criticism.
“I don’t think we should be discriminating
against anyone,” Republican Senator Orrin
Hatch of Utah said in a statement in
response to the transgender ban.
— With assistance by Jennifer Epstein,
Justin Sink, and Cynthia Koons
 Pence Calls Out Media For
‘Spending More Time Criticizing’ Trump
Than Neo-Nazis
By Kyle Drennen
August 14, 2017 12:08 PM EDT
After all three broadcast networks spent Sunday blaming
President Trump for the deadly violence in Charlottesville,
Virginia over the weekend, in an exclusive interview with
NBC News aired on Monday’s Today show, Vice
President Mike Pence took the liberal media to task for its
biased coverage.
Talking to correspondent Peter Alexander during a trip to
Central America on Sunday, Pence scolded the press: “I
will tell you that I take issue with the fact that many in the
media are spending more time criticizing how the
President addressed the issue yesterday..
..many in the media have spent an awful
lot of time focusing on what the
President said and criticisms of what
the President said, instead of criticizing
those who brought that hatred and
violence to the streets of Charlottesville,
Virginia.”
Rather than discuss the purpose of Pence’s overseas travel,
Alexander spent the entire exchange discussing what was
wrong with the President’s response to the violence on
Saturday:
 I traveled down here to Colombia yesterday with the
Vice President and during our exclusive interview he
did what many critics say the President should have
done, he condemned white nationalists, white
supremacists, and neo-Nazis. So I began by our
conversation by asking him why the President hasn’t
called out those evil groups by name.
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 You say that, why won’t the President use those same
words? Why hasn’t he?
 To be fair, some Americans heard that, others didn’t,
including Orin Hatch, who wrote, “We should call evil
by its name. My brother didn’t give his life fighting Hitler
for Nazi ideas to go unchallenged here at home.” Was
it a mistake for the President not to be more clear when
he made those remarks? And if you were advising him
now, would you suggest he do it differently?
 He said on “many sides.” Name those sides. What are
the sides?...Well that’s one side, what’s the other side?
He says on many sides.
 But only one group yesterday – with respect, only one
group yesterday, Mr. Vice President, killed an
American.
Proving Pence’s point on Sunday, all three networks
focused on blasting Trump:
Cokie Roberts Blames Trump/Sessions
for Sending ‘Signals’ to Racists
NBC Lashes Out at President Trump
After Charlottesville Attack
Slate’s Bouie: The ‘Roots’ of
Charlottesville Found at the White
House
Alexander’s contentious exchange with Pence was brought
to viewers by Microsoft, StateFarm, and Cheerios.
Here is a full transcript of the August 14 segment:
7:09 AM ET
SAVANNAH GUTHRIE: We are hearing from the Vice President,
Mike Pence, this morning as he begins a week-long trip to South
and Central America. While he singled out white supremacists,
neo-Nazis and the KKK, he also defended the President for not
being specific in citing those groups in his initial statement. NBC
National Correspondent Peter Alexander is traveling with the
Vice President and spoke with him one on one. Peter, good
morning.
PETER ALEXANDER: Savannah, good morning to you. I
traveled down here to Colombia yesterday with the Vice
President and during our exclusive interview he did what many
critics say the President should have done, he condemned white
nationalists, white supremacists, and neo-Nazis. So I began by
our conversation by asking him why the President hasn’t called
out those evil groups by name.
[ON-SCREEN HEADLINE: Pence Defends Trump; Vice
President on Criticism of President’s Remarks]
MIKE PENCE: President Trump yesterday stated clearly that he
condemns hate and violence in all of its in forms. We will not
tolerate hatred and violence of groups like white supremacists,
the KKK, and the neo-Nazis. These extremist fringe groups have
no place in the American debate.
ALEXANDER: But you say that –
PENCE: And we condemn them in the strongest possible terms.
ALEXANDER: You say that, why won’t the President use those
same words? Why hasn’t he?
PENCE: I think the American people heard the President
yesterday speak plainly and condemn, in his words, in the
strongest possible terms, organizations that purvey hate and
violence. I think the American people heard him. But what they
also heard, Peter, was the President calling for national unity.
ALEXANDER: To be fair, some Americans heard that, others
didn’t, including Orin Hatch, who wrote, “We should call evil by its
name. My brother didn’t give his life fighting Hitler for Nazi ideas
to go unchallenged here at home.” Was it a mistake for the
President not to be more clear when he made those remarks?
And if you were advising him now, would you suggest he do it
differently?
PENCE: I think the President yesterday spoke into a national
moment, words that the American people needed to hear, that
we condemn acts of violence, acts of hatred.
ALEXANDER: He said on “many sides.” Name those sides. What
are the sides?
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PENCE: Well, look. As I said today, we condemn in the strongest
terms the hate and violence advocated by groups like white
supremacists, neo-Nazis, and their ilk.
ALEXANDER: Well that’s one side, what’s the other side? He
says on many sides.
PENCE: Well, as you look throughout the course of the years,
we’ve seen protests turn violent. We’ve seen fringe groups use
peaceful protest environment to bring violence in some cases
against police officers to tragic results.
ALEXANDER: But only one group yesterday – with respect, only
one group yesterday, Mr. Vice President, killed an American.
PENCE: And we’re bringing the full weight of the federal
government to bear on investigating and prosecuting that
individual for that heinous act that took the life of that innocent
woman.
I will tell you that I take issue with the fact that many in the media
are spending more time criticizing how the President addressed
the issue yesterday –
ALEXANDER: But this is Orin Hatch and Cory Gardner, it’s not
me. I’m reading their quotes.
PENCE: Well, many in the media have spent an awful lot of time
focusing on what the President said and criticisms of what the
President said, instead of criticizing those who brought that
hatred and violence to the streets of Charlottesville, Virginia.
ALEXANDER: At the end of our conversation, I asked the Vice
President if this was an act of domestic terrorism. He says it may
well have been. He said the administration is exploring that, that
the President has directed the Department of Justice to initiate a
full investigation into an attack that he said was well eerily similar
to the other terrorist attacks around the world. Craig and
Savannah?
GUTHRIE: Peter Alexander, thank you so much.
 Charlottesville Trump-Bashing Mayor Wrote Book
Praising Slave Owner And Author Of
Three-Fifths Compromise
Jim Hoft
Aug 14th, 2017 7:18 Am
Charlottesville, Virginia Mayor Michael Signer blamed
President Trump for the violence and deadly attack in his
city on Saturday.
Signer blamed President Trump for playing on our worst
prejudices.
Note:
On Sunday, August 13, 2017 CBS Face the Nation, the
Mayor had this exchange the host John Dickerson:
The mayor wants to blame President Trump for the
violence in his city on Saturday. This was after he called
off the police and refused to offer protection to protesters
he did not agree with.
Mayor Signer wrote a book praising
James Madison who owned over a
hundred slaves and the creator of the
Three-Fifths Compromise.
Amazon’s review of a book on James Madison written by
Mayor Signer, Charlottesville, VA reads:
“Michael Signer takes a fresh look at the
life of our fourth president. His focus is on
Madison before he turned thirty-six, the
years in which he did his most enduring
work: battling with Patrick Henry—the most
charismatic politician in revolutionary
America, whose political philosophy and
ruthless tactics eerily foreshadowed those
of today’s Tea Party—over religious
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freedom; introducing his framework for a
strong central government; becoming the
intellectual godfather of the Constitution;
and providing a crucial role at Virginia’s
convention to ratify the Constitution in
1788, when the nation’s future hung in the
balance. Signer’s young James Madison is
a role model for the leaders so badly
needed today.”
Madison, who owned over 100 slaves,
originated the Three-Fifths Compromise,
which counted slaves as three fifths of a
person for the purposes of taxation and
legislative representation.
DICKERSON: “Mr. Mayor, the president
said that he wanted to know what was
going on in Charlottesville and that we want
to see what we’re doing wrong as a
country, he said. What’s your answer to
that?”
SIGNER: “You know, I don’t want to make
this too much about Donald Trump, we
have a lot of grieving, a lot of work to do as
a– as a city and as a country, but he should
look in the mirror. I mean, he made a
choice in his presidential campaign, the
folks around with him, to, you know, go
right to the gutter, to play on our worst
prejudices. And I think you are seeing a
direct line from what happened here this
weekend to those choices. He has the
opportunity, as do we all, to have a fresh
beginning.”
 Merck's CEO Quits Trump's Council
Over Charlottesville, The President Claps Back
Roger Yu And Herb Jackson, USA TODAY Published 9:07 A.M. ET Aug. 14, 2017 | Updated 2:25
P.M. ET Aug. 14, 2017

"Our country's strength stems from its

President Trump has lost the only African American CEO
on his manufacturing council for his comments on
Charlottesville. Buzz60
Merck CEO Ken Frazier quit President Trump's
manufacturing business council on Monday, citing
dissatisfaction with Trump's response to violence that
erupted after a neo-Nazi rally in Charlottesville over the
weekend.
The resignation prompted an angry response from Trump
on Twitter. "Now that Ken Frazier of Merck Pharma has
resigned from President's Manufacturing Council, he will
have more time to LOWER RIPOFF DRUG PRICES!,"
Trump tweeted.
diversity and the contributions made by
men and women of different faiths, races,
sexual orientations and political beliefs,"
Frazier tweeted.
"America's leaders must honor our
fundamental values by clearly rejecting
expressions of hatred, bigotry and group
supremacy, which run counter to the
American ideal that all people are created
equal," Frazier said. "As CEO of Merck and
as a matter of personal conscience, I feel a
responsibility to take a stand against
intolerance and extremism."

One of the world's largest pharmaceutical manufacturers,

Merck develops and makes a wide variety of vaccines and
drugs, including allergy medicine Clarinex and cholesterol
treatments Zocor and Vytorin.

President Donald Trump said Saturday there was "no

place" in the United States for the kind of violence that
broke out at a white nationalist rally in Virginia and

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appealed to Americans to "come together as one." (Aug.
12) AP
This isn't the first time Trump has clashed this year with
high-profile CEOs over his handling of policy matters. In
June, Disney CEO Robert Iger and Tesla CEO Elon Musk
quit another White House business advisory council over
Trump's decision to withdraw the U.S. from a global
climate-change treaty, called the Paris Agreement.
In February, former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick also quit
advising Trump on business matters over the president’s
proposal to ban travel from seven Muslim countries.
Trump came under fire over the weekend for his refusal to
specifically denounce neo-Nazis, KKK and other
racist groups after their rally in Charlottesville resulted in
at least three people killed and dozens more hurt.
His initial response, issued on Twitter, called for "all" to be
united and "condemn all that hate stands for."
Many lawmakers -- including some Republicans --
considered his response to be inadequate given the tragedy
and national outrage. Some of Trump's political opponents
called it a "dog whistle" to his far-right voter bloc
supporters.
"We condemn in the strongest possible
terms this egregious display of hatred,
bigotry and violence on many sides, on
many sides," Trump said over the
weekend, prompting his critics to wonder if
he was implicitly criticizing the counter-
protesters in Charlottesville.
After repeated calls for him to be more forceful in
response, Trump finally addressed a crowd of reporters in
the White House on Monday afternoon and said
"racism is evil."
"And those who cause violence in its name
are criminals and thugs, including the KKK,
neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and other
hate groups," Trump said before leaving
the lectern without taking questions.
He also announced that the Department of Justice has
launched a civil rights investigation over a car attack in
Charlottesville Saturday that killed Heather Heyer, 32, and
injured 19 others. James Alex Fields Jr., 20, who allegedly
drove the car, was denied bail Monday.
Frazier, who in the past has donated to both Republicans
and Democrats, sat beside Trump in late January when the
president had a roundtable discussion with pharmaceutical
company executives.
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Trump urged the companies to lower their prices, but he
also promised they would benefit from relaxed federal
regulations, better trade deals and tax reform. He stopped
short of repeating a campaign promise to have Medicare
negotiate for drug discounts with manufacturers.
Frazier also represented Merck at a White House event in
July where his company and Pfizer announced an
agreement with Corning to develop a new generation of
stronger glass vials and an investment in manufacturing
jobs.
Frazier declined to comment further. The Harvard-trained
lawyer took over the job in 2010 after he spent years
working up the corporate ladder, including stints as general
counsel and head of its global human health business.
Shares of Merck rose 43 cents to $62.81 in midday
trading.
Most of the companies whose CEOs are on the
manufacturing council declined to comment.
GE, whose former CEO and current board chairman Jeff
Immelt is a member of the manufacturing council, said
Immelt plans to remain on the council while he's still board
chairman. He will step down as the company's board
chairman at the end of the year.
"GE has no tolerance for hate, bigotry or
racism, and we strongly condemn the
violent extremism in Charlottesville over the
weekend," the company said in a
statement. "With more than 100,000
employees in the United States, it is
important for GE to participate in the
discussion on how to drive growth and
productivity in the U.S."
In a statement, computer-maker Dell Technologies, whose
CEO Michael Dell is a council member, said there was no
change
"in Dell engaging with the Trump
administration and governments around the
world to share our perspective on policy
issues that affect our company, our
customers and our employees."
Facing more competition from generic drug-makers,
Merck reported second-quarter sales that were relatively
flat. Revenue rose 0.8% year-over-year to $9.9 billion, it
reported in late July. Net income rose 61% to $1.95
billion.
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The company also said a cyber-attack significantly
disrupted its operations, including sales and delivery of
products to customers.
Contributing: Kellie Ell
 Read The Memo That Rocked Washington And Exposed
The Deep State Plot Against President Trump - The MSM
Goes Into Full Damage Control Mode
By Susan Duclos - All News Pipeline
August 14, 2017
While North Korea dominated much of the news of late
and the recent events in Charlottesville, VA have been the
talk of the internet over the last couple of days, the recent
revelation of the "Memo that rocked Washington," which
exposes the deep state subversion against President Trump
and explaining the tactics being utilized, is being spun as
"crazy" with the writer of the memo being labeled a
"nutcase" by the MSM, who has converged on a narrative
in a weak attempt at damage control.
The memo is embedded in full below, so readers can read
the seven-page memorandum produced in May by the
former director of strategic planning at the National
Security Council, Rich Higgins.
Before we detail some of the highlights from the memo,
then offer the document in full, lets take a look at Higgins
credentials, the man that the media is doing their best to
discredit with labels like nutcase (MediaIte) with outlets
like Washington Post calling the memo itself "crazy."
Not only was Higgins the the former director of strategic
planning for the NSC, before being fired by Lt. Gen. H.R.
McMaster for writing the memorandum, but perhaps more
impressive, the Army veteran was also a former Pentagon
official who specialized in irregular warfare.
Department of Defense defines Irregular Warfare in a 100
page document from 2007, in the following manner:
Irregular warfare (IW) is defined as a
violent struggle among state and nonstate
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actors for legitimacy and influence over the
relevant populations. IW favors indirect and
asymmetric approaches, though it may
employ the full range of military and other
capabilities, in order to erode an
adversary’s power, influence, and will. It is
inherently a protracted struggle that will test
the resolve of our Nation and our strategic
partners.
Our adversaries will pursue IW strategies,
employing a hybrid of irregular, disruptive,
traditional, and catastrophic capabilities to
undermine and erode the influence and will
of the United States and our strategic
partners. Meeting these challenges and
combating this approach will require the
concerted efforts of all available
instruments of US national power.
Influencing foreign governments and
populations is a complex and inherently
political activity. This Joint Operating
Concept (JOC) describes the military role
in protracted IW campaigns; however,
these campaigns will fail if waged by
military means alone. The nature of IW
requires the US Government (USG) to
achieve the level of unified action
necessary to integrate all available
instruments of national power to address
irregular threats. The USG will have to
develop “Whole of Government”
approaches to waging IW at the political,
strategic, operational, and tactical levels.
Other government agencies must build
their capacity to operate in unstable or
hostile environments.
Irregular warfare is about people, not
platforms. IW depends not just on our
military prowess, but also our
understanding of such social dynamics as
tribal politics, social networks, religious
 influences, and cultural mores. People, not
platforms and advanced technology, will be
the key to IW success. The joint force will
need patient, persistent, and culturally
savvy people to build the local relationships
and partnerships essential to executing IW.
So a man that specialized in irregular warfare tactics for
the Pentagon, writes a seven-page memo which details a
plot to overthrow the President of the United States, by
globalist members of the deep state, with the intentional
help of propaganda being fed to the media in order to
influence the public, using tactics he was responsible for
observing while at the Pentagon in order to save American
military lives, and the media starts screaming "nutcase,"
and "crazy," and "conspiracy theory!"
Something doesn't smell right here.
MEMO THAT ROCKED THE NSC & SENT THE
MSM INTO DAMAGE CONTROL MODE
The memo is titled "POTUS & Political Warfare," and
starts off detail some background on the "information
campaigns designed to first undermine, then delegitimize
and ultimately remove the President," calling it "political
warfare at an unprecedented level that is openly engaged in
the direct targeting of a seated president through
manipulation of the news cycle."
While naming the actors, such as the media, Democrats,
establishment Republicans, and explaining what each gains
in their political warfare campaign against the president, it
is on Page 5 of the document embedded below, where
Higgins detailed the "Adversary Campaign Plan," in the
following manner:
Adversary Campaign Plan.
Political Warfare has been described as
“propaganda in battledress.” The effort
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directed at President Trump is executed
along one overt, as well as two covert, lines
of effort:
• The overt line of effort is PUBLICITY. Publicity is the
straightforward projection of a case that builds a picture
in the audience’s mind designed to garner support. It is
facts without context and information the adversary
wants the audience to possess that creates an
impression and sets conditions. It seeks to establish
good will and receptiveness to additional inputs.
• There are two covert lines of effort:
PROPOGANDA and INFILTRATION/SUBVERSION.
 Propaganda is the deliberate direction, even
manipulation, of information to secure a definite
outcome. It is an attempt to direct the thinking of the
recipient, without his conscious collaboration, into
predetermined channels that are established in the
Publicity line of effort. It is the unwitting conditioning of
the recipient by devious methods with an ulterior
motive that seeks to move them incrementally over
time into greater belief and acceptance of message
transmitted in the Publicity line of effort.
 Infiltration and subversion operate internal to the
targeted organization in order to inform, target,
coordinate, and amplify the effects of the publicity and
propaganda. Both operate to gather intelligence,
obstruct legitimate courses of action, provide inside
information, and leak sensitive information that
undermines the leadership and suppresses the morale
of friendly elements.
 Infiltration of political and social groups within a target
state is done for the purpose of extending counter-state
influence and control. The endgame is concealed and
may involve illicit activities.
 Subversion undermines or detaches the loyalties of
significant political and social groups within the target
state and transfers political and/or ideological loyalties
to the counter-state. As thcounter-state forms, a
counter-elite of influential individual and key leaders
within the target state will later facilitate the legitimacy
and permanency of the new regime.
On page #6 we see "Political Warfare Executive – The
Meaning, Techniques and Methods of Political
Warfare," which accurately captures what we at ANP
have been documenting and reporting on for years,
including how the media is being used to deliberately push
"pseudo-realities," in a campaign to "delegitimize
President Trump," with preferred narratives including the
"Russia hacked the election", "Obstruction of Justice",
"Hiding Collusion", and "Putin Puppet."
As is explained, each of these "pseudo-realities," is geared
toward a specific propaganda point, the first an attempt to
push the "illegitimate" narrative, the second to push the
"corrupt" narrative," the third to push the "dishonest"
narrative and the last to push the idea of "treason."
Supporting Narratives. Meta-narratives
are supported by an ongoing series of
supporting-narratives that can be swapped
out as circumstances warrant. It is
important to recognize that these stories do
not have to be true, valid or accurate to
serve their purpose. Over time, deserved or
not, the cumulative effect of these
supporting narratives will result in a Trump
fatigue. From a political warfare
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perspective, President Trump’s inability to
meet this challenge will cast him as a weak
failed leader.
The entire memo is embedded below, read it and decide
for yourself. Below the memo we analyze why a man that
specialized in irregular warfare for the Pentagon, was fired
by McMasters for detailing what many in the Independent
Media have been documenting since Trump won the
election.
(Former NSC Staffer Rich Higgins Memo by Kristina
Wong on Scribd starts on next page.)
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WHY WAS HIGGINS FIRED? BOTTOM LINE

We have largely refrained from weighing in on H.R.
McMasters, despite the fact that his stances on Iran,
Islamic Terrorism, the Paris Accord, were more in line
with Obama policy than President Trump's policy, where
in each case McMasters lost his argument and the
President aligned himself with the promises made, keeping
them rather than allowing McMasters to influence his
decisions, but according to recent reports, the second
McMasters saw this internal memo, he "detonated," and
then proceeded to fire the man that wrote it.
The memo was written in May, but after
McMaster discovered it, Higgins was called
into the White House counsel’s office on
July 18 and questioned about it. On July
21, he was fired by McMaster’s deputy, but
not explicitly given a reason why.
As to McMasters stances on a variety of issues that do not
align with the president's base, that can be chalked up to
"politics" as Trump the businessman was well known for
hiring people with opposing views as to look at all angles
before making his decisions, it was not surprising in the
least that he brought McMasters on.
The fact that the media was called out directly in the
memo, highlighting the part they play in pushing "pseudo-
realities," in order to generate a narrative to influence the
general public, explains clearly why they are in all-out
damage control mode trying to discredit the writer of the
NSC memo that rocked Washington, because he just
publicly exposed them all.
The fact that the media, Trump haters, neverTrumpers,
establishment Republicans, and Democrats are all
supporting McMasters, also begs the question: Is he one of
the enemy within?
The fact that he fired a man trying to protect the president
from other enemies within, might be the answer to that
question.
A couple other articles detailing other Trump loyalists
fired by McMasters and the campaign to #FireMcMasters,
discussed below:

The firing of the director of strategic planning for the NSC

on the other hand, for utilizing his experience in known
irregular warfare methods for and tactics for the Pentagon,
to warn of a campaign against a sitting president by
multiple factions, including globalists, deep state members
within the intelligence community, and the media, forces
us to ask the question of whether McMasters is part of the
"political warfare" campaign against President Trump?

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 Establishment GOP Consultant Rick Wilson Calls For
Lynching Fascists After Previously Labeling
President Trump One
By Alex Thomas -
08.14.2017 @10:20 PM EDT

(INTELLIHUB) — Establishment GOP consultant

and deep state operative Rick Wilson has called for
lynching people he deems to be “fascists” after previously
labeling President Trump a fascist on multiple occasions.

Fresh off of calling for a GOP civil war to take out the
president, Wilson has gone off the deep end by using
the Charlottesville attack to imply that the president may
need to be lynched. And one more time in October 2016:

“I like my fascists the old-fashioned way;

dead, hanging from lamp-posts as we
liberate their victims,” Wilson stunningly
posted on Twitter.

Amazingly, Wilson’s attacks on Trump go as far back as

October 2015 when he appeared on MSNBC to call for
taking out the eventual president.

As noted above, Wilson has previously labeled Donald “They’re still going to have to go out and
Trump a fascist on multiple occasions. put a bullet in Donald Trump,” Wilson said.
“And that’s a fact.”
First in February 2016:
More recently, Wilson publicly called for a civil war
within the Republican Party that would eventually lead to
Pence becoming president.

“In a you have to see it to believe moment,

noted anti-Trump operative and GOP
strategist Rick Wilson has encouraged
Democrats to “fan the flames” of a coming
conservative civil war,” Intellihub News
reported.
Then again in June 2016: “Wilson, in a series of Tweets, was
responding to reports of a shadow
campaign for 2020 and Vice-President
Mike Pence’s denial of such a thing.”

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 The MSM Will NEVER
Let Trump Win The Response Game
By Mark Angelides
August 14, 2017
Regardless of your opinions on how effective or timely
President Trump’s response to the shocking events in
Charlottesville, VA, it can’t have escaped your attention
that the MSM is now firmly targeted as one in kicking
down Trump on his responses. It seems he can’t catch a
break on this, and that is likely the point of the concerted
operation taking place.
Firstly he was criticized for not getting a statement out fast
enough to condemn the (we assume) murder of a young
woman and the violence surrounding it. Many were quick
to jump in and make their statement (and apparently as
much political capital as possible). Now correct me if I’m
wrong on this, but during the campaign, wasn’t Candidate
Trump widely lambasted by the media for naming a
terrorist attack “a terrorist attack” before all the
information had been gathered? In fact, even Candidate
Clinton ended up having an interview on a plane about this
very thing.
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So on the one hand, he is damned if he makes a statement
before all the facts are known and investigated, and on the
other, if he waits, he clearly supports White Supremacist
Terror!
And then comes the “middle time” response, which is what
happened with Charlottesville. He waited until the
information was clearer and then made a statement. This
time, the statement was apparently not good enough in its
level of condemnation.
Trump said he condemned, “in the strongest possible
terms, this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and
violence on many sides. On many sides.” Which is pretty
clear. After all, racism is a form of bigotry, no? But this
was not enough for the vultures lurking in the pit of
righteous indignation. They want him to stamp and shout
about racists in America and they want him to bring Hell
and Fury to White Supremacists. But why?
Is there anyone who really doesn’t understand that racism
is a bad thing? Do we need constant reassurances that the
man in the White House doesn’t actually hate non-white
folk? Of course we don’t. If we did, then such things
would need be given on a regular basis by everyone, but
they don’t!
The reason the media want these statements and disavowal
from Trump, is because it ASSOCIATES him with the
groups he disavows. They want him to be constantly
denying his association because that CREATES
association. It is a trick and a con.
The media are running their same old games, it’s not new,
it’s not clever, but unfortunately, it is effective.
 Obama Knew In 2014 Of
Russian Attempts To Disrupt Elections
Saagar Enjeti
Reporter
9:58 AM 08/14/2017
Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) and U.S. President Barack
Obama share a toast during the luncheon at the United Nations
General Assembly in New York, September 28, 2015.
REUTERS/Mikhail Metzel/RIA Novosti/Pool
The Obama administration was warned of Russian
preparations to disrupt western elections as early as 2014,
Politico reports.
The initial 2014 report presented to the administration
described a disruption apparatus spanning the U.S. and
Europe, although it did not specifically mention a Kremlin
threat to the U.S. 2016 election. Throughout the 2014-2016
period, intelligence officials reportedly brought several
options to counter Russian cyber-espionage efforts world-
wide, but were brushed off by the Obama White House.
“The truth is, nobody wanted to piss off the
Russians,” a former intelligence official told
Politico. The Obama administration
similarly did not entertain the longstanding
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request of the U.S. intelligence community
to shutter two Russian spy compounds in
the U.S. prior to the election. “Secretary
Kerry refused to consider it,” an official
said.
Russian efforts to meddle in the 2016 election directly
coincided with the Obama administration’s failed efforts to
broker a ceasefire deal in the Syrian civil war, where
Russia actively sponsors Syrian President Bashar al Assad.
Obama’s reticence to confront Russia over its actions at
the time stemmed from his desire to save his multiple
failed deals in Syria, The New York Times reported in
December 2016.
“Everyone agreed you had to push back at
the Russians and push back hard. But it
didn’t happen,” a senior Department of
State official elaborated at the time.
Many former Obama administration officials have
lamented their response to Russian attempts to influence
the election. One senior administration official,
however, admitted to WaPo that the response to Russian
actions in the election
“is the hardest thing about my entire time in
government to defend.” He continued, “I
feel like we sort of choked.”
 Charlottesville Police Inaction:
Part Of A Nationwide Development
Peter Dale Scott
August 14, 2017
Police at Unite The Right demonstrations and counter-
demonstrations in Charlottesville, VA, August 12, 2017. Photo credit:
Karla Cote / Flickr (CC BY-ND 2.0)
In the major moral crisis growing out of Charlottesville, a
lot of attention has been paid to Trump’s lack of
leadership.
But the whole nation has a stake in a related matter, the
inaction of the local police.
The Charlottesville Police Department was not caught
unawares. It had anticipated a crowd of from 2,000 to
6,000 people, and had promised a presence with assistance
from the Virginia State Police.
Yet when violence and bloodshed broke out at
Emancipation Park, witnesses complained to the New York
Times that
“There was no police presence…. We were
watching people punch each other; people
were bleeding all the while police were
inside of barricades at the park, watching.”
A.C. Thompson, a reporter for ProPublica, saw repeated
instances of this police inertia:
At about 10 a.m. [August 12], at one of
countless such confrontations, an angry
mob of white supremacists formed a battle
line across from a group of counter-
protesters, many of them older and gray-
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haired, who had gathered near a church
parking lot. On command from their leader,
the young men charged and pummeled
their ideological foes with abandon. One
woman was hurled to the pavement, and
the blood from her bruised head was
instantly visible. Standing nearby, an
assortment of Virginia State Police troopers
and Charlottesville police wearing
protective gear watched silently from
behind an array of metal barricades — and
did nothing. It was a scene that played out
over and over in Charlottesville as law
enforcement confronted the largest public
gathering of white supremacists in
decades. We walked the streets beginning
in the early morning hours and repeatedly
witnessed instances in which authorities
took a largely laissez faire approach,
allowing white supremacists and counter-
protesters to physically battle.
This bizarre police inaction in a threatened liberal city
replicated the behavior of the Berkeley police at similar
right-wing provocations in February and April of this year.
I myself was a witness as the UC Berkeley police calmly
watched agitators throw rocks and set fires during a
February 1 campus protest against alt-right provocateur
Milo Yiannopoulos. Later,
“a UC Berkeley police sergeant who was
on duty at the protest denied allegations on
social media and other various media
outlets that police were told to stand down
and do nothing.”
Two months later, Ann Coulter followed Yiannopoulos in
a second failed attempt to speak at UC Berkeley. This time
demonstrators were forced to relocate to a downtown city
park.
There, according to an alt-right website,
supremacists “came ready and willing to
literally, physically fight for the
Constitutional rights of all Americans.”
 Nathan Damigo, a white supremacist An ensuing lawsuit law led police to reconsider their
among them “captured on video … intervention strategy.
punching a woman in the face,” has now
been “credited with helping to lead the The reluctance of police to intervene since then has been a
Charlottesville protest.” matter of revised police department policy. After the
Yiannopoulos incident, Berkeley Campus Police Chief
After the April 17 event, the Berkeley City Police, like the Margo Bennett told the Los Angeles Times that moving
UC Berkeley police, were criticized for their inaction. In officers into the melee would have created
the words of one reporter,
“a lethal, horror situation…. We have to do
“The blatant violence, which sent at exactly what we did last night: to show
least seven people to the hospital, tremendous restraint.”
including one who had been stabbed,
left some wondering: Where were the Georges Clemenceau once said famously that
police in all this?”
“War is too serious a matter to entrust to
Policing has become a highly controversial profession in military men.”
recent years, especially since the 2014 shooting of an
unarmed black man in Ferguson, Missouri. In Berkeley,
In America’s current political crisis, a similar observation
both the campus and the city police had previously been
could be made about organized public violence and police
faulted for intervening too energetically. In particular, a
officers. It is time for the public to consider how there can
2014 Black Lives Matter protest where officers used tear
be wider involvement in the obviously political decisions
gas “prompted a wave of public outrage that went on for
of how much disruption policemen should tolerate, before
months and caused the [city] department to devote
they intervene.
extensive resources to its own analysis of what happened.”
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 Franklin Graham:
'Shame On Politicians' For Blaming Trump
By Jeffrey Rodack
Monday, 14 Aug 2017 07:33 AM

Three people were killed and 35 injured after protests by

white supremacists and counter demonstrations became
violent.

"Really, this boils down to evil in people's

hearts," Graham said. "Satan is behind it
all. He wants division, he wants unrest, he
wants violence and hatred. He's the enemy
of peace and unity. I denounce bigotry and
racism of every form, be it black, white or
any other."

Franklin Graham (Ethan Hyman/The News & Observer via AP) Graham called on the nation to come together and turn to
God.
Franklin Graham, president of the Billy Graham
Evangelistic Association, sharply criticized politicians who "We are stronger together, and our
are blaming President Donald Trump for the violence in answers lie in turning to God," Graham
Charlottesville, Va. said.

Graham's comments came in a posting on his Facebook And he added:

page.
"Continue to pray for peace and for all
those impacted by Saturday's tragedies."

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 North Korea Backs Off Guam Missile-Attack Threat
Kim Jong Un Warns He Could Change His Mind If The U.S. Persists In
‘Extremely Dangerous Reckless Actions’
By Jonathan Cheng
Updated Aug. 14, 2017 9:36 P.M. ET

Mr. Trump warned Pyongyang last week that the U.S.

military was “locked and loaded” and could engulf the
North in “fire and fury,” while North Korea, through its
state media, had threatened to fire four missiles in a bid to
surround the U.S. territory of Guam in “enveloping fire.”

North Korean state media said in its report Tuesday that

Mr. Kim had made his decision not to fire on Guam after
visiting a military command post and examining a military
plan presented to him by his senior officers.

While Mr. Kim said he had decided not to launch the

attack on Guam yet, he advised the U.S. “to take into full
South Koreans Watch A Television Displaying News Broadcasts account” whether the current standoff was to its benefit.
Reporting On North Korea At A Station In Seoul On Aug. 10. Photo:
Heon-Kyun/European Pressphoto Agency
He also said it was incumbent on the U.S. to “stop at once
arrogant provocations against the DPRK and unilateral
demands and not provoke it any longer,” using an
SEOUL—North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has decided
abbreviation for the Democratic People’s Republic of
not to launch a threatened missile attack on Guam,
Korea, the formal name for North Korea.
Pyongyang’s state media reported on Tuesday, but warned
that he could change his mind “if the Yankees persist in
their extremely dangerous reckless actions.” “If the Yankees persist in their extremely dangerous
reckless actions on the Korean Peninsula and in its
vicinity, testing the self-restraint of the DPRK, the [North]
(For a deeper analysis of the issues in this story, please see
will make an important decision as it already declared,”
“North Korea Backs Off Threat to Hit Guam”)
the report quoted Mr. Kim as saying.
The report, published early Tuesday, could help dial back
Mr. Kim added that the planned launch could still be
tensions that had spiraled last week following an exchange
carried out at any moment, and said that such a strike
of threats between North Korea and U.S. President Donald
would be a “most delightful historic moment” that would
Trump.
“wring the windpipes of the Yankees and point daggers at
their necks.”
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 Robot Caused Anxiety:
Blame The Robots, Even For The Election
Posted By Mish
August 14, 2017 12:54:03
Robots are taking our jobs says the Brookings Institute.
Robots, it turns out, are congregating densely in some
places but are hardly found in others. Specifically, the map
makes clear that while industrial robots are by no means
everywhere, they are clustered heavily in a short list of
Midwestern and Southern manufacturing states, especially
the upper Midwest.
More than half of the nation’s 233,305 industrial robots are
burning welds, painting cars, assembling products,
handling materials, or packaging things in just 10
Midwestern and Southern states, led by Michigan (which
accounts for nearly 28,000 robots, 12 percent of the
nation’s total), Ohio (20,400, 8.7 percent), and Indiana
(19,400, 8.3 percent), followed closely by Tennessee. By
contrast, the entire West accounts for just 13 percent of the
nation’s industrial bots.
Focusing on the largest metros along the Interstate corridor
from Indiana to Alabama, auto-intense metro Detroit—
with more than 15,000 industrial robots in place or 8.5 per
1,000 workers—dominates the map with more than three
times the number of installed robots of other metros. Other
major manufacturing centers like Toledo, Grand Rapids,
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This causes “Robot Anxiety“, but not everywhere, just in
the Red states that swung the election to Trump.
Louisville, and Nashville also loom large. Each of these
metros saw a tripling of the number of their robots in
operation during the post-crisis auto boom between 2010
and 2015.
The uneven map of industrial robotics makes a simple
point about technology change. Automation—like so many
other economic trends—won’t occur in the same way
everywhere.
Anxiety about robots — like their physical distribution —
will also likely have its own geography. On this point,
while the nation’s anxiety about automation appears broad
and diffuse, the specific facts of robot use suggest that the
most significant social impacts of at least this form of
automation remain concentrated. Specifically, the robots
map suggests that robot and broader economic anxiety
(along with associated labor market stresses) may also max
out in the industrial Midwest—particularly in such robot-
exposed “red” states as Michigan, Wisconsin, and
Pennsylvania where the election’s outcome was
determined.
It is telling that the robot incidence in red states that voted to our analysis of the IFR data (a finding that parallels an
for President Trump in November is more than twice that earlier analysis by economist Jed Kolko of the geography
in the blue states that voted for Hillary Clinton, according of the “routine” jobs deemed vulnerable to automation).

Red State Robots

Top and Bottom 10

Those darn Russians infiltrated the US and planted enough The beehive of Russian activity is centered around Elkhart,
robots in Ohio, Michigan, Florida, and Wisconsin to steal Indiana, with an amazing 35.9 robots per 1,000 workers.
the election from Hillary.
More seriously, Trump knew how to tap worker discontent
Mercy! and so did Bernie Sanders. Hillary blames Russia.
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 The Radical Left Funded By George Soros
Planning More Racially-Fueled Attacks In Seattle,
Baltimore And Kentucky
By Geoffrey Grider
Published August 14, 2017 · Updated August 16, 2017
As we reported to you over the weekend, the radical Left
terror groups Black Lives Matter and ANTIFA are funded
by George Soros. In Virginia, they turned a white
nationalist rally into a bloodbath by inciting violence and
being the first to strike. 3 people died because of their
actions, and now they want to take their show on the road.
Here is a list-in-progress of places where you can expect
ANTIFA and Black Lives Matter to slither up to next.
The rabid Liberal Left like ANTIFA and
BLM in America are very, very violent,
and have been making death threats
against President Trump for quite
sometime now.
As we reported to you over the weekend, the radical Left
terror groups Black Lives Matter and ANTIFA are funded
by George Soros. The image at the top of this article is an
official ANTIFA protest banner. Any questions? In
Virginia, they turned a white nationalist rally into a
bloodbath by inciting violence and being the first to strike.
3 people died because of their actions, and now they want
to take their show on the road.
HERE IS A LIST-IN-PROGRESS OF
PLACES WHERE YOU CAN EXPECT
ANTIFA AND BLACK LIVES MATTER TO
SLITHER UP TO NEXT:
KENTUCKY: Lexington, Ky., Mayor Jim Gray doesn’t
have to watch footage of the violent protests in
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Charlottesville over the weekend to know how divisive
Confederate monuments can be. At family reunions and
holiday dinners his whole life, he has heard about his
great-uncles fighting each other in the Civil War’s Battle
of Shiloh. Two were on the Union’s side. One fought for
the Confederacy. Now, the 63-year-old mayor, who is
white, is bracing for more controversy — and potentially
worse, given the unrest in Charlottesville — after he
announced plans on Saturday to move two Confederate
monuments from prominent places near a Lexington
courthouse. source
SEATTLE: Police and protesters clashed during a right-
wing rally and counter-demonstration in Seattle on
Sunday, but there were no immediate reports of serious
injuries. The dueling events came one day after a woman
was killed and 19 other people were injured in a white
nationalist protest and counter-protest in Virginia. Seattle
police said in a statement that three men were arrested on
suspicion of obstruction and assault. Confiscated weapons
included ax handles, 2-by-4s and balloons containing an
“unknown liquid substance,” the statement said. source
BALTIMORE: Baltimore City Councilman Brandon
Scott is formally calling for all four of Baltimore’s
Confederate-era monuments to be torn down. In a
resolution being introduced Monday, Scott calls for “the
immediate destruction of all Confederate Monuments in
Baltimore.” In the resolution, he cites the white nationalist
rally in Charlottesville over the weekend that left three
dead. source
VIRGINIA: A Confederate heritage organization has
asked the state for permission to gather Sept. 16 at
Richmond’s Robert E. Lee monument. The rally would
come roughly a month after Saturday’s white nationalist
protest descended into violence in Charlottesville. The
Department of General Services has received a request
from Americans for Richmond Monument Preservation for
a permit to hold an event at the Lee Monument on
Monument Avenue, according to Dena Potter, an agency
spokeswoman, who said the application is under review
and has not been approved. Source
 NOT ONLY THAT, THE FAKE NEWS Guaranteed.
MEDIA IS TRYING DESPERATELY TO
ATTACH PRESIDENT TRUMP’S NAME
TO THE VIOLENCE.

The rabid Liberal Left in America is very, very violent,

and have been making death threats against President
Trump for quite sometime now. Please watch this
video with caution, it is very graphic.

Now the very same people are attempting to attach

President Trump’s name to the violence in Virginia, but
guess what? It won’t work, fake news media, keyboard
warriors will expose you each and every time.
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 Soros Astro-Turfed Signs Spotted
At Anti-Trump Rally In New York City
Jim Hoft
Aug 14th, 2017 6:32 Pm

Soros Astroturfed Signs Were Out Again At The Far

Left Protest In Front Of Trump Tower. This Sign Cost $5.

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 EXCLUSIVE: Obama Holdovers Still In Dozens Of Key
National Security Council Jobs
Richard Pollock And Ethan Barton
11:12 PM 08/14/2017
National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster listens during a daily
briefing at the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House
July 31, 2017 in Washington, DC. The U.S. government has imposed
sanctions on President of Venezuela Nicolas Maduro after the passing
of a legislation that will further consolidate his power. Alex
Wong/Getty Images.
Several Obama holdovers who led initiatives at odds with
President Donald Trump’s foreign policy remain on the
staff of National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster, The
Daily Caller News Foundation Investigative Group has
learned.
About 40 of the National Security Council’s (NSC) 250
officials — nearly one in six — are Obama administration
holdovers, according to TheDCNF’s analysis. The
holdovers include NSC directors for Korea, China, Iran,
Pakistan, Egypt, Eastern Europe, Israel-Palestine, South
America, North Africa and sub-Sahara Africa. Holdovers
also advise on weapons of mass destruction,
counterterrorism, non-proliferation, arms control, defense
policy, immigration, and homeland preparedness.
It’s been common practice in previous administrations to
retain holdovers from an outgoing administration, and
nearly all are on loan from other federal agencies. But
current and former administration officials tell TheDCNF
they are concerned that so many Obama era holdovers are
still working at NSC eight months into the Trump
administration.
“The problem is the allegiance they have to
their former administration and their
position and stances on national security,”
said Col. James Waurishuk (Ret.), a 30-
year veteran senior intelligence official and
a former NSC official. “It’s crazy when they
represent pretty much 180 degrees of what
Trump is trying to do.”
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Some blame McMaster for the holdovers.
“He has protected and coddled them,”
alleged one former NSC staffer who
requested anonymity.
Officials on the the NSC who support the president’s
agenda are on edge since McMaster dismissed Trump
faithfuls Ezra Cohen-Watnick, NSC senior director for
intelligence, and Derek Harvey, NSC’s director for the
Middle East. McMaster’s deputy, Maj. Gen. Rick Waddell,
also fired Richard Higgins, NSC director for strategic
planning.
Among the NSC holdovers is Allison Hooker, an architect
of former President Barack Obama’s Korean policy. She
remains NSC director for Korea as Trump grapples with
the worst crisis between the U.S. and North Korea since
the 1953 truce that stopped the Korean War.
Hooker joined the NSC as the director for Korea in 2014
after previously working at the Department of State
Bureau of Intelligence and Research. She visited South
Korea in September and December 2014 in a failed effort
to restart the “six-party talks” North Korea canceled in
April 2009, only three months after Obama took
office. Hooker returned to South Korea earlier this year in
advance of Trump’s fall visit to Asia.
Trump sternly denounced Obama’s Korean policy in April.
“The era of strategic patience with the
North Korean regime has failed. … Frankly,
that patience is over,”
he said in a Rose Garden press news conference with
South Korean President Moon Jae-in.
Another holdover is Fernando Cutz, McMaster’s director
for South America who previously reported to former
deputy NSC advisor Ben Rhodes, according to
administration sources. Cutz enthusiastically endorsed
Obama’s Cuba policy throughout his tenure as an NSC
staffer.
Cutz received his master’s degree in international relations
from the Clinton School of Public Service, which operates
on the grounds of the Clinton Presidential Library in Little
Rock, Ark.
On Feb. 2, 2011, Cutz moderated a Q&A session at the
school by then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. He was
the school’s class president and delivered the
commencement speech in 2010.
When Cutz was working to advance the restoration of
diplomatic relations with Cuba, the Clinton School tweeted
congratulations for his work on the issue.
Trump has imposed new sanctions on Venezuela,
including a freeze on President Nicolas Maduro’s assets,
but he has yet to take aim at Cuba, Maduro’s main support.
It’s unknown if Cutz would recommend retaliation against
Cuba.
Cuban leader Raul Castro is calling the shots in Venezuela
where thousands of Cuban intelligence officials roam in
the country, The Wall Street Journal’s Mary Anastasia
O’Grady argued in an Aug. 6, 2017, column.
“Any U.S.-led international strategy to
liberate Venezuela must begin with the
explicit recognition that Cuba is calling the
shots in Caracas,” O’Grady wrote.
Andrea Hall, another top Obama holdover and former
“direct report” to Rhodes, now serves as NSC’s senior
director for weapons of mass destruction, terrorism and
threat reduction. Hall’s primary research interest as a Ph.D.
candidate in security studies at the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology in 2003 was nuclear weapons, particularly
as they applied to Russia.
A paper she wrote while earning her doctoral degree —
“Prospects for U.S: Russian Nonproliferation
Cooperation Under Bush and Putin” — provides a
glimpse into Hall’s thinking about Russia. She blamed the
West for hurting Russian leader Vladimir Putin.
“Russia has received few tangible benefits
from its cooperation with the United
States,” Hall wrote. She claimed
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Washington was “ignoring Russian
concerns.”
“Given that Putin has received significant
criticism for his foreign policy concessions
and that he has valid concerns about the
Russian economy, Washington would be
wise to help Russia achieve some of its
goals as well in order to cement this
partnership,” she wrote.
The Nuclear Threat Institute co-sponsored her paper,
which MIT provided. Wealthy liberal donor Ted Turner
founded the institute years prior, and former Georgia
Democratic Sen. Sam Nunn co-chaired it.
Rear Adm. David Kriete is another Obama holdover. He is
now NSC’s director for strategic capabilities policy and
responsible for policy on nuclear weapons-related
issues. He was a representative to the interagency panel
that wrote Obama’s 2010 Nuclear Posture Review, which
reflected the former chief executive’s vision of a “nuclear-
free world.”
The review received withering criticism on the right, with
National Review claiming it
“undermines the basis of the deterrent
policy that has helped maintain the peace
for more than 60 years.”
Jennifer Smith started as NSC’s director for Pakistan in
March 2015, according to her LinkedIn page. Michael
Anton, an NSC spokesman said her LinkedIn page is
incorrect and she works on weapons of mass destruction.
He did not explain, however, the discrepancy.
From 2009 to 2011, she joined the Organization for the
Prohibitions of Chemical Weapons in The Hague,
which represents 192 signatories of the Chemical Weapons
Convention.
Smith later worked at the Cooperative Threat Reduction
Oversight program established by Nunn and former Sen.
Richard Lugar, an Indiana Republican, to verify the
destruction of Russian and U.S. nuclear weapons.
Russian President Vladimir Putin withdrew from the
convention in 2012. Smith remained at the threat reduction
office but switched to working on the Ebola virus. Her
NSC Korean appointment followed thereafter.
Jessica Cox, the former national coordinator for 2004
Democratic presidential candidate Gen. Wesley Clark, is
now the NSC’s Director for Arms Control. She was also
previously client manager of Grassroots Enterprise, a PR
company founded by John Hinko, who led the petition
against former President Bill Clinton’s impeachment for
Moveon.org that generated more than half a million
signatures.
Cox’s “specialties” at Grassroots included,
“fundraising, grassroots organization
particularly via the internet, building
membership and activists.”
Two NSC officials — Stephani Morrisson and Heather
King — work on domestic emergency preparedness and
appear to be passionate climate change advocates.
Other NSC holdovers appear to be non-political, such as
Joseph Gagliano, director for counterterrorism. A
.
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Gagliano paper on unconventional warfare was found in
Osama bin Laden’s home after the military raid on his
compound in Pakistan.
Holdover Robert Wilson, a career military man, is also the
director for counterterrorism. Wilson commanded a 2,400
member Special Forces group that fought in Afghanistan
and oversaw special operations against the Islamic State,
Al Qaeda and Boko Harm.
In an interview with TheDCNF, Anton called all the
holdovers “stalwarts” who faithfully follow the president’s
foreign and military policies.
 Charlottesville Staged Confrontation!
Dr. Steve R. Pieczenik, MD, Phd
August 14, 2017
Effete White Supremacist vs. Dandy Podesta-Tool
Mayor!
Charlottesville’s Michael Signer
colludes with Richard Spencer to create
a pre-planned, staged confrontation
[FBI/CIA]! The recent tragedy in
Charlottesville Va. where fully armed
Neo-Nazis and White Supremacists
marched in unison to protest the
withdrawal of the Robert E. Lee statue.
This protest was planned months ago
(see recent posts).
The fact that these individuals shouted ‘racist’ and ‘anti-
Semitic’ slurs belied one simple fact. Like any movement
which supposedly represents so-called American
Nationalism or pro-Trump sentiments, Richard Spencer’s
influence was quite apparent to me. Spencer’s cohort is the
has been Grand Wizard of the KKK David Duke. By now,
David has been on the payroll of the FBI and several other
federal organizations for decades.
What caught my attention in the recent blusterous moment
of faux-history was that the two antagonists facing off in
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this Civil War Wrestlemania have almost identical
backgrounds! Let me be more specific. This
“confrontation” is a highly staged event by two men who
have rapacious political ambitions but are seemingly at
opposite ends of the political spectrum. In reality, these
two men are far more similar than different. Both are born
of wealth. Each is a spoiled, effete intellectual who has
never served our country other than reaching into the
bowels of local and national politics in order to promote
their narcissism.
Richard Spencer, the supposed intellectual backbone of a
gang of pro-Nazi losers, was born in the highly liberal
town of Boston, Mass. Get this: He was born to the
exceedingly wealthy, liberal ophthalmologist Dr. Rand
Spencer MD and Sherry Dickenhorst, the heiress to cotton
farms in Louisiana. No fool be he! Spencer went on to the
University of Virginia studying English Literature and
Music where he received High Distinctions. Does this
sound like a manly type of Nazi He-Man?
Spencer has daddy issues and needed to prove that he was
smarter than his highly professional father. So Spencer
then went on to the University of Chicago where this ‘she-
man’ received a M.A. in Humanities.[All Wikipedia]. Not
content to be completely self-feminized, he traveled to
Vienna International Summer University. Did he want to
waltz or stroll through the Vienna Woods on a leisurely
day?
We have no evidence that he did anything that would make
him a representative of the white-working class: working
in construction, building a company, or serving in our
military. God forbid! It was too much bother! Still feeling
inadequate, Spencer we went on to get another degree at
the University of Chicago to study Modern European
Intellectual History. He furthered his worthless life by
‘pursuing a life of thought [crime]’. Whatever that means?
Next, Spencer fled to Whitefish, Montana because he
could not find a real job like the working class deplorables
that he supposedly represents. BTW, WhiteFish is a tony,
antique shop laden very expensive place to fish but nothing
is off the table when it comes to luxury for our man
Spencer. At the same time, he would commute to another
house in Arlington, Va. [also expensive].
Spencer then married and divorced a Russian-American
wife, Nina Kouprianova, a political analyst of
contemporary Russian and U. S. Foreign Policy. What do
you want to make a bet that she and he are connected to
the [CIA]?

On the other side of the political spectrum, we have an

equally laissez –faire, useless intellectual named Michael
Signer. Interesting that Signer worked for John Podesta the
Molesta and was in Obama’s State Department Transition
Team. Hmmm.

There is no question that each man was working for some

federal agency [CIA, FBI], coordinating their activities
with their respective political parties [Rep./Dems.], always
maintaining hidden agendas writ in covert languages.

Americans will not be duped into thinking that this is more

This prissy she-man just like Spencer lived in Arlington
Va. and graduated Magnum Cum Laude from Princeton
University in political science. Just like Spencer, he went
on to the University of California, Berkley and received
his law degree from guess where? Yes, the University of
Virginia Law School. So both opponents went to the same
school and lived in the same places?
than a dangerous ‘theater of the absurd.’ It’s time for our
military officers surrounding Trump to step in and demand
some sense of law and order in this country without any
prejudice or negligence.
Any further contrived future confrontations should be
eliminated or pre-empted by the Trump Administration.
Our present military should eliminate any form of
Agitation Propaganda [CIA/FBI-agit-prop].

Coincidences?

Nothing in psychological profiling/ intelligence/ HUMINT

is ever accidental. Signer went on to found the UVA
Coalition for Progress on Race. He taught a course at
Washington D.C.’s Politics and Prose, a very liberal
bookstore that refused to carry any of my Tom Clancy
novels. Oh yeah that’s the same bookstore that’s down the
block from Comet Ping Pong and Besta Pizza. Remember
what happened there….

Friedrich Nietzsche, the German philosopher wrote the

following:

“Whoever fights monsters should see to

it that in the process he does not
become a monster. And if you gaze long
enough into an abyss, the abyss will
gaze back into you.”
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 Charlottesville
Paul Craig Roberts
August 14, 2017
Listening to NPR this morning confirmed what I already
knew. Charlottesville is being turned into another nail in
President Trump’s coffin.
NPR had no interest whatsoever in reporting the actual
facts about what had occurred in Charlottesville. The
several “interviews” with the like-minded were
orchestrated to produce the desired propaganda result:
It was all Trump’s fault.
It was Trump’s fault for many reasons. He had stirred up
White Supremacists and Nazis by appealing during the
presidential election campaign to their supremacist views
with his slogan “America first.”
Of course, what Trump means by “America first,” is
precisely what the voters understood him to mean—the
interest of the broad American public should come before
trade deals that serve the interests of other countries and
the narrow profit interests of global corporations.
However, the NPR propagandists put
words in Trump’s mouth and twisted the
meaning of the slogan to be “White
America Comes First.”
In other words, “America first” according to NPR is code
language to white supremacists to take advantage of the
electoral college and elect a leader over the popular vote of
the heavy population densities in the narrow geographical
areas that comprise the northeast and west coasts, the
centers of moral rot. Thus, Trump was the candidate of
white supremacists and, thereby, illegitimate.
NPR next conveyed the message that Trump proved he
was the Nazis’ candidate when he criticized both sides for
the trouble in Charlottesville. NPR used its orchestrated
interviews to place all blame for violence on the group that
had a permit for their rally. According to NPR, the group
that had no permit and formed in order to protest the rally
consisted entirely of white hats defending America from
free speech from alleged Nazis and racists.
There is no doubt that a rally of what is called the “alt-
right” will pull into itself all sorts of extremists and that the
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cause of the rally, apparently defending a statue of Robert
E. Lee from demolition or perhaps simply gaining
attention for the organizers, was done harm by the young,
apparently unbalanced, man who drove a car into counter-
marchers, after the permitted rally had ended. The
nonsensical element of this act has convinced some
Americans that the entire scene was an orchestration by the
deep state as a weapon against Trump and civil liberty.
Charlottesville has many aspects that are ignored by NPR
and the rest of the presstitutes.
For example, how does the
Bush/Cheney/Obama/neoconservative
assertion that Americans are the
“exceptional people” whose country is the
“indispensable country” differ from Trump’s
proclamation of “America first”?
No one among the liberal/progressive/left
was disturbed when Obama proclaimed to
the world that Americans are the
exceptional, indispensable people. Doesn’t
Obama use much clearer language that
puts America first? If Americans are
exceptional, everyone else is
unexceptional. If Americans are
indispensable, everyone else is
dispensable.
What is the difference? One difference is that Obama was
elected by the good people, the non-racist, non-misogynist,
non-white-supremacist people, and Trump was elected by
“the deplorables,” to use Hillary’s term. Little wonder she
lost, having dismissed everyone between the two coasts as
“deplorables.” But she didn’t lose, right? Putin and Trump
conspired to steal the election from her. Trump is
illegitimate and therefore must be driven out of office. He
is doubly illegitimate because white heterosexual males
elected him. This bogus charge despite the fact that Hillary
got 2 million less votes from women than did Obama.
Either the 2 million women didn’t vote or they voted for
Trump.
The other difference is that Trump’s use of “America first”
refers to the loss of millions of American middle class jobs
and tax base for former manufacturing cities and states,
whereas the Bush/Cheney/Obama/neoconservative use of
“exceptional, indispensable America” refers to
Washington’s right to bomb other peoples into the stone
age for not complying with Washington’s orders.
The campaign to drive Trump out of office has been going
on 24/7 since Trump confounded the pundits and won the
election. For the liberal/progressive/left Trump is the
enemy against whom they are conducting war, and as in
war, truth is crowded out by propaganda. The
liberal/progressive/left gets away with this abuse of news
reporting because Trump’s intent to reduce tensions with
Russia is seen as threats to the income and power of the
military/security complex and the hegemonic ideology of
the neoconservatives. Powerful material interests,
ideology, and media together comprise a very strong force
against which a mere president hasn’t a chance.
Few Americans understand the fundamental
transformation of their politics and society since the 1960s
when the Civil Rights Act was stood on its head by EEOC
compliance chief Alfred W. Bloomrosen. The Civil Rights
Act explicitly prohibited racial and gender quotas as
methods to combat “discrimination,” which was mainly a
product of history rather than of the motivations of white
males. But it is difficult to make history a villain, and
social engineering benefits from having a villain to
overcome. Thus was the foundation of Identity Politics
laid.
The initial stage of the new politics was that quotas
established privilege for “preferred minorities,” and
preference began prevailing over merit. Over the decades
white males have slowly but surely experienced
discrimination in university admissions, hiring,
promotions, university appointments, and in their ability to
exercise free speech. Remember, only a few days ago a
senior male engineer at Google was fired because he
expressed a truthful fact—men and women have different
traits—that is unacceptable to feminists.
Perhaps somewhere at some time a woman or a black has
been fired for saying something unacceptable to a white
male, but I know of no such case. Indeed, it is common
parlance that white heterosexual males are racists, sexists,
and homophobic. This is the accepted language of Identity
Politics. Few of us are brave enough to challenge it.
The liberal/progressive/left along with the media has
abandoned the working class for Identity Politics. Identity
Politics teaches that women, blacks, and homosexuals are
all victims of white heterosexual males who are
characterized as the victimizer class, that is, those who
victimize others.
The doctrine delegitimizes white
heterosexual males in the same way that
Nazi doctrine delegitimizes Jews and
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communist doctrine delegitimizes
capitalists. There is no difference.
Initially, white males, such as the University of Virginia
history professor on NPR today who obligingly demonized
the white males who do not accept their second class
status, survive by mouthing Identity Politics and crawling
on their knees. But this is a temporary respite. For Identity
Politics the only acceptable white heterosexual males are
those who admit their gender and sexual preference guilt
and accept their punishment for being the victimizers of
women, blacks, and homosexuals.
In 1995 in our book, The New Color Line, How Quotas
and Privilege Destroy Democracy, Larry Stratton and I
describe how one EEOC bureaucrat by ignoring the
statutory language of the Civil Rights Act, legislation the
intent of which was to enforce equality before the law,
reintroduced legalized discrimination into US law, thus
beginning the process of delegitimizing the white male.
Today some would turn their backs on this fact, not
because it is invalid but because it is politically incorrect.
When our book was published 22 years ago, the major
media endorsed our argument:
“A forceful and convincing case . . . vividly
dramatic.” — New York Times Book
Review
“There are important lessons to learn . . .
not least how good intentions can go badly
awry.” — The Wall Street Journal
“Roberts and Stratton make a strong case
that the civil rights legislation of the 1960s
has been distorted beyond recognition.” —
The Washington Post
The consequence of quotas wasn’t obvious at first, and
there were claims that the quotas were temporary, but
today the consequence is obvious. Heterosexual white
males are deplorables. Today on NPR one male said that
the views of white males who defend both themselves and
dead white males from attacks should not be allowed a
voice in American politics.
The liberal/progressive/left asserts that everyone knows
that Robert E. Lee was an evil racist who fought for
slavery and everyone who wants to protect his statue is
obviously the same. Such people deserve no voice, no
vote. They must be excluded from public discussion.
Imagine saying this about any other group, especially
women, blacks, and homosexuals. How is it possible for
the liberal/progressive/left to really believe that they are
oppressed by powerful white male heterosexuals when
they can demonize white males at will and prevent any
backtalk?
If white males are so powerful, how can they be so easily
fired by feminist thought control czars for “expressing
harmful gender stereotypes.” Harmful to who? How
harmful is getting fired?
As Faith Goldy and Stefan Molyneux predict
http://www.naturalnews.com/2017-08-12-best-
explanation-yet-of-what-happened-in-charlottesville-
stefan-molyneux-and-faith-goldy-report-the-truth-you-
wont-hear-in-the-media.html ,
white males have had enough of their demonization and
the demonization of our country’s heros. They see the
writing on the wall and are organizing to defend
themselves.
As anti-white male propaganda is apparently the only
mental activity of which the liberal/progressive/left is
capable, Faith Goldy and Stefan Molyneux are probably
correct that America, broken into pieces by Identity
Politics, is heading into civil war.
I wonder which side will control the nukes and bio-
chemical weapons.
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If the white heterosexual males lose, I wonder who will
protect the white women. Are they destined for the same
rape and butchery as befell German women from the
Russians and Americans once the Wehrmacht
surrendered?
Of course, this is an impermissible question.
The liberal/progressive/left are incapable of understanding
that by demonizing white heterosexual males they are
demonizing all whites and, thereby, themselves.
They should go ask the liberal whites in Rhodesia how
well they are faring in Zimbabwe under Robert Mugabe.
They should ask South African whites how secure they
believe themselves to be now that they have turned over
power and a second black political party has risen, forcing
political competition between black politicians into which
black party hates whites the most.
These also are impermissible questions.
Identity Politics always leads to violence, and Americans
will not be spared.
 Trump Tells Fox He's
Considering Pardon For
'Sheriff Joe' Arpaio
By Robin Eberhardt
08/14/17 01:48 PM EDT
President Trump told Fox News he is “seriously
considering” a pardon for Joe Arpaio, the controversial
former sheriff of Maricopa Country, Ariz.
Arpaio was found guilty of criminal contempt last month
after he was ordered to stop racially profiling Latinos in
his Maricopa County office.
“I am seriously considering a pardon for
Sheriff Arpaio,” Trump told Fox News at his
Bedminster, N.J., golf club, where he had
been staying during a vacation.
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“He has done a lot in the fight against
illegal immigration. He’s a great American
patriot and I hate to see what has
happened to him.”
Arpaio has been an outspoken opponent of illegal
immigration and used aggressive tactics as sheriff that
landed him in court, including pulling over Latinos that he
suspected were in the country illegally.
The former sheriff endorsed Trump last year and appeared
with him on the campaign trail.
Trump's reported comments, made on Sunday, came at a
time when he was taking heat for not explicitly
condemning white supremacists for the violence at a rally
in Charlottesville that left one woman dead and at least 19
people injured.
The president came out more forcefully
against the white supremacist groups on
Monday, declaring that "racism is evil."
 Justice Department Wants Information
On People Who Visited Anti-Trump Website
By Kelly Cohen
Aug 14, 2017, 11:52 PM
The Department of Justice has requested the information
of more than 1 million visitors to an anti-Trump website,
according to the Los Angeles-based web hosting provider.
DreamHost said in blog post Monday it had been working
with the Justice Department and was fighting the
"unfocused" and "unlawful" request.
"The request from the [Justice Department]
demands that DreamHost hand over 1.3
million visitor IP addresses — in addition to
contact information, email content, and
photos of thousands of people — in an
effort to determine who simply visited the
website. That information could be used to
identify any individuals who used this site
to exercise and express political speech
protected under the Constitution's First
Amendment. That should be enough to set
alarm bells off in anyone's mind,"
DreamHost said in Monday's post. The
italics used in the statement were used by
DreamHost.
The website helped to coordinate demonstrations against
President Trump in Washington, D.C., on Inauguration
Day in January.
DreamHost said the website at the "center" of the Justice
Department's request is "all files" related to disruptj20.org.
DreamHost said the Justice Department filed a motion in
late July in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia
asking for an order to compel it to produce the records.
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A July 12 warrant issued by the Superior Court and
published by DreamHost asks for "names, addresses,
telephone numbers and other identifiers, e-mail addresses,
business information, the length of service (including start
date), means and source of payment for services (including
any credit card or bank account number), and information
about any domain name registration" — all information
that could be used to identify website subscribers.
The company's general counsel, Chris Ghazarian, has filed
a legal argument in opposition to the warrant.
A hearing is scheduled in Washington before District of
Columbia Superior Court Judge Lynn Leibovitz on Friday
about the information request.
Leibovitz is handling all criminal cases stemming from
Inauguration Day, which includes the nearly 200 people
indicted on felony rioting charges.
"In essence, the search warrant not only
aims to identify the political dissidents of
the current administration, but attempts to
identify and understand what content each
of these dissidents viewed on the website.
The search warrant also includes a
demand that DreamHost disclose the
content of all e-mail inquiries and
comments submitted from numerous
private e-mail accounts and prompted by
the website, all through a single sweeping
warrant," Ghazarian wrote in the legal
argument.
The U.S. Attorney's office in D.C. could not be
immediately reached for comment.
 "Independent Rocket Scientists"
Claim North Korea's Nuclear Missile Claims Are A Hoax
Authored By James Holbrooks Via Theantimedia.Org,
Aug 14, 2017 8:20 PM

President Donald Trump continued his blustery North
Korea rhetoric on Friday, tweeting that the U.S. military
was “locked and loaded” and later telling reporters that
Kim Jong-un had better not make any “overt
threats” against the United States.
“This man will not get away with what
he is doing,” Trump told reporters from his
golf club in New Jersey, adding that if Kim
makes a move against the U.S. or its
allies “he will truly regret it and he will
regret it fast.”
titled “North Korea’s ‘not quite’ ICBM
can’t hit the lower 48 states,”
by highlighting that the July 3 launch was “trumpeted by
the US mainstream press” as proof that the United States
was vulnerable to an attack from North Korea.
But the Western press jumped the gun, the team argues in
their paper:
“The rocket carried a reduced payload
and, therefore, was able to reach a
much higher altitude than would have
been possible if it had instead carried
the weight associated with the type of
first-generation atomic bomb North
Korea might possess.

In the midst of this spike in tension between the United

States and the Hermit Kingdom, a team of independent
rocket experts published a paper Friday asserting that
North Korea’s two July test firings of supposed
intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) were, in
fact, “a carefully choreographed deception by North
Korea to create a false impression” that the country has
missiles capable of striking the continental U.S.

In other words, it was “a hoax,” as one

of the experts explained to Newsweek.
The team consisted of Theodore Postol, professor of
science, technology, and national security policy at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and German
missile engineers Markus Schiller and Robert Schmucker
of Schmucker Technologie. Postol has
previously disputed official reports on the parties
responsible for chemical weapons attacks in Syria.
They opened their paper, published in
the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and
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Experts quoted by the press apparently
assumed that the rocket had carried a
payload large enough to simulate the
weight of such an atomic bomb, in the
process incorrectly assigning a near-ICBM
status to a rocket that was in reality far less
capable.”
All these assumptions worked out great for the Kim
regime, the researchers write:
“From the point of view of North Korean
political leadership, the general reaction
to the July 4 and July 28 launches could
 not have been better. The world
suddenly believed that the North
Koreans had an ICBM that could reach
the West Coast of the United States and
beyond.”

But these beliefs aren’t based in truth, Postol and his

colleagues write:

“In reality, the North Korean rocket fired

twice last month — the Hwasong-14 —
is a ‘sub-level’ ICBM that will not be able
to deliver nuclear warheads to the
continental United States.”
The analysts concluded that North
Korea is likely “years away from
completion” of a nuclear-tipped missile
that could reach the continental United
States.

(The team’s full report, containing the details of their

scientific methods, can be found starting on next page.)

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 North Korea’s “Not Quite”
ICBM Can’t Hit The Lower 48 States
Theodore A. Postolmarkus Schiller Robert Schmucker
11 August 2017
On July 3, 2017, while Americans were preparing for the
241st celebration of the Declaration of Independence, a
lone rocket rose from North Korea on a near-vertical
trajectory. After five to six minutes of powered flight, the
second stage of the missile shut down and coasted to an
altitude of about 2,720 kilometers. It then fell back to
Earth, reentering the atmosphere above the Sea of Japan
some 900 kilometers to the east of where it had launched.
The rocket’s upper stage coasted in freefall for about 32
minutes, and the overall time-of-flight, from launch to
atmospheric reentry, was about 37 minutes. The launch
occurred at 8:39 p.m., United States’ Eastern time. Within
hours, the news of the launch was trumpeted by the US
mainstream press: North Korea had flown an
intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), a missile that
could carry nuclear warheads to Anchorage, Alaska, and to
the continental United States as well!
But the Western press apparently did not know one crucial
fact: The rocket carried a reduced payload and, therefore,
was able to reach a much higher altitude than would have
been possible if it had instead carried the weight associated
with the type of first-generation atomic bomb North Korea
might possess. Experts quoted by the press apparently
assumed that the rocket had carried a payload large enough
to simulate the weight of such an atomic bomb, in the
process incorrectly assigning a near-ICBM status to a
rocket that was in reality far less capable.
Only three and a half weeks later, on July 28, there was a
second launch of the same type of missile, this time at
night, Korean time. The rocket flew approximately the
same powered flight trajectory that it had on July 3 (or July
4 in North Korea), this time, however, reaching a higher
altitude—a reported 3,725 kilometers. This longer flight
path led to yet more unwarranted conclusions that the
continental United States was now directly under threat of
nuclear attack by North Korea. Actually, however, in this
second case, by our calculations, the second stage of the
so-called ICBM carried an even smaller payload and
tumbled into the atmosphere at night over the Sea of Japan.
The spectacular night-reentry of the rocket—what was
almost certainly the heavy front-end of the nearly empty
upper stage—created an impressive meteoric display that
some experts mistook for the breakup of a failed warhead
reentry vehicle.
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From the point of view of North Korean political
leadership, the general reaction to the July 4 and July 28
launches could not have been better. The world suddenly
believed that the North Koreans had an ICBM that could
reach the West Coast of the United States and beyond. But
calculations we have made—based on detailed study of the
type and size of the rocket motors used, the flight times of
the stages of the rockets, the propellant likely used, and
other technical factors—indicate that these rockets actually
carried very small payloads that were nowhere near the
weight of a nuclear warhead of the type North Korea could
have, or could eventually have. These small payloads
allowed the rockets to be lofted to far higher altitudes than
they would have if loaded with a much-heavier warhead,
creating the impression that North Korea was on the cusp
of achieving ICBM capability.
In reality, the North Korean rocket fired twice last
month—the Hwasong-14—is a “sub-level” ICBM that will
not be able to deliver nuclear warheads to the continental
United States. Our analysis shows that the current variant
of the Hwasong-14 may not even be capable of delivering
a first-generation nuclear warhead to Anchorage, Alaska,
although such a possibility cannot be categorically ruled
out. But even if North Korea is now capable of fabricating
a relatively light-weight, “miniaturized” atomic bomb that
can survive the extreme reentry environments of long-
range rocket delivery, it will, with certainty, not be able to
deliver such an atomic bomb to the lower 48 states of the
United States with the rocket tested on July 3 and July 28.
First, the bottom line. In each of the two North Korean
tests in July, the rockets were fired on a trajectory that sent
them to high altitudes; on these trajectories, the rockets
travelled relatively short horizontal distances. But after the
tests, analysts projected the maximum range the rockets
could have traveled by assuming that they could have been
placed on trajectories that would result in a maximum
achievable range, rather than a maximum achievable
altitude. For example, the 2,720-kilometer altitude
achieved by the July 3 rocket was determined by its
burnout speed. If it is assumed that the rocket could
achieve roughly the same burnout speed on a trajectory
that is shaped for maximum range, it would be sufficient to
carry the payload to Anchorage, Alaska.
In the case of the July 28 test, the same rocket achieved a
higher burnout speed and a higher altitude—about 3,725
kilometers. If it were again assumed that the rocket’s
trajectory is shaped for maximum range instead of
maximum altitude, the new higher burnout speed would be
able to carry the payload to Seattle, Washington.
Figure 1 below shows the trajectories flown on July 4 and
July 28 that were misinterpreted as tests of a North Korean
rocket capable of delivering atomic bombs to the
continental United States.
Bulletin-Hwasong-Article-Figure-1.jpg
Figure 1. The highly lofted rocket trajectories for the burnout speeds
achieved in the July 4 and the July 28 tests are shown on the left side of
the figure. The center and right side of the figure show alternative
rocket trajectories that could instead have been flown with loft angles
optimized for maximum range instead of for maximum altitude.
One question is not answered by this basic kinematic study
of the July 4 and July 28 tests: How did the rocket achieve
its burnout speed? That’s to say, what kind of rocket
motors did it need to achieve the resulting burnout speed,
what was the rocket’s launch weight, and most, important,
what was the payload-weight carried by the rocket?
Figure 2 shows a summary of our estimates of the range
versus the weight of atomic bomb that might be carried by
a Hwasong-14 missile, derived from our technical analysis
of the Hwasong-14’s weight and propulsive capabilities
and the likely weight of a North Korean nuclear warhead.
Bulletin-Hwasong-Article-Figure-2.jpg
The analysis results summarized in the graph are for two
different “designs” of the Hwasong-14.
The first design uses published information about the
powered flight time of the second stages of the rockets and
is reflected by the red curves in Figure 2. Those two curves
correspond to reported second-stage flight times of 224
and 233 seconds for the two rocket tests. We have received
two independent confirmations of these published flight
times from sources that we believe to be reliable. As those
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curves show, if the North Koreans have achieved the
capability of creating a missile warhead as light-weight as
those used by the Chinese and Pakistani militaries—no
small feat for a country with means as limited as North
Korea’s—the two missiles fired in July could carry that
missile roughly 6,000 kilometers, approximately the
distance to Anchorage, Alaska. The missiles simply could
not carry such a warhead to the lower 48 states.
Figure 2.
The second design—reflected by the blue curves in Figure
2—assumes that the North Koreans actually use more
efficient rocket motors than are indicated by the
information published in major media about the powered
flight trajectory of the second upper stage. In this second
design, we assumed that the rocket’s upper stage would be
powered by rocket motors similar to those with
characteristics demonstrated in the top stages of the North
Korean Unha-3 and the Iranian Safir Satellite Launch
Vehicle (SLV). We believe North Korea is capable of
building such a variant of the Hwasong-14, and that
variant could have the capability to deliver a first-
generation weaponized North Korean atomic bomb to
Anchorage, Alaska, and slightly beyond.
But neither variant of the Hwasong-14 we have studied
could carry a first-generation weaponized North Korean
atomic bomb to any part of the continental United States
beyond Alaska.
Atomic bomb weights—without the hype. At this time,
no one outside of North Korea has solid information about
the characteristics of North Korea’s nuclear weapons
designs—especially about whether or not the weapons that
have been tested are cumbersome laboratory devices or
readily militarized designs that could be put into bombs or
carried on ballistic missiles. This information is simply not
available at this time.
We are therefore left to speculate based on intelligence
information that we have from other sources and on an
understanding of the very significant technical problems of
design and implementation that must be solved to be able
to build and deliver atomic bombs by ICBM.
There is general information about an atomic bomb design
that was obtained by Pakistan from China, and by Libya
from Pakistan. A.Q. Khan, a Pakistani known to have
trafficked equipment and information that would facilitate
the building of atomic bombs, is reported to have sold that
design to Libya. Khan is known to have sold uranium
enrichment gas-centrifuge technology to North Korea; it is
very likely he also shared atomic bomb design information
similar to what he sold Libya.
It is reported that the bomb design Khan sold to Libya and
possibly to North Korea would produce a warhead that
weighed about 500 kilograms and yielded about 10
kilotons, if properly implemented. All of the original
design information from China was for devices that were
aimed at assembling uranium 235 cores. This information
could have been modified and used by North Korea to
implement similar implosion devices to instead assemble
plutonium 239 cores. However, these devices would have
had to be developed and modified from the original
designs.
This information is consistent with the seismic data from
Pakistan’s nuclear tests in 1998, which suggest that the
yield of atomic bombs tested by Pakistan is between 10
and 15 kilotons. It is also consistent with the seismic data
from North Korea’s nuclear tests, which indicate
maximum explosive yields of perhaps 10 to 20 kilotons.
North Korea has publicly displayed what it claims to be a
standardized atomic bomb that dimensional analysis
indicates could weigh as little as 400 kilograms. The
device displayed by North Korea is clearly a spherical
implosion design—seemingly based on the same design
concept that Khan sold to Libya and used by Pakistan. (If
North Korea had instead sought to impress the outside
world by displaying an atomic bomb that was shaped
somewhat like an egg, it could have indicated an entirely
different and far more advanced design.) But the payload
of a missile consists of more than a warhead. Because of
the extreme environments created by long-range missile
reentry to the atmosphere—including temperatures in the
thousands of degrees and high deceleration forces—we
have assumed that 25 percent of the payload-weight of
these North Korean rockets would have to be given over to
a heat shield and the structure needed to hold an atomic
bomb in place during deceleration. This is an intentional
underestimate of the weight of the warhead assembly, to
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make our assessment of the Hwasong-14’s capabilities as
favorable to North Korean capabilities as possible.
In this extremely conservative estimate, and as a result of a
review of the very sketchy information about nuclear
weapons design information that has leaked from China to
Pakistan and beyond, we think that a reasonable guess for
the minimum weight of an advanced first-generation
weaponized North Korean atomic bomb that is able to
survive the extreme environments associated with ICBM
delivery could be as low as 500 to 600 kilograms.
In our view, the engineering challenges of implementing a
nuclear weapon are substantial and highly dependent on
material resources, national experience, and the skill and
depth of knowledge of scientists, engineers, and
technicians involved at every level of the enterprise. As
such, it cannot be ruled out that a North Korean
weaponized device could weigh considerably more than
600 kilograms or less than 500 kilograms, but we believe it
is overwhelmingly likely that it would not weigh less than
500.
Our estimates show that the Hwasong-14, using the
publicly reported burn times for the upper rocket stage,
could deliver a nuclear warhead only as far as Anchorage,
Alaska if the warhead weighed 500 kilograms to 550
kilograms. To reach Seattle, the warhead would have to be
substantially smaller, weighing no more than 300 kilos.
We believe that an advanced North Korean weaponized
atomic bomb would be unlikely to weigh less than 500 to
600 kilograms. So it is entirely possible that this variant of
the Hwasong-14 will not be able to deliver an atomic
bomb to Anchorage, Alaska.
If the upper stage of the Hwasong-14 were instead fitted
with the more capable vernier motors from the SS-N-6
submarine launched ballistic missile (known in Russia as
the R-27), it could potentially deliver an atomic bomb to
Anchorage, if the bomb weighed less than between 650
and 750 kg. The same upgraded variant of the Hwasong-14
could only deliver an atomic bomb to Seattle if the bomb
weighed less than between 400 and 450 kg.
Since it is extremely unlikely that a first-generation
weaponized North Korean atomic bomb would weigh
substantially less than 500 kilograms, we conclude that
neither variant of the Hwasong-14 missile could deliver a
first-generation North Korean atomic bomb to the
continental United States.
We emphasize at this point that advances in rocketry
demonstrated by North Korea in the Hwasong-14 are
significant, and although the Hwasong-14 is not an
immediate threat to the continental United States, variants
that are almost certainly now under development, but
probably years away from completion, will eventually
become missiles with sufficient payloads to deliver atomic
bombs to the continental United States.
Performance assessment of the Hwasong-14.
Like any missile system, the actual lifting and range
capability of the Hwasong-14 depends on many technical
details. Among these are the type of fuel burned by the
missile, the efficiency of its rocket motors, the total
amount of propellant carried in each stage, the weight of
the missile’s airframe, and the weight of different
components, including rocket motors, plumbing, guidance
and control systems, and the like.
In the case of the Hwasong-14, almost all of the critical
parameters that ultimately determine the rocket’s ability to
carry a payload-weight to a given range can be deduced
from photographs, videos of its initial powered flight,
engineering knowledge of rocket systems, and specific
other engineering information that can be determined by
other observations of the missile and its motor
components.
phenomenon known among rocket engineers as
“gravitational losses” during powered flight. To perhaps
oversimplify the physics involved, the longer the rocket
motor burns against the gravitational pull of the Earth, the
less efficiently it accelerates its payload to a final speed.
But two articles in The Diplomat magazine have included
flight times for the second stages of the rockets that North
Korea launched in July. Two independent sources have
confirmed those times to us as accurate.
Figure 3 shows photographs extracted from North Korean
videos of the launches of the Hwasong-14 missile during
the morning of July 4 (in North Korea; the evening of July
3 in the United States) and during the night-launch on July
28. Careful examination shows that the first stage of the
Hwasong-14 is powered by a large single rocket motor
supported by 4 small “vernier” motors that are used to
change the direction of the rocket during powered flight
and to maintain its vertical stability during its initial lift-off
and vertical acceleration. North Korea has also released
videos of tests of the Hwasong-14 rocket motor (shown
firing on a test stand in Figure 4).

For example, the performance characteristics of the main Bulletin-Hwasong-Article-Figure-3A.jpg

rocket motor that powers the first stage are well known.
This is in part because the rocket motor has been
unambiguously identified as derived from components of a
well-known family of Russian rocket motors. The type of
propellant used by this family of motors is also known—
unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine (UDMH) and nitrogen
tetroxide (NTO), a highly energetic propellant combination
used extensively in Russian rocket systems.

The dimensions of the Hwasong-14 are readily determined

from photographs of the missile and its length, as
measured relative to the known length of the Chinese-
made vehicle that carries it. Since the density of the
propellant is known, and the dimensions of the rocket
stages and the functions of the different sections of the
rocket stages are easily identified, very good estimates of
the weights of the stages, airframes and rocket motors can
be deduced from simple volumetric analysis and
knowledge of design features. Although many of the
refined details of the rocket may not be known, the general
information of the type described above provides quite
good estimates of how well the rocket will perform.

These data lead to an overall weight estimate of roughly 37

metric tons for the Hwasong-14. The known characteristics
of the main first-stage rocket motor, and the observed rate
of acceleration of the rocket at launch, result in a highly
constrained check on the missile model we created to
estimate its overall range and payload performance.

One critical parameter of the Hwasong-14 is not yet known

Figure 3.
with certainty: the exact powered flight time of the second
stage. This parameter is an important factor in determining
the overall performance of the Hwasong-14, due to a
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We have identified this rocket motor as a being derived
from a family of Russian rocket motors known as the RD-
250 or RD-251. The original motors used six thrust
chambers fed by three turbo pumps to together generate
roughly about 240 tons (about 530,000 pounds) of lift.
The North Koreans probably obtained this motor and many
others as part of a vast shipment of rocket components to
North Korea that occurred in the late 1980s and early
1990s during the simultaneous disintegration of the
national economy and political system of the Soviet
Union. Until recently, almost all of the liquid-propellant
motors seen in North Korea’s rockets could be traced back
to the Makayev Institute, a vast and highly capable
organization that was responsible for the design of all
types of Soviet ballistic missiles. Because of the prominent
role of Makayev in Soviet ballistic missile production, this
institute would have had large numbers of rocket motors in
storage that were used to build various models of SCUDs
and the SS-N-6 submarine-launched ballistic missile (aka
R-27) used on Russian Yankee class submarines.
The newest Russian rocket motor we have identified in the
North Korean arsenal, derived from the RD-250/251 and
used in the Hwasong-14, is not from the Makayev
Institute, but from an entirely different major rocket motor
manufacturer, NPO Energomash, which supported the
OKB-456 Design Bureau in the Soviet Union. This rocket
motor was associated with rocket and space launch
vehicles produced in Ukraine. The presence of RD-
250/251 rocket components in a new North Korean rocket
raises new and potentially ominous questions about the
variety and extent to which Soviet rocket motors might
have been obtained by North Korea during the collapse of
the Soviet Union.
Bulletin-Hwasong-Article-Figure-4.jpg
Figure 4.
The adaptation that North Korean engineers have worked,
using components from the powerful RD 250/251 rocket
motor, can be appreciated by examining Figure 5. The
original RD 250/251 was a rocket motor that consisted of
six thrust chambers, driven by three powerful turbo pumps.
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This rocket engine can be seen in the image on the left in
figure 5.
Each of the three turbo pumps in the original rocket engine
was nested between two thrust chambers, at a height below
the combustion chamber and above the gas exhaust nozzle
of each thrust chamber. This clever design made it possible
to shorten the length of the rocket motor compartment and
to reduce the overall length of the first stage of a rocket.
The image on the right in figure 5 is an enlargement taken
from Figure 4, a photo of the Hwasong-14 rocket motor
firing on a test stand. The outline of the motor’s thrust
chamber is shown in a silhouette overlay and the location
of the turbopump next to the single thrust chamber is
shown to be exactly at the height of the turbopump in the
RD 250/251 motor complex. It is clear that the final rocket
motor mounted in the Hwasong-14 has this single
powerful turbopump feeding propellant to both the main
rocket motor and the four smaller vernier motors used to
control the direction of the missile.
The design indicates a well-thought-out approach to a
completely new missile that was not seen in public until
the launch of the Hwasong-12, which was essentially a test
aimed at proving the functionality of the first stage of the
two-stage Hwasong-14. It is a remarkable achievement in
itself that North Korea has been able to master the use of
these components well enough to be able to adapt them to
their special purposes.
We have determined that the approximate properties of the
Hwasong-14 missile, with a second stage upgraded with
more capable vernier motors from the Russian R-27
missile, will be as follows:
postol-chart final.jpg
 Bulletin-Hwasong-Article-Figure-5.jpg
Figure 5.
General conclusions—for now. Our general conclusions
from intensive study of a wide variety of data relating to
the two rockets that North Korea launched in July:
.
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 The Hwasong-14 does not currently constitute a
nuclear threat to the lower 48 states of the United
States.
 The flight tests on July 4 and 28 were a carefully
choreographed deception by North Korea to create a
false impression that the Hwasong-14 is a near-ICBM
that poses a nuclear threat to the continental US.
 The Hwasong-14 tested on July 4 and 28 may not even
be able to deliver a North Korean atomic bomb to
Anchorage, Alaska.
 Although it is clear that North Korea is not capable of
manufacturing sophisticated rocket components, their
skill and ingenuity in using Soviet rocket motor
components has grown very substantially. This is not
good news for the long run.
It is time for the United States to get serious about
diplomacy and appropriate defensive preparations (see
sidebar, “Comments on the developing situation with
North Korea”) to constructively support those diplomatic
efforts.
 Discounting North Korea’s
ICBM Capability
By Stephen Lendman - stephenlendman.org
8-15-2017
Based on its ballistic missile tests so far, including its most
recent ones last month, Russia believes the DPRK hasn’t
yet achieved ICBM capability.
Noted ballistic missile/rocket expert Theodore Postol
partly agrees, along with German rocket experts Markus
Schiller and Robert Schmucker.
In an analysis for the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, they
called Pyongyang’s Hwasong-14 ballistic missile, tested
twice in July “a ‘sub-level’ ICBM that will not be able to
deliver nuclear warheads to the continental United States.”
“Our analysis shows that the current variant
of the Hwasong-14 may not even be
capable of delivering a first-generation
nuclear warhead to Anchorage, Alaska,
although such a possibility cannot be
categorically ruled out.”
“But even if North Korea is now capable of
fabricating a relatively light-weight,
‘miniaturized’ atomic bomb that can survive
the extreme reentry environments of long-
range rocket delivery, it will, with certainty,
not be able to deliver such an atomic bomb
to the lower 48 states of the United States
with the rocket tested on July 3 and July
28.”
Postal, Schiller and Schmucker called the DPRK’s July
tests
“a carefully choreographed deception…to
create a false impression that the
Hwasong-14 is a near-ICBM that poses a
nuclear threat to the continental US.”
While it’s unable to manufacture sophisticated rocket
components so far, the skill and ingenuity of its scientists
in using Soviet Russia-era rocket motor components “has
grown very substantially,” they said.
The July tests carried reduced payloads - able to reach a
much higher altitude than possible if carrying a nuclear
warhead and protective heat shield.
Pyongyang achieved its objective, creating the false
impression of being able to strike US territory - what it’s
unable to do based on the authors’ analysis.
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Yet technological progress it’s made indicates it’s heading
toward eventually achieving what it can’t now accomplish.
The authors cautioned that no one outside North Korea has
reliable information on the characteristics of its nuclear
weapons designs - including whether miniaturization was
achieved to permit their mounting on a ballistic missile,
despite suggestions otherwise.
According to the authors, we’re
“left to speculate (on Pyongyang’s nuclear
expertise) based on intelligence information
that we have from other sources and on an
understanding of the very significant
technical problems of design and
implementation that must be solved to be
able to build and deliver atomic bombs by
ICBM.”
Based on available information, they estimate Pyongyang
could only deliver a nuclear warhead as far as Anchorage,
Alaska weighing 500 - 550 kg.
To reach Seattle, it could weigh no more than 300 kg.
They believe
“an advanced North Korean weaponized
atomic bomb would be unlikely to weigh
less than 500 to 600 kilograms.”
“So it is entirely possible that this variant of
the Hwasong-14 (tested in July) will not be
able to deliver an atomic bomb to
Anchorage, Alaska,” they said.
If the Hwasong-14 upper stage was
“fitted with the more capable vernier motors
from the SS-N-6 submarine launched
ballistic missile (known in Russia as the R-
27), it could potentially deliver an atomic
bomb to Anchorage, if the bomb weighed
less than between 650 and 750 kg,”
according to the authors.
“The same upgraded variant of the
Hwasong-14 could only deliver an atomic
 bomb to Seattle if the bomb weighed less
than between 400 and 450 kg,” they added. Its nuclear and ballistic missile weapons are solely for
defense - deterrents against feared US aggression.
Regardless of current or likely more advanced DPRK
capability later on, the nation’s history shows it threatens The real menace lies in Washington, not Pyongyang.
no other nations.
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 North Korea's Kim To Trump: It's Your Move
By Zachary Cohen And Joshua Berlinger, CNN
Updated 9:20 AM ET, Tue August 15, 2017
Hagatña, Guam (CNN)North Korea leader Kim Jong Un
appears to have backed away from a threat to fire missiles
towards the US Pacific territory of Guam, opting instead to
wait and see what the "foolish Yankees" do next.
State media KCNA said Kim had reviewed a previously
announced plan to fire four missiles on a trajectory over
western Japan, but had decided not to go ahead with the
proposal for now.
The comments came after US Secretary of Defense James
Mattis warned that if North Korea fired on US territory it
would be "game on."
Speaking at the Pentagon Monday, Mattis told reporters:
"You don't shoot at people in this world
unless you want to bear the
consequences."
The KCNA report Tuesday said Kim had
"examined the (strike) plan for a long time
and discussed it with the commanding
officers in real earnest."
The statement then appears put the onus to act on Trump,
saying Kim would
"watch a little more the foolish and stupid
conduct of the Yankees."
Contentious drills planned
The report is assumed to be referring to the US joint
military drills with South Korea, known as the Ulchi-
Freedom Guardian, which are scheduled to start August
21.
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The annual 10-day military drills antagonize North Korea,
as Pyongyang believes they are preparations for an
invasion. Seoul and Washington say the exercises are
defensive in nature.
"If the planned fire of power demonstration
is carried out as the US is going more
reckless, it will be the most delightful
historic moment when the Hwasong
artillerymen will wring the windpipes of the
Yankees and point daggers at their necks,"
the report said.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un inspects the Command of the
Strategic Force of the Korean People's Army, in a state media photo.
The US and South Korea have confirmed the drills will go
ahead as planned.
China's Global Times newspaper, a state-run tabloid, was
scathing of South Korea's decision to proceed with the
drills.
"The drill will definitely provoke Pyongyang
more, and Pyongyang is expected to make
a more radical response," it said in an
editorial.
"If South Korea really wants no war on the
Korean Peninsula, it should try to stop this
military exercise."
The Global Times, while state-run, often uses stronger
language than the official line from Beijing.
The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs told CNN its
official line is that "the bottom line" to resolve the North
Korea nuclear issue is "to uphold the general direction of
dialogue, negotiation and political settlement."
 "The current situation on the Korean
Peninsula is highly complex and sensitive.
We hope to see the relevant sides
'extinguish fire' through their words and
actions instead of 'adding fuel' amid
tensions. We hope to see them improve
mutual trust, and move toward the goal of
preserving peace and stability on the
peninsula as well as realizing the
denuclearization of the peninsula."
Moon: South Korea will 'block war'
While the US and South Korea are unlikely to back down
from the planned drills, South Korea President Moon Jae-
in appeared to down play Mattis' comments Tuesday,
pointing out the US would need its approval before
launching any attack on North Korea.
In televised comments, Moon said that
"military action on the Korean Peninsula
can only be decided by South Korea and
no one else can decide to take military
action without the consent of South Korea."
"The government, putting everything on the
line, will block war by all means," he added.
The address came on the anniversary of the liberation of
the Korean peninsula from Japanese occupation at the end
of World War II, an important holiday in both North and
South Korea.
The timing of Moon's speech, a proponent of increased
engagement and dialogue with his northern neighbors, was
likely meant to hammer home the importance of Seoul's
role in finding a diplomatic solution to the crisis, according
to John Delury, a professor of international relations at
Yonsei University's Graduate School of International
Studies.
Kim appears to have put the onus on the US in his latest statement.
"It's independence day, it's a speech about
South Korea's tragic history, of its fate
being decided by great powers," he said.
"South Korea has gotten lost in the shuffle."
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Fire and Fury
The US and North Korea have been engaged in
increasingly threatening rhetoric since last Tuesday when
US bombers flew over the Korean peninsula, and US
President Donald Trump threatened Pyongyang with "fire
and fury" following an assessment that North Korea had
miniaturized a nuclear warhead.
North Korea says it needs the weapons to deter any US-led
attempts at regime change, while the United States sees a
rogue state with nuclear weapons as a threat to global
security.
Kim speaks with Strategic Force Commande officers on August 14th
in this image distributed by North Korean state media.
Senior Trump administration officials have said that the
US is not interested in regime change, and has no desire to
"inflict harm on the long-suffering North
Korean people."
President Trump discussed the crisis with Japanese Prime
Minister Abe in a phone call later Monday Washington
time.
"We agreed that the most important thing is
not to let North Korea launch the missile,"
Abe told reporters after the meeting.
The next step?
Amid the heated rhetoric last week, North Korean state
media said Kim had ordered senior generals to finalize a
plan to fire four missiles less than 25 miles off Guam by
mid-August.
Guam is home to two US military bases and is known as
the "tip of the spear" when it comes to US forces in the
Pacific Ocean. It's of strategic importance to the US and is
the closest US territory to the Korean peninsula.
For residents of Guam life on the island appears to be
moving ahead as normal. The idyllic beaches and ocean-
front hotels are still packed with tourists.
Some residents received a scare early Tuesday morning "I messaged my family to make sure they
time, when an "unscheduled test" of the island's emergency were okay. It was a bad experience."
broadcast went off, according to the Guam Homeland
Security and Civil Defense office. The alert was sent due to human error, the department said.

Guam resident Susan Olivares Uncangco So far, the island's officials have expressed confidence that
said she saw it and then "freaked out." the US military and its multi-layered missile defense
system that operates throughout Asia will protect them.

Mattis said Monday that Washington would be able to
determine "within moments" after launch whether or not a
North Korean missile was headed for US territory,
including Guam.
He later added that the US would "take it out" if the
missile was determined to be headed for any US territory.
"We will defend the country from any
attack, at any time, from any quarter. Yes,
that means for a lot of young troops they're
going to be in a wartime situation, welcome
to reality. But it's not declaring war, it's not
that I'm over here Dr. Strangelove doing
things like that," he added.

How the US would detect and attempt to shoot down a

North Korean missile

But he also made clear that while the military was poised
to protect Guam from the North Korean military threat, a
declaration of war was a decision that remains with Trump
and Congress.

"War is up to the President, perhaps up to

the Congress, the bottom line is we will
defend the country from an attack, for us
that's war, that's a wartime situation," he
said.

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 H.R. McMaster Is No James Mattoon Scott
By SARTRE
August 15, 2017
One of the most self-evident admissions out of the Trump
administration is that retired General H.R. McMaster is a
devote globalist who has gathered the neocons onto his
staff and into prominent positions. Make no mistake about
this fact, the top gun and National-Security Adviser is
working overtime to destroy the America First movement
from within the oval office. President Trump is being
engineered into an isolated and solitary confinement with
the maneuvers of palace revolutionary traitors. Why
Trump allows this obvious undermining of his authority is
problematic and obscenely distressing to all his
enthusiastic supporters who put him in office. Can Trump
be so blinded with the stars on a military uniform that his
judgment does not see that the establishment is determined
to annihilate his stated policy resets or is he just
succumbing to the toxic encirclement from the DC
swamp?
Well the title of an essay from the Great American Daily,
You’ll Never Believe Who Just Emerged As The Biggest
Threat To Trump’s Presidency, is entirely evident.
"National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster is firing
Trump loyalists on the National Security Council and
replacing them with establishment hacks", is the only
White House leak that is not fake news.
When uncovered, McMaster Caught Helping Obama Team
Leak Intel implicates his true loyalty to the anti-Trump
forces by keeping Susan Rice in the loop.
"I hereby waive the requirement that you
must have a ‘need-to-know’ to access any
classified information contained in items
you ‘originated, reviewed, signed, or
received while serving,’ as national security
adviser,” the letter said. “NSC will continue
to work with you to ensure the appropriate
security clearance documentation remains
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on file to allow you access to classified
information."
The history of this administration will confirm, according
to Dave Hodges that Treason! McMaster Is the Major
Leaker.
"McMaster is even firing a Trump loyalist,
Rich Higgins, who publicly warned that the
Trump administration is plagued by
globalists, bankers, the Deep State and
Islamists. And how was Higgins warnings
received, McMaster fired Higgins. Do you
realize what this means? McMaster is
clearly supporting the Deep State. Trump
needs to immediately fire his NSA
Director."
Bill Gertz from the Washington Free Beacon quotes
Higgins in Fired NSC Aide Reveals Political Warfare
Operation Targeting Trump.
"The Trump administration is suffering
under withering information campaigns
designed to first undermine, then
delegitimize and ultimately remove the
president," Higgins states.
"This is not politics as usual but rather
political warfare at an unprecedented level
that is openly engaged in the direct
targeting of a seated president through
manipulation of the news cycle," he said."
The dilemma that has yet to be fully understood, is why
does Trump allow this purging of his core loyalists?
McMaster has proven that he is part of a soft coup and is in
agreement as Soros Crony Conducts Stalinist Purge against
the President. Maybe to shed some light on this folly, a
brief comparison with the plot from the 1964 thriller,
Seven Days in May would be in order.
U. S. President Jordan Lyman departs from a faction of the
war machine establishment by signing a nuclear treaty.
General James Mattoon Scott, Chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff conspires to remove Lyman from office. He
fails and the simplified lesson of the drama is that the
constitutional system worked. The government did not fall
to the motivations of a powerful military demigod's
attempt to overthrow the legitimately elected President.
Well, this childish popular taradiddle does not conform
with the real world. Whatever one thinks about Donald
Trump, he won the electoral college selection and IS the
lawful President. Hardly anyone would maintain that he is
part of the crony political class that makes up the DC
swamp. And while the Trump campaign rhetoric on
scaling down the global garrison empire bases has receded,
the tone of his National Security Council more resembles
the bellicose screenplay dialogue of the mythical General
Scott.
The actual meaning In Search of James
Mattoon Scott, quotes him correctly:
"James Mattoon Scott, as you put it, hasn't
the slightest interest in his own glorification.
But he does have an abiding concern about
the survival of this country."
Expressing his loyalty to the American Nation and not to
the District of Criminals establishment, General Scott was
the true Patriot. H.R. McMaster is the exact opposite. His
devotion is emphatically to the war party band of globalists
who are dedicated to destroy the Republic and assimilate
OUR country into a New World Order.
Trump may not be the hero of the second American
Revolution, but he certainly is not a collaborator with the
power elites that make up the political collectivist
establishment. A James Mattoon Scott putsch would have
all the populist support of a Donald Trump rally.
The vast difference in today's beltway cesspool is that the
senior military command is in the service of the wrong
master. They are defying the Trump Presidency and the
will of grassroots deplorables. McMaster is so brazen in
his subterfuge of bringing into the NSC neocons like Dina
Habib Powell, that only a never Trumpeter would defend
his treachery.
The coup d'état from the America First Presidency has
already taken place. How much complicity Trump factors
into this surrender is yet to be determined. By allowing the
McMaster element to rule over foreign policy is suicidal.
If this was not factual, explain why McMaster’s Former
Group Scrubs — then Re-Adds — Soros Financing from
Website? The fake news media, like Politico would have
you believe that Breitbart's war on McMaster bites
Bannon. However, the underlying issue is brought forward
in The Daily Caller, ‘Everything The President Wants To
Do, McMaster Opposes,’ Former NSC Officials Say.
“Everything the president wants to do,
McMaster opposes,” a former senior official
said in a wide-ranging interview. “Trump
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wants to get us out of Afghanistan —
McMaster wants to go in. Trump wants to
get us out of Syria — McMaster wants to
go in. Trump wants to deal with the China
issue — McMaster doesn’t. Trump wants to
deal with the Islam issue — McMaster
doesn’t. You know, across the board, we
want to get rid of the Iran deal — McMaster
doesn’t. It is incredible to watch it
happening right in front of your face.
Absolutely stunning.”
Such viewpoints from the trusted TDC conservative
publication is not shared with The Strident Conservative.
David Leach concludes Trump won’t fire McMaster
because they’re both liberals and cites Trump asserts
support for McMaster from a CNN report. Daniel
Horowitz contends that Trump’s defense of HR McMaster
is indefensible.
"Throughout the trials and tribulations of
the past six months, conservatives have
consistently looked in the rearview mirror,
breathing a sigh of relief that “at least we
didn’t get Hillary.” The irony is that Hillary’s
national security legacy is being advanced
under Trump’s own banner through H.R.
McMaster as head of the National Security
Council. Unless he is fired, this will be the
third term of Obama."
Could it be as simple as President Trump is a closet neo
liberal, who has more in common with the aggressive
interventionism of "Bomber" McCain than a reformer of
the vastly overexposed American Empire?
Even more confusing is why would Trump assign so much
power to H.R. "Benedict Arnold" McMaster when he has
eliminated several associates of the Steve Bannon faction
from the administration? McMaster Leaks is the driving
force behind the campaign to fire this untrustworthy
General comes from blogger Mike Cernovich, who
provides the ammunition to strip rank and authority from
this accomplice for the Deep State.
For those who voted for and support the Trump promise
for contracting the hegemony of the permanent war party
empire, disappointment in foreign affairs has been our
reward. Missing is the overriding apprehension that
General James Mattoon Scott understood and the NSC
overseer rejects is that an "abiding concern about the
survival of this country", cannot be realized when the
government oligarchy is populated with Soros friendly
internationalists.
A literal civil war is being waged by the establishment
against the citizens of this nation. Military leaders have a
choice. Side with the people or keep doing the bidding of
the globalist elites. If the Trump administration fails and commence. And the name McMaster will not be on the list
the hopes of genuine Americans are dashed, the search for of authentic patriots.
a real James Mattoon Scott to carry on the struggle will
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 AG Sessions - Shut Down The Phony ‘Russiagate’
Special Prosecutor Witch Hunt
By Devvy Kidd
8-15-2017
“I’d rather be slapped by the truth than kissed with a
lie.” (I could find no single source to credit that quote;
seems to be many variations.)
The out of control investigation of President Trump over
the phony “Russiagate” headed up by Robert Mueller
needs to end now. Just like President Trump needs to fire
H.R. McMaster now.
On May 18, 2017, Deputy Attorney General Rod J.
Rosenstein announced he had appointed a special
prosecutor to investigate possible collusion and/or
coordination between President Trump and Russian
officials to defeat Hildebeast Clinton, a proven criminal
who should have gone to federal prison decades ago. Her
actions alone regarding the slaughter in Benghazi should
have resulted in being tried for obstruction, lying to
Congress, collaborating with terrorist factions and at the
very least manslaughter.
Based on NOTHING but fake ‘news’ and creative lies by
the ‘Never Trumpers’ and sleazy Demorats, Rosenstein
appointed someone who should himself be investigated,
former FBI Director, Robert S. Mueller III. Another one of
those “highly respected individuals overflowing with
integrity” who will get the job done independent of
politics. What rubbish.
Mueller should have been fired as FBI Director for
ignoring the overwhelming, credible EVIDENCE the
World Trade Center Towers were brought down by
controlled demolition as was Building 7 on September 11,
2001. Not to mention military grade nano thermite found
at ground zero. Robert Mueller IS part of the cover up in
exposing the lies about what really happened on that
horrible day.
If you watch nothing else, I believe these two films are the
most factual regarding the lies about the World Trade
Center Towers being brought down by two commercial
airliners. If you want the truth you MUST take the time to
watch them:
September 11 – The New Pearl Harbor by Massimo
Mazzucco and 9/11 Mysteries: Demolitions
As I have written like so many others, James Comey, is a
dirty cop and thankfully he is gone but not forgotten as the
fired former Director of the FBI, already a multi-
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millionaire, got a sweetheart book deal. Comey is a liar
who should be prosecuted for obstruction of justice for
starters.
‘The Comey FBI lied to us’:
“A legal team probing the “surreptitious”
airport tarmac meeting in Phoenix between
then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch and
former President Bill Clinton – just as
Hillary Clinton was under FBI investigation
for her handling of classified information –
contends the FBI under James Comey lied
about it.
“The American Center for Law and
Justice said it has obtained “hundreds of
pages in our ongoing investigation and
federal lawsuit on former Attorney General
Loretta Lynch’s tarmac meeting with former
President Bill Clinton while the Department
of Justice (DOJ) and FBI had an ongoing
criminal investigation into Hillary Clinton’s
emails.”
“The results are shocking,” the non-profit
legal advocacy group said.
“First, the Comey FBI lied to us. Last July,
we sent FOIA requests to both the Comey
FBI and the Lynch DOJ asking for any
documents related to the Clinton Lynch
plane meeting. The FBI, under the then
directorship of James Comey, quickly
replied that ‘No records responsive to your
request were located.’”
“However, from records that now have
become available, it is “clear that there
were multiple records within the FBI
responsive to our request and that
discussions regarding the surreptitious
meeting between then AG Lynch and the
husband of the subject of an ongoing FBI
criminal investigation reached the highest
levels of the FBI.”
As for Mueller:
Mueller’s Role in Delivering Uranium to Russians Raises
Questions Rep. Franks: Special Counsel Mueller Must
Resign, He’s in ‘Clear Violation of Federal Code’ – Why?
Comey & Mueller are good buds. Comey & Mueller are
two wings on the same bird of prey out to get Trump:
Immediately upon Mueller’s appointment,
hacks in the thoroughly discredited
‘mainstream media’ (print and electronic)
began saturating the country with this is
another Watergate. What horse manure.
This latest witch hunt bears absolutely no
resemblance to Watergate. Tricky Dickey,
former president Richard Nixon, fired
Watergate special prosecutor Archibald
Cox in what became known as ‘Nixon’s
Saturday Night Massacre‘.
“On October 19, 1973, a Friday, it became
clear that the Justice Department’s special
Watergate prosecutor, Archibald Cox,
would not obey President Nixon’s order to
be content with the summaries
of recordings of Nixon and White House
aides. Cox wanted the tapes, and it was
easy to see that his defiance, or courage,
was not going to lead to a happy
conclusion. When a reporter asked Cox, on
his way out of the office that night, if he
intended to resign, Cox replied, “No—hell,
no.”
“The next day, though, he left, not of his
accord: Nixon announced that he was
abolishing the office of the Watergate
prosecutor, and that its work would be
transferred to the Justice Department. (A
spokesman said that it would be “carried
out with thoroughness and vigor.”) The
Attorney General, Elliot L. Richardson,
resigned when he was informed that Cox,
whom he’d appointed, would be dismissed.
“The White House chief of staff, Alexander
Haig, then told the Deputy Attorney
General, William Ruckelshaus, to fire Cox,
informing him, “Your Commander-in-Chief
has given you an order.” Ruckelshaus
resigned, too, and Robert Bork, the
Solicitor General, in the order of
succession, became the acting Attorney
General—at which point the order to fire
Cox was carried out.”
But what happened then has zero to do with now:
Comey confirms Trump didn’t try to stop probe
WASHINGTON – “Testifying under oath before the
Senate Intelligence committee Thursday morning, James
Comey submitted remarks confirming the key assertion
made repeatedly by President Trump that he had not
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pressured the former FBI director to drop the Russia
investigation.”
1 Democrat ‘blabbermouth’ holds key to Trump-Russia
fairytale
“Talk-radio superstar Rush Limbaugh says
while many Democrats now are admitting it
wasn’t Donald Trump and it wasn’t Russia
who “hacked” Democratic National
Committee computer files during the 2016
election, the issue won’t go away because
party loyalists simply can’t get past Hillary
Clinton’s election loss.
“He cites a recent report in The Nation that
found there wasn’t any such “hack.” It had
to be a “leak” from someone inside the
DNC who transferred the files to a domain
and format from which WikiLeaks could
copy them. “They’ve been forensically
analyzing all of this,” Limbaugh said Friday.
“The Nation has concluded that there
wasn’t even a hack of the Democrat
National Committee computer network, the
servers. There was no hack. It was a leak.”
The report said there “isn’t any evidence
that Trump and the Russians had anything
to do with it.”
Even Democrat, Van Jones, who is proudly a communist
has come out and said ‘Russiagate’ is a nothing burger“.
The Russiagate Scam Will Blow Up In The Democrats’
Smug Faces
“The Trump campaign never colluded with
the Russians. This is true even though the
definition of “colluding” has been expanded
to include pretty much any interaction with
anyone or anything Russian. If they found
out Reince Preibus had an old DVD of
Rush Hour, Adam Schiff would be in front
of a mic with CNN cutting in live. The whole
stupid collusion thing has become a weird,
Beautiful Mind-esque conspiracy theory
with scores of Trumpaphobic loonies out
there sharing their bizarre spider webs of
intrigue via Twitter memes. Does Gorky
Park have a grassy knoll?
“Regardless, it’s safe to say that there was
absolutely no collusion of any kind between
Team Trump and anyone Russian. None.
How do I know this to a near certainty?
Because we haven’t seen anybody leak
any evidence of any in the six-plus months
that they’ve been pushing this nonsense.
Nothing.”
Michael Caputo: “Yesterday The Democrats & Russia-
Gate Got Their First Blood Count”
“Caputo went on claim that he was sent to
Russia by the Clinton administration in the
90’s to involve himself in the Russian
elections and, in fact, according to Caputo
he was getting involved in ways that made
the Russians nervous. To be clear and set
the record straight regarding the President,
Caputo said Donald Trump would never
betray his country more so he would never
tolerate betrayal within his ranks. “There
are no facts in this investigation it’s a
complete and absolute Witch Hunt we see
it falling apart before our eyes, and it’s time
to stop this thing.”
This whole politically motivated CRAP is reminiscent of
what happened during the corrupt years the Clinton duo
soiled the White House. Travelgate, this gate and that gate
caused innocent Americans employed in various agencies
a great deal of financial hardship. Caught up in the
cesspool of politics, regular run of the mill employees had
to hire attorneys to defend themselves because they got
snagged in the Clintons life-long careers of deceit and
corruption. It’s happening all over again:
Mueller’s Targets Face Financial Strain
Mueller has expanded his phony witch hunt now to include
anything and everything President Trump has done since
birth. Anything relating to friends, his children or anyone
even remotely connected to Trump because Mueller knows
there’s NOTHING to the ‘Russiagate’ ghost story.
Jumping on the bandwagon are the usual Trump Haters in
Congress who want to milk this BS for as long as they can:
Congressional investigators want to question Trump’s
longtime secretary, Rhona Graff, in Russia probe
That poor woman is being dragged into this hoax as if she
had personal dealings with the Kremlin. If I were in her
shoes I’d hire a lawyer but why should she have to spend
her paycheck because of dirty politics?
Mueller has convened a grand jury; allegedly more than
one. This is nothing but another waste of taxpayer dollars
for politics. Period. Trump won’t do what Nixon did for
three reasons in my opinion:
(1) He’s innocent and knows it;
(2) He knows down the road this will really hurt the
Demorats in the mid-term elections next year and
(3) He knows the cat-calls for impeachment would amplify
while he’s trying to get things done.
It’s time to shut Mueller down. Attorney General Jeff
Sessions should get it done and the hell with all the flack
that will come from hacks on cable news networks, the NY
Times or the rest of the Trump haters out there.
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I’m all for going after corrupt presidents and I don’t care if
he’s a Republican or Democrat. When Bush, Sr., illegally
invaded Panama and snatched one of the CIAs
cocaine/drug running partners, Manuel Noreiga, I was
yelling the U.S. House must impeach Bush. Of course,
most Americans either weren’t paying attention or didn’t
understand that while Bush, Sr., was head of the CIA, drug
running by rogue elements in HIS corrupt agency were
good friends with Noreiga. But, something dumb old
Manuel didn’t understand is the shadow government eats
their own if they feel any threat.
What can you do? Same as me. Get a stack of post cards
from the post office. Unlike letters that have to be blasted
because of the anthrax attack in 2001 and takes weeks,
post cards get delivered right away. Drop Attorney General
Sessions one:
‘Shut down the witch hunt by Mueller over
the phony politically motivated
‘Russiagate’. Not a scintilla of evidence all
this time. This is nothing more than dirty
politics wasting our money and hampering
the efforts of a legitimately elected
president on behalf of the American people
from doing what he was elected to do.’
That will fit on a post card or your own version and gets
right to the point. AG Jeff Sessions, Dept. of Justice, 950
Pennsylvania Ave., Washington, DC 20530
Rules for a Special Prosecutor
(g) Conduct and Accountability
CFR 600.7 also provides that the SC shall not be subject to
the day to day supervision of DOJ. But it also provides that
the AG may request that the SC provide an explanation for
any investigative or prosecutorial step and may conclude
that the action is so unwarranted under current DOJ
guidelines that it should not be pursued. In making such a
determination, the AG is required to give great weight to
the views of the SC. If the AG concludes that a proposed
action should not be pursued on these grounds, the AG is
required to notify Congress of such a determination.
(i) Notification and Reports by the AG
CFR 600.9 requires the AG to notify the Chairman and
Ranking Minority Member of the Judiciary Committee of
each House of Congress, with an explanation for each
action:
– Upon removing a Special Counsel;
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 Scaramucci: If It Were Up To Me,
Bannon Would Be Gone
Fox News
Published August 15, 2017

incorrect online story connecting him to the Russia

investigations.

However, he was fired 11 days later, after a profanity-

laced phone call with The New Yorker reporter Ryan Lizza
and amid the arrival of retired Marine Gen. John Kelly as
the new White House chief of staff.

Short-lived White House communications director

Anthony Scaramucci said Monday that if it were up to
him, top adviser Steve Bannon would be gone from
President Trump's administration.

But, he notes, "it's not up to me."

"The Mooch," a few weeks removed from his spectacular

flameout following an expletive-laden conversation with a
reporter, appeared Monday on CBS' "Late Show" with
Stephen Colbert. Colbert has seen his ratings soar since
Trump's inauguration with his relentless comedic attacks.

Scaramucci suggested in an earlier interview that Bannon

is the source of at least some of the West Wing leaks and
that his connection to Breitbart.com and its association “For the record, I thought that (call) was off
with the far right is hurting the presidency. the record,” Scaramucci, a former Wall
Street financier and member of the Trump
campaign’s finance committee, said
Sunday. “That was a very deceitful thing
that he did. … But we don't need to debate
that anymore. That's past news. I made a
mistake. I'm accountable for the mistake. I
paid the consequences of that.”

Colbert showed a picture of Scaramucci and former White

House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus glaring at each other.
Scaramucci said there was "no love lost" between the two.

Scaramucci said on the late-night talk show that if it were up to him,

top adviser Steve Bannon would be gone from President Donald
Trump's administration. (REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst )
Trump gave Scaramucci the White House job in late July,
in part for how he deftly forced CNN to take down an
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He said he and Priebus got along well when he was writing
checks to the Republican National Committee, which
Priebus once led.
Scaramucci said he knows Trump "as a compassionate
person," while reiterating that he thought the president
should have spoken more harshly than he did initially of "That's him wearing his heart on his
the white supremacists involved in the violent protest in sleeve."
Charlottesville, Virginia.
The Associated Press contributed to this report
Of Trump's frequent off-the-cuff remarks, Scaramucci
said,
.

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 The War To Remove Bannon
Intensifies By Gerard Lapointe
gerardguylapointe@gmail.com
8-15-2017
Like a pack of Apaches on the warpath, the deep state and
their stooges in the media want Steve Bannon's scalp
served on display for all the world to see. They fear
Trump's agenda will create an American political nirvana
not seen since 1776. As Rahm Emanuel so famously
proclaimed in 2008, you never want a good crisis to go to
waste. The Democrats have no intention of letting the
events of August 12th go to waste, as the clarion call for
Bannon's removal echoed loudly throughout the
Twittersphere and usual leftist rags.
Today was an act of violent extremism and
domestic terrorism inspired by Trump and
his admin, including Bannon and Gorka.
We need them out.
https://t.co/0uEMChc4kt
— Vanita Gupta (@vanitaguptaCR) August
12, 2017
We call on the President to take the steps
to remove Steve Bannon well-known white
supremacist leader from his team of
advisers. .@CNN
— NAACP (@NAACP) August 12, 2017
He must be joking Trump says going to
study #Charlottesville to understand how it
could happen - just go across the hall and
ask Bannon.
— Karen Finney (@finneyk) August 12,
2017
Those are just three tweets out of thousands that are being
put out by the hour. They want us to believe that our
patriotic champions are merely racists who present a clear
and present danger to our democracy. Go ahead and take a
look for yourself, type a #Bannon hashtag on Twitter if
you got the stomach for it. Predictably, this assault will
further intensify in the coming days as the usual
assortment of mainstream media liars and their online
sycophants amplify the assault. Less than 24 hours
removed from the tragic events of Charlottesville CNN
Breaking News had an article written up attacking Bannon.
Two senior Trump advisers signal the knives are out for
Steve Bannon, the President's controversial chief strategist
https://t.co/jEmgV5ninP pic.twitter.com/FqKHXbkUQq
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— CNN Breaking News (@cnnbrk) August 13, 2017
Bannon is the canary in Trump's gold mine, for if he falls,
so does MAGA. From day one the press has done nothing
but insinuate palace intrigue between Bannon and certain
neo-con members of Trump's administration. This nonstop
barrage of fake news does have a negative effect on
MAGA, for a percentage of his supporters do end up
falling for the paranoia because that is all they see and hear
coming out of the media. Trump suspects Bannon of
leaking, putting job in jeopardy.
Steve Bannon is hurting Trump's agenda,
says ex-aide Anthony Scaramucci
Scaramucci hints that Bannon’s days at the
White House are numbered
Make no mistake about it, this is globalism vs the common
decent American. The globalists play for keeps and do not
care what happens to your country. We must make our
voices heard now, while there is still time. Call the White
House switchboard, your local papers, tell your friends and
families, that if they want to see America MAGA, now is
not the time to be complacent. Bannon's goals for the
country are no secret, they are perfectly complementary to
Trump's vision of a renewed United States of America.
Pledges on Immigration
 Cancel all federal funding to sanctuary cities
 Suspend immigration from terror-prone regions
 Implement new extreme immigration vetting techniques
 Suspend Syrian Refugee Program
 Create support program for victims of illegal immigrants
 Expand and revitilize the popular 287g partners
 Issue detainers for all illegal immigrants who are … for
any crime and they will be placed into ...removal
proceedings
 End “catch-and-release”
 Hire 5,000 more Border Patrol agents
 Restore the Secure Communities Program
 Triple the number of ICE agents
 Build the border wall and eventually make Mexico ...
 Sunset our visa laws so that Congress is forced to
periodically revise and revisit them
 Finally complete biometric entry-exit tracking
 Propose passage of Davis-Oliver bill
 ...pass “Kate’s Law”
Pledges on Obamacare
  Repeal and Replace Obamacare  Create a 10% repatriation tax

Pledges on Tax Reform Contact the White House and let them know that Bannon
must stay.
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 Trump Decries 'Alt-Left' In Charlottesville:
'Do They Have Any Semblance Of Guilt?'
Fox News
Published August 15, 2017

with hate groups and only protesting the removal of

Confederate symbols.

Asked Tuesday if he was comparing the alt-left to neo-

Nazis, Trump said

"not all of those people were neo-Nazis."

As for his "many sides" comment, Trump explained that he

President Trump, responding to criticism that he failed to wanted to make sure he knew the facts before explicitly
condemn white supremacist groups forcefully enough after calling out white supremacists.
the Charlottesville, Va., protest violence, on Tuesday
called out "alt-left" protesters for their actions that same
day, asking, "Do they have any semblance of guilt?"

The defiant statements came during a wide-ranging Q&A

at Trump Tower in New York. And they instantly inflamed
the controversy all over again, a day after he tried to put
the issue to rest with a statement specifically condemning
white supremacists.

"There's blame on both sides," Trump said
Tuesday, echoing the language he had
used Saturday when he faulted "many
sides."
Trump went on to criticize the "alt-left" for their role in
stoking unrest over the weekend.
"You had a group on one side that was
bad, and you had a group on the other side
that was also very violent, and nobody
wants to say that," Trump said. "You had a
group on the other side that came charging
in without a permit and they were very, very
violent."
Images from Charlottesville captured fighting and clashes
on both sides. However, the car attack that killed one
counter-protester and injured others was allegedly
committed by a Nazi sympathizer. Trump's initial decision
not to call out the white supremacists behind the rally is
what invited the most criticism.
A white supremacists carries the Confederate flag as he arrives for a
rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, U.S., August 12, 2017.
REUTERS/Joshua Roberts - RTS1BI7C
“I wanted to make sure, unlike most
politicians, that what I said was correct,”
Trump told reporters after an
announcement on infrastructure. “Not make
a quick statement. The statement I made
on Saturday, the first statement, was a fine
statement. But you don’t make statements
that direct unless you know the facts.”
His comments Tuesday inflamed the controversy over the
administration's response, just as it seemed to be settling.
“Blaming 'both sides' for #Charlottesville?!”
Florida GOP Rep. Ileana Ros-
Lehtinen tweeted after the president’s
remarks. “No. Back to relativism when
dealing with KKK, Nazi sympathizers, white
supremacists? Just no.”

But on Tuesday, Trump defended his initial statement and

argued that some of those in attendance were not aligned

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Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., took on the comments in a six-
part tweetstorm, saying in part:
“The organizers of events which inspired &
led to #charlottesvilleterroristattack are
100% to blame for a number of reasons …
The #WhiteSupremacy groups will see
being assigned only 50% of blame as a
win.We can not allow this old evil to be
resurrected.”
House Speaker Paul Ryan tweeted,
"We must be clear. White supremacy is
repulsive. This bigotry is counter to all this
country stands for. There can be no moral
ambiguity."
House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi also released a
statement Tuesday saying the
"president’s continued talk of blame ‘on
many sides’ ignores the abhorrent evil of
white supremacism, and continues a
disturbing pattern of complacency around
acts of hate from this president, his
Administration and his campaign for the
presidency."
Even as he challenged the "alt-left," Trump again
condemned the fatal car attack -- referring to the driver of
the car as a "disgrace." James Alex Fields Jr. of Ohio has
been charged with second-degree murder.
“I think the driver of the car is a disgrace to
himself, his family, and his country. And
that is — you can call this terrorism, you
can call it murder, you can call it whatever
you want,” Trump said.
He added, "The driver of the car is a
murderer and what he did was a horrible,
horrible, inexcusable thing.”
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Trump on Tuesday also weighed in on the renewed push to
take down Civil War-era statues across the country.
Alluding to those efforts, the president said Tuesday:
“This week it’s Robert E. Lee … I wonder is
it George Washington next week and is it
Thomas Jefferson the week after … Where
does it stop?”
Trump earlier referred to Heather Heyer, the 32-year-old
woman who died in the car attack, as “an incredible young
woman.”
On Monday, Heyer’s mother, Susan Bro, released a
statement saying,
“Thank you, President Trump, for those
words of comfort and for denouncing those
who promote violence and hatred.”
The president referred to Bro's statement and said:
"I very much appreciated that."
Trump's original statement on Saturday condemned the
“egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence on many
sides” in Charlottesville, Va.
After facing criticism, including from a number of people
in his own party, for his response, the president on
Monday specifically condemned “white supremacists” and
“neo-Nazis.”
“Racism is evil, and those who cause
violence in its name are criminals and
thugs, including the KKK, neo-Nazis, white
supremacists and other hate groups that
are repugnant to everything we hold dear
as Americans,” the president said Monday.
Trump's remarks on Tuesday were praised by someone he
was forced to condemn during the campaign: David Duke,
the former Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan and white
supremacist who was in Charlottesville over the weekend.
“Thank you President Trump for your
honesty & courage to tell the truth about
#Charlottesville & condemn the leftist
terrorists in BLM/Antifa,” Duke tweeted
after Trump’s comments Tuesday.
 KIM'S KINGDOM ROCKED
North Korea Earthquake Measuring 2.6 On Richter Scale
Hits Country Amid Fears Kim Jong-Un
Was Planning Nuke Tests
The Quake Hit A Three Kilometre Area In The West Of The Country And
Comes At A Time Of High International Tensions
By Guy Birchall
15th August 2017, 2:19 Pm
Updated: 15th August 2017, 3:13 Pm

AN earthquake registering 2.6 on the Richter scale struck a
3km area in the west of North Korea earlier today.
The epicentre appears to be south west of the capital
Pyongyang and not near any known nuclear testing sites.
Fears the country was readying itself for a test were
sparked after it was Kim Jong-un vanished from the public
eye two weeks ago.
The North Korean dictator hadn’t been seen since he was
pictured by state media on July 28 celebrating the test
launch of a Hwasong-14 intercontinental ballistic missile.

But during his first known public appearance in nearly

three weeks, maniacal dictator Kim was pictured pouring
over military plans for launching a missile at the US
territory of Guam.

Kim Jong-un was last seen on July 28 at the test launch of an ICBM
Hwasong-14

There is currently no indication that this was a result of a

nuclear weapon test, and prior to the quake state media had
reported the supreme leader had decided against a test at
this time.

Additionally, in March last year a natural quake struck in a

similar area.
The dictator was shown in images released by state media

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AP:Associated Press - The test launch of the missile further escalated
tensions with the US
Reuters - The satellite image (circled) appears to show the US Air
Force Base in Guam
KCNA - The fridge-raiding despot pictured with his fanatical troops
as his war of words with the US continues
KCNA - Kim’s latest outing was a typical propaganda-laden show of
strength from the nuke-wielding strongman dictator
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But despite appearing to back down, officials told US
media that satellites have observed DPRK mobile missile
launcher movement – suggesting an intermediate-ballistic
missile may be being prepared.
And chillingly, a satellite image in the background of one
of the pictures shows America’s Anderson Air Force Base
in Guam.
The nuke-wielding despot said he would continue watch
the “foolish and stupid conduct of the Yankees” before
deciding to order the missile strike, reports the Korean
Central News Agency.
Kim said the hermit kingdom will attack the US territory if
the
“Yankees persist in their extremely
dangerous reckless actions on the Korean
Peninsula and its vicinity”.
He added that the United States should “think reasonably
and judge properly” to avoid shame, the propaganda-
spouting news agency said.
The country is now awaiting Kim’s approval before
pressing the button.
The US island territory of Guam has been drawn into the crisis
Reuters - Dictator Kim Jong-un is pictured inspecting plans for a
missile attack on US territory Guam

Reuters - A US Air Force B-1B Lancer bomber takes off for a 10-
hour mission from Andersen Air Force Base earlier this month
AP:Associated Press - US President Donald Trump has promised to
unleash ‘fire and fury’ against North Korea if Kim continues to make
threats
AP:Associated Press - The crackpot communist state has conducted a
series of ballistic missile tests this year
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North Korea has previously threatened to fire four
Hwasong-12 rockets to land in the sea 17 miles from
Guam ‘by mid-August’.
Secretary of Defense James Mattis yesterday warned "it
could escalate into war very quickly" if the Secret State
fires at the US.
The Pentagon chief added:
"If they shoot at the United States, I'm
assuming they've hit the United States... If
they do that, then it's game on," CNN
reported.
"You don't shoot at people in this world
unless you want to bear the
consequences."
US President Donald Trump has warned North Korea it is
“locked and loaded” and to expect “fire and fury” if the
threats are carried out.
The UN has already passed sanctions as North Korea
continues to develop its weapons programme and carry out
test launches.
In a statement released last week by the North Korea’s
KCNA media channel, the dictatorship vowed to
mercilessly wipe out the provocateurs making desperate
efforts to “stifle” their leader.
Guam is situated around 1,500 miles to the west of the
Philippines and just over 2,000 miles from North Korea.
Crucially, the island is also a strategic US military outpost
and is home to more than 6,000 US service personnel.
American military bases occupy nearly 30 per cent of
Guam’s land, including the Andersen Air Force Base and
the Naval Base Guam.
 Trump Tells The Truth About Alt-Left Violence At EPIC
Press Conference; Leaves Leftists 'Literally Shaking'
Chris Menahan - Informationliberation
Aug. 15, 2017

“There was no way of making a correct

statement that early,” Trump said.

Trump faced intense criticism on Saturday for failing to

explicitly condemn the role of white supremacists during
his initial statement on the tragedy.

Trump took aim at the counter protesters while speaking

with reporters.

President Donald Trump just held the most epic press

conference of all time Tuesday afternoon and absolutely
savaged the lying media for their biased, one sided
coverage of the violence in Charlottesville.

He pointed out there was violence on all sides and noted

that not everyone at the Lee Park rally was a "neo-nazi." In
short, he told the truth which even cowardly conservative
media like Fox News refused to do.

“What about the alt-left that came charging

at the, as you say, alt-right? Do they have
any semblance of guilt? Let me ask you
this. What about the fact that they came
charging with clubs in their hands, swinging
clubs, do they have any problem? I think
they do. So as far as I’m concerned, that
was a horrible, horrible day,” Trump said.

Trump also questioned what monuments might be targeted

next as protesters have called on cities to take down statues
honoring Confederate figures.

“Is it George Washington next week and is

it Thomas Jefferson the week after? You
From CBS Philly: have to ask yourself where does it stop?”
Trump said.

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 Fox News bimbo and #NeverTrumper Kat Timpf almost
He continued,
started crying on air:
“George Washington was a slave owner.
So will George Washington lose his status?
Are we gonna take down statues to George
Washington? How about Thomas
Jefferson? What do you think of Thomas
Jefferson? Do you like him, because he
was a major slave owner. Are we gonna
take down his statue? So it’s fine. You’re
changing history, you’re changing culture
and I’m not talking about the neo-
nationalists or the neo-Nazis because they
should be condemned totally. But you had
people in that group other than neo-Nazis,
other than white nationalists, ok? And the
press has treated them absolutely unfairly.”
Watch the full press conference:

Trump told the truth rather than repeat the lying media's
one-sided lies.

This is why he's the greatest president of all time and one
of the greatest men of all time.

The left is "literally shaking":

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 The Anti-Trump
Movement Is Failing
By Michael Hoffman
8-15-2017
Editor’s Note: We are not as giddy about
Donald Trump as Prof. Victor Davis
Hanson (see his essay below), mainly due
to our anxiety over the president’s grave
blunders in foreign affairs, beginning with
his Jared Kushner-engineered partnership
with the terrorist-enabling kingdom of Saudi
Arabia, whose only lightly-veiled alliance
with the Israelis has markedly improved the
Saudis’ status in Jerusalem, New York and
Washington D.C. One can’t fight ISIS while
empowering the Saudi dictatorship.
Trump’s bombing of Syria is another
grotesque result of the Jared/Ivanka
Talmudism in the White House.
On the domestic front, Hanson’s endorsement of unalloyed
money-making, with no acknowledgement of Christian
and Biblical law constraining avarice, is exceedingly
unhelpful and myopic.
With those qualifications in mind, what’s to recommend
about Prof. Hanson or President Trump? Hanson is the
scion of a pioneering northern California farming family.
He cares deeply for the survival of the United States as he
knew it growing up. We second his concern and like him,
here in the Pacific Northwest we have seen indicators of
new life in not only a previously moribund economy,
where now construction companies are begging for work
crews and paying living wages to obtain them, but also
psychologically, in terms of a new-found optimism and
self-esteem among our people.
The war against us is primarily psychological and spiritual
and it is on the level of fending off that psy-war that many
of Trump’s domestic policies are welcome.
Among these are opposition to open borders and
globalization, fighting for American workers against Red
Chinese suzerainty, a less liberal Supreme Court (and
federal judgeships in general), justice for veterans who had
been preyed upon by Obama’s criminally negligent VA
hospitals, education free of tyrannical teachers’ unions,
and on many other fronts related to the welfare of our land
and people.
We can’t dismiss these initiatives in our homeland because
Trump is pursuing calamitous overseas policies, similar to
all previous presidents extending back to Lyndon Johnson.
If you wish to denounce our pragmatism in this regard, do
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so. As for us, our psyche was, as never before, grieved and
wrenched these past years by the soul-rotting decline of the
American people which we observed under Mr. Obama,
and while it is true that nothing can ultimately save us if
we don’t free our land of usury, abortion and infertility, for
the present we will not gainsay the rebirth of hopes and
dreams we have seen in northern Idaho and eastern
Washington state since Mr. Trump was elected.
Thus far, President Trump has represented an emergency-
room resuscitation of our people’s vital signs. If this
rebirth is sustained, it might prove to be a first step toward
our national renaissance, long after Mr. Trump has left the
American scene. — Michael Hoffman
The Anti-Trump Bourbons:
Learning And Forgetting Nothing
In Time For 2020
By Victor Davis Hanson
August 14, 2017
“...Trump’s enraged critics still do not grasp
that he is a reflection of, not a catalyst for,
widespread anger and unhappiness with
globalization, interventionist foreign policy,
Orwellian political correctness, identity
politics, tribalism, open borders, and a
Deep State that lectures and condemns but
never lives the consequences of its own
sermonizing.”
Just seven months into Donald Trump’s administration we
are already bombarded with political angling and
speculations about the 2020 presidential race. No one
knows in the next three years what can happen to a volatile
Trump presidency or his psychotic enemies, but for now
such pronouncements of doom seem amnesiac if not
absurd.
Things are supposedly not going well politically with
Donald Trump lately, after a series of administration
firings, internecine White House warring, and
controversial tweets. A Gallup Poll has him at only a 34
percent positive rating, and losing some support even
among Republicans (down to 79 percent)—although
contrarily a recent Rasmussen survey shows him
improving to the mid-forties in popularity. Nonetheless,
we are warned that even if Trump is lucky enough not to
be impeached, if he is not removed under the 25th
Amendment or the Emoluments Clause, if he does not
resign in shame, even if he has the stamina to continue
under such chaos, even if he seeks reelection and thus even
more punishment, he simply cannot win in 2020.
In answer to such assumed expertise, one could answer
with Talleyrand’s purported quip about our modern-day
Bourbons that “They had learned nothing and forgotten
nothing.”
Namely, Trump’s enraged critics still do not grasp that he
is a reflection of, not a catalyst for, widespread anger and
unhappiness with globalization, interventionist foreign
policy, Orwellian political correctness, identity politics,
tribalism, open borders, and a Deep State that lectures and
condemns but never lives the consequences of its own
sermonizing.
In particular, the current conundrum and prognostications
ignore several constants.
Do Americans Really Believe that Pollsters and the Media
Have Reformed?
One, despite the recent Gallup poll, most polls still show
Trump’s at about a 40 percent approval rating—nearly the
same level of support as shortly before the November 2016
election. That purported dismal level of support is
pronounced to be near fatal, when in fact it is not.
Since a) pollsters likely have not much changed their
methodology since 2016, and since b) it is fair so assume
that the media and those who poll for them continue to
despise Trump, and since c) Trump’s exasperating
eccentricities continue to make his supporters cautious
about voicing their support (even to anonymous pollsters
and political surveyors), we can conclude that his actual
support could be about 45-47 percent—or close to the
percentage of the popular vote he won in 2016.
Given that Trump’s base in the key swing states of the
Midwest (the so-called Democratic “blue wall”) has not
weakened, there is no real reason yet to think Trump could
not win the Electoral College again in 2020 in the same
fashion as 2016. In 2004 and 2012, we were told
respectively that an unpopular George W. Bush and a
sinking Barack Obama might lose reelection; instead they
both were re-elected largely with the same election
calculus and an even stronger base of support that carried
them to victory four years earlier.
Do Americans Really Believe the Messenger Nullifies the
Message?
As in 2016, many of those who voted for Trump would
prefer that he curb his tweets, clean up his language, sleep
eight instead of five hours, and follow all the conventional-
wisdom admonitions offered about his misbehavior. But
that said, nearly half of the country is probably still willing
to overlook his eccentricities for several reasons.
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Trump now has a presidential record of eight months.
Despite the media’s neglect of it, one can sense changes by
just getting out and traveling the country. Even in rural
central California, one can feel that it really is true that
there is a 76 percent drop in illegal immigration, and
immigration law is being taken seriously as never before.
It was no accident that the National Council of La Raza
(“The Race”), without warning dropped its racialist
nomenclature and is now UnidosUS (“Together, US”).
Why is the Democratic Party now feigning a focus on
class, not racial, issues with its new “Better Deal”
FDR/Truman-like echo?
The same pragmatics about changed attitudes are reflected
in dozens of local roadside canteens in my environs that
have taken down their showy Mexican flags and are now
waving even larger American ones. Cement trucks and
construction cranes are ubiquitous on the roads in a way
not true over the prior eight years. Talk to business people,
and they are citing new projects and investments, not
voicing anxieties about higher taxes and more regulatory
hostility.
Much of Trump’s success so far comes despite
congressional ossification and is clearly psychological:
people with money to invest or to build things prefer to do
so when the head of the regulatory state urges them to
create jobs, make money, and help their country get richer,
not when he warns them that it is not the time to profit,
that they need to share and spread around their wealth, that
they must calibrate when they have made enough profits,
and that they should concede that the state built their
businesses as much as their own daring and talent.
Despite congressional failure so far on reforming
Obamacare, conservatives are delighted not just with the
Neil Gorsuch Supreme Court appointment, but also with
literally dozens of conservative lower federal court
appointments, who are both youngish and judicially
restrained. Would they have preferred to let Hillary
Clinton decide the trajectory of the Supreme Court for the
next two or three decades?
Does anyone think a President John McCain or Mitt
Romney would have pulled out of the Paris climate change
accord? Trump’s team is reinventing the Environmental
Protection Agency, giving clean coal a second life,
opening up natural gas and oil exploration on federal
lands, building pipelines, and exporting energy. The crash
in world oil prices is bankrupting exporters like Russia,
Middle East autocracies, and the Gulf States, whose
influences are now pruned back by a dearth of cash.
The major cabinet officials are competing to deregulate the
deep state and free up individual initiative.
At home the economy grew at a 2.6 percent annualized
rate last quarter, and corporate profits at are record levels.
So is the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Unemployment is
lower than at any time in an over a decade.
The trade deficit is even shrinking and lots of companies
have announced relocations to the United States, in
reaction to record cheap energy costs and a perceived
favorable business environment. And all this comes at a
time when the United States is neither seeking optional
military interventions nor backing away from thuggish
aggression, but is trying to thread the needle in restoring
deterrence along the lines of “principled realism.”
The point is not just that no one can know the ultimate fate
of the Trump agenda, but rather that so far media hysteria
and congressional calcification have not stopped perceived
conservative progress. The bottom line is that Trump did
prove to be far more conservative than Republican
establishmentarians had forecast. To his supporters,
Trump’s message is usually distinguished from Trump, the
messenger. Politically that means pragmatist supporters
can focus on his agenda not his tweets, while Trump’s die-
hard voters like his Twitter combativeness, viewing it as a
long overdue media comeuppance.
Trump himself is less rather than more likely to keep
running a chaotic White House. Appointments like John
Kelly as chief of staff, or H.R. McMaster as national
security advisor and James Mattis as defense secretary are
not symptoms of a sell-out to the Deep State, but evidence
of Trump’s own acknowledgment that for his populism to
be effective, he needs structure and focus.
In sum, lots of Americans support what Trump is doing
rather than agreeing with what he sometimes is saying and
tweeting—and even more of his base like both.
Do Americans Really Listen to the Conservative Elite
Establishment?
Third, Trump does not run in a vacuum, but always in a
landscape of alternatives. The Republican Party is split,
but so far the NeverTrump establishment is smaller and
less influential than the returning Tea-Party/Trump/Reagan
Democrat conservative base that in part sat out in 2008 and
2012 or once voted Democratic.
What Trump loses to elite Republican and conservative
disdain expressed in op-eds and news show round tables,
or to Lindsey Graham and John McCain-like
denunciations, he has more than made up with new
populist Republican support in small towns and
communities nationwide. For now, it is hard to imagine
any other potential Republican nominee rallying a crowd
like Trump or appealing to the losers of globalization in
such dramatic fashion.
That we are, once again, being advised that Republican
grandees are looking for a new version of Evan McMullin,
or that a cranky John Kasich will reenter the primary race
in 2020, or that Jeff Flake insists that he is the moral
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superior to those who stooped to vote for Trump, to be
honest, means nada.
More than 90 percent of Republicans voted for Trump
before he had a political record, and about the same will do
it again based on his conservative agenda as expressed and
enacted so far. If the economy hits 3 percent economic
growth, with near 4 percent unemployment, the Dow does
not crash, and if the Russian collusion charges end up only
with symbolic scalps (and all that is possible if not likely),
Trump will win over half the independents, solidify his
base and likely take the Electoral College.
One of the strangest ironies of the present age is that
Trump’s populism (e.g., “our farmers”, “our vets”, “our
coal miners”, “our workers”), which saved the Senate and
House for Republicans and delivered the greatest
Republican majorities on the local and state level since the
1920s, is either ridiculed or ignored.
Yet the more the economy picks up, the more the
administration prunes back the regulatory state, and the
more the United States restores deterrence, the shriller will
be the argument that Trump’s tweets and behavior nullify
solid achievement. Just watch.
Will the New Democratic/Progressive Party Really
Rebuild the Blue Wall?
Fourth and finally, the less publicized split in the
Democratic Party is probably worse than that of its
Republican counterpart. The latter did not stop Trump’s
victory in the Electoral College, the former helped ensure
Hillary’s “Blue Wall” collapsed.
The current head of the Democratic National Committee,
Thomas Perez, is best known for his profanity-laced
tirades; his more unstable subordinate Rep. Keith Ellison
(D-Minn.) recently claimed that Kim Jong-un was a more
responsible actor than the president of the United States,
while Justice Neil Gorsuch was an illegitimate Supreme
Court judge. The former DNC head, Debbie Wasserman
Schultz, is facing myriad bizarre scandals. Her
replacement Donna Brazile became most famous as a
CNN talking head who leaked debate questions to the
Clinton campaign. With disreputable icons like these, who
needs opposition research?
Almost any of Bill Clinton’s 1990s talking points on
government, immigration, race, taxes, or law enforcement
could not be voiced today by any mainstream Democratic
politician. In 2008, Hillary drank with boilermakers; in
2016 she smeared the lower middle class with taunts of
“deplorables” and “irredeemables.”
Truth is, the party mortgaged its soul to the identity
politics lobby, and thereby embraced a number of fatally
wrong assumptions.
First, record minority registration and turnout for Barack
Obama were not automatically transferable to other
Democrat grandees. Obama pushed the party hard leftward
with a new strategy of uniting previously feuding minority
groups under an us/them binary of anti-“white privilege”
while at the same time soothing liberals with his Ivy
League pedigree, his exotic, hip, multicultural name, and
his mellifluent banality. It is hard to see too many other
candidates recreating such political gymnastics.
Second, if Obama did not bequeath an upside legacy, he
certainly left a downside. Tribal obsessions with identity
politics were implicitly an attack on the white working
class. Those in Ohio and Pennsylvania were not just angry
for being written off as bitter clingers, irredeemables, and
deplorables, but also furious to be scapegoated for having
“white privilege” by those who alone enjoyed it.
A party run by Pajama Boys, half-educated media talking
heads, Middlebury-prolonged adolescents, Bay Area
billionaire techies in t-shirts and flip-flops, Hollywood
gated grandees, Al Gore green elites, and Black Lives
Matter activists is not going to win easily back Michigan
and Wisconsin.
Finally, the Democrats failed to see that class-based
populism is a far more inclusionary and thus dynamic
phenomenon than is racial tribalism—for both whites and
non-whites.
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Democrats are finally worrying that they have lost the
white working class; they should be even more terrified
that they might lose 40 percent of the traditional minority
vote if the economy keeps growing and Trump keeps
talking about protecting low wage-earners from the dual
threats of globalization and illegal immigration.
In sum, the Democratic Party has learned nothing and
forgotten nothing. It is doubling down on exactly what lost
it the Blue Wall.
Ditto the Republican NeverTrump establishment that seeks
to recapture relevance by reemphasizing exactly what lost
it influence in 2016. The argument that Trump, the man, is
so beyond moral redemption that Trump’s agenda is
irrelevant will not fly with those who feel that they are
already better off than in 2016. And the idea that
conservative populism is a temporary deviation from a
winning and properly orthodox Jeb Bush conservatism is
delusional.
Trumpism is not an eponymous political movement per se.
It was merely an adjective for the reification of far greater
preexisting political realities.
Victor Davis Hanson is Senior Fellow in Residence in
Classics and History at the Hoover Institute, Stanford
University.
 David Duke Thanks Trump’s ‘Honesty & Courage’
Blaming ‘Alt-Left’ For Charlottesville Violence
The Former KKK Grand Wizard Is Happy With
The President’s Tuesday Press Conference
Ashley Boucher
August 15, 2017 @ 3:03 PM

also very violent and nobody wants to say

that, but I’ll say it right now.”

When another reporter asked Trump if the “alt-left” is the

same as neo-Nazis, he responded:

“All of those people, excuse me, I’ve

White nationalist leader and former Ku Klux Klan grand
wizard David Duke is thanking President Donald Trump
for saying that “both sides” share blame for the violence at
white supremacist rallies over the weekend in
Charlottesville, Virginia.
“Thank you President Trump for your
honesty & courage to tell the truth about
#Charlottesville & condemn the leftist
terrorists in BLM/Antifa,” Duke tweeted
shortly after Trump took questions from
reporters Tuesday at Trump Tower in New
York following a speech about
infrastructure.
condemned neo-Nazis, I’ve condemned
many different groups. But not all of those
people were neo-Nazis, believe me. Not all
of those people were white supremacists
by any stretch. Those people were also
there because they wanted to protest the
taking down of a statue of Robert E. Lee.”
The so-called “Unite the Right” rally was organized by
Jason Kessler, a well-known “pro-white” nationalist who
founded a group aiming to “protect the West” from
“rampant immigration.”
Trump also declined to call the deadly vehicular attack on
counter-protesters “terrorism” when reporters pushed. A
participant in the rallies drove his car into a crowd of
counter-protesters, killing Heather Heyer, 32, and injuring
19 others. Trump called the driver a “murderer,” but said
he didn’t want to get into “legal semantics.”

Trump repeated his statement from Saturday, saying that “Alt-Left” quickly started trending on Twitter after the
there was blame on “many sides” for violence that claimed press conference, bring several who agree with Duke out
three lives and results in dozens of injuries. of the woodwork. It also spurred a flurry of reaction
condemning Trump’s words.
“What about the alt-left that came charging
at, as you say, the alt-right. Do they have
any semblance of guilt?” Trump told a
reporter after asking her to define the term
“alt-right” for him. He kept at his point,
saying the counter-protesters came
“charging” at the white supremacist groups
“with clubs in their hands.”
“I watched those [rallies more] closely than
you people watched it,” Trump said. “You
had a group on one side that was bad and
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 David Duke Thanks Trump For
Blaming 'Alt-Left' For Charlottesville
By John Bowden
08/15/17 05:06 PM EDT
White nationalist leader David Duke on Tuesday thanked
President Trump for blaming violence in Charlottesville,
Va., on the "alt-left."
Duke thanked Trump for his "honesty & courage" in a
tweet.
At a press conference Tuesday, Trump doubled down on
his claim that "both sides" were to blame for the
violence in Charlottesville.
“What about the alt-left that came charging
at the — as you say, the alt-right?” Trump
said.
“Do they have any semblance of guilt?
What about the fact they came charging
with clubs in their hands, swinging clubs?
Do they have any problem? I think they
do,” he continued. “As far as I am
concerned, that was a horrible, horrible
day.”
Trump accused left-wing anti-fascist or
“antifa” protesters of showing up "without a
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permit," and said they were "very, very
violent."
"And nobody wants to say that. But I'll say
it right now," Trump told reporters. "You
had a group on the other side that came
charging in without a permit, and they were
very, very violent.”
Trump's comments are certain to fuel the controversy over
his response to Charlottesville, where white nationalist
groups held a rally over the weekend.
On Saturday, a man attending the rally allegedly drove a
car into a crowd of counterprotesters, killing one woman
and injuring at least 19 other people. That day, Trump
initially blamed the violence on "many sides," which led to
criticism from both parties.
On Monday, he sought to end the controversy by calling
racism "evil" and specifically mentioning groups including
the Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazis who took part in the
rally.
Trump was criticized during the campaign by those who
said he should have done more to disavow the support of
Duke, a former leader of the KKK, and other white
nationalists. After Duke endorsed him, Trump initially
brushed off questions about his support before disavowing
him.
Duke also attended the Charlottesville rally where he
reiterated his support for Trump.
"We're going to fulfill the promises of
Donald Trump, and that's what we believed
in, that's why we voted for Donald Trump,
because he said he's going to take our
country back and that's what we gotta do,"
Duke told reporters on Saturday.
This story was updated at 5:23 p.m.
 Trump Asked To Fire Steve Bannon,
Stephen Miller, Sebastian Gorka
By Meghana Kurup
Aug 15, 2017, 9:49 AM | Updated Aug 15, 2017, 4:04 PM
The heads of four minority House caucuses are calling on
President Trump to fire three White House staffers in a
letter Tuesday.
In a letter to the president, the leaders of the black,
Hispanic, Asian and progressive caucuses are urging
Trump to remove White House chief strategist Steve
Bannon, senior policy adviser Stephen Miller, and deputy
assistant to the president Sebastian Gorka after the violent
white nationalist groups' rally in Charlottesville, Va., over
the weekend.
"Americans deserve to know that white
nationalists, white supremacists, and neo-
Nazis are not in a position to influence U.S.
policy," they wrote in the letter obtained by
the Washington Examiner. "In this time of
tumult in our country, Americans deserve a
leader that will bring us all together and
denounce those who seek to tear us apart."
The caucus leaders wrote that the presence of Bannon in
Trump's administration is "incredibly alarming and
dangerous to our nation and the world." Voicing their
concerns about Miller, they wrote he "is a well-known
mentee of white supremacist Richard Spencer and has a
long history of both denying systemic racism and
promoting multicultural segregation." While Gorka "has
extensive ties to anti-Semitic hate groups," they wrote.
"The ideology and political agenda of these
men have no place in the highest office in
the land," they concluded.
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Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus
Chairwoman Judy Chu, D-Calif., said,
"President Trump's delayed denunciation of
white supremacists and their violent actions
in Charlottesville, Virginia this past
weekend cannot be separated from this
Administration's ongoing assault on racial
and religious minorities."
In a statement to the Washington Examiner, Chu said,
"This is not surprising, as the President has
filled his inner circle with known supporters
of white supremacists, including Steve
Bannon, Stephen Miller, and Sebastian
Gorka. Their continued presence in the
White House is not only an affront to
communities across this nation that were
threatened and attacked by the violent
protests over the weekend, but is a direct
contradiction to President Trump's own
delayed condemnation of white
supremacists, neo-Nazis, and the KKK.
Actions speak louder than words. I join my
colleagues and call upon President Trump
to remove these white supremacists from
office, and take action to defeat hate."
Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif., said,
"The white supremacists who descended
upon Charlottesville have brought vile
racism, hatred and bigotry to the forefront
of our political discourse once again."
She added,
"We cannot address the dangerous spread
of white supremacy in America without
honestly examining its influence on the
Oval Office. President Trump has elevated
hate and discrimination to the highest
levels of our government. From the Muslim
Ban, to raids on immigrant communities, a
 ban on transgender Americans serving in
our military, attempts to revive the failed
war on drugs and an all-out assault on civil
and human rights, the influence of the alt-
right is clear in the Trump Administration's
policy agenda."
Calls to fire Bannon have risen after the protests in
Charlottesville turned deadly. Critics of Trump's chief
strategist within the White House are "making their move,"
according to a source close to the White House. A social
media campaign, #FireBannon, also gained traction over
the weekend after the violence in Charlottesville that killed
one woman and injured 19 other people.
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Former White House communications director Anthony
Scaramucci, when asked if Bannon would be fired next
week, told Stephen Colbert on Monday that "if it was up to
me, he'd be gone." He added, "But, it's not up to me," it's
"up to the president."
The letter was signed by: Lee; Chu; Cedric Richmond,
Congressional Black Caucus chair; Michelle Lujan
Grisham, Congressional Hispanic Caucus chair; Mark
Pocan, Congressional Progressive Caucus co-chair; Raul
Grijavla, Congressional Progressive Caucus co-chair; and
David Cicilline, member of Congress.
(See letter on next page)
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 Congresswoman Barbara Lee, Quad Caucus Demand
Immediate Removal Of Steve Bannon, Sebastian Gorka
And Stephen Miller From White House
Tuesday, August 15, 2017 - 3:30pm
WASHINGTON - Today, Congresswoman Barbara Lee
and leadership of the Congressional Quad-Caucus – which
is composed of chairs of the Congressional Black Caucus
(CBC), the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus
(CAPAC), the Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC) and
the Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) – sent a letter
to President Donald Trump calling for the immediate
removal of Steve Bannon, Sebastian Gorka and Stephen
Miller from the White House. Bannon, Gorka and Miller
serve as senior advisors to the President.
Congresswoman Barbara Lee and Congressional Quad-
Caucus leadership released the following statements upon
release of the letter. Full text of the letter can be found
here.
Congresswoman Barbara Lee (CA-13):
“The white supremacists who descended
upon Charlottesville have brought vile
racism, hatred and bigotry to the forefront
of our political discourse once again. We
cannot address the dangerous spread of
white supremacy in America without
honestly examining its influence on the
Oval Office. President Trump has elevated
hate and discrimination to the highest
levels of our government. From the Muslim
Ban, to raids on immigrant communities, a
ban on transgender Americans serving in
our military, attempts to revive the failed
war on drugs and an all-out assault on civil
and human rights, the influence of the alt-
right is clear in the Trump Administration’s
policy agenda.
“Steve Bannon, Sebastian Gorka and
Stephen Miller have long embraced the
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views of white supremacists, white
nationalists and Neo-Nazis. These
prejudiced ideologies have no place in the
highest office in our land. I urge President
Trump to remove Steve Bannon, Stephen
Miller and Sebastian Gorka from the White
House without delay.”
CAPAC Chairwoman Judy Chu (CA-27):
“President Trump's delayed denunciation of
white supremacists and their violent actions
in Charlottesville, Virginia this past
weekend cannot be separated from this
Administration's ongoing assault on racial
and religious minorities. This is not
surprising, as the President has filled his
inner circle with known supporters of white
supremacists, including Steve Bannon,
Stephen Miller, and Sebastian Gorka. Their
continued presence in the White House is
not only an affront to communities across
this nation that were threatened and
attacked by the violent protests over the
weekend, but is a direct contradiction to
President Trump's own delayed
condemnation of white supremacists, neo-
Nazis, and the KKK. Actions speak louder
than words. I join my colleagues and call
upon President Trump to remove these
white supremacists from office, and take
action to defeat hate.”
CHC Chairwoman Michelle Lujan Grisham (NM-01):
“The extremist, racist, and white
supremacist ideology that led to violence
and terror in Charlottesville does not
belong in our communities and has
absolutely no place in the White House. It
is shameful that Steve Bannon, Stephen
Miller, and Sebastian Gorka, who each
have ties to extremist and white nationalist
ideological groups and leaders, are serving
as President Trump’s top advisors.
Extremists groups have used their
 presence in the White House to legitimize
their divisive and violent rhetoric, ideology,
and actions. They should have no role in
creating national policy or pushing their
twisted political agenda. The President
should send a strong message to those
who wish to divide our country by removing
and replacing them immediately.”
CBC Chairman Cedric Richmond (LA-02):
“If President Trump truly wants to start
healing the country post-Charlottesville, he
should fire the white supremacists working
for him in the White House. Bannon, Miller,
and Gorka shouldn’t be advising any
president of the United States, especially
on issues that affect African Americans and
other marginalized groups.”
CPC Co-Chair Raul Grijalva (AZ-03):
“Trump continues to showcase his
hypocrisy and overall ineptitude in the
handling of the violent terrorist attack in
Charlottesville. To pretend to denounce
racist rhetoric and dispel actions by white
supremacists as ‘repugnant’ while also
entrusting in and employing individuals like
Steve Bannon, Stephen Miller and
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Sebastian Gorka, who espouse these
extreme views, boggles the mind. Their
open intolerance is a threat to the values
we seek to promote and protect – they
must go.”
CPC Co-Chair Mark Pocan (WI-02):
“President Trump’s comments and actions
so far have allowed people who used to
wear sheets over their heads to take them
off and go into the streets to start riots and
problems. While President Trump finally
denounced white supremacists, the KKK,
and neo-Nazis, he did so two days late and
with carefully scripted remarks. Now that
President Trump called out these groups
as ‘criminals and thugs,’ he needs to take
the next step and remove Steve Bannon,
Stephen Miller, and Sebastian Gorka from
the White House. President Trump must
stop giving them a platform to advance
their dangerous and hateful world view and
political agenda.”
###
Congresswoman Barbara Lee, a Democrat, represents the
13th District in California.
 Appalling: CNN Panel Questions Black Guest’s
“Blackness” Because He Supports POTUS Trump (VIDEO)
By DCwhispers
Posted On August 15, 2017

It is a dangerously narrow step between this and shipping

people off in trains. Know your history. It’s being repeated
in American right now and it should chill you to the bone.

What a horrible thing to see on national television a man

have his ethnicity called into question because he happens
to subscribe to a different political viewpoint than others.

This kind of thing isn’t American. It is an example of the

kind of group-think tyranny that every single totalitarian
monstrosity throughout human history was built upon.
Donald Trump had more black Americans vote for him
than either Mitt Romney or John McCain and yet this
CNN panel appears to suggest all those people are not
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 Charlottesville Reporting Shows The REAL Danger To
America Is Not Violent Riots But A Wildly Dishonest Media
That Lies And Distorts Everything For Political Gain
By JD Heyes
Tuesday, August 15, 2017
Shortly after violence erupted in Charlottesville, Va., on
Saturday, where white supremacists and Left-wing
anarchists battled one another over the fate of a Civil War
monument, President Donald J. Trump tweeted out this
message:
“We ALL must be united & condemn all
that hate stands for. There is no place for
this kind of violence in America. Lets come
together as one!”
To the disgustingly dishonest establishment media that
wasn’t good enough. They insisted — no, demanded —
that the president call out only the white supremacist
organizations by name who reportedly had attended the
Charlottesville protest in some capacity.
So, bending to the request Trump took time on Monday to
address specifically that racial hate espoused by the KKK
and other white nationalist organizations would not be
tolerated.
Not good enough.
Oh, Trump didn’t condemn those groups
quickly enough, the chattering Left-wing
commentariat in the media complained.
And when he finally did, ‘it was only
because we forced him to — he didn’t
really mean it and we don’t believe him!’
Like former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Monday
in an interview with Fox News, no matter what this
president says or does, the haters are gonna hate and the
Alt-Left is gonna riot.
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“…[C]learly there was a hunger for him to
use the specific phrases about white
supremacists and about the KKK and about
Nazis. He came back today (Monday
afternoon), he said every single thing that
his critics on the left want. So now you
have crowds that are saying ‘well, he didn’t
say it soon enough.’ I just want to suggest
to you – there’s an anti-Trump movement
in this country that will never, ever be
satisfied as long as he’s president,”
Gingrich said.
Absolutely right. But the former speaker reminded viewers
of this nugget, too: “By the way, remember, it’s Donald
Trump who, last year, in the campaign, repudiated David
Duke, he repudiated the KKK and in his inaugural, he said
‘all of us bleed the same color’ and ‘to be
racist is to be un-American.”
Again, not good enough. It’s Trump, after all, so the false
narratives — that’s he’s racist, bigoted, homophobic —
will endure no matter what.
I want to be clear about something: Yes, I’m part of “the
media,” but not part of the establishment media that is
responsible for ginning up and then perpetuating so much
vile hatred of Trump that it’s literally making people on
the Left insane.
Consider this: As reported by The Daily Caller, Left-wing
extremists “doxxed” a University of Arkansas professor,
Kyle Quinn, and began calling him out on social media
because they believe he was one of the right-wing
extremists marching in favor of white supremacy in
Charlottesville.
Only, as The New York Times reported, Quinn was
nowhere near the city on Friday night; he was 1,000 miles
away in Bentonville, Ark., having dinner with his wife and
viewing an art exhibit.
The Times noted:
 Mr. Quinn, who runs a laboratory dedicated
to wound-healing research, was quickly
flooded with vulgar messages on Twitter
and Instagram, he said in an interview on
Monday. Countless people he had never
met demanded he lose his job, accused
him of racism and posted his home
address on social networks.
He had been misidentified.
The right-wing protest marcher carrying a tiki torch Friday
night that Quinn was mistaken for sported an “Arkansas
Engineering” t-shirt; Quinn teaches at the facility. The
marcher had a beard and similar build to Quinn as well.
But it wasn’t him.
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“You have celebrities and hundreds of
people doing no research online, not
checking facts,” Quinn told Times, “I’ve
dedicated my life to helping all people,
trying to improve health care and train the
next generation of scientists, and this is
potentially throwing a wrench in that.”
This is the establishment media’s fault. They are
responsible for creating and then enabling an outsized
hatred for Trump because it empowers them and advances
their anti-American political objectives. (Related: The real
goal of the intolerant Left is the outright extermination of
conservative White culture (and elimination of the First
Amendment.)
It’s time someone held them responsible.
 Thoughts On Charlottesville And
What It Means For Us
Boyd D. Cathey
August 15, 2017
This past Saturday night, August 12, the media was filled
to overflowing with nothing but lurid and hysterical
accounts of the “violence” and the “massacre” by so-called
“white nationalists” (alternately identified as “white
supremacists” or “white racists”) inflicted on poor,
innocent “counter demonstrators” in Charlottesville who
were “protesting hate and bigotry.” That’s the narrative
that showed up, including wall-to-wall coverage on Fox,
overpowering everything else, and spewed forth as if
handed down from Mount Olympus by assorted “wise”
Republican senators, including most notably Marco Rubio,
Orrin Hatch, and John McCain, whose biggest complaint
was that Donald Trump somehow did not specify that the
violence was exclusively caused by something that is
termed the “Alt-right.”
Nary a word about the ultimate and real responsibility of
the American Left for a continuing history of violence,
nary a word about the responsibility of the so-called “resist
Trump” organizations and their actions, nary a word about
the uncontrolled rampaging of the Black Lives Matter
movement (e.g., Ferguson, Baltimore, etc.), nary a word
about the stepped up and planned confrontations by the
“antifa” (self-titled “antifascists”) militants. That is, not
one word about the history of virulent street action, fire
bombing, trashing of private property, and, yes, attempts to
kill anyone (e.g., Representative Steve Scalise) to the
perceived right of, say, John McCain, anyone who might
in any way say a good word about Donald Trump, or
defend older American traditions and beliefs.
Continually, the networks portray what happened Saturday
as simply the manifestation of extremism and bigotry from
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the Right. And practically the only voice that got even
remotely close to a rational perspective came from, quite
ironically, a black professor, Carol Swain at Vanderbilt
University, who distinguished between the very legitimate
desires, aspirations and fears of America’s under-attack
white majority and the misapprehension that somehow
those desires equal inevitably “white racism” or “white
supremacy.” As Swain indicated, what has happened
during the past few decades is a palpable marginalization
of millions of hard working Americans, mostly white and
mostly Christian, who have been sidelined and left behind
by the advancing progressivist revolution (these last words
are mine). They are not naturally “racists” or even “white
supremacists,” but rather they seek to guarantee their own
survival, and the survival of their families, their
communities, and their culture. They have seen the
standards, beliefs, traditions, morality and customs that
they inherited and have cherished—they have seen them
attacked, ridiculed, and, in many cases, banned, even
criminalized.
The so-called “Alt-right” march and their demonstration in
Charlottesville, then, must be seen as something of a
predictable boiling over of that legitimate and simmering
sentiment. Protesting the attempt to take down the historic
Robert E. Lee statue was not, in this sense, the underlying
reason for the Alt-right protest. Rather, it served as a much
broader, if much angrier and extreme, reminder of what is
and has been occurring in our society, a symbol of the
continuing destruction of this nation and its history by
those who zealously possess and attempt to impose a world
view, a template, which is the antithesis of those beliefs
and that faith that millions of us have inherited and which
we hold dear and believe.
The attacks by nearly the entirety of the media—including
notably Fox—on the “Alt-right” demonstrators as “white
racists” and “white supremacists,” then, is not only
misguided scattershot, but it partakes in the dominant and
ideologically leftist Deep State establishment narrative
which posits as absolute truth that “hate,” “bigotry,”
“racism,” ad nauseum, only come from what they identity
as the “far” or “extreme” right, or more recently, “Alt-
right.” And those terms are all-inclusive for anyone who
dissents even in the slightest from the ongoing
progressivist Revolution.
by an increasingly revolutionary, radically multiculturalist,
culturally Marxist, suffocating overlay that drains out our
historic being and essence as a people, have more or less
obediently acceded to the Revolution and its infectious
cancer. Beginning last November, but actually before that,
that passivity was interrupted, and millions of citizens,
understanding, if intuitively, that their lives and their
country were slipping away from their control, stood up
and cried: “No further!”

Thus, when the president condemned violence from “both

sides,” it was as if Mount Vesuvius had erupted and had
poured down its ash and lava all over Pompei! The
Mainstream Media went literally berserk in outrage and
demanded that he specify by name the “right” and “rightist
violence.” And in jumped with both feet the obsequiously
sickening Marco Rubio and Karl Rove, obedient to the
standard Deep State mindset, urging the president to
condemn “white nationalism” and “white supremacy.”

And so it went throughout that afternoon and And the dominant forces in our culture have responded
evening…until I finally couldn’t take it any longer, and furiously. At first those of us who wished to defend our
switched over to watch John Wayne in John Ford’s 1950 traditions and our historic Western Christian culture sought
film masterpiece, “Rio Grande.” (It is always a gracious to meet their assault traditionally, within the accustomed
reward at the end to hear the Yankee band strike up methods and pathways of our republic. But it was they—
“Dixie” as the Union troops pass in review!) the forces of the increasingly hysterical Deep State and
their stormtrooper antifa street fighters, Black Lives Matter
Certainly, the Alt-right demonstrators in Charlottesville and its fatuous race hustlers like William Barber, the
included some extreme elements. Certainly, some would radicalized and demented university students, and not just
advocate a form of “supremacy,” or rather a return to a them, but the near totality of the Democrat Party and most
time when white people had more authority in this nation. establishment Republicans, all fatally infected by a
And, yes, they were very angry—angry after watching the Revolutionary progressivist venom—they who first
dozens of violent manifestations by those revolutionaries unleashed the violence in words AND in deeds.
of the Left, those “resisters” and “antifa” Marxists and
Anarchists, those rampaging Black Lives Matter zealots
for whom any law enforcement action against any black
person is, ipso facto, “racist” and “police brutality,”
legitimizing their burning out of whole neighborhoods in
Baltimore and Ferguson. And, yes, driving a car
murderously into the assembled counter-demonstrators,
however much provocation there may have been, was
unjustified and counter-productive and very probably
criminal.

All of this was predictable and even perhaps inevitable,

given what has happened in the country. Indeed, is it not a
product of the over-the-top rhetoric, the apocalyptic
imagery and the violent reaction from the forces and
minions of the Deep State managerial establishment to last
year’s election and any attempt to reverse their jealously-
guarded domination over us all?
Recently, Peter Brimelow, editor of VDare.com wrote a
piece on his web site, entitled “there will be blood.” And
the implication was and is this: for far too long, we middle
Americans, we “deplorables,” oppressed and suppressed
Ironically, it is Robert E. Lee who defiantly stands for
what was and is admirable and right about America. And
his lesson is being lost through all that is currently
occurring. A man who despised slavery and freed his
slaves (in 1862), a man descended from the Founders of
our old Republic and who fully understood what the
Founders intended, a man who loved the Union but loved
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disposition—Lee stands out in our history as one of our
greatest figures, respected and deeply admired by such
diverse leaders as Winston Churchill and Dwight D.
Eisenhower. Yet, he also comprehended what the tyranny
of an overreaching Federal government might mean. And
he made a momentous decision to stand with his state
AND for the American Constitution. In a real sense, he
stood 155 years ago against the incipient progressivist
Revolution, and despite overwhelming odds, he almost
succeeded in leading the Confederate nation to victory
against that revolution.
Rather than recur then to some grab-bag terminology the
media calls the “Alt-right”—which has yet to be accurately
defined and described, other than becoming a “devil” term
for the minions of the Deep State—those of us, those
deplorables, those who awakened from a silent slumber
last November, those of us who wish only to reclaim the
right of our people, our culture, our civilization to survive
and continue unmolested—we should look to the model of
that “chevalier sans peur,” that noble Virginian, Robert E.
Lee, who tried to preserve the American confederation, but
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also understood that there are times when one must,
regretfully and painfully, take bolder steps to save that
which is admirable and laudable in our history and our
culture.
This, then, should be the watchword of our faith. We have
been aggrieved and assaulted; we must respond according
to the appropriate levels, not more, not less. We must be
wiser and more intelligent than our enemies in the Deep
State, for they possess most of the major weapons. Yet,
with determination and the necessary prudence, and the
wisdom and lessons of our ancestors, and above all, with
Faith, we can succeed.
We defend our historic culture and our faith; we do so
morally and ethically; but we do not stand down, nor do
we shy away from the conflict.
Dr. Boyd D. Cathey was a Thomas Jefferson Fellow at the
University of Virginia in Charlottesville, earning an
Honors MA degree in history under the direction of the
late Merrill Peterson.
 Fired National Security Council Aide Says Deep State,
Marxist Left Targeting Trump In “Unprecedented”
Campaign To Remove Him From Office
By JD Heyes
Tuesday, August 15, 2017
A fired National Security Council official has charged that
Left-wing Deep State opponents of President Donald J.
Trump are engaged in an “unprecedented” political
operation to first delegitimize him and then drive him from
office, the Washington Free Beacon reported.
Until just recently, Rich Higgins was the director of
strategic planning at the NSC. In May he produced a
seven-page memo warning of a joint effort by the Marxist
Left, Islamists and political and government leaders
opposed to Trump to engage in an information warfare
campaign aimed at smearing him.
“The Trump administration is suffering
under withering information campaigns
designed to first undermine, then
delegitimize and ultimately remove the
president,” said Higgins. “This is not politics
as usual but rather political warfare at an
unprecedented level that is openly
engaged in the direct targeting of a seated
president through manipulation of the news
cycle.”
The Free Beacon noted further:
Higgins, an Army veteran and former
Pentagon official who specialized in
irregular warfare and who was dismissed
last month for writing the memo, said the
attacks should not be confused with normal
partisan political attacks or adversarial
media attention.
The former aide criticized the White House
for failing to counter the activities and said
the political warfare attacks threaten the
Trump presidency.
“The White House response to these
campaigns reflects a political advocacy
mindset that it is intensely reactive,
severely under-inclusive and dangerously
inadequate to the threat,” Higgins noted. “If
action is not taken to re-scope and respond
to these hostile campaigns very soon, the
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administration risks implosion and
subsequent early departure from the White
House.” (Related: Mueller’s special
counsel effort has become nothing
more than taxpayer funded “opposition
research” to defeat Trump in 2020)
Higgins was dismissed by Deputy National Security
Advisor Ricky Waddell July 21 after the memo came to
his attention during an internal search for leakers on staff.
The Trump administration has been battling against leaks
since before the president took office, but Trump’s naming
of John Kelly as his chief of staff, moving him from his
post as head of the Department of Homeland Security, was
seen as a way to restore discipline to the White House.
Kelly is a former four-star Marine general, and his move to
the West Wing was lauded even by some Trump
opponents.
Higgins’ firing has not been without controversy. His
termination, along with those of fellow NSC conservatives
Derek Harvey and Ezra Cohen-Watnick in recent days, has
touched off a range of political brinksmanship and
infighting within the White House. In addition,
conservatives charge that Trump’s national security
advisor, H.R. McMaster, is actually working to thwart the
president’s populist foreign policy agenda in favor of
keeping policies enacted or carried on by the former
Obama administration.
Harvey, a retired Army colonel, complained to McMaster
recently about the outsized number of people remaining at
the NSC from the Obama administration. People close to
the situation said McMaster told him he’s got a “leadership
problem,” which is military jargon for, “Get in line with
my program or I’ll get rid of you.”
It appears McMasters chose for his subordinate and picked
the latter option.
Cohen-Watnick, meanwhile, was the senior director for
intelligence programs at the National Security Council; he
reportedly dropped out of favor with McMaster over the
former’s conservative views.
The Free Beacon reported that a White House official said
McMasters appears to be attempting to get rid of anyone
on the NSC who is an ardent, outspoken supporter of
Trump, while taking the slow approach to implementing
any presidential directive he does not agree with.
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Though the president has vocalized support for McMaster
in recent weeks, the Free Beacon said White House
sources say Trump is not happy with him and may send
him to Afghanistan soon. A potential replacement would
be CIA Director Mike Pompeo, regarded as much more of
a Trump supporter.
 Signs Of Charlottesville
‘White Supremacist’ Rally Being A False Flag
By Dr. Eowyn
Posted On August 15, 2017

(1) THE WHITE SUPREMACIST LEADER

Incredibly, the leader of what the MSM call the rally’s

Last weekend, a planned “Unite the Right” rally in
“white supremacist Nazis” is a former avid Obama
Charlottesville, Virginia, to protest the removal of
supporter and Occupy Wall Street protester named Jason
Confederate monuments from public spaces, descended
Kessler, who supposedly did a 180° reversal and became a
into violence when what the MSM describe as “white
Trump supporter.
supremacists” clashed with counter-protesters, forcing the
city to declare a state of emergency.

A white man named James Alex Fields, Jr. rammed his

car into a group of counter-demonstrators, killing a liberal,
Heather Heyer, and injuring 19. Fields is in police custody,
denied bond, and charged with one count of second-degree
murder, three counts of malicious wounding, failure to
stop for an accident involving a death, and hit-and-run.
According to the Southern Poverty Law Center:
Evidence is mounting that the rally and violence may have
been staged, although the car crashing into protesters was “Rumors abound on white nationalist
very real, as you can see in this video: forums that Kessler’s ideological pedigree
before 2016 was less than pure and seem
If the rally was staged, what happened in Charlottesville to point to involvement in the Occupy
was a false flag — a traumatic public event staged by movement and past support for President
government to advance its covert agenda. However, the Obama.
government is not the Trump administration, but the deep
At one recent speech in favor of
state that means to damage, discredit and remove President
Charlottesville’s status as a sanctuary city,
Trump by aligning him with the rally’s alleged white
Kessler live-streamed himself as an
supremacists and neo-Nazis.
attendee questioned him and apologized
for an undisclosed spat during Kessler’s
Here’s the evidence: apparent involvement with Occupy. Kessler
appeared visibly perturbed by the woman’s
presence and reminders of their past
association….

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 Regardless of Kessler’s past politics, the
rightward shift in his views was first put on
display in November, 2016 when his tirade
against [Vice-Mayor of Charlottesville] Wes
Bellamy began.”

In 2011, Jason Kessler worked for CNN as an “assignment

editor”, but we are to believe that now he’s a neo-Nazi
white supremacist?

(2) UNITE THE RIGHT

If Jason Kessler, the leader of Unite the Right, is suspect,

what about his group?

There is buzz on the Internet that Unite the Right is a

George Soros-funded “honeypot psyop” of Antifa goons
disguised as Nazis.

InfoWars‘ Alex Jones observed that the KKK protesters at

Charlottesville actually were Jewish actors who looked
like the cast of the TV sitcom Seinfeld. Jones said:
(3) CRISIS ACTORS
“Nothing against Jews in general, but they
are leftist Jews that want to create this Investigative journalist and founder/editor-in-chief of
clash and they go dress up as Nazis. I Disobedient Media William Craddick @williamcraddick
have footage in Austin — we’re going to tweets:
find it somewhere here at the office —
where it literally looks like cast of ‘Seinfeld’ “There were provocateurs on both sides of
or like Howard Stern in a Nazi outfit. They the crowd fomenting violence and creating
all look like Howard Stern. They almost got justification for martial law.”
like little curly hair down, and they’re just up
there heiling Hitler. You can tell they are How many of the protesters, on either side, are real?
totally uncomfortable, they are totally
scared and it’s all just meant to create the
See also:
clash.”

 Austin Craigslist solicits crisis actors for emergency

Here’s a video of the Charlottesville rally of “white
supremacists” carrying flaming torches, shouting “We’re
standing up for our rights! We’re proud to be white! White
lives matter!”, followed by screenshots I took from the
video of “white supremacists” who look like stereotypical
Jews.
training exercise
 Another false flag? Atlanta Craigslist solicits crisis
actors for mock disaster
 Did you know there are AMPUTEE crisis actors?
 Professional crisis actors simulate mass casualty
events

We know there are “public relations” firms that solicit

actors for events, including rallies and protests. Below is a
Craig’s List ad by Crowds on Demand — a Los Angeles
public relations firm — soliciting “actors and
photographers” in Charlotte, NC, to “participate” in
“events”:

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(4) THE DRIVER
Here is what we are told about James Alex Fields, Jr., 20,
the driver of the car that plowed into the crowd, killing
Heather Heyer and injuring others (Heavy.com):
 Fields recently moved to Maumee, Ohio, from
Kentucky.
 A security officer for Securitas Security Services USA
who “performed his duties satisfactorily,” Fields was on
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previously requested vacation time when he attended
the rally. After he was arrested, Securitas promptly
fired him on Monday, August 14.
 An uncle, under the condition of anonymity, told The
Washington Postthat Fields was raised by his
paraplegic mom after his dad was killed by a drunk
driver just a few months after Fields was born.
 Fields has no criminal history. However, according to
the AP, his mother had called 911 twice in the past,
telling officers that he had beaten her.
 High school teacher Derek Weimer said Fields had
been diagnosed with schizophrenia and was on anti-
psychotic medication. Weimer also said Fields “really
bought into this white supremacist thing. He was very
big into Nazism. He really had a fondness for Adolf
Hitler.”
 The car that rammed into the crowd in Charlottesville, a
gray 2010 Dodge Challenger, was registered in Fields’
name.
 Charlottesville Police Chief, Al Thomas, said the crash
was premeditated.
However, according to Ruby Henley of Investment Watch
Blog (IWB), citing Tweeter “Whitehouse Plumber”
@rharrisonfries (who identifies himself as a retired
television broadcast manager and U.S. Navy),
James A. Fields “was a supporter of Hillary
Clinton and a member of Antifa funded by
George Soros.”
More confusing still, according to former NSA operative
Jim Stone, James Alex Fields Jr. is not who the MSM say
he is:
“‘James Alex Fields Jr’ – supposedly of
Maumee, OH – doesn’t turn up when you
search his name on Intelius. Oh, plenty of
James A Fields exist, but none 20 years
old from OH (or VA or anywhere else in the
USA).”
Using the people search engine Spokeo, I found there are
5,149 people named “James Fields” in the United States:
 365 “James Fields” in Ohio, none of whom is a “James
A. Fields,” age 20. In fact Ohio has no 2o-year-old
“James Fields”.
 342 “James Fields” in Kentucky, none of whom is a
“James A. Fields,” age 20. Nor does Kentucky have
any 2o-year-old “James Fields”.
Stone claims that the man who actually crashed the car is
“a seasoned military veteran” named James G. Field, age
32, and that the name of “the patsy” is actually James
Bloom. Indeed, according to The Blade, the name of the
paraplegic mother of “James A. Fields, Jr.” is Samantha
Bloom, of Florence, Kentucky.
 (5) THE POLICE

Charlottesville police were told by the mayor to stand

down. Trial lawyer Robert Barnes @Barnes_Law,
referring to a tweet by ACLU of Virginia, tweeted that:

“ACLU confirms that police were given

stand-down order.This invited the
violence the city used to shut down a court-
permitted protest.”

VDare reports:

“Antifa,” the openly communist, anti-white

Spokeo says there is a “Samantha Lea Bloom,” aka
Samantha Meyer, 49, whose most recent address is in
Maumee, Ohio, and who had lived in Florence, Kentucky,
and Silver Grove, Kentucky. Spokeo has no family
members for Samantha Bloom. However, when she was in
Silver Grove, she lived with a “James Meyer” (could this
be “James A. Fields, Jr.”?)
Below are side-by-side pics of the driver in the car
(screenshot taken from a video of Charlottesville), James
Alex Fields Jr. (who Stone says is really named James
Bloom), and James Field, 32.
and violent thugs who exist solely to attack
European-Americans, were out in force in
the city, using the cowardly tactics they
specialize in: spraying demonstrators with
mace, throwing bottles and bricks, and
attacking people with weapons (including a
homemade flamethrower).
It is quite true, as VDARE.com reported,
that the police did not protect [Unite the
Right] demonstrators from Antifa and did
little to prevent confrontations. Attendees of
the demonstration, rather than walking a
clear path to the park, were instead forced
to walk through a line of screaming
protesters….

Compare the side of the face and the mouth of the three
men. To me, James Field, 32, more resembles the driver.
Then activists, totally unprotected by
police, were deliberately funneled into a
gauntlet of attacking Communists, in a kind
of Kill Zone. Injuries on both sides were
predictable….
All of this occurred after a “state of
emergency” had been declared and
demonstrations were supposed to have
been halted….

Violence did not just “break out” at Unite The Right.

Attendees were attacked—by Leftists and by the police.
They worked together as seamlessly as if they had
common leadership.

H/t Jim Fetzer, John Molloy, FOTM‘s DCG, josephbc69,

lophatt and maziel.
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 BREAKING: “Unite The Right”
Was Actually STAGED By The Left?
Written By: JD Heyes
August 15, 2017

Kessler live-streamed himself as an

attendee questioned him and apologized
for an undisclosed spat during Kessler’s
apparent involvement with Occupy.
Kessler appeared visibly perturbed by
the woman’s presence and reminders
of their past association.

There is also some speculation that Kessler may have been

an assignment editor for CNN five years ago covering the
“Occupy” movement:

If the tragic events in Charlottesville this past weekend and

the near-immediate cries by the Left and the “mainstream”
media within 24 hours to dismantle every enduring vestige
of the Old South seem a little too perfectly timed to you,
then pat yourself on the back:

Your instincts serve you well.

As it turns out, the Charlottesville event itself was set up

not by “right-wing racists” but by a Left-wing operative.

In a bombshell report by iBankCoin, the

“Unite the Right” event organizer, Jason
Kessler, was an “Occupy” movement
and Obama supporter just eight months
ago.

That’s right; Kessler was reportedly a supporter of

President Obama as the far-Left anarchist “Occupy”
movement as recently as November 2016, before he
established the alleged white supremacist organization
“Unity & Security for America.”
As the Southern Poverty Law Center notes:
Rumors abound on white nationalist forums
that Kessler’s ideological pedigree before
2016 was less than pure and seem to point
to involvement in the Occupy movement
and past support for President Obama.
At one recent speech in favor of
Charlottesville’s status as a sanctuary city,
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“Nothing smells right about any of this,”
iBankCoin notes. “In fact, Lee Stranahan
has connected the ‘Unite the Right’ rally to
an identical Neo-Nazi movement in Ukraine
supported by John McCain and Hillary
Clinton.”
There is more controversy surrounding the actual event
and especially the violence, which was “allowed” to not
only get out of hand but ultimately lead to three deaths:
One protest participant and a pair of Virginia state
troopers.
As The Daily Caller reports, police at the scene appeared
to have purposely stood down as the crowds began
growing restive and violence began to rise:
As you’ve probably heard, the Virginia
college town played host to an alt-right rally
that descended into violence on Saturday.
Both the white nationalists and left-wing
counter-protesters fought and beat each
other with blunt objects for most of the
morning.
The violence eventually led to deadly
proportions when one of the alt-right
rallygoers plowed into a crowd of counter-
protesters, killing one woman and injuring
several others. (Two officers monitoring the
rally in a helicopter also died when their
chopper crashed later that day. That
tragedy appears to be the result of an
accident.)
The sheer violence and extremism on
display in Charlottesville shocked the
nation, and politicians all over the spectrum
issued strong condemnations of the rally.
Gov. Terry McAuliffe and Charlottesville Mayor Mike
Signer denounced only the alleged “white nationalists,”
not the Left-wing counter-protestors and anarchists whose
adherents showed up specifically to counter the protest
with violence.
And of course, the disgustingly dishonest “mainstream”
media praised both of these Democrats for their ‘heroic
condemnation of hate and bigotry.’ But, as The Daily
Caller points out, no one in the media is bothering to ask
either of them why they allowed the demonstration to
transform itself into a battlefield, pitting political
extremists against one another.
“Law enforcement was on hand at the
dueling demonstrations on Saturday,
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decked out in riot gear and looking
prepared for the worst,” the site reported.
“Except they weren’t allowed to do their
job. Police on the scene were reported to
have been ordered to ‘not intervene until
given command to do so, according to the
ACLU. That kept them from suppressing
the numerous scuffles that broke out.”
When cops were ordered to disperse the right-leaning rally,
that act then directed white nationalists towards and into
the far Left demonstrators, which led to even more street
fights.
ProPublica reported that state police and National Guard
troops mostly stood by while people wailed on each other.
The question is, why? Why would cops intentionally be
ordered to stand down rather than step up and intervene
before the situation got completely out of hand (which it
soon did when a car driven by an alleged white
supremacist rammed into a crowd of people, killing one
person and injuring 20-plus more). (Related: George
Soros’ attempt to start a Left-wing revolution will end
badly when Patriots step up to defend liberty.)
Or perhaps a more appropriate question is, Who benefits
from this melee? Because it certainly isn’t President
Trump, conservatives, southern sympathizers, whites or
anyone who isn’t a far-Left Marxist.
Events this weekend appear to be just the latest salvo in a
widening culture war led by Left-wing revolutionary types
who are determined to keep us angry, divided and fighting
each other rather than uniting to solve problems and issues
all of us are dealing with.
When it comes to the Left’s political objectives, nothing is
ever as it seems.
 White House Chief Strategist
Steve Bannon May Leave The Job By Friday
News Commentary
By Jim E
August 15, 2017 3:51PM
It’s been a long time coming, but it looks like White House
Chief Strategist Steve Bannon may be on his way out of
the Trump Administration.
Multiple outlets are reporting that President Trump is
unhappy with Bannon. Numerous advisers, including Fox
News owner Rupert Murdoch, are pressuring Trump to
jettison Bannon.
The tragedy of Charlottesville has put more pressure on
Trump to drop his controversial strategist, as many see him
as a secret ally of white supremacists. Indeed, it’s not
looking good for the former chairman of Breitbart News.
According to The Hill, members of Trump’s National
Diversity Council are also pressuring him to drop Bannon.
Here are more details from the Daily Mail:
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CBS News reported Monday night that the
axe could fall as soon as Friday on the man
credited with arranging the president’s
marriage to millions of angry white working-
class voters last year.
The former Breitbart News executive chairman was once
an equal partner in a ruling triumvirate of deputies that
included Chief of Staff Reince Priebus and presidential
son-in-law Jared Kushner.
But Priebus’s star ran out of fuel last month. And his
successor John Kelly is a no-nonsense retired Marine
Corps general seen as a walking antidote to the chaos that
marked Trump’s first half-year in office.
Even Trump has hinted in recent months that he’s not
pleased with Bannon, telling the Wall Street Journal in
April,
“I like Steve, but you have to remember he
was not involved in my campaign until very
late.”
Many parties think that Trump dumping Bannon will give
his White House a better image. I’m skeptical. It’s more
than obvious by now that Democrats and the liberal media
will never like Trump. They’ll never stop hammering him
until he’s impeached. So why give in to them?
Bannon is widely regarded as the keeper of the base. He
understands why Trump has the support he does. And he
helped engineer one of the greatest political upsets in
American history.
Ditching Bannon could doom Trump for 2020. He should
think long and hard before making the decision.
 CNN’s Don Lemon Defends US Flag Burning Antifa
Terrorists: They’re Fighting Fascism (VIDEO)
Cristina Laila
Aug 15th, 2017 9:32 pm

Very fake news CNN’s Don Lemon tactics weren’t exactly right. All groups like
defended American flag burning that, political groups, rights groups, protest
masked members of Antifa on Tuesday groups…It is messy, but there is a
after President Trump called out difference between the two groups,” Don
violence from the alt-left. Lemon Lemon continued.
claimed Antifa activists are just fighting
“One is a Nazi, white supremacist group.
fascism. What they want to do in their hearts is
extinguish people that look like me and
A friendly reminder: Antifa activists actually admit they you, Wolf, Jewish people, black people,
are seeking to overthrow democracy and American civil even women. They don’t think we are
society. We shouldn’t be surprised that CNN and Don equal. The other is a protest group,
Lemon defend these terrorists. protesting a political and racist movement. I
am not saying that that group, all of their
tactics are right. They were there protesting
hate in America.”

So Don Lemon believes members of society who destroy

property, assault police officers, violently attack Trump
supporters and burn American flags while waving the
Soviet flag are ‘protesting hate in America’.

A violent Antifa protester was also arrested for slashing a

police horse in the face.

Trump official Mike Caputo said Antifa threatened to burn

“I’m saddened, Wolf. Sitting here, thinking down his house and kill his wife and children.
as we were about to go on the air, ‘what
am I going to say to Wolf Blitzer? What am Don Lemon proudly defended this hate and violence
I going to say to my colleagues, to the because it is towards Trump supporters.
country and the world who is watching?’
This is a sad moment for the country. I
think it was an awful moment for the person
who’s supposed to represent the highest
office of the land. I mean, there today you
saw the real Donald Trump proving all of
his critics right in that moment,” Don Lemon
said.
“Everyone was sitting there watching,
saying ‘here we go, his true colors are
coming out.’ To equate a group that is a
protest group, two protests groups. Yes,
they are both protest groups and they are
talking about Antifa calling them the alt-left.
Well that group protests fascism so they
were there protesting fascism. Maybe their
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 EDITORIAL: Donald Trump,
America’s Bigot In Chief
Editorials
08/15/2017, 09:14pm
President Donald Trump speaks to the media in the lobby of Trump
Tower in New York on Tuesday. | Pablo Martinez
Monsivais/Associated Press
Sun-Times Editorial Board
Children, cover your ears.
Decent people, speak out.
Fellow Americans, do you share our sense
of shame?
Just when we thought President Donald Trump could
embarrass our nation no worse, after he declined for two
full days to denounce the white supremacists who brought
deadly violence to Charlottesville, Virginia — and after
doing so only with pouting reluctance, reading from a
script — he revealed his true self again on Tuesday, and it
was ugly.
EDITORIAL
Did Trump finally go off the rails? More accurately, we
would say, he ran hard down the same dark track he’s been
chasing all along.
Good Americans, who understand and cherish the
multicultural diversity that has always been our nation’s
strength and soul, were appalled on Saturday when Trump
declined to call out the alt-right fascists for the violence in
Charlottesville, instead placing blame on “many sides.” As
if haters and those who stand against haters are one in the
same.
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But on Tuesday, if we had any doubt where Trump’s true
sentiments lie, he was right back at it.
He insisted again there was “blame on both sides.” He
criticized “alt-left” groups, by which he apparently meant
those who take the crazy view that racism must be resisted,
as “very, very violent.” He offered comforting words — so
thoughtful of him — to those who showed up with their
Nazi flags, racist chants, fascist haircuts and Klan-like
torches.
“Not all of those people were neo-Nazis,
believe me,” Trump said. “Not all of those
people were white supremacists by any
stretch.”
Maybe not. Probably not. Many of them were just happy to
stand with neo-Nazis and white supremacists. What’s so
wrong with joining forces with haters to keep a statue of a
man on a horse from being torn down?
Tell that to Heather Heyer. She’s the 32-year-old woman
who was mowed down and killed by a car allegedly driven
by one of those Nazi fanboys. Tell her how hate has its
charms when you’re rallying around the memory of a Civil
War general, Robert E. Lee, who fought for the right of
white people to own black people.
Ms. Heyer might have taken a different view.
President Trump said there is blame on “many sides.” He
said there is “blame on both sides.” His dog whistling
takes your breath away.
But, above all, Trump is to blame. He’s been welcoming
haters out of their holes and into the sunlight since before
he even ran for office.
He was so slow to denounce David Duke, the former Klan
leader.
He was so reluctant to disavow the support of Richard
Spencer, the alt-right racist or neo-Nazi or white
nationalist. Whatever you call these people, it’s all the
same.
He was so thrilled when his supporters at rallies pounded
on protesters. He shouted,
“I’d like to punch him in the face.”
Trump was so eager to spread the rumor Barack Obama
was not a legal American. He is determined to slam the
door on desperate refugees who, God forbid, are Muslims.
He so wants to build that stupid “wall.”
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The haters who marched in Charlottesville carried photos
of Trump.
A better president — a better man — would have cried at
the sight.
This is how Donald Trump will go down in American
history, as our bigot in chief.
 Shock: Mainstream Media
Now Openly Praising And Supporting Violent,
Criminal Leftist Gang Antifa
By Alex Thomas -
08.16.2017 @12:46 AM EDT
Mainstream press moving to legitimize
violent attacks by the hard-left
(INTELLIHUB) — In yet another shocking display of how
far the mainstream media is willing to go to take out
Donald Trump, various news outlets have essentially
aligned themselves with the violent, left-wing anti-fascist
group Antifa.
Yahoo News, CNN, and numerous other publications have
all published uncritical pieces on the transparently violent
group over the last 48 hours while at the same time
attacking the president with “fake news” claims that he
didn’t disavow white supremacists in his numerous
statements to the nation after the horrific car attack in
Virginia.
In perhaps the most shockingly blatant piece of
propaganda on the group, Yahoo News published a piece
by Caitlin Dickson that gushed over the “combative
leftists”, even going as far as to include a photo of a
“happy” group of warriors with their fists raised.
“Short for antifacist, the term “antifa” refers
to a secretive movement of combative
leftists, including many self-described
anarchists, who are ready and willing to
use violence in order to fight white
supremacists, neo-Nazis, and others they
deem to be fascists,” Dickson wrote.
In her quest to legitimize the group, Dickson specifically
downplays their origins, leaving out key parts that would
obviously turn off the causal reader.
“Like the authoritarian movements they
seek to destroy, the antifa’s origins can be
traced back to Europe in the 1920s and
30s. Since the end of World War II, antifa
activity has ebbed and flowed along with
that of neo-Nazis, skinheads and other
hate movements that have sprung up
around the United Kingdom, Germany and
the United States,” she continued.
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As Breitbart noted in an article about the
piece, “In fact, as the avowedly Marxist-
socialist eriodical Jacobin magazine
explains in a much more honest, if not less
enthusiastic, appraisal, Antifa, originally
known in its native Germany as
Antifaschistische Aktion, was founded as
the militant wing of the German Communist
Party. In the 1930s, it was known to be
every bit as violent as its Nazi opponents.
After World War Two, Antifa groups re-
formed in Germany to collaborate with
Soviet communists on subduing the
country and rooting out its past to create a
new socialist utopia. They were active in
Communist-controlled East Germany until
that country’s Stalinist leadership got fed
up, broke the groups up, and sent many of
their leaders to gulags.”
To be fair, if you are writing a fawning piece you most
likely wouldn’t want the general public to know the above
noted stunning facts.
Dickson goes on to write that,
“They prefer direct action: They pressure
venues to deny white supremacists space
to meet,” while completely failing to
mention the actual violence that is the
“direct action”.
“Neglecting to mention that “direct action”
to Antifa means smashing people in the
face with bike locks, spraying elderly men
with bear mace, sending reporters to the
hospital when they film them, and
then bragging about it online, all because
people with different opinions than theirs
are allowed to speak, or simply be, in
public,” the Breitbart piece continued.
CNN goes all in for Antifa
For their part, noted anti-Trump “news” network CNN has
gone into overdrive in their shilling for the violent leftist
group, with at least three different examples of their
employees either expressing support for or downplaying
actions carried out by Antifa.
First the network wrote an “explainer” piece on the group
that literally failed to mention any of the violence they
have carried out, instead opting to causally mention
“property damage” for the reasons they remain
controversial.
“In the section, “Why are they
controversial?” CNN states that “the group
is known for causing damage to property
during protests.” This, in fact, is only one
key reason why Antifa is “controversial” —
the other is violence,” The Daily Caller
reported.
“Antifa’s violence ranges from stabbing a
police horse in the neck to beating
people with bike locks.
Antifa physically assaulted a reporter with The Daily
Caller News Foundation in January and a search on
YouTube reveals hours of footage displaying Antifa
violence from protests across the nation. Antifa thugs are
additionally known for assaulting police officers and
chasing down fleeing people in order to beat them.”
CNN Correspondent Sara Sidner then took to the airwaves
in an obvious attempt at legitimizing violence as long as its
against anyone the left deems to be racist.
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“There’s a group of anti-fascist called the
black bloc, which do tend to get violent,”
Sidner admitted. “Their idea is, look, non-
violence hasn’t worked, we are going to try
to stop this.”
“But, they wouldn’t have been there, they
wouldn’t have been anywhere near there
had it not been for the fact that white
supremacists and neo-Nazis were out there
scaring the living daylights out of most of
the people in that town,” she continued.
Lastly, the publicly anti-Trump CNN host Don Lemon had
to join in, downplaying literally everything about the group
in another unhinged rant about the president.
“Everyone was sitting there watching,
saying here we go, his true colors are
coming out. To equate a group that is a
protest group, two protests group. Yes,
they are both protest groups, calling antifa.
They were there protesting fascism. Maybe
their tactics weren’t exactly right. It is
messy. There is a difference between the
two groups,” Lemon claimed.
Keep in mind all the documented attacks carried out by
Antifa. To people like Lemon, as long as they are against
the president they are apparently allies.
 North Korea 'WON' Battle With
Donald Trump And United States, Warns Security Expert
NORTH KOREA Won A Battle Of Rhetoric With Donald Trump And
The United States, According To A Security Expert.
By Joe Barnes
PUBLISHED: 07:54, Wed, Aug 16, 2017 | UPDATED: 08:10, Wed, Aug 16, 2017

North Korea leader Kim Jong-un exchanged a multitude of He said:

threats with United States President Donald Trump after it
was reported the despot dictator had held meetings in “You don’t shoot at people in this world
Pyongyang about the possibility of targeting US territory unless you want to bear the
Guam with a missile attack. consequences.”

Mr Trump promised to retaliate with “fire and fury” as he Speaking to Fox, James Metzl, who served on the National
upped the rhetoric about a potential start of World War 3. Security Council under the Clinton administration, said Mr
Trump and the US had been dragged into a war of words
However, North Korea has seemingly climbed down from and lost.
their threat to fire missiles at the US territory of Guam,
opting instead to wait and see what the “foolish Yankees”
do next.

Reports in state media said Kim Jong-un had

“examined the plan for a long time and

discussed it with the commanding officers
in real earnest”.

He said:

“North Korea was never going to attack

GETTY•FOX - North Korea news: North Korea won the recent
battle with Donald Trump, according to James Metzl
It then claimed the dictator would
“watch a little more the foolish and stupid
conduct of the Yankees”.
Guam, so we’ve had this whole exchange
where the President of the United States
comes down – for the first time ever – to
the rhetorical level of the leader of North
Korea.
“We are hurling insults back and forth, and
then at the end of the week people are
saying it’s this big victory that North Korea
didn’t attack Guam – they were never going
to do that because that would be suicidal,
and they’ve known that for 70 years.

The comments came after Secretary of Defence James “I don’t know why people are saying North
Mattis warned it would be “game on” if the rogue state Korea blinked because North Korea won
moved first to attack the US. this exchange, and we’ll see what happens
next.”

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Other experts claim Pyongyang’s step-down gives the US
and Donald Trump a window of a few days to negotiate a
peaceful conclusion to the standoff.
Vipen Narang, an associate professor at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology specialising in nuclear strategy.
“I think people are not reading the
statement,” he said. “This is literally
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restating the threat and leaving space for
some quid pro quo and space for
negotiation.
“But the threat remains. It’s not like he took
the threat off the table. If the US does
anything that he sees as provocative, he
has reviewed the plan and now stands
poised to execute it.”
 Gingrich: ‘President Trump Is Telling Americans
The Truth And The Elite Media And Left Hate It’
Former Speaker Of The House Tells It Like It Is, Says
'Both Sides Are To Blame,' Elite Media Is Lying
By Shepard Ambellas -
08.16.2017 @11:27 AM EDT

(INTELLIHUB) — Former Speaker of the House Newt
Gingrich hit the nail on the head Tuesday evening when
he told Fox News’ Sean Hannity that both the left and the
right came to Charlottesville to create violence as the
American Civil Liberties Union had already pointed out on
their twitter feed and that the “elite media” are fabricating
a “big lie.”
should condemn noo-Nazis — they are an
anti-Christian totalitarian anti-Semitic
movement — we should be very tough on
them. I think we should condemn racism,
but frankly, I think we should condemn
racism on both sides.”

“The truth is, President Trump is telling

the American people the truth and the
elite media hates it and the left hates it
and he’s going right at the heart of the
big lie on the left,” the former Speaker
said. “Most of the violence we have seen
politically this year has been on the
left.”
“Let’s be really clear here what we’re faced
with in this country,” he said. I think we
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 Trump Abruptly Ends Manufacturing
Council After CEOs Disband Strategy And Policy Forum
CNBC.Com Staff | @CNBC
August 16, 2017

Getty Images - President Donald Trump speaks during the opening

of a listening session with manufacturing CEOs in the State Dining
Room of the White House February 23, 2017 in Washington, DC.
After an exodus of CEOs from the President's
Manufacturing Council and business leaders' abrupt
decision to dissolve the Strategic and Policy Council,
President Donald Trump tweeted Wednesday that he
would end both.
.
Corporate leaders distanced themselves from Trump this
week after his tepid response to violence at a white
nationalist rally over the weekend in Charlottesville,
Virginia.
This story is developing. Please check back for further
update

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 Mitt Romney Defends Peaceful
Antifa Terrorists – Gets Schooled By Twitter
Jim Hoft
Aug 16th, 2017 7:35 Am

Mitt Romney joined the fray on Tuesday

defending the violent club-wielding
Antifa terrorists from Charlottesville.

An ignorant Mitt Romney defended the Antifa terrorists

for rejecting “racism and bigotry.”

This did not go unnoticed.

Romney got schooled on Twitter for

defending the violent domestic terrorist
group.

Ann Coulter tore into the former Republican leader.

Rep. Steve Smith added this:

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Finally… The Antifa terrorists brought flame throwers and
soda cans filled with cement on Saturday.

So peaceful.

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 Trump Ends Business Councils
As CEOs Turn Against President
By Zachary Tracer And Matthew Townsend
August 16, 2017, 11:52 AM CDT August 16, 2017, 12:24 PM CDT
President Donald Trump. Photographer: Mark Wilson/Getty Images
Donald Trump said he’s disbanding two advisory groups
of American business leaders, after CEOs quit this week as
the president faced blowback for failing to sufficiently
condemn white supremacists.
Trump made the announcement on Twitter, less than an
hour after one of the groups was said to be planning to
inform the White House that it would disband.
“Rather than putting pressure on the
business people of the Manufacturing
Council & Strategy & Policy Forum, I am
ending both. Thank you all!” Trump said on
Twitter.
His remarks were a reversal of what he said a day before,
when he tweeted that he had plenty of CEOs who wanted
to be on the panels to replace those who quit, and called
the CEOs who left “grandstanders.”
The executive council, which is led by Blackstone Group
LP’s Stephen Schwarzman, planned to inform the White
House Wednesday before making the announcement
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public, according to a person familiar with the matter, who
wasn’t authorized to discuss the news publicly.
The strategy group is one of several the White House
convened earlier this year to advise the president. Several
CEOs from a manufacturing council quit this week,
following blowback over Trump’s remarks about racially
charged violence in Virginia on Saturday.
Pressure to leave the groups has built following a press
conference Trump held in New York Tuesday where he
placed partial blame for the weekend violence on
demonstrators protesting a gathering of white supremacists
in Charlottesville, Virginia. A woman was killed during
the event after a man rammed a car into a crowd.
While more than half a dozen CEOs have quit a
manufacturing CEO group, others have said they wanted to
stay on the panels in order to influence White House
policy.
The manufacturing council hasn’t met since February. The
CEOs of Under Armour, Intel, Merck quit earlier this
week. And on Wednesday, Inge Thulin, CEO of 3M left,
as did Campbell Soup CEO Denise Morrison.
“Following yesterday’s remarks from the
president, I cannot remain on the
Manufacturing Jobs Initiative,” Morrison
said in a statement. “I will continue to
support all efforts to spur economic growth
and advocate for the values that have
always made America great.”
— With assistance by Justin Sink
 Trump Defiant On Charlottesville Unrest:
'Blame On Both Sides'
Jerome CARTILLIER - AFP
August 16, 2017
New York (AFP) - US President Donald Trump sparked
another political firestorm Tuesday when he doubled down
on his initial response to the violent white supremacist
rally in Charlottesville that ended in bloodshed, saying
there was "blame on both sides."
The Republican president -- who one day ago solemnly
denounced racism and singled out the Ku Klux Klan and
neo-Nazis as "criminals and thugs" -- also hit out at what
he called the "alt-left" over the weekend melee.
Trump has faced days of criticism from across the political
spectrum over his reaction to Saturday's unrest in the
Virginia college town, where a rally by neo-Nazis and
white supremacists over the removal of a Confederate
statue erupted in clashes with counter-demonstrators.
The violent fracas ended in bloodshed when a 20-year-old
suspected Nazi sympathizer, James Fields, plowed his car
into a crowd of anti-racism protesters, leaving one woman
dead and 19 others injured.
In a rowdy exchange with journalists at Trump Tower in
New York, Trump made clear on Tuesday that he was fed
up with continued questioning about the issue.
"I think there is blame on both sides,"
Trump said.
His new White House Chief of Staff John Kelly, a former
Marine general, appeared displeased during the president's
long tirade, standing rigidly.
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"You had a group on one side that was bad, and you had a
group on the other side that was also very violent. And
nobody wants to say that, but I'll say it right now," Trump
continued.
"What about the alt-left that came charging... at the, as you
say, the alt-right? Do they have any semblance of guilt?
(...) There are two sides to a story."
"What about the fact they came charging
with clubs in their hands, swinging clubs?
Do they have any problem? I think they do.
As far as I am concerned, that was a
horrible, horrible day," Trump said.
- 'No words' -
Trump's comments were immediately welcomed by David
Duke, a former "grand wizard" of the Ku Klux Klan and a
key figure at Saturday's rally.
"Thank you President Trump for your
honesty & courage to tell the truth about
#Charlottesville & condemn the leftist
terrorists," Duke tweeted.
But on the political left, the president's words were met
with indignation.
Trump's predecessor Barack Obama, the first black US
president, said on Twitter:
"No one is born hating another person
because of the color of his skin or his
background or his religion."
Obama's tweet was the most liked in history, according to
the site.
Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont launched a broadside
at Trump, tweeting at the president:
"you are embarrassing our country and the
millions of Americans who fought and died
to defeat Nazism."
 "Charlottesville violence was fueled by one
side: white supremacists spreading racism,
intolerance & intimidation. Those are the
facts," said Tim Kaine, a former Democratic
vice presidential candidate and senator
from Virginia.
The state's other Democratic senator, Mark Warner,
tweeted:
"No words."
Trump's fellow Republicans were also quick to distance
themselves from his remarks.
"We must be clear. White supremacy is
repulsive," Republican House Speaker
Paul Ryan wrote on Twitter.
"This bigotry is counter to all this country
stands for. There can be no moral
ambiguity."
And the condemnations also spilled beyond the political
realm.
NBA superstar LeBron James tweeted:
"Hate has always existed in America. Yes
we know that but Donald Trump just made
it fashionable again!"
After the contentious press conference, the head of the
main US labor union, the AFL-CIO, joined several high-
powered executives in stepping down from Trump's
manufacturing advisory panel.
Outside Trump Tower where the president spoke,
hundreds of people protested to denounce racism. They
were surrounded by police officers to prevent clashes with
a handful of Trump supporters nearby.
Protesters chanted:
"We are here to stay, we are here to fight!"
"I would not have come here if I had not
seen him say that on TV 20 minutes ago,"
said actor Jason David, 23.
- 'George Washington next week?' -
When asked why he waited until Monday to explicitly
condemn hate groups present in Charlottesville, Trump
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said he wanted to be careful not to make a "quick
statement" on Saturday without all the facts.
"I wanted to make sure, unlike most
politicians, that what I said was correct,"
Trump insisted.
Trump called Fields, who has been charged with second-
degree murder, a
"disgrace to himself, his family and this
country."
But he also said that while there were troublemakers at the
rally, there were also many people there
"to innocently protest and very legally
protest" the removal of a "very important
statue" of Confederate general Robert E
Lee.
"I wonder, is it George Washington next
week? And is it Thomas Jefferson the week
after?" he said angrily, referring to the fact
they owned slaves.
"Are we going to take down statues to
George Washington? How about Thomas
Jefferson? ... You're changing history.
You're changing culture."
The president also defended his controversial far-right
chief strategist Steve Bannon, insisting that "he is not a
racist," but without ruling out his possible departure from
the West Wing.
Pressed as to whether he might visit Charlottesville, Trump
-- criticised by some for not telephoning victims of the
violence -- said he owns "one of the largest wineries in the
United States" in that area.
The president bought the winery in 2011 and has given it
to his son, Eric Trump.
Lawmaker Gwen Moore, a Wisconsin Democrat, urged
Republicans to help remove Trump from office.
"My Republican friends, I implore you to
work with us within our capacity as elected
officials to remove this man as our
commander-in-chief and help us move
forward from this dark period in our nation's
history," she said in a statement.
 Larry Summers Loses It:
"Trump Is Endorsing White Supremacists",
Asks How Supporters "Face Their Children"
By Tyler Durden
Aug 16, 2017 1:44 PM
Even CNBC was forced to call Larry Summers on some of
his more vociferous Trump slander this morning as the
former Treasury Secretary took to the air in a follow-up to
an op-ed that demanded all CEOs should quity
Trump's councils or "they will be on the wrong side of
history."
Summers pulled no punches as he began:
"President Trump is endorsing white
supremacists, he is 'uncomfortably
close' to white supremcists... our
President is supporting racists"
Which prompted CNBC's Carl Quintinilla to correct
Summers that there was, in fact, no endorsement for neo-
nazis.
But that didn't matter for Summers had one clear message
to deliver (as is clear in his op-ed):
...the President has again and again
traduced American values of
international cooperation, of integrity in
government, and of human decency.
No advisor committed to the bipartisan American
traditions of government can possibly believe he or she is
being effective at this point. And all should feel ashamed
for complicity in Trump's words and deeds. I sometimes
wonder how they face their children.
After this weekend, I am not sure what it
would take to get these CEOs to resign.
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Demonizing ethnic groups? That has happened.
Renouncing international agreements that have supported
business interests? That has happened. Personal
profiteering from the Presidency? Also happened. Failure
to deliver on ballyhooed promises? That has happened as
well.
Summers then went to explain that
"the CEOs that remain will be on the wrong
side of history,"
going on to equate their currenct actions to historical
companies that have supported racism, anti-semitism, and
homophobia.
Summers then singled out Walmart CEO Doug McMillon,
who this week condemned Trump's remarks in the wake of
the rally but said he would remain on one of the president's
advisory councils regardless.
Maybe Wal-Mart's CEO is 'scared' not to be on Trump's
council: Fmr. Treasury secretary from CNBC.
"He is not fit to be the CEO of Walmart if
his judgment is so bad as to suppose
that being a member of this council is
giving him some sort of effectiveness,"
Summers said in an interview on CNBC.
"What he may be - and what a number of
CEOs are - is scared. Scared that if they
leave, the president, using the tools of
government, will retaliate."
Summers called that reasoning "egoistic delusion."
"It is absurd to suppose that if the CEO
of Walmart wishes to speak to anyone in
the Senate, anyone in the president's
cabinet, or key officials in the White
House, he will be unable to if he is not a
member of the presidents' council."
 "I cannot understand why others have not
followed Ken Frazier out the door,"
Summers said, referring to the CEO of
Merck, who was the first to leave the
council. "This is not a happy day for
American business."
He said CEOs who remain on the president's councils are
legitimizing what he called Trump's "endorsement" of
white supremacists.
"I don't know how people who are
supporting them are able to face their
children," Summers said.
Summers then said in and interview on
Bloomberg Television that some CEOs
fear retaliation from President Donald
Trump if they oppose him and see "safety
in numbers... more CEOs deserting
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Trump’s manufacturing council would
be constructive for the government and
the country."
Summers also said Wednesday he's surprised no officials
of Trump's administration have resigned.
"There's a tradition in America of people
of principle when they are sufficiently
offended and disagree with their
president on matters fundamental
resign," he said.
"I have been disappointed that there
have been no resignations on principle
by the political appointees of this
administration."
But apart from that, we wonder how he really feels.
 The Violence In Charlottesville Was Orchestrated And
Engineered By The Mayor Of Charlottesville Michael
Signer And Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe
By Ian Shilling
Published August 16, 2017 · Updated August 17, 2017

and Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe who want

“liberals” to focus on a sideshow while the Oligarchs they
work for continue to run off with the loot while
devastating the middle class.

Michael Signer works for George Soros. He gets paid by

the Soros funded “Center for American Progress” which,
like all Soros funded groups, actually pushes for societal
breakdown and anti democratic Global Corporatism by a
small cabal of banking and Corporate elites.

Michael Signer is also a close associate of Virginia

Governor Terry McAuliffe and John Podesta – both close
The violence in Charlottesville was orchestrated and associates of the Clinton Crime Family.
engineered by the Mayor of Charlottesville Michael Signer

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Michael Signer’s Wikipedia entry:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Signer
The Police and the National Guard were ready in full riot
gear in large numbers at Charlottesville to prevent
violence. They were told not to intervene and let the
violence escalate.
ACLU confirms Charlottesville police told to ‘stand
down’, did nothing as War Broke Out
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/confirmed-police-told-
stand-charlottesville/
Standard police procedure at such protests is to cordon off
each side of the protest into separate areas and have a
police line between the two groups to prevent violence.
This didn’t happen.
Also directly contrary to standard police procedures, the
police after cancelling the legally licensed right wing
protest, actually ordered the right wing protestors to
disperse into the (unauthorized and unlicensed) antifa
protestors area, thus ensuring there would be violence.
The Antifa “protestors” were armed with wooden clubs
and baseball bats
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Its also interesting to note that one of the two organizers of
the seemingly right wing protest, using as a pretext the
removal of a statue of General Robert E. Lee but in reality
organized to provoke racially motivated violence and more
hate, is Jason Kessler.
Jason Kessler was involved with Occupy Wall Street –
how KKK and right wing racist is that???? /sarc off
‘Unite the Right’ Organizer Jason Kessler Was Obama
Supporter Involved With Occupy Movement
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-08-14/report-
%E2%80%98unite-right%E2%80%99-organizer-jason-
kessler-was-occupy-movement-obama-supporter-8-m
So is Jason Kessler a paid Agent Provocateur or a political
opportunist?
Shock! Not shocked. Charlottesville Mayor
Mike Signer makes Political Capital out of
the Violence he helped engineer and
pushes Soros’ agenda
http://www.nbc29.com/story/34389763/charlottesville-
mayor-holds-rally-to-declare-city-capital-of-resistance
Long time Clinton Crime Family associate, Virginia
Governor Terry McAuliffe is angling at a run for the
Presidency. The violence at Charlottesville gave him the
perfect opportunity to Virtue Signal for some personal PR
in national media.
He wasted no time in trying to blame Trump for the
violence that he and Signer had deliberately orchestrated
and engineered.
 WAKE UP, People! Alt-Left And Alt-Right
Are Run By The Same Forces… The Goal Is
“Divide And Conquer”
By Mike Adams
Wednesday, August 16, 2017
We’re all being played. The so-called
“Alt-Left” and “Alt-Right” are all rooted
in elaborate, deadly street theater being
played out on the national stage with
real consequences (such as killing
innocents on camera).
If you have been swept up into the engineered hatred of all
this, you’ve been suckered by the globalists who are
running this entire show.
In truth, most people in America aren’t
filled with hatred for others of different
skin color, races, religions or genders.
Most people just want to get along. But the goal of the Alt-
Left and Alt-Right movements is to divide and conquer
America through hatred and media lies that push false
narratives for political gain.
As evidence of all this, note that Jason Kessler, the
organizer of the Charlottesville event, actually worked for
Obama and the Occupy movement just a few months ago.
This man is a professional activist and social engineer who
whips up big events on the world’s stage in order to
achieve highly visible outcomes that can be seized by the
mainstream media to condemn Trump supporters by
labeling them all racists and “KKK.”
Much of the organized Left is funded
either directly or indirectly by George
Soros, the same radical left-wing
operator who undercut freedom and
liberty across numerous European
countries.
He’s the funding source behind ThinkProgress and 200+
other radical left-wing groups that constantly lie, defame
and smear conservatives in order to sow hatred and
division. Radical Alt-Right groups, similarly, are led by
operatives who are very often working directly for the CIA
and FBI. Nearly all the KKK racism you see on the news is
contrived, elaborate theater carried out by these operatives.
Some of the racism is real, however, as actual racists
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follow the “leadership” of the contrived KKK social
engineers who are merely acting.
(The KKK, by the way, was founded and
run by Democrats.)
Case in point: Read this article: Racism RIGGED By
A&E: KKK “Documentary” Was Entirely Scripted;
A&E provided Nazi flags and wooden crosses to burn;
actors paid cash to say “ni@@er” on camera which
reminds us:
The KKK leaders who were interviewed by
Variety detailed how they were wooed with
promises the program would capture the
truth about life in the organization;
encouraged not to file taxes on cash
payments for agreeing to participate in the
filming; presented with pre-scripted fictional
story scenarios; instructed what to say on
camera; asked to misrepresent their actual
identities, motivations and relationships
with others, and re-enacted camera shoots
repeatedly until the production team was
satisfied.
The production team even paid for material
and equipment to construct and burn
wooden crosses and Nazi swastikas,
according to multiple sources including
Richard Nichols, who is one of the featured
subjects of the documentary series as the
Grand Dragon of a KKK cell known as the
Tennessee White Knights of the Invisible
Empire. He also said he was encouraged
by a producer to use the epithet “nigger” in
interviews.
“We were betrayed by the producers and
A&E,” said Nichols. “It was all made up—
pretty much everything we said and did
was fake and because that is what the film
people told us to do and say.”
Meanwhile, the media is using the hatred and division to
try to dethrone President Trump, and Antifa is using the
chaos to push for its goal to terrorize America while
overthrowing the government and installing communism.
This has all happened before in Mao’s communist Cultural
Revolution that mass-murdered liberty-oriented Chinese
citizens to install a communist dictatorship that continues
to this day.

Don’t be suckered into the emotional puppetry. You are all

being played by the powers that be.

You are nothing more than a pawn in

their script.

I say #ExitTheScript and rise above the programmed

hatred and media lies that are attempting to divide and
conquer America.

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 Trump And Charlottesville
By Robert Fantina
August 16, 2017

crime, he is mentally disturbed. A Black man who

commits a crime is representative of the entire race; a
Muslim who does so is said the represent the entire
religion of Islam. A white man who commits a crime?
He’s a ‘lone wolf’.

Let’s look at some of Mr. Trump’s past comments on

violence.

In May of this year, two men were killed in Portland,

Oregon, when they were defending a young Muslim
woman from attack by white supremacists. It wasn’t until
Monday, two days after the crime, that he made any
Photo by Adrián Martínez
comment about it. Then, ‘tweeting’ on the @POTUS
Twitter account, rather than his preferred
There was a time in the United States when a violent @RealDonaldTrump account, he said this: “The violent
gathering of neo-Nazis and their cohorts would have been attacks in Portland on Friday are unacceptable. The victims
condemned from the highest offices in the land. The Ku were standing up to hate and intolerance. Our prayers are
Klux Klan, white supremacists and others of their ilk w/ them.”
would hardly dare to march publically, and if they did,
every politician in government would weigh in with
Note that there is no mention of white supremacists; just
criticism, if for no other reason than to get their name in
the fact that the victims were standing up to hate and
the news.
intolerance.
How times have changed! All it takes is the election of one
Now, let’s compare this to his comments on the June terror
of their own, for racism to become fashionable again. As a
attacks in London, just days later. He began tweeting even
candidate, Donald Trump did nothing to temper his
before the facts were in: he began by retweeting a headline
feelings of hostility towards most people who didn’t fit
from the far-right Drudge Report. “Fears of new terror
into the white-Anglo-Saxon-Protestant mode. Of course,
attack after van ‘mows down 20 people’ on London
with a Jewish son-in-law, he did make some exceptions.
Bridge…”
But for Blacks, Mexicans, Muslims, gays, transgender
people, women – the list of those he holds in disdain is
endless. Were there such fears? Apparently not, if London Mayor
Sadiq Khan is to be believed. Shortly after the attacks, he
said this: “My message to Londoners and visitors to our
Following the march and rally in Charlottesville, in which
great city is to be calm and vigilant today. You will see an
one woman was killed by an avowed ‘Hitler lover’, Mr.
increased police presence today, including armed officers
Trump said this: “We condemn in the strongest possible
and uniformed officers. There is no reason to be alarmed
terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry, and
by this. We are the safest global city in the world. You saw
violence on many sides, on many sides. What is vital now
last night as a consequence of our planning, our
is a swift restoration of law and order and the protection of
preparation, the rehearsals that take place, the swift
innocent lives.” Significantly, the President refers to
response from the emergency services tackling the
violence “on many sides”, and in no way condemns
terrorists and also helping the injured.[i]”
racism.
Yet Mr. Trump was having none of it. Following Mr.
It has become an almost accepted belief in the U.S., that if
Kahn’s statement, the president tweeted the following: “At
a Black man commits a crime, he is thug or criminal; if a
least 7 dead and 48 wounded in terror attack, and Mayor of
Muslim commits a crime, he is a terrorist, but if a white
London says there is ‘no reason to be alarmed!’”
man, regardless of his religious background, or lack
thereof (unless he happens to be a Muslim), commits a
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But he didn’t stop there. He used that attack has a bully
pulpit for his Muslim ban. Among his other ‘tweets’, he
said this: “We need the Travel Ban as an extra level of
safety!”
It has dismayed the president no end that judges keep
finding his proposed travel ban unconstitutional. And
while he denies that it is a ‘Muslim’ ban, it targets mainly
Muslim countries. It also is the logical step in keeping a
campaign promise, when he said this: “Donald J. Trump is
calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims
entering the United States until our country’s
representatives can figure out what the hell is going on.”
Let’s look at this reasonably, if there can be anything
reasonable in Trump’s U.S.A. Muslims entering the
country are to undergo ‘extreme vetting’, but white
supremacists already there can do as they please, with no
criticism from a presidential ‘tweet’.
It has been said that the police in Charlottesville acted with
great restraint to maintain order. Can we picture, for just a
horrific moment or two, what would have happened if a
group of militant Black Lives Matter activists had marched
in Charlottesville? Or what about Muslims? If a group of
Muslims marched, demanding, perhaps, that the travel ban
not be implemented, how would the police have reacted?
Bodies would have been floating in the blood-flooded
streets.
And what of the government’s reaction? One can be quite
sure that the ‘Tweets’ coming from the White House
would condemn ‘black crime’ and ‘Muslim radicals’. The
president would have pulled no punches in naming names.
But not so for white supremacists. Those in Charlottesville
were just part of “violence on many sides”. James Alex
Fields, Jr., accused of plowing his car into a crowd, killing
one person and injuring nineteen others, was not named.
On August 14, two days after the rally in Charlottesville,
Mr. Trump, under pressure from almost all quarters, finally
Notes.
[i] https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/jun/04/trump-berates-london-mayor-sadiq-khan-terror-attacks
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said this: “Racism is evil and those who cause violence in
its name are criminals and thugs, including the KKK, neo-
Nazis, white supremacists and other hate groups that are
repugnant to everything we hold dear as Americans.”
So, two days after the fact, the president throws a bone to
justice.
Compare this to his ‘tweeting’ about London, before the
facts were even reported.
Yet even at this late date, he didn’t condemn any of it as
‘terrorism’, despite Attorney Generals Sessions’ statement,
as follows: the situation in Charlottesville “does meet the
definition of domestic terrorism in our statute”.
It is naïve to say that this is an anomaly, that Donald
Trump will eke out a single term, and then be replaced by
someone with a reasonable grasp of reality. The monster
has been loosed from the cage, and getting it back in will
not be easy. The latent vices of racism, Islamophobia,
misogyny and xenophobia that were restrained, although
hardly eliminated, now have a voice in the most powerful
office on the globe. Its countless minions are rising up, no
longer constrained by common decency, from uttering
their hate-fueled statements. A new president – any new
president – will only be elected with the support of this
newly-empowered element of the voting bloc. And getting
elected is what it is all about. The concept of
‘statesmanship’, if it ever existed in the U.S. (one would
need to work hard to convince this writer that it ever did),
is a thing of the long past.
This is the mighty U.S. today. This is how the current
president ‘makes America great again’. This is what
politicians from both major parties countenance, with only
tepid objections.
It is a sad time to be a U.S. citizen. But then again, when
has it ever not been?
 Trump Family Launches Hilarious
State-Run Propaganda News Network “Trump TV”
By Aaron Kesel
August 16, 2017

In a world of fake news and alternative facts it can be hard
to get the “truth,” so U.S. President Donald Trump has
quietly launched his own ‘propaganda’ news network in a
move straight out of George Orwell’s dystopian society
1984, a Ministry of Truth.
whether she is being paid by the Trump campaign or the
White House.
1984‘s sales raised the book back to the bestseller’s list on
Amazon after Trump’s inauguration, NYPost reported.

In Orwell’s novel, the Ministry of Truth’s purpose was to In another video, Lara Trump talks about the president’s
dictate and protect the government’s version of reality. successes.

Last week, it went silently unnoticed as the Trump “I bet you haven’t heard about all the
campaign launched a state propaganda news network. accomplishments the president had this
week because there’s so much fake news
President Donald Trump’s daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, out there,” she said at the beginning of the
will head the “news organization” being deemed “Trump video, The Hill reported. “We wanted to
TV” funded by Trump’s reelection campaign according to give you a glimpse into his week,” Lara
The Daily Beast. Trump added.

Trump’s plight about MSM news and their lack of positive However, it’s the way she signs off the network that is
news about his administration will finally be heard using worrying.
Facebook to broadcast “Trump TV.” Topics include job
growth, the stock market, the economy and any other “Thanks for joining us everybody. I’m Lara
positive news about Trump’s achievements for the week. Trump, and that is the real news,” Laura
Trump said concluding the video.
“More great economic news on Friday,”
former pro-Trump CNN commentator
Kayleigh McEnany says, seated in front of
a blue Trump-Pence themed wall to give
“the real news.”

Former U.S. Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul

tweeted that the video felt like “state-owned channels” in
other countries.

McEnany has also just been announced to be

the Republican National Committee’s national
spokesperson, Politico reported. It’s unclear if this new job
will affect McEnany’s ability to also be the propaganda
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The director of Campaign Legal Center, Brendan Fischer,
told The Daily Beast that the president “is now using
campaign funds to create what looks like a quasi-state TV
project.”
“A disclaimer stating that this is paid for by
the Trump campaign appears particularly
important here,” Fischer continued.
While Trump TV may highlight his accomplishments it
certainly won’t highlight his scandals and it’s important to
get a balanced diet of propaganda.
Previously MSNBC’s Co-host of Morning Joe, Mika
Brzezinski, has stated that it was the media’s job to
“control exactly what people think.” Here at Activist Post
we think it’s your job to think for yourself.

That disclosure Whoever controls the media, controls the mind. – Jim
Morrison.
“is legally required for any other ad
broadcast by the Trump campaign,” he
further expressed, but “there is some
ambiguity about when a disclaimer is
required for ads posted exclusively on
social media, and the Trump campaign
may be trying to assert a loophole.”

The Late Show host, Stephen Colbert, spoofed President

Trump’s new “Real News” videos in a segment last
week “that looks like state-sponsored propaganda,”
Colbert said.

The comedian then cuts to a quick skit of his program

“Real News” in which the anchors mock Lara Trump.

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 If You Fire A Fascist, You’re A Fascist
By Ted Rall
August 16, 2017
Photo by Anders Sandberg
No one should get fired for his political beliefs.
Not even a Nazi.
I am disturbed by the news that some of the white
nationalists who attended the violent “Unite the Right”
hatefest in Charlottesville last weekend are being outted on
social media. Attendees have been on the receiving end of
threats and doxxing. It was reported that a restaurant
worker in Berkeley was canned after he was exposed on
Twitter.
Needless to say — it ought to be, anyway — I hate Nazis,
Klansmen and the like. Their politics and values are
exactly the opposite of mine. Still, no one should get fired
for parading around with torches like it’s Germany in
1933.
This isn’t a First Amendment issue. Nothing in our
outdated constitution prevents an employer from firing you
on account of your politics. In 2004 an Alabama company
even fired a woman for having a John Kerry for President
bumpersticker on her car.
It is a free speech issue.
A business has the right to control its employees’ behavior
in order to protect its image. Particularly in a liberal
stronghold like Berkeley but anywhere really, no one
wants a waiter wearing a swastika tattoo or spouting racist
views. But if Top Dog restaurant can fire a racist dude for
racist views he expresses thousands of miles away, there’s
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nothing to prevent Google from firing a software engineer
for sexism — or you for whatever you happen to believe.
Firing a worker for their politics — especially when those
politics are expressed outside the workplace — is
McCarthyism. McCarthyism is wrong, McCarthyism is
immoral and McCarthyism ought to be illegal.
As usual during episodes like this, many of my comrades
on the left are gloating over what they see as righteous
payback against violent, racist, anti-Semitic thugs. This
makes me very uncomfortable, and not just because it feels
more like the “human flesh search engine” online
vigilantism that occurs in China than the United States,
where the MYOB ethos ruled pre-Internet.
I don’t deny that this is personal. My political views have
gotten me targeted by a cyberstalker/identity thief, fired by
a publication over a cartoon that appeared elsewhere in
another venue, and defamed by a newspaper as a favor to
the local police chief who’d cozied up to the paper’s
publisher. I’ve been working long enough to observe that
what’s popular today gets censored tomorrow, and vice
versa. Top Dog gets plaudits for firing a fascist; next time
the victim could be a garden-variety Democrat.
“Historically it’s more dangerous as an
employee to be associated with racial
justice and the NAACP, than it was to be
affiliated with the KKK,” notes Walter
Greason, a historian and professor at
Monmouth University.
A sign posted by Top Dog management reflects a common
view:
“We do respect our employees’ right to
their opinions,” the sign read. “They are
free to make their own choices, but must
accept the responsibilities of those
choices.”
The question is, should those “responsibilities” include
being deprived of a livelihood?
I wish I had a dollar for every time I’ve read some
variation of
 “You have the right to be a
fascist/racist/sexist/jerk/communist, but
XYZ Corp. has the right to fire you too.” Or,
as Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. wrote in
1891: “A employee may have a
constitutional right to talk politics, but he
has no constitutional right to be employed.”
True, that’s the law. What I’m arguing is that free speech
will always be meaningless until the constitution is
amended. Workers should be protected from retribution for
what they think and say.
We live in a capitalist society. Except for those born rich,
we must work or else starve. The U.S. is the only nation
with at-will employment. And jobs are hard to find. Under
these conditions, without workplace free-speech
protections, employees must think twice before they attend
a rally, post a controversial memo, join a party or slap a
bumpersticker on their vehicle. Are you willing to risk
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unemployment, poverty and perhaps homelessness — not
just you, but also your spouse and children? If the answer
is “yes,” God bless you. History is made by people like
you.
For many others, though, the answer is “no, I can’t afford
free speech.” The upsides of free expression are intangible
while the downside risks are terrifyingly brutal. A 2016
Harris poll found that 33% of U.S. employees are afraid to
talk about politics at work. Increasingly workers have to
worry about losing their jobs as the result of talking about
politics outside of work too.
The American workplace is a fascist state. It’s time to
overthrow the millions of little Hitlers who think the fact
that issuing a paycheck turns their employees into slaves
subject to thought control.
Just don’t talk about this around anyone who knows where
you work.
 It’s Time To Arrest The Editor
Of The Washington Post — For Inciting Violence
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On August 16, 2017
The Post treats incitement as though it’s just a normal,
allowable reaction to President Donald J. Trump being in
the Oval Office instead of Hillary Clinton
(National Sentinel) Hostile media: The editor of
the Washington Post, Marty Baron, should get a visit from
federal law enforcement officials very soon because it
seems clear he has broken the law.
Namely, he has allowed publication of a column today by
a radical Left-wing professor who is openly
encouraging violence. This, just a couple of days
after political violence in Charlottesville, Va., committed
by both Right and Left groups, left one person dead and
dozens more injured.
And as such, he should be arrested.
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the
Freedom Center, agrees. In a column at Frontpage
Magazine, he is also calling for Baron to be arrested and
for the same purpose: Inciting riots:
Marty Baron lives in a $1.7 million condo in
Logan Circle. It’s seven blocks away from
the headquarters of the Washington Post.
And a 12 minute drive away from the FBI’s
J Edgar Hoover Building.
Arrest him.
His paper’s latest contribution to wrecking
this country is an editorial
titled “Charlottesville showed that liberalism
can’t defeat white supremacy. Only direct
action can.”
It concludes with, “Start throwing rocks.”
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“Resistance, be it forceful or clandestine,
threatened or explicit, stands as our ‘rock.’
Rocks can look like armed self-defense or
nonviolent direct-action campaigns,” N.D.
B. Connolly, a history professor at Johns
Hopkins who specializes in racism, wrote.
“In April 1968, amid a flurry of other ‘rocks,’
riots shook American cities following the
assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. It
took that rolling unrest, not the promise of
further economic growth, to spur President
Lyndon Johnson and Congress to action,”
he continued.
Greenfield:
Incitement to riot is a crime. And it’s about
time that the Washington Post along with
other media outlets was held accountable
for the violence that is tearing apart our
cities and our campuses.
Free speech covers a multitude of ugly
expressions. But as Brandenburg v. Ohio
established, it doesn’t cover speech
“directed at inciting or producing imminent
lawless action” if it is “likely to incite or
produce such action.”
Running an editorial in one of the most
powerful papers in the country that
concludes with, “Start throwing rocks”
meets both tests. Even when it’s masked in
metaphors and disguised with dog whistles.
The Post’s writers and editors should know that better than
anyone, he further notes. Former Post writer Emmett
Rensin, now with Vox Media, was suspended by his
employer for after he tweeted,
“Advice: If Trump comes to your town, start
a riot.”
Vox suspended Rensin because
“direct encouragement of riots crosses a
line between expressing a contrary opinion
 and directly encouraging dangerous, illegal
activity.”
The Post, however, treats incitement as though it’s just a
normal, allowable reaction to President Donald J. Trump
being in the Oval Office instead of Hillary Clinton.
Greenfield notes:
DisruptJ20, the radical Soros funded hate
group celebrated by the Post, is under
Justice Department investigation.
Hundreds of left-wing thugs associated with
illegal and violent protests have been
indicted on rioting charges.
But the Washington Post let one of the left-
wing thugs have the final word to make a
recruitment pitch.
“The main principles of anarchism is
solidarity and the importance of solidarity
within society,” Dylan Petrohilos, 28, said.
.
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“So I think it’s incredibly important that
people are showing up for each other when
we are seeing the harshest state
repression in a generation.”
Greenfield observes:
“Our nation is not, as the Post’s editorial
dismissively mocks it, mere ‘paper.’ It is the
parchment of our founding documents, but
it is also the stone of our great buildings,
the bronze of our statues, the steel of our
industries, the blood of those who died
fighting for our freedom against thugs like
these, and our determination that our
nation will not fall to stone throwing thugs
and their propagandists.
“Arrest the editor of the Washington Post.
And send a message that rocks will not
break us.”
We agree. Let’s hope Jeff Sessions is a Post reader.
 Stark Contrasts In Media
Manipulation Of Charlottesville News
By MRC Latino Staff
August 16, 2017 8:09 PM EDT
The political violence in Charlottesville and President
Trump's repudiation of it have been covered in the most
widely divergent ways by two national Spanish-language
television networks, one based in Los Angeles and the
other in Miami.
In Los Angeles, Estrella TV anchor Adriana
Yañez prefaced the news from Charlottesville by telling
her audience that "Donald Trump's policies of hate have
reached their most catastrophic level."
To dramatic effect, Yañez went on to charge only white
supremacists with filling "with blood and violence" the
city's streets.
ADRIANA YANEZ, ANCHOR, NOTICIERO
ESTRELLA: Good afternoon, this is Adriana Yanez with
the most relevant news of the day.
Donald Trump's policies of hate have
reached their most catastrophic level.
White supremacists fill with blood and
violence the streets of Charlottesville,
Virginia.
It actually gets worse. Incredibly, the Estrella anchor then
prefaced tape of President Trump's denunciation of racism
as evil, and his slamming of those who commit racially-
motivated violence, by saying that the President "softly
condemns" acts of racial hate.
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ADRIANA YANEZ, ANCHOR, NOTICIERO
ESTRELLA: This delicate situation
caused President Trump to address it
again and softly condemn those acts of
racial hate.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Racism is evil. And
those who cause violence in its name
are criminals and thugs, including the
KKK, neoNazis, white supremacists and
other hate groups that are repugnant to
everything we hold dear as Americans.
Can there be any excuse for this, other than that Yañez
does not meet the RAISE Act's minimum requirements for
understanding plain English?
In sharp contrast to Estrella's blatant anti-
Trump manipulation of the horrific news
from Charlottesville, and in setting up the
same video from President Trump, Miami-
based Mega TV anchor Elvira Salazar told
her viewers on August 14 that in his
condemnation of the attack the
President "violently lashed out against
the Ku Klux Klan, Neo-Nazis and white
supremacists."
MARIA ELVIRA SALAZAR, ANCHOR, MEGA
NOTICIERO:
Today President Trump violently lashed
out against the Ku Klux Klan, Neo-Nazis
and white supremacists.
And he condemned this weekend's terrorist attack in
Charlottesville, Virginia against an anti-fascist protest that
took the life of one woman, and left 19 wounded.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Racism is evil. And
those who cause violence in its name
are criminals and thugs, including the
KKK, neoNazis, white supremacists and
other hate groups that are repugnant to
everything we hold dear as Americans.
That probably explains why it was Mega
that had the distinction of being the only
Spanish-language television network
newscast to echo the President on his
"many sides" remark on the sources of
the political violence that manifested itself
in Charlottesville, as well as elsewhere
around the country.

The stunningly clashing presentations of the same news

are also likely illustrative of the major differences that
exist in both the ideological and demographic composition
of the California and Florida media markets from which
the two national newscasts emanate.

Specifically, in comparison to Miami, in Los Angeles there

appears to be scarcely any ideological diversity among
Spanish-language television and radio news talent. In
addition, unlike in Miami, in Los Angeles far-Left activist MARIA ELVIRA SALAZAR, ANCHOR, MEGA NEWS:
groups, including Antifa and socialists, routinely have a
robust presence on the streets. But the violence doesn't just come from
the white supremacists.
In Miami, however, media personalities like Cuban-
American Elvira Salazar, whose families have personally In the last few hours there are reports of tough protests by
suffered the horrors of authoritarian leftist regimes, activists opposed to these groups.
continue to temper the mix and seem much more attune to .
the politics of a state where a sizeable bloc of anti-Left,
pro law-and-order Hispanics voted for Trump in 2016.

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 They Are Coming For You:
Michael Moore Calls ALL Trump Supporters Racist,
Compares Them To Rapists
By Staff Writer -
08.16.2017 @10:30 PM EDT
Moore attacks over 50 million Americans
(INTELLIHUB) — Leftist filmmaker and hardcore anti-
Trump zealot Michael Moore is once again attacking tens
of millions of Americans, this time in an unhinged rant on
CNN where he literally compared Trump supporters to
rapists before declaring them all to be racists.
Moore first took aim at President Trump himself, calling
him “absolutely a racist” before going into a rant that
compares the over 50 million Americans who voted for
Donald Trump to actual rapists.
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“If you hold down the woman while the
rapist is raping her, and you didn’t rape her,
are you a rapist?” Moore told the admittedly
anti-Trump Don Lemon.
“Let’s cut the BS and start speaking
honestly.” he continued.
Moore then moved on to a type of psychological warfare
on the American people, attempting to pressure them into
turning their backs on Trump for fear of being mislabeled
a racist.
“He’s absolutely a racist,” Moore said. “If
you still support the racist, you are the
racist.”
“That has to end. I’m not sorry, I’m not
letting anybody off the hook here.”
Moore has a long history of attacking the tens of millions
of Americans that he disagrees with and has essentially
gone off the deep end since the election of Donald Trump.
From organizing protests against the president, to
launching websites to take him down, Moore is working in
lockstep with the mainstream media fueled, deep state war
on all things Trump and is apparently now willing to attack
half of America in the process.
 CBS Chicago Story Proves
Trump's Point on Washington Statue Removals
By P.J. Gladnick
August 16, 2017 7:23 PM EDT
President Donald Trump suggested at his August 15 press
conference that after you start taking down Robert E. Lee
statues that it could lead to the same fate for George
Washington or Thomas Jefferson statues because they
owned slaves. The response from much of the mainstream
media was quick. They utterly mocked the notion that such
an outcome could take place. An example of the liberal
media reaction came from the Associated Press via the
PBS website:
Is it really so far-fetched to put Robert E.
Lee in the same category as George
Washington, as President Donald Trump
suggested Tuesday?
Many historians say yes.
“It’s a ridiculous conflation,” said
Professor Alice Fahs of the University of
California, Irvine. “He’s not a founding
father, and it’s as though Trump thinks he
is. It’s really astonishing. It’s amazing.”
Trump’s remarks on Tuesday came as he
was defending those who have sought to
preserve the statue of Lee in
Charlottesville, Virginia, the focus of a
violent weekend clash in which an anti-
racist protester was killed. The president
didn’t exactly equate the Confederate
general with the nation’s founding fathers.
But he noted a similarity sometimes
glossed over — ownership of slaves by
figures who nobly stand or sit astride
horses on U.S. pedestals — and he asked:
If you’re going to be pulling down
statues, “where does it stop?”
“So, this week it’s Robert E. Lee,” he
said. “I wonder, is it George Washington
next week, and is it Thomas Jefferson
the week after?”
There is no notable movement to tear down the
Washington monument.
Not yet but Trump has already been proven right as to a
call to tear down Washington's statue. This news about a
Chicago pastor demanding exactly that comes to us via
CBS Chicago just a day after Trump's press conference:
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A Chicago pastor has asked the
Emanuel administration to remove the
names of two presidents who owned
slaves from parks on the South Side,
saying the city should not honor slave
owners in black communities.
A bronze statue of George Washington on
horseback stands at the corner of 51st and
King Drive, at the northwest entrance to
Washington Park.
Bishop James Dukes, pastor of
Liberation Christian Center, said he
wants the statue gone, and he wants
George Washington’s name removed
from the park.
“When I see that, I see a person who
fought for the liberties, and I see people
that fought for the justice and freedom of
white America, because at that moment,
we were still chattel slavery, and was three-
fifths of humans,” he said. “Some people
out here ask me, say ‘Well, you know, he
taught his slaves to read.’ That’s almost
sad; the equivalent of someone who
kidnaps you, that you gave them something
to eat.”
Dukes said, even though Washington was
the nation’s first president and led the
American army in the Revolutionary War,
he’s no hero to the black community.
“There’s no way plausible that we would
even think that they would erect a Malcolm
X statue in Mount Greenwood, Lincoln
 Park, or any of that. Not that say Malcolm X
was a bad guy; they just would not go for
it,” he said. “Native Americans would not
even think about putting up a Custer
statue, because of the atrocities that he
plagued upon Native Americans. And for
them to say to us ‘just accept it’ is actually
insulting.”
The pastor also said President Andrew
Jackson’s name should be removed from
nearby Jackson Park, because he also was
a slave owner. He said he’s not necessarily
asking the city rename the parks
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altogether. He suggested Washington Park
could be named after former Mayor Harold
Washington, and Jackson Park could be
named after civil rights leader Rev. Jesse
Jackson or singer Michael Jackson.
Sorry, liberal media. Mock President Trump all you want
but the reality is the left won't be satisfied until statues of
George Washington and Andrew Jackson and Thomas
Jefferson as well as others from American history are
taken down. Oh, and don't act too smug, Washington Post.
Your name will also have to go. How does Bezos Post
sound?
 The Charlottesville False Flag Operation
Was Staged To Destroy Trump…
…As Well As To Decimate And Dismantle
The Patriot Movement
By State Of The Nation
Posted On August 16, 2017
As the facts come rolling in from those who were actually
present at the Charlottesville protest, it’s clear that the
entire event was a staged false flag operation.
Charlottesville False Flag: When you look at all the details
the evidence is conclusive op was well-planned and staged
Because of its sheer complexity, it had to have been
carried out by all the usual suspects — CIA black ops, FBI
COINTELPRO, Virginia’s Democratic governor,
Charlottesville Democratic major, left-leaning Municipal
Police Department, etc. More details are explained in the
following exposé: Charlottesville: Here’s what really
happened
Of course, this PsyOp has all the markings of a George
Soros mini color revolution. In this case, the various false
flag attacks (there were several throughout the weekend
rally) were executed to topple Trump.
The Charlottesville psyop was also
implemented to disparage and
delegitimize the Trump movement with
finality.
The goal was to perpetrate such heinous acts of violence
that Trumpsters, and all other conservatives and Tea
Partiers, patriots and nationalists, would never show up at
a protest again.
This is how they always do it.
Whoever poses the biggest threat to the NWO agenda is
relentlessly attacked by the mainstream media (MSM)
based on false allegations and appalling accusations.
Isn’t this just what the MSM have been doing since last
weekend’s manufactured terrorist event?
There’s no question, given all the facts which have been
submitted by several eyewitnesses, that this entire protest
was fabricated to end badly for those in attendance, as well
as for those watching from afar.
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What follows are just a few Alt Media reports which
radically depart from the barrage of MSM fake news.
 Charlottesville exposed! (Video)
 Just like San Jose, Charlottesville Police Were Told To
Stand Down
 PATRIOTS SPEAK: In their own words about what
really happened in Charlottesville
In fact, the CNN narrative has been so fictitious that it had
to have been all made up well in advance, and then
circulated among all the major MSM organs of propaganda
BEFORE THE EVENTS EVEN TOOK PLACE.
That was the only way that so much patently false
information could have been reported so quickly … even
before the numerous acts of violence were investigated.
In this way the MSM swiftly establishes
the bogus narrative in the minds of the
American people by using the “first
impression trick”.
Most will only remember the fake news that is
immediately dished out in the aftermath of such a horrific
attack. This is the case even when the subsequently
emerging evidence indicates that a criminal conspiracy
was covertly at work.
Trump under major assault
The most telling aspect of this PsyOp is the extraordinary
aggression exhibited by the MSM talking heads and
politicos inside the Beltway toward President Trump.
They have all gone ballistic — as if on cue — to further
damage Trump’s image with white supremacist language
and neo-Nazi imagery.
The last few days have seen a fusillade of negative media
reports directed squarely at the POTUS in attempts to
forever taint him as an apologist for various hate groups.
He is not, but TPTB will not relent in spewing this
propaganda until Trump is chased out of the White House.
Deep State has coordinated a massive effort to associate
Trump with conduct that could be construed as being so
unpresidential and repulsive that his own party will
eventually impeach him. This is their immediate goal.
The globalists want Trump frogmarched out of the Oval
Office—yesterday!
No one has ever seen the MSM launch into a frenzy of
fake news and aggressive commentary against a POTUS.
The following video of CNN’s Jake Tapper is just one of
many egregious examples of corporate media out for
Trump’s blood.
CNN’s Jake Tapper Must Be On The CIA’s
Payroll To Destroy Trump (Video)
Soros & Company targets the Patriot movement
If there was any doubt before, there is none now about the
determination of the Soros color revolution machine to
overthrow the Trump administration.
Charlottesville protests and Kiev riots have the same Soros
fingerprint
International criminal George Soros is
merely the pitchman for the ongoing
Purple Revolution that was launched
against Trump the day that he was elected.
However, it is the entire Trump movement
that Soros is looking to completely destroy.
Soros and his countless globalist cohorts know that their
planned One World Government can only be realized
with the total destruction of American nationalism.
Hence, the Patriot movement must be
destroyed if their New World Order
agenda is to be successfully
implemented.
The destruction of American society proceeded unimpeded
under the Manchurian Candidate Barack Obama.
.
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However, Trump has proven to be the biggest political
champion of the nationalist cause that the nation has ever
seen since its founding.
This is why Charlottesville was cooked up
by all the traditional supporters of Soros
NGOs, Obama’s LGBT mission, the Clinton
Crime Family, as well as the extraordinarily
divisive “identity politics” movement that
has taken the nation by superstorm.
There is no more powerful wedge issue than race.
The Soros machine knows this full well as
they showed by using Obama for 8 years to
inflame racial tensions as no other
president in U.S. history.
With Trump at the helm, the purple revolutionaries will do
everything in their power to sink his ‘Titanic’ by directing
it towards the iceberg of an unparalleled race war. Little
do these traitors know that Trump is really steering an
icebreaker.
State of the Nation
August 16, 2017
Editor’s Note
Without any question, Charlottesville has
the “George Soros” hallmark which
distinguishes this black op as a classic
false flag operation. That a notorious war
criminal and genocidal maniac still has so
much control throughout the USA is quite
unbelievable. Each of the following posts
breaks down different pieces of the Soros
MO as he stealthily wages his Purple
Revolution.
If the Alt Media knows all of this, don’t
the FBI, DHS and NSC too?!
 THE MEMO: Trump Reignites Race Firestorm
By Niall Stanage
08/16/17 06:00 AM EDT
President Trump supercharged a firestorm over race and
violence on Tuesday with a news conference in the lobby
of his Manhattan skyscraper that was controversial and
chaotic even by his unusual standards.
Trump laid blame on the “alt-left” as well as white
supremacists and neo-Nazis for unrest that erupted in
Charlottesville, Va., over the weekend. In doing so, he
returned to the stance he laid out in a Saturday statement
that was widely criticized, in which he had blamed “many
sides.”
A 32-year-old woman, Heather Heyer, was killed on
Saturday in Charlottesville after being hit by a car
allegedly driven by a man with far-right views.
Her death came amid rallies — including a torch-bearing
parade at the University of Virginia on Friday night — that
had the avowed aim to “Unite the Right.” Neo-Nazis and
other racist groups were among those taking part.
The event also drew anti-fascist demonstrators onto the
streets.
On Tuesday, Trump suggested that there were “very fine
people” on both sides in Charlottesville.
In response to a shouted question from a reporter about
whether he believed the media have "treated white
nationalists unfairly,” Trump replied,
“You had a lot of people in that group that
were there to innocently protest, and very
legally protest.”
The right-wing activists had gathered in Charlottesville not
only to show unity but also to protest the city council’s
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decision to remove a statue of Robert E. Lee, the leader of
the Confederate army during the Civil War.
Trump made clear he was sympathetic to that particular
cause.
“Not all of those people were white
supremacists, by any stretch. Those people
were also there because they wanted to
protest the taking down of the statue of
Robert E. Lee.”
He accused the media of trying to whitewash history,
asking if they would support removing statues of other
former slave-owners.
“So this week it’s Robert E. Lee. I noticed
that Stonewall Jackson’s coming down. I
wonder, is it George Washington next
week? And is it Thomas Jefferson the week
after? You know, you really do have to ask
yourself, where does it stop?” Trump said.
With those remarks and others, Trump seemed to make
clear where his sympathies lie. Some of the prominent
white nationalists who attended the rally quickly claimed
vindication.
Richard Spencer, the head of a white nationalist think tank,
tweeted that he was proud of Trump
“for speaking the truth,” while former KKK
leader David Duke hailed the president’s
“courage” and “honesty.”
Meanwhile, the president’s unparalleled remarks were met
with shock and consternation even among Republicans,
who had been relieved that the controversy over his initial
response was beginning to fade from the headlines.
“Put down the damn shovel! You’re never
going to dig your way out of a hole,” GOP
strategist Terry Sullivan said in a text to
The Hill. Sullivan was the campaign
manager for Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.)
during the 2016 GOP presidential primary.
Rubio himself took on the president directly in multiple
tweets published soon after Trump’s remarks.
“Mr. President, you can't
allow #WhiteSupremacists to share only
part of blame. They support idea which
cost nation & world so much pain,” the
Florida senator wrote.
“The #WhiteSupremacy groups will see
being assigned only 50% of blame as a
win. We can not allow this old evil to be
resurrected.”
Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) rebuked Trump as well.
“We must be clear. White supremacy is
repulsive. This bigotry is counter to all this
country stands for. There can be no moral
ambiguity,” Ryan wrote on Twitter.
Also on Twitter, Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
(R-Fla.) said, “Blaming 'both sides'
for #Charlottesville?! No. Back to relativism
when dealing with KKK, Nazi sympathizers,
white supremacists? Just no.”
John Stipanovich, a Republican strategist in Florida with
ties to the Bush family, lamented to The Hill that Trump
“has a gift for gaffes that has expanded the
boundaries of ineptitude to a previously
unimaginable extent.”
The reaction among some conservative-leaning media
figures was just as strong.
MSNBC anchor Nicolle Wallace, a former
communications director in President George W. Bush’s
White House, described Trump on-air as “a disgrace to the
Republican Party.”
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Democrats, meanwhile, excoriated Trump. Rep. Adam
Schiff (D-Calif.) said he was defending white supremacists
"in a statement only the KKK could (and did) applaud." At
least one Democratic lawmaker, New York Rep. Kathleen
Rice, directly accused the president of being a racist.
Trump’s informal news conference in the lobby of Trump
Tower was intended to showcase infrastructure spending
and the easing of burdensome regulations on the
construction industry.
Instead, it devolved into a back-and-forth with reporters,
replete with mutual interruptions, accusations of “fake
news” from the president and comments that seemed to
directly undo the effort Trump had made the quiet the
storm the previous day.
“What about the alt-left that came charging
at the — as you say — the alt-right?”
Trump asked. “Do they have any
semblance of guilt? What about the fact
they came charging with clubs in
their hands, swinging clubs? Do they have
any problem? I think they do. As far as I am
concerned, that was a horrible, horrible
day.”
Trump also said:
"You had a group on one side that was bad
and you had a group on the other side that
was also very violent.”
His comments will ensure that the furor over
Charlottesville rages on, just as it had begun to subside.
The Memo is a reported column by Niall Stanage,
primarily focused on Donald Trump’s presidency.
 US House Set To ‘Censure’
President Trump For Attacking Alt-Left Terrorists
Jim Hoft
Aug 16th, 2017 2:32 Pm

The legislation was introduced by Rep.

Jerry Nadler from New York.

The US House is set to censure

President Trump for not disavowing the
KKK and Nazis enough times and for
lashing out at the Alt-left Antifa
terrorists.

The Democrats believe Antifa is a peace

group.

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 Tucker Carlson Asks the Question: Will the Left Refute
America’s Forefathers Because They Owned Slaves?
by The_Real_Fly
Content originally published at iBankCoin.com
Aug 16, 2017 1:54 AM

I cannot see how the left cannot call for George

Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and others
to be removed from the public square, libraries, museums,
universities and our currency.

Since the left is out to get all racists, feverishly on the

lookout for nazis and alt-right retards, ripping down statues
of confederates, why not go to the source of all this racism,
eh? America's forefathers.

41 out of 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence

owned slaves. Therefore, and using the same logic we're
applying to the white supremacists in the streets Naturally, Bill Kristol attacked Tucker for his cogent
demanding, err, nothing, we must reject the Constitution, analysis. Brit Hume came to his defense.
the Bill of Rights and America, basically.

The country is over.

Tucker Carlson lays it out perfectly. I'd like to hear from

any left wingers who disagree with my train of thought and
explain to me why we should revere Thomas Jefferson.

NOTE: Earlier today, the President had it out with the

media over this very topic. Here is the full showdown.

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 Republicans Turn On Trump As The White House Insists He Is A
'Voice For Unity' Who Is 'Entirely Correct' To Blame Both Sides
For Violence At Neo-Nazi Rally And Defend 'Fine People'
Among White Supremacists
 'There's Blame On Both Sides,' President Trump Said Tuesday Of A Deadly Nazi Rally In Virginia
 Some Republican Lawmakers Quickly Shoved Back At Trump, Criticizing Him For Saying Left-Wing
Counter-Protesters Shared The Blame
 'White Supremacy Groups Will See Being Assigned Only 50% Of Blame As A Win. We Can Not Allow
This Old Evil To Be Resurrected,' Sen. Marco Rubio Wrote
 Florida Republican Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen: 'Back To Relativism When Dealing With KKK, Nazi
Sympathizers, White Supremacists? Just No'
 Texas Republican Rep. Will Hurd Told CNN That He Had A Head-Hanging Single Word Of Advice
For Trump: 'Apologize'
 Despite The Backlash, The White House Is Standing By The President, Saying He Was 'Entirely
Correct' To Blame 'Both Sides,' According To A Talking Points Memo
 Trump's Words Were Quickly Denounced By Democrats As An Attempt To Draw Moral Equivalence
Between Nazis And Liberal Activists
 White House Chief Of Staff John Kelly Was Photographed With Hunched Shoulders, Arms Crossed,
And Standing Stony-Faced During His Boss' Bizarre Display At Trump Tower
By David Martosko, Us Political Editor For Dailymail.Com And Ariel Zilber For Dailymail.Com
Published: 18:52 EDT, 15 August 2017 | Updated: 08:23 EDT, 16 August 2017

Republican lawmakers turned on President Donald
Trump after he said Tuesday that neo-Nazis and 'alt-left'
liberal extremists shared responsibility for violence that
turned deadly over the weekend in Virginia when a white
nationalist ran over a woman with his car.
Despite the backlash, the White House is standing by the
president, saying he was 'entirely correct' to blame 'both
sides,' according to a talking points memo circulated to
Republican members of Congress and leaked to multiple
outlets.

'You see them come with the black outfits

and with the helmets and the baseball
bats,' Trump said in New York, describing
hooded counter-protesters who came to
Charlottesville to disrupt a white nationalist
march.
'What about the alt-left that came charging
at the, as you say, the alt-right?' he
challenged reporters on Tuesday. 'Do they
have any semblance of guilt?'

The president also said

'There's blame on both sides,' President Trump said Tuesday of a
deadly Nazi rally in Virginia – bringing stern rebukes from fellow
'I do think there's blame on both sides' and Republicans
that there were 'very fine people' in the
white nationalist crowd who had 'a permit'
to protest against the removal of a statue of
Robert E Lee.

Trump's words were quickly denounced by members of his

own party as a clumsy attempt to draw moral equivalence
between Nazis and liberal activists.
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 The White House is also disputing claims that Trump has
been slow to condemn white supremacist groups.

The president has denounced hate groups that came to

Charlottesville 'with no ambiguity.'

The memo praises Trump as 'a voice for

Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio (left) tweeted that 'white
supremacy groups will see being assigned only 50% of blame as a
win'; Florida Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (center) tweeted: 'Back to
relativism when dealing with KKK, Nazi sympathizers, white
supremacists? Just no.' Arizona Senator John McCain (far right)
also tweeted criticism of the president
unity and calm,' crediting the president with
'taking swift action to hold violent hate
groups accountable.'
It ended by saying both leaders and the
media 'should join the president in trying to
unite and heal our country rather than incite
more division.'

The goal of the memo, which was distributed to political

allies, was to get conservatives to more forcefully back
Trump against the wave of near-universal condemnation.

Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio lectured Trump on

Twitter about the danger of suggesting anyone other than
neo-Nazis shares the blame for Saturday's violence.

'The organizers of events which inspired &

led to #charlottesvilleterroristattack are
100% to blame for a number of reasons,'
Rubio wrote in a series of tweets.
'They are adherents of an evil ideology
which argues certain people are inferior
because of race, ethnicity or nation of
origin.'

WHITE HOUSE TALKING POINTS MEMO ON THE

PRESIDENT'S NEWS CONFERENCE AT TRUMP
TOWER

NEWS OF THE DAY - Charlottesville

 The President was entirely correct - both sides of the

Rubio's lengthy thread on Twitter laid out a case that
Trump was morally equating Nazis with left-wing counter-
protesters, and said the white supremacists deserved all the
blame
Trump, the memo states, was 'entirely correct – both sides
of the violence in Charlottesville acted inappropriately,
and bear some responsibility.'
violence in Charlottesville acted inappropriately, and
bear some responsibility.
 Despite the criticism, the President reaffirmed some of
our most important Founding principles: We are equal
in the eyes of our Creator, equal under the law, and
equal under our Constitution.
 He has been a voice for unity and calm, encouraging
the country to 'rediscover the bonds of love and loyalty
that brings us together as Americans.'
 He called for the end of violence on all sides so that no
more innocent lives would be lost.
 The President condemned - with no ambiguity - the
hate groups fueled by bigotry and racism over the
weekend, and did so by name yesterday, but for the
media that will never be enough.
 The media reacted with hysteria to the notion that
counter-protesters showed up with clubs spoiling for a

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 fight, a fact that reporters on the ground have
repeatedly stated.
 Even a New York Times reporter tweeted that she 'saw
club-wielding "antifa" beating white nationalists being
led out of the park.'
 The local ACLU chapter also tweeted that
 We should not overlook the facts just because the
media finds them inconvenient:
 From cop killing and violence at political rallies, to
shooting at Congressmen at a practice baseball game,
extremists on the left have engaged in terrible acts of
violence.
 The President is taking swift action to hold violent hate
groups accountable.
 The DOJ has opened a civil rights investigation into this
weekend’s deadly car attack. Last Thursday, 'There can be no moral ambiguity,' House Speaker Paul Ryan
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) tweeted in a veiled jab at the president
announced it had completed the largest prosecution of
white supremacists in the nation’s history
 Leaders and the media in our country should join the
president in trying to unite and heal our country rather
than incite more division.

'When entire movement built on anger &

hatred towards people different than you, it
justifies & ultimately leads to violence
against them. These groups today use Ros-Lehtinen, never one to mince words, let Trump have it
SAME symbols & same arguments of
#Nazi & #KKK, groups responsible for
some of worst crimes against humanity
ever.
'Mr. President, you can't allow
#WhiteSupremacists to share only part of
blame. They support idea[s] which cost
nation & world so much pain. The
#WhiteSupremacy groups will see being
assigned only 50% of blame as a win. We Ryan's statement was among the most measured to come
can not allow this old evil to be from Republicans after Trump's free-for-all press
resurrected.' conference spiraled out of control

House Speaker Paul Ryan didn't fault Trump directly, but

made it clear that he agreed with Trump's earlier
statements condemning neo-Nazis and omitting any claim
that leftist protesters were in any way responsible.

'We must be clear. White supremacy is

repulsive,' Ryan tweeted. 'This bigotry is
counter to all this country stands for. There
can be no moral ambiguity.'

Florida Republican Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen struck a

more aggressive chord, dismissing Trump directly.

Michigan Republican Rep. Justin Amash slammed Trump for saying

'Blaming "both sides" for #Charlottesville?!
there were 'very fine people' on both sides of the weekend's dispute
No,' she tweeted. over Confederate tribute statues

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Amash said 'very fine people' do not join in rallies with
symbols of hate

'Back to relativism when dealing with KKK,

Nazi sympathizers, white supremacists?
Just no.'

Texas Republican Rep. Will Hurd told CNN that he had a Ohio Governor and former presidential candidate John
head-hanging single word of advice for Trump: Kasich also joined in with the condemnation of Trump
'Apologize.'

'Racism, bigotry, anti-Semitism of any form

is unacceptable,' Hurd said. 'The leader of
the free world should be unambiguous
about that.'

And California Rep. Darrell Issa summed up his views,

contrary to Trump's: Indiana Senator Todd Young said he had a simple message
after Trump's free-wheeling press conference on Tuesday
'Evil thoughts turned to evil acts this
weekend. No excuses.'

Trump insisted Tuesday that many on the political right

who gathered in Charlottesville were peaceful protesters
themselves who aimed to save a statue of Confederate
general Robert E. Lee from the scrap heap.

Pennsylvania Congressman Charlie Dent was one of many

to slam Trump's bid for moral equivalency between the
'two sides'

Will Hurd, a Texas Republican congressman, told Trump on CNN

that he should 'apologize'

Ohio Republican Rep. Steve Stivers summed up the

Washington zeitgeist as the nation's politics-watchers took
a collective deep breath

California Rep. Darrell Issa summed up his views, contrary to

Trump's:
'Evil thoughts turned to evil acts this
weekend. No excuses.'

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Mitt Romney said the sides Trump was discussing were
from 'morally different universes'
'Not all of those people were white
supremacists by any stretch. Those people
were also there because they wanted to
protest the taking down of a statue,' he
said.
'You also had people that were very fine
people, on both sides,' he added.
That set off tea party Republican Justin Amash, a
Michigan congressman.
'"Very fine people" do not participate in
rallies with groups chanting racist and anti-
Semitic slogans and displaying vile
symbols of hate,' he tweeted.
Ohio Republican Rep. Steve Stivers summed up the
Washington zeitgeist as the nation's politics-watchers took
a collective deep breath.
'I don't understand what's so hard about
this,' Stivers tweeted.
'White supremacists and Neo-Nazis are evil and shouldn't
be defended.'
Ohio Republican Rob Portman said Trump's response to
the weekend violence should have been simple and clear
cut
Arizona Senator Jeff Flake said the only way to respond to
white supremacy and domestic terrorism is condemnation
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Flake's colleague, fellow Arizona Senator John McCain,
tweeted:
'There's no moral equivalency between
racists and Americans standing up to defy
hate and bigotry. The President of the
United States should say so'
Another senior Republican, Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah,
also weighed in.
'We should never hesitate to call out hate,'
Hatch tweeted on Tuesday. 'Whenever and
wherever we see it'
Both Republican senators from Arizona, Jeff Flake and
John McCain, also expressed their displeasure.
'We can't accept excuses for white
supremacy and acts of domestic terrorism,'
Flake wrote on his Twitter feed.
'We must condemn. Period.'
Flake's colleague, McCain, tweeted:
'There's no moral equivalency between
racists and Americans standing up to defy
hate and bigotry. The President of the
United States should say so.'
Indiana Senator Todd Young said he had a simple message
after Trump's free-wheeling press conference on Tuesday.
'This is simple: we must condemn and
marginalize white supremacist groups, not
encourage and embolden them,' Young
tweeted on his official Twitter account.
Another senior Republican, Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah,
also weighed in.
'We should never hesitate to call out hate,'
Hatch tweeted on Tuesday. 'Whenever and
wherever we see it.'
Trump's words were quickly denounced by Democrats as
an attempt to draw moral equivalence between Nazis and
liberal activists.
 'As a Jew, as an American, as a human,
words cannot express my disgust and
disappointment. This is not my President,'
tweeted Hawaii Democratic Sen. Brian
Schatz.
'There has to be room for people of all
political stripes among the coalition of the
sane. We all need to take our country back
together.'
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, a California
Democrat, issued a scathing statement saying that Trump's
'continued talk of blame 'on many sides' ignores the
abhorrent evil of white supremacism, and continues a
disturbing pattern of complacency around acts of hate from
this President, his Administration and his campaign for the
presidency.'
'There is only one side to be on when a
white supremacist mob brutalizes and
murders in America. The American people
deserve a president who understands that,'
she said.
Lawmakers weren't the only ones to show their discomfort
with the president's statements. At least one key member
of the Trump administration seemed visibly bothered by
Tuesday's news conference.
Newly installed White House Chief of Staff John Kelly hunched his
shoulders, crossed his arms, and stood stony-faced while his boss,
President Donald Trump, went on a bizarre rant Tuesday about
'very fine people' among the white supremacists in Charlottesville,
Virginia
It had been reported that Trump’s aides were completely blindsided
by the president’s statements to the press on Tuesday at Trump
Tower. Kelly is seen second from left watching as Trump speaks to
the media in the lobby of Trump Tower
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White House Chief of Staff John Kelly was photographed
with hunched shoulders, arms crossed, and standing stony-
faced during his boss' bizarre display at Trump Tower.
The picture of Kelly and his dour body language caught
the attention of Twitter on Tuesday.
It comes just two weeks after Kelly was given a mandate
to restore discipline and order in the West Wing. Surprised
White House officials have said Trump 'went rogue' during
his speech.
Social media users posted memes that speculated what
Kelly may have been thinking as he listened to Trump
apportion some blame to the ‘alt-left’ for the violence in
Virginia over the weekend.
While reaction from across the political spectrum was
largely negative, Trump could at least take solace in the
fact that white supremacists and the far-right approved of
his remarks.
Former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke thanked Trump
on Tuesday, tweeting:
'Thank you President Trump for your
honesty & courage to tell the truth about &
condemn the leftist terrorists in
BLM/Antifa.'
Thanks: Ex-KKK leader David Duke thanked Donald
Trump on Twitter on Tuesday after a press conference in
which the president blamed antifascist protesters for
Charlottesville violence
'Fair': White supremacist Richard Spencer said Trump's
statement was 'fair and down to earth' and blamed police
for a white supremacist driving into a crowd of protesters
'Great': Faith and Heritage, who describes
himself as 'Confederate American. Anglo-
Celtic. Ethnonationalist,' called the press
conference 'great'
Controversial conservative commentator Ann Coulter
hailed Trump on Tuesday, tweeting: 'We were Gideon's
army without Gideon. Today, we got our leader back!'
Those sentiments were echoed by Richard Spencer, a
white supremacist who has previously called for a
'peaceful ethnic cleansing' to stop European culture being
'deconstructed'.
'Trump's statement was fair and down to
earth,' he wrote. '#Charlottesville could
have been peaceful, if police did its job.'
Another Twitter account, Faith and Heritage - who
describes himself as 'Confederate American. Anglo-Celtic.
Ethnonationalist' - said it was a 'great press conference by
Trump.'
He added that it
'looks like he learned that cucking gets you
nothing. They will never be satisfied.'
Controversial conservative commentator Ann Coulter
hailed Trump on Tuesday, tweeting:
'We were Gideon's army without Gideon.
Today, we got our leader back!'
The most noteworthy public display of opposition from the
left to Trump came courtesy of filmmaker Michael Moore.
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Incredible Hulk actor Mark Ruffalo (left) joined Michael Moore
(right) at the Trump Tower protests on Tuesday night. Moore had
taken the audience of his Broadway show The Terms of My
Surrender to the protests on two double-decker buses
Moore joined in the protests against Trump on Tuesday
night - and took the audience of his Broadway show to the
party with him.
At the close of his show, The Terms of My Surrender, he
invited the audience aboard two double-decker buses -
paid for by the production - to join the protests at Trump
Tower.
On arrival, he announced:
'We are here to perform a citizens arrest -
well there's lots of police there, maybe
they'll do it for us.'
He was then joined by actor Mark Ruffalo - best known as
the Incredible Hulk's alter-ego Bruce Banner - who ranted
that Trump has 'allowed white supremacists, he's allowed
the KKK, he's allowed Nazis to show their ugly face.
'And we're here to show him that there's a
cost for that, Americans have died for that.'
He then commanded the crowd to say the name of say the
name of the woman allegedly run down by a white
supremacist in Charlottesville on Saturday:
'Heather Heyer! Heather Heyer!'
CNN anchor Don Lemon (above) offered a highly critical take on
President Donald Trump's remarks about the Charlottesville
violence on Tuesday
CNN anchor Don Lemon and Fox News' Kat Timpf were
among the country's top news hosts to condemn Trump for
his controversial statements.

Lemon said that the president's speech at Trump Tower on

Tuesday was representative of ‘the real Donald Trump’.

He also urged Trump to ‘go back to school and get an

elementary education on how this country started.’

‘This is a sad moment for the country,’

Lemon said. ‘I think it was an awful
moment for the person who is supposed to
represent the highest office of the land.'
Timpf unleashed a blistering attack on Trump.
Model Chrissy Teigen (left) and NBA star and father-of-three
LeBron James (right)both slammed the president for his latest
comments

The Cleveland Cavaliers player tweeted:

Another reaction that drew significant attention on social media was
that of Fox News host Kat Timpf (above), a co-host of the right-
leaning channel’s show The Fox News Specialists 'Hate has always existed in America. Yes
we know that but Donald Trump just made
it fashionable again! Statues has nothing to
do with us now!'

'It’s crazy for me to have to comment

because I’m still in the phase where I’m
wondering if it was actually real life what I
just watched,' she told her on-air colleague
Eboni Williams.
'It was one of the biggest messes I’ve ever
seen. I can’t believe it happened.'
Timpf also slammed Trump for refusing to call the suspect
who rammed his car into a crowd of anti-fascist protesters
a terrorist and for waiting a full two days before
condemning white supremacists.
Celebrities from sports and entertainment also weighed in
on the president's remarks Tuesday.
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One of Trump's most vocal celebrity critics, Chrissy
Teigen, blasted the president for his comments. The
mother-of-one tweeted:
'Trump is like, actually racist. He isn't
'saying the wrong thing'. He is actually
racist and means this. Holy s*** lol what a
f***ing idiot'
NBA star and father-of-three LeBron James slammed the
president for his latest comments.
 'Hate has always existed in America. Yes
we know that but Donald Trump just made
it fashionable again! Statues has nothing to
do with us now!', the Cleveland Cavaliers
star tweeted.
Trump also claimed during the news conference on
Tuesday that the CEOs who quit his manufacturing board
over his response to the violence in Charlottesville really
did so because they were embarrassed their products
weren't made in the USA.

One of Trump's most vocal celebrity critics, Chrissy 'Because they are not taking their job
Teigen, also blasted the president. seriously as it pertains to this country,'
Trump blasted when asked by a reporter
The mother-of-one tweeted: why four CEOs had dropped out since
Monday morning, starting with the only
African-American member of the
'Trump is like, actually racist. He isn't
'saying the wrong thing'. He is actually group, Kenneth Frazier of Merck.
racist and means this. Holy s*** lol what a
f***ing idiot'.

In a second tweet, she added:

'lol he is such a f***ing idiot lol lol lol lol I

know it's serious but holy s*** lol he's totally
lost it'.

Trump also commented Tuesday on a controversial

member of his inner circle, White House Chief Strategist
Steve Bannon. Merck CEO Kenneth Frazier quit Trump's American
Manufacturing Council on Monday over the president's lackluster
response to the violence caused by white supremacist groups
Trump refused to say whether he had confidence in
Bannon, instead telling reporters 'we'll see' when asked
about the aide's future White House employment.

The president of the AFL-CIO Richard Trumka became the fifth

member of Trump's manufacturing council to resign after hearing
Trump's comments at a press conference Tuesday at Trump Tower
Trump wouldn't say if he had confidence in his Chief Strategist Steve
Bannon (above), instead telling reporters, 'we'll see'

'I like Mr. Bannon. He's a friend of mine,

but Mr. Bannon came on very late,' Trump
pointed out, noting he beat 17 Republican
rivals, 'and I won all the primaries,' before
the ex-Breitbart head signed on to the
president's campaign.

A number of news reports and sources inside the West

Wing have said the nationalist Trump-whisperer's political
hourglass is quickly losing sand.

The president's remarks at a heated Trump Tower presser

added fuel to those rumors as Trump said, 'we'll see what
happens with Mr. Bannon,' in regards to his future.
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The AFl-CIO's Richard Trumka also resigned from
President Trump's manufacturing council on the heels of
the president's free-wheeling press conference where he
assigned some blame for the violence in Charlottesville to
those protesting the hate groups
Shortly after Trump's messy Trump Tower press
conference, the AFL-CIO's Richard Trumka resigned
'effective immediately,' he tweeted.
'I have to tell you that some of the people
who will leave, they're leaving out of
embarrassment because they make their
products outside and I've been lecturing
them,' Trump said of the fleeing CEOs.
He also criticized Walmart's Doug McMillon for a
statement the retailer's head put that said, 'We too felt that
he missed a critical opportunity to help bring our country
together by unequivocally rejecting the appalling actions
of white supremacists.'
Noting that he knew him and he was a 'very nice guy,'
Trump charged McMillon with making a 'political
statement.'
When Trump was asked if he did miss an opportunity to
bring the country together, the president's answer was 'not
at all.'
IN FULL: THE PRESIDENT'S TRUMP TOWER
MELTDOWN
Reporter: Why do you think these CEOs are leaving
your manufacturing council?
Trump: Because they are not taking their job
seriously as it pertains to this country. We want jobs,
manufacturing in this country. If you look at some of
those people that you're talking about, they're outside
of the country. They're having a lot of their product
made outside. If you look at Merck as an example.
Take a look where — excuse me, excuse me. Take a
look at where their product is made. It's made outside
of our country. We want products made in the
country. Now, I have to tell you, some of the folks
that will leave, they are leaving out of embarrassment
because they make their products outside and I've
been lecturing them, including the gentleman that
you're referring to, about you have to bring it back to
this country. You can't do it necessarily in Ireland and
all of these other places. You have to bring this work
back to this country. That's what I want. I want
manufacturing to be back into the United States so
that American workers can benefit.
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Q: Why did you wait so long to put that last statement
out?
Trump: I didn't wait long. I didn't wait long. I didn't
wait long.
Q: It was at least 48 hours.
Trump: I wanted to make sure, unlike most
politicians, that what I said was correct. Not make a
quick statement. The statement I made on Saturday,
the first statement, was a fine statement. But you
don't make statements that direct unless you know
the fact. It takes a little while to get the facts. You still
don't know the facts, and it's a very, very important
process to me, and it's a very important statement,
so I don't want to go quickly and just make a
statement for the sake of making a political
statement. I want to know the facts. If you go back to
— I brought it. I brought it. I brought it. As I said,
remember this, Saturday, we condemn in the
strongest possible terms this egregious display of
hatred, bigotry and violence. It has no place in
America, and then I went on from there. Now, here's
the thing. Excuse me, excuse me. Take it nice and
easy. Here's the thing. When I make a statement, I
like to be correct. I want the facts. This event just
happened. In fact, a lot of the event didn't even
happen yet, as we were speaking. This event just
happened. Before I make a statement, I need the
facts, so I don't want to rush into a statement.
So, making the statement when I made it was
excellent. In fact, the young woman, who I hear is a
fantastic young woman, and it was on NBC, her
mother wrote me and said, through I guess Twitter,
social media, the nicest things, and I very much
appreciated that. I hear she was a fine, really actually
an incredible young woman. But her mother on
Twitter thanked me for what I said. And honestly, if
the press were not fake and if it was honest, the
press would have said what I said was very nice. But
unlike you and unlike — excuse me — unlike you
and unlike the media, before I make a statement I
like to know the facts.
Cross talk
Trump: They don't. They don't. Listen, how about-
how about a couple of infrastructure questions?
Q: Was that terrorism, that event? Was that
terrorism?
Trump: Say it. What?
Q: The CEO of Wal-Mart said you missed a critical Q: I would echo Maggie's question. Steve Bannon
opportunity to help bring the country together. Did has-
you?
Trump: I never spoke to Mr. Bannon about it.
Trump: Not at all. I think the country — look, you take
a look. I've created over a million jobs since I'm Q: Can you tell us broadly — do you still have
president. The country is booming, the stock market confidence in Steve?
is setting records. We have the highest employment
numbers we've ever had in the history of our country.
Trump: Well, we'll see. Look, I like Mr Bannon, he's a
We're doing record business. We have the highest
friend of mine, but Mr Bannon came on very late —
levels of enthusiasm. So, the head of Wal-Mart,
you know that. I went through 17 senators, governors
whom I know, who is a very nice guy, was making a
and I won all the primaries. Mr Bannon came on very
political statement. I mean, I do it the same way. You
much later than that, and I like him, he's a good man.
know why? Because I want to make sure, when I
He is not a racist, I can tell you that. He's a good
make a statement that the statement is correct, and
person, he actually gets a very unfair press in that
there was no way, there was no way of making a
regard. But we'll see what happens with Mr Bannon,
correct statement that early. I had to see the facts,
but he's a good person and I think the press treats
unlike a lot of reporters, unlike a lot of reporters. I
him frankly very unfairly.
know, David Duke was there.
Q: Do you have confidence in him?
I wanted to see the facts, and the facts as they
started coming out were very well-stated. In fact,
everybody said his statement was beautiful. If he Q: John McCain has called on you to defend your
would have made it sooner, that would have been National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster.
good. I couldn't have made it sooner because I didn't
know all of the facts. Trump: I have already done it. I did it the last time.

Frankly, people still don't know all of the facts. It was Q: And he called on you again to
very important. Excuse me, excuse me. It was very
important to me to get the facts out and correctly, Trump: Senator McCain? You mean the one who
because if I would have made a fast statement, and voted against Obamacare?
the first statement was made without knowing much
other than what we were seeing. The second Q : And he said
statement was made with knowledge, with great
knowledge. There's still things, excuse me, there's
Trump: Who is senator- You mean Senator McCain
still things that people don't know. I want to make a
who voted against us getting good health care?
statement with knowledge. I wanted to know the
facts. Okay.
Q: Senator McCain said that the alt-right is behind
these attacks, and he linked that same group to
Q: Two questions. Was this terrorism and can you tell
those who perpetrated the attack in Charlottesville.
us how you're feeling about your chief strategist,
Steve Bannon.
Trump: Well, I don't know. I can't tell you. I'm sure
Senator McCain must know what he's talking about.
Trump: Well, I think the driver of the car is a disgrace
But when you say the alt-right...uh, define alt-right to
to himself, his family and this country, and that is ...
me. You define it. Go ahead. No, define it for me.
you can call it terrorism. You can call it murder. You
Come on, let's go.
can call it whatever you want. I would just call it as
the fastest one to come up with a good verdict. That's
what I'd call it. Because there is a question. Is it Q: Senator McCain defined them as the same
murder? Is it terrorism? And then you get into legal groups.
semantics. The driver of the car is a murderer and
what he did was a horrible, horrible inexcusable Trump: OK. What about the alt-left that came
thing. charging at. Excuse me. What about the alt-left that
came charging at the, as you say, the alt-right. Do
Q: Can you tell us how you're feeling about your chief they have any semblance of guilt?
strategist, Mr. Bannon? Can you talk about that?
Let me ask you this. What about the fact they came
Trump: Go ahead. charging — that they came charging, with clubs in

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their hands, swinging clubs? Do they have any
problem? I think they do. So, you know, as far as I'm
concerned, that was a horrible, horrible day. Wait a
minute. I'm not finished. I'm not finished, fake news.
That was a horrible day.
Q: Is it the same level as neo-Nazis?
Trump: I will tell you something. I watched those very
closely, much more closely than you people watched
it, and you have- You had a group on one side that
was bad and you had a group on the other side that
was also very violent. And nobody wants to say that,
but I'll say it right now. You had a group, you had a
group on the other side that came charging in without
a permit and they were very, very violent. Go ahead.
Q: Do you think what you call the alt-left is the same
as neo-Nazis?
Trump: Those people, all of those people- excuse
me. I've condemned neo-Nazis. I've condemned
many different groups, but not all of those people
were neo-Nazis, believe me. Not all of those people
were white supremacists, by any stretch.
Q: Well, white nationalists
Trump: Those people were also there because they
wanted to protest the taking down of a statue of
Robert E. Lee. So … Excuse me. And you take a
look at some of the groups and you see and you'd
know it if you were honest reporters — which in many
cases you're not. But many of those people were
there to protest the taking down of the statue of
Robert E. Lee. So, this week it's Robert E. Lee. I
noticed that Stonewall Jackson is coming down. I
wonder is it George Washington next week and is it
Thomas Jefferson the week after? You know, you
really do have to ask yourself where does it stop? But
they were there to protest- excuse me. you take a
look the night before, they were there to protest the
taking down of the statue of the Robert E. Lee.
Infrastructure question. Go ahead.
Q: Should statues of Robert E. Lee stay up?
Trump: I would say that's up to a local town,
community, or the federal government depending on
where it is located.
Q: Are you against the Confederacy?
Q: How concerned are you about race relations in
America and do you think things have gotten worse
or better since you took office?
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Trump: I think they have gotten better- or the same-
I- look. They've been frayed for a long time, and you
can ask President Obama about that because he'd
make speeches about it. But, I believe that the fact
that I brought in, it will be soon, millions of jobs —
you see where companies are moving back into our
country — I think that's going to have a tremendous
positive impact on race relations. We have
companies coming back into our country, we have
two car companies that just announced, we have
FoxConn in Wisconsin just announced. We have
many companies, I say pouring back into the country.
I think that's going to have a huge, positive impact on
race relations. You know why? It's jobs. What people
want now, they want jobs. They want great jobs with
good pay and, when they have that, you watch how
race relations will be. And I'll tell you, we're spending
a lot of money on the inner cities. We're fixing the
inner cities. We're doing far more than anybody's
done with respect to the inner cities. It's a priority for
me, and it's very important.
Q: Mr. President, are you putting what you're calling
the alt-left and white supremacists on the same moral
plane?
Trump: I'm not putting anybody on a moral plane.
What I'm saying is this: You had a group on one side
and you had a group on the other and they came at
each other with clubs and it was vicious and it was
horrible and it was a horrible thing to watch, but there
is another side. There was a group on this side —
you can call them the left, you've just called them the
left — that came violently attacking the other group,
so you can say what you want but that's the way it is.
Q: You said there was hatred, there was violence on
both sides. Are there
Trump: Well, I do think there's blame- Yes. I do think
there's blame on both sides. You look at both sides. I
think there's blame on both sides and I have no
doubt about it and you don't have any doubt about it
either and- and- and- and if you reported it
accurately, you would say it.
Q: Neo-Nazis started this in Charlottesville. They
showed up at Charlottesville, they, to protest the
removal of that
Trump: You have some very bad people in that
group, but you also had people that were very fine
people on both sides. You had people in that group
— excuse me, excuse me — I saw the same pictures
as you did. You had people in that group that were
there to protest the taking down of, to them, a very,
very important statue and the renaming of a park
from Robert E. Lee to another name.
 Q: Do you support white nationalists, then?
Trump: Well, George Washington was a slave owner.
Was George Washington a slave owner? So, will
George Washington now lose his status? Are we
going to take down- Excuse me. Are we going to take
down, are we going to take down statues to George
Washington? How about Thomas Jefferson? What
do you think of Thomas Jefferson? You like him?
Reporter: I do love Thomas Jefferson
Trump: OK, good. Well, are we going to take down
the statue? Because he was a major slave owner.
Now, are we going to take down his statue? So, you
know what? It's fine. You're changing history. You're
changing culture and you had people, and I'm not
talking about the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists
because they should be condemned, totally.
But you had many people in that group other than
neo-Nazis and white nationalists, OK? And the press
has treated them absolutely unfairly. Now, in the
other group also, you had some fine people, but you
also had troublemakers and you see them come with
the black outfits and with the helmets and with the
baseball bats. You got a lot of bad people in the other
group, too.
Q: Who was treated unfairly? Sir, I'm sorry I don't
understand what you were saying. You were saying
the press has treated white nationalists unfairly? I
just don't understand what you were saying.
Trump: No. No. There were people in that rally —
and I looked the night before. If you look, there were
people protesting very quietly the taking down of the
statue of Robert E. Lee. I'm sure in that group there
were some bad ones. The following day it looked like
they had some rough, bad people: neo-Nazis, white
nationalists, whatever you want to call them. But you
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had a lot of people in that group that were there to
innocently protest — and very legally protest,
because you know- I don't know if you know, they
had a permit. The other group didn't have a permit.
So, I only tell you this. There are two sides to a story.
I thought what took place was a horrible moment for
our country, a horrible moment. But there are two
sides to the country. Does anybody have a final-
does anybody- you have an infrastructure question.
Q: What makes you think you can get an
infrastructure bill? You didn't get health care.
Trump: Well, you know, I'll tell you. We came very
close with health care, unfortunately, John McCain
decided to vote against it at the last minute. You'll
have to ask John McCain why he did that. But we
came very close to health care. We will end up
getting health care. But we'll get the infrastructure
and actually, infrastructure is something that I think
we'll have bipartisan support on. I actually think- I
actually think Democrats will go along with the
infrastructure.
Q: Mr. President, have you spoken to the family-
have you spoken to the family of the victim of the car
attack?
Trump: No, I'll be reaching out. I'll be reaching out.
Q: When will you be reaching out?
Trump: I was very — I thought that the statement put
out, the mother's statement, I thought was a beautiful
statement. I must tell you, I was- it was something
that I really appreciated. I thought it was terrific, and
really under the- under the kind of stress that she's
under and the heartache that she's under, I thought
putting out that statement to me was really something
I won't forget. Thank you all very much. Thank you.
Thank you.
 Et Tu, Miller?
Steve Bannon’s Ideological Allies
Inside The White House Are Souring On Him
President Donald Trump’s Top Strategist’s Job Is In Jeopardy. Now,
Aides Say, He’s Lost The Inherent Backing Of
Stephen Miller And Julia Hahn.
Asawin Suebsaeng
08.16.17 1:00 AM ET
Steve Bannon, President Donald Trump’s besieged chief
strategist, came into the White House in late January with
a core group of right-wing allies and ideological fellow
travelers, including senior policy adviser Stephen Miller
and presidential assistant Julia Hahn.
But in recent months, Hahn and Miller have soured on
Bannon, according to multiple sources in and outside the
White House with direct knowledge of the situation.
“They’ve turned on Steve,” as one White
House official put it.
Officials spoke to The Daily Beast on the condition of
anonymity because they were not cleared to discuss
internal White House drama and dynamics.
The deterioration of the relationship between the two aides
and Trump’s chief strategist predates news over the past
week of Bannon’s job being once again on the chopping
block, according to their colleagues and sources close to
the three officials.
Months ago, Miller and Hahn started to vent privately
about Bannon’s penchant for self-promotion. One senior
official said they have described Bannon as a “glory hog.”
The two have been said to vacillate on the notion that the
White House would run smoother with less of the leaking
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and infighting that they attribute to Bannon. They have
been alarmed by his determination to carry out vendettas in
secret.
Bannon has consistently denied these allegations and has
insisted that he’s not behind an aggressive leak and smear
campaign against perceived foes like national security
adviser H.R. McMaster.
Miller, four West Wing officials said, has also begun to
view the shenanigans surrounding Bannon as a distraction
toward the goal of implementing the president’s agenda. In
recent months, Miller has notably repositioned himself to
take on projects with aides such as Jared Kushner and
Ivanka Trump—figures in the Trump administration
whose more moderate worldviews do not reflect his own.
Some of Bannon’s close friends and allies in the
administration told The Daily Beast that they believe any
“distancing” that Hahn or Miller may be doing is rooted in
a belief that the chief strategist is potentially on his way
out. Others insisted that everything was fine between
Bannon and his ideological kindred spirits.
“It’s Javanka fake news what you’re doing,”
one source close to all three said, without
responding to follow-up questions about
what was supposedly “fake.”
On Wednesday afternoon after this story had published,
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders
provided the following statement, denying The Daily
Beast’s article. The Daily Beast stands by its reporting.
“These claims made by ‘anonymous
sources’ regarding Stephen Miller and Julia
Hahn are categorically false and are
nothing but a transparent attempt to
undermine the President’s agenda and the
tireless work his Administration is doing
 every day to serve the American people,”
Sanders’s statement read.
Several hours after Sanders contacted The Daily Beast on
Wednesday, the White House comms office sent along the
following on-record comment attributed to Miller:
“This story is 100 percent fiction and
falsehood. My friendship with Steve is
stronger than ever.” Miller had declined to
go on the record for this story multiple
times since Tuesday. Obviously, something
had changed internally.
Hours after that, at 11:04 p.m. ET on Wednesday evening,
the White House press office sent yet another on-record
comment, a single sentence attributable to Hahn, reading,
"everything in this story is completely and totally untrue."
Again, Hahn and White House spokespeople declined to
go on the record on this story when reached by The Daily
Beast on Tuesday. The White House conveyed it was
standing by a policy of not dignifying what they see as
"fake" palace-intrigue stories with on-record response.
Apparently, something changed over the course of a
couple work days.
Bannon, for his part, has privately sounded more
optimistic about his job prospects than news reports of his
precarious standing would suggest. He has recently told
associates and friends that he believes Trump and newly
installed chief of staff John Kelly are not itching to sack
him, but that his adversaries—such as McMaster and
senior administration officials and Trump family members
Ivanka and Kushner—are cheerleading his demise. And if
his allies are turning him, he may not fully know it.
Recently, when Miller’s name was floated as a possible
White House communications director, Bannon offered his
blessing for the idea, according to two senior White House
officials.
Still, Bannon’s isolation within the West Wing is
worsening. On Tuesday, Trump called him a “friend” but
made a point of stressing that he came “very late” to the
campaign before offering only a vague timeline for his
future in the White House.
“We’ll see what happens with Mr. Bannon,”
Trump told reporters at Trump Tower, “and
I think the press treats him very unfairly.”
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Bannon now must wait through that timeline without the
full backing of his ideological comrades inside the White
House.
Miller and Bannon have known each other for years.
Miller was Bannon’s guest on the radio show the chief
strategist hosted back when he ran Breitbart, the influential
pro-Trump website. The pair worked closely on President
Trump’s original “Muslim ban,” which was almost
immediately tied up in court and provoked a strong
backlash and protests. Furthermore, Bannon has described
Miller’s former boss, now Attorney General Jeff Sessions,
as his “mentor.”
Hahn is a Bannon protégée. She worked for Bannon as a
writer at Breitbart, covering immigration and the
Republican Party. In a short New Yorker profile published
shortly after Trump was inaugurated, Hahn was described
as “Steve Bannon’s Bannon” and “President Bannon’s
Bannon.”
Bannon, Hahn, Miller, and the White House comms shop
did not respond to requests to comment on the record for
this story.
Over the past few days, Bannon had found his job security
in jeopardy in a far more serious way than before. Kelly, in
his various conversations with other White House aides,
has heard from at least three White House officials that
“Bannon is a problem,” according to colleague of
Bannon’s. Moreover, the president himself is said to be
annoyed by Bannon’s alleged shenanigans and pervasive
public image as Trump’s grand puppet master.
Kelly and Trump haven’t initiated the official process of
ousting Bannon—and there are some Trump advisers and
close allies who are actively concerned about the kind of
damage a disgruntled Bannon could do if put into exile,
given the cred he wields among prominent pro-Trump
media outlets and heavy-hitter Republican donors such as
the Mercer family.
“There are some who are genuinely
worried about what he could do from the
outside, if thrown out,” one White House
official told The Daily Beast late last week.
Updated 8/16 2pm to add statement from the White House.
 Special Counsel's Russia Probe
Loses Top FBI Investigator
By Mike Levine
Aug 16, 2017, 1:43 PM ET
One of the FBI's top investigators, tapped by special
counsel Robert Mueller just weeks ago to help lead the
probe of Russian meddling in last year's presidential
election, has left Mueller’s team, sources tell ABC News.
The recent departure of FBI veteran Peter Strzok is the
first known hitch in a secretive probe that by all public
accounts is charging full-steam ahead. Just last week, news
surfaced that Mueller's team had executed a search warrant
at the Virginia home of Donald Trump’s former campaign
manager, Paul Manafort. And the week before that ABC
News confirmed Mueller is now using a federal grand jury
in Washington, D.C., to collect documents and other
evidence.
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It's unclear why Strzok stepped away from Mueller's team
of nearly two dozen lawyers, investigators and
administrative staff. Strzok, who has spent much of his law
enforcement career working counterintelligence cases and
has been unanimously praised by government officials
who spoke with ABC News, is now working for the FBI's
human resources division.
He is no stranger to complex and controversial
investigations.
As chief of the FBI's counterespionage section last year, he
helped oversee the FBI's investigation into Hillary
Clinton's use of a private email server, and he took part in
the FBI interview of the Democratic presidential
candidate.
Within weeks of the Clinton probe ending, Strzok found
his office facing a new challenge: investigating Russia's
alleged efforts to influence last year’s presidential election,
including a cyberattack on the Democratic National
Committee.
A spokesman for the special counsel's office declined to
comment.
 Black Pastor Rips 'Left Wing Media'
To Shreds: - The Seeds Of Truth Are Being Sown Into The
Media Lies, And They Are Not Happy About It
- MSM 'Feeds Off Of White Supremacist Groups' And
'Fuels Racial Climate'
By Susan Duclos - All News Pipeline
August 16, 2017
(Robert E. Lee Statue, Charlottesville, VA)
MSNC's liberal host Katy Tur got much more than she
bargained for when she invited Pastor Rev. Darrell Scott
onto the show, where once he got Tur to shut up and stop
giving her own little anti-Trump speeches (2nd video),
proceeded to rip the "left wing" media, informing Tur that
the media created the "ridiculous" narrative of President
Trump being a racist, which in turn is why white
supremacy groups automatically gravitated towards his
candidacy.
"The media has driven the narrative that
Trump embraces white supremacy, so the
white supremacists said, 'well, if this
candidate embraces us, we’re going to
embrace him,'” Scott said. "But it’s not
true."
"No matter how many times he denies
being a racist, no matter how many times
he denounces white supremacy, it’s never
enough," he continued. "This racist climate
in America is being fueled by the media as
well…the media is fueling this only
because Trump is president."
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Pastor Scott also laid the blame for the recent uptick in
racial animosity right on the MSM's doorstep, highlighting
how he believes the
"Left wing media and the white
supremacists have a synergistic
relationship. They feed off of each other. "
That was simply too much for Tur to be able to handle as
she said she was going to stop him right there, then
attempted to deny his point, stating
"I am going to stop you right there! The left
wing media does not feed off white
supremacists groups," as Scott interrupts
her and states "I think it does, I think it
does."
The important part of interview like this, with prominent
African Americans speaking out with truth in response to
the media "spin" and lies, is:
1) It was on the liberal MSNBC, so that finally the asleep
audience that rarely gets to hear the truth, actually got
to hear it
2) Showed how Tur wanted to drive the conversation with
her obnoxious pontificating when the point of an
interview is to get the perspective of the person being
interviewed; and
3) Coming on the heels of President Trump, finally using
the so-called "bully-pulpit," being the only politician
today to have the courage to call out the "alt-left" for
showing up in Charlottesville without a permit with the
specific intent of causing chaos and violence against
rally participants that had a permit for their rally.
Watch both segments of the interview with Pastor Scott,
and then we'll take a look at some media reaction to the
truth bombs President Trump laid on the media and the
American people last night.
 the tragic events that occurred in Charlottesville, VA, on
Saturday, acting like Antifa groups had a right to show up
in masks and carrying weapons in order to violently attack
rally goers who had a permit to hold a rally in protest of
Confederate monuments being removed.

President Trump highlighted that very fact when

answering questions at what was supposed to be an presser
about infrastructure.

I will tell you something. I watched those

very closely. Much more closely than you
people watched it. And you have, you had
a group on one side that was bad. And you
had a group on the other side that was also
very violent. And nobody wants to say that.
But I'll say it right now.

You had a group, you had a group on the

other side that came charging in without a
permit and they were very, very violent.
Later in the presser President Trump reiterated that point:

PRESIDENT TRUMP: Excuse me. You

PRESIDENT TRUMP'S TRUTH BOMBS
In yesterday's article, which received a wonderful response
from readers, ANP highlighted a list put together by Ben
Domenech over at The Federalist, of violent liberal
protests that have occurred since 2009, where politicians,
the media, and the former president would call out
"violence," but never highlighted where the violence was
coming from, who was responsible, for the mass injuries,
destruction of property, and rioting.
Oakland 2009, Akron 2009, Pittsburgh
2009, Santa Cruz 2010, Oakland 2010, Los
Angeles 2010, Oakland 2011, Chicago
2012, Anaheim 2012, Brooklyn 2013,
Ferguson 2014, New York City 2014,
Baltimore 2015, Anaheim 2016, Chicago
2016, St Paul 2016, Milwaukee 2016,
Charlotte 2016, Standing Rock 2016,
Oakland 2016, Portland 2016, Washington
DC 2017, Berkeley 2017, Anaheim 2017,
Berkeley (again) 2017, Berkeley (again
again) 2017, Olympia 2017, and Portland
2017.
had some very bad people in that group.
But you also had people that were very fine
people on both sides. You had people in
that group, excuse me, excuse me, I saw
the same pictures as you did. You had
people in that group that were there to
protest the taking down of, to them, a very,
very important statue and the renaming of
a park, from Robert E. Lee to another
name.
George Washington was a slave-owner.
Was George Washington a slave-owner?
So will George Washington now lose his
status — are we going to take down —
excuse me. Are we going to take down
statues of George Washington? How 'bout
Thomas Jefferson? What do you think of
Thomas Jefferson? You like him? Ok,
good. Are we going to take down the statue
because he was a major slave-owner?
Now we're going to take down his statue.
So you know what, it's fine. You're
changing history, you're changing culture.
And you had people, and I'm not talking
about the neo Nazis or the white
nationalists because they should be
condemned totally. But you had many
people in that group other than neo Nazis
and white nationalists, ok? And the press
has treated them absolutely unfairly.

In almost all events listed above, the mainstream media Now, in the other group also, you had
attempted to justify the mass violence on the part of the some fine people but you also had
liberal groups like Antifa and BLM, which have direct ties troublemakers and you see them come
to George Soros, just as they have been doing in regards to with the black outfits and with the helmets
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 and with the baseball bats. You got a lot of present, there was no violence, no one attacked others,
bad people in the other group too. nothing got out of control.

REPORTER: You said the press has The next day during the protest march, Antifa showed up
treated white nationalists unfairly? with masks on, bats in their hands:

PRESIDENT TRUMP: No. There were

people in that rally, and I looked the night
before, if you look, they were people
protesting very quietly the taking down of
the statue of Robert E. Lee. I'm sure in that
group there were some bad ones. The
following day it looked like they had some
rough, bad people. Neo Nazis, white
nationalists, whatever you want to call
them. But you had a lot of people in that
group that were there to innocently protest
and very legally protest. Because I don't
know if you know, they had a permit. Then this type of violence starts:
The other group didn't have a permit. So
I only tell you this, there are two sides to a
story. I thought what took place was a
horrible moment for our country. A horrible
moment. But there are two sides.

While President Trump denounced in no uncertain terms

the man behind the wheel of the car that drove into the
counter-protesters, as well as the neo-Nazis and white
supremacists ideology of some of the rally participants, he
also is the only politician out there today standing up and
speaking the truth about how groups like Antifa showed up
with violent intent, rather than white washing that aspect,
which is what instigated the events which led to the death
of a woman and the injuries of dozens of others.

What the media completely ignores is the injuries that

THE SEEDS OF TRUTH WERE SOWN - MEDIA
occurred to rally participants by those violent Antifa
FREAKS OUT
groups in incidents other than the car ramming.
President Trump's truth bombs instantly sent the
President Trump also called the media out on their refusal
mainstream media into a tailspin as they started freaking
to report fully on the issue, when he said
out live on air, claiming the President was siding with the
the white supremacists, rather than acknowledging the
"Well, I do think there's blame, yes, I think
truth behind his statements.
there's blame on both sides. You look at
both sides. I think there's blame on both
The NYT rushed to print with an absurd article where they
sides. And I have no doubt about it. And
attempted to tie "conservatives" and the "far right" that
you don't have any doubt about it either.
attending the rally in protest against erasing history by
And, and if you reported it accurately, you
removing Confederate monuments because they offed the
would say it."
perpetually offended liberals that cannot handle that
history actually happened and is part of this nation.
PROVING TRUMPS ASSERTIONS

The videos and images pretty much say it all. Despite the
fact that some of the original protest members where from
factions and groups many of us would find distasteful, like
neo-Nazi's and White Supremacists groups, others were
just there to protest the removal of the monuments, as the
video of the Tiki March below shows, while there are
counter-protesters holding signs from the U. of VA
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Via MRC:
Get it? The vile racists who promoted
violence in Charlottesvile, Virginia over the
weekend, groups that include the KKK and
Nazis, are part of the “far right” and “hard
line conservatives.” That’s according to the
New York Times in a front page story on
 Tuesday. The paper used the phrase “far
right” or “conservative” six times to connect
racist thugs to the political right.
The headline trumpeted, “Far Right Plans
Its Next Moves With a New Energy.” Writer
Alan Feuer began, “The white
supremacists and right-wing extremists
who came together over the weekend in
Charlottesville, Va., are now headed
home.” He later underlined, “The far right,
which has returned to prominence in the
past year or so, has always been an
amalgam of factions and causes.”
Also according to MRC, the network news media was so
incensed that President Trump told the American people
the truth about the groups that started the violence at the
Charlottesville rally, they spent 77 percent of the evening
news on the presser.
winning the Republican nomination to actually becoming
the President of the United States.
Do they never learn?
If they follow their typical patterns they will now do a slew
of polls, skewing the demographics to favor Democrats by
two-to-one compared to Republicans and then blare
headlines saying no one believed the president.... we have
seen this game played before during the election and those
"polls" were dead wrong.
BOTTOM LINE
Reverend Scott in the interview shown above, along with
President Trump, made sure that Americans received the
truth of what happened in Charlottesville over the
weekend, not just the media narrative of "bad people were
talking," and "other groups were protesting those bad
people talking" and a "bad man ran over people."

 CBS Evening News used 100 percent of The media, having not learned that doing the same thing
their air time to talk about what Trump said over and over again and expecting a different result, is
or tie racism back to him in someway. considered insanity, has spent two days now making sure
that every American knows that they are trying to spin the
 ABC’s World News Tonight had roughly 18 fact that Antifa groups showed up in VA without a permit,
minutes and 36 seconds of total news time with the intent to commit violence against multiple groups
and 59 percent of it was talking about of people that did have a permit to hold a protest rally, and
Trump’s display (11 minutes). This left only they got what they wanted.
seven minutes and 36 seconds for other
news stories. President Trump is right, there were good and bad on both
sides, but only one side planned to committ violence at the
 On NBC Nightly News, their total news time rally. He was 100 percent right to call them out.
was 18 minutes and 49 seconds. They
came in second with their total Trump
press conference coverage accumulating
for 13 minutes and 18 seconds (70
percent). That meant they only gave five
minutes and 31 seconds to all the other
possible stories to cover.

Now let us step for a moment to recent history, where

throughout the Trump campaign, the media magnified
everything Trump the candidate did and said, only to find
that Americans liked the message, understood the truth of
his assertions and we all watched him rise in the polls and
knock out 16 other Republican candidates.

He sews the seeds of truth and the media, in all their

glorified outrage, not only makes sure the whole nation
hears those truth bombs, but then they spend the majority
of time further making sure the nation hears the truth,
while attempting to spin it in a manner more palatable to
the media talking heads.

How did that work for them during the campaign season?
Oh that's right, he went from a two percent chance of
.

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 FBI Unexpectedly Releases
Confidential Employee Evaluations Of James Comey
By Tyler Durden
Aug 16, 2017 3:46 PM
In an unexpected, impromptu release, on Tuesday morning
the FBI's "Records Vault" twitter account released a trove
of information, divulging "Field Office and
Headquarters Climate Survey Results" among which are
annual results for the years 2013 through 2017, but more
notably, the confidential employee evaluation results for
now-former Director James Comey.
It is unclear why the FBI releases this data now, although
like on previous occasions, it was likely prompted by an
external FOIA request.
In the description of the survey results, the FBI notes the
following:
The FBI Annual Employee Survey (AES)
provides an opportunity for employees
to anonymously share their perspective
on the performance of FBI leaders and
the organization.
The AES is comprised of two surveys: the Leadership
Survey, measuring employees' perceptions of their
supervisors' leadership abilities; and the Climate Survey,
measuring employees' attitudes about their work, work
environment, and the FBI as a whole. The FBI analyzes
the data to help improve current leadership, pick new
leaders, and encourage employees to express ideas on how
management and the FBI can improve.
Each survey item is rated on a five-point scale. Each rating
is averaged by the number of respondents. The following
scoring breakdown is congruent with the scoring ranges
identified by Human Resources senior level executive in
the Senior Leader selection process:
 Average scores between 1.0 and 2.99
indicate potential areas of concern which
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could worsen if not addressed. A focus on
development in these areas would be
recommended.
 Average scores between 3.0 and 3.80
indicate positive feedback in these areas with
potential for improvement.
 Average scores between 3.81 and 5
indicates success in those areas.
FBI Field Office and Headquarters Climate
Survey Results (2013)
FBI Field Office and Headquarters Climate
Survey Results (2014)
FBI Field Office and Headquarters Climate
Survey Results (2015)
FBI Field Office and Headquarters Climate
Survey Results (2016)
FBI Field Office and Headquarters Climate
Survey Results (2017)
FBI Director James Comey Climate Survey
Results (2015-2017)
In the charts below, we have summarized the disclosed
results from Comey's survey results, broken down across 4
key verticals: i) Personal Characteristics and Values, ii)
Leading People, iii) Managing Work and iv(
Miscellaneous. While there are not drastic changes over
the roughly 3 years during which Comey was FBI
Director, there appears to be a notable downward shift in
Comey's evaluations by anywhere from 36 respondents (in
2015) and 48 (in 2017).
While there are more details in the full evaluations, here is
the core breakdown:
Personal Characteristics and Values:
Leading People: Miscellaneous.

Managing Work The full Comey Survey Results are below (link)

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 The Dividing Lines Are Not Race
– But Political
By Mark Angelides
Published August 16, 2017 · Updated August 17, 2017

“Socialist”, “Moocher”, “Anti-American” and “anti-

White”. Their game playing ahs reached such a pinnacle,
that the vast majority is programmed into just this reaction.
And this is what creates the divide.

This is all a method of control to create armies of

compliant “warriors” who will feel an inbuilt hate towards
the other side. This is no exaggeration that you can find
“online folk” who quite literally think that anyone on the
Right is “evil” and anyone on the Left is “stupid”. Now, of
course, there are people on both sides who are evil, and
people who are stupid (and in some lucky case: both!), but
the vast majority of folks are neither.
No matter how much the political elites would like it to be
We are being lead through a dark forest of memes and
so, America (and in fact much of Europe) is no longer
coded language to a place where we can no longer identify
politically divided by race. Of course there are
with other humans who don’t share our exact political
demographic trends, but these are not divisions; what is
philosophies…And this is intentional.
really causing the split is the vast chasm that is seen to
exist between the Left of politics and the Right.
The more divided we are, the easier it becomes for either
side of the same coin to get into power. If we stopped
Before we get too hung up in terminology, I use the terms
dividing ourselves into “follower classes” we might realize
Left and Right only in their more historical sense. There is
that there is only one clear division: The political class and
a huge amount of crossover; but here I refer to the “Stated
the voters. If we started to accept that we’ve all been
Political Divisions” of our Elected leaders.
tricked, we might start demanding that one side or the
other (because they really are the same side) finally offer
It is part of a plan to create even greater division that the us a politics that works for all.
Elites use the term Left and Right. They each come with
certain connotations that are either negative or positive
Until we stop allowing ourselves to be purposely divided,
(depending on which side is “slinging”). When the Left
we will continue to not have access to our full political
refer to the Right, they want the listener to think “Fascist”,
power. Remember, Divide and Conquer was only ever
“Racist”, “Bigot” and, of course, “White”. And when the
used on enemies…think about it.
Right refer to the Left, they hope the listener will hear
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 “Start Throwing Rocks”:
Washington Post Op-Ed Calls For More
Violence In The Streets
Daniel Lang
August 16th, 2017
It’s not an exaggeration to say that battle lines are being
drawn in America today. You can see it in the news
everyday. As time goes on, people in this country are
becoming very tribal, as Americans of different races,
religions, and political persuasions turn on each other.
What we saw in Charlottesville last weekend was just the
latest sign that America is turning into a very dark place,
where conflict between different demographics is the
norm. And it probably won’t be the last indicator to
emerge.
So how did we get to this place? How did we reach a point
where America resembles Wiemar Germany, with white
nationalists and socialist thugs battling it out on the streets
and killing people?
If I were to pick one culprit for this mess, it would be the
mainstream media. They’re the ones who have, for the
most part, stood behind leftist ideologues for decades, and
allowed them to bury public discourse under a wave of
identity politics. They are at the very least, partly to blame.
They’ve helped stoke divisions in this country that were
once faint, or in the process of healing.
And if you don’t think the mainstream media is
responsible for nudging our country towards war in the
streets, then you should read this op-ed that was recently
published by the Washington Post. It was written by
N.D.B. Collins, an associate professor at Johns Hopkins
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University. In it, he appears to shamelessly call for the left
to spawn more riots and violence in this country.
The white nationalist riot in Charlottesville, a city that
boasts “diversity makes us stronger,” made a lot of things
clear. One of them is that generic solutions to the racial
problem — bland affirmations of inclusiveness, tolerance
and “free speech” — will no longer work. Indeed, they
have never worked, at least not on their own. …
[I]n April 1968, amid a flurry of other “rocks,” riots shook
American cities following the assassination of Martin
Luther King Jr. It took that rolling unrest, not the promise
of further economic growth, to spur President Lyndon
Johnson and Congress to action. Within a week they had
passed the Fair Housing Act.
Over the past century, liberalism, vexed by an ever-sharp,
ever-cutting white supremacy, has needed these rocks. …
Segregationists have again assumed their pedestals in the
Justice Department, the White House and many other
American temples. Paper alone won’t drive them out. Start
throwing rocks.
Let that sink in. At a time when our country has never been
so divided, and the proverbial smoke is still clearing from
a deadly riot in Virginia, one of the most widely
recognized news sources decides to post an article that
calls for more rioting.
It looks an awful lot like the media is trying to foment a
war on American soil. What other conclusion can you
draw from this very public call to violence? They had to
have vetted this piece and understood its meaning and
intent, before unleashing it on the world. They have to
know the consequences of that, and if they know those
consequences, then we can infer their goals.
The mainstream media has just shown us all its true colors.
They’ve finally revealed what many of us suspected for a
long time. They appear to be trying to convince Americans
that it’s okay to hurt, and possibly kill each other for
political reasons.
 Assange Vows To Prove That Russia Was Not His
Source In 3-Hour Meeting With Congressman
By Tyler Durden
Aug 17, 2017 10:46 AM

In a three hour meeting with Representative Dana President-elect Trump is not a legitimate
Rohrabacher (R-CA) at the Ecuadorian embassy in President.
London, Julian Assange vowed to provide proof that
Russia was not the source of his leaks last year and
promised more 'helpful' information in the near future.
Rohrabacher recounted the details of the meeting with
Assange to The Hill:

“Our three-hour meeting covered a wide

array of issues, including the WikiLeaks
exposure of the DNC emails during last
year's presidential election,” Rohrabacher
said, “Julian emphatically stated that
the Russians were not involved in the
hacking or disclosure of those emails."
Pressed for more detail on the source of
the documents, Rohrabacher said he had
information to share privately with
President Donald Trump.
“Julian also indicated that he is open to
further discussions regarding specific
information about the DNC email
incident that is currently unknown to the
public,” he added.
Of course, this is hardly the first time that Assange has
publicly denied that Russia was his source for the DNC
and/or Podesta leaks. Back in January, Assange recorded
an interview with Sean Hannity of Fox News and
unequivocally stated that
"our source is not the Russian
government and it is not a state party."
HANNITY: Can you say to the American
people, unequivocally, that you did not get
this information about the DNC, John
Podesta's emails, can you tell the American
people 1,000 percent that you did not get it
from Russia or anybody associated with
Russia?
ASSANGE: Yes. We can say, we have
said, repeatedly that over the last two
months that our source is not the
Russian government and it is not a state
party... Obama is trying to say that
So, what does Assange want in return for his evidence that
could completely undermine Special Counsel Mueller's
entire investigation? Apparently he would like for
Wikileaks to be granted a seat in the White House press
corps...oh, and we're sure a presidential pardon would be
welcome as well.
Rohrabacher said he had information he planned to carry
back to Trump when he returned to the United States,
including a request that the WikiLeaks organization be
given a news media seat inside the White House press
room.
“Julian passionately argued the case that
WikiLeaks was vital to informing the public
about controversial though necessary
issues. He hoped that Wikileaks — an
award winning journalistic operation —
might be granted a seat in the White
House press corps. As a former newsman
myself I can't see a reason why they
shouldn't be granted news status for official
press conferences,” he said.
As for other information to be given to the president,
Rohrabacher said: “We left with the understanding that
we would be going into further details in the near
future. The rest of the message is for the president
directly and I hope to convey it to him as more details
come in.”

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Of course, we're certain it won't take long for the
mainstream media to label Rohrabacher as just another of
Putin's "useful idiots" and discredit whatever information
Assange eventually releases about his source as a
.
desperate attempt to curry favor with an administration
that could negotiate his freedom after being holed up in the
Ecuadorian embassy for 5 years.

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 CNN Commentator Accuses
Trump Of Being A ‘White Supremacist’
Peter Hasson Associate Editor
11:06 PM 08/17/2017

“And I have been hesitant to say that

CNN commentator Symone Sanders accused President Trump of
being a “white supremacist” Thursday night for his defense of
Confederate statues and monuments.
because I think words matter and they’re
really important. I don’t like to throw the
word racist around. I don’t like to throw lots
of different kinds of words like that around,”
Sanders claimed. “Today I’m at the point,
much like the guest you just had, the
President of the United States is a racist.
We have put a white supremacist in the
White House.”

“For a long time I never actually thought The Associated Press, it’s worth noting, defines “white
Donald Trump was a racist,” claimed supremacy” as
Sanders, who was previously the national
press secretary for Vermont Sen. Bernie “The racist belief that whites are superior to
Sanders’ 2016 presidential campaign. justify political, economic and social
(RELATED: CNN Commentator Says suppression of nonwhite people and other
George Washington And Thomas minority groups.”
Jefferson Statues ‘Need To Come
Down’)
WATCH:
“Today when the president was tweeting
again about culture and tripling down on
these statues, something just clicked in my
brain. It made me think that not only is
Donald Trump a white supremacist
sympathizer, I think he identifies with this
notion of white supremacy, this notion of
preservation of white culture,” she said.
“And does that make him white
supremacist? Yeah. Does that essentially
make him a racist? I absolutely believe so.”

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 Why Was This 'Crowd Hire' Company Recruiting
$25 An Hour 'Political Activists' In Charlotte Last Week?
By Tyler Durden
Aug 17, 2017 3:45 AM
Trump ignited a political firestorm yesterday during an
impromptu press conference in which he said there was
"blame on both sides" for the tragic events that occurred in
Charlottesville over the weekend.
Now, the discovery of a craigslist ad posted
last Monday, almost a full week before the
Charlottesville protests, is raising new
questions over whether paid protesters
were sourced by a Los Angeles based
"public relations firm specializing in
innovative events" to serve as agitators
in counterprotests.
The ad was posted by a company called "Crowds on
Demand" and offered $25 per hour to "actors and
photographers" to participate in events in the "Charlotte,
NC area." While the ad didn't explicitly define a role to be
filled by its crowd of "actors and photographers" it did ask
applicants to comment on whether they were "ok with
participating in peaceful protests." Here is the text from
the ad:
Actors and Photographers Wanted in Charlotte
Crowds on Demand, a Los Angeles-based
Public Relations firm specializing in
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innovative events, is looking for
enthusiastic actors and photographers
in the Charlotte, NC area to participate in
our events. Our events include everything
from rallies to protests to corporate PR
stunts to celebrity scenes. The biggest
qualification is enthusiasm, a "can-do"
spirit. Pay will vary by event but typically
is $25+ per hour plus reimbursements for
gas/parking/Uber/public transit.
For more information about us, please visit
www.crowdsondemand.com
If you're interested in working with us, please reply to this
posting with the following info:
 Full Name
 Prior relevant experience (as an actor/performer,
photographer, brand ambassador, political activist, etc)
 When are you usually available for work?
 Resume (optional)
 If you're a photographer, what equipment do you use?
 Are you ok with participating in peaceful protests
(optional)?
And a screenshot of the original post:
So what is "Crowds on Demand?" According to their own
website,
they're in the business of sourcing large
crowds of people to "provide clients
with protests, rallies, [and] flash-mobs"
all over the country.
They even have an entire page on their website dedicated
to "Protests and Rallies."
Are you looking to create a buzz anywhere in the United
States?
At Crowds on Demand, we provide our
clients with protests, rallies, flash-mobs,
paparazzi events and other inventive PR
stunts. These services are available
across the country in every major U.S
city, every major U.S metro area and
even most smaller cities as well. We
provide everything including the people,
the materials and even the ideas.
You can come to us with a specific plan of action and we
can make it happen. OR, you can approach us with a
.
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general idea and we can help you plan the strategy then
execute it.
We’ve made campaigns involving hundreds of people
come to action in just days. We have a proven record of
delivering major wins on even the toughest campaigns and
delivering phenomenal experiences with even the most
logistically challenging events.
The CEO of Crowds on Demand denied to Snopes that his
firm was involved in the Charlottesville protests but
refused to provide details on the specific purpose of the
craigslist ad and/or why it was temporarily removed
yesterday before being restored.
"We were not involved in any capacity
with the recent tragic events in
Charlottesville, Virginia. Our thoughts
and prayers are with the families of
those impacted by the violence"
Silly question, but if your cause is worthy of protest then
why would you need to pay $25 per hour to get people to
show up?
 Trump Refuses To Let Go, Slams Graham's
"Disgusting Lie" About Charlottesville Comments
By Tyler Durden
Aug 17, 2017 8:59 AM
Following yesterday's advisory councils debacle, Trump
woke up on Thursday and seemingly unable to "let it go",
immediately went after South Carolina Sen. Lindsay
Graham over his latest criticism of Trump’s response to
the violence in Charlottesville.
In a burst of tweets, confirming yet again that Gen Kelly
remains powerless to contain Trump's tweeting habit,
Trump said “publicity seeking Lindsey Graham falsely
stated that I said there is moral equivalency between the
KKK, neo-Nazis & white supremacists and people like
Ms. Heyer. Such a disgusting lie. He just can't forget his
election trouncing.The people of South Carolina will
remember!"
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Trump's anger was provoked by Graham statement on
Wednesday that Trump's reaction to the violence was
dividing the country, saying he made a “moral
equivalency” between white supremacists who attended
the weekend rally and Heather Heyer, a 32-year-old
woman who was killed after being hit by a car allegedly
driven by a man with far-right views.
"I, along with many others, do not endorse this moral
equivalency," Graham said. "Many Republicans ... will
fight back against the idea that the Party of Lincoln has a
welcome mat out for the David Dukes of the world."
While Trump's latest outburst against Graham was
expected, the question is whether the president will also go
after the CEO of the world's most valuable company next
the same way he lashed out at Jeff Bezos and Amazon
yesterday, following Tim Cook's comments overnight,
where in an email to employees the Apple CEO said that “I
disagree with the president and others who believe that
there is a moral equivalence between white supremacists
and Nazis, and those who oppose them by standing up for
human rights,” according to Axios.
Cook also said that “hate is a cancer, and left unchecked it
destroys everything in its path” and added that “we must
not witness or permit such hate and bigotry in our country,
and we must be unequivocal about it. This is not about the
left or the right, conservative or liberal."
Finally, Cook said that Apple will donate $1 million each
to Southern Poverty Law Center and the Anti-Defamation
League and match two-for-one employees donations to
these and other human rights group from now to Sept. 30.
 Defiant Trump Doubles Down,
Defends "Beautiful" Confederate Statues
By Tyler Durden
Aug 17, 2017 11:16 AM

President Trump just dropped a brand new tweet storm

doubling down on comments he made at an impromptu
press conference earlier this week that sparked a media
firestorm and left many calling, yet again, for his
immediate resignation.

Responding to actions taken around the country to remove

confederate statues in the wake of the violence in
Charlottesville last weekend, Trump said it's

"sad to see the history and culture of

our great country being ripped apart."
Sad to see the history and culture of our
great country being ripped apart with
the removal of our beautiful statues and
monuments. You can't change history, but
you can learn from it. Robert E Lee,
Stonewall Jackson - who's next,
Washington, Jefferson? So foolish!

Also the beauty that is being taken out of our cities, towns
and parks will be greatly missed and never able to be
comparably replaced!

We're awaiting confirmation from CNN that these tweets

are just the latest evidence of Trump's sympathy for white
supremacist groups which prove that he is unfit for office.

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 After Trump Tweets,
Amazon Market Value Loses $5 Billion
Published Time: 17 Aug, 2017 02:57 Edited Time: 17 Aug, 2017 07:10

“If I become president, oh [does Amazon]

have problems. They're going to have such
problems,” Trump said. He also stated that
Bezos only bought the Post so that he
could have “political influence.”

At a July 26 Senate hearing, Senator Joe Manchin (D-West

Virginia), asked Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin what
he thought about the issue of internet sales tax on a state
level.

© Leon Neal / AFP

Amazon’s stock market value lost as much as $5 billion
during premarket trading after President Donald Trump
tweeted that the online giant does “great damage to tax
paying retailers.” Trump has long accused Amazon of not
paying its fair share of taxes.
On Wednesday, Trump criticized Amazon on Twitter by
saying it is hurting retailers and causing US job losses. The
president had previously tweeted similar attacks against
the e-commerce company, as well as pointing out that its
CEO Jeff Bezos also owns the Washington Post.
After Trump’s tweet, Amazon stock closed down 0.5
percent, according to CNBC.
"While this is not his first tweet about
Amazon and taxes (and of course, the
Washington Post), we do find it interesting
that he is now linking Amazon and job
losses in traditional retail," Edward Yruma,
KeyBanc Capital Markets Analyst wrote in
a note to clients Wednesday.
“So this is an issue that we've been looking
at very carefully within the administration,
and we expect to come out with a position
shortly,” Mnuchin said, CNBC reported. “I
am encouraged that Amazon is now
charging tax, I believe, on their own sales
but not the marketplace. I'm not sure I
understand the consistency on that, but I
respect the state’s ability that there's an
awful lot of money that's not being
collected.”
The senator was referring to Amazon’s third party market
place, where other businesses and firms sell products on
Amazon’s website.
On April 1, Amazon began collecting state sales tax
nationwide in relation to products that it sells directly to
customers through so called “first-party” sales.
Amazon does currently offer a state sales tax collection
feature to its third party sellers, but it is unclear how many
utilize the service, the Wall Street Journal reported.

On three occasions, from July 22-24, Trump blasted

Amazon and the Washington Post. The president called the
companies the “Amazon Washington Post,” alleging some
financial impropriety by Bezos.

At one of his campaign rallies in February last year, Trump

told a crowd about his future plans for dealing with
Amazon.

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 CNN's Chris Cuomo: "Extreme Right
Is The Number One Domestic Terror Threat In The U.S."
By Tyler Durden
Aug 17, 2017 1:25 PM
CNN's Chris Cuomo is a man who likes to make up his
own 'facts'.
Remember back in October 2016 when he told his CNN
viewers that it was
"illegal to possess" documents
published by Wikileaks but continued that
"it's different for the media...so everything
you learn about this, you're learning from
us."
That's one way to keep a captive audience and control
messaging...just scare them into viewership by telling them
it's illegal to consume information directly from their
original sources...
Unfortunately, despite being mercilessly mocked on social
media, Cuomo didn't learn his lessons from his Wikileaks
mishap. Just this morning Cuomo decided to drop another
creative 'fact' on viewers saying
"the number one domestic terror threat
in the U.S. is the extreme right...just
look at the stats."
Courtesy of the Daily Caller:
“If you take anarchists at their worst, do
you have malefactor? Do you have
criminals in their ranks? Do you have
people who do violent things? Yes, yes,
yes, yes. That is not a moral equivalency to
the KKK,” Cuomo said. “It’s certainly not an
equivalent to what we see on the right.
Just look at the stats. The number one
domestic terror threat in the U.S. is the
extreme right. There is not even a close
second.”
“That’s all they’re about is hate. Two out of
three people on this panel they don’t want
to exist!”
Which we guess is a completely accurate
statement if you ignore the 2,996 people
killed in the 9/11 attacks, 49 people
killed in the Orlando night club
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shooting, 14 people killed in San
Bernadino, etc.
Of course, the point that Cuomo's guest was attempting to
make, which is difficult when you're cut off every 5
seconds, was simply that there are professional agitators
who are paid to attend rallies and incite violence when
opportunities present themselves. As we pointed out
yesterday, there are actually companies that advertise their
ability to source "Crowds on Demand" to attend "protests,
rallies, flash-mobs" anywhere in the country...so this is
hardly a controversial point.
“What I’m saying is there are individuals
in this country, human beings in the
country that do want a race war, and do
want to cause violence and pain and
even death to other people,” Ferguson
said.
“This is where people are so hyper
focused on one issue only that they are
completely missing the point that many
Americans understand,” Ferguson replied.
“There is no doubt that the KKK, white
supremacists, neo-Nazis are disgusting
and vile, despicable human beings. That
should be able to be a statement that is
stand alone on it’s own.”
Ferguson asked if it was possible to have a second,
separate conversation about violence stirred up
intentionally, meant to increase racial hostilities and bring
about a race war.
“There are violent people out there that
when they see an opportunity to
become violent, when they see an
 opportunity to create a race war that “There are people that want to do that.”
they do show up everywhere and travel
around the country to try to have a race That said, it's difficult to argue a point when entire media
war,” Ferguson said. organizations are willing to simply makeup 'facts'...

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 Bannon Breaks Silence: Slams
"Far-Right Clowns", Vows "Economic War With China"
By Tyler Durden
Aug 17, 2017 5:40 AM
After weeks of speculation about his future, Trump White
House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon has broken free of
his self-imposed exile, unloading a torrent of Scaramucci-
esque comments to none other than Robert Kuttner - the
editor of The American Prospect, a progressive publication
(the cover lines on whose first two issues after Trump’s
election were “Resisting Trump” and “Containing Trump."
Kuttner sets the surprising scene...
Trump’s embattled strategist phones
me, unbidden, to opine on China, Korea,
and his enemies in the administration...
Needless to say, I was a little stunned to get an email
from Bannon’s assistant midday Tuesday, just as all hell
was breaking loose once again about Charlottesville,
saying that Bannon wished to meet with me.
But unload Bannon did:
He began with China...
“We’re at economic war with China,” he
added. “It’s in all their literature. They’re not
shy about saying what they’re doing. One
of us is going to be a hegemon in 25 or
30 years and it’s gonna be them if we go
down this path.”
Bannon said he might consider a deal in which China got
North Korea to freeze its nuclear buildup with verifiable
inspections and the United States removed its troops from
the peninsula, but such a deal seemed remote. Given that
China is not likely to do much more on North Korea, and
that the logic of mutually assured destruction was its own
source of restraint, Bannon saw no reason not to proceed
with tough trade sanctions against China.
“To me,” Bannon said, “the economic
war with China is everything. And we
have to be maniacally focused on that. If
we continue to lose it, we're five years
away, I think, ten years at the most, of
hitting an inflection point from which
we'll never be able to recover.”
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Contrary to Trump’s threat of fire and fury, Bannon said of
Korea:
"On Korea, [China's] just tapping us along.
It’s just a sideshow."
“There’s no military solution [to North
Korea’s nuclear threats], forget it.
Until somebody solves the part of the
equation that shows me that ten million
people in Seoul don’t die in the first 30
minutes from conventional weapons, I don’t
know what you’re talking about, there’s no
military solution here, they got us.”
Bannon went on to describe his battle inside the
administration to take a harder line on China trade, and not
to fall into a trap of wishful thinking in which complaints
against China’s trade practices now had to take a backseat
to the hope that China, as honest broker, would help
restrain Kim.
Bannon’s plan of attack includes: a complaint under
Section 301 of the 1974 Trade Act against Chinese
coercion of technology transfers from American
corporations doing business there, and follow-up
complaints against steel and aluminum dumping.
“We’re going to run the tables on these
guys. We’ve come to the conclusion
that they’re in an economic war and
they’re crushing us.”
With regard his internal adversaries, at the departments
of State and Defense, who think the United States can
enlist Beijing’s aid on the North Korean standoff, and at
Treasury and the National Economic Council who don’t
want to mess with the trading system, Bannon was ever
harsher...
“Oh, they’re wetting themselves,” he
said, explaining that the Section 301
complaint,
which was put on hold when the war of threats with North
Korea broke out, was shelved only temporarily, and will be
revived in three weeks. As for other cabinet departments, much, and we gotta help crush it, you
Bannon has big plans to marginalize their influence. know, uh, help crush it more.”
“These guys are a collection of
“That’s a fight I fight every day here,” clowns,” he added.
he said. “We’re still fighting. There’s
Treasury and [National Economic And finally, Bannon scoffed at The
Council chair] Gary Cohn and Goldman Democrats...
Sachs lobbying.” “...the longer they talk about identity
“We gotta do this. The president’s default politics, I got ’em. I want them to talk
position is to do it, but the apparatus is about racism every day. If the left is
going crazy. Don’t get me wrong. It’s like, focused on race and identity, and we go
every day.” with economic nationalism, we can crush
the Democrats.”
Bannon dismissed the far-right as irrelevant:
Bannon going down with a fight or a massive effort to
distract from the carnage of the last few days? You decide.
“Ethno-nationalism—it's losers. It's a fringe
element. I think the media plays it up too
.

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 Dem Scandals: Nets Blackout
Indictments and Assassination Hopes
By Nicholas Fondacaro
August 17, 2017 10:34 PM EDT
Thursday was a terrible day for the Democratic Party as
they were rocked by two major scandals. First, Missouri
State Senator Maria Chappelle-Nadal wrote on Facebook
that she wanted President Trump assassinated. Second,
Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s former IT
staffer, Imran Awan was indicted on bank fraud among
other charges. Again, it was a damaging day for the Dems
but you wouldn’t know it from watching the Big Three
Networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) who ignored all of it.
As documented by the local CBS affiliate out of St. Louis,
Missouri, State Senator Chappelle-Nadal was in a
conversation with a friend, on her private Facebook page,
who claimed his cousin was on Trump Secret Service
detail. The friend seemed to allude to the idea that Trump
would be assassinated “sooner…not later.” The man then
said he was probably going to get a visit from the Secret
Service, to which the state Senator responded:
“No I will. I hope Trump is assassinated!”
Chappelle-Nadal was now facing calls from elected
officials higher up the Democratic Party food-chain to
resign immediately:
U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo.: "I
condemn it. It's outrageous. And she
should resign.”
U.S. Rep. William Lacy Clay, D-St. Louis:
"(C)alling for the assassination of the
President is a federal crime. … (She is) an
embarrassment to our state. She should
resign immediately.”
But as one would be expected of such a vocal radical
leftist, she refused.
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“There is no way in hell I’m resigning,” she
told a local radio station. “When the
President apologizes, I’ll apologize. But I’m
not apologizing for being frustrated and
angry at the bigot that we have in our White
House.”
Meanwhile, in Washington, D.C., things were heating up
in the case of a Democratic Party IT aide and his wife who
were indicted on multiple counts of bank fraud and lying
to authorities.
According to a Fox News report,
“Awan and other IT aides for House
Democrats have been on investigators’
radar for months over concerns of possible
double-billing, alleged equipment theft, and
access to sensitive computer systems.”
Awan was fired by most of the Democrats he worked for
but the Congresswoman from Florida, Debbie Wasserman
Schultz kept him on her payroll until his July arrest, that’s
“even after a criminal investigation was
revealed and he was barred from the
House IT network. “
“Awan and his wife engaged in a
conspiracy to obtain home equity lines of
credit from the Congressional Federal
Credit Union by giving false information
about two properties – and then sending
the proceeds to individuals in Pakistan,” the
Fox News report noted. In total, Awan
managed to send more than $4 million to
Pakistan.
These two scandals were a publicity nightmare, so it’s no
wonder the Big Three Networks (ABC, CBS, and CBS)
chose not mention them. Instead, all three networks hyped
a story about a sports photographer who was hit in privates
with a baseball. NBC really wanted to bury both stories
because they filled their air-time with reports of a diamond
ring around a carrot and the Powerball jackpots.
 Nadler: Trump Must Be Censured —
He Is An ‘Immoral President’
By Pam Key
17 Aug 2017

Thursday on MSNBC, Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) said American view. This does not represent the
Republicans should back the House Democrats’ resolution American people. We represent the
to censure President Donald Trump for his comments American people. This is morally
about the violence in Charlottesville, VA because Trump is objectionable. The United States is a moral
“an immoral president.” country even if it has an immoral
president.”
When asked if Republicans should support the move,
Nadler said, He added,

“Yes, they should be for the censure. The “The monuments are monuments to
censure is necessary.” traitors. People who went to war against
the United States that resulted in the
He continued, deaths of over 600,000 American soldiers
on both sides in defense of the
indefensible. In defense of slavery. He
“The president is normally seen as
said, where does it stop—with
speaking for the United States or the
Washington? With Jefferson? Washington
United States government. When the
and Jefferson were patriots. The people
president speaks such in moral calamity.
we’re talking about were traitors and were
When he equates neo-nazis and white
traitors in defense of slavery. If he doesn’t
supremacists—violent people—with people
recognize the moral distinction there and
who were opposing them. When he seeks
the distinction today between neo-nazis
to create a moral equivalency—white
and white supremacists and decent people
supremacists and neo-Nazis with decent
and the United States, then Congress has
people, he must be rebuked. Congress
to make that clear.”
must officially say—Congress is the other
branch of government. The judiciary cannot
speak—that this does not represent the
.

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 OOF: Jenna Jameson CLOBBERS
Rep. Cohen & Latest Dem Excuse To Impeach Trump
By Doug P.
Posted At 6:29 Pm On August 17, 2017

The Democrat Resistance continues to seek for angles for

which to impeach President Trump, and Rep. Steve Cohen #MicDrop
thinks he may have found one:

Jenna Jameson, never one to mince words, let Cohen have

it:

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 Flashback: Long Before Charlottesville
The Left Vowed To ‘Make America Ungovernable’
By J. D. Heyes, Editor-In-Chief
Posted On August 17, 2017
(National Sentinel) Political chaos: When conservatives
and Republicans lose elections, Left-wing extremists who
belong to the Democratic Party tell us to suck it up, get
over it and move on. We lost, they say, so get used to it
and get in line.
When these same maggots lose elections to conservatives,
they claim such results are not legitimate, not really
representative of “the people,” and therefore do not have to
be recognized.
That is especially true with Donald J. Trump’s historic
victory in November, an electoral win that has turned the
American Left into unhinged, mindless rage-a-holics.
The latest “outrage” of course stems from events which
took place in Charlottesville, Va., last weekend, when
admitted white supremacists clashed with admitted
anarchists over the future of memorials erected in another
era, by different Americans who held far different views
and held different cultural mores.
Meanwhile, the vast majority of America has to suffer
through the antics of competing morons, but one thing you
should never forget is that to the Left at least, incidents
like what took place in Charlottesville will be exploited
to make America ungovernable.
Flashback — February 6: Someone calling themselves
Chris Hedges wrote on far-Left web site Common Dreams
under this headline: “Make America Ungovernable.” He
said:
Donald Trump’s regime is rapidly
reconfiguring the United States into an
authoritarian state. All forms of dissent will
soon be criminalized. Civil liberties will no
longer exist. Corporate exploitation,
through the abolition of regulations and
laws, will be unimpeded. Global warming
will accelerate. A repugnant nationalism,
amplified by government propaganda, will
promote bigotry and racism. Hate crimes
will explode. New wars will be launched or
expanded.
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He ends with:
Now is the time not to cooperate. Now is
the time to shut down the systems of
power. Now is the time to resist. It is our
last chance. The fanatics are moving with
lightning speed. So should we.
Just…wow. And Trump supporters are called conspiracy
nuts.
Christian Land wrote a few months later:
Polls show that perhaps 35% of Americans
are committed to total “resistance” to
President Trump and his administration,
with millions of American citizens
dedicating themselves to making America
“ungovernable” during President Trump’s
tenure. As of mid-week, Trump has the
fewest number of confirmed cabinet
appointees since George Washington.
Such vehement rejection of the people’s
verdict at the polls and such widespread
disregard of the tradition of the losing side
being the loyal opposition until the next
election cycle have caused great concern
among American citizens across all
positions on the political and
socioeconomic spectrum.
And the ‘ungovernable’ strategy continues to this day. The
Left in America is exactly like other Left-wing movements
throughout history: It foments and then exploits societal
divisions, often with violence, in order to force its will and
take the reins of power, even when its candidates lose
elections.
This is exactly what is happening in American. Right now.
Today. Check it out; the ‘movement’ even has a web site.
Remember these images, from Oakland less than two
weeks after Trump was inaugurated:
 What we’re seeing play out — the
divisions, the tension, the escalation of
violence — is an extension of the Marxist
Left’s goal to make American ungovernable
so it can impose itself and its own form of
authoritarianism — on all of us. These
people don’t just want to govern, they want
to rule and they refuse to be ruled by
anyone with dissimilar political and social
viewpoints, even if those other people
legitimately won elections.

This will end badly if we don’t come together as a country

and fight all forces of division, but especially those on the
Left who have been saying for months now they refuse to
accept Trump’s presidency and the Republican-led
Congress’ moral authority to govern, and who use any
excuse to push their agenda.

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 Charlottesville Is Beginning
To Look A Lot Like A Leftist Set-Up
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On August 17, 2017
We can’t all be Americans if only part of us want to be
(National Sentinel) Culture war: During ESPN’s First
Take program on Tuesday, longtime network personality
Steven A. Smith, who is black, threw down the race card
as he lectured viewers about the ethnic nuances of the First
Amendment.
As Breitbart News reported, Smith was complaining about
a statement made by NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell,
who is white, when responding to a question about players
sitting or engaging in some other act of protest during the
playing of the National Anthem, which occurs before each
and every game.
“The national anthem is a special moment
for me. It’s a point of pride. That is a really
important moment but we also have to
understand the other side — that people do
have rights, and we want to respect those,”
he said when speaking to Arizona
Cardinals season ticket holders.
Goodell went on to note that he had visited with New York
Jets fans a week before, and a player whom he did not
identify was asked the same thing. The player, the
commissioner recalled, said there was “a time and a place”
to engage in protest.
“That’s what we all have to, sort of,
understand — the responsibility of doing it
at the right time and in the right way,”
Goodell said.
Well, that set Smith off.
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“Roger Goodell is not the man to make that
statement,” Smith claimed.
Really, Steven? How come?
“I’m going to say something that’s going to
be controversial. I don’t give a damn,” he
said. “No white person has the right to tell
black folks when you should protest about
something. Because usually protests that
emanates from the black community is due
in large part because of the transgressions
exacted against that community by those
who don’t happen to be black.”
Translated: If you’re not black, then shut up about this.
The thing is Roger Goodell never said:
“Blacks can’t protest the National Anthem.”
But because Steven A. Smith has so conditioned himself to
see hatred and racism under every rock, he took the NFL
commissioner’s very neutral statement as some sort of
attack on black players (most of the players in the NFL are
black. By far most of those who are protesting the anthem
by not standing and placing their hands over their hearts
are black).
You people don’t tell my people what to do,
think or say. Only my people can tell my
people what to do, think or say.
Well, here’s the problem with that kind of thinking: We
can’t all be Americans if only part of us want to be.
(Related: Are we nearing civil war?)
The American Right is certainly not
blameless, but the bulk of today’s
violent political division has been
inculcated, spread and fomented by the
Marxist Left, Charlottesville
notwithstanding.
 Bankrolled by extremist billionaires like
George Soros, Alt-Left groups like Antifa,
Black Lives Matter, Occupy Wall Street
and others have sprung up in recent years,
attacking American history and traditions
as illegitimate, corrupt and ideologically
inferior. Their members show up at political
rallies and events with the specific goal of
shutting down speech they have deemed
“racist” and “bigoted,” even though it’s not.
One Antifa organizer told CNN:
“The idea in Antifa is that we go where they
(right-wingers) go. That hate speech is not
free speech. That if you are endangering
people with what you say and the actions
that are behind them, then you do not have
the right to do that.
.
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“And so we go to cause conflict, to shut
them down where they are, because we
don’t believe that Nazis or fascists of any
stripe should have a mouthpiece.”
That is precisely Steven A. Smith’s mentality, as well as
the mentality of those who agree with him. They really
believe that certain Americans — be it due to their skin
color, political beliefs, cultural leanings or social attitudes
— don’t have a right to express themselves under the same
First Amendment they use, and that they, by some divine
authority, have been empowered to decide what speech
and what viewpoints are valid.
The Left’s goal is nothing short of the complete overthrow
of traditional America, and they’re using every means
possible — race, politics and pop culture — to divide us so
that they can conquer us.
They can’t be allowed to succeed.
 George Soros Spending More Than
Ever To Push His Liberal Agenda Worldwide
Fr. Mark Hodges
Thu Aug 17, 2017 - 2:14 Pm EST
WASHINGTON, D.C., August 17, 2017 (LifeSiteNews)
— One of the world’s wealthiest men is investing even
more of his money into global political influence.
The Washington Free Beacon reports that billionaire
George Soros is doubling his spending on lobbying
Congress through his “Open Society Policy Center”
(OSPC).
Soros’ OSPC group will spend approximately $9.2 million
this year for a total of $41.6 million since 2013 — twice
as much as he spent in the past 10 years combined ($19.1
million).
OSPC utilizes full-time, in-house lobbyists working the
U.S. Senate, House of Representatives, National Security
Council, Defense Department, and State Department.
Soros is using his considerable wealth to
lobby for favorable legislation and push a
liberal agenda around the world in the
name of “democracy.”
Soros’ “non-profit” promotes abortion and
euthanasia, overpopulation, homosexuality,
atheism and feminism, same-sex
“marriage,” and transgenderism worldwide.
The billionaire activist uses a well-developed network of
Non-Government Organizations (NGOs) to advance
revolutions around the world, the war on police, Black
Lives Matter riots, Occupy Wall Street, globalism, and
other hallmarks of liberalism.
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Soros also lobbies through other “charities” such as his
“Open Society Foundation” (OSF), which is separate from
OSPC. OSF funds more than 60 NGOs in his native
Hungary alone.
Soros’ liberal influence on Hungary became so prevalent
that the Hungarian Parliament passed a law reigning in
foreign NGOs seeking to change the Hungarian pro-life,
pro-family, and pro-marriage culture.
Besides political and cultural dominance, Soros also
financially wields economic power globally. He is
currently embroiled in a $10 billion lawsuit for allegedly
orchestrating the African country of Guinea’s freezing of
Israeli iron ore mining contracts.
Last fall, DC Leaks released emails from 2011 revealing
Soros asked for and got Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
to intervene in the Albanian upheaval resulting from
exposed political corruption.
Former Department of Justice Attorney J. Christian Adams
warned,
“Americans do not understand the
extent to which Soros fuels this anti-
constitutional, anti-American agenda.”
Domestically, Soros’ organizations work to influence
elections, legislation, and policy, including the Restricting
First Use of Nuclear Weapons Act and the National
Defense Authorization Act.
Soros’ efforts were particularly successful
in the Democratic Party. Adams told Fox
News that Soros was “instrumental in
shaping Department of Justice policy under
the Obama administration.”
It is also alleged that Soros-funded
groups were behind anti-Trump mobs
that blocked streets, set fires, injured
police officers, and destroyed property
the day after the November 8 national
election.
Wealth and power may have gone to Soros’ head. In everything, but I feel comfortable about it
numerous interviews, he has admitted to fantasizing that he now since I began to live it out.”
is “a god.”
He told British television,
“I admit that I have always harbored an
exaggerated view of self-importance — to “Next to my fantasies about being God, I
put it bluntly, I fancied myself as some kind also have very strong fantasies of being
of god,” he wrote in 1987. mad.”

He confessed to The Independent in 1993, In 2002, Soros was convicted by a French court of insider
trading.
“It is a sort of disease when you consider
yourself some kind of god, the creator of
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 Rep. Rohrabacher Says Assange
Could Be Pardoned For Info About DNC Leak Source
Alex Pfeiffer
August 17, 2017
California Republican Rep. Dana Rohrabacher met with
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange Wednesday in an effort
to obtain information about the source of a leak of
Democratic officials’ emails.
Rohrabacher told The Daily Caller in an exclusive
interview Thursday that Assange is hoping to leave the
Ecuadorian embassy in London where he is currently in
asylum, and that during the meeting they explored
“what might be necessary to get him out.”
The congressman told TheDC that
“if [Assange] is going to give us a big favor,
he would obviously have to be pardoned to
leave the Ecuadorian embassy.”
Assange took asylum in the embassy in August 2012 after
facing sexual assault charges in Sweden. The Justice
Department also reportedly wants to charge Assange for
helping Edward Snowden, a former NSA analyst, leak
thousands of classified documents.
“He has information that will be of dramatic
importance to the United States and the
people of our country as well as to our
government,” Rohrabacher said. “Thus if
he comes up with that, you know he’s
going to expect something in return. He
can’t even leave the embassy to get out to
Washington to talk to anybody if he doesn’t
have a pardon. Obviously there is an issue
there that needs to be dealt with, but we
haven’t come to any conclusion yet.”
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The U.S. intelligence community has said Russia was
involved in the hacking and leaking of emails from the
Democratic National Committee during the presidential
election. Assange has continued to maintain that Russia
was not WikiLeaks’ source and has long maintained that
he would never reveal a source.
Rohrabacher has been maligned by opponents for being
too favorable to the Russian government, and was called
“Putin’s favorite congressman” by Politico. He told
TheDC that these attacks are due to people’s efforts to
“obscure information that would be damaging to their
political positions.”
“They can’t fool the American people all the
time, especially if there’s some dramatic
information that would expose this
monstrous fraud that has been perpetrated
on the American people and thus
undermining an elected president and his
ability to take the responsibility given to him
by the voters,” Rohrabacher stated.
The California congressman met with Assange along with
conservative journalist Charles C. Johnson. Johnson is
frequently attacked as just an internet troll, but he is well-
connected to several key political figures. He told TheDC
that he arranged the meeting between Rohrabacher and
Assange.
Rohrabacher told TheDC that Johnson “stepped in as a
friend” to help him on his overseas trip. The congressman
went to London on his own dime and Rohrabacher is the
first U.S. representative to visit Assange.
A pardon of Assange would have to come directly from
President Donald Trump, and Rohrabacher told TheDC,
“I can’t remember if I have spoken to
anybody in the White House about this.”
The congressman has yet to receive the information that
has been promised to him by Assange, but he said he is
confident he will receive it.
“If I had to bet on it, I would bet that we are
going to get the information that will be
mind-boggling and of major historical
significance,” Rohrabacher said. He said if
it is significant enough, he will bring it
directly to Trump.
“And there has already been some
indication that the president will be very
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anxious to hear what I have to say if that is
the determination that I make,”
Rohrabacher added.
Trump has continued to maintain that someone other than
Russia could have been the source of the leaked emails.
 Missouri State Senator Calls For Trump’s
Murder In Latest Push For Violence Against The President
CNN, Other Mainstream Media Outlets Have Aired Similar Rhetoric
By Alex Thomas -
08.17.2017 @8:19 PM EDT

(INTELLIHUB) — A Missouri state senator has become

the latest leftist to call for the murder of President Trump
and is now facing calls for her resignation after the
shocking comment was posted on Facebook Thursday
morning.

Democratic Sen. Maria Chappelle-Nadal made the now

deleted comment on her Facebook page after being told by
a left-wing activist that his cousin was stuck in the Secret
Service for two more years despite not being a fan of
Trump.

After the activist wrote about being worried that he would

receive a visit from the Secret Service himself, Chappelle-
Nadal replied, “No. I will. I hope Trump is assassinated!”.
After numerous calls for her resignation, Chappelle-Nadal
remained defiant, telling reporters, “Hell no”, before
literally comparing MURDER to someone cheating on
their wives.

“In another message, she confirmed she

was aware of calls for her resignation but
reiterated that she intended to keep her
seat,” reported News-Leader.
“I’m not resigning,” she said. “Legislators
cheat on their wives and are not asked to
resign.”

Chappelle-Nadal then doubled down, Tweeting out a

message that seemingly implies that her call for Trump’s
assassination stands.

Take a second to think about how insane one has to be to

openly call for the murder of the sitting president and then
Tweet about how hate and bigotry should not be tolerated.

Can you say Trump derangement syndrome anyone?

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Unfortunately, actual calls for Trump’s death are nothing
new, with numerous examples of similar violent rhetoric
being heard across the mainstream media. That’s right,
outlets such as CNN have directly aired threats of murder
against Trump while claiming he is the hateful one.
As we reported late last week, former CIA operative (and
friend of Robert Mueller) Philip Mudd openly declared
that the government is going to kill Trump during a
segment on CNN.
“In yet another stunning display of the very
real deep state war being waged against
Donald Trump, CNN talking head and
former CIA agent Philip Mudd has openly
threatened the president with murder,”
Intellihub News wrote.
“Let me give you one bottom line – as a
former government official, the
government’s gonna kill this guy,” Mudd
stunningly revealed.
“Fresh off of calling for a GOP civil war to
take out the president, Wilson has gone off
the deep end by using the Charlottesville
attack to imply that the president may need
to be lynched.”
“I like my fascists the old-fashioned way;
dead, hanging from lamp-posts as we
liberate their victims,” Wilson stunningly
posted on Twitter.
To recap, politicians and the mainstream media have for
months openly called for the death of Donald Trump while
pretending they are the ones fighting against hate. You
truly can’t make this stuff up.

Just days later, establishment GOP consultant and noted

anti-Trump zealot Rick Wilson declared that he supports
the lynching of “fascists” after previously declaring the
president to be one on numerous occasions.

As Intellihub News reported,

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 FBI Reopening Conservative Group’s
Case On Lynch-Clinton Tarmac Meeting
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On August 17, 2017
Vows to “hold the FBI’s feet to the fire”
(National Sentinel) Corruption: What a difference a
change in presidential administrations can make.
Last October the FBI told the American Center for Law
and Justice, a conservative legal watchdog organization,
that it had no actionable records regarding former Attorney
General Loretta Lynch’s meeting last summer with ex-
President Bill Clinton at the height of the bureau’s
investigation into his wife’s mishandling of classified
material on her home-brewed email server.
But, the Washington Free Beacon reports, that turns out to
be untrue: There likely are records to be had, according to
a recent letter the bureau sent to the legal group:
The agency told the ACLJ in October of
last year, when the FBI was still under the
direction of James Comey, that it had no
records related to the infamous meeting
between Lynch and Clinton on the Phoenix
tarmac.
The letter reopening the FOIA dated Aug.
10 came after [the ACLJ’s Jordan] Sekulow
pointed out in an appearance on Fox and
on the ACLJ’s website that it had recently
received documents from the Department
of Justice (DOJ) showing that FBI emails
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and other agency documents exist about
the tarmac meeting.
Critics of Comey’s handling of the agency’s
investigation into Hillary Clinton’s email
abuses point to the tarmac meeting as a
turning point in the probe. After the late
June meeting created a media firestorm
questioning whether Lynch could remain
impartial in the probe, Lynch announced
that she would accept Comey’s
determination on whether or not to indict
Clinton based on the FBI’s email findings.
Just days later, Comey held a press
conference announcing that the
investigation determined that Clinton had
been grossly negligent but her actions were
not criminal.
“It is clear that there were multiple records
with the FBI responsive to our request and
that discussions regarding the surreptitious
meeting between then-AG Lynch and the
husband of the subject of an ongoing of an
ongoing FBI criminal investigation reached
the highest levels of the FBI,” Sekulow
wrote on this website.
He also said the FBI’s claim last fall that no responsive
documents existed is a “direct contravention to the law”
and the ACLJ will continue its legal battle to
“hold the FBI’s feet to the fire and
demand an expeditious and thorough
search for all documents responsive to
our request.”
“We know they exist, and we’re willing to
go to court to get them if necessary,” he
said.
 Death Of A Nation
James George JATRAS
17.08.2017
Every living nation needs symbols. They tell us who we
are as one people, in what we believe, and on what basis
we organize our common life.
This fact seems to be very clear to the current leadership in
Russia, particularly to President Vladimir Putin, in
restoring and reunifying a country rent by three
generations of Red and White enmity to achieve a national
synthesis. With regard to things spiritual, this meant first
of all the world-historic reunification of the Russian
Orthodox Church, between the Moscow Patriarchate and
the New York-based Russian Orthodox Church Outside of
Russia. It also meant the rebuilding of the Cathedral of
Christ the Savior dynamited by the communists 1931, not
coincidentally the recent target for desecration by
degenerates hailed by western «democracy» advocates.
Civic and military symbols matter as well. After 1991
there were those who wanted landmarks of the communist
era to be ruthlessly expunged the way the Bolsheviks had
themselves sought (in Solzhenitsyn’s description) to rub
off the age-old face of Russia and to replace it with a new,
ersatz Soviet image. Instead, wisdom prevailed. The
national anthem adopted in 2001 retains the Soviet melody
but with new lyrics (written by Sergey Mikhalkov, who
with Gabriel El-Registan had penned the original lyrics in
1944!) – Lenin and Stalin are out, God is in. The old
capital is again Saint Petersburg, but the surrounding
district still bears the name Leningrad. The red star marks
Russia’s military aircraft and vehicles, while the blue Saint
Andrew’s cross flies over the fleet. The red stars likewise
are still atop the Kremlin towers while the Smolensk icon
of Christ once again graces the Savior Gate. The red
banner that was hoisted triumphantly on the Reichstag in
1945 is carried on Victory Day. The remains of exiled
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White commanders like Anton Denikin and Vladimir
Kappel were repatriated and reburied at home with honor.
I may be wrong, but I would like to think that perhaps
Russia took a lesson from what until recently had been the
American example. In his Second Inaugural Address in
March 1865, as the «brothers’ war« was drawing to a
close, Abraham Lincoln spoke of the need to «bind up the
nation’s wounds». In striving to do so, nothing was more
important than our honoring the heroes of both the Blue
and the Gray, perhaps most poignantly demonstrated
decades later in the veterans’ reunions at Gettysburg.
«Unconditional Surrender» Grant and «Marse Bobby»
Lee, «Uncle Billy» Sherman and «Stonewall» Jackson,
naval legends David «Damn the torpedoes» Farragut and
Raphael «Nelson of the Confederacy» Semmes,
cavalrymen «Fightin’ Phil» Sheridan and J.E.B. Stuart, and
many, many others – these names belong to all of us. As
Americans.
To say this is not to avoid the centrality of slavery in the
southerners’ attempted secession or to address the
constitutional question of whether they were legally
entitled to do so. (Maybe California will have better luck
heading for the exit. ¡Adios, amigos!) Nor does it
sugarcoat white southerners’ perception of Reconstruction
as a hostile, armed occupation or of the institution of Jim
Crow racial segregation after federal troops were
withdrawn and the Democratic Party assumed power. But
the fact is that the mythos of North-South reconciliation in
a reunited American nation was a foundation of our
becoming an economic giant by the late 19 th century, a
world power at the beginning of the 20th (at the expense of
the decrepit Spanish empire, with the celebrated military
participation of former Confederates), and a dominant
power after two victorious world wars.
That America may soon be gone with the wind. The
violence at Charlottesville, the pulling down of a
Confederate memorial by a mob in Durham, the removal
of four monuments from Baltimore (which has one of
America’s highest homicide rates) under the cowardly
cloak of night, and calls for getting rid of many more are
simultaneously the death throes of the old America built on
one national concept and the birth pangs of a new,
borderless, multiethnic, multilingual, multireligious,
multisexual, ahistorical, fake «America» now aborning in
violence and lawlessness.
He who says A must say B. When one accepts
demonization of part of our history and placing those who
defend it beyond the pale of legitimate discourse, one
should hardly be surprised when the arrogant fury of the
victors is unleashed. That takes two forms: the nihilist
street thugs of «Antifa» and «Black Lives Matter», and the
authorities (both governmental and media, a/k/a the
Swamp) who confer on them immunity for violent,
criminal behavior. The former are the shock troops of the
latter.
They’ve been at it for months, well before Charlottesville,
across the country, with nary a peep from the party that
supposedly has uniform control over the federal
government. Our First Amendment rights as Americans
end where a black-clad masked thug chooses to put his (or
her or indeterminate «gender») fist or club. To
paraphrase U.S. Chief Justice Roger Taney in Dred
Scott, loyalists of the old America have no rights which the
partisans of the new one are bound to respect. Where’s the
Justice Department probe of civil rights violations by this
organized, directed brutality? (Or maybe there will be
one, including looking into George Soros’s connection. If
not, what’s the point of having RICO?)
To be sure, the spectacle of genuine racists on display in
Charlottesville provided the perfect pretext for these
people, but they’re not the cause. Far from forestalling the
violent, revolutionary abolition of the historic America
(definitively described by Pat Buchanan) by inciting some
kind of white backlash – perhaps in the form of a race war
as some of them despicably hope – the «Unite the Right»
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organizers at Charlottesville have accelerated the
revolution. It’s a revolution that dovetails with the anti-
constitutional «RussiaGate» coup in progress against
President Trump, who is the last hope for preserving the
historic American nation. If he is removed (is
he the only one, even in his own Administration, fighting
back?) and the nice respectable anti-Trump Republican
party is restored, they’ll gladly join hands with their
Democratic and media Swamp buddies in dragging what
remains of America down.
If anyone is tempted to think that the new America will be
more peaceful in world affairs, think again. It’s no
coincidence that the same forces that want to bring Trump
down and also redefine our country’s identity coincide
almost entirely with those who want America aggressively
to impose «our values« – meaning their values – on the
globe. As I put it almost 20 years ago in a somewhat
different context, this fake «America» is the vanguard
of Rainbow Fascism, at home and abroad.
No doubt the same terrible sense of foreboding, even
worse, must have occurred to Russians in 1920, when they
saw their country bloodily sacrificed on the altar of a
crazed, internationalist ideology. Somehow, after paying
an unimaginable price in war and repression, they emerged
three quarters of a century later still remembering how (as
the late General Aleksandr Lebed put it) «to feel like
Russians again».
If we fail to avoid the impending long night, will we
Americans be so lucky?
 A House Divided Against Itself Cannot Stand
Paul Craig Roberts
August 17, 2017
The liberal/progressive/left are enjoying their drunkfest of
denunciation. I can’t say I have ever witnessed anything
like it. These are the people who sat on their hands for 16
years while Washington destroyed in whole or part seven
countries. Not being satisfied with this level of
warmongering and crimes against humanity, Washington
orchestrated a conflict situation with Russia. Americans
elected a president who said he would defuse this
dangerous conflict, and the liberal/progressive/left turned
on him. In contrast, one person is killed after the hated
Charlottesville protest event was over, and there is endless
absurd outrage against the president of the US.
Three New York Times presstitutes yesterday blamed the
crisis on Trump, declaring him “increasingly isolated in a
racial crisis of his own making.” Apparently, Trump is
responsible for the crisis because he blamed both protest
groups for the violence.
But isn’t that what happened? Wasn’t there violence on
both sides? That was the impression I got from the news
reporting. I’m not surprised that Trump got the same
impression. Indeed, many readers have sent emails that
they received the same impression of mutual violence.
So Trump is being damned for stating the truth.
Let’s assume that the impression Trump and many others
got from the news is wrong. That would make Trump
guilty of arriving at a mistaken conclusion. Yet, he is
accused of instigating and supporting Nazi violence. How
is it possible to transform a mistake into evil intent? A
mistaken impression gained from news reporting does not
constitute a “defense of white nationalist protesters.” An
assertion by the New York Times cannot turn the absence
of intent into intent. What the Establishment is trying to do
is to push Trump into the arms of white supremacists,
which is where they want him.
Clearly, there is no basis for this charge. It is a lie, an
orchestration that is being used to delegitimize President
Trump and those who elected him.
The question is: who is behind this orchestration?
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The orchestration is causing people to run away from
Trump or is being used as an excuse by them to further the
plot to remove him from office.
Trump’s Strategic and Policy Forum headed by Stephen A.
Schwarzman ran away, just as members of the Carter
Center’s board deserted President Jimmy Carter when he
criticized Israel for its apartheid policy toward the
Palestinians. The New York Times says that the armed
services chiefs are running away. And the entire
Republican Party.
The hypocrisy is stunning. For 16 years the armed services
chiefs, the New York Times and the rest of the presstitute
media, both political parties and the liberal/progressive/left
have participated actively or passively in massive crimes
against humanity. There are millions of dead, maimed, and
displaced people. Yet one death in Charlottesville has
produced a greater outpouring of protest.
I don’t believe it is sincere. I don’t believe that people who
are insensitive to the deaths of millions at the hands of
their government can be so upset over the death of one
person. Assume that Trump is responsible for the death of
the woman. How much blood is it compared to the blood
on the hands of Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and
Obama? It seems clear enough that the outpouring of grief
is an orchestration designed to deligitimize the president
and the people who elected him. We are now experiencing
at home what the Obama regime inflicted on Ukraine, with
the support of course of the liberal/progressive/left just as
John Wight said in CounterPunch.
Just as the majority of the Maiden protesters had no idea
they were being used, the same is the case for the majority
of those protesting the false charge against Trump. For
most of the liberal/progressive/left, the hatred of Trump
and white nationalists that they are expressing is a
reflexive result of the Identity Politics with which they are
imbued.
Any objective reading of the situation has to conclude that
the hate with which Trump and the “deplorables” who
elected him are being covered far exceeds in amount the
hate expressed by the white nationalists.
Members of the liberal/progressive/left are proclaiming
that despicable people such as white nationalists should
not be allowed to protest and should not be given a permit
to protest. They forget that protest is a right.
The US Supreme Court settled the issue 40 years ago in
1977 by overturning an Illinois court order that blocked an
extremist protest in Skokie, a Jewish suburb of Chicago.
The Supreme Court ruled that protest is not limited by the
fact that some people will be offended or by the chance
that there will be violent reactions. Otherwise, whatever
faction happens to be in charge can suppress dissent by
everyone else.
For decades the liberal/progressive/left has invested
heavily in driving people apart. Black studies, women’s
studies, and Native American studies can easily cross into
propaganda that generates hatred. As a man of peace said,
“a house divided against itself cannot stand.”
Charlottesville has given us a debauchery of denunciation
that proves that we are a divided nation. Does a nation so
divided really want to be in conflict with Russia and China
and Iran? If the US is the institutionalization of White
Supremacy as the liberal/progressive/left says, how can it
be that Americans are simultaneously the “exceptional,
indispensable people” with the right to bomb other peoples
into the stone age?
Obviously, there is a lot in this scenario that does not make
sense.
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My readers on my website are people capable of
independent thought. They understand that an explanation
of something is not an excuse for it. My explanations are
explanations. They might be wrong, but they are not
apologies. I find it necessary to say this, because my
columns are reposted on many other websites where some
of the audience wants to hear only what they already
believe and are always looking for someone to denounce.
It is a great disability for the United States that only a
limited number of its citizens are capable of independent
thought. Perhaps this is a problem for every country, but it
most certainly is a problem for the United States.
The United States has another great disability, and that is
that its intellectual class, or perhaps I should say its semi-
intellectual class, has a large contingent of cowards who
are too fearful to be truthful. Of course, considering the
witchhunt mentality that Identity Politics has created, they
have reasons to be fearful, but their cowardice leaves the
burden of searching for and defending truth to a few.
Note: Virginia governor McAuliffe made false claims that
were spread around the world by the presstitutes that the
white nationalists had weapons caches and that the
Virginia police were outgunned by the supremacists.
Reason.com reports that the police have contradicted the
moronic governor with the statement that no such weapons
caches were found.
http://reason.com/blog/2017/08/16/virginia-state-police-
say-they-didnt-fin
 ‘Can’t Change History, Learn From It’:
Trump Opposes Monuments Removal
Published Time: 17 Aug, 2017 13:46 Edited Time: 18 Aug, 2017 08:28
Workers remove the monuments to Confederate generals Robert E. Lee
and Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson from Wyman Park in Baltimore,
Maryland, August 16, 2017. © Reuters
US President Donald Trump has come out against the
removal of Confederate monuments, as activists seek to
tear down what they call symbols of the country’s racist
past.
“Sad to see the history and culture of our great country
being ripped apart with the removal of our beautiful
statues and monuments,” Trump said in a series of tweets
Thursday morning. “You can't change history, but you can
learn from it.”
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The president repeated the point he made in a controversial
press conference on Tuesday, that protesters who want to
take down monuments to Confederate generals Robert E.
Lee and “Stonewall” Jackson today may demand the
removal of George Washington or Thomas Jefferson
tomorrow.
The country’s first president and the author of the
Declaration of Independence were both slave-owners. A
pastor in Chicago, Illinois has already asked the city
authorities to change the name of a park currently named
after Washington, as well as another that bears the name of
Andrew Jackson, the seventh US president.
In his tweets on Thursday, Trump called the demands to
remove monuments “foolish” and argued that “the beauty
that is being taken out of our cities, towns and parks will
be greatly missed and never able to be comparably
replaced!”
His statement comes after several cities across the US
decided to remove Confederate monuments following the
confrontation between white nationalists and 'antifa'
counter-protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia over the
weekend.
Baltimore, Maryland had contractors remove four statues
in the middle of the night on Wednesday. On Tuesday,
protesters in Durham, North Carolina toppled a monument
to Confederate soldiers outside a courthouse. One activist
was later arrested.
In Atlanta, Georgia, activists attempted to tear down a
Peace Monument featuring a Confederate soldier
surrendering, but were stopped by police. One activist was
injured by a piece of the statue that was broken off.
A judge in Georgia was suspended this week, after he
compared the removal of monuments to the actions of
Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) terrorists and their
destruction of non-Islamic art.

Although Trump unequivocally condemned the racists,

neo-Nazis and Ku Klux Klan (KKK) marchers, he also
called out the "alt-left” counter-protesters that engaged in
violence in Charlottesville, to the chagrin of most US
media and many leading members of the Republican party.

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 Case Against Wasserman Schultz’
Ex-IT Aide Expands With 4-Count Indictment
Fox News
Published August 18, 2017
The federal case against Imran Awan, a former IT aide for
Democratic Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz,
expanded Thursday with an indictment on four counts
including conspiracy and making false statements.
He originally was charged with a single bank fraud count;
his wife Hina Alvi also was indicted Thursday.
The grand jury decision in U.S. District Court for the
District of Columbia comes roughly a month after Awan
was arrested at Dulles airport in Virginia trying to board a
plane to Pakistan, where his family is from.
Awan and other IT aides for House Democrats have been
on investigators’ radar for months over concerns of
possible double-billing, alleged equipment theft, and
access to sensitive computer systems. Most lawmakers
fired Awan in February, but Schultz had kept him on until
his arrest in July.
The indictment itself, which merely represents formal
charges and is not a finding of guilt, addresses separate
allegations that Awan and his wife engaged in a conspiracy
to obtain home equity lines of credit from the
Congressional Federal Credit Union by giving false
information about two properties – and then sending the
proceeds to individuals in Pakistan.
The case has put renewed scrutiny on Wasserman Schultz
for keeping Awan on the payroll for months, even after a
criminal investigation was revealed and he was barred
from the House IT network.
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Awan and other family members for years had a lucrative
arrangement for IT-related work on Capitol Hill for House
Democrats. According to The Daily Caller, the members
of the Pakistani family made at least $4 million since 2009.
In a recent interview published in the Sun Sentinel,
Wasserman Schultz blamed the “right-wing media circus
fringe” for the attention on Awan.
The former head of the Democratic National Committee
suggested it's all part of an effort to distract from the
investigation of Russian meddling in the 2016 campaign
and possible ties to President Trump's team.
“Any opportunity they can to pull people’s
eyes and ears away from that they take,”
Wasserman Schultz told the newspaper.
Her colleagues in Congress, though, say there are serious
security implications in her former staffer's case.
“We have to investigate how our systems
may have been compromised,” Rep. Ron
DeSantis, R-Fla., recently told “Fox &
Friends.”
Though Awan was barred from the IT network,
Wasserman Schultz’ spokesman David Damron told Fox
News their office worked with the House Chief
Administrative Officer to arrange for the employee to keep
providing
“valuable services without access to the
House network.”
Awan, 37, of Virginia, earlier pleaded not guilty to a single
count of bank fraud.
Attorney Christopher Gowen told Fox News that federal
authorities have no evidence of misconduct by Awan
relating to his IT duties.
Fox News’ Jake Gibson contributed to this report.
 Trump Racism More Fake News,
KKK & Antifa Both Violent, Fed Melts Dollar
By Greg Hunter
August 18, 2017
The propaganda mainstream media and
democrats are now trying to paint President
Trump as a racist when he clearly is not.
The Democrats are out of ideas, and the only thing they
have to offer are lies. The Democrats also want to erase
our history and attack the Founding Fathers as racists. The
Democrat Party, which has all the earmarks of
communism, wants to tear up the Constitution because it
was written by racists, according to them. It’s one lie after
another from the party of liars and cheaters that does not
have a single idea to help the average American. This is
not going to work either.
If you watch the propaganda media, you would think the
only evil people at the recent Charlottesville protest that
turned violent were the KKK and Nazis. In fact, the
counter protesters, such as Antifa, were equally violent,
reckless and evil. Both sides came to this so-called
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peaceful protest with bats, pepper spray, shields and
helmets. There was no way this was going to remain
peaceful if both sides are ready to hit one another over the
head with a baseball bat. Trump was spot on when he said
both sides were to blame, and there is evidence that some
of the counter protesters to the KKK were paid by people
like George Soros. The media is only reporting one side to
try to paint Trump a racist to score political points, which
is the definition of propaganda. Don’t fall for the MSM
con, they all lie and are approved and paid to do so.
The Fed revealed they are worried about the economy and
are very reluctant to raise interest rates. Gregory
Mannarino of TradersChoice.net says the Fed knows all
too well the economy is much weaker than they would like
to admit and is probably not going to raise rates.
Mannarino says he thinks they will continue to melt down
the dollar and melt up the stock market until it pops.
Mannarino says keep an eye on the bond market for signs
of trouble. He says that’s where a crash will start.
 If President Trump Doesn't Take Down The 'Deep State
Fascists', His Presidency Is Done And So Are We
- Have We Already Reached 'Too Little Too Late' Time?
Submitted To All News Pipeline By William B. Stoecker
August 18, 2017
Many of us who voted for Donald Trump and even
actively worked in or contributed to his campaign realized
that he is a flawed and imperfect man who might well
betray us, as so many others have done. And we realized
that America‘s debt, social divide, and moral decline
meant that things would inevitably get worse before
improving. But at least Trump was not Hillary (I usually
just call her “The Witch”), a woman whose sheer, demonic
evil is obvious to all of us with eyes to see. Nor is he a
RINO; in fact, he was not a politician at all until he ran for
President. So there was real reason to hope that he might at
least save us from complete destruction.
And he has done much good, reining in the EPA, ending
Hussein Obama’s war on coal and other fossil fuels,
reducing immigration, and at least trying to stop the
importation of Islamists into our former Republic. He has
cut back on federal regulations, and this alone has already
improved our economy. But his hints that we might leave
NATO and perhaps even the UN are now all but forgotten.
He promised to end NAFTA (a threat to our sovereignty)
and now speaks only of renegotiating it.
And, although he seems to have ended our attempts to
overthrow the Syrian government (after bombing a Syrian
base), he is, for the most part, doing what the neocon
warmongers want, continuing our eternal wars in Iraq and
Afghanistan and even aiding Saudi Arabia in their war in
Yemen. He could, as a protest, at least have refused to sign
Congress’ insane bill calling for more sanctions on Russia
and he could have taken the case for improved relations
with Putin to the public…but, apparently, he is happy to
follow the lead of the neocons on this as well. Of course,
many of his failures are clearly due to his betrayal by the
RINOs in Congress, and the incessant attacks on him by
the slimestream media and the Deep State.
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But if he was truly a man of principle, vision, and courage
he would have attacked the Deep State on day one, firing
as many of its high level neocon operatives as possible,
especially in the State Department and in the federal police
and intelligence agencies and in the military. In fact,
Trump appears to trust the military far too much; in reality
many general and flag rank officers have always been
cynical careerists, happy to serve the New World Order
(NWO) elite…even before Hussein Obama purged their
ranks of most of the ones with any real principle.
And Trump could have begun vigorously investigating the
crimes of the Clintons and the DNC, offering immunity to
the little fish to compel their testimony against the big
ones. And, while bringing justice down on the guilty, he
could have brought justice to the innocent, pardoning and
restoring the careers of Border Patrol and military people
who were railroaded under Bush and Hussein, and
pardoning and (where possible) making restitution to
sagebrush rebels and others who have had their lives
ruined by the BLM and the EPA. If Trump has so little
principle, how can we trust him?
And for his cabinet and White House staff he has hired a
good many Council for Foreign Relations (CFR) people,
neocons, Goldman-Sachs alumni, and even one Bonesman.
Of all these, perhaps the most sinister is Major General
H.R. McMaster, Trump’s National Security Advisor.
McMaster seems almost hostile to Israel, and doesn’t like
any references being made to Islamic terrorism. When
National Security Council staffer Rich Higgins wrote a
memo warning us about the Deep State, McMaster fired
him. He has allowed Susan Rice, Hussein Obama’s
National Security Advisor, to keep her security clearance,
even though she no longer works for the government.

Susan Rice is the one who lied about Benghazi, claiming
that the attack was a spontaneous reaction to a video that
“insulted” Muslims. A true neocon warmonger, McMaster
wants us to reinforce failure by sending yet more troops
into Afghanistan, where we have been waging an eternal
undeclared (hence unconstitutional) war we seem unable to
win, and he claims that Putin is our enemy.
For eleven years McMaster has been a member of the
International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), which
receives grant money from George Soros’ (I call him
“George Sauron”) “Open Society” Institute and his
Ploughshares Fund, and also gets money from the Islamic
government of Bahrain, where the IISS has a yearly
meeting. IISS also gets funds from the leftist McArthur
and Carnegie Foundations. McMaster is dearly loved by
the terrorist-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations
(CAIR) whose leaders claim that the general is threatened
by “White supremacists” and “Islamophobes.” Patriot
author Roger Stone claims to have evidence that McMaster
reports directly to George Sauron. Either Trump is not the
loyal American he says he is, or he is placing his trust in
the wrong people.
But there is one more fact about Mueller that needs to be
considered: George Bush II made him FBI Director on
9/4/2001…one week to the day before 9/11. The evidence
that 9/11 was an inside job is overwhelming, and includes
the impossible collapse of three buildings straight down
into their own footprints, achievable only by controlled
demolition. The crime had to have been planned and
largely set up before Mueller’s watch, but he did nothing
to stop it, and his FBI covered it up. Robert Mueller, the
man “investigating” our President, is an accessory to mass
murder.
If Trump was a man of principle and possessed real moral
courage he would fire this monster and begin investigating
Mueller himself. Of course, the slimestream media and all
the other fascists would howl with outrage and call for
Trump’s impeachment, but he has a legal right to fire
Mueller, and, again, could take his case to the people.
Either Trump is a phony or he is for real, but if he doesn’t
stand up to the fascists his Presidency is doomed…and so
are all of us.

But even if Trump is a reasonably sane and decent man,

the Deep State, Democrats, RINOs, and the media are
waging an unending war against him, unprecedented in
American history. There is no evidence of Trump-Putin
collusion or of Russian “hacking” of our Presidential
election, yet Robert Mueller has been given almost
unlimited funds and latitude to investigate Trump’s
imaginary crimes (while ignoring the very real crimes of
Hussein Obama and the Clintons). Already he has
expanded his “investigation” to include Trump’s finances
prior to the election and his closest associates, who are in
danger of being bankrupted by legal fees.

And what do we know of Robert Mueller? He is a close

associate of former FBI Director Comey, who was fired by
Trump. Most of Mueller’s team of high priced lawyers are
Democrats who donated to the Witch. When Mueller
himself was FBI Director for the Hussein Obama regime
he supported the killing (without a trial or conviction) of
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 White House Lawyer Cobb
Predicts Quick End To Mueller Probe
By Karen Freifeld
Reuters
August 18, 2017
FILE PHOTO: Special Counsel Robert Mueller departs after
briefing the U.S. House Intelligence Committee on his investigation of
potential collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign on
Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - White House special counsel
Ty Cobb predicts the cloud of an investigation into
Russian meddling in the U.S. election will soon be lifted
from President Donald Trump and says he would be
"embarrassed" if it still hangs over the president in 2018.
Cobb told Reuters this week that he talks to Trump on an
almost daily basis and has been in contact with the team of
Robert Mueller, the special counsel leading the
investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election.
Mueller is investigating possible collusion between
Trump's campaign team and Russia, as well as possible
money laundering by at least one former aide.
But Cobb, who resigned from law firm Hogan Lovells to
take the White House job on July 31, said in interviews on
Tuesday and Wednesday he believed Mueller's probe was
"narrow" and that by the end of the year Trump should no
longer be threatened by it.
"I’d be embarrassed if this is still haunting
the White House by Thanksgiving and
worse if it's still haunting him by year end,"
Cobb told Reuters, adding: "I think the
relevant areas of inquiry by the special
counsel are narrow."
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He declined to provide specifics backing his projected
timeline, which suggests a speedier end to Mueller's probe
than several outside experts believe is likely.
"The White House would be lucky if
sometime in the spring of 2018 this started
to wrap up, but even that I think is pretty
optimistic," said Andy Wright, former
associate counsel in former President
Barack Obama's White House. "It's a very
complicated investigation."
Wright said Mueller's team would have to track down
many leads in the United States and overseas, and gather
evidence from email accounts, intelligence reports and
other sources.
Russia's government has denied interfering in the election
and the president has denied collusion took place.
Peter Carr, a spokesman for Mueller, declined to comment
on any timeline for the probe, the scope of the
investigation or any interactions with the White House.
Like all senior White House staff, Cobb, 66, reports to
retired general John Kelly, Trump's chief of staff.
As a White House lawyer, he is in a different position than
the president's outside lawyers John Dowd and Jay
Sekulow. Cobb would not be able to assert attorney-client
privilege to protect his conversations with Trump from a
grand jury subpoena.
Trump has said he believes any investigations of his and
his family's finances would be beyond the scope of
Mueller's probe.
Cobb said he believed Mueller's 16-lawyer team was
"appropriately focused" and understood "the urgency to the
country and to the presidency" of finishing the probe
quickly.
"We have one objective, which is to bring
this to a conclusion as quickly as possible,"
Cobb said.
(Reporting by Karen Freifeld; Editing by Anthony Lin and
Kieran Murray)
 Two Former IT Aides To Top Democrat
Wasserman Schultz Indicted On Conspiracy Charges
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On August 18, 2017
Wasserman-Schultz has been providing cover for these
suspected criminals for a long time
(National Sentinel) Scandal & Crime: In what has
become the least-reported scandal in modern times, the
Justice Department has charged two former IT workers
tied to top congressional Democratic Rep.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz and other party members with
conspiracy, The Daily Caller — which has been tracking
this story from the beginning — reported.
A federal grand jury Thursday indicted two
former information technology (IT) aides of
Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman
Schultz — Pakistani-born Imran Awan and
his wife Hina Alvi — on four counts of
conspiracy in the U.S. District Court for the
District of Columbia.
The FBI arrested Awan at Dulles
International Airport July 24 as he was
preparing to board a flight to Pakistan.
When his wife Alvi left the U.S. for Pakistan
in March, federal authorities found more
than $12,000 in cash hidden in a suitcase.
She had withdrawn the couple’s three
children from local schools and does not
intend to return to the U.S., according to
the FBI.
“Defendants AWAN and ALVI did
unlawfully, willfully, and knowingly
conspire, combine, confederate, and agree
with each other to commit offenses against
the United States,” including bank fraud,
false statements, and unlawful monetary
transactions, the indictment noted.
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More:
The Awans, three of their relatives and a
close friend are the targets of an FBI and
U.S. Capitol Police criminal investigation
into allegations they committed
congressional cybersecurity violations and
large-scale theft of congressional property
in a scheme that may have begun more
than a decade ago.
The crew worked as shared IT aides for
dozens of House Democrats, including
many who were members of the
intelligence, foreign affairs and homeland
security committees. Most of the
Democrats fired them when the Capitol
Police investigation became public in
February, and their access to the
congressional IT system was terminated.
However, Wasserman Schultz kept Alvi on
her payroll until March and Awan until the
day after his arrest. Authorities arrested
Awan on the bank fraud charges in order to
take his passport and prevent his leaving
the U.S. as the investigation into their
Capitol Hill activities continues.
And since Democrats are involved, you know that there’s
at least some connection to the Clintons:
Awan retained Chris Gowen, a longtime
aide to former President Bill Clinton and
former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, to
represent him shortly after his arrest.
Gowen has claimed in media interviews
that Alvi left the country with the children
only because of lost jobs and the high cost
of living in the nation’s capital. Gowen told
the Associated Press that the family lives
“in squalor” in Pakistan.
Wasserman-Schultz has been providing cover for these
suspected criminals for a long time:
 Politico reported that the Awan couple has
a “friendly personal relationship” with
Wasserman Schultz, who is a Florida
Democrat, and former chairman of the
Democratic National Committee (DNC).
They are also reportedly close to another
Democrat, Rep. Gregory Meeks of New
York.
Wasserman Schultz resigned from the
DNC in July 2016 when Wikileaks released
hacked committee emails. She has
defended keeping Awan on her payroll
even after she was aware he was
suspected of, as she described it, “data
transfer violations.” She claimed she had
“racial and ethnic profiling concerns” and
“would do it [keep Awan] again.”
And speaking of the Capitol Police investigation, some
suspected Wasserman Schultz of trying to impede the
department’s investigation in May, when she appeared to
threaten the chief during a hearing, as we noted.
It should be noted that as one of the eight
members of the Committee on
Appropriations’ Legislative Branch
subcommittee, Wasserman Schulz is in
charge of the department’s budget — the
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same department now investigating her
staffer, and how he managed to extract
some $4 million since 2010 from various
House members, ostensibly for IT services.
And though the chief tells Wasserman
Schulz that the equipment is important to
“an ongoing investigation,” she continues to
badger him about the process involved in
returning it anyway.
In the follow-up report, The Daily Caller
reported further that the Florida Democrat
was attempting to get back equipment in a
case involving cyber-security breaches and
the offloading of sensitive congressional
data to off-site locations.
When the chief said he could not return the
equipment yet, Wasserman Schulz issued
this veiled threat: “I think you’re violating
the rules when you conduct your business
that way and you should expect that there
will be consequences.”
The Democratic Party and its operatives have been
implicated in a number of scandals over the past year, most
tied to attempts to getting Hillary Clinton elected.
Why they aren’t being investigated by the Trump Justice
Department remains a mystery.
 Rumors Of Trump's Demise Are,
Once Again, Greatly Exaggerated
 The "experts" are once again prematurely declaring President Trump's political demise.
 By now, they should respect his resilience more and the polls a lot less.
 Trump is safe as long as his political opponents remain even weaker.
Jake Novak | @jakejakeny
Published 1:49 PM ET Fri, 18 Aug 2017 | Updated 2:24 PM ET Fri, 18 Aug 2017

Mitt Romney, but that still resulted in no

real reduction in condemnation and bile
from the left.

For better or for worse, and to the repeated horror of the

Bushes, McCains, and Romneys, Trump isn't playing nice.
And for every moderate or casual Trump-leaner he may
lose by fighting, he could easily be gaining the more
fervent support from his base.

Drew Angerer | Getty Images - President Donald Trump
Welcome to the Donald Trump status reality check for
dummies, part 276.
One major Trump donor even told CNBC Friday that the
president is "being bullied" over this Charlottesville
controversy. That response should tell you something
about how President Trump's supporters are responding to
events playing out this week.

It seems like the established political and punditry world
needs many frequent reminders about President Trump's
resilience every time he goes through a wounding incident
like he is now with the beating he's taking over his
response to the violent protests in Charlottesville last
weekend.
So here are the several reasons why President Trump is
simply down, but not out in any permanent sense. There
are four key things to remember:
(Note: None of the points below are
excuses for President Trump. They
simply explain why he's not as
vulnerable as many people think he is.)
1) Trump wins when he loses
It may seem like all Americans are at least
frustrated that President Trump often
shoots himself in the foot with unnecessary
comments and tweets. But this also
exemplifies Trump's fighting nature that so
many voters clearly like. Many
conservatives feel like they tried "nice"
before with people like Presidents George
H.W. and George W. Bush, and GOP
presidential nominees John McCain and
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2) The stock selloff fake out
Trump's voter base is hardly represented
by Wall Street or major corporate interests.
Much more important to the voters Trump
needs to at least tacitly back him are the
broader economic numbers. And, thanks to
President Trump or not, those numbers are
stellar. Unemployment is at a 16-year low,
and the consumer sentiment levels are at
near record highs. With fewer and fewer
Americans even owning stocks, the fate of
the stock market is hardly a top priority in
politics for someone like President Trump
who already proved he doesn't need Wall
Street's support to win the White House.
3) Poll position
It seems crazy to have remind anyone of
how we shouldn't rely on the accuracy of
polls after they just about all got the 2016
election so wrong.
But in case anyone is really convinced by all those record
low approval numbers for President Trump, take them with
this added grain of salt:
His supporters may be skewing the numbers by avoiding
polls right now. It may sound crazy, but even Psychology
Today noted the work of Professor Raymond La Raja who
argues that people holding perceived unique political
views are more likely to withdraw from political
discussions and public declarations for candidates even in
anonymous polls in order to avoid the personal costs of
being exposed.
In other words, just about every poll on President Trump is
probably under counting his support.
4) The "other teams" are even weaker
Another key fact too many pro-Trump and
anti-Trump Americans also don't get is that
none of this means Trump is bulletproof.
But American politics is almost always
about a two team game. And until someone
from the other team, (the Democrats),
really emerges as a true electoral
challenge to President Trump, a lot of this
won't stick. The same goes for the
establishment Republicans, who are still
electorally dead in the water after two
bruising defeats in the 2008 and 2012
general election to Barack Obama and an
even more embarrassing and clear loss to
Trump in the 2016 primaries. When people
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like Senators McCain, Lindsey Graham,
Bob Corker, et al criticize him, it means
very little.
And the Democrats, without control of Congress or a
national leader with any wide appeal beyond progressive
fringes, aren't potent critics of the administration right
now.
Both party establishments still need a vote-getting leader
and President Trump already has the White House
leadership role they covet. He has enormous executive
power at his fingertips and the ability to win over some
doubters with even the smallest backtracking like his
recent ousting of Chief White House Strategist Steve
Bannon, or just the passage of time.
The U.S. is not a parliamentary democracy where
individual leaders can be ousted with previously
unscheduled votes of no confidence or by coalitions of
once opposing parties that come together to form a new
ruling majority.
That leaves his die-hard opponents praying for long shot
outcomes like impeachment or resignation. And those two
possibilities aren't demonstrably closer to reality today
than they were during the last, second-to-last, or third-to-
last times Donald Trump was incorrectly deemed by the
pundits to be politically finished.
 "They're Going Thermonuclear":
Breitbart Declares "War" On The White House
By Tyler Durden
Aug 18, 2017 11:49 PM
The love affair between Breitbart, whose former head
Steve Bannon was just fired by Donald Trump, just turned
to hate, as confirmed by Joel Pollak, a Breitbart Editor,
who moments ago tweeted one word:
As Axios' Jonathan Swan explains, "Joel is a Breitbart
editor. They're going thermonuclear, I'm told. "
Separately, as iBankCoin reports, investigative journalist
and former Breitbart employee, Lee Stranahan, offered a
quick quip on today’s news that Bannon has resigned from
the White House, suggesting that Steve would ‘unleash the
beast’ through his online publication and call out those
working against the Trump agenda in the White House.
Stranahan has been a long time loyalist to Bannon and
ardent opponent to several people inside Trump’s White
House, namely McMaster, Powell and Cohn. The theory
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he’s putting forth is that Bannon will have more power
outside the White House than inside. While that might be
true for Steve, I fail to see how fomenting more internal
strife inside the Trump White House will be constructive at
this point.
Nevertheless, it’s about to get real interesting soon. Watch
As for what Steve Bannon's next steps would be, Axios
reports that it "will be all about the billionaire Mercer
family."
I'm told Bannon, who visited New York this week, met
with Bob Mercer and together they will be a well-funded
force on the outside.
 Bannon has felt liberated since it became
clear he was being pushed out, according
to friends. He's told associates he has a
"killing machine" in Breitbart News, and it's
possible he returns to lead their editorial
operation.
 A source familiar with Breitbart's
operations told me they would go
"thermonuclear" against "globalists" that
Bannon and his friends believe are ruining
the Trump administration, and by extension,
America.
 Watch for Breitbart's Washington Editor
Matt Boyle to be a central figure in this
war — which has already begun — against
White House officials like HR McMaster, Dina
Powell, Gary Cohn, and Jared and Ivanka.
Then again, Trump may be spared. As Politico's Robert
Costa tweets, "One theme I'm picking up: Bannon
believes next battle is *not* w/ Trump but w/
Kushner/Cohn/Dina/HR McMaster. "Save Trump," as
one R put it."

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 Michael Moore Admits:
‘Donald Trump Outsmarted Us All’
By Kyle Drennen
August 18, 2017 1:13 PM EDT
Promoting his one-man anti-Trump Broadway show on
NBC’s Late Night With Seth Meyers early Friday
morning, left-wing activist Michael Moore admitted the
reality of the President’s 2016 election victory:
“You have to say, ‘Donald Trump
outsmarted us all.’ And then deal with
the throw-up that’s in your mouth....It’s
the truth.”
Earlier in the exchange, Meyers promoted:
“...one of the things in your show is the
12-step program for helping people sort
of deal with this Trump presidency. And
you’ve just added a another step.” Moore
replied: “Yes, yes. The new step, I just
added it last night, was we have to sober
the [expletive] up.... What I mean by that
is we have to keep – ‘Oh, he’s going to
be impeached’...every time something
happens....he’s not going anywhere.”
The leftist filmmaker lamented:
“This guy gets away with everything.
He’s – the Republicans, I’m sorry to say
this, they’re not going to impeach him.”
Hoping for the President to be found guilty of a crime,
Moore remarked:
“Mueller, the special prosecutor, he can’t
indict the president – I mean, he can be
indicted after he’s impeached. And I think, I
was telling your producer backstage, I think
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the problem’s going to be that when he is
indicted or arrested, do we try him as an
adult?”
Minutes later, Meyers noted:
“And you point this out in your show, that
Donald Trump, you need everybody to
admit, that’s the first step, is that Donald
Trump outsmarted us.”
After making the admission, Moore explained:
I mean, generally, in a game, the person
who wins the game obviously was better, at
least that day....And he figured it out. He
was smart enough to – to convince
eight million Obama voters to vote for
him....He was smart enough to convince
the majority of white women to vote for
him. 53% of white women voted for him.
Smart enough – he was smart enough to
know where the state of Wisconsin was
and go there....he knew the right things to
say because he was a TV star. He knew
how to communicate on TV.
At the end of the segment, Moore begged viewers to go
see his Broadway show – which has been panned by even
the most liberal critics. He touted that balcony seats were
only $29 and offered to spot people the money.
Here is a transcript of the exchange aired early on August
18:
12:56 AM ET
(...)
SETH MEYERS: Now, you’re show – one of the things in your
show is the 12-step program for helping people sort of deal with
this Trump presidency. And you’ve just added a another step.
MICHAEL MOORE: Yes, yes. The new step, I just added it last
night, was we have to sober the [expletive] up.
MEYERS: Okay, great. [Laughter] So, what do you mean?
[Applause]
MOORE: What I mean by that is we have to keep – “Oh, he’s
going to be impeached. “Oh” – every time something happens,
James Comey. It’s like I tell everybody in the audience, please
put your whiskey bottles and your flasks on the table right now.
Because every month you're drinking from a new – you know,
“James Comey, that’s the end of him. Ha, ha, ha, ha.” [Laughter]
You know, “Oh, Russia, that’s going to be the end of him.”
[Laughter] You know, and now this week, the press conference
and he CEOs desert him. You know, “Oh, that will be the end of
him now.” You know? And no. No.
MEYERS: Yeah, so we’re giving ourselves cirrhosis of the liver
and he’s fine.
MOORE: He’s fine – he’s not going anywhere.
MEYERS: Yeah.
MOORE: He’s not the Teflon president. Teflon implies you have
to be in the pan. He’s not even in the pan.
MEYERS: Yeah.
MOORE: This guy gets away with everything. He’s – the
Republicans, I’m sorry to say this, they’re not going to impeach
him.
MEYERS: Right.
MOORE: They’re not. They’ve already polled their
gerrymandered districts and they know most of them think they’re
going to get re-elected. So they’re not gonna impeach him.
Mueller, the special prosecutor, he can’t indict the president – I
mean, he can be indicted after he’s impeached. And I think, I was
telling your producer backstage, I think the problem’s going to be
that when he is indicted or arrested, do we try him as an adult?
MEYERS: Yeah, that’s a good question. [Cheers and applause] I
hadn’t even thought about that. Really problematic.
MOORE: I think he has to be tried as an adult.
MEYERS: But this is interesting. Because don’t – do you think –
because I think there’s this issue now is the Democratic Party
sort of hoping for, you know, something to fall from the heavens
to fix this and not focusing enough on being a strong party. Do
you think the focus needs to be on the mid-terms or do you think
that is a lost cause?
MOORE: Not – we only have to flip 24 of the Republican seats.
There’s 435 seats in the House. To get the House back, we only
need 24. In the Senate, we only need three. Are we that much of
a loser group of people that we can’t get three?
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I mean, let me give you the statistic, most people don’t realize
this. In the last seven presidential elections, the Democrat has
won the popular vote in six of them. Six of the last seven. The
Republicans have only won the popular vote once in the last 30
years. Once since 1988. The American people want the
Democrat. They want the liberal agenda. They believe women
should be paid the same as men. They believe that there’s
climate change. [Cheers and applause] They believe in stronger
gun control laws. That’s our fellow Americans. And yet, we hold
no power!
MEYERS: And you point this out in your show, that Donald
Trump, you need everybody to admit, that’s the first step, is that
Donald Trump outsmarted us.
MOORE: You have to say, “Donald Trump outsmarted us all.”
And then deal with the throw-up that’s in your mouth.
MEYERS: Yeah. [Laughter] But I think that’s fair to say.
MOORE: It’s the truth.
MEYERS: You have to give credit there.
MOORE: I mean, generally, in a game, the person who wins the
game obviously was better, at least that day.
MEYERS: Yeah.
MOORE: And he figured it out. He was smart enough to – to
convince eight million Obama voters to vote for him. Smart
enough –
MEYERS: Which is still – yeah.
MOORE: He was smart enough to convince the majority of white
women to vote for him. 53% of white women voted for him. Smart
enough – he was smart enough to know where the state of
Wisconsin was and go there.
MEYERS: Go there. That’s a big deal, yeah.
MOORE: And I think that he – you know, he knew the right things
to say because he was a TV star. He knew how to communicate
on TV. You keep it simple.
 Dems Back State Senator Wishing Trump Assassination
Authoritarian Left Defends Assassination Comment
Kit Daniels | Infowars.Com
August 18, 2017
Leftists are signing a petition in support of a
Missouri state senator who hoped President
Trump will be assassinated.
The petition website IStandWithMaria.com appeared
almost overnight after Maria Chappelle-Nadal made
international headlines for her now-deleted Facebook post
in which she said “I hope Trump is assassinated!”
“We, as constituents and community members
and people who feel the same frustration with our
current political landscape stand with Senator
Maria Chappelle-Nadal,” the site states. “We
know that there is a huge difference between
saying that someone hopes Donald Trump is
assassinated and someone calling for his
assassination.”
As if a state senator hoping for the murder or a duty-
elected president is even defensible, but that just comes to
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show you how delusional the more authoritarian elements
of the left have become.
Could you imagine their outrage if a state senator had said
the same thing about Obama? Remember how rabid they
were when a rodeo clown dressed up as the former
president back in 2013.
It’s also pretty much a given that anyone who signs the
petition is going on a Secret Service watch list.
Chappelle-Nadal is facing massive backlash for her post,
with many of her constituents calling for her resignation.
In response, she said she wished she had “reframed” her
statement.
“Out of anger and frustration, I said something
that could have been reframed,” Chappelle-
Nadal stated. “And I refuse to shy away from the
hypocrisy and chaos our country is enduring
under Trump.”
But advocating violence as the solution adds to the chaos.
“All sides need to agree that there is no room for
suggestions of political violence in America —
and the Missouri Democratic Party will absolutely
not tolerate calls for the assassination of the
President,” said Stephen Webber, the party’s
chairman.
 Mueller’s Gang Of Legal Quislings
Posted By James Hall
Date: August 18, 2017
What you are witnessing is a Deep State execution of
constitutional government by the esquire class of statist
lawyers. The definition of a quisling is “a traitor who
collaborates with an enemy force occupying their
country.” Is there a better description of Robert Mueller’s
posse of committed partisan, who are determined to be a
lynch mob and take out the Trump America First
movement? Make no mistake about it, the bipartisan
establishment hates the profound restoration of a populist
agenda that is routed within the traditional principles of the
founding of the Republic. Using the practices of The
People’s Court, Volksgerichtshof) was a Sondergericht
(“special court“) of Nazi Germany, set up outside the
operations of the constitutional frame of law, is a model
for Mueller special counsel.
Brush up on the historical comparison of Herr Mueller: by
what name should we address you? The recent essay, FBI
is the Corrupt Enforcer of the Power Elite illustrates the
dishonest culture from which Mueller once lead and still
serves as a hatchet man. Even the most challenged political
observer bombarded with an endless fake news cycle about
Donald Trump must smell the stench coming from the
Shadow Government peril, of a drain the
swamp presidency. The odor of hatred permeates the
beltway collectivists, who fear that ordinary people might
actually have a voice in the White House.
Indeed, even by the tortured parameters of the barrister
class, following the jurisprudence of presidential powers is
easily discarded if the end results of eliminating a political
foe is the critical goal.
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If you have doubts as to the vengeful intentions of the
Mueller witch hunt, just examine the list of bias
lawyers that have been hired to destroy the grassroots
patriot citizen movement. Only the most naive or ignorant
believe that an unaccountable Grand Inquisitor is seeking
truth and justice.
“In The Brothers Karamazov, Fydor
Dostoevsky has Ivan Karamazov use his
intuition to deliver a psychological view of
his internal struggle . . . The excesses of
the Grand Inquisitor became the creed of
administration by the temporal regime.
Their doctrine was taught as the
achievement of the common good.
Judgment for defining and attaining that
criterion rested in the politic that kept the
ruling structure in place.”
Mueller is totally committed to keeping the ruling structure
in place. The artificial and contrived political environment
that rationalizes a special “persecutor” counsel if founded
in basic common law is absurd. So it is entirely consistent
to challenge the entire process of a hanging judge.
So when GOP Rep: Mueller is breaking law, must resign
from investigation, one should take this argument most
seriously.
“Citing a FoxNews.com report stating that
Mueller enjoyed “a lengthy, close”
 relationship with former FBI Director (and
longtime ally) James Comey, Rep. Trent
Franks, R-Ariz., claims Mueller has failed to
disqualify himself from serving as special
counsel, as required by law due to the
conflict of interest.
Mueller preceded Comey as FBI director from 2001-2013,
and they knew each other when Comey was working as
deputy attorney general for the George W. Bush
administration in 2003. During Comey’s 2007 testimony
before Congress, Comey described how Mueller was his
confidante when Comey opposed the Bush
administration’s plan to renew a controversial surveillance
program, Fox News reported.
According to Fox News, Mueller once called Comey “one
of the finest people I’ve ever met.”
“Bob Mueller is in clear violation of federal
code and must resign to maintain the
integrity of the investigation into alleged
Russian ties. Those who worked under
them have attested he and Jim Comey
possess a close friendship, and they have
delivered on-the-record statements effusing
praise of one another,” Rep. Franks stated
Tuesday, via press release.”
If this conflict of interest abuse was not so serious, it
would qualify as a skit on Saturday Night Live. Any
objective analysis of the self admitted violations of
security clearance leaks by James Comey would constitute
the basis of his own prosecution. Oh no; not in the
maniacal world of Robert Mueller. So what is the end
game for the Judas double-dealers?
From an editorial of The New York Sun, An Indict Trump
Strategy? makes several pertinent points.
“It looks like the emerging strategy of the
special prosecutor heading the Russia
probe could well be to indict President
Trump while he’s in office, rather than refer
him to the House for impeachment. The
prosecutor, Robert Mueller, hasn’t said
anything like that. With the pattern of news
stories about Mr. Mueller’s investigation
and the president’s own statements,
though, it doesn’t take a Sherlock Holmes
to speculate that the game, unconstitutional
though it may be, is afoot.”
The paranoid panic that drives the gentry collaborators to
cheer the convoluted fishing expedition to manufacture a
nonexistent crime is proof positive that the elites, who run
the government, are mentally ill or profoundly evil. Let no
voice stand in the way to distort the constitution when
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there is an unlimited supply of unethical attorneys to do
the bidding of the corporatist and K Street insiders.
Even the liberal LA Times offers an editorial by Douglas
W. Kmiec that challenges the legitimacy of the Mueller
third degree. His arguments are compelling.
“The special counsel cannot be justified by
the Supreme Court’s 8-1 approval of the
earlier independent counsel law, which was
passed in 1978 and expired in 1999. The
high court’s dissenter was Justice Antonin
Scalia, and subsequent precedent and
scholarship acknowledge that Scalia had
the better argument. Indeed, Congress let
the law expire because, as Scalia
reasoned, it made it too easy to falsely call
one’s political opponent a crook. (Both
Republicans and Democrats were equally
happy to see the law sunset.)
Under the expired law, independent counsels were
appointed by a special three-judge panel of the U.S. Court
of Appeals, but only after the attorney general conducted a
preliminary investigation based on “specific and credible”
information about alleged wrongdoing by the president.
Under the old law, if there were “no reasonable grounds”
after the preliminary investigation, that was reported to the
court and the matter ended. These careful first steps are not
explicit in the Justice Department’s current special counsel
regulations, and there are no signs that in the wake of
Sessions’ recusal, a constitutionally sufficient process
triggered the Mueller appointment.
Statutorily appointed independent counsels also had an
obligation to make reports to the appointing court every six
months. In order to expand the boundaries of an
investigation, they had to get the approval of the attorney
general and notify the court. The court decided what
reports were made public or sent to Congress. By
comparison, Mueller appears to be operating unilaterally.”
The unmistakable lesson to draw from the quisling legal
community is that if you don’t like the separations of
power constitutional constraints and Bill of Rights
protections, just make up a summary judgment that a
compliant media will force feed to a gullible public.
The camarilla of natural law perverts have found a new
home in the Mueller gaggle of vitiate executioners. Their
task is to hang the carcass of a confederation of sovereign
states and bury the bones of liberty under the boot of
centralized despotism.
Do you needs a better example of The Butchered Law?
Reflect on the words of Dick the Butcher in Henry VI, part
2. His sober solution for the law, “The first thing we do,
let’s kill all the lawyers”, was ignored in his era. Today it
would be dismissed as subversive. Yet who are the real
betrayers?
When the law is used to stamp out the will of an
overwhelming and legitimate Presidential election, the
power of the ruling class can no longer be honored or
obeyed. If Mueller is allowed to railroad the Trump
administration by looking into every accusation from a life
in business, the country will reject his butchery of the law.
Long ago the supposed validation for the investigation,
that devastating Russian connection has been debunked.
However, the true collaboration with the Putin regime was
established by the Clinton cabal of crooks. Where is the
willingness to go after the systemic criminals in your
probe, Herr Mueller? No, your assignment is to continue
the cover-up and protect the District of Criminals.
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In the cherished tradition of non-violent civil disobedience,
the great heartland of loyal citizens would reject your
sinister hit job as a tipping point in the war being waged by
your globalist masters. Taking to the streets has never been
a tactic used by the producing middle America; however, a
Mueller hounding based upon phony allegations include all
Trump supporters as a target of your hatred.
The action to take: The first thing we do, let’s remove the
entire political class from power”. Resign Now, Herr
Mueller; before the equivalent of new Nuremberg trials
will have you in the dock for crimes against devoted
Americans. The New World Order conspirators are the
establishment. James Comey, Andrew McCabe, Loretta
Lynch and Sally Q. Yates are all complicit in the tainted
corridors of injustice that protects the treasonous elites.
 Steve Bannon Is Out At White House
By Bob Fredericks
August 18, 2017 | 12:44pm
Top presidential adviser and nationalist bomb-thrower
Steve Bannon is out of a job, the White House said Friday.
“Chief of Staff John Kelly and Steve
Bannon have mutually agreed today would
be Steve’s last day. We are grateful for his
service and wish him the best,” press
secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in
a statement.
Kelly had earlier wrapped up a review of the West Wing
staff and the former Breitbart editor, the voice of the alt-
right who had the president’s ear, was the first casualty.
“Bannon had one hell of a run,” tweeted
Matt Drudge, who first reported the story.
Bannon had been on the outs with Trump before for
grandstanding and stealing the spotlight, but the president
suspected he was one of the main leakers in the
administration, trashing his colleagues in news reports.
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The notoriously thin-skinned president resented the
publicity Bannon had been getting as the supposed
mastermind of Trump’s campaign and upset victory.
One White House source told Axios,
“His departure may seem turbulent in the
media, but inside it will be very smooth. He
has no projects or responsibilities to hand
off.”
Bannon in recent days gave interviews to publications
including the New York Times, in which he defended
Trump’s controversial comments in the wake of the racial
violence in Charlottesville, Va., last weekend.
A senior White House official told Axios that it seemed
like Bannon was setting himself up to be a martyr — the
white nationalist hero canned by the “globalists.”
A source close to Bannon added:
“This week is a good window into what
Bannon outside the [White House] would
look like: A strong defense of POTUS and
‘fire and fury’ for enemies of the Trump
agenda. Get ready for Bannon the
barbarian.”
And Bannon was expected to rejoin Breitbart, which he
once said gave a platform to the alt-right.
Trump told reporters at Trump Tower on Tuesday that
Bannon was a “good man” and “not a racist.”
“I like Mr. Bannon. He’s a friend of mine.
But Mr. Bannon came on very late. You
know that. I went through 17 senators,
governors, and I won all the primaries. Mr.
Bannon came on very much later than
that,” Trump said, adding, “but we’ll see
what happens with Mr. Bannon.”
In his interview with the ultra-liberal American Prospect,
Bannon contradicted the president’s position on North
Korea while trashing his more moderate colleagues for
their views on an “economic war” with China.
The danger for Trump is that Bannon will unleash
Breitbart and other conservative media against the White
House.
Bannon had a rocky relationship with some of Trump’s top
aides, especially Jared Kushner and National Economic
Council director Gary Cohn, and has shown he’s not
averse to a scorched-earth policy.
Bannon’s departure could empower more moderate voices
in the administration, including Cohn and Secretary of
State Rex Tillerson.
.
Sam Nunberg, a Bannon confidant, said that when he’s
back at Breitbart,
“Steve will compliment the administration
when it’s right. When it’s wrong, he’ll knock
their block hard.”
But one Breitbart editor, Joel Pollack, has already posted
an ominous warning on his Twitter feed:
“#War.”

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 Steve Bannon Exits White House, Says The
Presidency Trump Campaigned For Is 'Over'
By Alex Pappas
Published August 18, 2017
Steve Bannon is on his way out at the White House – but
the fiery, anti-establishment conservative who helped
Donald Trump win the presidency says he's getting ready
to wage his populist campaign from the outside.
“If there’s any confusion out there, let me clear it up: I’m
leaving the White House and going to war for Trump
against his opponents -- on Capitol Hill, in the media, and
in corporate America,” Bannon told Bloomberg on Friday.
Still, the outgoing White House chief strategist told The
Weekly Standard the country would see a new kind of
presidency without him there. “We still have a huge
movement, and we will make something of this Trump
presidency. But that presidency is over. It’ll be something
else. And there’ll be all kinds of fights, and there’ll be
good days and bad days, but that presidency is over.”
Bannon returned to work late Friday at Breitbart News, the
populist news site he once ran that rails against the
political establishment in both parties.
He spent just over a year formally working for the
president. On Friday, his job with Trump came to an end.
“White House Chief of Staff John Kelly and
Steve Bannon have mutually agreed today would
be Steve's last day,” White House Press
Secretary Sarah Sanders said. “We are grateful
for his service and wish him the best.”
Breitbart announced Friday that Bannon returned as
executive chairman. He chaired its evening editorial
meeting Friday, the site said.
“The populist-nationalist movement got a lot
stronger today,” said Breitbart News Editor-in-
Chief Alex Marlow. “Breitbart gained an
executive chairman with his finger on the pulse of
the Trump agenda.”
Ben Shapiro, a former writer at Breitbart News, predicted
Bannon will go back to the site and
"declare himself the conscience of the nationalist
populist movement that he helped build.”
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"He's going to use that power to smash the
president when he thinks the president is wrong,"
Shapiro told Fox News anchor Sandra Smith.
A source close to Bannon told Fox News there is “no way”
the outgoing adviser will go to war against Trump himself.
He will “100 percent have POTUS’ back,” the person said.
Another source close to Bannon, reached Friday, suggested
Breitbart is gearing up for a fight now that its leader is no
longer restrained by his job in the White House.
“Winter is here,” the person told Fox News.
Kurt Bardella, a former Breitbart staffer who now
criticizes the outlet and President Trump, speculated
Bannon would “continue to use his weapon of choice,
Breitbart, to attack his adversaries inside the West Wing.”
Targets, Bardella said, could be Jared Kushner and Ivanka
Trump, chief economic adviser Gary Cohn as well as
congressional Republicans like Paul Ryan and Mitch
McConnell.
Bannon has also sparred with national security adviser
H.R. McMaster and his deputy, Dina Powell.
“In many ways, I think Steve will feel liberated,”
Bardella said.
He added, “Now, he will be able to operate openly and
freely to inflict as much damage as he possibly can on the
'globalists' that remain in the Trump administration.”
Bannon submitted his resignation in writing on Aug. 7,
Fox News learned.
Bannon told The Weekly Standard he spoke with the
president and Chief of Staff John Kelly last week about
resigning on Aug. 14, his one year mark working for
Trump. But the events in Charlottesville last weekend
delayed his departure.
 “I’d always planned on spending one year.... I Earlier this week, Trump briefly addressed the speculation
want to get back to Breitbart,” he said. about Bannon's future during a wide-ranging Q&A with
reporters at Trump Tower.
Bannon said he feels “jacked up” as he returns to the
conservative news site. “I like Mr. Bannon, he’s a friend of mine,” Trump
said, though downplaying his impact in the 2016
“Now I’m free,” he said. “I’ve got my hands back campaign. “I like him. He’s a good man.”
on my weapons. Someone said, ‘it’s Bannon the
Barbarian.’ I am definitely going to crush the The president added,
opposition. There’s no doubt.”
“We’ll see what happens with Mr. Bannon.”
He added,
Fox News’ John Roberts and Ed Henry contributed to this
“I built a f---ing machine at Breitbart. And now I’m report.
about to go back, knowing what I know, and
we’re about to rev that machine up. And rev it up
we will do.”

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 Chief Strategist Steve Bannon Out At White House:
‘Get Ready For Bannon The Barbarian’
By Adam Shaw
18 Aug 2017
White House Chief Strategist Steve
Bannon — the former Breitbart News
executive chairman who helped guide then-
candidate Donald Trump’s flagging
presidential campaign to a historic victory
— is on his way out of the White House,
with a source close to Bannon telling Axios:
“Get ready for Bannon the barbarian.”
Axios first reported that Bannon, who was brought on to
the campaign in August to replace Paul Manafort as
campaign chairman, was expected to depart from the
White House imminently.
Soon after, the Drudge Report issued a siren on the site’s
front page, declaring:
“Bannon Out at White House” adding that
he was “moving on after an impressive
run.”
Meanwhile, the New York Times also reported that
President Trump had decided to remove Bannon, but
.
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Trump and senior White House officials were debating
“when and how to dismiss” Bannon.
The Times reported that a person close to Bannon insisted
that a departure was Bannon’s idea and that a resignation
had been submitted on August 7 — but the protests in
Charlottesville, Virginia, had delayed his departure.
The White House later partly confirmed the reports:
“White House Chief of Staff John Kelly and
Steve Bannon have mutually agreed today
would be Steve’s last day. We are grateful
for his service and wish him the best,”
White House Press Secretary Sarah
Huckabee Sanders said in a statement.
No further details were immediately available.
Bannon was widely reported to have feuded with a number
of the globalists White House officials within Trump’s
administration, as he sought to get Trump to stick to the
campaign promises that had helped carry him to his win in
November.
The Times reported that Bannon had clashed with
members of Trump’s family. Axios reported that Bannon
was suspected of leaking about colleagues and that Trump
“resents the publicity Bannon has been
getting as mastermind of the campaign.”
However, while it was unclear what Bannon’s next move
would be, a source close to Bannon told Axios:
“Get ready for Bannon the barbarian.”
 Newt Sounds The Alarm: Trump Won’t
Have ‘Stable’ Presidency Without ‘Serious Changes’
[VIDEO]
Peter Hasson - Associate Editor
10:17 AM 08/18/2017

Former Speaker of the House and longtime Trump Star families and Access Hollywood. Is this
supporter Newt Gingrich is seriously worried about the week that much different than the
future of Donald Trump’s presidency. numerous other situations?” Hemmer
asked.
Gingrich, who has consistently been one of Trump’s most “It is only different in that you go through
optimistic supporters, said Friday morning that Trump is little ground, little ground, little ground, and
more isolated than he realizes and needs to make “serious after a while you have enough different
changes” if he’s going to have a stable presidency. people pull back that you are in a
qualitatively different position and right
now, that if he wants to get his agenda
enacted that if he wants get things done
and have a presidency that is stable, he is
going to have to have a couple of serious
changes,” Gingrich said. “I think ‘The Art of
the Comeback,’ which is a fascinating book
that he wrote in 1997, is a really helpful
reminder and he needs to think of what
hasn’t been working and what he will do
Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich shakes hands with
Donald Trump during a rally at the Sharonville Convention Center
that is more effective in the rest of the
July 6, 2016, in Cincinnati, Ohio. (Photo by John Sommers II/Getty presidency.”
Images)
“I think he’s in a position right now where WATCH:
he’s much more isolated than he realizes,”
Gingrich said in an interview with Fox
News’ Bill Hemmer. “On the Hill, he has far
more people willing to sit to one side and
not help him right now, and I think that he
needs to recognize that he’s taken a good
first step with bringing in General Kelly, but
he needs to think about what has not
worked. You don’t get down to 35 percent
approval and have people in your own
party shooting at you and conclude that
everything’s going fine.”
“How many times have we had this
conversation? It was John McCain, Gold
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 Calls For Dem State Senator To Resign
Surge After Trump Assassination Post;
Secret Service Investigates
By Penny Starr
18 Aug 2017
Calls for Democratic Missouri State Sen.
Maria Chappelle-Nadal to resign are
rolling in following her now-deleted
Facebook post about hoping for
President Donald Trump’s
assassination, and the Secret Service
confirms it is investigating.
Chappelle-Nadal has been defiant, saying she is “not
resigning,” and although she apologized for the
assassination post, she is now calling for Trump’s
impeachment.
“I am not resigning . . . What I said was
wrong, but I am not going to stop talking
about what led to that, which is the
frustration and anger that many people
across America are feeling right now,”
Chapelle-Nadal told the St. Louis Post-
Dispatch.
“No, I don’t want to see anyone
assassinated, but he should not be
president, he should be impeached,”
Chappelle-Nadal told St. Louis TV station
KMOV:
I am not resigning. When POC are
respected by this WH & they are willing to
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do real work, I'll sit down with them. People
are traumatized! https://t.co/rmsL4pQSTg
— MariaChappelleNadal
(@MariaChappelleN) August 18, 2017
But her fellow Democrats are calling for her to step down.
“I condemn it,” Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-
MO) said in an emailed statement to the
Post-Dispatch. “It’s outrageous. And she
should resign.”
Rep. William Lacy Clay (D-MO) also said Chappelle-
Nadal should go.
“(C)alling for the assassination of the
president is a federal crime,” Clay said,
adding, She’s “an embarrassment to our
state” and “she should resign immediately.”
According to CNN:
Stephen Webber, chairman of the Missouri
Democratic Party, said, “State Senator
Chappelle-Nadal’s comments are
indefensible. All sides need to agree that
there is no room for suggestions of political
violence in America — and the Missouri
Democratic Party will absolutely not
tolerate calls for the assassination of the
President. I believe she should resign.
The Republican governor of Missouri has also joined the
resignation chorus.
“We can have differences in our country,
but no one should encourage political
violence. The senator should resign,” Gov.
Eric Greitens said in a statement.
Now, the Secret Service has confirmed it is investigating
Chapelle-Nadal’s posts.
 “The St. Louis Field Office of the Secret
Service is looking into the comments,”
Secret Service spokeswoman Cathy
Milhoan said in a statement to CNN. “The
Secret Service investigates all threats
.
against the President, Vice President, and
other protectees, whether they be direct,
implied or comments in passing,” she
added.

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 ‘Anti-Semitic Much?’:
Huffpo Blasts Out Offensive Jewish Slur
Numerous Twitter Users Took Offense To The Leftist Media
Outlet’s Use Of The Term, ‘Goy’
Infowars.Com
August 18, 2017

Editor Lydia Polgreen tweeted a screenshot of HuffPo’s

front page, crediting editor Chloe Angyal for coming up
with the idea.

Editors at the Huffington Post were

accused of spreading anti-Semitic hate
Friday after blasting a headline featuring
an offensive racial slur in reference to
Steve Bannon’s departure from the
White House.
“Goy,” or goyim, is defined by the Oxford Dictionary as
an informal, derogatory Jewish name for a non-Jew.
Numerous Twitter users took offense to the leftist media
outlet’s use of the term, especially in light of the nation’s
current racial tensions.

The website proclaimed, “GOY, BYE,” in a bold headline

featured prominently on its splash page after news that
White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon was out.

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 Internet Mogul KimDotCom
Hints Robert Mueller Could Soon Lose Position
By Jim E
August 18, 2017 1:33PM
Last May, famous internet personality Kim DotCom broke
the news that Seth Rich, the mysteriously murdered DNC
staffer, was the source for Wikileaks’ Hillary campaign
email dump. This revelation contradicted the media’s
claim that Russia was behind the email leakage.
The assertion was never proven. But that hasn’t stopped
Mr. DotCom from stirring the rumor pots some more, and
hinting that big news is coming to the Trump-Russia
investigation.
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Recently, Rep. Dana Rohrabacher visited Julian Assange,
founder of Wikileaks, in London where he’s in political
exile within the Ecuadorian Embassy. Assange told the
congressman that Russia was not the source of the
damning Hillary campaign emails from last year. Now
Rohrabacher is going to relay the information he learned to
President Trump.
Kim DotCom weighed in on the matter. What he said has
everyone talking: Is Mueller about to be fired?
This could mean any number of things. Assange could
have evidence that Mueller is corrupt, which isn’t out of
the question given that his team is stacked with Hillary-
aligned lawyers. It could be something that tarnishes
Mueller’s character. It could be something that totally
exonerates President Trump, ending the witch hunt for
good.
Only time will tell.
What does Kim DotCom know that we
don’t? Is Mueller really finished? Tell us
your thoughts below and share this
story on Facebook and Twitter!
 George Soros Is Taking The United States Of America,
And WE Are Letting Him. I Thought WE
Were Stronger Than This
By Ruby Henley
Published August 18, 2017 · Updated August 21, 2017

George Soros is a billionaire gangster, who has stated his Patel, a Canadian, is now Avaaz’s
goal in life is to destroy Western civilization. Why? Just executive director. The organization was
because he can. He looks down upon the common man formed in collaboration with MoveOn.org,
and laughs. He steps on him like he would an ant. In fact, the Democratic online activist group that
he sees us as ants. has received funding from billionaire
George Soros — who also is a major
Charlottesville has given him exactly what he wants, and Perriello campaign contributor.
although I have proven the link to the initial witness,
Brennan Gilmore to Soros beyond a shadow of a Now here are the ties to Obama:
doubt…no one cares.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/04/politics/tom-perriello-
The below article establishes the initial connection: virginia-governor-race/index.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/act-four/wp/2017/03/24/tom- Tom Perriello, a former Virginia congressman and an ex-

perriello-is-campaigning-for-governor-and-for-virginias-music-
scene/?utm_term=.e6971b7790c3
Perriello’s campaign has its own bluegrass band, the
Perriello Pickers, which includes Brennan Gilmore,
Perriello’s chief of staff and founder of the band Walker’s
Run, on guitar; Nate Leath, who at 11 years old took first
place in the bluegrass fiddle category at the 1995 Old
Fiddler’s Convention in Galax, Va.; Will Lee, a third-
generation musician whose grandfathers played ragtime
piano and clawhammer banjo, on banjo; Jay Starling, the
son of Seldom Scene founder John Starling, on dobro
banjo; and Walker’s Run veterans Andy Thacker
on mandolin and Zack Blatter on bass. They play
an earnest official campaign anthem and have gone into
the studio with Davina Jackson, a gospel singer who
attended elementary school with Perriello, to record a new
version of it.
diplomat in the Obama administration, is set to shake up
the Democratic primary in the highly anticipated 2017
Virginia gubernatorial race.
A Democratic source with knowledge of Periello’s plans
confirmed them to CNN.
A second senior Democratic source said Perriello has
informed Lt. Governor Ralph Northam, up until now the
only announced candidate, of his intention to run.
The New York Times first reported Perriello’s plans, and
official announcement could come as soon as Thursday.
Perriello himself did not immediately respond to a CNN
request for comment.
Perriello confirmed his bid Thursday morning, tweeting:

The following establishes Perriello’s connection to George “I’m running for Governor. VA will remain
Soros: the firewall vs Trump- our values worth
defending: http://tomforvirginia.com.”
http://archive.is/Q6lNX
Perriello co-founded Avaaz with two
colleagues who had helped him start an
earlier nonprofit called Res Publica, which
was aimed at promoting international
justice on behalf of the religious left, as
Perriello told the National Catholic Reporter
in 2004. One of those colleagues, Ricken
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How much more proof do we need to come together and to
stop this movement and these evil rallies now?
Jason Kessler, the organizer for Charlottesville was an
Obama supporter before 2016. What does that tell you?
He is an instigator.
The Right needs to stop these rallies now!
We cannot allow any of these groups to take over our
Country.
David Duke does not represent the Right!
But Antifa does represent the Left and George Sorors.
Black Lives Matter represents the Left and George Soros.
All these events and rallies are a setup for the Right!
Please don’t support these events. They are initially
sponsored by Soros.
The link has been proven.
Please stop, America, now!
Stop these rallies, for they will destroy this Country and
hand it to George Soros on a silver platter.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-zHNVW5-hY

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 After Charlottesville,
Globalist Rice Smears Patriots As Racists
Written By Alex Newman
Friday, 18 August 2017
Photo of Condoleezza Rice: AP Images
In what was condemned as a vile instance of dishonesty,
former Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice employed what
is known as a “sandwich smear,” equating patriotic
constitutionalists of all races and creeds with National
Socialists (Nazis) and the Ku Klux Klan. The globalist
member of the establishment swamp known as the Council
on Foreign Relations, who according to the New York
Times rejects the “America First” agenda articulated by
President Trump and supported by voters, knows what she
did was dishonest, critics said. Black and Jewish
constitutionalists and patriots offered especially strong
condemnations of the bigoted remarks by the Bush-era
official.
Writing on social media after the recent violence in
Charlottesville, Virginia, the former secretary of state
specifically attacked the John Birch Society, which played
absolutely no role in the protests in Virginia and has
always strongly opposed racism. Indeed, not one single
media report has mentioned the Society in connection with
the events in Charlottesville, because there was no link
whatsoever. By contrast, the JBS has been publishing
articles showing that the violence in Virginia advances the
agendas of leftists and racists. And the JBS position has
always been clear: While Council on Foreign Relations
member William F. Buckley argued for white supremacy
in his magazine National Review in the late 1950s, the
young John Birch Society was busy expelling racists and
anti-Semites from the movement and publishing the
writings of prominent black Birchers such as George
Schuyler.
Ironically, in light of Rice's comments, the JBS has been a
powerful force against both the KKK and National
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Socialism (Nazism). Working with the FBI, members of
the Society have actually played key roles in bringing
down some of the Klan's most violent murderers. Reverend
Delmar Dennis was a JBS member who, with permission
from JBS headquarters, and at great personal risk to
himself, infiltrated the most violent Klan in U.S. history,
the White Knights of the KKK of Mississippi. He played a
crucial role in bringing down some of its murderous
members. And considering the Society's fierce opposition
to socialism, communism, and fascism — not to mention
its many Jewish members and leaders over the years,
including some who survived the Holocaust — it goes
without saying that the JBS has always been a major foe to
Nazis and their agenda.
Still, Rice, for reasons that were not made clear in her post,
felt the need to smear the JBS by listing it in-between
racist and collectivist organizations and ideologies that the
JBS has always vehemently opposed. “Those of us who
lived the horrors of Jim Crow and segregation know how
much it hurts to be hated for the color of your skin. The
KKK, the John Birch Society, and Nazis belong to that
awful past,” Rice said, omitting the fact that unlike many
conservative organizations, the Birch Society had many
prominent black Americans as members even during that
era, and still does today. “And they should stay buried
there. They have no place in our country's politics or in our
society. We must condemn them and their actions
unequivocally.”
Rice, who played a key role in engineering the illegal wars
that led to the ongoing extermination of Christians in the
Middle East, claimed she would be praying for the family
of Heather Heyer, all who were injured, and the city of
Charlottesville. “And I pray for our country and the
healing that we do badly need,” she said.
Of course, her sandwich smear quoted above raises serious
concerns about her “prayers.” The God of the Bible
commands people not to bear false witness, one of the Ten
Commandments. And yet, Rice, almost certainly
deliberately, critics said, bore false witness against
countless good Americans of all colors and creeds by
equating them with the KKK and Nazis. In the Bible, Jesus
Christ — the God that most Americans pray to — even
says that the devil himself is the father of lies, and that
liars are his children.
Social media users promptly flooded Rice's Facebook page
with comments exposing the dishonesty. Even some of her
self-described supporters spoke out, noting that the Birch
Society, obviously, did not belong on the list. After being
made aware of the comments, members and supporters of
the Society — especially black, Jewish, and other
minorities — expressed outrage, too.
“As a Christian, Patriot, Clergy, who happens to be Black
by God's Design, I am fully convinced that former
Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice, knows that her lying
statement accusing the John Birch Society of racism is
wrong and very destructive!” said Reverend Steven Louis
Craft, echoing concerns expressed by numerous other
members of the Society. “If you research her background,
you will discover she is a globalist member of the Council
on Foreign Relations and therefore part of a world-wide
agenda to destroy any ideas of Making America Great
Again! This is nothing more than a satanic plot to destroy
President Donald Trump by accusing him as well as the
John Birch Society for the wickedness on both sides of the
madness that happened in Charlottesville, Virginia!”
Bob Unger, a New York attorney who happens to be
Jewish, also blasted the remarks. “It seems to me that she
has an agenda, since the John Birch Society is not in any
way involved in the altercations that took place in
Charlottesville,” Unger told The New American.
“Obviously she has an agenda to discredit those who are
exposing globalists like herself. Otherwise, how would the
John Birch Society even come to mind here? If she had
just said KKK and Nazis, OK, that was all on video. But
certainly I, as a Bircher, would not stand next to Nazis and
KKK members.”
“I don't know who everyone was in that crowd,” Unger
continued. “I don't know whether there were innocent,
well-meaning people there, either. If I were a reporter, I
would investigate. I just don't know. But certainly to throw
a John Birch Society tag on this is actually a positive thing,
because why try to discredit preemptively something that
is irrelevant to the event other than to try to smear them.
It's funny, globalists call people like me McCarthyites. But
isn't that guilt by lack of association? If I'm a person who
believes Robert E Lee has a place in U.S. history, and a
Nazi says that, does that make me a Nazi? A Nazi might
also say today is Friday. If I say today is Friday, am I a
Nazi? This is the process of thinking, or non-thinking, that
we have in today's society, which is why we're currently
like the Titanic on the iceberg.”
Art Thompson, the CEO of the John Birch Society, spoke
out, too. “The message sent out by Condoleezza Rice is a
perfect example of what is called a sandwich smear,” he
told The New American in a statement. “This technique
was widely used by the liberal and Leftist media during the
smear campaign against The John Birch Society in the
1960s. It is designed to make the reader think that the
good, sandwiched between two unsavory groups, is
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somehow connected to them when the truth is much
different.”
Thompson also pointed out that Rice, like many
establishment operatives, rightfully criticized National
Socialists and the KKK, but not the violent leftists
marauding across the United States terrorizing innocent
people. “Note that she made no mention of the communists
or those promoting violence in the streets against our local
police or shutting down free speech by violent action on
our campuses,” Thompson observed, echoing concerns
expressed by countless Americans of all races and creeds,
including the president of the United States, shocked by
the dishonest media coverage.
JBS Always Opposed Racism and anti-Semitism
Since the JBS was founded, and long before opposition to
racism and anti-Semitism was as mainstream as it is today,
membership in the Society has been closed to racists and
anti-Semites. Robert Welch, the founder of the Society,
made that clear at the beginning, making Rice's statement
attempting to link JBS to anti-Semites and racists
downright ridiculous to anyone who knows the facts.
Indeed, one of the founding members of the original JBS
National Council was Alfred Kohlberg, a prominent
Jewish businessman. Numerous other Jews have also
served and continue to serve proudly as members and in
the leadership of the John Birch Society.
This writer actually co-wrote a book with a prominent
Jewish Bircher, Dr. Sam Blumenfeld, who was involved
with the Society for many decades and actually worked for
it. So passionate was Dr. Blumenfeld about the work of the
JBS that, together with other Jewish Birchers such as Alan
Stang and Holocaust survivor Georgia Gabor, he helped
create the Jewish Society of Americanists in 1966. In a
statement of principles, the founders said the society’s aim
was “to demonstrate to our fellow Americans and
coreligionist that the Americanist principles, beliefs and
aims of the John Birch Society are based on the very
precepts of Judaism.” They estimated that about 1,000 of
the approximately 100,000 JBS members at that time were
Jewish.
Another prominent Jew who served in the John Birch
Society's leadership was David Eisenberg. In the early
1960s, responding to smears put out by the liars of the day,
Eisenberg set out on a crusade to expose the Society based
on the lies he had heard in some media outlets. Upon
learning the truth, however, he quickly joined the JBS in
1964 and forcefully exposed those who leveled false
charges of anti-Semitism at the Society. He was honored to
be selected to serve on the National Council in 1995,
where he served faithfully for two decades before passing
away in 2015.
In response to smears against the Society by establishment
operatives, The New American reached out to Andy Dlinn,
one of the Society's Jewish leaders who is active in his
local synagogue and very prominent in his state and
community. Dlinn, who went from chapter leader to a
member of the JBS National Council, told The New
American that when somebody was caught telling racist
and anti-Semitic jokes at a meeting, he called headquarters
and that person's membership was immediately terminated.
“The JBS follows through on its pledge and will not let
this kind of filth neutralize the critical and essential work
of the Society,” Dlinn said. “Watch what an organization
actually says and does, not what others, without basis tell
you about it.”
Even official investigations going back to the 1960s have
exposed the establishment's lies about the Society. In a
published report that is available to anyone, a California
Senate Fact-Finding Committee came to the obvious
conclusion after its investigation that not only was the
Society not racist or anti-Semitic, it specifically opposed
racism and anti-Semitism. “Among other unjustified
criticisms against the society is the charge that it is anti-
Semitic,” the report found. “Our investigation leads us to
the opposite conclusion. The organization is open to
people of all religions, all races, all political persuasions
except those deemed subversive.”
In fact, Jews quoted in the official report said they felt
more welcome in the John Birch Society than in American
society at large. “There are many Jews on the Birch
committees, many in the society; some members have been
asked to resign because they were found to be disruptive
with their anti-Semitic attitude,” the report found, adding
that Welch and various JBS coordinators were working
with prominent Jewish groups to “squelch anti-Semitism.”
The report quotes a Jewish member of the society in
Southern California, Jerome E. Linz, who explained: “As a
member of the John Birch Society and also a member of
the American Jewish League Against Communism, I
vehemently deny the allegations of persons or groups
claiming that the John Birch Society is a fascist, or any
other un-American, collectivist organization. It has been
my experience, as a member of a so-called minority group,
that I have felt in the society a very great sense of mutual
co-operation and respect — a conviction of belonging far
above the actual circumstance to be found in daily life
outside the society.”
The report goes on to point out that “Welch is
unquestionably not anti-Semitic, and wishes his
organization to be open to people of all faiths.” The
investigators also concluded, as Rice almost certainly
knows, that Welch “has already acted to oust anti-Semites
from the movement.” “At any rate, our investigations have
disclosed no evidence of anti-Semitism on the part of
anyone connected with the John Birch Society in
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California, and much evidence to the effect that it opposes
racism in all forms,” the report said.
Prominent black Americans such as nationally renowned
conservative radio host Jesse Lee Peterson, founder and
president of the pro-family group BOND (the Brotherhood
Organization of a New Destiny), have been involved with
JBS for decades. “I have been a member of JBS for 20-
years. I have been a speaker on their lecture tour
discussing big government’s war on the black family. I
know the head of JBS, and I have spent time with some of
their members," Peterson told The New American. "They
are good and decent people. The JBS is made up of
patriots who love America. They want to make America
great again. Falsely accusing them of ‘racism’ and
associating them with neo-Nazis and the violence that
occurred in Charlottesville, VA is unfair and absolutely
wrong.”
Still today, the Birch Society welcomes members and
leaders from all races and creeds. In an interview with The
New American, JBS chapter leader, radio co-host and U.S.
military veteran Ken Wood blasted Rice's comments as
“absolutely ridiculous.” “When did research become
racism?” wondered Wood, who happens to be black. In an
interview earlier this year, Wood discussed his “awesome”
experience with belonging to the Birch Society and serving
as a volunteer leader in Florida. Among other
developments, he has found that whenever the Society is
smeared, after he researches the charge, it turns out the
JBS was correct and telling the truth, and the accuser was
being dishonest.
Speaking of Rice, Wood called her “another neocon
career-minded opportunist who worked for the Bushes, a
family that bankrolled Hitler,” a reference to Bush
patriarch Prescott Bush's well-documented legal troubles
for his role in Union Bank's financing of the mass-
murdering Nazi regime. “Now through her virtue
signaling, she is posturing for a promotion within her
beloved CFR,” he added. “If these globalists and war
criminals would just ride off into the sunset with their ill-
gotten gains, it would still be wrong, yet I could live with
it. However, like zombies that don't know they're dead,
they just won't go away, so now it's time to prosecute them
to the fullest extent of the law.”
Attack on True Conservatives
Despite the overwhelming evidence that the Society
opposes and always has opposed racism and collectivism,
even when racism was mainstream and official policy in
the United States, Rice is hardly the only establishment
operative to employ the sandwich smear against the Birch
Society. Numerous other dishonest pseudo-conservatives,
neocons, warmongers, globalists, establishment shills, and
others have employed similar tactics, stretching from the
1960s all the way through today. It shows that the
dishonest effort is coordinated — and the reason is not
hard to understand.
Among the recent offenders is pseudo-conservative
Washington Post columnist and globalist warmonger
Jennifer Rubin. First, she falsely referred to the Society as
a “white nationalist” group. After the Post was alerted
about the error, the false claim suddenly disappeared. Not
long after that, though, Rubin used precisely the same
“sandwich smear” tactic employed by Rice, evidencing a
premeditated and dishonest effort to mislead the Post's
readers that in any legitimate news organization would
result in prompt termination of employment. In a column
attacking White House strategist Steve Bannon and former
Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopolous, Rubin said President
Trump should disown the "alt-right," which he should have
seen as the "modern incarnation of the KKK, the John
Birch Society and run-of-the-mill racists."
Before that, another columnist for the “fake news”
establishment did the exact same thing. “In pre-Internet
days, these people found each other in marginal groups
that occasionally reared into prominence: the Klan, the
John Birch Society, the American Nazi Party,” wrote
Chicago Sun-Times propagandist Neil Steinberg, who first
attracted national attention after a scheme to promote gun
control blew up in his face — as a convicted drunk wife
beater, he was unable to purchase a gun and pass a
background check as he planned for publicity purposes,
making him an instant celebrity and the subject of
nationwide ridicule. He was also widely condemned for
what critics blasted as a “racist” tirade against a black
woman running as Chicago mayor.
There are numerous additional examples to prove the
point. The sandwich smear carefully allows the writers to
avoid legal accountability for libel, because they never
technically made a false statement about the Birch Society.
But among ignorant readers who do not know the truth, it
creates, often subconsciously, a negative association in the
readers' minds. Obviously, the fact that so many
establishment operatives have deployed the sandwich
smear against the John Birch Society — and not, say, CFR
member William Buckley, who openly advocated white
supremacy in his magazine while opposing civil rights
legislation — is not a coincidence.
The real reason for this well-orchestrated pattern of
dishonesty against patriotic Americans is that The John
Birch Society represents the most effective opposition in
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the world to the globalist agenda of the Council on Foreign
Relations. That agenda is to subvert the U.S. Constitution
and build what Rice's bosses have often referred to
publicly as the “New World Order.” The far-left Southern
Poverty Law Center, which often maligns mainstream
Christian and conservative organizations as “hate groups”
for opposing homosexual marriage, has not gone so far as
to explicitly lie about the JBS by falsely accusing it of
racism or hate. Obviously, that would be absurd. But it
does identify the Society as the “chief” organization of the
“Patriot” movement.
Indeed, despite decades of dishonest attacks against the
JBS by establishment operatives, among both pseudo-
conservatives and leftists, the JBS is increasingly being
recognized on all sides as one of the leading influences
behind modern conservatism. “Far from being drummed
out of conservatism, it has become the dominant strain,”
wrote Jeet Heer, senior editor at The New Republic,
arguing that the rise of Donald Trump was essentially the
culmination of 60 years of JBS educational efforts. “Far
from belonging merely to the lunatic fringe, the Birchers
were important precursors to what is now the governing
ideology of the Republican Party: Trumpism... Bircherism
is now, with Trump, flourishing in an entirely new way.”
Writing in the far-left establishment organ Salon, writer
Daniel Denvir also claimed Trump was proof of a JBS
takeover of conservatism and the GOP. “These sorts of
conspiracies are not limited to immigration: the far right
that has taken over the Republican Party incorporates a
whole range of extreme theories rooted in the Cold War
paranoia of the John Birch Society ... and the rantings of
Alex Jones and his Infowars empire,” he wrote. More
recently, Politico, Newsmax, and many other influential
media outlets have highlighted the surging influence of the
Society, bursting the false myths propagated by
establishment insiders.
In the far-left establishment behemoth Huffington Post,
self-styled “historian” Robert McElvaine also claimed
Trump was proof that the JBS was winning. “The Trump
candidacy is the culmination of the long campaign begun
by McCarthyism and the John Birch Society in the 1950s
and aimed at discrediting virtually every institution in the
United States,” he wrote. In 2011, meanwhile, journalist
Andrew Reinbach, also writing in the Huffington Post,
made a similar argument. “Most Americans don’t realize
that the right wing’s main ideas have been pushed for 50
years by the John Birch Society (JBS), a group Barry
Goldwater and William F. Buckley Jr. once thought too
extreme, but which has since become the intellectual seed
bank of the right,” he said, without noting that Goldwater
famously said “extremism in defense of freedom is no
vice.”
Indeed, even Rice's cohorts at the CFR have complained
about The John Birch Society's effectiveness in stopping
their globalist agenda in its tracks — including while Rice
was a senior foreign policy official in the Bush
administration. The late Robert Pastor, for example, who
led the CFR's "North America" schemes to subvert U.S.
sovereignty along the lines of the plot used to destroy the
independence of European nations, identified the JBS as
one of the lead forces in foiling the globalist agenda on the
North American continent.
“The John Birch Society" is among the leading groups that
“have been the most vocal, active and intense on North
American issues, and they were effective in inhibiting the
Bush administration and deterring the Obama
administration from any grand initiatives,” he wrote in his
2011 book The North American Idea: A vision of a
Continental Future. Rice, of course, was at the center of
Bush efforts to push this agenda, so it is no wonder that
she hates the Birch Society enough to dishonestly smear it
at the risk of losing even more credibility.
The JBS Is on the March; the Establishment Is Lashing
Out
The true agenda of people like Rice and her cohorts at the
Council on Foreign Relations is clear. Prominent patriotic
Americans, including CFR members, have been sounding
the alarm about the dangerous organization for
generations. The late U.S. Admiral Chester Ward, for
example, who served as the judge advocate of the U.S.
Navy, was a CFR member for 16 years before resigning in
disgust. “In the entire CFR lexicon, there is no term of
revulsion carrying a meaning so deep as America First,”
said Admiral Ward, whose comments on the CFR shed
light on why the group would be entirely hostile to any
movement or individual who believes in America.
But the reality is even worse than just hating America First
policies and advocates. “The main purpose of the Council
on Foreign Relations is promoting the disarmament of U.S.
sovereignty and national independence, and submergence
into an all-powerful one-world government,” the admiral
warned, adding that “this lust to surrender the sovereignty
and independence of the United States is pervasive
throughout most of the membership.” In other words, not
everyone in the CFR is a fanatical globalist determined to
sell out America's sovereignty, but most are. And the fruits
of Rice's term in office make clear that she is among them.
That sinister agenda becomes clear even from reading the
CFR's own mouthpiece, known as Foreign Affairs. In
April 1974, for example, former Deputy Assistant
Secretary of State Richard Gardner explained how the
agenda for world government would be pursued. “In short,
the house of world order will have to be built from the
bottom up rather than from the top down,” he wrote. “An
end run around national sovereignty, eroding it piece by
piece, will accomplish much more than the old fashioned
assault.” The magazine also regularly promotes regional
government, war, and attacks on national sovereignty.
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The establishment problem transcends parties. Globalist
former Vice President Dick Cheney, the neocon
warmonger who served with Rice, boasted of his
dishonesty in a speech at the CFR, when he explained that
he never informed voters in Wyoming about his
membership and leadership role in the establishment
organization. Obama's Secretary of State Hillary Clinton,
meanwhile, who called former KKK leader Robert Byrd
her “mentor,” noted on video that the CFR told her what
she should be doing and how she should be thinking.
Obviously, Americans were not pleased.
With the American people rejecting the establishment's
lackeys and its agenda — not to mention its fake news —
globalist operatives are scrambling to derail the movement
to preserve the U.S. Constitution and American
independence. And with Rice's latest book promoting
“democracy” and globalism a giant flop — it has fewer
reviews on Amazon than this writer's book on education
with a longtime Jewish Bircher — it seems Rice is
desperate to remain relevant. Whether she worked with
others to concoct her latest smear is not clear. But
ironically, by attacking JBS, she has given the Society yet
more exposure, and another opportunity to spread the
truth.
It is very telling that the enemies of the John Birch Society
— really enemies of truth, the Constitution, and the
American way — have to resort to lies and deception to
demonize the Society and its members. It is also very
encouraging to know that the only attacks that can be
leveled at the Society to smear it are easily discredited lies.
That means the haters of JBS, its members, and what it
stands for can find no truthful accusation to level that
might turn mainstream Americans against JBS. By
contrast, the JBS merely tells the truth about the
establishment and its agenda, and allows the chips to fall
where they may. The entire agenda of JBS can be
summarized as: "To bring about less government, more
responsibility, and — with God's help — a better world by
providing leadership, education, and organized volunteer
action in accordance with moral and Constitutional
principles."
These latest developments should serve as encouraging
news to patriotic Americans who love America, the
Constitution, and the Judeo-Christian foundation of
Western civilization; the establishment realizes that the
truth, all on its own, will be their downfall. There is never
more flak than when one is over the target. As such, while
the establishment destroys the credibility of its minions by
spreading lies to shore up their fringe and unpopular
globalist positions, Americans should speak the truth ever
more boldly. In the end, the truth will stand on its own, and
those who oppose it and hate it will ultimately be known
for what they are.
 Pelosi Calls On Congress
To Censure Trump
Juliegrace Brufke
August 18, 2017
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said she is
supportive of House Democrats’ push to censure President
Donald Trump over his remarks that both sides are
responsible for the recent violent outbreak at a white
nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va.
“The president’s repulsive defense of white
supremacists demands that Congress act
to defend our American values,” she said in
a statement Friday.
Three democratic members in the lower chamber filed
the censure resolution Friday, alleging the president has
failed to ease concerns he is sympathetic the the white
nationalist movement.
“Today, members led by Reps. Jerry
Nadler, Bonnie Watson Coleman and
Pramila Jayapal have filed the first censure
resolution against the president,” Pelosi
continues. “Every day, the president gives
us further evidence of why such a censure
is necessary. Indeed, with each passing
day, it becomes clearer that the Republican
Congress must declare whether it stands
for our sacred American values or with the
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President who embraces white
nationalism.”
House Democratic Conference Chairman Joseph Crowley
echoed Pelosi’s sentiments, adding members of the party
are outraged at Trump’s response to the situation.
“The president’s refusal to clearly condemn
the acts of domestic terrorism in
Charlottesville by white nationalists, neo-
Nazis, and other hate-filled groups is
appalling,” he said in a statement.
“President Trump has disgraced the Office
of the Presidency with his support of these
un-American organizations, and it is
incumbent on Congress to reject his hateful
rhetoric and policies.”
Trump received sharp bipartisan backlash following his
press conference Tuesday, where he told reporters there
were good people that were both protesting and counter-
protesting.
The president maintains he has condemned racist hate
groups, alleging the main stream media has taken his
remarks out of context.
 Donald Trump Finally Comes Out of the Closet
Michael Krieger
Posted Friday Aug 18, 2017 at 3:17 pm
The firing of Steve Bannon is in my opinion the most
significant event to happen during the Trump
administration thus far. Moreover, it will have massive
reverberations across the U.S. political spectrum for years
and years to come. I wasn’t planning on writing today, but
this news is so incredibly significant I find myself with
little choice.
Taking a step back, part of the reason I was immediately
able to see through the Trump con was due to my
upbringing in New York City. The guy was constantly in
the news my entire life, so I had a pretty decent
understanding of where he was really coming from and
what makes him tick. The mindset of your typical NYC-
based billionaire real estate developer is filled with all
sorts of perspectives and priorities, but thoughts of
populism are not amongst them.
Trump used populism to get elected, and then as soon as
he won, immediately appointed some of the most
destructive oligarchs imaginable to run his administration.
The reason I warned about this incessantly at the time, is
because I learned the lesson from the Obama
administration. People = policy, and the people Trump was
elevating were almost unanimously awful. Irrespective of
what you think of Bannon, him being out means Wall
Street and the military-industrial complex is now 100% in
control of the Trump administration. Prepare for an
escalation of imperial war around the world and an
expansion of brutal oligarchy.
The removal of Bannon is the end of even a facade of
populism. This is now the Goldman Sachs Presidency with
a thin-skinned, unthinking authoritarian as a figurehead.
Meanwhile, guess who’s still there in addition to the
Goldman executives? Weed obsessed, civil asset forfeiture
supporting Jefferson Sessions. The Trump administration
just became ten times more dangerous than it was before.
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With the coup successful, Trump no longer needs to be
impeached.
Here’s another prediction. Watch the corporate media start
to lay off Trump a bit more going forward. Rather than
hysterically demonize him for every little thing, corporate
media will increasingly give him more of the benefit of the
doubt. After all, a Presidency run by Goldman Sachs and
generals is exactly what they like. Trump finally came out
of the closet as the anti-populist oligarch he is, and the
results won’t be pretty.
Corporate media got the scalp it wanted, so the hysterical
criticisms of him will die down. This is not to say I think
the media will become pro-Trump, it just means the
obsessive and aggressive propaganda will be dialed back
considerably. Trump is now inline, and he will be
rewarded by the establishment for that. He will learn that
the more he gets with the program, the easier his life will
be and the more secure his power. He is merely being
conditioned, and my forecast is that Trump will gladly
embrace the worst parts of the establishment going
forward. Why? Because Trump’s true worldview fits in
way more with Goldman Sachs and the military-industrial
complex than with populism. It always has. The whole
thing was just an act to get elected. Firing Bannon is just
Trump coming home to who he always was. A ruthless
oligarch.
Now I’m going to make a few predictions about the
political environment going forward. First, I think right-
populism or the “new right,” is deeply damaged and this
presents a huge opportunity for left-leaning populists if
they are smart about it. Let’s begin by discussing why this
is so problematic for the “new right.”
At this point, something has become undeniable. Trump
voters who supported him based on the idea that he would
bring forth an agenda of economic populism got played. I
understand that many other people just voted for him as a
middle finger to the system, but for the true believers who
thought he had their backs, it’s now long past the time to
pack up your bags. I don’t say this out of pleasure, I
genuinely hoped he would push forth an agenda of
economic populism, but now we know for certain this is
never going to happen. That much is pretty undeniable.
Nevertheless, just because something is undeniable,
doesn’t mean it won’t be denied. Too many people have
invested way too much in Trump to admit they got played.
Sure, there will be outrage for a few days and people will
swear to be “off the Trump train,” but as soon as the next
wedge social issue gets played up by the media, they’ll be
right back onboard. I expect excuses from “new right”
leaders to come within a few days, or weeks at the most.
Remember, many people built up their entire careers and
public profiles by cheerleading Trump into office. Most of
these people are egomaniacs. What does an egomaniac do
when confronted with information that they got something
wrong? Do they publicly admit their error and give credit
to those who voiced skepticism, or will they figure out a
way to change the subject in order to maintain their
relevance and position amongst their fans? I think you
know the answer.
As such, right-populism is at a crossroads and this is what
I expect to happen. The same people who so passionately
convinced people to get on the “Trump train” will be far
more concerned with maintaining as much of their social
media status as possible, versus doing what’s right for the
country. There are enough unthinking fans out there to
allow this to happen. That said, the movement will be
harmed immensely because enough intelligent people will
see that many of these new right pundits aren’t who they
say they are. The credibility gap will widen and widen, as
it should. Trump was a fake and if you were so easily
tricked by Trump, why should we trust you on any other
subject?
Right-populism is now very much discredited, as its leader
has been shown to be nothing more than a narcissistic con-
man. This will not be an easy hole to dig out of, yet with
some deep reflection, my hope is a new right populism can
emerge that is more in tune with Rand Paul than Donald
Trump. That’d be nice, but I have my doubts.
As such, an enormous opportunity has opened up for left-
leaning economic populism. I already predicted this wave
in a piece a few weeks ago titled,Politics of the Next 4
Years – Part 1 (Rise of the ‘Dirtbag Left’). Here’s some of
what I wrote:
This faction of leftism is waging war
against Clinton neoliberal frauds and
Trump’s fake populism at the exact
same time. Not an easy thing to do, but I
think there’s a huge and growing
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unsatisfied demand for such a
perspective.
A lot of you will discount the appeal of
this movement because many of its
most high-profile members are
unabashed socialists. This is a big
mistake. Remember, Donald Trump won
the Presidency not because he was
especially great or loved, but because
his opponent was terrible, he talked in
populist terms, and people just wanted
to give a middle finger to the political
establishment and corporate media. If
that’s right, what’s to stop a movement
from winning power if it promises to flip
the bird to both Trump and Clinton while
also making you laugh? Not much.
I think the “DirtBag Left” will catch the
Trump team completely off guard over
the next few years. The reason Trump’s
prospects look pretty good right now for
a second term is because there’s no real
organized opposition to him. By real
organized opposition, I mean a
movement driven by actual ideas and
passion that is also working on a plan to
run a competitive candidate in 2020. The
current “resistance” consists of Hillary
donors, neocons, the corporate media
and elements of the deep state. While
Trump complains about this opposition
constantly, he doesn’t realize how good
he has it. The American public hates
those factions more than they hate
Trump, and nobody wants to vote for
that discredited garbage in 2020.
If the genuine left is smart, it will take a step back and see
this for the gigantic opening it is. Lots of Trump voters are
now up for grabs, and if they can come up with a genuine
message of economic populism that avoids the typical
leftist pitfalls — such as supporting misguided young
people dressing up like ninjas, carrying flags and hurling
rocks at people trying to give a talk — the opportunity to
create a populist movement of immense national
significance is there. People across the country are craving
it, but they want nothing to do with antifa, political
correctness, or aggression against free speech. Noam
Chomsky gets it, and I hope others heed his words.
As such, here’s what I would recommend to any
burgeoning populist movement wanting to unite the
country against oligarchy, as opposed to just becoming a
leftist echo chamber. It is the exact same thing I suggested
to Trump, but he obviously didn’t listen.
Election 2016 has been
extremely bittersweet for me. On the
positive side, through both the Bernie
Sanders and Donald Trump grassroots
movements, we have seen clear proof that
a huge number of Americans accurately
understand that the current system is
totally rigged and simply not working for
them. These people didn’t migrate toward
these two candidates for some tweaks to
the system here and there, their supporters
want full scale paradigm level change.
As such, rather than dwelling on the
differences between these two populist
movements, let’s consider some of the
areas where they overlap.
 Trade — Opposition to NAFTA and current “trade”
deals such as TPP, TTIP, and TISA have been
central to both the Sanders and Trump campaigns.
 War and militarism — Whether you believe Trump is
sincere or not, opposition to Obama/Clinton
interventionist overseas wars were key talking points
for both Trump and Sanders.
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 The system is rigged — The
painful acknowledgment that the U.S. economic system
is a rigged scam that fails to reward hard work, and is
more akin to a parasitic, predatory oligarchy with very
limited social mobility, has been a key campaign theme
for both Trump and Sanders. The economy is
increasingly dominated by near-monoploy giants who
relentlessly push for more power and more profits
irrespective of the cost to society, whether that cost be
war, poverty or social unrest.
 Money in politics — The rigged economic system
described above aggregates wealth into an
increasingly small number of hands. Those hands then
buy off politicians and rig the political process. A rigged
economy and rigged political system perpetually feeds
itself and endlessly grows at the expense of the public
like a terminal cancer. Both Trump and Sanders
emphasized this problem.
 Rule of law is dead — Sanders focused on Wall
Street bankers, while Trump focused on Hillary and her
inner circle of cronies, but the overall point is the same.
Rich and powerful oligarchs are above the law. We all
know this, but Washington D.C. refuses to do anything
about.
Populism isn’t dead in America, but right populism as it
exists today is. I just hope the next iteration is a lot more
genuine, and a lot more sane.
 Traders On The NYSE Cheer
Upon Hearing Bannon Is Out At White House
Dr. Fly
Fri Aug 18, 2017 1:54pm EST

Wall Street is trying to paint this in a positive light for

stocks, suggesting that Bannon out means Cohn gains
power. Truth is, the White House is a god damned mess.

Here are the cocaine addled losers from the NYSE

cheering in a drunken rage upon hearing Steve Bannon had
resigned two weeks ago.

Today’s top performing sector is the utilities, not exactly a

shining example of virile spirits.

The top story on CNBC is the market jumping off the

Bannon news, but it has faded since and now looking like
it wants to give it back.

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 Bannon's Exit 'Means Obama Wins 3rd Term'
'Trump Has Reneged On The Promises That Got Him Elected'
Art Moore
August 18, 2017
The departure of Steve Bannon from the White House
Friday drew strong reactions from both left and right.
Some conservative activists who have supported Trump
feared the loss of Bannon as chief strategist made it less
likely the president would fulfill campaign promises made
to the Republican base that helped elect him, while
Democratic lawmakers and activists who viewed Bannon
as a divisive figure celebrated his exit.
Longtime Republican activist Richard Viguerie, arguing
“personnel is policy,” asked whether or not Bannon’s
departure signaled the end of Trump’s commitment to
govern as a conservative.
“It seems that the West Wing is now being
run by the liberal Democrats,” said
Viguerie, the chairman of
ConservativeHQ.com. “Gary Cohen, Ivanka
Trump and Jared Kushner, General John
Kelly, H.R. McMaster and the Obama
holdovers at the NSC have all survived and
thrived, while the conservatives like Steve
Bannon, Derek Harvey, Ezra Cohen-
Watnick, Rich Higgins and even the
establishment Republicans like Reince
Priebus and Sean Spicer, have been run
off.”
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Viguerie said he wondered if Bannon’s departure “signals
a general purge of conservatives on the White House
staff.”
“When Steve Bannon and Kellyanne
Conway joined Donald Trump’s campaign,
conservatives were electrified – and many
who had previously been skeptical were
convinced that a Donald Trump
administration would be a conservative
administration as long as Steve and
Kellyanne were at Trump’s side,” said
Viguerie.
Now, he said, “with few conservatives left in senior
positions at the White House, we conservatives are rightly
skeptical that Donald Trump’s many commitments to us
will be fulfilled.”
What do YOU think? Will you miss Steve Bannon at the
White House? Sound off in today’s WND poll.
Bannon has wasted no time since leaving the White House,
however, returning to his role as executive chairman of
Breitbart News Friday afternoon and chairing the
company’s evening editorial meeting. Axios reported
Bannon met for five hours with the chief funder of
Breitbart, Bob Mercer, to prepare to “go to war” against
“globalists” in the White House he believes are ruining the
Trump administration.
WND CEO and founder Joseph Farah said Bannon
“represented the heart and soul of the real
Trump constituency – the people who
elected the president.”
“He understands what resonated with that
constituency and what their priorities were
better than anyone but Trump himself,”
Farah said. “He understands what their
expectations are for a successful
presidency. Yes, he was a lightning rod for
the left, but he was serving in that
necessary role by absorbing the shocks
that would otherwise be hitting the
president himself.”
The White House officially said White House Chief of
Staff John Kelly and Bannon “mutually agreed” that
Friday would be Bannon’s last day.
“We are grateful for his service and wish
him the best,” said a statement from press
secretary Sarah Sanders.
At the press conference Tuesday that caused an uproar
over Trump’s assertion “both sides” are to blame for
Charlottesville and have “very fine people,” Trump
defended Bannon against charges of bigotry but signaled
his future in the White House was in doubt.
“He is not a racist. I can tell you that. He is
a good person. He actually gets a very
unfair press in that regard,” Trump said in
response to a question about whether he
would remain.
‘We’ll see what happens with Mr. Bannon.
He is a good person and I think the press
treats him, frankly, very unfairly.”
Breitbart Editor Joel Pollak wrote that with Bannon’s
departure, Trump
“risks becoming Arnold Schwarzenegger
2.0”
Schwarzenegger, he wrote,
“carried the hopes of conservatives in the
Golden State, who saw him as a vehicle for
their ideas, even if he was not a doctrinaire
conservative himself.” However, “after
struggling with intense media criticism, and
after losing a key referendum on reforms to
state government, Schwarzenegger gave
up on his agenda, and abandoned the
political base that had brought him into
office.”
Pollak described Bannon as the
“conservative spine of the administration.”
“His infamous whiteboard in the West Wing
listed the promises Trump had made to the
voters, and he was determined to check as
many of them off as possible,” he wrote.
But with Bannon gone,
“there is no guarantee that Trump will stick
to the plan.”
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The non-profit Americans for Limited Government said
Bannon will be missed.
“We believe that Steve Bannon has been a
great part of the success of the Trump
administration this year. Ultimately
President Donald Trump is true North in the
White House and it is our hope that he will
replace Mr. Bannon with someone who
shares his vision for America,” said the
group’s president, Rick Manning.
Prominent Islam expert Robert Spencer, director of Jihad
Watch, said that with Bannon’s departure, Trump “has
reneged on the promises that got him elected, and betrayed
the American people.”
“In,” he said is National Security Adviser Lt.
Gen. H.R. McMaster, who calls Islam a
“religion of peace,” believes “the Iran nuke
deal is a great idea” and considers Israel
“an occupier and oppressor.
“Out,” he said, is Bannon, who provided a
“realistic analysis of the global jihad threat,
confrontation of Iranian aggression,
strengthened alliances with Israel and other
states on the front lines of the global jihad.”
‘Welcome news’
On the left, Bannon was accused of promoting white
supremacy and anti-Semitism, without offering any
evidence. People of all political stripes who know Bannon
have repeatedly insisted he is not a racist, and in the
infamous “off-the-record” discussion he had this week
with the progressive American Prospect magazine he
called white supremacists “clowns” and “losers.”
Nevertheless, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said in
a statement that Bannon’s exit is
“welcome news, but it doesn’t disguise
where President Trump himself stands on
white supremacists and the bigoted beliefs
they advance.”
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.
Pelosi said the Trump administration
“must not only purge itself of the remaining
white supremacists on staff, but abandon
the bigoted ideology that clearly governs its
decisions.”
Similarly, Javier Palomarez, president & CEO of the
United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce said his
group was
“encouraged to hear that the president has
decided to heed our call to action by
removing Mr. Bannon.”
“Bannon has been complicit in the
indefensible – lending White House support
to neo-Nazis and white supremacy groups,”
he said.
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“We have pressed the case to
administration officials that as long as
Bannon’s nexis of anti-Semitism and hate
was mere steps from the Oval Office,
business would take a backseat to bigotry
in the Trump White House.”
Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio tweeted:
“Steve Bannon should have never been in
the WH. He has promoted anti-Semitism,
racism and misogyny, embracing bigotry
and hate speech.”
Rep. Nita Lowey, D-N.Y., said on Twitter that Bannon
“should have never been a White House
official, and his ouster is no substitute for
moral leadership from the President.”
 Steve Bannon Returns To Breitbart News
By Daniel Chaitin
Aug 18, 2017, 6:07 PM | Updated Aug 18, 2017, 6:39 PM
Steve Bannon has returned to Breitbart News hours after it
was revealed he would be leaving his post as White House
chief strategist.
"Steve Bannon returned to Breitbart News as
Executive Chairman of Breitbart News and
chaired our evening editorial meeting," tweeted
Charlie Spiering, the White House correspondent
for Breitbart News.
Breitbart CEO Larry Solov said he expects Bannon's return
to be a triumphant one.
"Breitbart's pace of global expansion will only
accelerate with Steve back. The sky's the limit,"
Solov said, according to Spiering.
Bannon left Breitbart in 2016 to join Trump's campaign to
serve as CEO. His late inclusion to the Trump cause in
August also saw veteran pollster Kellyanne Conway
become campaign manager.
Bannon brought his populist signature to Trump's brand,
which helped energize Trump's base. Bannon's ouster
Friday came after he gave several on-the-record
interviews, in which he defended the president's stances on
Confederate monument preservation following a violent
weekend protest in Charlottesville, Va.
During his time working with Trump, Bannon reportedly
clashed with a number of his colleagues, including former
White House chief of staff Reince Priebus, Trump's son-in-
law and adviser Jared Kushner and National Security
Adviser H.R. McMaster.
Allies of Bannon had come to aid his cause by pushing
damaging stories about his opponents, including labeling
them as leakers.
When the White House put out a statement acknowledging
Bannon's exit, it was filled with praise.
"White House Chief of Staff John Kelly and Steve
Bannon have mutually agreed today would be
Steve's last day," said White House press
secretary Sarah Sanders. said. "We are grateful
for his service and wish him the best."
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Despite the praise, Joel Pollak, the senior editor-at-large
for Breitbart News, raised eyebrows when he tweeted
earlier in the day the hashtag "#WAR", after it was
revealed Bannon would be ending his tenure as Trump's
chief strategist.
#WAR— Joel B. Pollak (@joelpollak) August 18, 2017
Pollak, during an appearance on MSNBC, rejected the
notion that he is outright challenging Trump and his
administration going forward. He said that if Trump sticks
to the issues on which he was elected, then he would see
positive headlines not only from Brietbart, which Bannon
used to lead, but other conservatives outlets as well.
"I think that's also going to mean a lot more
pressure on the president," Pollak said. "He's
asking the base to trust him, and the base will.
They will give him the benefit of the doubt even
with Steve Bannon out of the White House."
Bannon reportedly told journalist Joshua Green that he is
"going to war" for Trump to take on his opponents "on
Capitol Hill, in the media, and in corporate America."
In a separate interview with the Weekly
Standard, Bannon said, "the Trump presidency
that we fought for, and won, is over." He added
that there will be "all kinds of fights" moving
foward.
He added that his departure from the Trump administration
was planned in order to coordinate with his one-year
anniversary of joining the Trump campaign in August
2016.
"On August 7th, I talked to [Chief of Staff John]
Kelly and to the President, and I told them that
my resignation would be effective the following
Monday, on the 14th," he said. "I'd always
planned on spending one year. General Kelly
has brought in a great new system, but I said it
would be best. I want to get back to Breitbart."

Steve Bannon Strategist
Former chairman of Breitbart News, dedicated to
Trump's populist platform and a main link
between Trump and the "alt-right." He "mutually
agreed" to leave the White House with new chief
of staff John Kelly.
Anthony Scaramucci Communications director
Financier who joined the Trump White House for
10 whirlwind days, which saw the departures of
Sean Spicer and Reince Priebus, before quickly
being shown the door by Priebus chief of staff
replacement John Kelly.
Michael Short Assistant press secretary
One of several former RNC staffers who followed
Sean Spicer and Reince Priebus to the White
House. Anthony Scaramucci planned to fire him,
but he officially resigned first.
Reince Priebus Chief of staff
Former RNC chairman who struggled to bring
order to a chaotic White House, finally shown the
door after Trump brought in Anthony Scaramucci
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as communications director over Priebus'
strenuous objections.
Sean Spicer Press secretary
Former RNC spokesman whose daily combative
exchanges with the press on the president's
behalf came to an end over Trump's decision to
put Anthony Scaramucci in charge of driving the
White House's messaging, despite lacking any
political experience.
Mike Dubke Communications director
Brought in by Sean Spicer in February and left
three months later amid rumors of a White House
staff shakeup.
K.T. McFarland Deputy national security adviser
Former Fox News contributor and Mike Flynn's
deputy during his brief tenure as national security
adviser. She left the White House and Trump
nominated her to be ambassador to Singapore.
Katie Walsh Deputy chief of staff
Deputy chief of staff under Reince Priebus, she
left after Trump suffered a very public defeat on
his first attempt to get Obamacare repealed.
Mike Flynn National security adviser
Head of the Defense Intelligence Agency fired by
Barack Obama, he became a top Trump
surrogate during the campaign but failed to
disclose meetings with Russian contacts, which
he misled Vice President Mike Pence about.
 A Domestic Destabilization Is Underway:
“The Left Is Fueling And Funding Tensions In Order To
Exacerbate Them And Cause A Revolution”
Jeremiah Johnson
August 18th, 2017
Under the guise of “political correctness,” cities (such as
Baltimore, MD) are removing their Confederate
monuments one-by-one and under cover of darkness.
Here, as reported by CBS News:
“The Robert E. Lee and Thomas J.
“Stonewall” Jackson monument at
Wyman Park Dell was removed with a
crowd watching. The Robert B. Taney
monument in Mt. Vernon also came
down. Crews are on the site of the
confederate Women’s monument at
University Parkway to take that one
down. This comes just days after the
Baltimore City Council passed a
resolution Monday calling for the
immediate deconstruction of these
monuments.”
There it is! Straight out of the movie “The Patriot” with
Mel Gibson, as with the character he played, Benjamin
Martin:
“An elected legislature can trample a
man’s rights as easily as a king.”
Where’s the vote by the people in the city? Oh, just that
the elected officials, mind you, can make such a
decision…by their vote, a tyranny in itself. At the bare
minimum, it should have been put to a vote.
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The important thing to keep in mind is that most of these
cities, city councils, and their state legislatures are being
run by a pack of liberals. The “paradigm shift” is in full
mode: “Democracy in America” did not mention the
tyranny of the minority. In this case, a minority viewpoint,
fueled by Marxists and liberals is attempting to subvert
First Amendment rights under the U.S. Constitution and
begin a policy of redaction to support their revisionist
history.
We are right around the corner from a Civil War. The Left
is fueling and funding tensions in order to exacerbate them
and cause a revolution. In the middle of this, the President
is being blamed and threatened with impeachment. The
root of it is this: the attempt to destabilize the country and
cause anarchy. Black Americans are being used as the
vehicle for the destabilization…a vehicle by the oligarchs,
such as Soros. Now with Charlottesville being trumpeted
up and down the country, Obama weighs in “with the most
popular Tweet ever.”
I wrote that Barack Hussein Obama II would be back: he
will be a most useful catalyst for what is to come. It was
also reported that Hillary Clinton is weighing in on
attacking the President, but not with words: with dollars.
Fellowship of the Minds ran a piece that cites the
Washington Times. Here’s an excerpt:
“Joe Schoffstall reports for The Washington
Free Beacon, August 14, 2017, that Hillary
has donated $800,000 from her campaign
funds to Onward Together — a new
political action group that she formed three
months ago in May which will fund a
number of established “resistance” groups
that counter President Trump with direct
action and protests.
According to its mission statement, Onward Together is
dedicated to
“encouraging people to organize, get
involved, and run for office” and advancing
“progressive values and work to build a
brighter future for generations to come.”
Federal Election Commission (FEC) filings show that on
May 1, 2017, Hillary’s presidential campaign committee
Hillary for America contributed $800,000 to Onward
Together.
In addition, Hillary also funded other
“resistance” groups that have “impressed”
her, including Swing Left, Run for
Something, Emerge America, and
Indivisible.”
Once again, her money and power is wielded to
“influence” the way things are. She is not acting alone,
nor of her own initiative. Read Shadow Party to find the
guy pulling her strings. (Hint: his real name is Georgy
Schwarz!)
By removing the Confederate memorials and markers, a
part of American history is effectively being relegated to
oblivion.
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It is all part of redaction and revision.
The Marxists and Globalists have been relentless in their
quest to rewrite American history and demonize whites in
general…trying to create a cowed, demure, subservient
class of guilt-ridden subjects…to destroy the United States
from within. To destroy the “warrior mentality” of the
citizen-soldier of America’s citizenry…that is the
objective. A complete orchiotomy and neutering: nothing
less.
Unless the United States falls, the New World
Order/Global Governance cannot exist. This is the goal:
enmesh it in a war (initiated by a foreign nation and/or
orchestrated by the U.S.), and destroy it domestically
from within. “Top down, bottom up,” to quote Van
Jones, is their objective. Their playbook is Alinsky’s
“Rules for Radicals,” and the battle lines are being drawn
more decisively by the day. There will come a time when
everyone will have to pick a side, and after it begins, the
United States may look a lot different than it does now.
 Kelly Tightens His Grip
On The West Wing
By Katie Bo Williams
08/19/17 06:03 AM ED
The departure of Stephen Bannon, the strategist who
helped transform President Trump’s campaign into a
populist juggernaut, indicates the White House is evolving
rapidly under its new chief of staff, John Kelly.
Trump’s decision to shift Kelly from secretary of
Homeland Security to chief of staff was widely seen as a
potential turning point for the White House. Allies praised
Kelly as a steady hand who could bring discipline to a
team roiled by infighting, leaks and palace intrigue —
conflicts that often involved Bannon.
Bannon was shown the door on Friday, providing perhaps
the strongest signal yet of Kelly’s growing clout.
But even though Kelly has wide latitude to enforce
discipline, it’s clear that the biggest management challenge
for the retired four-star general is the president himself.
In Kelly’s brief three-week tenure, Trump has publicly
attacked prominent members of his own party — including
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) —
unnerved the world with aggressive rhetoric on North
Korea and issued widely criticized and equivocal
statements on white supremacist violence in
Charlottesville, Va.
In a telling moment that hinted at Kelly's reported
frustration with his boss, he stood with his eyes to the floor
during the president’s bellicose press conference on
Charlottesville on Tuesday, visibly grimacing as Trump
railed about violence "on both sides."
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"I don't know if he's going to be able to get
the West Wing in order or not," Rep. Tom
Rooney (R-Fla.), an ally of Kelly's, told The
Hill in an interview conducted shortly before
the announcement of Bannon’s departure.
Rooney noted he has not spoken to Kelly
since he became chief of staff.
White House officials say they’re fully behind Kelly and
appreciate how he has imposed order without
micromanaging their daily responsibilities and policy
portfolios.
Staff meetings have been reduced from five times a week
under his predecessor, Reince Priebus, to three times a
week. The meetings are to-the-point affairs that are over in
20 minutes, officials say.
On Capitol Hill, Kelly is seen as keeping a light touch on
policy strategy for what is expected to be a bruising
September for Republicans, with deadlines looming to
fund the government and raise the debt ceiling.
Kelly had one other notable success before the resignation
of Bannon:
He was also behind the firing of controversial
communications director Anthony Scaramucci. Just a few
hours after becoming chief of staff, Kelly ousted “the
Mooch” — ending a tumultuous stretch for the former
hedge fund manager that lasted just 10 days.
But it’s Bannon’s ouster that is most indicative of Kelly’s
influence.
Bannon — who had feuded with senior advisers such
as the president’s son-in-law Jared Kushner and national
security adviser H.R. McMaster — was nevertheless seen
as a conduit to the president’s core supporters. His
dismissal came as a shock to Bannon’s allies inside and
outside the White House, who were certain that Trump
would stand by his loyal chief strategist.
One senior administration official said the president had
been inundated in recent days from “high-level Republican
donors and activists” pleading with the president to retain
him.
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said
in a statement that Kelly and Bannon “mutually agreed”
Friday would be his last day — but reporting from The
Washington Post and elsewhere has suggested that the
impetus was entirely Kelly’s.
Rep. Pete King (R-N.Y.), an ally of the president who
earlier this week had called for Bannon’s removal, said
the ouster was an opportunity for Kelly to restore order.
“Ideally, it removes the chaos and it gives
John Kelly the free hand that he needs to
establish a real chain of command — make
sure that things run orderly and the
president's policies are pursued,” King told
The Hill in an interview. “And stop the
leaks, stop the undermining, the backdoor
deals.”
Trump was famously dismissive of Priebus, whom he
reportedly called “Reincey,” and finally showed him the
door in late July.
In contrast, Trump has been complimentary of Kelly,
telling reporters he calls him “chief.”
Still, the president has chafed under any attempt to corral
his freewheeling style. As a result, many of the
controversies that have bedeviled the Trump White House
have been of the president’s own making.
"The gravamen of the problem still exists
and will not be solved by personnel
changes at the dysfunctional White House,”
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) said in a
statement, referring to Bannon’s ouster.
King was more bullish on Kelly’s ability to help the
president make good decisions.
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“You're not going to have so many people
coming in, making end-runs or dropping
ideas on the president's desk, or
whispering to him,” he said. “The president
has not been in politics his entire career, so
people are able to tell him things that may
not be true, or steer him in the wrong
direction — that's why I think it's really
important to have General Kelly there.”
King allowed that Trump had said “the wrong thing” about
Charlottesville on Tuesday — during the wild and
impromptu press conference in which he condemned
violence "on both sides" — but insisted that the president
is still “much more likely” to listen to Kelly than he was to
Priebus.
“In the end, he's the president, he needs to
make his own decisions — but I think you'll
see him pausing a lot more to talk to John
Kelly,” King said.
Several Kelly allies in the administration have publicly
split with the president over his remarks about
Charlottesville, including the chairman of the Joint Chiefs
of Staff, Gen. Joseph Dunford, who on Thursday issued a
statement saying there is no place for racism in the military
or in America.
Onlookers think it’s unlikely that Kelly would resign, no
matter how much he might disagree with the president’s
rhetoric on Charlottesville.
"If General Kelly resigns from this job, it will
be the worst day in this administration —
and there's been a lot of sort of
questionable days,” Rooney said.
"His job number-one right now is to square
away the White House so that it's running
more effectively. If anybody can do it, it's
him. If he can't, then I don't know who
could."
Jonathan Easley and Jordan Fabian contributed.
 Bannon's Security Clearance
May Cause Media Issues
By Sandy Fitzgerald
Saturday, 19 Aug 2017 11:48 AM
Steve Bannon (AP)
Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon's
security clearance status could cause him issues moving
forward as executive chairman at Breitbart News,
according to legal experts.
“Any time Breitbart now prints classified
information they might now be required to
clear it with the government," Bradley
Moss, a partner in the law office of Mark
Zaid, whose specialty is national security
and security clearance law, told The Hill.
"People with Top Secret clearances are
bound by a non-disclosure agreement for
life."
Almost immediately after Bannon's ouster was announced
Friday, he resumed his former job as executive chairman at
Breitbart, conducting the website's editorial meeting that
evening.
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Bannon has said the website is a platform for the alt-right,
and his return was hailed by Breitbart News Editor-in-
Chief Alex Marlow, who noted the White House
connection.
“The populist-nationalist movement got a
lot stronger today,” said Marlow. “Breitbart
gained an executive chairman with his
finger on the pulse of the (President
Donald) Trump agenda.”
However, even though news outlets often rely on classified
information they believe is in the public interest, Bannon's
top secret clearance level leaves him with a legal dilemma.
Susan Hennessey, a former attorney in the Office of
General Counsel of the National Security Agency and the
now-managing editor at the commentary website Lawfare,
said Bannon has obligations to clear information before he
can move forward with publishing it. He also has a legal
duty to report classified leaks, because of his security
level, she said.
Other media personalities, like ABC's George
Stephanopoulos, have had security clearances, but Bannon
went from the White House back to Breitbart almost
immediately, said Moss.
"If Breitbart suddenly gets a few scoops, it
will be interesting to see how the
Department of Justice will reply," she said.
 Breaking: Jared Kushner
Is On His Way OUT Of The White House
By Intellihub Staff -
August 19, 2017
Featured Image: Jared Kushner, Senior Advisor to President Donald
J. Trump, speaks Lt. Gen. Stephen J. Townsend, commander,
Combined Joint Task Force – Operation Inherent Resolve, during a
helo ride aboard a CH-47 over Baghdad, Iraq, April 3, 2017. (DoD
Photo by Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Dominique A. Pineiro)
(Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff/Flickr)
Suspected globalist and Trump son-in-law “done”
(INTELLIHUB) — One day after Trump advisor Steve
Bannon was “fired”, multiple reports, as well as two
different sources, have revealed that Trump son-in-law
Jared Kushner will most likely be the next high-profile
name to make their exit from the White House.
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While Intellihub News has heard rumors about Kushner’s
impending exit for the last few days, only now are we
starting to see public reports and claims that back this up.
Investigative reporter Mike Cernovich, who has in the
past published multiple bombshell national security reports
including being the first to reveal that Susan Rice was
involved with Obama-era unmasking, published a stunning
Tweet Saturday morning in which he claimed that Jared
was “done”.
https://twitter.com/Cernovich/status/898976786612051968
Cernovich followed up with another Tweet about Kushner,
confirming that others within the media had heard the
same story.
https://twitter.com/Cernovich/status/899020298288156673
For our part, Intellihub News has also been given this
information with the caveat that the specific details will
soon be released. Until seeing Cernovich’s Tweet we had
planned to take the wait and see approach.
Our source added that while there is always the possibility
that something miraculous happens, it remains highly
likely that Kushner will be out of the White House soon,
with the details on his exit being shocking to say the least.
 Bannon Plots Fox Competitor,
Global Expansion
Jonathan Swan & Mike Allen
Aug 19, 2017
Unshaven and working from home in cargo shorts as he
moves into "Bannon the Barbarian" mode, Steve Bannon
is thinking bigger than Breitbart.
Axios' Jonathan Swan hears Bannon has told friends he
sees a massive opening to the right of Fox News, raising
the possibility that he's going to start a network.
 Bannon's friends are speculating about whether it
will be a standalone TV network, or online streaming
only.
 Before his death in May, Roger Ailes had sent word
to Bannon that he wanted to start a channel together.
Bannon loved the idea: He believes Fox is heading in a
squishy, globalist direction as the Murdoch sons
assume more power.
 Now he has the means, motive and opportunity: His
chief financial backer, Long Island hedge fund
billionaire Bob Mercer, is ready to invest big in what's
coming next, including a huge overseas expansion of
Breitbart News.
On Day 1, Bannon declared he's taking his West Wing
infighting to the outside, telling Bloomberg Businessweek's
Josh Green that he's
"going to war for Trump against his
opponents — on Capitol Hill, in the media,
and in corporate America."
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 The reality is that Bannon will go nuclear on former
colleagues he calls "West Wing Democrats": economic
adviser Gary Cohn, Jared and Ivanka ("Javanka," as
he calls them) and Deputy National Security Adviser
Dina Powell.
 The revved-up Breitbart operation is also likely to
target Speaker Ryan, as it did before Trump.
Why it matters: The country's national political
conversation is about to get even uglier, if you can
imagine. It's going to be dark, and toxic, with a fight on the
right that may be more bitter and personal than hostilities
between Republicans and Democrats.
 Bannon signaled his subtle approach in a for-the-ages
Weekly Standard interview: "The Trump presidency
that we fought for, and won, is over … I feel jacked up
… Now I'm free. I've got my hands back on my
weapons. … I am definitely going to crush the
opposition. There's no doubt. I built a f***ing machine
at Breitbart. And now … we're about to rev that
machine up."
 His restoration as executive chairman of Breitbart
News was announced less than five hours after the
White House confirmed his "mutually agreed"
departure as chief strategist. (Translation: He was told
he wasn't long for the West Wing.)
 Bannon made a "conqueror's return" to a Breitbart
editorial conference call last night, and laid out the
battle ahead for the staff.
 Josh Green — author of "Devil's Bargain," the book
that helped get Bannon fired because Trump hates
sharing the spotlight — tweeted: "Bannon sounded like
he'd just consumed 40 Red Bulls … At least [he] didn't
say he's leaving to spend more time with his family."
Around the corner: Expect Bannon to use Breitbart to
engage aggressively in September's policy fights. Watch
for Bannon to pressure Trump to veto any government
funding bill that doesn't include money to fund the
building of that big, beautiful wall he promised along the
southern border with Mexico.
Watch for a real fight over the debt ceiling. In other
words: Buckle up.
 CNN: Trump Supporters Are
White Supremacists By Default
By Staff Writer -
August 19, 2017
Anti-Trump network once again goes
after tens of millions of Americans
(INTELLIHUB) — In yet another direct attack on the tens
of millions of people who voted for Donald Trump, CNN
has published a piece in which they declare that Trump
supporters are simply white supremacists by default,
regardless of their actions.
The piece, which uses classic propaganda by quoting
“experts” and “historians” that are nothing more than
leftists, starts out by openly declaring that what took place
in Charlottesville would not have happened without the
help of millions of Americans who, until now, thought
they were innocent as they didn’t actually do anything
racist.
“The tragedy that took place in
Charlottesville last weekend could not have
occurred without the tacit acceptance of
millions of ordinary, law-abiding Americans
who helped create such a racially explosive
climate, some activists, historians and
victims of extremism say,” wrote John
Blake.
Blake continued,
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“It’s easy to focus on the angry white men
in paramilitary gear who looked like they
were mobilizing for a race war in the
Virginia college town last Saturday. But it’s
the ordinary people — the voters who
elected a reality TV star with a record of
making racially insensitive comments, the
people who move out of the neighborhood
when people of color move in, the family
members who ignore a relative’s anti-
Semitism — who give these type of men
room to operate, they say.”
The article goes on and on about how bad most of white
America is, implying multiple times that if you are not a
progressive and happen to be white then you are a white
supremacist by default.
We are now seeing the mainstream media directly
attacking any American who isn’t an anti-Trump
progressive and CNN how now put out the idea that we are
all white supremacists simply for being against their
globalist, leftist agenda.
Keep in mind, CNN is the same network that has spent the
last week attempting to legitimize the violent hard-left
gang Antifa. Make no mistake, this isn’t about racism this
is about silencing ALL opposition.
 Bannon: "The Trump Presidency
That We Fought For Is Over"
By Tyler Durden
Aug 19, 2017 11:51 PM
In his first interview shortly after the White House
announced that it was parting ways with Trump's chief
strategist, Steve Bannon told the Weekly Standard on
Friday afternoon that "the Trump presidency that we
fought for, and won, is over." After confirming his
departure Bannon said that “we still have a huge
movement, and we will make something of this Trump
presidency. But that presidency is over. It’ll be something
else. And there’ll be all kinds of fights, and there’ll be
good days and bad days, but that presidency is over.”
In his interview with the conservative publication, Bannon
predicted that in the wake of his departure, Trump's
administration would "be much more conventional" as his
absence from the White House would make it “much
harder” for Trump to pave a way forward on issues like
“economic nationalism and immigration.” He also
predicted that republicans would "moderate" Trump:
“I think they’re going to try to moderate
him,” he says. “I think he’ll sign a clean
debt ceiling, I think you’ll see all this stuff.
His natural tendency—and I think you saw
it this week on Charlottesville—his actual
default position is the position of his base,
the position that got him elected. I think
you’re going to see a lot of constraints on
that. I think it’ll be much more
conventional.”
In Bannon’s view, his departure is not a
defeat for him personally but for the
ideology he’d urged upon the president,
as reflected in Trump’s provocative
inaugural address in which he spoke of
self-dealing Washington politicians, and
their policies that led to the shuttered
factories and broken lives of what he called
“American carnage.”
Bannon co-authored that speech (and privately complained
that it had been toned down by West Wing moderates like
Ivanka and Jared).
“Now, it’s gonna be Trump,” Bannon said.
“The path forward on things like
economic nationalism and immigration,
and his ability to kind of move freely . . .
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I just think his ability to get anything
done—particularly the bigger things,
like the wall, the bigger, broader things
that we fought for, it’s just gonna be
that much harder.”
He also warned that things are about to get worse for
Trump as even more people depart his side, warning of a
'jailbreak' of moderate Republicans.
“There’s about to be a jailbreak of these
moderate guys on the Hill”—a stream of
Republican dissent, which could become a
flood. Bannon also said that he once
confidently believed in the prospect of
success for that version of the Trump
presidency he now says is over.
Asked what the turning point was, he says, “It’s the
Republican establishment. The Republican establishment
has no interest in Trump’s success on this. They’re not
populists, they’re not nationalists, they had no interest in
his program. Zero. It was a half-hearted attempt at
Obamacare reform, it was no interest really on the
infrastructure, they’ll do a very standard Republican
version of taxes.
"What Trump ran on- border wall, where is
the funding for the border wall, one of his
central tenets, where have they been?
Have they rallied around the Perdue-Cotton
immigration bill? On what element of
Trump's program, besides tax cuts-which is
going to be the standard marginal tax cut-
where have they rallied to Trump's cause?
They haven't."
As for what happens next, as reported late on Friday,
Bannon said that he is eager to get back to Breitbart and
lead the opposition from there.
"Now I’m free. I’ve got my hands back
on my weapons," he said. "Someone
said, ‘it’s Bannon the Barbarian.’ I am
definitely going to crush the opposition.
There’s no doubt. I built a f-cking
machine at Breitbart. And now I’m about
 to go back, knowing what I know, and
we’re about to rev that machine up. And
rev it up we will do.”
Specifically, the target of his attacks will
be the 'globalists' and liberals he
believes have taken over the White
House. They include National Security
Adviser H. R. McMaster, advisor Gary
Cohn, Trump's daughter Ivanka and son-in-
law Jared Kushner.
***
With Bannon's departure conceding control of Trump's
inner circle to the so-called "Goldman globalists", the
question is how Trump's message will evolve in the
coming days with the "nationalist" element purged. With
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Trump having been granted the option of sounding like a
more centrist President, will he continue with his usual
rhetoric. Bloomberg is convinced that the answer is "more
of the same" especially since Trump won't risk losing his
core base, although that may no longer be in his control,
especially if Bannon is about to unleash a stinging attack
on Trump's inner circle.
For the clearest sign of what Trump's post-Bannon posture
- and administration - will look like, look no further than
the coming debt ceiling negotiation (and/or crisis): on
Friday, Goldman raised its odds of a government shutdown
to 50%, a fact which also spooked the market sending the
S&P to session lows at the close. If Trump is unable to
build some political goodwill in the coming days on the
back of the Bannon departure, those odds will steadily
grow to 100% over the next few weeks.
 ANTIFA MANUAL FOUND On Evergreen College
Campus: Shut Down Their Rallies…Force The Media To
Show Our Side As The Righteous One
By 100% FED Up -
Aug 19, 2017
This copy of the Antifa Manual, that is used by the
George Soros funded, violent, anti-American, anti free-
speech radical group, was allegedly found on the
Evergreen College campus. The content of this manual
is disturbing and should be read by every American, so
we understand what we are up against. It helps to
explain why these groups call our President and his
supporters “Hitler” or “racists” or “homophobes.” It’s
not that Trump or his supporters are any of these
things, it’s just part of a campaign to humiliate and
shut down any opposition to radicals whose ultimate
goal is a one world order and the destruction of
capitalism in America.
This manual gives every day Americans a look into the
mind of a leftist radical who hates America and everything
Americans stand for. They clearly have no regard for free-
speech and are willing to use any means necessary,
including deceit, outright lies and of course, violence to
achieve their ultimate goals of a New World Order.
This page explains how Antifa members are to use name-
calling as a means to create a culture of tolerance. “When
all else fails, compare someone to Hitler.” Next they
discuss how to use ones minority status, and to remember
that you are “Black first” and “American second.” or
“Gay/Lesbian first” and “American third” and so on.
It’s important to gain control of the media through any
means necessary.
Some major media conglomerates are swinging to our
side, but they have not gone far enough.
It’s no coincidence that CNN just published a fluff piece
on Antifa today: Unmasking the leftist Antifa movement
The CNN piece was clearly written to shed a sympathetic
light on the violent group that’s been caught attacking and
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harming so many innocent Americans, many of them were
harmed by Antifa for defending free speech and/or our
President Donald J. Trump.
Look for the leftist media to kick it into high gear when it
comes to defending the violence perpetrated on innocent
Americans by the violent Antifa group. More of these soft
pieces on the radical Antifa group are sure to be popping
up over the next several months.
If you are seeking positions of power in the media, be sure
to obfuscate and hide your true intentions on the various
social media platforms.
Use social media as a baton to slap down anyone who hold
fascist viewpoints. Call them racist, homophobic,
misogynistic. Create an echo chamber around you.
The next step is to threaten the livelihood of anyone who
dares speak out against our agenda.
The pro-abortion page: This page talks about how white
people are able to afford to have their “fetuses” aborted,
while “people of color” have little choice but to keep a
baby to term.
And finally, the ultimate goal is a New World Order and a
New World Government where hatred and bigotry no
longer exist. Imagine, if Antifa could figure out a way
through George Soros funded activity, to shut down the
rights of every American using violence and hatred at
tools, their dream might just be possible…until they wake
up and realize of course, that most Americans don’t hate
this country and aren’t interested in Antifa’s special brand
of violence and chaos.
The ANTIFA Manual - Found on the campus of The
Evergreen State College
by jebediah8812 days
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 IT Staffers May Have Compromised
Sensitive Data To Foreign Intelligence
By Paul Sperry
August 19, 2017 | 9:13pm
Debbie Wasserman Schultz (left) and Imran Awan
Getty Images/Linkedin
Federal authorities are investigating whether sensitive data
was stolen from congressional offices by several Pakistani-
American tech staffers and sold to Pakistani or Russian
intelligence, knowledgeable sources say.
What started out 16 months ago as a scandal involving the
alleged theft of computer equipment from Congress has
turned into a national security investigation involving FBI
surveillance of the suspects.
Investigators now suspect that sensitive US government
data — possibly including classified information — could
have been compromised and may have been sold to hostile
foreign governments that could use it to blackmail
members of Congress or even put their lives at risk.
“This is a massive, massive scandal,” a
senior US official familiar with the widening
probe told The Post.
Alarm bells went off in April 2016 when computer
security officials in the House reported “irregularities” in
computer equipment purchasing. An internal investigation
revealed the theft of hundreds of thousands of dollars in
government property, and evidence pointed to five IT
staffers and the Democratic Congress members’ offices
that employed them.
The evidence was turned over to the House inspector
general, who found so much “smoke” that she
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recommended a criminal probe, sources say. The case was
turned over to Capitol Police in October.
When the suspected IT workers couldn’t produce the
missing invoiced equipment, sources say, they were
removed from working on the computer network in early
February.
During the probe, investigators found valuable government
data that is believed to have been taken from the network
and placed on offsite servers, setting off more alarms.
Some 80 offices were potentially compromised.
Most lawmakers fired the alleged “ringleader” — longtime
IT staffer Imran Awan — in February. But Florida Rep.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the former Democratic
National Committee chief, kept Awan on her payroll until
his arrest last month on seemingly unrelated charges of
defrauding the congressional credit union.
For more than a decade, Awan, his wife, two relatives and
a friend worked for 30 House Democrats. They included
New York City pols Gregory Meeks, Joseph Crowley and
Yvette Clarke and members of the sensitive Intelligence
and Foreign Relations committees.
The Democrats who hired the five suspects apparently did
a poor job vetting them. Awan’s brother Abid had a rap
sheet with multiple offenses, including a conviction for
DWI a month before he was hired, and filed for
bankruptcy in 2012.
Most had relatively little IT experience. Yet they hauled in
a combined $4 million-plus over the past decade. One, a
former McDonald’s worker, was suddenly making as
much as a chief of staff.
“These lawmakers allowed an insider threat
to come into the House,” the official
charged. “Computer equipment was stolen,
taxpayers were robbed of hundreds of
thousands of dollars, and sensitive data
was compromised and possibly sold
overseas.”
On Thursday, a federal grand jury indicted Imran Awan on
four seemingly unrelated felony counts including bank
fraud, conspiracy and making false statements. They also
indicted his wife, Hina Alvi. FBI agents seized hard drives
and other evidence from their Virginia home.
The indictment says the couple wired close to $300,000 in
fraudulently obtained funds to Pakistan in January, as the
Capitol Police investigation heated up.
FBI agents last month collared Awan, 37, at the Dulles
International Airport as he tried to board a flight to
Pakistan. Alvi, 33, fled to Pakistan in March.
Now that prosecutors have Awan hung up on the fraud
charges, they will try to squeeze him harder in the larger
cyberespionage investigation, according to the US official,
who expects additional charges and arrests in the case.
Awan’s lawyer, Christopher Gowen, who has worked for
Hillary Clinton’s campaigns as well as the Clinton
Foundation, maintained that his client was only indicted
“for working while Muslim.”
The investigation has touched Democratic leaders
including Wasserman Schultz, who has been accused of
protecting Awan. She stuck by her close aide, despite
being briefed several months ago by House administrators
and security officials about his “suspicious activities” on
the Hill, sources say.
Wasserman Schultz attempted to downplay his alleged
conduct, saying he was “transferring data outside the
secure network, which I think amounted to use of apps that
the House didn’t find compliant with our security
requirements.” Such transfers, though, could be a serious,
potentially illegal violation.
The US Attorney’s Office in Washington has taken
possession of a laptop issued to Awan from Wasserman
Schultz’s office, according to the sources, and she has
reportedly retained counsel.
Earlier this year, she badgered the Capitol Police chief to
return the laptop to her, even threatening him with
“consequences.”
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The congresswoman could not be reached for comment,
but she recently told a local paper that scrutiny of her
Muslim aide was motivated by “racial and ethnic
profiling.”
Awan had access to Wasserman Schultz’s emails at both
Congress and the DNC, where he had been given the
password to her iPad. After DNC emails and research files
were stolen during the presidential election, Wasserman
Schultz reportedly refused to turn over the server to the
FBI and instead called in a private firm to investigate and
ID the hackers. The firm blamed the Russian government,
while admitting, “We don’t have hard evidence.” The
corrupted DNC server, held in storage, still has not been
examined by the FBI.
Wasserman Schultz denies the DNC turned down the
FBI’s assistance or that her congressional or DNC emails
were compromised by Awan.
“This whole investigation pivots off Debbie
Wasserman Schultz,” the official said.
“It’s clear that large bytes of data were
moved off the secure network,” said
another source close to the investigation,
adding that Awan and the other four
staffers under investigation had “full and
complete access” to lawmakers’ emails,
calendars, schedules, hearing notes,
meeting notes and memos and other
sensitive information.
Investigators are trying to determine if any classified
information was compromised. Although the network that
was breached is an unclassified system, it’s possible that
members or staff cleared to handle classified information
inadvertently sent such information in emails after getting
classified briefings, sources believe.
“Logic dictates that sensitive data was
compromised,” the senior official
speculated. “An accused criminal with
close ties to Pakistan had full and complete
control over data that went out over the
network.”
 British Spy Behind Trump-Russia Dossier
Could Be Forced To Talk After US Court Ruling
By Matthew Mosk & Brian Ross & Rhonda Schwartz
Aug 19, 2017, 10:20 AM ET
A U.S. District court judge has put a former British spy
one step closer to facing questions under oath about the
controversial dossier he authored alleging President
Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign team plotted with Russian
agents.
A ruling by Judge Ursula Ungaro allows lawyers for a
Russian technology executive named in the dossier to seek
British approval to question onetime MI6 agent
Christopher Steele about the funding and sourcing of the
dossier under oath. The request was made as part of a libel
suit brought by Webzilla CEO Aleksej Gubarev against the
website Buzzfeed, which was first to publish the dossier
Steele prepared.
“I suspect that I'll be the first to speak to
him,” Gubarev’s attorney, Valentin Gurvits,
told ABC News this week. “I know that he is
trying very hard to prevent that from
happening.”
The potential interview with Steele is part of a widening
effort to pierce the secrecy surrounding the now infamous
dossier that raised the first questions about then-candidate
Trump’s ties to Russia. The 35-page document contains a
range of unverified allegations – some of which have been
discredited – laying out a history of ties between several
Trump associates and Russia operatives. It also levels
salacious claims about Trump’s own behavior during a
visit to Moscow in 2013 – claims Trump later refuted and
denounced during a Jan. 11 news conference.
“I think it was disgraceful, disgraceful that
the intelligence agencies allowed any
information that turned out to be so false
and fake out,” Trump said.
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Interest in the funding and sourcing for the dossier led the
Senate Judiciary Committee to summon Glenn Simpson,
the head of the Washington, D.C.-based research firm
Fusion GPS that commissioned Steele’s work, to a closed
session meeting scheduled for Tuesday. In a letter to
Simpson, Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-
Iowa, indicated he wants Simpson to reveal who first hired
him to investigate Trump’s Russia ties and which
government agencies received copies when it was
completed.
“We are interested in the history of the
dossier, including how it was funded,
compiled and how it was used,” a Grassley
aide told ABC News.
“There's certainly plenty of evidence that
Russia worked to interfere with our
democratic process … but allegations that
the Trump campaign was involved stem
largely from the contents of a salacious and
unverified anti-Trump dossier, whose
creation was overseen by Fusion GPS for
political purposes,” another Republican
Judiciary Committee aide said. “Reports
that the FBI then used the dossier as a
roadmap for its investigation, attempted to
hire the former British spy who was
compiling it, and may have relied on it to
obtain special surveillance authority raises
significant oversight and civil liberties
concerns that warrant scrutiny.”
A source familiar with the Fusion GPS negotiations with
the Senate Judiciary Committee told ABC News that
Simpson is ready and willing to answer questions.
“Mr. Simpson will participate in a
transcribed interview with the committee,
and so far is the only person who has been
willing to do so,” the source said.
Both Simpson and Steele have also been drawn into
defamation lawsuits filed by the Russian tech mogul,
Gubarev, in Great Britain and in the U.S. District Court in
the Southern District of Florida.
Gubarev’s named appeared in the dossier, which was later
published online by Buzzfeed. The dossier alleges that
Gubarev had been recruited under duress by Russian
agents, and that his company had transmitted viruses,
planted bugs, stolen data and conducted “altering
operations against the Democratic Party leadership” during
the 2016 elections. Gubarev has strongly denied all of
those claims.
“His response is it is a lie. It is a
fabrication,” Gurvits, Gubarev’s attorney,
told ABC News. “Never happened.”
Buzzfeed initially published the dossier with references to
Gubarev but later redacted Gubarev’s name and the name
of his company on the copy of the document published by
the website. Attorneys for Buzzfeed, Steele and Simpson
declined to comment.
Gubarev’s lawsuit has attracted attention because his
lawyers have expressly stated they want to ask Steele – a
former British intelligence officer stationed in Moscow –
to identify the sources he relied upon to prepare the
dossier.
A Russian who lives in Cyprus, Gubarev and his company
operates one of the largest web-hosting networks in
Europe. In a lengthy interview with ABC News, his lawyer
rejected the suggestion that Gubarev is acting as a
surrogate for the Kremlin who is attempting to use the U.S.
courts to unmask the identities of Steele’s Russian sources.
“It's clear that we're not acting on behalf of
the Russians,” Gurvits told ABC news. “We
are acting on behalf of a businessman who
has less ties, frankly, with Russia than he
does with the United States. Forty percent
of his business comes from the United
States. This is not a relationship that a
sane person would ever mess with.”
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If he has the opportunity to take Steele’s sworn testimony,
Gurvits said,
“my number-one question is, ‘Why was this
allegation about my clients included [in the
dossier]?” he said. “Where did you get it?
What did you do to verify it? And who did
you communicate it to?"
In June court filings in the United Kingdom, Steele’s
attorneys answered the last question, telling the court he
shared his findings with a representative of Sen. John
McCain. Arrangements were then made through an
intermediary to get the document to McCain, who chairs
the Senate Armed Services Committee, “so that it was
known to … the United States governments at a high level
by persons with responsibility for national security,”
Steele’s filing in British court says.
McCain released a statement in January saying he then
“delivered the information to the director of
the FBI,” because he had been unable to
assess the accuracy of the claims on his
own. “That has been the extent of my
contact with the FBI or any other
government agency regarding this issue.”
As for who funded Steele’s research effort in the first
place, that remains a mystery. British court records have
only identified the clients as a Republican opponent of
Trump’s initially, and a Democratic funder later. Grassley
aides told ABC News that Judiciary Committee
investigators plan to ask Simpson Tuesday to reveal the
identity of his clients, but they are not optimistic they will
get an answer.
Attorneys for Fusion have already indicated to the
committee that its client relationships are confidential.
 END OF TRUMP? President Preparing To RESIGN
And Will Be GONE By Autumn, Says Former Ally
DONALD Trump Is Preparing To Resign And Will Be Gone
By Autumn “Or Sooner”, A Former Ally Has Declared.
By Joey Millar
PUBLISHED: 00:00, Sat, Aug 19, 2017 | UPDATED: 10:08, Sat, Aug 19, 2017

Donald Trump could step down in a matter of weeks, the Resistance to Mr. Trump has soared since last week’s
ghost-writer of his best-selling memoir The Art of the Deal Charlottesville violence, which saw one woman die after
said today. being struck by a man driving a car into a crowd.

Tony Schwartz said Mr. Trump will resign in exchange for

immunity in the investigation into Russia’s alleged
interfering with last November’s presidential election.

Mr. Schwartz, who became close to Mr. Trump while

spending 18 months shadowing the business mogul during
the 1980s while researching the book, said today:

“The circle is closing at blinding speed.

“Trump is going to resign and declare
victory before Mueller and Congress leave
him no choice.
GETTY - Donald Trump is facing plummeting approval ratings in
the wake of the Charlottesville protest

The president sparked fury by claiming there was “blame

on both sides” in the stand-off between protestors waving
Nazi flags and anti-fascist demonstrators.

GETTY - Donald Trump is set to resign to avoid impeachment, Tony

Schwartz said

“Trump's presidency is effectively over.

Would be amazed if he survives till the end
of the year. More likely resigns by fall, if not
sooner.
“He has gone over the line of acceptability
so far there is no return. The Russia stuff
will be huge. He doesn't want to go to jail.”
Mr. Trump and his team have also been embroiled in
Mr. Schwartz has been a fierce critic of Mr. Trump controversy over the extent to which Russian influences
throughout the first seven chaotic months of his presidency were involved in his shock election win last year.
and said the situation was reaching boiling point.
He has also dragged the world to the brink of WW3 by
abstaining from the established course of action with
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volatile North Korea and instead recklessly escalating the
situation to the extent where despot Kim Jong-un
announced he was preparing to attack the US territory of
Guam.
Mr. Schwartz now believes either Mr. Trump will be
forced from office or the president will “blow up the
world” in a petulent attempt to seem important.
He said:
“Trump must be isolated. Resistance every
day. The end is near but must keep
pressure high.
“The end game is on: Trump goes down or
we do. He will blow up the world to prove
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he matters. We must stand up in opposition
every day.
Mr. Schwartz has admited he harbours great guilt for his
role in boosting Mr. Trump’s profile by ghost-writing the
best-selling book.
Last year he advised the Hillary Clinton campaign for free,
explaining:
“This is my penance for having created a
man who has become a monster, and I’ve
spent 30 years feeling bad about it.
“Now I feel like I’ve got to show there’s
nobody behind the curtain.”
 Neo-Nazis And White Supremacists
The New Mojo For Sabotaging Trump
Finian Cunningham
Published Time: 19 Aug, 2017 15:33
© Joshua Roberts / Reuters
The ousting of White House chief strategist Stephen
Bannon marks the biggest political victory to date for
opponents of US President Donald Trump. Seven months
after taking office, Trump’s presidency now looks like a
hollow shell.
We have become accustomed to tumultuous politics ever
since Trump won the US presidential election last year.
But the past week reached a new height of chaos. It kicked
off with deadly protests last weekend in Charlottesville,
Virginia, where Nazi-flag-waving white supremacists
clashed with anti-fascists.
The week proceeded with the demolition of American
Civil War statues – seen as icons of the white
supremacists; then there were denunciations of President
Trump for appearing to give succor to the neo-Nazis; next,
numerous business leaders resigned in protest from
Trump’s advisory panels; and finally, the ousting of
Bannon from the White House staff.
His departure was preceded by several other firings in the
White House last month, going back to the forced
resignation of National Security Advisor Michael Flynn in
February over alleged secret dealings with Russian
officials.
Trump came under intense pressure to get rid of Bannon,
who has been depicted by critics as a Svengali figure,
infiltrating the presidency with far-right ideology. Bannon
has reportedly rejoined the right-wing news website
Breitbart News, where he previously worked as editor
before being recruited to the Trump election campaign last
summer.
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Bannon is described by the Washington Post as the
“architect” behind Trump’s stunning presidential election
victory over Democrat rival Hillary Clinton. After
Trump’s inauguration in January, the new position of
White House “chief strategist” was created for Bannon.
Political opponents decried the appointment as
representing a radicalization of the White House owing to
Bannon’s supposed strident views on nationalism,
immigration, and Muslims.
When Trump made his equivocal condemnation of the
racial violence last weekend, in which he appeared
apologetic for the white supremacists, equating the
violence of Neo-Nazis with that of anti-fascists, it
unleashed a political firestorm in the US media. Bannon
was fingered as the toxic influence on the president,
renewing calls for his resignation. Democrats have been
aiming for him to be fired from the outset.
Trump hinted that his chief strategist’s position was in
danger when, in a rancorous press conference on Tuesday,
he sounded ambivalent about Bannon’s future at the White
House. “We’ll see,” Trump said to media questions about
the staffer’s job security.
As with much of this week’s events in the US, there
seemed to be a large measure of hysteria. A day before
rumors of his ousting, Bannon gave a surprise interview to
a left-wing publication, in which he stated his
condemnation of white supremacist groups. He called
them “clowns.” Maybe it was just a cynical foil, but the
public repudiation tends to negate opponents’ claims that
Bannon was a toxic bigot marring the presidency.
In any case, Bannon is out. He has reportedly said that the
radical populist agenda of the Trump presidency is now
over. Recall that Trump vowed to shake up Washington’s
political establishment – “drain the swamp” – and return
governing power to the forgotten masses of ordinary,
working Americans. Although an ex-Wall Street financier,
Bannon is believed to have engendered the populism in
Trump’s manifesto to ‘Make America Great Again.’
That’s all over, says Bannon. So, the question is: what
becomes of the Trump presidency? Will it just be another
rubber-stamp for the US establishment, corporate America,
Wall Street banks and the political yes-men and women in
Congress?
In truth, the Trump presidency was perhaps always that
conformist creature. His early appointment of billionaires
and Wall Street bankers to cabinet positions in his
administration testified to that. But at least with people like
Bannon in the inner-circle, there was a faint hope among
grass-roots supporters that the Trump presidency might
deliver on a radical shake-up of Washington to benefit the
“little guy.”

That brings us to the bigger picture of political forces

behind this week’s tumult around the president. It can be
argued that Trump was never accepted as the elected
president by powerful elements within the American
political class. The so-called ‘deep state’ of the
intelligence-military apparatus, influential media
organizations like the Washington Post, the New York
Times, and CNN, in conjunction with the Democrats, did
not want Trump in the White House.

His potential for populist agitation against the political

establishment was seen as a threat to vested interests.

But more than anything, it was Trump’s willingness to

normalize bilateral US-Russia relations that alarmed his
opponents, especially those in the deep state whose geo-
strategic worldview is predicated on military dominance in
foreign relations.
This systematic hostility towards Trump explains why for
nearly seven months of his presidency, the US media have
run an unrelenting campaign accusing him of being
complicit in, or at least a beneficiary of, Russian meddling
in the election.
With the Russia-gate ploy failing to further a soft coup
against Trump, his opponents are scrabbling for an
alternative means to damage his presidency.
The sudden emergence of turmoil over racial politics,
white supremacists, and neo-Nazis appears to provide the
sought-after alternative lever against Trump. It seems
rather strange that such a fringe issue over Civil War
statues and relatively marginal political groups should
dramatically ascend to such national prominence.

However, the trouble for Trump’s opponents is that the
‘Russia-gate’ affair has failed to gain any traction. Lack of
credible evidence to support the sensational claims has
made the Russia-gate “scandal” look contrived, threadbare
and, frankly, ridiculous in its overblown pretensions of
being another Watergate – the scandal that caused
President Richard Nixon’s ouster in 1974.
Trump has dismissed the claims of collusion with Russian
state hackers as “a giant hoax.” Russian President
Vladimir Putin has also blasted the claims of Russia
meddling as “amusing rubbish.” Julian Assange, the editor
of WikiLeaks, the whistleblower site which released
emails damaging Hillary Clinton over wide-ranging
corruption, has consistently denied US intelligence claims
of Russian hackers involved in the election.
Recall that it was the US intelligence agencies, primarily
the Central Intelligence Agency, which spearheaded the
Russia-gate story. That is proof it was shadowy unelected
powers of the deep state which were orchestrating the
political-media campaign to disenfranchise Trump.
Trump’s equivocation over white supremacist groups is
certainly appalling. There is no doubt such hate-groups are
odious clowns, as Stephen Bannon said.
But there is more than a suspicion that the racial
controversy is being amplified way beyond reasonable
proportions. The agenda seems to be back to the
orchestrated effort to get Trump out of office, or to at least
emasculate his presidency to a rubber-stamp status.
Former CIA chief John Brennan pilloried Trump this week
as “a national security risk” over his alleged racism.
Editorials in top media outlets deplored Trump for
bringing the US into international disrepute. The Joint
Chiefs of Staff of the US military also issued highly
unusual rebukes of their supposed civilian commander-in-
chief.
Where Russia-gate failed, the deep state playing the racial
card seems like the new, improved mojo for sabotaging
this president.

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 Petition Calling On White House To Recognize Antifa As
Terrorists Has 90k+ Signatures
Published Time: 19 Aug, 2017 18:24 Edited Time: 20 Aug, 2017 22:19
Police clash with demonstrators as they try to clear 'Antifa' members
and anti-Trump protesters during a protest on June 4, 2017 in
Portland, Oregon © Scott Olson / AFP
A petition urging the Donald Trump administration to
formally classify the Antifa movement as a terrorist
organization has been launched on the White House
website.
The petition was started Thursday, and as of Sunday, had
garnered over 90,000 signatures.
The White House is obliged to review the initiative if it
reaches the benchmark of 100,000 signees by September
16 – within the 30 day period.
The author of the petition said anti-fascists
should be recognized as terrorists because
of their “violent actions in multiple cities and
their influence in the killings of multiple
police officers throughout the United
States.”
He added that "terrorism is defined as the
use of violence and intimidation in pursuit
of political aims,” and urged the Pentagon
to be “consistent in its actions.”
“Just as they rightfully declared ISIS a
terror group, they must declare Antifa a
terror group – on the grounds of principle,
integrity, morality, and safety,” the wording
of the petition said.
Antifa or the extreme left is known for its violent rivalry
with white supremacists and other far-right groups across
America.
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Last Saturday saw violent clashes between a Unite the
Right rally and an Antifa counter-protest in Charlottesville,
Virginia.
The violence culminated in a right-wing a activist plowing
his car through the crowd, killing one person and injuring
19 others.
President Trump came under fire following the
Charlottesville events, as he initially stopped short of
condemning the white supremacists and instead placed
blame on ”all sides.”
“What about the alt-left that came charging
at, as you say, at the alt-right? Do they
have any assemblage of guilt?” the US
leader said.
“What about the fact that they came
charging with clubs in their hands swinging
clubs? Do they have any problem? I think
they do. That was a horrible, horrible day,”
Trump added.
Hundreds of right-wing demonstrators and thousands of
left-winger counter-protesters flocked to a park in
downtown Boston Saturday for simultaneous rallies.
Security has been boosted, with backpacks, sticks and any
other items that can be used as weapons banned.
Before the rally, the Boston Antifa branch has called on its
members and supporters to “confront fascism” at
Saturday’s rally.
“We'll see who really, really has the guts at
this rally,” the group said in an online video,
WCVB reported.
In January, a petition to class the Black Lives Matter
movement as terrorist organization was launched.
However, it failed to reach the required benchmark,
collecting less than 1,000 signatures in a month.
Antifa opponents welcomed the petition on social media,
urging followers to sign it as well.
 Antifa supporters suggested that right-wing groups and
their sympathizers had no moral right to demand anyone
being labeled terrorist, as they’re themselves are guilty of
extremist behavior.

Some users expressed belief that with Trump in office, the

initiative had a real chance of passing.

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 BREAKING: Feds Investigating Whether Wasserman
Schultz Aide Imran Awan Sold Secrets to Russians
Jim Hoft
Aug 20th, 2017 11:15 am
Are Democrats about to be caught in the
largest political scandal in US history?
The more you learn about Democratic IT
scammer Imran Awan — the more you
see the profile of a bold and careless
criminal mind.
Imran Awan worked for Debbie
Wasserman Schultz for thirteen years
since she came into office in 2004 as a
Florida representative. She only fired
him this past week and would have kept
paying her “IT expert” even when he
was living in Pakistan.
Three Pakistani brothers who managed the IT affairs for
several Democratic government officials were relieved of
their duties in February on suspicion that they accessed
specific computer networks without permission, also
known as hacking.
Imran Awan, who started working for Wasserman
Schultz in 2005, received $164,600 in 2016, with close to
$20,000 of that coming from Wasserman Schultz.
His brother Jamal, who started working as a staffer in
2014, was paid $157,350.12 in 2016. Abid, who started
working in 2005, was paid $160,943 in 2016.
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Imran’s wife, Hina Alvi, who was employed as a staffer
since February 2007, was paid 168,300 in 2016. Rao
Abbas was paid $85,049 in 2016.
Abid, Imran, and Jamal Awan were
barred from computer networks at the
House of Representatives in February.
Most of the House Members fired the Awans
subsequently.
Only Debbie Wasserman Schultz kept Imran Awan on the
pay roll up to the day he got arrest for Bank Fraud after
trying to flee the country.
The rest of the family fled since months
to Pakistan along with hundreds of
thousands of tax-payer money they
mysteriously were able to wire.
Democrats were willing or unwillingly
compromised by the Awans and
Sensitive Information leaked to foreign
Enemies!
(Muslim Brotherhood – Yemen Raid with dead soldier for
example?) Many of them have Seats on Committees that
handle highly sensitive information.
According to Redditt — Imran Awan is now released with
an GPS ankle monitor until his preliminary hearing on
Aug. 21.
More information is coming out on Imran Awan and his
criminal activities.
Awan pretended to be his wife when
requesting a loan from the
Congressional Federal Credit Union and
got it! He had the credit union wire
$165,000 to PAKISTAN – no questions
asked.
Andrew McCarthy at National Review reported:
 Bank fraud was the stated charge on which
Awan was arrested at Dulles Airport this
week, just as he was trying to flee the
United States for Pakistan, via Qatar. That
is the same route taken by Awan’s wife,
Hina Alvi, in March, when she suddenly
fled the country, with three young
daughters she yanked out of school, mega-
luggage, and $12,400 in cash.
By then, the proceeds of the fraudulent $165,000 loan
they’d gotten from the Congressional Federal Credit Union
had been sent ahead. It was part of a $283,000 transfer that
Awan managed to wire from Capitol Hill. He pulled it off
— hilariously, if infuriatingly — by pretending to be his
wife in a phone call with the credit union. Told that his
proffered reason for the transfer (“funeral arrangements”)
wouldn’t fly, “Mrs.” Awan promptly repurposed:
Now “she” was “buying property.” Asking
no more questions, the credit union wired
the money . . . to Pakistan.…
…Congressional-staff salaries are modest, in the $40,000
range. For some reason, Awan was paid about four times
as much. He also managed to get his wife, Alvi, on the
House payroll . . . then his brother, Abid Awan . . . then
Abid’s wife, Natalia Sova. The youngest of the clan,
Awan’s brother Jamal, came on board in 2014 — the then-
20-year-old commanding an annual salary of $160,000. A
few of these arrangements appear to have been sinecures:
While some Awans were rarely seen around the office, we
now know they were engaged in extensive financial
shenanigans away from the Capitol.
Awan also threatened and tried to extort cash from his
stepmother after his father’s death.
The Daily Caller reported:
Their own stepmother, a devout Muslim,
called police in Virginia and said they used
high-tech devices to wiretap her home and
tried to extort her into signing papers that
would give them access to cash stored in
Pakistan in their deceased father’s name.
The stepmother, Samina Gilani, said in court documents
that Imran said he was “very powerful” and would have
her loved ones kidnapped in Pakistan.
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Court records show that their father changed his last name,
and two relatives said that was because he detested illegal
behavior by his sons.
In public lawsuits in Fairfax County, Va., the brothers
have been accused of life insurance fraud as well as fraud
involving a car dealership.
This is a description of a complete slimeball. Who kicks
his stepmother out of her home when she has just lost her
husband?
The more you read about Imran Awan
the more you see the picture of a
complete soulless criminal.
So why was he hanging around
Wasserman Schultz for 13 years?
Now this…
Federal officials are investigating
whether sensitive information was
passed from Imran Awan to the Russian
or Pakistani governments.
The New York Post reported:
Federal authorities are investigating whether sensitive data
was stolen from congressional offices by several Pakistani-
American tech staffers and sold to Pakistani or Russian
intelligence, knowledgeable sources say.
What started out 16 months ago as a scandal involving the
alleged theft of computer equipment from Congress has
turned into a national-security investigation involving FBI
surveillance of the suspects.
Investigators now suspect that sensitive US government
data — possibly including classified information — could
have been compromised and may have been sold to hostile
foreign governments that could use it to blackmail
members of Congress or even put their lives at risk.
“This is a massive, massive scandal,” a
senior US official familiar with the widening
probe told The Post.
 House Dems Hired A Fired
McDonald’s Worker As Their IT Guy
Luke Rosiak - Investigative Reporter
9:57 PM 06/26/2017
Abid Awan, a House IT technician suspected in a security breach,
leaves court after separately being accused of insurance fraud. DCNF
photo
Multiple members of Congress hired as their information
technology (IT) administrator an individual whose most
recent job experience was being fired from
McDonald’s, The Daily Caller News Foundation’s
Investigative Group has learned.
Spokesmen for the members won’t say what their bosses
knew at the time, but the hiring decisions highlight the role
— witting or unwitting — the representatives played in
what turned out to be an alleged multi-million-dollar IT
scam in Congress with serious implications for national
security.
Soon after Imran Awan joined the staff of Florida
Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz in 2005, his
brothers Abid and Jamal, his wife Hina, and his brother’s
wife Natalia all appeared on other members’ payrolls,
supposedly as IT administrators. His best friend Rao
Abbas landed on the payroll too. Most of them made
salaries ordinarily only chiefs of staff earn, but they were
rarely seen or heard from in Hill IT circles.
The crew is now the target of a U.S. Capitol Police
criminal information security probe with assistance from
other law enforcement agencies as needed. Politico
reported the
“House staffers are accused of stealing
equipment from members’ offices without
their knowledge and committing serious,
potentially illegal, violations on the House
IT network.”
Abbas lived in the basement of a house that Hina owned as
a rental property, according to Cristal Perpignan, who
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occupied the top floors of the house. Abbas administered
the email accounts and computers of eight members of
Congress, according to official payroll records. House IT
administrators can read all emails sent and received by
members for whom they work.
“Rao did appear to be home most days,”
Perpignan said, and she claimed that Imran
told her Abbas had lost his job at
McDonald’s. Imran appeared to use Abbas
as a cutout in more ways than one because
he instructed her to make rental checks
payable to Abbas instead of the landlord,
she said.
For years, Abbas was the only IT worker for Democratic
Rep. Emanuel Cleaver of Missouri and the only D.C.-
based one for Ted Deutch of Florida, according to payroll
records. If Abbas did not actually perform IT work for
Congress, it raises the question of whether someone else
with no staff relationship, such as Imran, was performing
sensitive administrator-level IT work when required.
To get administrator-level access to a congressional
office’s accounts, a form must be submitted that requires
the member’s signature, House IT workers told TheDCNF.
People who are not on staff are not permitted to do work
for the office, according to House rules.
Spokesmen for Cleaver and Deutch refused to say whether
Abbas was ever seen in their offices, how Abbas came to
appear on their payrolls or who on their staffs had IT
administrator-level access to computer files.
Cleaver put five out of the six members of the Awan circle
— all but Jamal — on his payroll at various times. It’s an
unusual number of tech workers, and an arrangement that
should have made the existence of nepotism obvious to the
member or his chief of staff. For the last two years, Abbas
was the sole person with access to Cleaver’s computers.
Deutch, meanwhile, had Natalia — who is from Ukraine,
while the others are Pakistani — as his IT person in 2011.
Soon he had Natalia, Imran and Abbas all listed as
working for him. Then, for the last two years, there was
only Abbas, meaning if Abbas was a no-show employee, it
should have been obvious. Deutch also has a full-time IT
worker based out of his district office, which most
members do not have.
With allegedly no-show employees connected to Imran
being added to numerous offices, someone had to do the
work. Imran enlisted an old high school friend, Haseeb
Rana, for this purpose. Haseeb did not respond to
TheDCNF’s multiple requests for comment.
His father, Tanwir Rana, said Haseeb is a skilled IT
professional and
“they made him do all the work … After
three months, he wanted to leave. We were
having a very charged relationship with
Imran. [Haseeb] was not satisfied with their
behavior.”
Payroll records show that Haseeb began working for the
House in 2013 and quit by the end of 2014.
Tanwir described Imran as having hired Haseeb even
though the men are not part of a company and are hired
as individual W-2 employees by congressional offices.
Members or their chiefs of staff generally make hiring
decisions.
TheDCNF interviewed multiple people who know Imran
personally and say he boasted that he had
outsized influence over numerous Democratic lawmakers.
Wasserman Schultz has refused to fire Imran despite
House authorities banning him from accessing official
computers. She also threatened the Capitol Police with
“consequences” if they didn’t return a computer Imran
used that was later seized as evidence in the investigation.
According to payroll records, two newly-elected
Democrats, Reps. Charlie Crist of Florida and Jacky Rosen
of Nevada, put Abbas on their payrolls when they took
office in January — the time when IT workers would have
been setting up the freshmen’s office IT systems and email
accounts.
Spokesmen for Crist and Rosen declined to say who
recommended Abbas, despite the availability of many
reputable companies and individuals competing for
members’ business. They also would not say who set up
their offices’ email accounts.
Former Democratic Rep. Patrick Murphy, who left the
House after losing a Senate race, also had Abbas on his
payroll. Like Wasserman Schultz, Deutch and Crist,
Murphy is from Florida.
A House central IT employee who requested anonymity
told TheDCNF that
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“they were ghost employees … When a
new Congress would come in, they would
have the members of the offices they were
servicing vouch for them.”
A congressional IT employee who has taken over some of
the Awans’ offices said employees there
“weren’t used to seeing their technicians.”
Before the criminal probe was revealed, the employee told
members Imran was “putting members at risk, so I used
that to try to get several members to switch over,” he said.
He added that he couldn’t understand why no one seemed
to care.
Politico described Wasserman Schultz and Democratic
Rep. Gregory Meeks of New York as having a “friendly
personal relationship” with the Imran and his wife.
Previously, a second Democratic House IT
worker told TheDCNF “there’s probably a
core of 8-10 members that know whats
going on,” including Wasserman Schultz
and Meeks. “Several members should be
kicked off the Hill.”
Imran Awan: A Continuing DCNF Investigative Group
Series
 Court docs
 DWS Now Says Laptop She Sought To Keep From
Police Was Awan's, Not Hers
 Liquidating $1.8M In Real Estate When Arrested,
Some Still Pending
 DWS Seemingly Planned To Pay Suspect Even
While He Lived In Pakistan
 Lawyer Is Longtime Clinton Associate
 Arrested At Airport After Wiring $300k To Pakistan
 FBI Seized Smashed Hard Drives From Home
 Ex-DNC Head 'Negotiating' With Police Over Letting
Them See Evidence
 Dems Tying Themselves Into Knots To Ignore
Criminal Probe
 'You'd Like Him:' Associates Describe 'Cunning,'
Charismatic Con Artist
 In Personal Lives, Evidence Of Massive Cons
 House Dems Hired A Fired McDonald's Worker As
Email Administrator
 DWS Admits To Violating Network Security, Blames
House
 Wasserman Schultz Threatened Police Chief For
Gathering Evidence
 Suspect Has Fled To Pakistan, Relative Says
 House IT Aides Fear Suspects In Hill Breach Are
Blackmailing Members
  Read the Court Docs Detailing Their Greed,
Ruthlessness
 Paul Ryan: Capitol Police Getting 'Assistance' On
Criminal Investigation
 Brothers Could Read Every Email Of Dozens Of
Congressmen
 ...Also Had Access To DNC Emails
 ...Allegedly Kept Stepmom In 'Captivity' To Access
Offshore Cash
 ...Received $4 Million From Dem Reps
 ...Owed Money To Hezbollah-Connected Fugitive
 ...Secretly Took $100K In Iraqi Money
 Brothers Had Massive Debts, Years Of Suspicious
Activity
 House Intelligence, Foreign Affairs Committee
Members IT Compromised

The IT guys in the House criminal probe

could read these members' emails
The Awans and their associates
collected more than $5 million in pay
from congressional offices, often
drawing chief-of-staff level pay though
there is reason to believe many didn't
even show up. They are suspected of
cybersecurity violations.
The money is broken down by year,
congressional office and family member
paid:

Imran, Abid and Jamal Awan and Hina Alvi, Natalia

Sova and Rao Abbas.

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 Source: Daily Caller News Foundation analysis of
House payroll data via Legistorm.com.

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 Senate Republicans
Getting Fed Up With Trump
By Alexander Bolton
08/20/17 06:02 AM EDT
President Trump’s relationship with Senate Republicans is
deteriorating by the day.
Senate Republicans are getting fed up with what they see
as Trump’s lack of discipline and chaotic leadership style.
Several are criticizing him more openly than ever before.
The sharpest critique came from Senate Foreign Relations
Committee Chairman Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), who told
constituents in Chattanooga that Trump
“has not yet been able to demonstrate the
stability, nor some of the competence, that
he needs to demonstrate in order for him to
be successful.”
GOP strategists say Corker was likely unhappy with
Trump’s improvised line a week and a half ago about how
threats from North Korea
“will be met with fire and fury like the world
has never seen.”
Trump’s comment was one of the latest examples of an
unscripted moment undermining his administration’s or his
party’s more carefully crafted strategy.
“I suspect the fire and fury business got
Corker’s attention because that came out
of nowhere,” said Rich Galen, a Republican
strategist, who called Corker “a truly decent
man” who has “just had enough.”
Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) on Friday criticized Trump
for not unequivocally condemning the white supremacists
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who clashed with liberal protesters in Charlottesville, Va.,
last weekend.
“Any time he steps up and tries to equate
two groups or two conversations, I think
that muddies the water,” Lankford said of
Trump. “I just think you need to be very,
very clear with the statements and how
they’re made.”
Meanwhile, senators have rallied behind Sen. Jeff Flake
(R-Ariz.), one of Trump’s most outspoken critics, after the
president tweeted Thursday morning that he was glad to
see that conservative candidate Kelli Ward is running
against him in the GOP primary. Trump called Flake
“toxic.”
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) fired
back.
“Jeff Flake is an excellent Senator and a
tireless advocate for Arizona and our
nation. He has my full support,” McConnell
tweeted through his campaign account.
It was a clear admonishment of the president, coming a
week after Trump torched the Senate leader on Twitter for
not passing ObamaCare repeal legislation in July.
While McConnell carefully avoided confrontations with
Trump during the presidential campaign, their relationship
has frayed in recent weeks.
McConnell allies have criticized Trump for at times
undermining the GOP’s messaging strategy during the
healthcare debate, and last week McConnell told
constituents that the president had “excessive
expectations” about how fast things can get done in
Congress.
McConnell also this week came out with a forceful
statement condemning white-power groups in
Charlottesville, which media outlets quickly seized on as a
counterpoint to Trump’s response.
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), who late last month cast the
decisive vote against a “skinny” ObamaCare repeal bill,
one of Trump’s top priorities, also came to Flake’s side.
“@JeffFlake is a principled legislator &
always does what’s right for the people of
#AZ,” McCain tweeted shortly after Trump’s
criticism.
Flake has long been one of Trump’s biggest critics in the
GOP, and he released a book this month that calls on
fellow members of the GOP to stand up to the president.
In the book, Flake warns that
“conservatism has become compromised
by other powerful forces — nationalism,
populism, xenophobia” as reflected by
Trump’s rise to power.
He wrote that Trump’s
“seeming affection for strongmen and
authoritarians” has created “a cognitive
dissonance among my generations of
conservatives.”
McCain, another frequent critic of Trump, clashed with the
president earlier in the week when he called on him to
push back against the attacks of alt-right critics targeting
national security adviser H.R. McMaster.
Trump casually dismissed McCain, the chairman of the
Senate Armed Services Committee, when asked about his
comments at a press conference Tuesday, asking
sarcastically,
“You mean Senator McCain who voted
against us getting good healthcare?”
Earlier in the week, it was Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.)
who chastised Trump. He said Trump’s response to the
violence in Charlottesville, in which he condemned
“hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides” had only
encouraged white supremacist groups.
“For the sake of our nation — as our
president — please fix this,” Graham
pleaded.
In response, Trump slammed Graham as “publicity
seeking” and argued that he had falsely accused him of
stating a moral equivalency between neo-Nazis, white
supremacists and anti-racist activists.
GOP strategists say Republican senators have become
more emboldened in their criticism of Trump because he
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has often shown them little respect or mocked them
openly.
Brian Phillips, a former Senate aide and Republican
strategist, say that lawmakers usually find more subtle
ways to criticize and send messages to members of their
own party, but that
“flies out the window with Trump because
he’s not above singling members out and
attacking them.”
“Because there isn’t this mutual respect
back and forth, I think you’ll see people like
Jeff Flake and Lindsey Graham and others
lose some of that restraint,” he said.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), one of three Republicans
who voted against the healthcare bill that Trump wanted
badly, was furious after the president criticized her
publicly and threatened to cut programs for Alaska after
she opposed a procedural motion to begin the healthcare
debate.
Things got so heated at one point that Murkowski, the
chairwoman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources
Committee, postponed a markup for six Trump
administration nominees.
House Republicans, by comparison, have generally been
more reticent about criticizing or pushing back against the
president.
While Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) criticized Trump
several times during last year’s presidential campaign —
calling the candidate’s attacks on a federal judge because
of his Mexican-American background the textbook
definition of racism — he has kept on good terms with the
president this year.
Ryan has made it a policy of not responding to reporters’
questions about Trump’s daily tweets, though he veered
from that policy over two of the president’s more
controversial statements.
The Speaker tweeted on Tuesday that “there can be no
moral ambiguity” in responding to bigotry and white
supremacy, in a seeming rejoinder to Trump’s statements
that blamed both sides in Charlottesville for the violence
there.
Ryan in June said Trump’s mockery of Mika Brzezinski,
the co-host of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” was not
appropriate, after the president claimed she had a low IQ
and was “bleeding badly” from cosmetic surgery when she
visited him at the Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.
But in general, Trump has stronger support in the House,
where GOP lawmakers tend to represent more
conservative constituencies.
“Senators clearly are more visible elected
officials, and almost all of them have more
.
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heterogeneous constituencies than House
members. They have to appeal to a
broader segment of the electorate than do
House members, especially those in
gerrymandered congressional districts,”
said Republican pollster Whit Ayres.
 Report: Ivanka, Jared Helped Forced Out Bannon –
'His Far-Right Views Clashed With Their Jewish Faith'
Chris Menahan - Informationliberation
Aug. 20, 2017

The couple’s Rabbi Emeritus Haskel Lookstein wrote a

letter condemning ‘this resurgence of bigotry and anti-
Semitism and the renewed vigour of the neo-Nazis, KKK
and alt-Right’ in a letter posted on the Facebook site of the
synagogue the pair attend.

Bannon’s ousting was ‘done to save the

Presidency’, a source close to Ivanka
claimed. ‘Him leaving changes everything.’

Breitbart claims:

"A senior White House aide informed

Breitbart News that the Daily Mail report
was 'totally false' and called into question
the sources in the article of having any real
President Kushner and First Lady Ivanka forced out Stephen
knowledge of the Trump family."
Bannon because "his far-right views clashed with their Jewish faith,"
according to a report from The Daily Mail . Let's hope this isn't the beginning of the Cohn-Mnuchin-
Kushner-Ivanka presidency.
From The Daily Mail:
Rumor has it Trump's already approved additional troops
Donald Trump’s controversial aide Steve being sent into Afghanistan:
Bannon was ‘pushed out’ by his daughter
Ivanka and her husband because his far-
Right views clashed with their Jewish faith,
according to Washington sources.

Chief strategist Bannon, 63, helped orchestrate the US

President’s stunning election victory but was vilified for
his extreme opinions.

Many blamed him for Trump’s failure last week to

condemn neo-Nazis after a violent rally in Virginia at
which a woman was killed and dozens were injured.

First daughter Ivanka converted to Orthodox Judaism

when she wed millionaire businessman Jared Kushner in
2009.

The couple have three children. A source said:

‘Jared and Ivanka helped push him out.

They were concerned about how they were
being viewed by the Jewish community.’

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 CNN Reveals Gameplan: Remove The President
Under The 25th Amendment For Being Mentally Ill
By The_Real_Fly
Aug 20, 2017 1:01 PM

Back in July, Fox News columnist, Steve Kurtz, asked the

question regarding the 25th amendment: Constitution or
Coup? But that wasn't the first time the 25th amendment
was mentioned by democrats. They've been pining to use it
to remove Trump from the day he took office.

Since the events in Charlottesville, this narrative has

exploded inside the media, with one story after the next
calling for the removal of the President under the terms of
the 25th amendment.

Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the

principal officers of the executive departments or of such
other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to
the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of
the House of Representatives their written declaration that
the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties
of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume
the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.

Here is a collogue of media headlines, asking whether

America should remove its President in less than 1 year
from being elected. This is just a sample. I could've posted
dozens of headlines if I wanted to.

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 Defenders of Trump will point out that his behavior has
been consistent over decades and what you're seeing now
is merely a continuation of his eccentric demeanor. In a
CNN program this morning, CNN's Brian Stelter, joined
by WaPo's Carl Bernstein and two other Never Trumpers,
asked whether the President should be removed from
office using the 25th amendment. Bernstein said it should
be the primary goal of the media to get republicans on the
record calling for his removal, emphatically believing the
President was mentally ill.

Stelter posed the question to his audience: "Is the

President of the United States a racist? Is he suffering
from some kind of illness? Is he fit for office? (feigns
fake concern) And if he's unfit, then what?"

In summary, Trump could not win the election -- because

he was a joke. Trump ended up winning, but only thanks to
Russian hackers. Since Trump was helped by Russian
hackers, he must've colluded with them. If Trump colluded
with them, he should be impeached (cue Muller). Since the
Mueller investigation is taking forever, let's remove him
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for daring to suggest that ANTIFA thugs, who regularly
beat up people for exercising free speech, were bad actors.

Notice how Stelter posed his multi-tiered question, leading

with 'Is Trump a racist?' Get the audience to first agree to
something they've been programmed to believe, and then
the rest will fall into place -- sales 101.

In short...

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 Trump Heads Back To DC After Witnessing The 'Worst
And Most Dishonest Fake News' Reporting
By Kelly Cohen
Aug 20, 2017, 7:47 PM
President Trump returns to Washington, D.C., Sunday
evening, capping a "working" spent largely in Bedminster,
N.J. — but first tweeted criticism at what he called
"some of the worst and most dishonest
Fake News reporting."
"Heading back to Washington after working
hard and watching some of the worst and
most dishonest Fake News reporting I have
ever seen!", Trump said in a Sunday night
tweet.
According to the White House, the president was
scheduled to leave Morristown Municipal Airport at 7:25
p.m. Eastern time en route Andrews Air Force Base and
then the White House.
Trump did not elaborate on what the news reports were
that warranted his "fake news" attack.
.
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Trump spent the majority of the last 17 days at his private
golf club in Bedminster.
He pushed back on claims that he was on
"vacation," saying in a Aug. 5 tweet that
was "working" and participating in
"meetings and calls."
However, details of his day to day were slim and most of
his schedule was kept private. He did also spend some time
at Trump Tower in New York City, Camp David and back
the White House.
The Trump administration had what some critics described
as a particularly rough week, as the president faced
backlash for his comments in response to last weekend's
Charlottesville violence and saw the departure of top
official Steve Bannon.
The White House announced earlier in the day Sunday that
the president will travel Monday to Fort Myer in
Arlington, Va., and address U.S. troops gathered there in
the evening
"to provide an update on the path forward
for America's engagement in Afghanistan
and South Asia."
 The Charlottesville Conspiracy And The Anti-American,
Anti-White, Subversive, Hate Promoting
Mainstream Media
Jack Mullen - TGR Intelligence Briefing
Posted On August 20, 2017
America is occupied by a foreign, occupying enemy. The
American Federal Government and most State
government’s are now defacto. They have been usurped
and are occupied by deceivers operating in accordance
with a communist model of maintaining control of the
people using the deception they are American
Constitutional governments.
I want to refer, in this article, to the especially important
and insightful book written by former KGB major and
director of the KGB office of strategic planning, until he
defected to the United States in 1961, Anatoliy Golitsyn.
This book is an essential guide to understanding why the
governments of the USA are working under a model much
like the model developed by the Soviets and refined by
communists over many decades. In the remainder of the
article I will refer to New Lies For Old, by Anatoliy
Golitsyn as NLFO.
This model requires tightly controlled information,
darkness internally instead of transparency, and the
maintenance of a complex, external, deception which hides
actions, goals, and operations of the inside while a
separate, usually opposite presentation, is promoted on the
outside; this dichotomy is maintained through forceful use
of aggressive deceptions while fastidiously covering leaks,
discrediting, or eliminating critics and dissenters and
requires an IRONCLAD, airtight control of the
mainstream media.
Compared to Communist governments, Western
governments historically were less deceptive, and more
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transparent in part because of the so-called fourth estate,
the media and the vigorous competitive pressures possible
through publicly accessible information, such as books,
public speaking events and other Lawful means of
examining the inner workings of governments
including legal protection and public knowledge of
political whistle blowers.
The differences between communist and noncommunist
systems in their reactions to internal crises and in their
external policies determine the different roles of
disinformation in their respective systems. Democratic
systems, being more open and therefore inherently more
stable politically, do not need disinformation to hide the
internal crises that occur from time to time and the means
by which they are resolved. NLFO, page 23,24
The events and deceptions at Charlottesville are
‘communist class’ and the details are complicated to tease
out. The Charlottesville incident appears to have been
setup months before with operatives creating credibility
using the electronic media with help from likely pre-paid
actors showing up on the day of the event and the possible
filming of the drama filled ‘Charger/crowd’ incident prior
to the day of the event.
This event was created and orchestrated to foment a kind
of race war in America, attempting to brand attempts by
whites to organize political events as race-hating white
supremacists who are conspiring to organized against other
races, mainly black.
The Charlottesville “Unite The Right” outdoor event was
created to cause deep emotions, and feelings of hate and
disgust directed toward whites and to especially make it
seem evil whites might even try to have events which
bring up issues affecting mainly whites, especially whites
associated with a non Global, nationalist agenda.
This was meant to cause racial tensions and to further
divide the nation along ideological and racial lines and it
was also meant to associate White Nationalists with White
Supremacists. The false public message portrayed was
White Supremacist == White Nationalist. The fully
controlled, by the same people who now control the State,
mainstream media were literally howling this narrative
from the very first newscasts originating from
Charlottesville.
One of the first commentators and State actors on the
scene in Charlottesville was Brennan Gilmore, a former
State Department Employee with history of entanglements
in psychological operations and hoaxes to achieve agenda.
Gilmore was assigned to the Central African Republic
(CAR), as part of the US Embassy Staff. While in CAR,
Gilmore was involved with a Psy-op, which became
known as the Kony 2012 campaign. This deception
involved trying to create the need to involve US troops in
the deteriorating political situation (for the US
Government) in CAR, which threatened the US Embassy
and the political regime of the current puppet US Dictator.
They weren’t fighting KONY. He was there in support of
the brutal military dictatorship of General François
Bozizé who took over in coup from the elected president
of the country, Ange-Félix Patassé. Our puppet dictator
Bozize was trying to hold onto power in the face of a 2012
uprising from Séléka CPSK-CPJP-UFDR not “KONY”.
But of course, that would have been a harder sell to the
fans of President Peace Prize so “KONY” the boogieman.
In the end, Special Operations and all the propaganda we
could muster did little to stem the tide of CHANGE in
CAR and the start of 2013 saw folks like Brennan Gilmore
and Bozize flee the country. (reference above)
After fleeing Africa, Gilmore landed in Virginia
as manager of the campaign of Tom Perriello (Democrat)
for Virginia governor earlier this year. Perriello himself
has an interesting history of support for pro socialist
programs like Obama-Care, TARP, the American Clean
Energy and Security Act, and was appointed by John
Kerry to a strategic planning committed tied to CIA
operation USAID. Perriello has also been involved with
subversive government activities in Kosovo, Darfur and
Afghanistan, all sites of American destabilization and
attempted political regime changes. Most interestingly,
while Gilmore was working as manager of the Perriello
campaign, the campaign received a $250,000 donation
from leftist superstar, George Soros.
So who is the first man on the scene with the first video to
be seen on the main propaganda media? Brennan Gilmore,
no stranger to Black Ops, Gilmore is the first to describe
the scene in Charlottesville and to begin the process
associating the “Unite the Right” group with hate-groups,
like the KKK, and the Hollywood version of the National
Socialists (Nazis) and with “white supremacists.”
Gilmore’s video of the event was tweeted out at 1:13pm on
August 12, 2017. Gilmore just ‘happened’ to be exactly
where he needed to be film the Charger, just before and
during the time it smashes into the back of a line of cars on
the street. Clearly, this is a very big indicator the events in
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Charlottesville were already known in advance. Soon
Gilmore was on all the major propaganda media calling the
‘Alt Right’ a Nazis terrorist organization. Gilmore was
careful with his descriptions claiming the groups of “Anti
Racists” were peacefully exercising “their Constitutional
right” to protest. His implication of course is Alt Right
groups – white nationalists – are racist. This is an act of
willful deception and disinformation — he is seen expertly
plying his “Kony” like skills.
The internal role of disinformation is, on the
one hand, to conceal the undemocratic,
antinational, unlawful, and even criminal
methods of resolving internal crises and, on
the other, to minimize or neutralize internal
antiregime activities while at the same time
preventing or neutralizing any attempt from
outside to foment and exploit those
activities.
This aims at promoting and establishing
communist regimes in noncommunist
countries throughout the world by giving
support to the extreme left-wing opposition,
by gaining temporary political allies, by
exploiting and deepening whatever internal
crises may occur, and even by creating
artificial crises. NLFO
You may be thinking the USA is not a communist nation
nor communism is not and could not have such such
control or political power in the USA . However, as
Norman Dodd, staff director of the Congressional Special
Committee to investigate tax-exempt foundations —
sometimes referred to as the Reece committee [in1953],
was told by the then chairman of the Ford Foundation,
Alan Gaither,
“Mr. Dodd, all of us who have a hand in
the making of policies here, have had
experience operating under directives,
the substance of which is, that we use
our grant-making power so as to alter
life in the United States that it can be
comfortably merged with the Soviet
Union.” {underline is mine}
It is my argument the American government has been
usurped, and is now operating under a communist model,
not necessarily requiring the label communist, but rather
maintaining control of power and neutralizing opposition
and creating fabricated events which are used to influence
the people in support of their anti-national agenda.
Insulating this government and a large portion of the State
governments now operating under the same model from
exposure of their criminal and anti-American activities, is
the complicity and total control of the mainstream media,
including, Television, cable, Satellite, print media and now
via post-Charlottesville regulations, the silencing pro
American/nationalism public speaking events. In fact,
staging events like this always leads to more law and
regulation, which telegraph what the States’ agenda was
already about. One of the most scary and arbitrary
controllers of speech is the communist tool of creating
laws against so-called “hate speech”, which is any speech
they hate to hear.
Given total control over the
communications media, communist
governments need have no fear of adverse
publicity; they can say one thing in public
and do the opposite in private with
complete impunity. They can also use for
disinformation purposes the facilities of
their intelligence and security services,
which operate on a scale and with an
immunity unparalleled in the West. NLFO
Naturally, any government or external operatives with
“total control over the communication media” need have
no fear of adverse publicity and can say anything in public
while contradicting those public words in private with
impunity.
Here is the crux and the short of this article. The events in
Charlottesville are clearly disinformation, beginning with a
consistent, political presentation, in the national media, a
media which we have shown in The Jewish Agenda to
Disarm America, to be entirely under the control of a
single ethnic/religious/political group, made up of
corporations which appear distinct, but are consistently in
lock-step regarding their programming agenda. This
monolithic media provides a verifying and sanctifying
narrative which defends criminal activities at the level of
the State and Federal Governments. An easy indicator of
the media’s shared complicity is the obvious fact they
never disagree on any national issue. The mainstream also
no longer does any investigative journalism and stands
ready to recite the same talking points on every channel,
electronic or print.
In Charlottesville, The entire mainstream media
immediately began claiming the event was an organization
and gathering of “white supremacists” including, Neo-
Nazis, and KKK, who had attracted a crowd of opposition
groups comprised of Antifa, Black Lives Matter, Anti
Racists and others; the same people State operative
Brennan Gilmore said were peaceful protesters, exercising
Constitutional rights. In this consistent, across the board
presentation, the white’s who had been issued a permit for
a conference/meet-up under the name “Unite the Right”
were labeled as extremist members of various hate groups,
which were then simply called ‘white supremacists.’
There were orchestrated calls to call this an act of domestic
terrorism, an important distinction, since a whole new
battery of “Patriot Act” (deceptively named)
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unConstitutional laws come into play when some incident
is called terrorism. Echoing voices of race envy, the
mainstream claims because this was a white man, he is
enjoying white privilege and it’s not labeled terrorism —
this is theatre itself another derivative false flag.
This unified presentation was a lie, and clearly part of a
political reality being created in real time to suit the needs
of an agenda which hoped to create division and incite
racial violence, rename the Alt-Right as White
Supremacists and introduce new law and regulations
regarding ‘hate speech” and the control of protests.
The mainstream media, all of them, are
guilty of inciting hate, antagonizing and
making worse a situation they failed to
portray accurately and for continuing
with the lie for days after the event.
Worse yet, there is no actually investigation into what is
clearly a staged event at Charlottesville. There are
numerous issues with the official narrative and glaring
holes in details. Questions about the person actually
driving the Dodge Charger, the appearance of photos of
what appears to be James A. Fields being handcuffed and
replacing the actual driver in a private neighborhood away
from downtown. There are questions about why the
peaceful “Anti Racist” protesters were all in one little area
as a convenience to the car scene and why some of the
crowd were cheering as the unimpeded Charger sped
away.
But there will be no actually impartial investigation. Why
did Charlottesville police stand down? Why did the State
revoke the ‘Unite The Right’s’ permit, again, just in time
for the police to push the ‘Unite the Right’ members into
the waiting crowds of Antifa, while not providing any
protection as the ‘peaceful’ anti-racists began pummeling
and macing the “Unite the Right.”?
How can we explain two versions of the Dodge Charger in
the photos (below) and videos shown of the event? The
first Charger seen downtown has no stripe across its hood,
the second car shown away from town in the neighborhood
mentioned above, has a thick black hood stripe. Was this
event filmed earlier and then during the live event another
vehicle was used ? Clearly you are not going to smash up
one during rehearsal and rebuild it for ‘show time.’
Just like Sandy Hook, the Boston Bombing, the
outstanding fake story of 9-11* and numerous other events
which have been shown to have been hoaxes, in the sense
they were not what we were told they were. This event will
have to be investigated only by the alternative media,
amateur detectives, and Citizen journalists. The results will
never see any broad audience because the mainstream
media is not about truth or even information, they are the
controlled propaganda arm of a communist like system of
government now prevalent in the USA.
“Unite The Right” was supported by their fans and
members and promoted in the alternative media as a white
nationalist organization interested in issues facing white
people, including a discussion of the take down of
historically and culturally (European culture) significant
monuments, including US Civil War Memorials around
the nation and especially the removal of American Icon,
Robert E. Lee’s memorial in Charlottesville. This is part of
an agenda, with support by a communist like government,
to remove the culture and history of European Americans.
This is an agenda to wipe out American culture to make
room for the New World Culture now forming like a
cancer over white civilizations around the world.
The lying mainstream media, all in lock step (because they
are all controlled by the same politically and ethic minded
tribe), are complicit in attempting to foster racial division
and hate. They are also complicit in associating people
interested in protecting American culture and history by
protesting and protecting the removal of National
Memorials with white supremacists, the KKK and Nazis.
This is subversive, hateful and treasonous under the
Constitution for the United States.
The truth, however, is white nationalist are not white
supremacists and the mainstream knows this. White
nationalists are not different from say Black nationalists, or
Hispanic nationalists or German nationalists or Chinese
nationalists. And the mainstream was not interested in
mentioning this group had invited guests to speak and
musical entertainment and these people were not White-
supremacists or Nazis or KKK members.
On the other hand, where the mainstream was queerly
quiet, was in mentioning the hoards of acknowledged hate
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groups which showed up, on cue, just to protest the event,
like Antifa, Black Lives Matter, communist agitators like
the Southern Poverty Law Center and groups tied to the
democratic national party. One individual saw 6 busses
loaded with people who were grouped according to their t-
shirts, seeing people with Black Lives Matter t-shirts and
even one group, with KKK t-shirts! Why doesn’t the
mainstream media investigate who ordered the t-shirts and
bussed in these paid trouble makers? Not a peep.
One other mention of something pre-planned and strange
about what happened in Charlottesville. Redice TV
(redice.tv) was invited by the Alt Right to attend and film,
interview, and publicize the event and speakers and their
speeches planned for the “Unite the Right” event. Henrik
Palmgren, of Redice TV arrived early to the event only to
find his cell phone had been erased completely, remotely,
and his two primary websites, redice.tv and
redicemembers.com had been attacked and the content
erased. These sites are still down now 8 days later.
According to Palmgren, the sites were ‘hacked’ and the
content erased. Now we know it takes someone in high
places to order the simultaneous wiping of cell phone and
security protected webservers. One server in New York
and the other Amsterdam. Redice TV is a supporter of the
Alt Right and champion for white people issues around the
world. Redice.tv features interviews and news about the
world wide genocide of the white race and destruction of
white culture in Europe. Destruction caused by the massive
influx and forced immigration of millions of invading
“refugees” and the destruction of white heritage and
culture through multiculturalism and population
replacement. It can be no coincidence Redice was hacked
and wiped out on the day of this event.
So here is my warning. The Charlottesville event was
staged and done with help of the City of Charlottesville
and its mayor, the State of Virginia, with support of the
governor and intelligence agencies working in the
background. This event was well-funded and involved the
standing down of the police department, the control of the
national media and gigantic publicly controlled false flag
event.
The promoters of the event are also under scrutiny for
being involved with this attempt to discredit and associate
the white nationalist movement with so called hate groups
and white supremacists. Media promoter and organizer
Jason Kessler, presents as a well meaning, white
concerned, American patriot, but his background connects
him with paid positions at CNN, involvement in the
Occupy Wall street movement, and an Obama supporter.
Kessler’s blog site where he actively, and rightfully,
campaigned against racist school member and current
assistant mayor of Charlottesville, Wes Bellamy, began
only in late 2016. It’s possible Kessler, working for the
same goals mentioned above, was also honey-pot
deception, bringing the players together for this staged
engagement.
I believe the depth of the deception in the USA has most
people taking sides and failing to see the big scary picture.
The US Governments, States and Fed, are under the
control of an outside, anti-American organization. This
organization has infiltrated over many decades and are
now either in direct control or through operatives,
blackmail and threat of death, control most of the players
at high levels in a large numbers of State Governments and
all high levels of the National Government.
This includes Donald Trump.
I quote here from my Election Deception article published
August a year ago.
It would be magical thinking to believe something as well
planned, carefully disguised and concealed, which has
been operational since the mid 1930s, and involves
hundreds of trillions of dollars of nominal, created and
stolen, financial assets could be impeded or even changed
by the affect of a national election.
Trump’s history is tainted with associations with the very
same people running Hillary’s campaign. Trump has
associations with anti-American, Jewish organizations and
has made commitments to Israel which subjugate America
as a Zionist tool for world conquest (ask yourself why
America is busy bombing the Middle East and Africa.)
Trump’s family history including the illegal and
financially fraudulent business associations and practices
of his father are inconsistent with the vision of a self made
man ready to wrestle America back from the “globalists’,
communists and leftists obviously in political show-
positions of power.
I would recommend anyone interested in Trump’s
appointments and his associations with anti-American
Zionists watch the video “Trump is the Swamp”
The issue with America now is the outstanding level of
disinformation and direct deception. It is harder and
harder for anyone to understand what appears to be a
crazier situation everyday in America. Most white people
put their faith in Trump believing he represents their
interests, understands their plight, feels their growing pain
and would make good on his promises. But we are already
into August and nearly all of Trump’s campaign promises
have not been fulfilled or even appear on the horizon as
possibly being fulfilled. We hear great words and
promising ‘tweets’, but in reality nothing is better and is
still getting worse.
.
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Soon America will be subjected to another financial
collapse, the distortions of the dollar hegemony have run
their course and the result will be ruinous. The only
possibility is a Catastrophic Collapse of the American
middle class and from there we can only speculate. There
is very little time remaining to learn about what is
happening and who is to blame. It must be reiterated, the
mainstream media is not going to explain.
American must vehemently denounce
the mainstream media; bring TV sets to
the street to be hauled away as garbage,
turning off mainstream radio news,
lining bird cages with disinformation
and agenda printing presses like the
New York Times or Washington Post.
Americans must learn skepticism and
automatically distrust publicly
announced information. In these dark
times almost everything that springs
forth from the established channels is a
lie and usually means the OPPOSITE of
what is broadcast.
Because I mentioned communism, it should be
enlightening for everyone to learn more about the
Bolsheviks and the so-called ‘revolution’ which was really
a blood bath visited on the white people of Russia
beginning in 1917 and to some degree continuing today.
During the blood thirsty first 40 years of the “workers
paradise” (deceptive description) nearly 60 million were
murdered in one horrible way or another.
These same minded people who orchestrated the Bolshevik
“revolution” surround and advise President Trump today
and at his behest have been placed in charge of a
significant number of important positions inside the Trump
Administration. The nature of the communist dialectic is to
provide two teams, to create two poles. In the case of
Charlottesville, the clues are deliberately pointing to the
left, the Clintons and Obama and Soros, and the left is
screaming Trump has failed to condemn, to their
satisfaction the “white supremacists”, throwing clear and
strong cover to the right.
This is a game, a con and slight of hand.
The scope and scale of disinformation activity by
communist regimes is virtually unlimited. There are no
legal or political obstacles to disinformation operations. A
police state with its centralized authority, its total control
over resources, its untrammeled ability to execute
maneuvers and sudden shifts in policy, and its immunity
from the pressures of organized public opinion offers
tremendous advantages for disinformation operations as
compared with a democratic system. NLFO
 Democrats Say Confederate Monuments
Are Now White-Supremacist Rallying Points
By Steven Mufson, John Wagner And Paige Cunningham
August 20 At 12:30 PM

Leading Democrats on Sunday morning talk shows

defended moves by local governments to remove
monuments of Confederate leaders, saying that the unrest
in Charlottesville on Aug. 12 showed that the statues had
become rallying points for white supremacists instead of
educational tools about the nation’s history.
Sen. Benjamin L. Cardin (Md.), the ranking Democrat on
the Foreign Relations Committee, said President Trump
“got this wrong” when he expressed opposition to taking
down commemorations to Confederate leaders. People
don’t need monuments to learn history, Cardin said on
“Fox News Sunday.”
“You don’t need a monument offensive to
certain parts of our history being glorified in
order to appreciate history,” Cardin told
host Bill Hemmer.
Cardin said he supports actions this past week in Baltimore
and Annapolis to remove statues of Confederate leaders. “I
think what Baltimore and Annapolis are doing is
appropriate,” Cardin said.
Stoney also took issue with Trump’s comparison of statues
of Confederate generals Robert E. Lee and Stonewall
Jackson to Founding Fathers George Washington and
Thomas Jefferson. Though all were slave owners, Stoney
said that Washington and Jefferson “did not take up arms
against the United States of America.”
“I appreciate the president’s opinion,”
Stoney said. “But in Richmond I don’t think
that matters. We live here.”
Trump provoked outcry from business leaders, Democrats
and Republicans, and military leaders by failing to strongly
condemn white supremacists and Nazis marching in
Charlottesville. He said that “both sides” were to blame for
violence there, which took the life of one woman. Further
demonstrations took place Saturday in Boston, where
white supremacists were vastly outnumbered.
Former congressman J.C. Watts (R-Okla.) urged
congressional leaders to speak out against Trump’s
comments if they disagreed with them.

Jeh Johnson, homeland security secretary under President

Barack Obama, said that the monuments had become
“rallying points” for white supremacists.

“I salute people taking down these

monuments as a matter of public safety,”
Johnson said in an interview on ABC’s
“This Week.”

Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney (D) said on the same

program that he had changed his mind about the presence
of Civil War monuments to Confederate leaders. As mayor
of the city that served as the Confederate capital, Stoney,
who is black, said that he once thought the monuments
could be “tools to teach and enlighten” people but that now
he also sees them as “rallying points.”
“This is what happens when we turn history
into nostalgia,” said Christy Coleman, head
of the American Civil War Museum in
Richmond.
Symbols and slogans in Charlottesville View Graphic
“This is not a time for us to be afraid of
being tweeted,” Watts said on NBC’s “Meet
the Press.” “This is not a time for us to
suppress our convictions.”
“If they’re silent, they wear the cap . . .
saying we agree with that,” Watts added.

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Trump “compromised” his moral authority by insisting
multiple times there was hatred and violence on both sides
in last weekend’s Charlottesville attacks, Sen. Tim Scott
(R-S.C.) said Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation.”
Scott praised Trump’s speech Aug. 14, in which the
president condemned the white supremacists that attacked
a crowd of counterprotesters — although the South
Carolina senator said Trump should have delivered it
directly after the attack instead of waiting two days.
But Scott said things then soured Tuesday, when Trump
doubled down on his prior remarks that there was violence
on both sides.
“His comments on Tuesday started to
compromise that moral authority we need
the president to have for this nation to be
the beacon of light to all mankind,” Scott
said.
But Scott didn’t express clear support for removing
monuments to Confederate leaders.
“I think that’s definitely a local issue,” he
said.
Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) suggested his state could “do
better” in Capitol Hill’s Statuary Hall, where each state is
allowed to place two statues. Virginia’s two statues are of
George Washington and Lee. Kaine suggested the state
could replace Lee and choose from a list of candidates,
including Pocahontas or Virginia’s first African American
governor, L. Douglas Wilder.
“From 2017 looking backward, I think
Virginia could probably do better in the two
people we chose to stand for us in Statuary
Hall,” Kaine said.
Rep. Adam B. Schiff (Calif.), the ranking Democrat on the
House Intelligence Committee, said on CNN’s “State of
the Union” that Trump’s response to Charlottesville was
inadequate.
“You know, the real challenge, I think, and
job for the chief executive, in a country
where race has always been such a difficult
conversation, is to do everything possible
to bring our country together, to help make
us a more perfect union,” Schiff said. “And
what the president did this week was as if
he stood on a line dividing the country and
pushed to separate one America from
another with all his might. And that is not
what this country needs.”
Asked if Trump should apologize for his remarks, as
former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney (R) has
urged, Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R) demurred, saying “in
some ways we’re looking backward.”
“Where I want to look now is what are we
going to do to deal with the fundamental
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issues we have in the country? The issue
of race. The issue of police and community
coming together and developing policing
methods that can unify,” Kasich said.
Asked why Trump has difficulty condemning white
supremacists, Kasich said he was heartened by Trump’s
response to the dueling rallies in Boston on Saturday. A
rally by white supremacists there was overwhelmed by
tens of thousands of people protesting against them.
“My understanding is the president came
out and praised people, praised the police,
praised the fact that the radicals were really
marginalized, and that those who marched
against hate, he praised,” Kasich said. “I
feel positive about what he had to say
about Boston from what I understand in the
news reports.”
Kasich played down reports that he is moving closer to
mounting a primary challenge to Trump in 2020, saying
that he’s “rooting for him to get it together.”
Scott urged Trump to spend time with people who lived
through the civil rights era if he wants to be able to speak
with moral authority about racial issues.
“We need the president to sit down with
folks who have a personal experience if the
president wants to have a better
understanding and appreciation for what he
should do next,” Scott said. “Without that
personal connection to the painful past, it
will be hard for him to regain that authority,
from my perspective.”
NBC’s “Meet the Press” turned to one of the people who
lived through the civil rights era, former Atlanta mayor
Andrew Young, who said that the past week had been “a
week of misunderstandings.”
Young said that “most of the issues that
we’re dealing with now are related to
poverty, but we still want to put everything
in a racial contest,” he said.
“The reason I feel uncomfortable
condemning the Klan types is they’re
almost the poorest of the poor. They’re the
forgotten Americans. They have been
used, abused and neglected. Instead of
giving them affordable health care, they
give them black lung jobs.”
He added:
“They see progress in the black community
and everywhere else and they don’t share
it.”
Host Chuck Todd said that no one from the Trump
administration would agree to come on the show to talk
about Charlottesville.
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 The NYT Promotes Ousting Trump
By Stephen Lendman - stephenlendman.org
8-20-2017
The Times may get its wish, ignoring the seriousness of
ousting a sitting president, unprecedented in America if it
occurs.
Reasons given for his unfitness to serve are phony,
legitimate ones largely ignored, the same ones true of his
predecessors, notably high crimes of war and against
humanity, along with transforming America into a
plutocratic police state.
The Times and other media scoundrels support America’s
deplorable agenda - nary a discouraging word ever uttered
against US imperial wars, other than at times post facto,
too little too late when it doesn’t matter, virtually never
before they’re waged or while ongoing.
Trump bashing is relentless, an orchestrated plot to
denigrate, weaken, and oust him from office - media
scoundrels leading the campaign, abandoning any pretense
of legitimate journalism, something they eschew on
virtually all major issues.
The Times:
“With each day, President Trump offers
fresh proof that he is failing the office that
Americans entrusted to him.”
“The rolling disaster of his presidency
accelerated downhill last week (by)
sow(ing) racial strife, (failing) to denounce
Nazism, (and) defen(ing) white
supremacists, (showing he lacks the)
fitness to occupy” his office.
Fact:
There’s plenty about Trump to criticize
legitimately. I’ve written numerous articles
slamming his policies, I’m sure more to
come.
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Fact:
Instead of accurate reporting, The Times
deplorably distorted his comments. He
justifiably blamed both sides for
Charlottesville violence. He tried to calm
things, not “sow racial strife.”
Fact:
He “condemn(ed) in the strongest possible
terms this egregious display of hatred,
bigotry and violence. It has no place in
America,” adding:
“Racism is evil, and those who cause
violence in its name are criminals and
thugs, including the KKK, neo-Nazis, white
supremacists and other hate groups that
are repugnant…”
He didn’t try “to split Americans apart.” He
condemned “hatred, bigotry and violence.”
He’s no saint, far from it, his tenure so far pockmarked by
deplorable actions, continuing what his predecessors began
- notably aggressive wars, supporting monied interests
over popular ones, his anti-environmentalism, and
unacceptable immigration policies, notably banning travel
to America by Muslims from designated countries.
The problem isn’t him. It’s America’s deplorable system,
its plutocracy, not democracy, its imperial madness, its
media functioning as press agents for power - bashing
Trump largely for the wrong reasons, not the right ones.
The Times is a national disgrace. With its
global influence, it’s the lead offender,
mocking what journalism is supposed to
be.
 Post Charlottesville Anti-Right
Pogrom Based On Fantasy
A Compendium Of Facts
Patrick Cleburne
August 20, 2017

walk through a line of screaming

protesters.
…the police attacked (not dispersed—
attacked) the legal demonstration,
threatening attendees with arrest if they
stayed in Lee Park…

Violence did not just “break out” at Unite The Right.

Attendees were attacked—by Leftists and by the police.
They worked together as seamlessly as if they had
common leadership.

H/T Pic StarTribune

The pogrom unleashed following the Charlottesville event

is now sweeping over the Right/Conservative blogosphere
(including us) on an unprecedented scale. Silicon Valley
moguls (whose ancestors appear rarely to have been
present in America during the Civil War) apparently feel
liberated by this protest about the Robert E. Lee statue to
abuse their economic power and interdict political opinions
they dislike. This is of course is what happens when power
is shifted to groups not truly sharing the heritage of the
historic American nation.

What actually happened at Charlottesville is crucial to

evaluating the response. Righteous Liberal Professor Norm
Matloff has shrewdly suspected that CNN has mislead him
on the matter. Because of the wonder of cell phone
cameras and the internet the truth is readily available
outside the MSM. Here is a brief compendium of what
some of the sources I have found valuable have reported.
(Look at them quickly: the way things are going they will
all be shut down in a few days.)
Of course we are very proud of the essay
we carried by Charlottesville Survivor The
System Revealed: Antifa, Virginia
Politicians And Police Work Together To
Shut Down #UniteTheRight
…the police did not protect demonstrators
from Antifa and did little to prevent
confrontations. Attendees of the
demonstration, rather than walking a clear
path to the park, were instead forced to
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I would say the most effective overall coverage came from
our old favorite Occidental Dissent. Hunter Wallace
posted a flagship essay with videos on Monday
ANARCHY: The Truth About Charlottesville:
…the police in Charlottesville stood down
and didn’t do their jobs, and deliberately
allowed anarchy to reign in the streets.
They persuaded us to come to Lee Park
unarmed for our peaceful event while
secretly ceding control of the streets to
violent Antifa…
Gov. Terry McAuilffe, the Virginia State
Police and the Charlottesville Police
Department put ALL of our lives in
danger with their criminal negligence.
It is a miracle that no one was shot and a testament to the
restraint of the Patriot groups who came to Charlottesville
so heavily armed.
This includes a 26 minute video from by Patriot Media
worth watching because it demonstrates the passionate
resentment by sincere ordinary citizens of the
Charlottesville Police for their failure to stop the violence
and protect Free Speech.
Another post: Charlottesville 2.0: Marcus
Cicero’s Firsthand Experiences has three
videos on the event
“…some of the footage is epic, by the
way…All in all, it was a day of vicious
violence, savagery that proved beyond a
shadow of a doubt that the Left can never
be reconciled with”
Bottles, bricks, rocks, paint-bombs, and pepper
spray/chemicals of all fun kinds were deployed against us
throughout – urine bottles and feces also made
appearances thanks to the wonderful tolerance of the
Leftist enemies of everything we hold near and dear.
Another: Florida League of the South
Jumped By Poor Innocent Black Lives
Matter Protesters In Charlottesville
Here’s an incredible story about Charlottesville that
illustrates just how outrageously biased the fake news and
its disciplinary organizations like the SPLC has become:
A black guy named Dre Harris has raised
$120,000 on GoFundMe after claiming he
was “beaten by white supremacists” in
Charlottesville, VA…
Dre Harris wasn’t a victim though. He was attacked
because he was part of a small group of black guys who
followed our people back to the parking garage where they
were returning to their cars after the #UniteTheRight rally
was ordered to disperse by the police. He attacked one of
our friends in the parking garage with a mag lite and
busted his head wide open:
here is the video which proves Dre Harris
and several other black guys followed our
people back to the parking garage with
weapons before they attacked us.
This video makes absolutely plain the Police did indeed
expose the demonstrators to Leftist violence. (The Harris
scam is up to $166,000 now – not a great deal less than
VDARE.com’s annual revenue.)
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In some ways the most remarkable Occidental Dissent post
is ACLU Fires Back At Gov. Terry McAuliffe Aug 15
2017. This carries in full the The ACLU of Virginia’s
Executive Director Claire G. Gastanaga’s statement about
the Virginia Governor’s attempt to blame them for the
disturbance. Gastanaga said
“It is the responsibility of law enforcement
to ensure safety of both protesters and
counter-protesters. The policing on
Saturday was not effective in preventing
violence. I was there and brought concerns
directly to the secretary of public safety and
the head of the Virginia State Police about
the way that the barricades in the park
limiting access by the arriving
demonstrators and the lack of any physical
separation of the protesters and counter-
protesters on the street were contributing to
the potential of violence.
They did not respond.
In fact, law enforcement was standing
passively by, seeming to be waiting for
violence to take place, so that they
would have grounds to declare an
emergency, declare an ‘unlawful
assembly’ and clear the area.”
(VDARE.com emphasis)
Occidental Dissent adds
The police told the neutral Patriot groups in
Charlottesville that they wouldn’t intervene
or even send an ambulance when they
were attacked by Antifa as well. The fake
news and SPLC are spinning fabricated
narratives of a “Neo-Nazi attack” when the
truth is that this city descended into
chaos because the police allowed it to
happen for political reasons to stop the
#UniteTheRight rally. A leftwing mob
nearly killed Jason Kessler when he tried to
hold a press conference the following day.
(VDARE.com emphasis)
Conservative HQ adds some valuable perspective in Was
The Charlottesville Riot A Set-Up? 8/15/17
CHQ highlights on the biased behavior of
Charlottesville city officials, especially
Mayor Mike Signer (who once advocated
an Electoral College coup against
President-elect Trump) and documented
 anti-white racist Vice Mayor Wes
Bellamy.[Pictured below]
…in issuing his order allowing the rally to
be held at the Lee statue U.S. District
Judge Glen Conrad noted the city did not
try at the same time to move counter-
protesters to another location.
Clearly the city officials wanted the violent riot-prone
anarchist protesters downtown at the Lee statue.
CHQ goes on to make what I see as the decisive fact in
establishing the culpability of the Charlottesville
authorities
…the city and state police did nothing to
enforce Virginia’s anti-masking law.
Virginia Code 18.2-422 was passed as an anti-Ku Klux
Klan measure and says:
It shall be unlawful for any person over
sixteen years of age while wearing any
mask, hood or other device whereby a
substantial portion of the face is hidden or
covered so as to conceal the identity of the
wearer, to be or appear in any public place,
or upon any private property in this
Commonwealth
adding
Unmasking laws, when enforced, have
proved to be exceptionally effective
deterrents to violence by Antifa thugs, for
example at Auburn University in Alabama,
where police enforced Alabama’s anti-
masking law, ripping off masks and in
some cases arresting masked Antifa thugs.
It is bizarre, not to say extremely suspicious, that
Virginia’s Democratic Governor Terry McAuliffe and
Charlottesville city officials Mayor Mike Signer… It was
almost as if they wanted masked thugs to be running wild
in their city center.
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Almost equally damning:
Fox News reporter Doug McKelway was in
attendance during Saturday’s deadly
events in Charlottesville, VA, where he
reported that the police were called off as
soon as things started turning violent.
“But when the tear gas started to fly,
thrown by protesters, the police themselves
began to evacuate …They had a chance to
nip this thing in the bud and they chose not
to,“ reported McKelway.
Our friends at ZeroHedge report that the ACLU confirmed
that Charlottesville police were ordered to stand down,
which allowed the KKK and Antifa to meet face to face
with no interference.
(As noted above, this particularly annoyed the Virginia
ACLU, which supplied the link in the paragraph above.)
Conservative HQ concluded:
Knowing that the Antifa thugs were there
with cans filled with cement, baseball bats
and even improvised flame throwers why
would the police stand down?
One answer is because the Democrats wanted a riot to lay
at President Trump’s feet
I would add that the Treason Lobby wanted a pretext to
launch the next stage of their internet purge against the
Right, which clearly was long planned.
Angry White Dude’s astute writer RedStaterNYC states
plainly in The Establishment Strikes Back August 16 2017
what I think is no more than the truth
…the Charlottesville chaos was obviously a
setup designed specifically to corner the
white men into violent confrontation with
the Establishment’s hired goons, “Antifa”.
Then, they would use that violence as a
pretext to both suppress the rights to
peaceable assembly by the white men, and
then plaster the mayhem all over the
airwaves to smear them as a group of
unhinged, violent, “domestic terrorists”.
The Establishment’s muscle, the VA police, did their job,
and then their propaganda arm–the MSM–went right to
work hysterically demanding Trump demonize the white
men
He points to the aftermath:
 Since suppressing white men’s right to But consideration of the Barcelona atrocity completes the
peaceable assembly, they have now gone refutation. No automobile murderer would start his attack
to fully suppressing their rights to speech by colliding with one car and shunting it into another. He
and association. would aim at the crowd.

All of the prominent alt-right sites have been taken offline.
We are now on day three or four without most of them.
They’re just gone. And this is despite having DDOS-
protection services in place and very smart guys on the SA
side of things.
Clearly, we aren’t dealing with Antifa script-kiddies, but
state actors who are behind this effort to snuff this
insurgent pro-white group of young men out of existence
before TPTB lose any more power to them…
Two long videos here and here give vivid impressions of
lethal menace of the Antifa mob in Charlottesville. A week
later the Boston authorities easily minimized violence by
keeping the Antifa and their prey strictly apart.
This highlights the key question: why was
this not done in Virginia?

Expect this to go federal in short order…

They are clearly scared, they clearly aren’t

taking any chances any more…and they
clearly aren’t going to be stopped by
appeals to conscience.

This concurs remarkably closely with our “Charlottesville

Survivor”s conclusion:

The American government, at every level,

is waging a campaign of extermination
against its own people. If you protest
against it, law enforcement tries to get you
killed. And if you survive that, journalists try
to get you fired.

And we are told this is “freedom.”

Don’t kid yourself any longer . You are under occupation.

It was because the Left’s response to to the MAGA is
Thanks to the self-control of the Unite The Right people,
MAAG (Make America A Gulag). And they needed a
Charlottesville might well have passed off without giving
pretext.
the Pogrom leaders the big incident they needed. James
Kirkpatrick has refuted what they chose in Narrative
Collapse: Is Charlottesville’s James Alex Fields The Next (No doubt I have missed useful material. Please send it in.)
George Zimmerman? There is absolutely no doubt, as the
video in the piece shows, that if Fields had not reversed
out his attackers would murdered him.

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 Trump Impeachment More
Likely Than Removal: US Lawmaker
Mon Aug 21, 2017 6:42AM

US President Donald Trump’s

impeachment is more likely than his
immediate removal from office,
Democratic lawmaker Brad Sherman
says.

Sherman’s announcement to introduce articles of

impeachment against the president received a resounding
endorsement from constituents during a town hall meeting
on Sunday at Reseda High School in Reseda, California,
The Los Angeles Times reported.
San Fernando Valley Representative Brad Sherman holds a town hall
meeting at Reseda High School in Reseda, California, on Sunday.
Sherman read out the “high crimes and misdemeanors” (Photo by The Los Angeles Times)
Trump has committed during his six months in office for
which he thinks the president should be impeached and
dismissed. Several hundred people who attended the town Four in ten Americans now support Trump’s impeachment
hall cheered the announcement. and removal from office, according to a new poll.

The San Fernando Valley representative, however, also
tried to play down expectations for Trump’s immediate
removal, either by impeachment or through the 25th
Amendment which empowers members of an
administration to remove a president in the country’s
national interest.
For this, Trump’s entire Cabinet should back the dismissal,
but the president could remove any cabinet member he
deemed was turning against him, Sherman said.
“Impeachment is more likely than the 25th
Amendment, and it could take a few more
shocking things to happen,” Sherman said.
“We’re not there yet.”
.
The poll released Thursday by the Public Religion
Research Institute (PRRI) found that 40 percent of
Americans back impeaching Trump, compared to 30
percent who said the same in February.
Numerous surveys have shown that Trump is the least
popular US president early in a White House term since
World War ll.
The US Constitution stipulates that a president can be
impeached for committing "high crimes and
misdemeanors," but a majority vote in the House of the
Representatives, currently controlled by Republicans, is
required to impeach a president.

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 Trump’s Base Goes Ballistic Over His ‘Unlimited War’
The President Has Escalated Fights In Six Countries. Now His Supporters
Are Wondering What Happened To ‘America First.’
Lachlan Markay & Sam Stein
08.21.17 11:02 PM ET
President Donald Trump acknowledged on Monday night
that the new Afghanistan strategy he unveiled is a reversal
of his long-held objection to the very idea of having a U.S.
military presence in the country.
But in announcing a ramp up of U.S. forces with no
defined timeline for their departure, Trump tailored and
mangled and obscured the policy to such a degree so as to
make it both difficult to understand and—he hopes—
palatable to his base. At one point, he asserted that his
strategy was to have no publicly-stated strategy at all.
“We will not talk about numbers of troops or
our plans for further military activities,”
Trump told a crowd of servicemen at
Virginia’s Fort Myer on Monday.
President’s have made abrupt foreign policy reversals
before, often breaking with campaign pledges when
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presented with a new set of geopolitical realities. Trump’s
reversal stands out not just for the outright vehemence with
which he previously argued that America needed to put an
end to its 16-year-long war—Trump has called for total US
withdrawal from Afghanistan and for handing the country
over to an army of mercenaries—but also because of what
it says about his foreign policy at large. In the seven
months since taking office, Trump has expanded military
operations in Yemen, Syria, Iraq, Somalia, Libya and,
now, Afghanistan. And that’s in addition to an escalated
nuclear standoff with North Korea.
And so, when pitching the notion that the time had come to
enlarge America’s military presence, the president used a
variety of different selling points to re-frame the context.
This was, he stressed, an agenda based on counter-
terrorism principles and devoting American blood and
treasure purely to the country’s first-order military
interests.
"We are not nation-building again,” he said.
“We are killing terrorists.”
It was “America First” rhetoric plastered atop a military-
oriented interventionist policy. And it was done,
ostensibly, to ensure that Trump’s base, disillusioned with
decades of Republican-led foreign policy adventurism,
heard someone who remained skeptical.
 Trump And American History
Have Been Assassinated
Paul Craig Roberts
August 21, 2017
When Trump was elected I wrote that it was unlikely that
he would be successful in accomplishing the three
objectives for which he was elected—peace with Russia,
the return home of offshored US jobs, and effective limits
on non-white immigration—because these objectives
conflicted with the interests of those more powerful than
the president.
I wrote that Trump was unfamiliar with Washington and
would fail to appoint a government that would support his
goals. I wrote that unless the ruling oligarchy could bring
Trump under its control,Trump would be assassinated.
Trump has been brought under control by assassinating
him with words rather than with a bullet. With Steve
Bannon’s dismissal, there is now no one in Trump’s
government who supports him. He is surrounded by
Russophobic generals and Zionists.
But this is not enough for the liberal/progressive/left. They
want Trump impeached and driven from office.
Marjorie Cohn, whom I have always admired for her
defense of civil liberty, has disappointed me. She has
written in Truthout, which sadly has become more like
PropagandaOut, that the House must bring articles of
impeachment against Trump for his abuse of power and
before he launches a new civil war and/or nuclear war.
This is an extraordinary conclusion for a normally
intelligent person to reach. What power does Trump have?
How does he abuse his non-existent power? The ruling
Establishment has cut his balls off. He is neutered.
Powerless. He has been completely isolated within his own
government by the oligarchy.
Even more astonishingly, Marjorie Cohn, together with
100% of the liberal/progressive/left are blind to the fact
that they have helped the military/security complex destroy
the only leader who advocated peace instead of conflict
with the other major nuclear power. Cohn is so deranged
by hatred of Trump that she thinks it is Trump who will
bring nuclear war by normalizing relations with Russia.
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Clearly, the American liberal/progressive/left is no longer
capable of rational thought. Hate rules. There is nothing in
their lexicon but hate.
The American liberal/progressive/left has degenerated into
idiocy. They think that they are fighting “white
nationalism” in the White House and that Trump is a
champion or symbol of “white nationalism” and that there
will be no victory until Trump and all symbols of “white
nationalism” are obliterated.
Little do they understand. Ajamu Baraka spells it out for
them in CounterPunch. White Supremacy, he writes, is
inculcated into the cultural and educational institutions of
the West. Liberal and leftist whites are also white
supremacists, says Baraka, and Trump and the “alt-right”
are nothing but a superficial useful platform on which the
white supremacist American liberal/progressive/left can
parade its self-righteousness. Ajamu Baraka’s conclusion
is “that in order for the world to live, the 525-year-old
white supremacist Pan-European, colonial/capitalist
patriarchy must die.” It is not difficult to see in this
statement that genocide is the solution for the white plague
upon humanity. Little wonder the “alt-right” gets exercised
by the anti-white propaganda of Identity Politics.
Non-white immigration will finish off the shards of
remaining European civilization. All current demographics
indicate that all of Europe and North America will sooner
than you expect be occupied by non-white majorities.
The problem is not so much the immigrants themselves as
it is that they are taught to hate whites by white
liberal/progressive/leftists. The destruction of statues will
not end with Robert E. Lee’s. Thomas Jefferson and
George Washington are next. They owned slaves, whereas
the Lee family’s slaves were freed by will three years prior
to the Lincoln’s invasion of the South. The Washington,
Jefferson, and Lincoln memorials will have to be destroyed
also as they, too, are momuments to racism. Indeed,
according to the Identity Politics of the
Liberal/progressive/left the Declaration of Independence
and the US Constitution are White Supremacy documents
written by racists. This doubles the indictment against
Thomas Jefferson and adds all of the Founding Fathers to
the indictment. All are guilty of institutionalizing White
Supremacy in America.
The uninformed insouciant Average American may think
that this is a joke. But no. It is the orthodoxy of the white
American intellectual class. It is taught in all the
universities.
In Atlanta they are talking about erasing the heads of the
South’s generals carved into Stone Mountain. Mount
Rushmore in South Dakota will be next. It has carved into
it the heads of Washington, Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt,
and Abraham Lincoln. All racists, and Roosevelt was a
colonialist and imperialist to boot. Lincoln was the worst
racist of all.
Economist/historian Thomas DiLorenzo reminds us that
“to his dying day, Lincoln was busy plotting
the deportation of all the black people in
America, including the soon-to-be-freed
slaves.”
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2015/11/thomas-
dilorenzo/next-target-blacklivesmatter/
The following statements are all statements that are in Abe
Lincoln’s Collected Works:
“I have said that the separation of the races
is the only perfect preventive of
amalgamation [of the white and black
races] . . . Such separation . . . must be
affected by colonization” [sending blacks to
Liberia or Central America]. (Collected
Works of Abraham Lincoln vol. II, p. 409).
“Let us be brought to believe it is morally
right, and . . . favorable to . . . our interest,
to transfer the African to his native clime.”
(Collected Works, vol. II, p. 409).
“I am not nor ever have been in favor of
bringing about in any way the social and
political equality of the white and black
races. I am not nor ever have been in favor
of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor
qualifying them to hold office, nor to
intermarry with white people” (Collected
Works, vol. III, pp. 145-146).
How did Lincoln in the face of his own words and deeds
get to be the hero who liberated blacks from slavery? The
Emancipation Proclamation did not free a single slave, as
Lincoln’s Secretary of State complained. It was a war
measure that only applied to slaves under the jurisdiction
of the Confederacy in hopes of fomenting a slave rebellion
that would pull Southern soldiers off the front lines to rush
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to the protection of their wives and children. In 1861 the
year the North invaded the South, President Lincoln said,
“I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to
interfere with the institution of slavery in the
States where it exists. I believe I have no
lawful right to do so, and I have no
inclination to do so” (First Inaugural
Address). In 1862 during the war, Lincoln
wrote to Horace Greeley: “If I could save
the Union without freeing any slave I would
do it.”
Lincoln was elevated to the undeserved position of black
liberator by the historical lies made up by white
liberal/progressive/leftists who hate the South. They are so
consumed by hate that they do not understand that the hate
that they teach will also devour them. They should read
Jean Raspail’s book, The Camp of the Saints. People
taught racial hate do not differentiate between good and
bad members of the people they are taught to hate. All are
equally guilty. As one Third Worlder wrote to me, “all
whites are guilty,” even those such as myself who speak
out against the West’s atrocities against the darker-skinned
peoples.
The Amerian liberal/progressive/left has long been
engaged in demonizing white people exactly as Nazis
demonized Jews and Communists demonized capitalists.
One would think that the liberal/progressive/leftists would
be aware of what happened to the Jews and to the Russian,
Chinese and East European capitalists and bourgeois
middle class. Why do the liberal/progressive/leftists think
they will escape the consequences of teaching hate?
What has Charlottesville taught us other than that the hate
expressed by the liberal/progressive/left exceeds the hate
expressed by the white nationalists themselves. When it
comes to hate, the White Supremacists are out-gunned by
the liberal/progressive/left.
Hate is the hallmark of the American liberal
/progressive/left, and hate always ends in violence.
The Northern ruling economic interests had no interest in
devoting resources to a war to free slaves. They wanted the
Union held together so that there would be no competition
for the lands west of the Mississippi and so there would be
an agrarian sector to which to market northern
manufactured goods protected by tariffs against lower
priced British goods.
The northern work force didn’t want any freed slaves
either. The large number of recent Irish immigrants driven
out of Ireland by the British starvation policy called
Lincoln’s war “a rich man’s war and a poor man’s fight.”
What freed slaves meant for the northern working class
was a larger labor supply and lower wages. In 1863 when
the Republicans passed the draft, the Irish in Detroit and
New York rioted. The rioters took out their anger and
frustration on northern blacks, many of whom were
lynched. It is not clear to me whether more backs were
lynched in the North during the war or in the South during
Reconstruction. If there are any memorials to the Irish,
those racist statues will have to be taken down also.
Perhaps even the Statue of Liberty is racist.
And we haven’t yet heard from Native Americans. In his
excruciating history, The Long Death: The Last Days of
the Plains Indians, Ralph K. Andrist describes the
genocide of the Plains Indians by Lincoln’s Civil War
generals, William Tecumseh Sherman, Phillip Sheridan,
Grenville Dodge and other of the first war criminals of the
modern age who found it a lot easier to conduct warfare
against Southern women and children than against armed
troops. Against the Native Americans Lincoln’s generals
now conducted a policy of genocide that was even more
horrible and barbaric than Sheridan’s destruction of
Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley.
Lincoln historian Professor Thomas DiLorenzo provides a
synopsis of the genocide of Native Americans here:
http://www.independent.org/publications/tir/article.asp?a=
803
During the eight year presidency of General Ulysses S.
Grant, 1868-76, the Union generals conducted a policy of
extermination against the Native Americans. Entire
villages, every man, woman, and child, were wiped out.
The Union Army’s scorched earth policy starved to death
those Indians who escaped fire and sword.
Professor DiLorenzo writes:
“Sherman and Sheridan’s troops conducted
more than one thousand attacks on Indian
villages, mostly in the winter months, when
families were together. The U.S. Army’s
actions matched its leaders’ rhetoric of
extermination. As mentioned earlier,
Sherman gave orders to kill everyone and
everything, including dogs, and to burn
everything that would burn so as to
increase the likelihood that any survivors
would starve or freeze to death. The
soldiers also waged a war of extermination
on the buffalo, which was the Indians’ chief
source of food, winter clothing, and other
goods (the Indians even made fish hooks
out of dried buffalo bones and bow strings
out of sinews). By 1882, the buffalo were
all but extinct.”
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Indian warriors who were captured were subjected to the
type of trials and executions that the George W. Bush
regime gave Saddam Hussein:
“hundreds of Indians who had been taken
prisoner were subjected to military ‘trials’
lasting about ten minutes each, according
to Nichols (1978). Most of the adult male
prisoners were found guilty and sentenced
to death—not based on evidence of the
commission of a crime, but on their mere
presence at the end of the fighting.”
In other words, POWs were executed, for which the US
executed German officers at Nuremberg.
The Union massacre of the Indians began before the Civil
War was won. DiLorenzo reports:
“One of the most famous incidents of
Indian extermination, known as the Sand
Creek Massacre, took place on November
29, 1864. There was a Cheyenne and
Arapaho village located on Sand Creek in
southeastern Colorado. These Indians had
been assured by the U.S. government that
they would be safe in Colorado. The
government instructed them to fly a U.S.
flag over their village, which they did, to
assure their safety. However, another Civil
War ‘luminary,’ Colonel John Chivington,
had other plans for them as he raided the
village with 750 heavily armed soldiers.
One account of what happened appears in
the book Crimsoned Prairie: The Indian
Wars (1972) by the renowned military
historian S. L. A. Marshall, who held the
title of chief historian of the European
Theater in World War II and authored thirty
books on American military history.
“Chivington’s orders were: ‘I want you to kill
and scalp all, big and little.’ ( Marshall
1972, 37). Then, despite the display of the
U.S. flag and white surrender flags by
these peaceful Indians, Chivington’s troops
‘began a full day given over to blood-lust,
orgiastic mutilation, rapine, and
destruction—with Chivington looking on
and approving’ (Marshall 1972, 38).
Marshall notes that the most reliable
estimate of the number of Indians killed is
‘163, of which 110 were women and
children’ (p. 39).
“Upon returning to his fort, Chivington ‘and
his raiders demonstrated around Denver,
waving their trophies, more than one
hundred drying scalps. They were
acclaimed as conquering heroes, which
 was what they had sought mainly.’ One
Republican Party newspaper announced,
‘Colorado soldiers have once again
covered themselves with glory’ (Marshall
1972, 39).
DiLorenzo reports:
“The books by Brown and Marshall show
that the kind of barbarism that occurred at
Sand Creek, Colorado, was repeated many
times during the next two decades.”
General Sherman, a war criminal far in excess of anything
the Nazis were able to produce, wrote to his wife early in
the Civil War that his purpose was
“extermination, not of soldiers alone, that is
the least part of the trouble, but the
[Southern] people.”
His wife responded:
Conduct a “war of extermination” and drive
all Southerners “like the swine into the sea.
May we carry fire and sword into their
states till not one habitation is left standing”
( Walters 1973, 61).
DiLorenzo observes that Sherman did his best to take his
wife’s advice.
The extreme hatred and barbarity to which the Northern
war criminals had subjected Southern non-combatants
broke like fury over the Plains Indians. Distinguished
military historians have described the orders given to
General Custer by Phillip Sheridan as
“the most brutal orders ever published to
American troops.”
Clearly, if we are taking down statues, we can’t stop with
Robert E. Lee. We will have to take down the Statues of
Lincoln, Grant, Sherman, Sheridan, and all the rest of the
Union war criminals who implemented what they
themselves called
“the final solution to the Indian problem.”
The designation of the northern invasion of the South as a
civil war is itself a lie. The term “civil war” is used to
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cover up the fact that the North initiated a war of
aggression, thus removing the sin of war from the North. A
civil war is when two sides fight for control of the
government. However, the South had no interest or intent
to control the government in Washington. All the Southern
states did is to use the constitutional right to end their
voluntary association with other states in the United States.
The South fought because the South was invaded.
Southerners did not regard the War of Northern
Aggression as a civil war. They clearly understood that the
war was a war of Northern Aggression.
As brutal as Lincoln’s war criminal armies were to
Southern civilians, the inhumanity of the brutality toward
Southern people escalated during the long period called
Reconstruction. The Northern ruling Republicans did their
best to subject the South to rule by the blacks while
Northern “carpetbaggers” stole everything that they could.
No white Southern woman was safe from rape. “Civil
War” buffs have told me that there were southern towns in
which all the women were hidden in the woods outside of
town to protect them from the Republican Union soldiers
and the former slaves that the Republican agents of
Reconstruction encouraged. What happened to the South at
the hands of the Republicans was no different from what
the Russians and Americans did in Germany when the
Wehrmacht surrendered. The demonized KKK was an
organization that arose to protect what remained of the
South’s honor from unbearable humiliations.
Consequently, for decades no Southern person would vote
Republican. The Democrats lost the “solid South” by aping
the Reconstruction Republicans and again bringing
Reconstruction to the South, using federal force instead of
persuasion.
No real facts are any longer taught in the US about the so-
called “Civil War.” In the place of the actual history stands
only lies.
In an accompanying guest contribution, economist/
historian Professor Thomas DiLorenzo explains the real
reason that Lincoln invaded the South. He shows that
Lincoln’s success in conquering the South destroyed the
political character of the United States that had been
formed by the Founding Fathers. He also shows that the
Union policy of conducting war against civilians created
the precedents for the massive war crimes of the 20th and
21st centuries. Seldom does the opportunity arise to
acquire an enlightening and accurate history lesson from
one article. That is what Professor DiLorenzo has
delivered.
 Trump May Not Finish His
Term But the Assassination Complex Will Live On
Jeremy Scahill
August 21 2017, 1:09 p.m.
Donald Trump’s speech on Afghanistan will briefly turn
the media spotlight onto America’s longest war. Much of
the media analysis will undoubtedly be about how the
speech impacts Trump politically. Given the events of the
past week, it seems unlikely that Democratic pundits
will repeat their inane praise of the State of the Union
address, in which Trump apparently became presidential
for the first time. But this speech should serve as a moment
to seriously examine the trajectory of the U.S. war
machine from 9/11 to the present.
Amid the deluge of scandal, incompetence, and bigotry
emanating from the Trump White House, the relative calm
of the Obama era seems like a far-off galaxy. The reality
that Trump may not even finish a full term as president,
either due to removal or resignation, means that the palace
intrigue must be reported on thoroughly by the press. But a
dangerous consequence of the overwhelming, obsessive
focus on the daily Trump affairs is a virtual dearth of
coverage on the permanent, unelected institutions of U.S.
power, namely the military and the CIA.
Spend just a moment studying moves of the Pentagon and
Langley during the Trump era, and you will find that very
little has changed in their post-9/11 course. Covert
operations continue unabated throughout the Arab world
and, increasingly, in Somalia. The U.S. remains in Iraq and
Afghanistan and is becoming entrenched more deeply in
Syria. If anything, the military and CIA are less restrained
and are in greater control of decisions — that arguably
create policy rather than implement it — than they were
under Obama. And civilians are being killed at a greater
rate under Trump, particularly in Iraq and Syria. There are
reports that Trump has delegated more unilateral authority
to the commanders than his predecessor and has relaxed
rules ostensibly put in place to minimize civilian deaths.
He has surrounded himself with generals who have spent
their lives studying and preparing for war and know how
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to marshal the resources needed for overt and covert
campaigns. This — combined with Trump’s questionable
sanity, his pathological addiction to television and Twitter,
and his compulsive need to respond to random pundits and
congressmen at all hours — removes a crucial component
of civilian oversight of the world’s most lethal force.
Years from now, when honest historians and scholars
examine the Trump moment, it is certain that among the
greatest beneficiaries of his presidency will be the military
and CIA. But it would be a mistake to attribute this
exclusively to Trump. During the 2016 presidential
campaign, Trump, Hillary Clinton — and yes, even Bernie
Sanders — all made clear that they supported and would
continue the “targeted killing” program.
George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, and
Dick Cheney used 9/11 to take the leash
off the most unsavory forces in the military
and CIA. They empowered the elite Joint
Special Operations Command to wage a
global, covert war replete with operations
kept secret even from U.S. ambassadors
and the State Department. The CIA set up
black sites and conducted heinous acts of
torture with the White House’s blessing.
While Barack Obama did roll back some of the most
blatant activities enthusiastically endorsed by Bush and
Cheney, he was also a careful manager of empire and in
key ways, served as a launderer for operations of some of
the most aggressive forces in the U.S. arsenal. He used his
credibility among liberals — and the derision hurled at him
by conservatives who characterized him as an Islamic-
radical-friendly socialist — to legitimize assassination and
covert offensive military actions as lawful, moral, and
necessary. The patently false allegations from the right that
Obama was somehow a dove only served to undermine the
severity of military and paramilitary actions he authorized
and expanded. In reality, Obama teed up the special
operations forces and spooks for Trump to (inadvertently)
guide to a new golden age.
Although much attention has been paid to the technology
of remote killing, the focus on drones has been in many
ways a distraction, a surrogate for what should be a broad
examination of the state’s power over life and death.
Whether extrajudicial killings are carried out by drones or
manned aircraft or special forces operators on the ground,
the result is the same. Drones are a tool, not a policy. The
policy is assassination.
In the waning months of the Obama presidency, the
administration slowly and inadequately revealed some
details on the secret drone-based U.S. assassination
program. It asserted that a small number of civilians had
been killed, and that drone strikes were lawful and
generally accurate. Yet by the time Trump took the oath as
the 45th American president, the public still remained
largely in the dark about the secret process used to decide
whose name gets placed on the kill list and the standards
used to determine if those people will receive the death
penalty without even the pretense of a trial. There was no
public accounting by the Obama administration for the
countless special operations ground raids conducted across
the globe. Those raids and the drone strikes continue, but
Trump and his advisers have only been asked about it
when U.S. personnel are killed.
The Obama administration boasted its efforts to create a
“durable legal and policy framework to guide our
counterterrorism actions,” yet it shrouded that framework
in secrecy, precluding a full democratic debate over the
government’s policy of remotely killing unarmed and
unknown people. There is zero chance any such debate
will happen under Trump, so the best information available
to the public on how the assassination program functions is
from the end of Obama’s time in office.
When Obama publicly stated that a small number of
civilians had been killed in drone strikes, he said he felt
“profound regret,” specifically about Western hostages
accidentally killed in a strike on Al Qaeda. In the end,
Obama told the public as many as 116 civilians may have
been killed in drone strikes conducted during his time in
office. But his statistics were highly misleading. As secret
U.S. military documents obtained by The Intercept
confirmed, the Obama administration as a matter of policy
classified unknown persons killed in airstrikes as “enemies
killed in action,” even if they were not the intended targets.
During a five-month period in Afghanistan, for example,
nearly 90 percent of those killed in one high-value
campaign were not intended targets. Between January
2012 and February 2013, U.S. special operations airstrikes
killed more than 200 people, only 35 of whom were
intended targets. All were labeled EKIA, enemies killed in
action.
After many years of warfare, the U.S. military has
developed extensive intelligence networks on the ground
in Afghanistan. Outside of declared war zones, in Yemen
and Somalia, the Executive’s killing program relies on far
weaker intelligence sources, especially signals intelligence,
which the military’s own documents acknowledged is
inferior and unreliable. As a result, the accuracy of its
targeting judgments in those regions is likely to be even
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worse. According to one classified slide, as of June 2012,
Obama had authorized the assassination of 16 individuals
in Yemen. Yet that year, U.S. strikes killed more than 200
people in that country. The White House has never
explained who the overwhelming majority of the dead
were and why they were killed.
In 1976, following Church Committee recommendations
regarding allegations of assassination plots carried out by
U.S. intelligence agencies, President Gerald Ford signed
an executive order banning “political assassination.”
Jimmy Carter subsequently issued a new order
strengthening the prohibition by dropping the word
“political” and extending it to include persons “employed
by or acting on behalf of the United States.” In 1981,
Ronald Reagan signed Executive Order 12333, which
remains in effect today. The language seems clear enough:
“No person employed by or acting on
behalf of the United States Government
shall engage in, or conspire to engage in,
assassination.”
Congress, despite commissioning a report on the subject
from the Congressional Research Service, has avoided
legislating the issue or even defining the word
“assassination.” Whether one calls the murder a targeted
killing or a signature strike, an extrajudicial killing carried
out by agents of the U.S. government of a person who
poses no imminent and immediate threat to citizens of the
United States, in a country with which the United States is
not at war, is an assassination.
The Obama administration, by institutionalizing a policy
of drone-based killings of individuals judged to pose a
threat to national security — without indictment or trial,
through secret processes — bequeathed to our political
culture, and thus to Donald Trump, a policy of
assassination, in direct violation of Executive Order 12333
and, moreover, the Fifth Amendment of the U.S.
Constitution. To date, at least seven U.S. citizens are
known to have been killed under this policy, including a
16-year-old boy. Only one American, the radical preacher
Anwar al-Awlaki, was said to have been the “intended
target” of a strike.
Trump may not finish his term as president, but the CIA
and the Pentagon will. The unprecedented powers these
forces have attained through Democratic and Republican
administrations, and continue to accumulate under Trump,
should be a permanent focus of media coverage, no matter
what horrid bigotry Trump tweets or idiotic quip he makes.
History has shown that the unelected national security
apparatus does not give back its powers easily.
Many liberals ignored these issues during the Obama
presidency, and now they are consumed with the Trump
disaster’s 24-hour spectacle of bread and circuses. By all
means, let’s have aggressive reporting on the Trump the growing authority of the United States’s most lethal
administration, but not at the total expense of monitoring forces.
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 Bannon's Revenge: Breitbart Threatens To
"Rally Votes For Impeachment" If Trump Moves Left
By Tyler Durden
Aug 21, 2017 3:22 PM
Last Friday Bannon boldly declared:
"I’m leaving the White House and going to
war for Trump against his opponents... on
Capitol Hill, in the media, and in corporate
America."
But, according to a new note from Vanity Fair, that "war"
could end up ensnaring the President himself should he
decide to succumb to what Bannon views as intense
internal White House pressure, from the likes of Jared
Kushner, Ivanka and Gary Cohn, among others, to move to
the Left on key policy issues.
Quoting editor Matt Boyle, Vanity Fair reports that
Breitbart views itself as the key reason that the Russia
scandal hasn't gained traction on the right but that they are
"prepared to help Paul Ryan rally votes for
impeachment" should future Trump policies deviate too
far to the Left.
“We’re in a loud bar celebrating the return
of our captain!” Breitbart’s Washington
editor Matt Boyle told me on Friday night.
Breitbart’s defense of Trump has so far
helped keep the Russia scandal from
gaining traction on the right. But that could
swiftly change if Trump, under the influence
of Kushner and Cohn, deviates too far from
the positions he ran on. If that happens,
said one high-level Breitbart staffer, “We’re
prepared to help Paul Ryan rally votes
for impeachment.”
Of course, as media reports have speculated for months
now, the real targets of Bannon's war are the "globalists" in
the White House which, at least in Bannon's mind, include
Ivanka, Jared, Gary Cohn and National Security Advisor
H.R. McMaster, among others.
Bannon’s main targets are the West Wing’s
coterie of New York Democrat
“globalists”—Ivanka Trump, Jared
Kushner and former Goldman Sachs
president Gary Cohn—as well as the
“hawks,” comprised of National
Security Adviser H.R McMaster and his
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deputy, Dina Powell. “He wants to beat
their ideas into submission,” Breitbart
News Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow told me.
“Steve has a lot of things up his sleeve.”
The chaotic, war-torn West Wing of the past six months
will be prologue, but the coming struggles will be as
personal as they are ideological, waged not with leaks but
with slashing Breitbart banners. On Sunday, Breitbart took
renewed aim at McMaster, with a headline claiming he
advocated “Quran Kissing.”
But the biggest target of all is squarely on the back of
Jared Kushner, Trump's son-in-law who Bannon
affectionately describes as a "dope" with "highly
questionable political instincts."
But most of all, there’s a deep animosity
between Bannon and Kushner,
amplified by a lack of respect. Bannon
finds Kushner’s political instincts highly
questionable. “He said Jared is a dope,”
one Bannon ally recalled.
The two clashed fiercely on personnel decisions and policy
debates, both domestic and international, many of which
Bannon lost.
But Bannon, who was the only West Wing advisor to
publicly support the president’s response to the violence in
Charlottesville, is especially galled at being scapegoated as
an anti-Semite in its wake. “It’s one of the attacks he takes
most personally because it’s not true,” a Breitbart staffer
told me. Bannon’s allies lay out a more complicated
backstory. Bannon, they say, lobbied Trump aggressively
to move America’s embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to
Jerusalem, but was blocked by Kushner. And, according to
three Bannon allies, Bannon pushed a tougher line against
the Palestinians than Kushner did. In May, when
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas visited the White
House, Bannon stayed home. “I’m not going to breathe the
same air as that terrorist,” Bannon texted a friend.
Meanwhile, the next phase of Bannon's revenge has
already started with last night's headline story:
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 Juan Williams: McConnell
And Trump Headed For Showdown
By Juan Williams
08/21/17 06:00 AM EDT
Steve Bannon’s battles — death matches against national
security advisor H.R. McMaster and top economic advisor
Gary Cohn, among others — rocked the White House until
Bannon tapped out Friday.
But the fight with long-term, potentially crippling
consequences pits President Trump against Senate
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky).
That ongoing fight has a few in the Republican majority on
Capitol Hill privately raising the prospect of a formal
censure of Trump over his response to the violence in
Charlottesville, Va.
Censure of a Republican president by a Republican
Congress remains highly unlikely. The prospect of
impeachment or a concerted effort to pressure the
president to resign over broader issues — including
allegations of collusion with Russia during his campaign,
or the suggestion he could have obstructed justice by his
firing of FBI director James Comey — is even more
remote.
Even so, fear of the populist president is giving way to
anger among Senate Republicans. First of all, they can’t
explain the politics of Trump going after the Republican
leader of the Senate. Why is the president opening the
question of whether McConnell should resign?
Why is the president delighting in taking down Republican
senators? In recent days, he has labeled Sen. Jeff Flake
(Ariz.) as “Flake Jeff Flake,” and derided Sen. Lindsey
Graham (S.C.) as a “publicity seeking" liar.
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The lack of answers is why GOP Sen. Bob Corker (Tenn.),
who had previously been supportive of the president, now
says openly Trump has failed to demonstrate “stability” or
“competence.”
Trump will need votes from these senators to get anything
done in Congress. Even now, almost none of them are
willing to go on television to defend the president.
McConnell’s strategy — walking away from fights with
the president when possible — is an act of restraint that
can only last so long.
At the moment, McConnell sees more advantage in not
fighting back.
For now, he is keeping his distance from the president to
protect his Senate majority. For example, McConnell did
not name Trump when he issued a statement on Trump’s
appalling failure to assign blame to the neo-Nazis and
white supremacists he has stirred into violent action.
But there is no way for McConnell to look the other way
on special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into
possible ties between Trump and Russia. Again, the
president is damaging the GOP brand ahead of the 2018
elections.
In the short term, McConnell also wants to protect his
GOP caucus from the president’s failed legislative agenda
and the potentially ugly mud-fight in September over the
budget, the debt ceiling and an infrastructure spending bill.
McConnell’s shield against the president first came into
view when the majority leader kept the Senate in pro
forma session over the August vacation break.
That move blocked the president from making a recess
appointment of a new attorney general. And it gave
McConnell added favor with Capitol Hill Republicans by
making it harder for Trump to fire former senator and
current attorney general Jeff Sessions.
Next, McConnell gave his Senate Republicans an answer
to Trump’s self-serving rants about Congress’s failure to
repeal ObamaCare.
“Our new president, of course, has not
been in this line of work before,” McConnell
said earlier this month in a speech. “And I
think he had excessive expectations about
how quickly things happen in the
democratic process.”
Trump had every reason to let McConnell’s words roll off
his back. But the president could not help firing back.
“Senator Mitch McConnell said I had
‘excessive expectations,’ but I don't think
so,” Trump tweeted. “After 7 years of
hearing Repeal & Replace, why not done?”
And Trump kept punching:
“Mitch, get back to work and put Repeal &
Replace, Tax Reform & Cuts and a great
infrastructure Bill on my desk for signing.
You can do it!” the president said in
another jab via Twitter.
Trump is betting that he can turn Republican voters against
McConnell because the GOP’s base sees McConnell as
part of the establishment it sent Trump to D.C. to blow up.
Trump is getting support from conservative radio
commentators in his war against McConnell.
My Fox News colleague Sean Hannity tweeted at
McConnell,
“YOU are a WEAK, SPINELESS leader
who does not keep his word and you need
to Retire!"
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A July PPP poll found that voters give McConnell an 18
percent job approval rating and a 58 percent disapproval
rating. And the whole Congress had a 75 percent
disapproval poll number.
So even as disapproval of Trump’s job performance has
risen to 55 percent, according to the Real Clear Politics
average, he found short-term satisfaction in throwing dirt
on McConnell in the hope of looking good by comparison.
It may be working with some GOP voters, but so far,
McConnell’s GOP caucus is sticking with the Kentuckian.
“Passing POTUS's legislative agenda
requires a team effort,” Sen. John Cornyn
of Texas, the number two Republican in the
Senate, tweeted in McConnell’s defense.
“No one is more qualified than Mitch
McConnell to lead Senate in that effort.”
Let’s not forget it was McConnell who used the so-called
“nuclear option” to hand Trump the only real win of his
presidency by confirming Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme
Court.
And that was after McConnell kept a Supreme Court seat
open for a year by refusing to hold hearings, much less a
vote, on Merrick Garland, then-President Obama’s
nominee to fill Antonin Scalia’s seat on the bench.
That open seat gave Trump a strong campaign talking
point — his promise to appoint a conservative to the court.
It wasn’t too long ago that Republicans lived by Ronald
Reagan’s 11th commandment: Thou shall not speak ill of a
fellow Republican. But Trump, beginning with his name-
calling during the GOP primaries, did away with all
political niceties.
That’s why the Trump-McConnell version of the
“Survivor” reality show will be topic number one on every
media political shout-fest this fall.
 Power Elites Launch
Civil War Against Trump
By Sartre, BATR -
August 21, 2017
What you are witnessing is a full court press to remove
Donald Trump from the Presidency. The endless dribble
from every corner of the gate keeping controlled media,
the careerist bipartisan hacks, the diseased swamp ridden
bureaucrat rats and the cowards who wave the flag of the
establishment globalist order, all have banned together to
take out the America First agenda. Trump was elected by
populist discontent, but is now being betrayed by every
faction who fears meaningful change in a corrupt political
system that rules over the common man. Make no mistake
about the stakes. A forced resignation, a contrived
impeachment or an assassination for all to see are now in
play. The establishment will not settle for anything less.
The people be damned, it is time to show just who rules
the United States.
Any sane person with a healthy constitution cannot watch
ANY of the reporting about the staged Charlottesville
confrontation. The Orwellian newspeak that echoes the
disinformation that White Supremacists composed the
Unite the Right rally at Emancipation Park is pure
malicious hogwash. The ACLU and the Rutherford
Institute issued a joint letter to protect the First
Amendment rights of these activists. The U.S. District
Court of Western Virginia ruled in favor of a temporary
injunction to allow the rally to be permitted.
The only narrative that is allowed to permeate the
collective consciousness of the “PC” culture is that the
Black Lives Matter and their social warrior confederates
where simply demonstrating against the hate embodied in
white Christian traditionalists. Upon this monumental
distortion of reality, a country in conflict is supposed to
mobilize in support of the progressive left and condemn
anyone who opposes their rewriting of history.
Folks, the plain simple truth is that the blame for violence
wholly resides in the bought and paid for anarchist thugs
who draws their own tangible bigotry from the Soros’
check book. Get real. The actual racists populate the loony
ANTIFA left. Their devotion to Marxist doctrine may not
be understood by the mentally maladjusted, but the elitist
manipulators orchestrate their fantasy legions of
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malcontents to bully, club or burn down any opposition to
their brave new world. The identity politics dogma
demands that no other conviction is allowed and hostility
towards anyone on the right is the cardinal doctrine.
The New Nationalist presents a position that may well be
banned from the internet in the near future so watch the
videos while they are still available.
“To be clear- TNN is sanity nationalist not
white nationalist. Sanity nationalists are
wide awake about anti-white slurs and
won’t stand for it. We hate the insane. We
hate untermensch. We love
ubermensch. Sanity nationalists are pro-
white in the sense of being uplifting and
protective- but untermensch are excluded.
However at this stage there are many whites in America
who are hardly supreme or high culture. In fact they need
to be caged off and segregated into their own Ghost Ship
satanic hell away from the sane. There they can conduct
crocodile tear charity scams while their world burns down
around them. The whites shown in these now
commonplace videos are far from making the sanity cut at
this point. Yes there is also a brood of insane black
enemies and untermensch, but what to do with the “Insane
White Question”? This untermensch will be the enemy for
several generations to come. For some, there may be
longer term hope in re-education, but the prognosis is
grim.”
Now for those who cannot see past the drumbeat that the
alt-right is the embodiment of all thinks hateful, heard the
assessment from Mike Adams – WAKE UP, people! Alt-
Left and Alt-Right are run by the same forces… the goal is
“divide and conquer”.
“The goal of the Alt-Left and Alt-Right
movements is to divide and conquer
America through hatred and media lies that
push false narratives for political gain.
As evidence of all this, note that Jason Kessler, the
organizer of the Charlottesville event, actually worked for
Obama and the Occupy movement just a few months ago.
This man is a professional activist and social engineer who
whips up big events on the world’s stage in order to
achieve highly visible outcomes that can be seized by the
mainstream media to condemn Trump supporters by
labeling them all racists and “KKK.”
Much of the organized Left is funded either directly or
indirectly by George Soros, the same radical left-wing
operator who undercut freedom and liberty across
numerous European countries. He’s the funding source
behind ThinkProgress and 200+ other radical left-wing
groups that constantly lie, defame and smear conservatives
in order to sow hatred and division.
Radical Alt-Right groups, similarly, are led
by operatives who are very often working
directly for the CIA and FBI. Nearly all the
KKK racism you see on the news is
contrived, elaborate theater carried out by
these operatives.”
The puppet masters pulling the strings of civil unrest are
intent upon destroying the America First movement by
isolating the few genuine patriots who remain in the
Trump administration.
With the departure of Stephen K. Bannon from the White
House, the voice against the neocon and neolib
skullduggery, along with the entrenched Obama holdovers
is silenced. Ann Coulter blames media for Steve Bannon’s
firing, but the true pressure operatives are the embedded
government careerists, who views Trump’s campaign
linguists as an existential threat to their ruling over the
process of federal hegemony that enslaves all those
deplorable citizens.
The totalitarian collectivist society is the only beneficiary
of a social politically correct despotism. Even as Michael
Savage Warns: Civil War Could Break Out If Trump Is
Removed From Office, cites the obvious, most people
relish their delusional ignorance as a sign of pride of
inbred stupidity.
“So far it has appeared that if there is to be
another civil war, it will likely be started by
the Left. That has been made abundantly
clear since Trump took office. The political
fueled violence that we’ve seen on the
streets of America this year has been
initiated almost exclusively by the far left,
and we hardly ever saw that kind of
behavior from conservatives when the
legislative and executive branches were
run by liberals. They’ve clearly been the
most aggressive and intolerant force in
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America for a long time, so they are the
most likely to spark a war.”
The accurate difference between the intolerant alt-left
mindless clones is that they are deep-rooted in group think,
while the alt-right is populated by individualists endowed
with independent thought. Facts do not exist, much less
accepted by the extreme nihilists who preach their no hate
drivel, while practicing the most intense discrimination
against all things conservative found within Western
Civilization.
Recollection of an honest representation of history is the
enemy of the power brokers, who manage the social unrest
so that the stated Trump agenda can be flushed down the
crapper of their fecal matter multicultural society.
All the signs point to the demise of the Trump
restructuring. However, the millions of disgruntled cohorts
who voted against the comrades of the establishment will
be faced with angry outrage if Trump is removed from
office. Has Trump Already Been Indicted? Civil War
Could Follow If Deep State Takes Out Duly Elected
President sums up the consequences.
“If they are successful in bringing down this
duly elected, constitutional president, as
the Patribotics.blog suggests, the
proverbial stuff is going to hit the fan.
Trump supporters, Republicans,
conservatives and even some
Independents are going to see his coup as
proof that all bets are off, that there is no
legitimacy left in American government,
and that all of “them” who comprise the
Washington political establishment are the
real enemies of freedom.”
President Trump is in a box and the walls are closing in. If
he is crushed, it will be because he refused to fire, in mass;
the back-stabbers he brought into his administration or the
inherited conspirators that remained from previous
regimes.
The pitiful response from the entire establishment is that
they are following the communal pressure to abandon the
Trump restoration program. What you are watching is the
systematic disassembly of the popular will by the ruling
elite.
America has become a failed experiment. The cause of this
demise rests upon the transformation from a noble
aspiration into a frightful nightmare. Alexis de
Tocqueville, said in Democracy in America:
“Society is endangered not by the great
profligacy of a few, but by the laxity of
morals amongst all.”
Clearly he could not envision the technocratic Silicon
Valley tyranny that has come of age in this globalist gulag
and prison planet. If Trump abandons his promise of
championing a populist direction, his presidency will go up
in flames. Whether the general public revolt will depend
upon the moral intensity that remains within the heartland.
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The NWO patricians are in the disinformation business.
Civil chaos consolidates their empire and provides the
excuse to scrap the last vestige of the constitution. “PC” =
the “TC” totalitarian collectivism which intensifies every
day.
 Alert: Congressman Calls For Investigation
Into Possible Charlottesville False Flag
By Alex Thomas
August 21, 2017

Virginia Democrats “facilitated the violence” in
Charlottesville
Editors Note: This article in no way implies
that Heather Heyer was not killed after she
was mowed down by a white supremacist.
Rather, it is about the known facts that
point to elected officials allowing the
original confrontations that lead to her
horrific death to happen in the first place.
(INTELLIHUB) — In a stunning series of events,
Congressman Louie Gohmert has called for a Department
of Justice investigation into Governor Terry McAuliffe and
Charlottesville Mayor Michael Signer amid mounting
evidence that police were told to stand down while
protesters from both sides violently attacked each other.
violence getting started. They facilitated it,
anyway.”
Amazingly, Gohmert’s claims directly line up with
numerous reports in the alternative media that paint a
picture of a classic deep state run operation of divide and
conquer.
Shortly after the car attack, former intelligence operative
and world-renowned expert in psychological warfare, Dr.
Steve Pieczenik, went on the record with his belief that this
was a pre-planned, staged confrontation carried out by the
deep state.

Appearing on Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends

Weekend,” Gohmert cited numerous shady circumstances
surrounding the day as reason why an actual investigation
is needed.

“The way forwards not gonna be easy. And

I think the Justice Department needs a full
investigation of the governor, of the mayor.
They said in court there would be violence
at Charlottesville, and then the witnesses
and the photographs show they herded
these groups to create violence so they
could brag,” Gohmert declared.
The Congressman also took aim at Unite the Right march
organizer Jason Kessler and his extremely suspicious
background.
“We need a Justice Department
investigation into Kessler. You don’t just go
all of a sudden from having multiracial
roommates and a Jewish girlfriend to all of
a sudden being a white supremacist that
wants to join the Republican party. There’s
something very, very wrong in all of this.”
He added,
“Like they were with the violence at Trump
events they may have been behind this
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Pieczenik took aim at Richard Spender and Charlottesville
Mayer Michael Signer among others, noting that, “There is
no question that each man was working for some federal
agency [CIA, FBI], coordinating their activities with their
respective political parties [Rep./Dems.], always
maintaining hidden agendas writ in covert languages.”
Additionally, numerous parties have already confirmed
that their was indeed a stand down order given to police. In
fact, as the Free Thought Project recently noted, the ACLU
themselves confirmed it.
“The events that unfolded in Charlottesville,
Virginia this Saturday were tragic, hateful,
insidious and even deadly. Saturday will go
down in history as the day America’s hate
reared its ugly face and proved to the world
that this country is being divided — to be
conquered. Adding fuel to the fire of hatred
and violence were politicians who told
 police not to intervene and allowed the
unchecked carnage to unfold before their
eyes,” wrote Matt Agorist.
“The stand down was confirmed by the
ACLU who quoted a police source saying,
“We’ll not intervene until given command to
do so.”
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On top of this, the life story of the organizer of the white
supremacist rally, Jason Kessler, reads like one straight
from a cointelpro deep state handbook.
Again the Free Thought Project noted,
“The organizer of the massively Pro-Trump
‘Unite the Right’ march on Saturday in
Charlottesville, Jason Kessler reportedly
happened to also be an Obama supporter
in the days of Occupy — and as recently as
2016. According to an archived post from
his blog, he also has no problem openly
bragging about being a professional
provocateur.”
The above facts are only a small portion of the information
that has come out about Charlottesville which all point to
the entire day being a deep state run false flag with the
goal of allowing two extremist sides to fight it out with the
hopes that something terrible would happen.
Goal achieved.
 Exclusive: Secret Service Depletes Funds To Pay Agents
Because Of Trump's Frequent Travel, Large Family
Kevin Johnson, USA TODAY
Published 5:00 A.M. ET Aug. 21, 2017 | Updated 5:20 P.M. ET Aug. 21, 2017

WASHINGTON — The Secret Service can no longer
pay hundreds of agents it needs to carry out an expanded
protective mission – in large part due to the sheer size of
President Trump's family and efforts necessary to secure
their multiple residences up and down the East Coast.
members of his family. That's up from 31 during the
Obama administration.
Overwork and constant travel have also been driving a
recent exodus from the Secret Service ranks, yet without
congressional intervention to provide additional funding,
Alles will not even be able to pay agents for the work they
have already done.

The compensation crunch is so serious that the director has

begun discussions with key lawmakers to raise the
combined salary and overtime cap for agents, from
$160,000 per year to $187,000 for at least the duration of
Trump's first term.

But even if such a proposal was approved, about 130

veteran agents would not be fully compensated for
hundreds of hours already amassed, according to the
agency.

Secret Service agents rush Republican presidential candidate Donald

Trump off the stage at a campaign rally in Reno, Nev., on Nov. 5,
2016. (Photo: John Locher, AP)
Secret Service Director Randolph "Tex" Alles, in an
interview with USA TODAY, said more than 1,000 agents
have already hit the federally mandated caps for salary and
overtime allowances that were meant to last the entire
year.
"I don't see this changing in the near term,''
Alles said.
Both Republican and Democratic lawmakers expressed
deep concern for the continuing stress on the agency, first
thrust into turmoil five years ago with disclosures about
sexual misconduct by agents in Colombia and subsequent
White House security breaches.

The agency has faced a crushing workload since the height

of the contentious election season, and it has not relented
in the first seven months of the administration. Agents
must protect Trump – who has traveled almost every
weekend to his properties in Florida, New Jersey and
Virginia – and his adult children whose business trips and
vacations have taken them across the country and overseas.

"The president has a large family, and our

responsibility is required in law,'' Alles said.
"I can't change that. I have no flexibility.''

Alles said the service is grappling with an unprecedented

number of White House protectees. Under Trump,
42 people have protection, a number that includes 18 A special investigative panel formed after a
particularly egregious 2014 White House breach also

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found that that agents and uniform officers worked "an
unsustainable number of hours,'' which also contributed to
troubling attrition rates.
While about 800 agents and uniformed officers were hired
during the past year as part of an ongoing recruiting blitz
to bolster the ranks, attrition limited the agency's net
staffing gain to 300, according to agency records. And last
year, Congress had to approve a one-time fix to ensure that
1,400 agents would be compensated for thousands of hours
of overtime earned above compensation limits. Last year's
compensation shortfall was first disclosed by USA
TODAY.
"It is clear that the Secret Service's
demands will continue to be higher than
ever throughout the Trump administration,''
said Jennifer Werner, a spokesperson for
Maryland Rep. Elijah Cummings.
Cummings, the ranking Democrat on the House Oversight
and Government Reform Committee who was the first
lawmaker to sound the alarm after last year's disclosure
that hundreds of agents had maxed out on pay, recently
spoke with Alles and pledged support for a more
permanent fix, Werner said.
"We cannot expect the Secret Service to be
able to recruit and keep the best of the best
if they are not being paid for these
increases (in overtime hours)."
South Carolina Rep. Trey Gowdy, the Republican
chairman of the House oversight panel, is "working with
other committees of jurisdiction to explore ways in which
we can best support'' the Secret Service, his spokesperson
Amanda Gonzalez said.
Talks also are underway in the Senate, where the Secret
Service has briefed members of the Homeland Security
Committee, which directly oversees the the agency's
operations.
"Ensuring the men and women who put
their lives on the line protecting the
president, his family and others every day
are getting paid fairly for their work is a
priority,'' said Missouri Sen. Claire
McCaskill, the panel's top Democrat. "I'm
committed to working with my colleagues
on both sides to get this done.''
Without some legislative relief, though, at least 1,100
agents – for now – would not be eligible for overtime even
as one of the agency's largest protective assignments looms
next month. Nearly 150 foreign heads of state are expected
to converge on New York City for the United Nations
General Assembly.
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Because of the sheer number of high-level dignitaries, the
United Nations gathering is traditionally designated by the
U.S., as a "National Special Security Event" and requires a
massive deployment of security resources managed by the
Secret Service.
That will be even trickier this
year. "Normally, we are not this tapped
out,'' said Alles, whom Trump appointed to
his post in April.
The agents who have reached their compensation limits
this year represent about a third of the Secret Service
workforce, which was pressed last year to secure both
national political conventions in the midst of a rollicking
campaign cycle. The campaign featured regular clashes
involving protesters at Trump rallies across the country,
prompting the Secret Service at one point to erect bike
racks as buffers around stages to thwart potential rushes
from people in the crowd.
Officials had hoped that the agency's workload would
normalize after the inauguration, but the president's
frequent weekend trips, his family's business travel and the
higher number of protectees has made that impossible.
Since his inauguration, Trump has taken seven trips to his
estate in Mar-a-Lago, Fla., traveled to his Bedminster,
N.J., golf club five times and returned to Trump Tower in
Manhattan once.
Trump's frequent visits to his "winter White House" and
"summer White House" are especially challenging for the
agency, which must maintain a regular security
infrastructure at each – while still allowing access
to paying members and guests.
Always costly in manpower and equipment, the president's
jaunts to Mar-a-Lago are estimated to cost at least $3
million each, based on a General Accounting Office
estimate for similar travel by former President Obama. The
Secret Service has spent some $60,000 on golf cart rentals
alone this year to protect Trump at both Mar-a-Lago and
Bedminster.
The president, First Lady Melania Trump and the couple's
youngest son Barron – who maintained a separate detail in
Trump Tower until June – aren't the only ones on the move
with full-time security details in tow.
Trump's other sons, Trump Organization executives
Donald Jr. and Eric, based in New York, also are covered
by security details, including when they travel
frequently to promote Trump-branded properties in other
countries.
A few examples: Earlier this year, Eric Trump's business
travel to Uruguay cost the Secret Service nearly $100,000
just for hotel rooms. Other trips included the United
Kingdom and the Dominican Republic. In February, both
sons and their security details traveled to Vancouver,
British Columbia, for the opening of new Trump hotel
there, and to Dubai to officially open a
Trump International Golf Club.
In March, security details accompanied part of the family,
including Ivanka Trump and husband Jared Kushner on a
skiing vacation in Aspen, Colo. Even Tiffany Trump, the
president's younger daughter, took vacations with her
boyfriend to international locales such as Germany and
Hungary, which also require Secret Service protection.
While Alles has characterized the security challenges
posed by the Trump administration as a new "reality" of
the agency's mission, the former Marine Corps major
general said he has discussed the agency's staffing
limitations with the White House so that security
operations are not compromised by a unusually busy travel
schedule.
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"They understand,'' Alles said. "They
accommodate to the degree they can and
to the degree that it can be controlled. They
have been supportive the whole time.''
Over time, Alles expects the Secret Service's continued
hiring campaign will gradually relieve the pressure. From
its current force of 6,800 agents and uniform officers, the
goal is to reach 7,600 by 2019 and 9,500 by 2025.
"We're making progress,'' he said.
For now, Alles is focused simply on ensuring that his
current agents will be paid for the work they have already
done.
"We have them working all night long;
we're sending them on the road all of the
time,'' Alles said. "There are no quick fixes,
but over the long term, I've got to give them
a better balance (of work and private life)
here."
 Trump Is Bleeding The Secret Service Dry
Bryan Menegus
August 21, 2017
Over 1,000 agents for the United States Secret Service
have already hit the salary and overtime caps allocated for
the entire year, USA Today reports.
According to the paper, this is largely due to Donald
Trump’s decision to split time between multiple residences
and vacation frequently, with each of those trips costing a
small fortune. The Trump administration has also placed
42 people under Secret Service protection—18 of whom
are family members. From USA Today:
The compensation crunch is so serious that
[Secret Service Director Randolph “Tex”
Alles] has begun discussions with key
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lawmakers to raise the combined salary
and overtime cap for agents, from
$160,000 per year to $187,000 for at least
the duration of Trump’s first term.
But even if such a proposal was approved, about 130
veteran agents would not be fully compensated for
hundreds of hours already amassed, according to the
agency.
Add that to the list of indignities suffered by the agency
under Trump, alongside their recent removal from New
York’s Trump Tower to a trailer outside, after the Trump
Organization failed to agree on a workable leasing price.
Monitoring threats made against Trump on Twitter already
represents an impossible task, let alone securing multiple
properties—especially when Mar-a-Lago is laughably easy
to breach and Trump often undermines attempts to keep
him safe and secure by acting against best practices. The
agency is struggling with retention issues, and Director
Alles describes the current workforce at as “tapped out.”
We can imagine why.
 State Senator Who Posted About Trump
Assassination Apologizes, But Refuses To Step Down
By Karma Allen
Aug 21, 2017, 7:03 AM ET
A Missouri state senator who sparked outrage last week
after she made a Facebook post about President Trump
being assassinated apologized on Sunday but refused to
step down.
“President Trump I apologize to you and
your family,” Maria Chappelle-Nadal, an
African American Democrat, said during
a press conference at a Ferguson
church on Sunday. "I made a mistake,
and I'm owning up to it. And I'm not ever
going to make a mistake like that again."
She asked media outlets to not publish the news
conference's location ahead of time because she said she
received death threats over the remarks, according to The
Associated Press.
Chappelle-Nadal made the controversial comments in a
since-deleted Facebook post on Thursday, in which she
wrote
"I hope Trump is assassinated!"
Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle, including Missouri
Gov. Eric Greitens and Lt. Gov. Mike Parson -- both
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Republicans -- said she should resign in the wake of the
post, but Chappelle-Nadal said she has no plans on doing
so.
"You know, what I'm reminded of is that
we're all human," Chappelle-Nadal said
Sunday. “I have learned my lesson. My
judge and my jury is my Lord, Jesus
Christ.”
Chappelle-Nadal, who joined the state Senate in 2010, said
she made the post out of frustration stemming from the
president’s response to a deadly white nationalist rally in
Charlottesville, Virginia, this month for which he said
“both sides” were responsible.
Chappelle-Nadal said she was questioned by the U.S.
Secret Service, which said it was looking into her
comments. She later told The Associated Press that the
Secret Service know that she
"had no intentions of hurting anyone or
trying to get other people to hurt anyone at
all."
 Donald Trump Eyes Afghanistan's $1 Trillion Mineral
Reserves To Pay For Reconstruction After 16 Years Of War
Country's Rich Deposits Of Gold, Silver, Platinum, Iron Ore And
Copper Could Represent Path To Economic Independence But Experts
Call Plan To Tap Into Them 'A Pipe Dream'
James Mackenzie
August 21, 2017
An Afghan miner walks up to the emerald mines in the mountains of
the Panjshir Valley, north of Kabul Ahmad Masood/Reuters
US President Donald Trump is eyeing Afghanistan's
mineral wealth to help pay for a 16-year war and
reconstruction efforts that have already cost $117 billion.
Investors who have studied the country, one of the world's
most dangerous, say that is a pipe dream.
Ever since a United States Geological Survey study a
decade ago identified deposits later estimated to have a
potential value of as much as $1 trillion, both Afghan and
foreign officials have trumpeted the reserves as a likely
key to economic independence for Afghanistan.
As well as deposits of gold, silver and platinum,
Afghanistan has significant quantities of iron ore, uranium,
zinc, tantalum, bauxite, coal, natural gas and significant
copper - a particular draw given the dearth of rich new
copper mines globally.
Afghanistan, some reports say, even has the potential to
become “the Saudi Arabia of lithium”, thanks to deposits
of the raw material used in phone and electric car batteries.
But a lack of basic logistics - paved roads and rail links
needed to export copper concentrate or iron ore - pervasive
corruption, a messy bureaucracy and a growing insurgency
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that has left much of the country beyond the writ of the
Kabul government have stifled attempts to a build a
legitimate mining sector.
Much of the basic data dates back to the Soviet occupation
in the 1980s. And the cost of having foreign geologists and
engineers visit remote sites to carry out new surveys is
prohibitive when nothing is yet being produced to pay for
it.
“There is no low-hanging fruit that could
trigger rapid growth and foster self-
sustaining development,” said the
government's own National Peace and
Development Framework document,
presented at last year's donor conference
in Brussels.
Major projects such as the Mes Aynak copper mine, being
developed by a Chinese consortium, remain at a standstill.
“There is zero active mining and very little
exploration, if any,” says Leigh Fogelman,
director at merchant bank Hannam &
Partners in London. The bank's founder,
former JP Morgan rainmaker Ian Hannam,
has been a long-time investor in
Afghanistan through the Afghan Gold and
Minerals Company (AGMC).
AGMC won the licence for another copper deposit, at
Balkhab in northern Afghanistan, in 2012.
For the rest, resources have been prey to what William
Byrd, a development economist with the United States
Institute of Peace, has dubbed “industrial-scale looting”.
While small and medium-sized mines do exist, many are
outside government control, profiting powerful local
operators and depriving the treasury of what the
government estimates at $300 million in unpaid taxes.
 “The big mining opportunities are just
languishing and there's looting of smaller
resources everywhere,” Byrd said.
As Afghan officials sought to raise interest in Afghanistan
with the incoming US administration earlier this year, they
pushed the idea of the mineral reserves.
“President Trump is keenly interested in
Afghanistan's economic potential,”
Hamdullah Mohib, Afghanistan's
ambassador to Washington, told Reuters in
June. “Our estimated $1 trillion in copper,
iron ore, rare earth elements, aluminium,
gold, silver, zinc, mercury and lithium.
That's new.”
US officials have told Reuters that Trump argued at a
White House meeting with advisors in July that the United
States should demand a share of Afghanistan's mineral
wealth in exchange for its assistance to the Afghan
government.
US Defence Secretary Jim Mattis said on Sunday that
Trump has made a decision on the United States' strategy
for Afghanistan after a review with national security
advisors, but did not give any details.
It is easy to see why the mining sector has aroused so
much interest in Afghanistan, a landlocked country with an
economy worth about $20 billion a year - roughly half the
size of Wyoming, the least populous US state.
But private investors are wary, says Fogelman, and there is
no quick fix.
“In the case of large, public sector
investment, the situation would be different
- however, there would still be the problem
of building up logistics and export links,” he
said. “I reckon it would still likely take years
to get a meaningful large-scale operation
going.”
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Even if private armies could be hired to defend the mines
against insurgent attack, the cost of moving minerals out
would likely be prohibitive until the entire country was
secure - which could take many years.
One longtime mining expert formerly based in Kabul
recounted his conversation with a top mining firm.
“They said: 'Don't worry, we can bring our
own security detail and do the mining
operation'. But, they said, 'How are we
going to get this stuff out of the country?'”
According to a 2014 mining ministry study, some of
Afghanistan's most promising deposits of lithium are in the
eastern province of Ghazni and in the far southern region
of Gowde Zereh in Helmand province, all areas largely
under the control of the Taliban.
“The idea that this will materialise in the
near future and pay for the security sector
budget is unrealistic,” said Byrd.
Even without the war, mining is tough.
China acquired a 30-year lease on the Mes Aynak copper
mine for around $3 billion in 2008 but, although the
Taliban has explicitly declared that it will not target it, the
project has been plagued by delays due to contractual
wrangling.
Under a donor program agreed in Tokyo in 2012,
Afghanistan was supposed to be earning $1 billion a year
from mining revenues by 2017 but expectations have been
pulled back.
In the first 11 months of the last fiscal year, the
government raised just $18 million from mining revenues
and the government's own projections now do not see them
exceeding the $1 billion mark before 2029.
 Debbie Wasserman Schultz (DWS)
Has Been Caught, Yet Again
By Taylor Foland
August 21, 2017
Thirty-seven-year-old Imran Awan was a former IT staffer
for the House of Representatives, along with several other
of his family members. Imran was arrested on July 25,
2017 at Dulles International Airport for bank fraud while
attempting to flee the country for Pakistan. Back in
February, there was an investigation opened into several
people related to Imran who were also IT staffers in the
House of Representatives. The people included in that
investigation were: Imran himself, his brothers Amid and
Jamal, his wife, and a family friend. Imran and people
connected to him worked for nearly thirty Congressmen
and women, providing technical support for them.
Imran virtually had access to everything that was going on
within the House of Representatives, including the House
Intelligence Committee. He had access to the House
Intelligence Committee’s server, as well as the House
Foreign Affairs Committee’s server, and had access to
several computer mainframes with classified intelligence
on them. Wasserman Schultz kept Imran on payroll after
everyone else had already fired him (and his family). This
is a scandal that could be connected to past scandals,
including the DNC hacking. The Democratic National
Convention, and the Democratic National Committee were
unprotected when it came to their IT networks. You would
have thought that the DNC would have had rigorous
security, but they didn’t. Debbie Wasserman obviously
was fired from her position as Chairwoman of the DNC.
Could Imran be connected to the Clinton email scandal? In
some way?
This is just the tip of the iceberg, this strange and
disturbing story has more beneath its surface.
Representative Ron DeSantis (Florida’s Sixth
Congressional District) is calling for the Attorney
General to investigate Debbie Wasserman Schultz. Carla
Spalding is running against Debbie Wasserman Schultz,
and is calling for her resignation.
Wasserman-Schultz put up a pretty pathetic defense, to say
the absolute least. She claimed that anti-Muslim sentiment
was why Imran was being targeted, and that it was the
“right thing” to keep him on payroll for a different
position. Debbie Wasserman Schultz was trying to shift
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everything back to identity politics, like most Democrats
do when confronted with reality, and facts.
The Democratic Party operates on the insanity of identity
politics. However, by March, this year most Democrats
had fired these four IT staffers, with the exception being
Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s office with Imran Awan! So,
for Debbie Wasserman Schultz to act like such a racial
justice warrior is just beyond the pale really, it’s quite
absurd. This story should be covered more, but the
mainstream media, as usual, is completely one-sided and
extremely biased. Imran Awan’s wife, Hina Alvi was one
of those fired IT consultants, after being fired she left the
country in March, and abruptly took her children out of
school.
According to Chairman of the Senate Judiciary
Committee, Chuck Grassley, the amount of pay that these
contractors received was more than three times the normal
rate for the same positions. It’s estimated by the Chairman
that these people collected over four million dollars over
the last thirteen years. Why so much money?
Imran’s attorney, Christopher Gowan released a statement
which blames “a frenzy of anti-Muslim bigotry” and
“extremist right-wing bloggers” for the firings of the IT
consultants, including Imran. Except, there is a
contradiction is that statement, because Debbie Wasserman
Schultz was the last Democrat to keep Imran on her
payroll, under a different duty. All other Democrats had
already fired the others. DWS decided to keep Imran on-
board after everyone else had fired his family, and the
family friend.
According to an official FBI affidavit, Imran had wired
over $283,000 to Pakistan, $165,000 of that sum of money
being wired from a faulty home-equity loan. Imran was
arrested for bank fraud, upon his arrest, only then did
DWS fire him. This is the definition of “the swamp”. A
story made complete with bank fraud, and corrupt officials
on Capitol Hill covering for people. The only reasonable
explanation that comes to mind of why Wasserman
Schultz would do this is that there was some kind of secret
deal between her and Imran, perhaps related to the DNC.
Why else would she have kept him on for so long, and then
throw him under the bus when he was arrested?
The mainstream media’s coverage of this story has
dwindled in recent days. (Not surprising.) As usual, the
liberal press sides with the democratic view: that Debbie
Wasserman Schultz was protecting an innocent IT staffer,
from religious discrimination, and “Muslim bashing.”
Instead of reporting on any alleged corruption, they slant
the views in a way that makes it seem like Conservatives
are the ones in the wrong. It’s the playbook the Democrats
have used every single time.
The New York Times (failing fake news) came out with a
July 28 article with a clear liberal bias: “conservative news
outlets have built a case against Imran Awan, his wife, two
brothers and a friend, piece by piece.” No coverage on
why she kept him on so long though? Why would she have
kept him on payroll by then switching his job title? This
story has ‘cover-up’ written all over it.
The double standard is glaring, and it is the last thing the
mainstream media wants to talk about. So, this story will
continue to grow, all the way until the Midterms. This is
the reason why Congress has below 20% approval. This
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Imran, was being paid by the government to cover in some
way for DWS. There needs to be a thorough investigation
conducted into this situation.
Let’s not hold our breath on that one though! We are still
waiting for Eric Holder, Susan Rice, Hillary, Samantha
Power, Loretta Lynch, and James Comey to be
investigated, and held accountable. We’re still waiting.
With all this being said, the real losers here are the people
in District 23 of Florida. They have someone in the House
of Representatives who is using their prestige, their office,
and their power to intimidate and threaten people, it’s
disgraceful.
Why is the House Ethics Committee not throwing the book
at DWS? After the violation of security policies, why did
DWS allow Imran Awan to stay on her office’s payroll?
The Washington Post, the New York Times, and other
liberal outlets have reported so voraciously on Russia, but
barely covered this.
It is looking more and more unlikely that DWS will
answer any questions on this subject. It is time to DRAIN
THE SWAMP. There is more to this story, don’t let it go.
 Democrats Warn Bannon
Against Publishing Classified Information
By Matthew Schofield - Mschofield@Mcclatchydc.Com
August 21, 2017 5:44 PM
Carolyn Kaster AP
WASHINGTON - Democrats have a warning for Donald
Trump’s former chief strategist Steve Bannon: Don’t use
your position at Breitbart to share classified and sensitive
information you collected while at the White House.
"Steve Bannon has an ongoing obligation
to safeguard our nation’s secrets, and he
does not gain some kind of extra
Constitutional protection just because he is
now returning to a position in the media,”
said Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., the
senior Democrat on the House Oversight
Committee.
Cummings said lawmakers closely watch people in such
positions after they leave high level security positions. He
said Bannon should not guide Breitbart to publish
information based on classified material he learned while
working for the president.
“If he or anyone else in a similar position
fails to meet this obligation and provides
classified information to someone who is
not entitled to have it, he could and should
be brought to justice,” he said.
Rachel Cohen, press secretary for Sen. Mark Warner, D-
Va., top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee,
said Bannon faces strict limitations.
“Bannon is subject to all the same legal
restrictions on sharing classified
information to which he was exposed in his
role at the White House as any other
former government employee,” she said.
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“Those who violate those restrictions can
be subject to prosecution.”
Bannon was ousted from the White House on Friday and
quickly returned to the far-right website Breitbart, which
he ran until joining the Trump campaign team in summer
2016.
The president praised Bannon’s return to Breitbart on
Twitter:
“Steve Bannon will be a tough and smart
new voice at @BreitbartNews...maybe
even better than ever before. Fake News
needs the competition!”
But inside the White House, aides are worried Bannon will
use the position to attack the administration’s policy. It
was no secret that Bannon’s policy positions were far out
of step with those advocated by other Trump advisers,
including the president’ daughter Ivanka and her husband
and senior White House adviser Jared Kushner.
Many are expecting Bannon to lash out at
those who fought him at the White House.
According to Vanity Fair, Bannon is “about
to go nuclear” in his “war” with Kushner. A
CNN interview with the Joshua Green,
author of “Devil’s Bargain,” a book about
Bannon and Trump, noted that Bannon is
about “to go buck wild” in his criticism of
“the establishment.”
Breitbart on Monday, citing “a source with direct
knowledge,” did expose a bit of White House intrigue. The
site sought to blame the president’s staff for Trump’s
seemingly casual “that’s too bad” answer to a question
about the crash of the USS John McCain that left 10 sailors
missing.
The site noted that National Security Adviser H.R.
McMaster had failed to brief Trump on the accident,
meaning the president was unaware of the situation when
he made his short statement.
As one of Trump’s closest advisers, Bannon had access to
extraordinary amounts of classified information on inside
NATO business, nuclear threats posed by North Korea and This sort of insider’s view might upset members of the
Iran and the strength of Islamic terrorist movements. Trump administration, but it isn’t classified information.

But there is no need to expose sensitive or classified

information to cause havoc in the White House. A Bannon
interview last week with the liberal-leaning “The
American Prospect” just before he left the White House
reportedly infuriated White House Chief of Staff John
Kelly.

Among Bannon’s opinions:

“There’s no military solution [to North

Korea’s nuclear threats], forget it. Until
somebody solves the part of the equation
that shows me that 10 million people in
Seoul don’t die in the first 30 minutes from
conventional weapons, I don’t know what
you’re talking about, there’s no military
solution here, they got us.”
Bannon out days after Trump defended him
White House advisor Steve Bannon has been ousted from
the Trump administration just days after President Donald
Trump defended him at a press conference. Listen to
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 Trump’s Collapsing World
By Mel Gurtov
August 21, 2017
As Trump’s world collapses around him—abandoned by
CEOs, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, several key Republicans in
Congress, and some in the conservative news media—it’s
time to see him for what he is: a minor business executive
who has no business being president of the United States.
That judgment has less to do with his decision-making
capacity or his lack of governing or overseas experience
than with his temperament. He has a reckless disregard for
the truth, an inability to empathize, and a demoralizing
desire to humiliate anyone, friend or critic, who challenges
him. Winning comes first for Trump; the subject matters
little compared with showing that he’s in charge and that
his view is the only one that counts.
In years to come, Donald Trump will doubtless be the
subject of numerous psychological analyses. The experts
will try—some have been trying since Day One—to figure
out how and why he behaves so differently from any
normal leader. But sociology may be just as useful as
psychology in Trump’s case: we need look no farther than
his business dealings and his background to see that what
we witness today is perfectly consistent with Trump’s
past. Donald Trump quite simply is doing what comes
naturally—being the authoritarian figure who gives orders,
expects them to be followed, consults no one, demands
absolute loyalty—and in the end increases the wealth of
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Trump Inc. He surely must be asking himself every day
why this model isn’t working just as well in government as
in business.
“What’s wrong with all these people?”
His sense of entitlement is truly extraordinary.
The problem for the rest of us is to figure out how to
prevent such a person from committing further destruction.
A cornered animal is especially dangerous, as we all know,
and Trump is entirely capable of getting the country into a
shooting war with North Korea, China, or Iran. But his
resignation or impeachment is a very long shot. So is the
possibility that his administration will collapse from within
due to sudden mass resignations. The Congressional
Republican leadership—the one group that holds the key
to getting rid of Trump—will continue gnashing its teeth
and taking no action.
We the people can and should continue protesting in the
streets and by email. But most of all, I think we need to
support candidates at every level of politics who will
“repeal and replace” this awful proto-fascist with
progressives who, unlike Trump, still believe in democracy
and social justice.
 Trump Declares Open-Ended War In Afghanistan
Trump Abandons 'Instinct To Withdraw'
Jason Ditz
August 21, 2017
In his Monday night speech on the Afghan War, President
Trump committed the US to an essentially open-ended
escalation of the conflict without any specific limitations,
while granting commanders broader authority to
unilaterally target “the enemy.”
President Trump stressed that his first instinct was to
withdraw. He added that “historically I like following my
instincts.” However, he said that “decisions are much
different when you sit behind the desk in the oval office.”
He added that he’s committed to “an honorable and
enduring outcome” worthy of the longest war in American
history and the large number of dead.
What that outcome looks like, or how specifically he plans
to get there are anyone’s guess. Fox News reported that
White House sources told them before the speech that
Trump was going to announce 4,000 more troops for
Afghanistan.
But President Trump said that the US strategy would be
secret, saying the US is removing any timetables for
ending the war in Afghanistan. He said that he will not talk
publicly about troop numbers in Afghanistan or plans for
ongoing military activity there. While arguing that
“America’s enemies must never know our
plans.”
Trump’s secrecy also means the American public will have
no idea how the Afghan War is being prosecuted.
This mirrors the decision to make troop levels in Iraq and
Syria officially secret, but is also a much broader
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commitment. He set the stage for general escalation of an
Afghan war that, over the past 16 years, has shown itself to
endure through more or less any escalation conceivable. In
committing to continue that war until victory, Trump
effectively made the war permanent.
Trump presented continuation as both about 9/11, and
about how opposed he is to the 2011 US withdrawal from
Iraq, each presented as a reason not to withdraw, but
seemingly each an excuse that’s never going to not stand
in the way of ending the war.
The broad message of Trump’s speech seemed to be that
the US wasn’t aggressive enough in Afghanistan so far,
criticizing President Obama for “micromanaging” the
conflict.
Trump said he believes that US military
victories come from “judgement and
expertise of wartime commanders.”
Trump gave some lip-service to economic aid for
Afghanistan, particularly pushing India to “do more.” But
he insisted that the US had abandoned nation-building,
declaring
“we are not nation-building again, we’re
killing terrorists.”
This declaration also gives the impression of a permanent
war, claiming 20 distinct terrorist organizations between
Afghanistan and Pakistan, and vowing to lift restrictions
on “our warfighters.”
He vowed that “no place is out of the reach
of American might.”
Ultimately, an escalation of 4,000 troops and a re-
commitment to the status quo likely would’ve been much
milder than what Trump appears to be proposing. Trump’s
determination to keep troop levels secret leaves the door
open to a series of endless escalations down the road,
which the American public are liable to never hear about.
 Trump Commits US To
Fight On In Afghanistan; No Speedy Exit
By JOSH LEDERMAN And ROBERT BURNS
Published August 21, 2017
WASHINGTON – Reversing his past calls for a speedy
exit, President Donald Trump recommitted the United
States to the 16-year-old war in Afghanistan Monday
night, declaring U.S. troops must "fight to win." He
pointedly declined to disclose how many more troops will
be dispatched to wage America's longest war.
In a prime-time address to unveil his new Afghanistan
strategy, Trump said the U.S. would shift away from a
"time-based" approach, instead linking its assistance to
results and to cooperation from the beleaguered Afghan
government, Pakistan and others. He insisted it would be a
"regional" strategy that addressed the roles played by other
South Asian nations — especially Pakistan's harboring of
elements of the Taliban.
"America will work with the Afghan
government as long as we see
determination and progress," Trump said.
"However, our commitment is not unlimited,
and our support is not a blank check."
Still, Trump offered few details about how progress would
be measured. Nor did he explain how his approach would
differ substantively from what two presidents before him
tried unsuccessfully over the past 16 years.
Although Trump insisted he would "not talk about
numbers of troops" or telegraph military moves in
advance, he hinted that he'd embraced the Pentagon's
proposal to boost troop numbers by nearly 4,000,
augmenting the roughly 8,400 Americans there now.
Before becoming a candidate, Trump had ardently argued
for a quick withdrawal from Afghanistan, calling the war a
massive waste of U.S. "blood and treasure" and declaring
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on Twitter, "Let's get out!" Seven months into his
presidency, he said Monday night that though his "original
instinct was to pull out," he'd since determined that
approach could create a vacuum that terrorists including
al-Qaida and the Islamic State would "instantly fill."
"We will ask our NATO allies and global
partners to support our new strategy, with
additional troop and funding increases in
line with our own. We are confident they
will," Trump said in comments echoed by
Defense Secretary Jim Mattis.
Earlier this year, Trump announced he was entrusting
Mattis and the military with the decision about how many
troops would be needed. In talking points sent Monday to
congressional Republicans and supportive groups, the
White House affirmed that the troop numbers were up to
Mattis and added that the administration wasn't seeking
more money from Congress for the strategy in the current
fiscal year, which concludes at the end of next month.
While Trump stressed his strategy was about more than
just the military, he was vague on other "instruments of
American power" he said would be deployed in full force
to lead Afghanistan toward peace, such as economic
development or new engagement with Pakistan and India.
Absent military specifics, it was difficult to assess how his
plan might dissolve the stalemate between the Taliban and
the Afghan government.
On one point — the definition of victory — Trump was
unequivocal. He said American troops would "fight to
win" by attacking enemies, "crushing" al-Qaida,
preventing terror attacks against Americans and
"obliterating" the Islamic State group, whose affiliate has
gained a foothold in Afghanistan as the U.S. squeezes the
extremists in Syria and Iraq.
Trump's definition of a win notably did not include
defeating the Taliban, the group whose harboring of al-
Qaida led the U.S. to war in Afghanistan in the days after
the 9/11 attacks. Like President Barack Obama before him,
Trump conceded that any solution that brings peace to
Afghanistan may well involve the Taliban's participation.
"Someday, after an effective military effort,
perhaps it will be possible to have a
 political settlement that includes elements
of the Taliban in Afghanistan," Trump said.
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, in a
statement after the speech, said the U.S.
was ready to support peace talks with the
Taliban "without preconditions."
Talk of future Taliban reconciliation was one of several
echoes of Obama woven into Trump's plan. Like Trump,
Obama insisted near the start of his presidency that the
"days of providing a blank check are over," urged a
regional approach and said U.S. assistance would be based
on performance.
Still, Trump was intent on differentiating his approach
from his predecessors — at least in rhetoric. He
emphasized there would be no timelines, no hamstringing
of the military and no divorcing of Afghanistan from the
region's broader problems.
One step being considered to further squeeze Pakistan is to
cut foreign aid programs unless Islamabad clamps down
on the Taliban and an associated group known as the
Haqqani network, senior administration officials told
reporters ahead of Trump's speech. Using civilian and
military aid as a pressure lever with the Pakistanis has
been tried for years.
Trump's speech concluded a months-long internal debate
within his administration over whether to pull back from
the Afghanistan conflict, as he and a few advisers were
inclined to do, or to embroil the U.S. further in a war that
has eluded American solutions for the past 16 years.
Several times, officials predicted he was nearing a decision
to adopt his commanders' recommendations, only to see
the final judgment delayed.
And while Trump has pledged to put "America First,"
keeping U.S. interests above any others, his national
security advisers have warned that the Afghan forces are
still far too weak to succeed without help. Even now,
Afghan's government controls just half the country.
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In Kabul, Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid dismissed
Trump's speech as "old" and his policy as "unclear." But
the plan was cheered by Afghanistan's government.
Ambassador Hamdullah Mohib, the Afghan envoy to
Washington, called it a "10 out of 10."
"We heard exactly what we needed to,"
Mohib said in a phone interview. "The focus
on the numbers has taken away the real
focus on what should have been: what
conditions are required and what kind of
support is necessary."
Among U.S. elected officials, the reception was equally
mixed, reflecting the deep divisions among Americans
about whether to lean into the conflict or pull back.
John McCain, the Senate Armed Services Committee
chairman who'd criticized Trump for delays in presenting a
plan, said the president was
"now moving us well beyond the prior
administration's failed strategy of merely
postponing defeat." House Democratic
leader Nancy Pelosi said the speech was
"low on details but raises serious
questions."
"Tonight, the president said he knew what
he was getting into and had a plan to go
forward. Clearly, he did not," said Pelosi, D-
Calif.
At its peak, the U.S. had roughly 100,000 in Afghanistan,
under the Obama administration in 2010-2011. The
residual forces have been focused on advising and training
Afghan forces and on counterterror operations — missions
that aren't expected to dramatically change under Trump's
plan.
"I share the America people's frustration,"
Trump said. But he insisted, "In the end, we
will win."
 Trump Chooses Mcmaster Plan,
Commits 4,000 More Troops To Afghanistan
Zeropointnow
Mon Aug 21, 2017 11:15pm EST

But hey, if shit talking Marco Rubio’s happy – Trump’s

happy.
President Trump has approved a plan to send 4,000 U.S.
soldiers to risk their lives in Afghanistan, fighting Islamic
terror and guarding the most valuable opium crop on the
planet, which happens to be sitting atop $1 trillion in
untapped resources. Where we’ve been for 15 years.

Who else is happy? #NeverTrumpers Lindsey Graham and

John McCain!

We’re goin’ in!

“My original instinct was to pull out — and, historically, I
like following my instincts. But all my life I’ve heard that
decisions are much different when you sit behind the desk
in the Oval Office; in other words, when you’re President
of the United States. So I studied Afghanistan in great
detail and from every conceivable angle. After many
meetings, over many months, we held our final meeting
last Friday at Camp David, with my Cabinet and generals,
to complete our strategy.” –President Trump

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Let’s be fair though – a lot can change in 7 months. For
example, one might run for President on a non-
interventionist, America 1st platform – railing against your
globalist opponent and the ‘never ending wars’ they
support.

THEN, after winning said presidency – two major players

on your anti-war / America 1st platform who convinced a
ton of like-minded Americans to vote – Flynn and Bannon
– might get railroaded out of the West Wing, along with
any other pesky patriots. In their stead, you’d find yourself
flanked by Goldman Sachs, Patraeus protege H.R.
McMaster, and the very liberal Jared and Ivanka.

Coincidentally – you might be convinced by those around Neither does Ron Paul
you, despite your ‘original instinct,’ that sending 4,000
more kids to Afghanistan is a good idea.

Trump had three choices…

A full-scale pullout, similar to the one that created the

vacuum in Iraq when Obama was at the helm, a troop
increase – H.R. McMaster’s plan, or a scaling Afghanistan
back to a smaller, leaner footprint – a move supported in
July by Blackwater founder Erik Prince and reportedly
Steve Bannon. Nor do many of the pundits who convinced countless
voters to show up at the polls:
Via Breitbart

“Right now, the U.S. is spending more than

when there were five times as many troops
in country,” Prince pointed out. “We’re
spending more than the entire U.S.
infrastructure budget in Afghanistan. I think
the president is looking for a more America
First focus, and not what amounts to a
large wealth transfer to Afghanistan.”

So the neocons love this idea. Who doesn’t?

Mike Flynn Jr., for starters.

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 John Kelly Could Debilitate Trump Presidency
By Rich Lowry
Monday, 21 Aug 2017 10:14 PM
White House Chief of Staff John Kelly listens as U.S. President
Donald Trump speaks during a Make America Great Again Rally at
Big Sandy Superstore Arena in Huntington, West Virginia, August 3,
2017. Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images)
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin took the highly
unusual step over the weekend of publicly explaining why
he won't resign.
He responded to Yale classmates who had written an
impassioned open letter urging him to quit in protest over
what they called (ridiculously overstating their case)
President Donald Trump's "support of Nazism and white
supremacy." There was no reason for Mnuchin — a busy
man and one of the most important economic officials on
the planet — to bother replying unless he feels a little
defensive.
After Charlottesville, the question of the propriety of
serving in the Trump administration gained new salience.
Rumors swirled that economic adviser Gary Cohn was on
the verge of quitting in disgust, and liberal journalists
called for all good men and women to jump ship ("Every
Trump Official With a Conscience Must Resign," huffed
The New Republic). This is wrongheaded. It's much better
for the country that as many responsible, talented people
serve the Trump administration as possible.
Even if it isn't easy. Working for Trump means being
willing to put up with the possibility of humiliation of the
sort that loyalist Attorney General Jeff Sessions suffered at
the president's hands. It means dancing around his
outrageous statements and pretending to work for a more
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normal president. And it means courting social
disapproval.
Among the nation's elite, Trump is now a walking, talking
version of the North Carolina transgender bathroom bill,
which caused corporate America to boycott and shame the
state into submission. CEOs increasingly don't want
anything to do with Trump. Hollywood and representatives
of the arts loathe him. And sports figures are leery. Trump
is as personally radioactive as any president since Richard
Nixon during his final descent.
This can't be what a high-flying financier and movie
producer like Steve Mnuchin signed up for. But any
Trump official who doesn't think he is being forced to
violate his personal conscience should stick it out.
The presidency is an important institution, and whatever
fantasies his enemies may have of a rapid ending to his
tenure, Trump is president. He needs good advice and
competent help. There are obviously limits to how much
he can be controlled, but he is susceptible to advice. It's no
accident that Trump hasn't withdrawn from NAFTA,
pursued a trade war with China or kneecapped NATO.
No one is irreplaceable, but it's not as though Trump's
team is likelier to get stronger. Able people have been
turning down job offers, warned off by the president's
volatility. The pool of talent available to Trump was never
as large as that of a conventional president, and it has
shrunk.
Surely, many of those around Trump enjoy the thrill of
notoriety and proximity to power, as is true in any White
House, but a sense of duty weighs as well. "There are
people inside the administration," Anthony Scaramucci
said during his turn as White House communications
director, "that think it is their job to save America from
this president." This puts it starkly and derisively, but no
doubt accurately — especially when it comes to the
generals.
The portfolios of Secretary of Defense James Mattis and
national security adviser H.R. McMaster include the most
consequential matters of state, and John Kelly is now
running the White House as chief of staff. The
administration's credibility depends in large part on the
service of these men. It's comparable to the moral power
that David Petraeus assumed in 2007 when George W.
Bush subcontracted making the public case for the Iraq
War to him.
If any of the generals, particularly John Kelly, were to quit
and lambaste Trump on the way out the door, it might have
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a debilitating effect on his presidency. That sounds alluring
to Trump's critics. But crippled presidencies aren't good
for the country, and Trump was duly elected. So the
generals are right to stay and serve their country in this
capacity. Someone has to do it.
 Analysis: Donald Trump Is
Embarrassing To Lots Of People
Analysis By Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-At-Large
Updated 12:21 PM ET, Mon August 21, 2017
(CNN)Three new polls in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and
Michigan -- a trio of states that Donald Trump turned from
blue to red and, in so doing, won the White House -- paint
a very ugly picture for the President. Majorities in all three
states disapprove of how he is doing his job -- and the
number of people who strongly disapprove far outweigh
those who strongly approve.
But the most damning number in the polls, which were
conducted by NBC and Marist University, is on the
question of whether people are "proud" or "embarrassed'
by Trump.
In Michigan and Wisconsin, 64% say they are embarrassed
of him while 63% say the same in Pennsylvania. A quarter
of respondents in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin said they
are "proud" of Trump while 28% said the same in
Michigan. (Worth noting: Asking a question like this
forces people to choose one of the two feelings; their
actual feelings may well be significantly more nuanced.)
Why does this matter?
Because embarrassment is a very, very strong emotion.
(Trust me, I am an expert, having spent most of my teens
and 20s feeling embarrassed all the time.) Anyone who's
ever been embarrassed, which is all of us, knows just how
powerful it can be.
And emotions matter -- a lot -- in politics. For all of the
focus on policy issues in the context of the presidency,
much of voter motivation and perception is based on how a
politician makes you feel. Barack Obama made people feel
hopeful. George W. Bush made people feel at ease. Trump
made people feel angry.
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That anger -- directed at the political establishment, the
status quo, the media -- is what drove Trump to victory.
That's especially true in states like Michigan, Pennsylvania
and Wisconsin, where the collapse of the manufacturing
economy was centered. The slowness of the economic
recovery in the Rust Belt combined with a sense that the
American dream was becoming unattainable made
Trump's "Make America Great Again" message incredibly
appealing.
But anger is a difficult emotion to sustain -- particularly
when you get what you want. Trump won. So, what now?
The answer -- at least among nearly two-thirds of those
polled in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin -- is
embarrassment.
There's also some evidence that the feeling spreads well
beyond those three states. A McClatchy-Marist national
poll in March showed that 60% of adults said Trump made
them feel embarrassed while 30% said he made them feel
proud. Nearly 9 in 10 (87%) of Democrats said Trump
made them embarrassed while 64% of independents said
the same. One in 5 Republicans said Trump made them
embarrassed while 66% said he made them proud.
In a column last month, conservative thinker Kathleen
Parker wrote about her feelings on Trump after the
President tweeted a video of him clotheslining a body with
a CNN logo as its head.
She wrote:
"Embarrassing in the extreme to many
Americans who would describe themselves
as perpetually appalled ...
"... I've covered politics off and on for 40
years, including writing a thrice-weekly
column for the now-defunct Charleston
Evening Post in 1980 leading up to the first
Republican presidential primary in South
Carolina. Never during that time or since
have I ever worried that a president's
behavior would embarrass the country on
the world stage. Trump's most
unpardonable offense isn't his implied
threat to members of the fourth estate but
 his minimizing of the nation's stature in the
world."
Trump will dismiss this all as fake news covering fake
polls. He will note that he won the White House even
though all of the so-called smart people in politics --
including me! -- said he had no chance. Which is his right.
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But numbers like this -- in which large majorities of people
in key swing states call the President of the United States
an "embarrassment" -- should concern him. We don't tend
to emulate -- or, more importantly for Trump, vote for --
embarrassments.
 A Darkness Is Spreading
Across the U.S.
Bill Bonner
August 21, 2017
Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every
book rewritten, every picture has been repainted,
every statue and street building has been renamed,
every date has been altered. And the process is
continuing day by day and minute by minute. History
has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless
present in which the Party is always right.
– George Orwell, 1984
POITOU, FRANCE – Today, a darkness spreads across
the country.
From coast to coast, we are benighted… in a total eclipse
of good sense.
We ended last week wondering what future generations
will think of us. We take away our monuments in the dead
of night… and spit on the graves of our ancestors in the
light of day.
Smashing Statues
A now-famous photo shows a stout young woman in North
Carolina stomping on a statue of a Confederate soldier.
A protester in North Carolina stands on a toppled
Confederate statue (AP Photo/ Jonathan Drew)
It is not a monument to the Confederacy or to the generals
or to slavery. It is merely a statue remembering the
sacrifices and suffering of ordinary soldiers.
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The common man in the South had no truck with slavery.
He owned no slaves. Instead, his earnings were reduced
because he had to compete with slave labor.
But when the call went out to defend his country, he took
the patriotic bait, as men always do.
More than a quarter of a million soldiers died on the
Southern side alone – killed by bullets or disease… hunger
or cold.
You’d think that people today – comfortable in their air-
conditioned apartments… fed to a fault… and succored by
student loans, Obamacare, unemployment comp, and
disability – could find it in their plump little hearts to
forgive the mistakes of their forebears and honor their
suffering.
Nope.
Instead, we trash our grandfathers’ heroes, kick their gods,
and smash their statues.
Yes, dear reader, today we are under assault, too. We
suffer neither cold nor hunger. We take up arms not to
protect our homeland, but to inflict murder and mayhem
on people half a world away who can do us no real harm.
But today, we are attacked by one preposterous thing after
another, each of them even more absurd than the last.
Doom Update
Before we get to that, we promised to revisit our Doom
Index.
You’ll recall that our research department has put together
11 indicators that – when aggregated – have coincided
with the last two major blowups.
Has doom come closer? We asked our chief researcher,
Joe Withrow:
U.S. junk bond prices – one of our 11
indicators – have fallen nearly 2% since our
last update. The ISM Manufacturing Index
 and railcar use – two of our other indicators
– have fallen as well.
None of these moves are extreme enough to warrant the
crash flag prior to getting third-quarter data… but they are
worth mentioning.
And on a side note relating to your Diary entries this week:
I got a call from family in western Virginia. Rumors are
the young lefties are planning to march on the historic
Robert E. Lee Hotel in Lexington.
The fruits of an American education, I suppose. It is
beginning to look as though there is an inverse correlation
between total student loans outstanding and total logic
outstanding. If we could only figure out how to make that
a Market Insight!
Yes, Joe is onto something. The more time people spend in
schools, the dumber they get.
And now, the typical American’s brain has been so dulled
by the internet and education that he can’t think straight.
Bigger Storm
We were supposed to believe, for example, that the
Russians hijacked the U.S. presidential election, putting
Donald J. Trump in the White House.
Congress imposed stiffer sanctions on Russia by an almost
universal vote in favor, despite a lack of evidence the hack
ever happened.
Even if it had happened, it is hard to see how disclosing
the internal deliberations of the Democratic National
Committee would have made voters less able to make an
informed choice!
Then we were supposed to believe that the president of
Syria had attacked his own people with chemical weapons.
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In response, Team Trump committed an act of war against
a foreign nation… even though many experts thought it
unlikely that the Syrian government was behind the
chemical attack.
And now, we are supposed to believe that Mr. Trump is a
“racist” and a “white supremacist.”
His Treasury secretary, Steve Mnuchin – a Jew – was
urged by his Yale classmates to resign. No more proof that
today’s education system turns its students into morons is
needed.
These are Yale graduates… hundreds of them:
We call upon you, as our friend, our
classmate, and as a fellow American, to
resign in protest of President Trump’s
support of Nazism and white supremacy.
We know you are better than this, and we
are counting on you to do the right thing.
What?
There is no evidence of any kind showing Trump to be a
Nazi supporter. A fool? An imbecile? An opportunist?
Maybe. But with all his obvious and egregious faults, why
accuse him of being something he isn’t?
But behind the flurries lies a much bigger storm.
There, the howling winds of fake finance blow up so much
dust that the typical person cannot see clearly.
If he is ready to believe that we can all get rich by
borrowing money that never existed from people who
never earned it… and never pay it back… he is ready to
believe anything!
Today, the sun hides its face in shame and embarrassment.
According To Judicialwatch.Org, 108% Of The Voting
Population Of California Vote May Have Voted On
November 8th.
By IWB
August 21, 2017

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 Afghanistan - Trump To
Announce Four More One-Year Wars
By B
August 21, 2017
This evening Trump will announce a new "path forward"
in the occupation of Afghanistan. According to the usual
leaks it will be very same path the U.S. has taken for 16
years.
Several thousands soldiers from the U.S. and various
NATO countries will (in vane) train the Afghan army.
Special Forces and CIA goons will raid this or that family
compound on someone's say-so. Bombs will be dropped
on whatever is considered a target.
Trump will announce that 1,000 or so troops will be added
to the current contingent. About 15,000 foreign troops will
be in Afghanistan. About three contractors per each soldier
will be additionally deployed.
Trump knows that this "path forward" is nonsense that
leads nowhere, that the best option for all foreign troops in
Afghanistan is to simply leave:
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump - 21
Nov 2013
We have wasted an enormous amount of
blood and treasure in Afghanistan. Their
government has zero appreciation. Let's
get out!
But neither the military nor the CIA nor the local Afghan
government will let the U.S. leave. Fear mongering is
abound: "What happens if Afghanistan becomes a hotbed
for international terrorists?" But few if any international
terrorist incident in the "west" were ever organized in
Afghanistan. In all recent incidents the culprits were
locals.
For the military it is all about optics. The generals do not
want to concede that they lost another war. The CIA wants
to keep is militarized forces and drones which it justifies
through its engagement in Afghanistan. The drug
production in Afghanistan, which the U.S. never really
tried to suppress, is rumored to finance "black" CIA
operations just like it did during the Vietnam war and
throughout various South American conflicts. The
members of the Afghan government all live off U.S.
largess. The war in Afghanistan is a racket paid for with
the lives of countless Afghans and U.S. taxpayer money.
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Now tightly under control of neo-conservative leaning
generals Trump had little chance to make a different
decision. He had asked his team for alternatives but none
were given to him:
The president told McMaster “to go back to
the drawing board,” the official said. “But he
just kept coming back with the same thing.”
Trump's former strategic advisor Steve Bannon promoted
an idea of Eric Prince, a shady provider of international
mercenaries. Afghanistan would be given to a private for-
profit entity comparable to the Brutish East-India
Company. That company, with its own large army, robbed
India of all possible valuables and nearly became a state of
its own. But Prince and Bannon forgot to tell the end of
that company's story. It came down after a large mutiny in
India defeated its armed forces and had to be bailed out by
the government. The end state of an East India Company
like entity in Afghanistan would the same as it is now.
Then there is the fairy tale of the mineral rich Afghanistan.
$1 trillion of iron, copper, rare-metals and other nice stuff
could be picked out of the ground. But in reality the costs
of picking minerals in Afghanistan is, for various reasons,
prohibitive.
The Bannon/Prince plan was lunatic but it was at least
somewhat different than the never changing ideas of the
military:
The Defense Secretary [Mattis] has been using this line in
meetings:
"Mr. President, we haven't fought a 16-year
war so much as we have fought a one-year
war, 16 times."
That line has already been used five years ago to describe
the war on Afghanistan. (It originally describes the 10 year
war in Vietnam.) Mattis did not explain why or how that
repetitive one year rhythm would now change.
A "new" part of the plan is to put pressure on Pakistan to
stop the financing and supplying of Taliban groups. That is
not in Pakistan's interest and is not going to happen. The
Trump administration wants to hold back the yearly cash
payment to the Pakistani military. This has been tried
before and the Pakistani response was to close down the
U.S. supply route to Afghanistan. An alternative supply
route through Russia had been developed but has now been
shut down over U.S. hostilities towards that country. The
U.S. can not sustain a deployment in Afghanistan without
a sea-land route into the country.
The Afghan army is, like the government, utterly corrupt
and filled with people who do not want to engage in
fighting. More "training" will not change that. The U.S.
proxy government is limited to a few larger cities. It claims
to control many districts but its forces are often constricted
to central compounds while the Taliban rule the
countryside. In total the Taliban and associated local war
lords hold more than half of the country and continue to
gain support. The alleged ISIS derivative in Afghanistan
was originally formed out of Pakistani Taliban by the
Afghan National Directorate of Security which is under the
control of the CIA:
In Nangarhar, over a year ago, the vanguard of the
movement was a group of Pakistani militants who had
lived there for years as ‘guests’ of the Afghan
government and local people. While initially avoiding
attacks on Afghan forces, they made their new allegiances
known by attacking the Taleban and taking their territory.
ISIS in Afghanistan, founded as an anti-Taliban force, is
just another form of the usual Afghan warlordism.
During 16 years the U.S. failed to set a realistic strategic
aim for the occupation of Afghanistan. It still has none.
Without political aim the military is deployed in tactical
engagements that make no long lasting differences. Any
attempts to negotiate some peace in Afghanistan requires
extensive engagement with the Taliban, Pakistan, China,
.
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Russia and Iran. No one in Washington is willing to
commit to that.
Trump's likely decision means that the story of the U.S.
occupation of Afghanistan will continue throughout the
next years exactly as it happened during the last 16 years.
The decision, once made, is unlikely to change until the
next presidential election. The 16 one-year-wars in
Afghanistan will become 20 one-year-wars for no
perceivable gain.
The only conceivable event that could change the situation
is an incident with a large number of U.S. military
casualties. That could lead to a groundswell of anti-war
sentiment which could press Congress into legislating an
end of the war. But are the Taliban interested in achieving
that?
Update (Aug 22 2017):
Trump announced exactly what we predicted above. The
military dictated the plan to him just like it did to Obama.
Here is the transcript of Trump's speech. It is no different
form the one Obama held in 2009: Undefined aims,
undefined troop numbers, undefined time limits - bashing
Pakistan (which will bash back) and no new idea at all. As
long as the U.S. does not pull out the war will continue
without any end in sight:
TOLOnews @TOLOnews - 4:43 AM - 22
Aug 2017
Taliban respond to US President #Trump’s
announcement, claim to continue fighting
“as long as US troops remain in
#Afghanistan".
Media Fail: Trump's Job Approval UP After Charlottesville
More Proof That What You See On Cable News And From Twitter's Blue
Checkmark Mafia Has Absolutely Nothing To Do With Reality.
ByJohn Nolte - @NolteNC
August 21, 2017
This might be hard to believe for some of you, but the
mainstream media and all those blue check marks on
Twitter do not reflect anything close to reality. Not since
the Access Hollywood tape have we seen the MSM go in
for the Trump-kill as they did in last week post-
Charlottesville, and the result in public opinion has been
the exact opposite of what they had hoped.
One of the few journalists who realizes this is the National
Journal's Josh Kraushaar, who writes of the Confederate
statue issue ...
A PBS/NPR/Marist poll conducted after the
Charlottesville protests found a whopping
62 percent of registered voters preferring to
maintain Confederate memorials as a
“historical symbol” over removing them
“because they’re offensive to some
people.” The issue united Republicans (86
percent approved maintaining them and
only 6 percent disapproved), while dividing
Democrats (47 percent approved removing
them and 44 percent disapproved). Even a
44 percent plurality of African-Americans
didn’t want to tear them down.
Kraushaar also points out that on the very issue the MSM
is trying to bludgeon Trump with, his (appropriate)
blaming of "both sides" for the violence in Charlottesville,
43% of Americans agreed with Trump, while 53%
disagreed. Still, 43% is higher than his overall approval
rating and if you watch the news media, 43% sounds
impossible. Trump had been under withering 24/7 fire for
.
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days and the best the media could grab was 53%? That's
pretty pathetic.
Moreover, by correctly blaming "both sides" for the
violence, Trump has improved his standing with his base.
A full 87% of Republicans agreed with him on this issue,
an improvement of the 80% of Republicans who generally
approve of the way he is doing his job.
On the overall job approval front, post Charlottesville,
Trump has improved +4 points in Gallup, jumped +6
points with Quinnipiac (compared to the previous month),
and held steady overall. Over at Real Clear Politics,
Trump's average approve/disapprove improved from
37.4%/ 57.4% (-20) to 39%/55% -16) — hardly
spectacular, but more proof that, at best, the media frenzy
has had absolutely no effect whatsoever on public opinion.
At worst (in the eyes of the media), the public has inched
closer to Trump post-Charlottesville.
My theory about all of this was realized yesterday
afternoon during a visit with my folks. The mistake Trump
made on Saturday with his initial "both sides" comments
about Charlottesville, was in his assumption the general
public understood the truth about what he meant, that
everyday Americans knew who this Antifa group was and
just how awful they are.
My folks keep up with current events (and are not Trump
supporters), but until last week they had no idea who
Antifa was. And why would they? The MSM has been
covering up the truth about these leftwing terrorists for a
year. It was only after Trump's second presser, the one
where he brought up the alt-left and forced the media to
report on Antifa that they realized and were more forgiving
of what he said.
By the way, both are also firmly on Trump's side about the
removal of statues, Confederate or otherwise.
"I was saying the statues of Jefferson and
Washington will be next even before Trump
was," my mom (and Barack Obama's
biggest fan) told me.
 Trump Unveils New Strategy
To Prolong Military Presence In Afghanistan
Tue Aug 22, 2017 1:32AM
US President Donald Trump has
unveiled his administration’s new
strategy in Afghanistan, saying he
would prolong the military intervention
in the South Asian country, which he
once described as a “complete waste.”
"My original instinct was to pull out, and
historically I like following my instincts, but
all of my life I heard that decisions are
much different when you sit behind the
desk in the Oval Office,” Trump said in a
nationally televised speech Monday night
before a military audience at Fort Myer.
The US president described his decision to continue the
US military intervention, albeit with conditions.
"Our commitment is not unlimited, and our
support is not a blank check. The American
people expect to see real reforms and real
results."
Trump, however, did not provide details about an exact
number of troops or the exact cost of his decision. The
White House has given the Pentagon authority to deploy
another 4,000 more troops on top of the 8,400 already in
the country.
Trump’s willingness to further commit to the war in
Afghanistan, rather than withdraw, represents a significant
shift in his approach since taking office. As a candidate,
Trump denounced the US military intervention there as a
“total disaster” which drained resources at a time of more
pressing needs at home.
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Elsewhere in his remarks, the president said Washington
can no longer remain silent towards Pakistan’s “safe
havens for terrorists.”
He was referring to the Taliban and other groups posing a
threat to the region and beyond during a prime time
address to the nation on Monday, in which he elaborated
on a new US strategy towards Afghanistan.
"We can no longer be silent about
Pakistan's safe havens for terrorist
organizations," Trump declared. "Pakistan
has much to gain from partnering with our
effort in Afghanistan. It has much to lose by
continuing to harbor criminals and
terrorists."
US President Donald Trump greets military leaders before his speech
on Afghanistan at the Fort Myer military base on August 21, 2017 in
Arlington, Virginia.
The commander in chief tacitly threatened Islamabad to
cut the “billions and billions of dollars” the US pays
Pakistan in aid.
"We have been paying Pakistan billions and billions of
dollars at the same time they are housing the very terrorists
that we are fighting," he said. "That will have to change
and that will change immediately… It is time for Pakistan
to dedicate to civilization and order and peace."
US support no 'blank check'
Trump also indicated that Washington could stop
supporting the Afghan government if it does not show
“determination” in its efforts.
This photo taken on July 17, 2017 shows Afghan security personnel
gathering around the body of a suspected Taliban militant after he
was killed during a security operation in the Nawa district in
Helmand province.
"America will work with the Afghan
government as long as we see
determination and progress," Trump said.
"However, our commitment is not unlimited,
and our support is not a blank check. The
American people expect to see real
reforms and real results."
.
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Ivanka Trump greets US military leaders before a speech by
President Donald Trump at the Fort Myer military base on August
21, 2017 in Arlington, Virginia.
Victory in Afghanistan would mean "attacking our
enemies," and "obliterating" the Daesh Takfiri group. He
also vowed to crush al-Qaeda, prevent the Taliban from
taking over the country.
The United States -- under Republican George W. Bush’s
presidency -- and its allies invaded Afghanistan on
October 7, 2001 as part of Washington’s so-called war on
terror.
Trump who had previously called for withdrawal of
American troops from Afghanistan argued that his
"original instinct was to pull out," but that he was
convinced by his national security team to take on the
Taliban militants.
 How Trump Swallowed A Bitter Afghanistan Pill
The President Didn't Want To Send More Troops Into A 16-Year-Old
Conflict — Until His Military Men Convinced Him
The Risks Were Too Great.
By ELIANA JOHNSON
08/22/2017 01:35 AM EDT Updated 08/22/2017 02:22 AM EDT
President Trump did not specify troop levels during his address on
Monday, but White House officials say the U.S. will deploy about
4,000 additional soldiers to Afghanistan. | Mark Wilson/Getty Images
In his first national security address, President Donald
Trump broke with his “America First” campaign rhetoric
and his past skepticism about the war in Afghanistan,
bowing to the stay-the-course advice of the generals who
occupy top posts in his administration.
Trump’s Monday night speech laid out a new American
strategy for the war in Afghanistan that he cast as a bold
new approach —
“I’m a problem-solver… in the end, we will
win,” he said — but which critics cast as an
extension of a failed approach.
The plan — which will maintain an unspecified U.S. troop
presence without withdrawal timetables and intensify
pressure on Pakistan to crack down on terrorist safe havens
— was the product of a months-long strategy review in
which the president’s national security team talked him out
of ending the costly 16-year war. “It wasn’t a debate,” said
a senior White House aide. “It was an attempt to convince
the president.”
It was also an unsatisfying outcome for a president who
likes to act boldly and who has called America’s
commitment to Afghanistan a waste of money. But the
president conceded that the world looks different from
behind the presidential desk.
“My original instinct was to pull out,” Trump
conceded, adding that “decisions are much
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different when you sit behind the desk in
the Oval Office.”
If there was a worldview behind the remarks, it was what
Trump called a "principled realism" devoted to rooting out
terrorists without building up the countries that host them
— a balance between the president's isolationist tendencies
and the neoconservative ideology that animated the last
Republican administration.
“We are not nation-building again,” Trump
said. “We are killing terrorists.”
In selling the decision — and perhaps in justifying it to
himself — Trump emphasized the folly of his
predecessor’s withdrawal from Iraq, though without citing
President Barack Obama by name.
“We cannot repeat in Afghanistan the
mistake our leaders made in Iraq,” he said.
“In 2011, America hastily and mistakenly
withdrew from Iraq. As a result, our hard-
won gains slipped back into the hands of
terrorist enemies.” And he pumped up his
relatively modest policy prescriptions with
trademark bombast: “They are nothing but
thugs, criminals, predators and yes,
losers,”
Trump said of terrorists and insurgent fighters in
Afghanistan.
While Trump demands obedience from his civilian
subordinates, his decision to recommit to Afghanistan
demonstrated a willingness to change his mind on matters
of national security when his military aides press him hard
enough. “It shows that he’s open to reconsidering his
positions on national security, which is a good thing,” said
Fred Kagan, a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute
and a former adviser to Gen. David Petraeus, the top
commander in Iraq in the late 2000s.
Trump did not specify troop levels on Monday, but White
House officials say the U.S. will deploy about 4,000
additional soldiers to Afghanistan, many of them in a
training role to help stand up wobbly Afghan security
forces. That is a major victory for national security adviser
H.R. McMaster and Defense Secretary James Mattis, who
convinced Trump that removing the 8,000-plus U.S. troops
in Afghanistan could mean a replay of Iraq after U.S.
troops left that country in 2011.
McMaster and Mattis, both of whom served in
Afghanistan, stressed the weakness of the Afghan
government, which controls little more than half the
country, and warned that an end to U.S. military support
would lead to a Taliban takeover.
In one of the last senior staff meetings before the president
made his decision last Friday at Camp David, chief of staff
John Kelly — himself a retired Marine general — played
devil’s advocate, preparing Cabinet members and top aides
for a grilling from the skeptical president. Kelly peppered
the group with questions that reflected much of Trump’s
thinking, according to a senior White House aide, from
“Why can't we withdraw?” and “Why can’t
we shift to a counterterrorism only
platform?” to “Why couldn’t we do this with
paramilitary forces [supplied by the CIA]
only?”
The president’s remarks, delivered from Fort Myer in
Arlington, Virginia, came less than a week after he
enraged his enemies and alienated Republican leaders with
his response to a white nationalist rally that took place just
over a hundred miles away, and the occasion offered him a
chance to take on what has typically been a more unifying
role: that of commander in chief.
Republican heavyweights who assailed him days ago
rallied around him moments after his speech ended.
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, who last week chastised the
president, telling him he couldn't allow white nationalists
to share "only part of the blame" for the carnage in
Charlottesville, said Monday evening on Twitter that
Trump was taking "the right approach" in Afghanistan.
Trump’s pronouncements on foreign policy during the
presidential campaign were inchoate but largely
isolationist. In 2013, he voiced his supported for Obama’s
drawdown in Afghanistan, writing in a tweet that the U.S.
should “leave Afghanistan immediately” and focus on
rebuilding “the U.S. first.”
Like Obama before him, Trump was forced to confront a
teetering situation from the day he assumed office.
McMaster visited Afghanistan, Pakistan and India shortly
after he took over from former national security adviser
Michael Flynn in April. He launched a strategy review of
American policy in South Asia shortly after his return.
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And like Obama, who later complained that his generals
had boxed him into sending 30,000 more troops to the
country in 2009, Trump chafed at the options presented to
him by his military advisers.
“Obama was suspicious of what the
generals were telling him. They were telling
him to put in more troops than he wanted
to,” said Eric Edelman, who served as
undersecretary of defense for policy under
George W. Bush. “Trump does recognize
that just pulling out is not an option. If the
Taliban takes over and then there’s a
terrorist attack, that is a big political risk for
him,” Edelman added.
Although McMaster had hoped Trump would sign off on a
strategy before a late May NATO summit in Brussels,
allowing him to work out the new plan with allies there,
White House aides say Trump’s resistance to the proposals
from his national security team dragged out the process. In
the spring, he told aides, including McMaster, that he had
“campaigned against this” and had “been to Walter Reed
and seen these guys with their arms and legs blown off.”
He asked for more options and he demanded to know how
he could justify an additional troop commitment.
White House aides say the president’s Cabinet was united
in its recommendation to the president, but there were
skeptics and dissenters along the way. Chief strategist
Steve Bannon, who was dismissed Friday, was a vocal
opponent of the strategy endorsed by the president
Monday, and though one White House adviser described
him as a “ghost” in internal deliberations — he preferred
to speak privately with the president or to talk to the news
media — he succeeded, at least temporarily, in dubbing the
effort “McMaster’s War.”
Some Trump advisers — including Attorney General Jeff
Sessions, Energy Secretary Rick Perry and Homeland
Security Adviser Thomas Bossert — worried that Trump’s
approach might betray the promises he made as a
candidate. The president’s national security team presented
him with additional options, including a plan to outsource
the war to contractors overseen by Erik Prince, the former
Blackwater chief.
Trump was also intrigued, in two discussions with Afghan
President Ashraf Ghani, by Ghani’s mention of the
Afghanistan’s huge mineral reserves — which, he told
Trump, the Afghans themselves lacked the technology and
the resources to exploit. By some assessments, more than
$1 trillion in mineral wealth, much of it in the form of
lithium, could lay in the rock and soil of Afghanistan. But
many analysts say that, given conditions in the country, it
could be many years before it can be tapped at a significant
profit.
After Trump raised the question of mineral wealth one
Cabinet meeting, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson — a
former ExxonMobil CEO who oversaw projects in several
dangerous nations — warned him about the risk of
investing in politically unstable regions.
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Trump nevertheless tasked Commerce Secretary Wilbur
Ross with examining any potential investment
opportunities for the U.S. in Afghanistan, according to a
senior White House aide.
 Craigslist Ad Exposes
Tonight’s Trump Event
Had PAID ACTOR PROTESTERS!
By Ruby Henley
August 22, 2017

Although originally founded by activists not backed by

donors, Indivisible’s website now states that the group “is
a project of the Advocacy Fund,” a progressive advocacy
group that receives money from the Open Society Policy
Center, an arm of Soros’ Open Society Foundations.

That revelation follows USA Today’s reporting in May that

leaders of Indivisible and Women’s March met with
Democracy Alliance, a Soros-led network of left-wing
donors, to discuss funding options.

Well well well, look what is going viral on Twitter.

And who is paying them?

Chances are the same person who always is – George

Soros.

From DailyCaller

Leading anti-Trump activists backed by major Democratic

donors including George Soros are mobilizing large
numbers of protesters ahead of President Trump’s rally in
Phoenix on Tuesday, with the intention of stealing the
spotlight from the president’s event.

Local leaders of Indivisible, one of many “resistance”

protest groups formed as a direct response to Trump’s
election, are organizing thousands of protesters associated
with a coalition of left-wing groups ahead of Tuesday’s
event. In addition to organizing mass protests outside the
rally, Indivisible is encouraging protesters to register for
tickets for the rally itself, increasing the likelihood that
protesters will disrupt Trump’s speech, as often happens at
Trump’s rallies.

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 Trump Unveils New, Dramatic Afghanistan Strategy:
"We Aren't Nation-Building Again,
We Are Killing Terrorists"
By Tyler Durden
Aug 22, 2017 5:46 AM

In a widely anticipated national address, President Donald
Trump on Monday announced that he will not pull out
U.S. troops from Afghanistan, saying he’s committed to a
new strategy aimed at winning the nation’s longest war,
now in its 17th year. Admitting that his "original instinct
was to pull out" of Afghanistan - Trump's core campaign
pledge was to reduce US intervention in offshore conflicts
- Trump effectively admitted he had been wrong, and said
he’s arrived at three "fundamental conclusions" about
America’s core interests in Afghanistan:
attack, but attack we will. Another fundamental pillar of
our new strategy is the integration of all instruments of
American power, diplomatic, economic, and military,
toward a successful outcome. Someday, after an effective
military effort, perhaps it will be possible to have a
political settlement that includes elements of the Taliban
and Afghanistan, but nobody knows if or when that will
ever happen. America will continue its support for the
Afghan government and the Afghan military as they
confront the Taliban in the field.

 U.S. "must seek an honorable and enduring
outcome" in which American troops "deserve a
plan for victory"
 The consequences of a rapid exit would be
"predictable and unacceptable" adding that "a hasty
withdrawal would create a vacuum that terrorists,
including ISIS and al Qaeda, would instantly fill, just as
happened before September 11"
 The security threats U.S. faces "are immense"; and
"we cannot repeat the mistake in Afghanistan our
leaders made in Iraq."
Trump also promised to the soldiers gathered for the
speech that
Trump also defined what a victory in Afghanistan would
mean:
Our troops will fight to win. We will fight to win. From
now on, victory will have a clear definition — attacking
our enemies, obliterating ISIS, crushing al Qaeda,
preventing the Taliban from taking over Afghanistan, and
stopping mass terror attacks against America before they
emerge. We will ask our NATO allies and global partners
to support our new strategy, with additional troop and
funding increases in line with our own. We are confident
they will.

"One way or another, these problems will

be solved. I am a problem solver. And in
the end, we will win."

In other words, Trump is unveiling a dramatic, new

offensive in Afghanistan, only instead of giving details on
troop deployments, specific dates, or what the definition of
victory would be, Trump will keep the details of the new
involvement secret, and that

"conditions on the ground, not arbitrary

timetables, will guide our strategy from
now on."

We will not talk about numbers of troops or our plans for

further military activities. Conditions on the ground, not
arbitrary timetables, will guide our strategy from now on.
America's enemies must never know our plans or believe Taking a quick detour into domestic politics, Trump said
they can wait us out. I will not say when we are going to that "the young men and women we sent to fight our wars

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abroad deserve to return to a country that is not at war with
itself at home. We cannot remain a force for peace in the
world if we are not at peace with each other."
However it was all about Afghanistan:
Ultimately, it is up to the people of Afghanistan to take
ownership of their future, to govern their society, and to
achieve an everlasting peace. We are a partner and a
friend, but we will not dictate to the Afghan people how to
live or how to govern their own complex society.
We are not nation building again. We are
killing terrorists.
Well, that and Pakistan, which has now been thrown into
the terrorist "melting pot" fray:
The next pillar of our new strategy is to change the
approach in how to deal with Pakistan. We can no longer
be silent about Pakistan's safe havens for terrorist
organizations, the Taliban, and other groups that pose a
threat to the region and beyond.
Pakistan has much to gain from partnering with our effort
in Afghanistan. It has much to lose by continuing to harbor
criminals and terrorists. In the past, Pakistan has been a
valued partner. Our militaries have worked together
against common enemies. The Pakistani people have
suffered greatly from terrorism and extremism. We
recognize those contributions and those sacrifices, but
Pakistan has also sheltered the same organizations that try
every single day to kill our people. We have been paying
Pakistan billions and billions of dollars, at the same time
they are housing the same terrorists that we are fighting.
But that will have to change. And that will change
immediately.
And, in a surprising twist, Trump also brought in India to
the mix:
Another critical part of the South Asia
strategy or America is to further develop its
strategic partnership with India, the world's
largest democracy and a key security and
economic harbor of the United States. We
appreciate India's important contributions to
stability in Afghanistan, but India makes
billions of dollars in trade with the United
States, and we want them to help us more
with Afghanistan, especially in the area of
economic assistance and development. We
are committed to pursuing our shared
objectives for peace and security in South
Asia and the broader Indo-Pacific region.
Oddly enough, zero mentions of China, almost as if Trump
is telegraphing the new US "axis" in South Asia.
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Finally, speaking like a polished cog of a well-greased
neo-con/military-industrial wheel - note that Lindsay
Graham loved every word of tonight's speech - Trump
warned
"Terrorists, take heed. America will never
let up until you are dealt a lasting defeat.
Under my administration, many billions of
dollars more is being spent on our military.
And this includes vast amounts being spent
on our nuclear arsenal and missile
defense. In every generation we have
faced down evil, and we have always
prevailed."
In conclusion, Trump may not be able to
get approval from Congress to pass his
domestic spending agenda, but at least
he is about to spend "billions" to
continue a war that started 16 years ago
and will surely never end, and make
shareholders of defense stocks even
richer.
Full transcript below (via NPR):
President Trump
Thank you very much. Thank you. Please be seated. Vice
President Pence, Secretary of State Tillerson, members of
the cabinet, General Dunford, Deputy Secretary Shanahan
and Colonel Duggan. Most especially, thank you to the
men and women of Fort Myer and every member of the
United States military at home and abroad. We send our
thoughts and prayers to the families of our brave sailors
who were injured and lost after a tragic collision at sea as
well as to those conducting the search and recovery
efforts.
I am here tonight to lay out our path forward in Afghanistan
and South Asia. But before I provide the details of our new
strategy, I want to say a few words to the service members
here with us tonight, to those watching from their posts,
and to all Americans listening at home. Since the founding
of our republic, our country has produced a special class of
heroes whose selflessness, courage, and resolve is
unmatched in human history.
American patriots from every generation have given their
last breath on the battlefield - for our nation and for our
freedom. Through their lives, and though their lives were
cut short, in their deeds they achieved total immortality. By
following the heroic example of those who fought to
preserve our republic, we can find the inspiration our
country needs to unify, to heal and to remain one nation
under God. The men and women of our military operate as
one team, with one shared mission and one shared sense
of purpose.
They transcend every line of race, ethnicity, creed and
color to serve together and sacrifice together in absolutely
perfect cohesion. That is because all service members are
brothers and sisters. They are all part of the same family.
It’s called the American family. They take the same oath,
fight for the same flag and live according to the same law.
They are bound together by common purpose, mutual trust
and selfless devotion to our nation and to each other. The
soldier understands what we as a nation too often forget,
that a wound inflicted upon on a single member of our
community is a wound inflicted upon us all. When one part
of America hurts, we all hurt.
And when one citizen suffers an injustice, we all suffer
together. Loyalty to our nation demands loyalty to one
another. Love for America requires love for all of its people.
When we open our hearts to patriotism, there is no room
for prejudice, no place for bigotry and no tolerance for hate.
The young men and women we send to fight our wars
abroad deserve to return to a country that is not at war with
itself at home. We cannot remain a force for peace in the
world if we are not at peace with each other.
As we send our bravest to defeat our enemies overseas,
and we will always win, let us find the courage to heal our
divisions within. Let us make a simple promise to the men
and women we ask to fight in our name, that when they
return home from battle, they will find a country that has
renewed the sacred bonds of love and loyalty that unite us
together as one.
Thanks to the vigilance and skill of the American military,
and of our many allies throughout the world, horrors on the
scale of September 11, and nobody can ever forget that,
have not been repeated on our shores. But we must
acknowledge the reality I am here to talk about tonight, that
nearly 16 years after September 11 attacks, after the
extraordinary sacrifice of blood and treasure, the American
people are weary of war without victory.
Nowhere is this more evident than with the war in
Afghanistan, the longest war in American history - 17
years. I share the American people's frustration. I also
share their frustration over a foreign policy that has spent
too much time, energy, money, and most importantly, lives
trying to rebuild countries in our own image instead of
pursuing our security interests above all other
considerations. That is why shortly after my inauguration, I
directed Secretary of Defense Mattis and my national
security team to undertake a comprehensive review of all
strategic options in Afghanistan and South Asia.
My original instinct was to pull out, and historically I like
following my instincts. But all my life, I have heard that
decisions are much different when you sit behind the desk
in the oval office. In other words, when you are president of
the United States. So I studied Afghanistan in great detail
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and from every conceivable angle. After many meetings
over many months, we held our final meeting last Friday at
Camp David with my cabinet and generals to complete our
strategy. I arrived at three fundamental conclusion about
America's core interests in Afghanistan.
First, our nation must seek an honorable and enduring
outcome worthy of the tremendous sacrifices that have
been made, especially the sacrifices of lives. The men and
women who serve our nation in combat deserve a plan for
victory. They deserve the tools they need and the trust they
have earned to fight and to win. Second, the consequences
of a rapid exit are both predictable and unacceptable. 9/11,
the worst terrorist attack in our history, was planned and
directed from Afghanistan because that country by a
government that gave comfort and shelter to terrorists. A
hasty withdrawal would create a vacuum that terrorists,
including ISIS and al Qaeda, would instantly fill, just as
happened before September 11. And as we know, in 2011,
America hastily and mistakenly withdrew from Iraq.
As a result, our hard-won gains slipped back into the hands
of terrorists enemies. Our soldiers watched as cities they
had fought for bled to liberate and won were occupied by a
terrorist group called ISIS. The vacuum we created by
leaving too soon gave safe haven for ISIS to spread, to
grow, recruit and launch attacks. We cannot repeat in
Afghanistan the mistake our leaders made in Iraq.
Third and finally, I concluded that the security threats we
face in Afghanistan and the broader region are immense.
Today, 20 U.S.-designated foreign terrorist organizations
are active in Afghanistan and Pakistan. The highest
concentration in any region anywhere in the world. For its
part, Pakistan often gives safe haven to agents of chaos,
violence, and terror. The threat is worse because Pakistan
and India are two nuclear-armed states, whose tense
relations threat to spiral into conflict, and that could
happen.
No one denies that we have inherited a challenging and
troubling situation in Afghanistan and South Asia, but we
do not have the luxury of going back in time and making
different or better decisions.
When I became president, I was given a bad and very
complex hand, but I fully knew what I was getting into. Big
and intricate problems. But one way or another, these
problems will be solved. I am a problem solver. And in the
end, we will win. We must address the reality of the world
as it exists right now, the threats we face, and the
confronting of all of the problems of today, an extremely
predictable consequences of a hasty withdrawal. We need
look no further than last week's vile, vicious attack in
Barcelona to understand that terror groups will stop at
nothing to commit the mass murder of innocent men,
women, and children.
You saw it for yourself. Horrible. As I outlined in my speech
in Saudi Arabia, three months ago, America and our
partners are committed to stripping terrorists of their
territory, cutting off their funding and exposing the false
allure of their evil ideology. Terrorists who slaughter
innocent people will find no glory in this life or the next.
They are nothing but thugs and criminals and predators,
and, that’s right, losers. Working alongside our allies, we
will break their will, dry up their recruitment, keep them
from crossing our borders, and yes, we will defeat them,
and we will defeat them handily. In Afghanistan and
Pakistan, America's interests are clear.
We must stop the resurgence of safe havens that enable
terrorists to threaten America. And we must prevent
nuclear weapons and materials from coming into the hands
of terrorists and being used against us or anywhere in the
world, for that matter. But to prosecute this war, we will
learn from history.
As a result of our comprehensive review, American
strategy in Afghanistan and South Asia will change
dramatically in the following ways: A core pillar of our new
strategy is a shift from a time-based approach to one
based on conditions. I’ve said it many times, how
counterproductive it is for the United States to announce in
advance the dates we intend to begin or end military
operations.
We will not talk about numbers of troops or our plans for
further military activities. Conditions on the ground, not
arbitrary timetables, will guide our strategy from now on.
America's enemies must never know our plans or believe
they can wait us out. I will not say when we are going to
attack, but attack we will. Another fundamental pillar of our
new strategy is the integration of all instruments of
American power, diplomatic, economic, and military,
toward a successful outcome. Someday, after an effective
military effort, perhaps it will be possible to have a political
settlement that includes elements of the Taliban and
Afghanistan, but nobody knows if or when that will ever
happen. America will continue its support for the Afghan
government and the Afghan military as they confront the
Taliban in the field.
Ultimately, it is up to the people of Afghanistan to take
ownership of their future, to govern their society, and to
achieve an everlasting peace. We are a partner and a
friend, but we will not dictate to the Afghan people how to
live or how to govern their own complex society. We are
not nation building again. We are killing terrorists.
The next pillar of our new strategy is to change the
approach in how to deal with Pakistan. We can no longer
be silent about Pakistan's safe havens for terrorist
organizations, the Taliban, and other groups that pose a
threat to the region and beyond.
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Pakistan has much to gain from partnering with our effort in
Afghanistan. It has much to lose by continuing to harbor
criminals and terrorists. In the past, Pakistan has been a
valued partner. Our militaries have worked together against
common enemies. The Pakistani people have suffered
greatly from terrorism and extremism. We recognize those
contributions and those sacrifices, but Pakistan has also
sheltered the same organizations that try every single day
to kill our people. We have been paying Pakistan billions
and billions of dollars, at the same time they are housing
the same terrorists that we are fighting. But that will have to
change. And that will change immediately. No partnership
can survive a country's harboring of militants and terrorists
who target U.S. service members and officials. It is time for
Pakistan to demonstrate its commitment to civilization,
order, and to peace.
Another critical part of the South Asia strategy or America
is to further develop its strategic partnership with India, the
world's largest democracy and a key security and
economic harbor of the United States. We appreciate
India's important contributions to stability in Afghanistan,
but India makes billions of dollars in trade with the United
States, and we want them to help us more with
Afghanistan, especially in the area of economic assistance
and development. We are committed to pursuing our
shared objectives for peace and security in South Asia and
the broader Indo-Pacific region.
Finally, my administration will ensure that you, the brave
defenders of the American people, will have the necessary
tools and rules of engagement to make this strategy work
and work effectively and work quickly. I have already lifted
restrictions the previous administration placed on our war
fighters that prevented the secretary of defense and our
commanders in the field from fully and swiftly waging battle
against the enemy. Micromanagement from Washington,
D.C., does not win battles. They are won in the field
drawing upon the judgment and expertise of wartime
commanders and frontline soldiers, acting in real time with
real authority and with a clear mission to defeat the enemy.
That is why we will also expand authority for American
armed forces to target the terrorists and criminal networks
that sow violence and chaos throughout Afghanistan.
The killers need to know they have nowhere to hide, that
no place is beyond the reach of American might and
American arms. Retribution will be fast and powerful. As
we lift restrictions and expand authorities in the field, we
are already seeing dramatic results in the campaign to
defeat ISIS, including the liberation of Mosul in Iraq. Since
my inauguration, we have achieved record-breaking
success in that regard. We will also maximize sanctions
and other financial and law enforcement actions against
these networks to eliminate their ability to export terror.
When America commits its warriors to battle, we must
ensure they have every weapon to apply swift, decisive,
and overwhelming force.
Our troops will fight to win. We will fight to win. From now
on, victory will have a clear definition. — attacking our
enemies, obliterating ISIS, crushing al Qaeda, preventing
the Taliban from taking over Afghanistan, and stopping
mass terror attacks against America before they emerge.
We will ask our NATO allies and global partners to support
our new strategy, with additional troop and funding
increases in line with our own. We are confident they will.
Since taking office, I have made clear that our allies and
partners must contribute much more money to our
collective defense, and they have done so. In this struggle,
the heaviest burden will continue to be borne by the good
people of Afghanistan and their courageous armed forces.
As the prime minister of Afghanistan has promised, we are
going to participate in economic development to help
defray the cost of this war to us. Afghanistan is fighting to
defend and secure their country against the same enemies
who threaten us. The stronger the Afghan security forces
become, the less we will have to do. Afghans will secure
and build their own nation and define their own future. We
want them to succeed. But we will no longer use American
military might to construct democracies in faraway lands or
try to rebuild other countries in our own image. Those days
are now over. Instead, we will work with allies and partners
to protect our shared interests.
We are not asking others to change their way of life but to
pursue common goals that allow our children to live better
and safer lives. This principled realism will guide our
decisions moving forward. Military power alone will not
bring peace to Afghanistan or stop the terrorist threat
arising in that country.
But strategically-applied force aims to create the conditions
for a political process to achieve a lasting peace. America
will work with the Afghan government as long as we see
determination and progress.
However, our commitment is not unlimited, and our support
is not a blank check. The government of Afghanistan must
carry their share of the military, political, and economic
burden. The American people expect to see real reforms,
real progress, and real results.
.
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Our patience is not unlimited. We will keep our eyes wide
open. In abiding by the oath I took on January 20, I will
remain steadfast in protecting American lives and
American interests. In this effort, we will make common
cause with any nation that chooses to stand and fight
alongside us against this global threat.
Terrorists, take heed. America will never let up until you are
dealt a lasting defeat. Under my administration, many
billions of dollars more is being spent on our military. And
this includes vast amounts being spent on our nuclear
arsenal and missile defense. In every generation we have
faced down evil, and we have always prevailed.
We prevailed because we know who we are and what we
are fighting for. Not far from where we are gathered tonight,
hundreds of thousands of America's greatest patriots lay in
eternal rest at Arlington national cemetery. There is more
courage, sacrifice, and love in those hallowed grounds than
in any other spot on the face of this Earth.
Many of those who have fought and died in Afghanistan
enlisted in the months after September 11, 2001. They
volunteered for a simple reason: they loved America and
they were determined to protect her. Now we must secure
the cause for which they gave their lives. We must unite to
defend America from its enemies abroad. We must restore
the bonds of loyalty among our citizens at home, and we
must achieve an honorable and enduring outcome worthy
of the enormous price that so many have paid.
Our actions and in the months to come, all of them will
honor the sacrifice of every fallen hero, every family who
lost a loved one, and every wounded warrior who shed
their blood in defense of our great nation.
With our resolve, we will ensure that your service and that
your families will bring about the defeat of our enemies and
the arrival of peace. We will push onward to victory with
power in our hearts, courage in our souls and everlasting
pride in each and every one of you. Thank you. May God
bless our military, and may God bless the United States of
America. Thank you very much. Thank you.
President Trump Might Protect Dreamers In Exchange For
Tougher Immigration Policies, Including
Border Wall Funding
BY Jason Silverstein - NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Updated: Tuesday, August 22, 2017, 8:34 PM
President Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner (l.) and daughter Ivanka
(c.) are reportedly pushing for him to broker the deal.(Jeff
Kravitz/FilmMagic)
President Trump’s aides have been urging him to use
Dreamer immigrants as a “bargaining chip” in a deal to
secure funding for a Mexican border wall and stronger
immigration laws, according to a report.
Several of the President’s top advisors, including his
daughter Ivanka and her husband Jared Kushner, are
pushing Trump to protect Dreamers — children brought
into America illegally — from deportation, McClatchyDC
reported.
This would break a major campaign pledge from Trump to
deport Dreamers as part of his mission to crack down on
illegal immigration.
But the aides have said Trump could use this for leverage
to coerce Congress into fiercer immigration enforcement.
Under the proposed deal, Trump would keep in place
protection for Dreamers in exchange for legislation that
cuts legal immigration, introduces an online system for
businesses to check immigration status and payments for
the border wall, which was one of his most famous
campaign promises.
According to the report, Ivanka, Kushner, White House
Chief of Staff John Kelly and Vice President Pence have
told Trump to push for the compromise.
U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions and policy adviser
Stephen Miller, who share hardline views on immigration,
have told Trump to walk away from the potential deal.
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Trump hasn’t indicated which side he is leaning toward,
and the White House has not commented.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said he
wasn’t interested in such a deal.
“Dreamers are not a bargaining chip for the
border wall and inhumane deportation
force. Period,” he tweeted.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) tweeted the
idea was “reprehensible.”
“America’s DREAMers are not negotiable,”
she said.
Trump has shown conflicting stances on DACA through
his political career.
He ran on a pledge to deport the 800,000 children covered
by the program and called the policy, which was instituted
by former President Barack Obama, an abuse of power.
But he has not taken any action in office to dismantle
DACA, and he said in February he would show “great
heart” to the “incredible kids” covered by the law.
Meanwhile, Trump has ramped up a war on illegal and
even legal immigration.
He has rescinded several other Obama-era protections for
undocumented immigrants and supported a Senate bill
calling for drastic cuts to America’s legal immigration.
Trump has also struggled to follow through on his promise
to build a Mexican border wall and make Mexico pay for
it. Leaked transcripts of a call with Mexican President
Enrique Peña Nieto showed Trump acknowledging that he
wouldn’t able to pass the bill to Mexico.
Congress has not come up with any legislation illustrating
a plan to pay for the wall, which would cost an estimated
$21.6 billion, according to a Department of Homeland
Security report.
 Ben Shapiro: ‘Trump Only Got Elected
Because No One Liked Hillary Clinton’
By Shepard Ambellas -
August 22, 2017

“No, there was no master plan, okay, it’s

just that Hillary was an awful candidate
and no one liked her,” the washed up
commentator told Rogan as he grasped for
straws. “This is the untold story of the
election.”
Although Shapiro admits that the left was “arrogant” in
thinking that they could pit the “most unpopular, unlikable,
unqualified, nasty, boring, human being you can think of”
against Donald Trump he still may have to come to terms
with the fact that Trump is now his president.

Ben Shapiro speaking at the 2016 Politicon at the Pasadena

Convention Center in Pasadena, California. (Gage Skidmore/Flickr)

While it’s true that Hillary Clinton is

highly unlikable — it’s not the sole
reason that Donald Trump won the
election — there is more to the story

(INTELLIHUB) — On a recent episode of the Joe Rogan

Experience podcast, political commentator and author Ben
Shapiro told Joe Rogan that the only reason that Donald
Trump got elected as president is because no one liked
Hillary Clinton during the run-up and that Trump won
merely by chance.

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 Liberal Pundit: Bannon Enabled MSM
To Cover Hillary ‘Through The Prism Of Scandal’
By Tom Johnson
August 22, 2017 10:56 AM EDT
A few days before Steve Bannon left the Trump White
House, President Trump noted that Bannon had not signed
on until “very late" in the 2016 campaign. Still, much like
a ballplayer acquired just prior to the trading deadline who
puts his team over the top, Bannon made a crucial
contribution to Trump’s win, suggested New York’s
Jonathan Chait on Friday.
Bannon’s “essential work” for the campaign “lay in his
attacks on Hillary Clinton,” wrote Chait, who explained
that “the anti-Clinton industry had existed since the early
1990s as both a partisan messaging tool and a reliable
source of income...The conservative media ecosystem
recirculated lurid fantasies that the Clintons were
murderers, connected to a drug cartel, and so on. They
whipped their base into a failed crusade for impeachment
while destroying their credibility with the mainstream
media.”
Bannon realized well before he joined the Trump
campaign that if Hillary-bashing had a respectable face, it
could find a far larger and more persuadable audience than
the old-school wacky conspiratorial stuff found (bolding
added):
Rather than dismiss the mainstream media
as hopelessly biased, as most
conservatives did, Bannon grasped both its
importance and potential utility. He
believed sufficiently credible research could
be injected into news organs that potential
Clinton voters would read. He helped fund
.
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and direct research, such as [Peter
Schweizer’s book] “Clinton Cash,” which
depicted Hillary Clinton as greedy and
criminal.
Bannon’s work in the anti-Clinton complex turned out to
shape the battlefield for the campaign in precisely the way
he predicted.
The news media relentlessly cast the
Democratic front-runner as secretive
and corrupt, to the point where she was
almost no longer the front-runner at
all…
…The relentless attacks on [Hillary]
continuously shored up the Republican
base…and it served just as well to depress
the Democratic base…
News coverage defined Clinton largely -- indeed, almost
entirely -- through the prism of scandal, with the Clinton
Foundation and email stories comprising the
overwhelming majority of news stories about her…
Even so, Chait contended, Trump
“still would have lost if not for the
interventions of FBI director James Comey
and Russian intelligence (the latter of which
may well prove to have been coordinated
through Trump’s campaign).”
 White House Petition Demanding Antifa
Be Labeled A Terrorist Group Surpasses 200k Signatures
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On August 22, 2017
Let’s hope the White House acts on this
(National Sentinel) Culture of Violence: A campuses featuring conservative speakers.
Whitehouse.gov petition demanding that the Trump
administration designate the Antifa group a terrorist
organization has garnered well over 200,000 signatures —
more than double the amount necessary to trigger White
House action.
As reported by the Washington Times:
The “We the People” petition, created
Thursday by someone of the name M.A.,
says Antifa’s violent actions in cities across
the country should earn it the same
designation given to the Islamic State
terrorist group.
“It is time for the pentagon to be consistent
in its actions — and just as they rightfully
declared ISIS a terror group, they must
declare AntiFa a terror group — on the
grounds of principle, integrity, morality, and
safety,” the petition states.
More than 197,000 people had
electronically signed the petition by
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Monday afternoon, just four days after it
was created. [Editor’s note: Signatures had
surpassed 238,000 as of this writing.]
Tens of millions of Americans have been disgusted by the
antics of Antifa thugs, wannabe ‘revolutionaries’ who have
been showing up to events in support of President Donald
J. Trump since last year with the sole intent of disrupting
them with violence.
Also, Antifa and other Left-wing organizations like Black
Lives Matter have violently disrupted events on college
These anarchist pieces of shit are not interested in civil
political discourse; they are only interested in raising hell
and causing mayhem. They wipe their asses with the First
Amendment in the same way their Marxist Democratic
allies do.
That said, the petition is spot-on; the textbook definition of
“terrorism” is employing violence to advance a political
agenda, and Antifa behavior certainly fits the description.
We’ll see how the White House responds. At the very least
we have a president who isn’t afraid to label Alt-Left thugs
when he sees them, even if most other Republicans are too
cowardly to do so.
There is nothing wrong with opposing neo-Nazism and
white supremacy; where we have a problem is when
people try to forcefully oppose one radical ideology and
replace it with another, in this case Marxism.
Neither are appropriate in America.
 Trump Goes On Rampage Against The Media,
Sitting Arizona Senators At Phoenix Rally
By Alex Pappas
Published August 22, 2017
A defiant President Trump rallied with his base for more
than an hour Tuesday in Arizona, trashing the media over
its coverage of his response to the recent violence in
Charlottesville, Va., while criticizing the state’s
Republican senators for not getting behind him.
The president also signaled during the Phoenix rally that
he could soon pardon Joe Arpaio, the former sheriff in
Maricopa County famous for his tough stance against
illegal immigration.
But Trump was most animated when defending himself
against accusations he wasn’t forceful enough in
condemning the white supremacists and racists who were
protesting in Charlottesville earlier this month. He blamed
the media for distorting his comments.
At one point, the president pulled a piece of paper out of
his jacket and re-read his initial statements condemning the
racists involved the protests.
“Did they report that I said that racism is
evil?” Trump asked of the media. The
crowd yelled, “No!”
“You know why?” Trump asked. “Because
they are very dishonest people.”
A 32-year-old counter-protester was killed in
Charlottesville after police said a Nazi sympathizer
rammed his car into a crowd. After the violence, the
president faced criticism for blaming “both sides” for the
unrest instead of just white nationalists.
As Trump continued to rail against the media’s coverage
of him, the crowd began chanting:
“CNN sucks!”
“These are sick people," Trump said of the
media. "You know the thing I don’t
understand? You would think … they’d
want to make our country great again. And
I honestly believe they don’t.”
The events in Charlottesville cast a shadow over the rally,
with Phoenix’s Democratic mayor, Greg Stanton, asking
Trump last week to delay his rally in wake of the violence.
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The Charlottesville violence led cities across the country to
consider removing Confederate statues, something Trump
railed against Tuesday.
“They’re trying to take away our culture,
they’re trying to take away our history,” he
said.
A crowd of protesters formed outside the convention
center Tuesday, but the president bragged that there were
far more Trump supporters in attendance.
“All week, they’re talking about the massive
crowds that are going to be outside,”
Trump said. “Where are they?”
He then mocked liberal protesters who had been
demonstrating.
“You know, they show up in the helmets
and the black masks and they’ve got clubs
and they’ve got everything,” Trump said.
Referring to the far-left militant protest group, Trump
exclaimed:
“Antifa!”
Leading up to the rally, it was believed Trump could
announce a pardon at the rally for Arpaio, the former
Arizona sheriff convicted of a misdemeanor charge for not
obeying a 2011 order from a judge to stop his anti-
immigrant traffic patrols. Earlier Tuesday, the White
House said the president would not be announcing a
pardon at the rally.
But Trump suggested a pardon – which would be his first
as president – could be forthcoming.
“I’ll make a prediction. I think he’s going to
be just fine,” Trump said. “But I won’t do it
tonight because I don’t want to cause any
controversy. Is that OK?”
Without specifically naming them, Trump dinged the
state’s two Republican senators, Jeff Flake and John
McCain, with whom he has sparred recently.
McCain, a frequent Trump critic who was recently
diagnosed with brain cancer, irked the president by voting
against the Senate’s recent plan to repeal and replace
ObamaCare.
“One vote away – I will not mention any
names,” Trump said of McCain.
Flake, who has battled with Trump on immigration, has
been promoting a book that argues the GOP is in “denial”
about the president.
Speaking of Flake, Trump said:
“And nobody wants me to talk about your
other senator, who's weak on borders,
weak on crime. So I won’t talk about him.”
During his speech, Trump vowed to follow through on his
promise to crack down on illegal immigration. He also said
he isn’t giving up on repealing ObamaCare and expressed
optimism about reforming the country’s tax codes.
Speaking of the failed attempt to pass health care reform
legislation, Trump said:
“It would’ve been great health care for
Arizona. It would have been great.”
Tuesday's rally came a day after Trump announced plans
to send more troops to Afghanistan – an announcement he
highlighted during his speech.
“Did anybody watch last night?"
.
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“Last night, as you know, I laid out my
vision for an honorable and enduring
outcome in a very tough place, a place
where our country has failed, Afghanistan,”
Trump said.
The president also addressed the recent escalation of
rhetoric with North Korea. Trump referenced the country’s
leader and said he believes Kim Jong Un is “starting to
respect us.” Trump expressed hope that “maybe something
positive can come about.”
High-ranking administration officials and other
recognizable conservatives warmed up the crowd before
the president spoke, including Vice President Mike Pence
and Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben
Carson.
Several of them painted a picture of a divided country.
"Our lives are too short to let our
differences divide us," Carson said. "Our
differences are nothing compared to our
shared humanity and the values that unite
us."
Alveda King, a niece of Martin Luther King Jr., and
evangelist Franklin Graham both delivered prayers before
Trump’s speech.
"We come tonight as a troubled nation,”
Graham said. “We're broken spiritually,
we're divided politically, we're divided
racially."
 5 Takeaways From Trump's Afghan Speech
By Ellen Mitchell
08/22/17 12:55 AM EDT
President Trump on Monday unveiled his much-
anticipated agenda for Afghanistan, a plan heavy on broad
goals and light on details.
Speaking from Fort Myer, Va., Trump laid out parameters
that will keep U.S. troops in Afghanistan to attempt to win
the 16-year-old war, rejecting those who have called for
withdrawal.
“The American people are weary of war
without victory. I share the American
people’s frustration,” Trump said. "In the
end, we will fight and we will win.”
Trump reached his plan after months of deliberation and a
final, high-profile meeting of his national security team at
Camp David on Friday.
Here’s are the five biggest takeaways from Trump’s
address:
Trump declined to provide specifics
After months of speculation on whether Trump would send
3,000 to 5,000 additional troops to Afghanistan — a plan
pushed by his top generals — the president declined to
commit to a specific troop increase.
Trump is expected to send nearly 4,000 more troops, but
he neither divulged a number nor said how long additional
U.S. forces would spend in the country.
"We will not talk about numbers of troops or
our plans for future military activities,”
Trump said. “Conditions on the ground, not
arbitrary timetables, will guide our strategy
from now on. America’s enemies must
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never know our plans. ... I will not say when
we will attack, but attack we will.”
The United States has about 8,400 troops in Afghanistan
now. The forces are on a dual mission of training, advising
and assisting Afghan forces in their fight against the
Taliban and conducting counterterrorism missions against
groups such as al Qaeda and the Islamic State in Iraq and
Syria (ISIS).
CNN later reported that senior administration officials had
approved an increase of 3,900 troops.
Trump phrased the lack of a timeline as a benefit moving
forward.
“A core pillar of our new strategy is a shift
from a time-based approach to one based
on conditions. I’ve said it many times how
counterproductive it is for the United States
to announce in advance the dates we
intend to begin, or end, military options."
He acknowledged reversing from his campaign position
Trump ran on a position of limiting U.S. engagement in
foreign conflicts and has for years advocated a U.S.
withdrawal from Afghanistan, arguing the United States
was wasting billions.
“Why are we continuing to train these
Afghanis who then shoot our soldiers in the
back? Afghanistan is a complete waste.
Time to come home!” he wrote on Twitter in
2012.
But on Monday night, Trump acknowledged he was
reversing course on his previous comments, asserting that
quickly pulling troops from the country would do more
harm than good.
“My original instinct was to pull out, and
historically I like following my instincts, but
all of my life I’ve heard that decisions are
much different when you sit behind the
desk in the Oval Office,” Trump said.
 “A hasty withdrawal would create a vacuum
that terrorists — including ISIS and al
Qaeda — would instantly fill, just as
happened before Sept. 11,” he added.
He was emphatic that nation building is not the goal
While Trump pledged to continue to support the Afghan
government and military in their fight against the Taliban,
he made clear his administration would take itself out of
other decisions, dubbing the new outlook as “principled
realism.”
“I share [Americans'] frustration over a
foreign policy that has spent too much time,
energy, money and most importantly lives
trying to rebuild countries in our own image
instead of pursuing our security interests
above all other consideration,” Trump said.
“Ultimately it is up to the people of
Afghanistan to take ownership of their
future. ... We are not nation building again.
We are killing terrorists,” he added.
The military, he said, will not be used
“to construct democracies in far-away lands
or try to rebuild countries in our own image.
Those days are now over.”
Trump also pressed for a successful and sound
Afghanistan, committing to continue funding the training
of Afghan forces. But he also warned that such
commitment
“is not unlimited and our support is not a
blank check.”
“The government of Afghanistan must carry
their share of the military, political and
economic burden. Our patience is not
unlimited.”
Trump took a hard line on Pakistan
The White House plans to pressure neighboring Pakistan
to push harder on terrorist organizations within and across
its borders.
“We can no longer be silent about
Pakistan’s safe havens for terrorist
organizations, the Taliban, and other
groups that pose a threat to the region and
beyond,” Trump said. “Pakistan has much
to gain from partnering with our effort in
Afghanistan. It has much to lose by
continuing to harbor criminals terrorists.”
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Trump hinted at withholding aid from the country, a tactic
that has been used in the past. Defense Secretary James
Mattis has withheld $50 million in aid from Pakistan over
what the Pentagon described as its insufficient actions
against the Haqqani network, a militant Islamic group
based in the country.
“We have been paying Pakistan billions
and billions of dollars at the same time they
are housing the terrorists that we are
fighting. But that will have to change, and
that will change immediately,” Trump
vowed.
“It is time for Pakistan to demonstrate its
commitment to civilization, order and to
peace.”
He blamed previous administrations
A good portion of Trump's speech was devoted to
criticizing the decisions of past administrations, spreading
blame for Afghanistan on the choices made by former
Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama.
“When I became president I was given a
bad and very complex hand,” Trump
asserted. “No one denies that we have
inherited a challenging and troubling
situation in Afghanistan and South Asia,
but we do not have the luxury of going back
in time and making different or better
decisions.”
Trump was quick to claim that the 2011 troop drawdown
deadline in Iraq — an agreement signed by Bush in 2008
— was the reason for the emergence of ISIS.
“As we know, in 2011, America hastily and
mistakenly withdrew from Iraq. As a result,
our hard won gains slipped back into the
hands of terrorist enemies,” Trump said.
“The vacuum we created by leaving too
soon gave safe haven for ISIS to spread.
We cannot repeat in Afghanistan the
mistake our leaders made in Iraq.”
Though he did not mention him by name, Trump also
bashed Obama for restrictions
“that prevented the secretary of Defense
and our commanders in the field from fully
and swiftly waging battle against the
enemy.”
“Micromanagement from Washington, D.C.,
does not win battles,” Trump said.
 Back At Breitbart, Steve Bannon Launches
First Strike In His War On Trump's White House
Breitbart Was Scathing In Its View On Trump's
'Obama-Like' Afghanistan Policy.
By Jordan Bhatt
Updated August 22, 2017 12:36 BST

The White House has had a nervous few days to see how
former chief strategist Steve Bannon would act now that he
is back at the helm of Breitbart.
Bannon was ousted from his post on Friday 18 August,
with some worried that, in the words of Lyndon B
Johnson, they'd be better served having him "inside the
tent" than outside it.
It was widely-known that Bannon was against further
interference in Afghanistan, a topic that Trump regularly
lambasted Barack Obama regarding in the run-up to his
election.
But after Trump announced his intention to stay and "fight
to win", the newly reinstated Breitbart boss hit out at the
president.
The alt-right website suggested that the decision was a
"flip-flop" and said that it "reverses course".
Breitbart's editor, Joel Pollak tweeted:
"Trump's #Afghanistan speech was
Obama's speech minus the deadline &
details. Like the bit about Pakistan, not
convinced we can deliver India."
The scale of Trump's plans were attacked from the offset
with the lead line of the piece reading that
"after seven months of deliberation Monday
evening [he announced] tweaks around the
edges of the current strategy instead of a
different approach".
The Trump administration long-feared a White House with
Bannon on the outside, despite Trump praising Bannon's
return to Breitbart.

The site also took target at Trump's national security

adviser, H.R. McMaster, a prominent figure in the White
House who Bannon regularly clashed with.

One headline read "His McMaster's voice: Is Trump's

Afghanistan policy different from Obama?"

The attacks on McMaster have gradually grown in recent

weeks from Breitbart, but the likening of Trump's policy to
that of Obama's will be the sharpest sting.

Twitter had a field day in response to Trump's chief strategist Steve

They suggested that the rhetoric that Trump gave had Bannon's exit from the White House.Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty
echoes of Obama's "blank cheque". Images
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 America Is Out Of Ideas In Afghanistan
Only One Thing Was Clear After President Trump’s Vague Speech:
Nobody Knows What To Do.
By SUSAN B. GLASSER
August 22, 2017
U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Justin T. Updegraff/AP Photo
President Donald Trump proved one thing beyond the
shadow of a doubt in his Afghanistan strategy speech
Monday night: After nearly 16 years of fighting America’s
longest war, there are no new ideas.
He called his plan “dramatically different.”
It wasn’t. The only thing that seemed a striking change
from his two presidential predecessors’ approach to the
war launched after the attacks of September 11, 2001, was
Trump’s escalatory rhetoric. He repeatedly vowed to
“win” a conflict that his Defense Secretary James Mattis
told Congress recently “we are not winning” and sharply
criticized Afghanistan’s neighbor Pakistan, a troublesome
ally Trump excoriated for offering “safe haven” to
terrorists.
Whether and how harshly to call out Pakistan, I’m told,
was among the most contentious elements of a debate that
raged all the way up until last Friday’s national security
team meeting at Camp David.
Among those who leaned toward the tougher line were
Gen. John W. Nicholson Jr., the current commander of
U.S.-led forces in Afghanistan, and national security
adviser Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster, as well as CIA Director
Mike Pompeo. Trump himself was largely in agreement—
as the stinging language in his speech suggested.
“The president was leaning toward the
harder-line view on Pakistan because he
saw the Pakistanis as kind of taking us for
a ride,” said one former U.S. official briefed
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on the policy review debates. “‘They must
be laughing at us’ kind of thing.”
But beyond the scathing language and an open-ended
pledge to “fight to win,” Trump offered few details about a
plan that administration sources have said involves the
sending of a few thousand more troops to Afghanistan.
The Pentagon deems such a move necessary to avoid the
collapse of the U.S.-backed government in Kabul but it
would hardly be a force capable of dramatically changing
facts on the ground a few years after a surge to some
100,000 American troops at the beginning of Barack
Obama’s presidency failed to do so.
How the victory would come Trump did not say, although
he appeared to issue an ultimatum to Pakistan to cease its
support for militants “immediately,” suggested there were
no “arbitrary timetables” for American withdrawal aside
from unspecific conditions being met, vowed not to
micromanage troops from Washington, and pledged not to
spend anymore money or effort on failed nation-building
attempts.
“Yes, we will defeat them, and we will
defeat them handily,” Trump said.
Not long ago, I interviewed Laurel Miller, who served as
America’s top diplomat for Afghanistan and Pakistan until
the end of June, when she left the State Department and
the Trump administration shut down her office. Here is
what she had to say on the subject of winning, a sentiment
echoed by numerous other current and former U.S.
officials with whom I’ve spoken about this in recent
weeks:
“I don’t think there is any serious analyst of
the situation in Afghanistan who believes
that the war is winnable. It’s possible to
prevent the defeat of the Afghan
government and prevent military victory by
the Taliban, but this is not a war that’s
going to be won, certainly not in any time
horizon that’s relevant to political decision-
making in Washington.”
Still, winning is what Trump offered, along with a
trademark helping of bombast, blame-casting and name-
calling.
He complained, as Trump often does, about the “bad and
very complex hand” he was dealt—and made very clear he
was not eager to inherit a conflict that neither Obama’s
surge nor George W. Bush’s post-9/11 retaliatory blitz
could definitively end. And throughout the speech, his
very first prime-time address on an urgent national security
decision, Trump showed that no TelePrompter could force
him to adopt the formal language of previous presidents,
taunting the terrorists from Al Qaeda and the Islamic State
he has vowed to wipe out as “thugs,” “criminals,” “and
yes, losers.”
In many ways, the target of much of his speech was neither
Al Qaeda nor the Taliban but Barack Obama. Trump went
out of his way, for example, to criticize his successor for
“hastily and mistakenly” withdrawing from Iraq in 2011—
without mentioning that he supported that move at the
time. In his speech on Monday, he claimed that he now
viewed it as a mistake so consequential it had shaped his
own determination to fight on in Afghanistan.
The most striking—and certainly the most honest—part of
the speech came at the very beginning, when Trump
owned up to his flip-flop on the Afghan war and
skepticism about the battle plan offered by his own
commanders, acknowledging what had been apparent from
West Wing leaks for months.
All day in the run-up to the speech, in fact, commentators
delighted in reposting old Trump tweets on Afghanistan
that made it abundantly clear what the president—absent
the realities of governing—really thinks of the long,
grinding war there.
“Let’s get out Afghanistan,” Trump had
tweeted on January 11, 2013. “Our troops
are being killed by the Afghanis we train
and we waste billions there. Nonsense!
Rebuild the USA.”
“My original instinct was to pull out,” Trump
acknowledged Monday night, “and
historically I like following my instincts.”
***
That Trump did not follow his instincts marks a victory
in the vicious internecine struggles of his White House for
McMaster, who made the Afghanistan policy review a
personal priority from the start of his tenure but spent
months trying and failing to persuade his president to go
along with a strategy almost identical to the one Trump
ultimately announced Monday night.
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In fact, McMaster’s hand—and even his language—
seemed to be directly in evidence throughout Trump’s
speech. Not only was the policy that Trump adopted
essentially what he had long been recommending but a key
few sentences at the end of the speech seemed drawn
directly from what several sources briefed on the
administration’s Afghanistan policy review had previously
told me was McMaster’s framing of the need to fight on.
Trump labeled his new approach to the long-running
conflict an example of “principled realism” and said its
goal was to use “strategically applied force” to create the
conditions for a peace process. Privately, that is what
McMaster has told other U.S. officials—that the additional
troops and more aggressive military posture on the ground
in Afghanistan will be necessary for the next several years
to create conditions for bringing the parties to the
negotiating table.
His logic prevailed—for now.
But it remains to be seen at what cost. Trump’s speech
came, as the magazine Foreign Policy put it, after months
of mounting
“frustration at the Defense Department,
dismay in Kabul, and internecine fighting
within the administration.”
McMaster waged a months-long running battle inside
Trump’s national security team that, participants told me,
often showed the national security adviser to be out of
sync with his capricious boss and others, like recently
ousted nationalist faction leader Steve Bannon, who were
wary of generals demanding more troops for a war they
hadn’t been able to win in 16 long years of trying.
Meetings were contentious and factionalized from the
start—one session for principals in the White House was
described by multiple sources to me as a “shitshow” that
devolved into a shouting match between McMaster and
Bannon, and NBC News later detailed Trump’s intense
displeasure over Afghanistan, including his memorable
comparison of the country to New York City’s 21 Club.
The debate culminated in its later stage with an intense
private discussion over what to say about Pakistan even as
Bannon’s allies launched increasingly vituperative public
attacks on McMaster.
In the end, few of those who participated in the months of
back and forth over the long-running war were surprised
by where Trump ended up.
A few hours before the speech, I spoke with one former
senior official with much experience in the region whose
forecast for what Trump would say was dead on.
 “Unless he was going to withdraw U.S.
troops, you really didn’t have any other
choice,” the official told me. “There is no
other option that isn’t too risky. If you do
nothing at all in a context where security
continues to deteriorate, then you just
narrow your set of options for the full four
years ... If you pull out precipitously, you’re
definitely going to have a crisis on your
hands. So a modest increase stabilizes the
situation where it is and prevents the defeat
.
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of the government. It’s unsatisfying but it at
least preserves your options.”
And so Trump has spent months learning exactly what the
Afghan war has taught so many other American leaders in
the decade and a half since the United States went
charging into Kabul, not to mention generations of British
and Russian generals before them:
It’s easy to get into a conflict in Afghanistan, and hard to
leave.
 Shock: Establishment Republican
Mitch McConnell Is Now Working Against Trump
Senate Leader At Odds With Trump
By Intellihub Staff -
August 22, 2017

(INTELLIHUB) — A new report in the establishment
New York Times confirms a fact that many have long
feared, Republican majority leader Mitch McConnell is not
on the same page as President Trump and may be actively
working against him.
The article, made possible by anonymous sources close to
McConnell, goes as far as to directly say that the Rhino
Republican doesn’t believe Trump will last much longer.
“The relationship between President Trump
and Senator Mitch McConnell, the majority
leader, has disintegrated to the point that
they have not spoken to each other in
weeks, and Mr. McConnell has privately
expressed uncertainty that Mr. Trump will
be able to salvage his administration after a
series of summer crises,” reported The
Times.
“What was once an uneasy governing
alliance has curdled into a feud of mutual
resentment and sometimes outright
hostility, complicated by the position of Mr.
McConnell’s wife, Elaine L. Chao, in Mr.
Trump’s cabinet, according to more than a
dozen people briefed on their imperiled
partnership. Angry phone calls and private
badmouthing have devolved into open
conflict, with the president threatening to
oppose Republican senators who cross
him, and Mr. McConnell mobilizing to their
defense.”
So there you have it. Add McConnell to the long list of
establishment operatives who are either publicly or
privately conducting business that directly attacks the
president. The difference here is McConnell has real power
in the Senate and his own wife is in Trump’s cabinet.

The article continued,

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 Trump Slams Media At Rally:
'They Don't Like Our Country'
By Todd Beamon
Tuesday, 22 Aug 2017 11:41 PM
President Donald Trump (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
President Donald Trump on Tuesday slammed the "fake
news" media and defended his comments on the
Charlottesville violence Tuesday — even re-reading his
earlier statements at a rally in Arizona "to show you how
damned dishonest these people are."
"For the most part, honestly, these are really, really
dishonest people," Trump told a rally at the Phoenix
Convention Center. "They are bad people.
"I really think they don't like our country. I really believe
that.
"I don't believe they are going to change and that's why I
do this," Trump said. "The only people giving a platform
to these hate groups is the media itself and the fake news.
"If you want to discover the source of the division and our
country, look no further than the fake news and the
crooked media — which would rather get ratings and
clicks than tell the truth," Trump said.
Trump's rally came after Monday's national speech on
Afghanistan and last week's comments that blamed "both
sides" for the Charlottesville violence killed a local woman
and injured 19 other people.
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Arizona's two Republican senators, Jeff Flake and John
McCain, boycotted the rally — and Phoenix Mayor Greg
Stanton had asked Trump to postpone the event to allow
time for national healing after the Virginia clashes.
Vice President Mike Pence introduced Trump at the rally.
Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson
and Dr. Alveda King, niece of slain civil rights leader
Martin Luther King Jr., also spoke — and the Rev.
Franklin Graham offered the invocation.
Trump's also spoke in Phoenix amid concerns he would
pardon Joe Arpaio, the tough-talking former Maricopa
County sheriff, of federal criminal contempt charges for
violating an order to stop his crackdown on illegal
immigrants.
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told
reporters aboard Air Force One en route to Arizona that
Trump would not pardon Arpaio at the rally.
However, President Trump asked the crowd: "I am just
curious: Do the people in this room like Sheriff Joe?"
The question sparked loud cheers and chants of "pardon
Sheriff Joe."
"So, was Sheriff Joe convicted for doing his job?" Trump
asked. "He should have had a jury.
"But you know what? I will make a prediction," Trump
said. "I think he's going to be just fine, OK?
"But I won't do it tonight, because I don't want to cause
any controversy.
"Is that OK? All right? But Sheriff Joe can feel good."
Trump also took swipes at Flake and McCain, without
naming them, encouraging supporters to lobby them to
support repealing and replacing Obamacare.
McCain sealed the death of legislation for a bare-bones
repeal of the Affordable Care Act, casting the critical vote
to bring the final count to 51-49 against.
"One vote away," Trump said, hinting at McCain. "I won't
mention any names. Very presidential.
"And nobody wants me to talk about your other senator,
who is weak on borders, weak on crime," he added, in an
apparent reference to Flake. "So, I won't talk about him."
He also bashed "the obstructionist Democrats" and vowed
if "we have to close down our government, we are building
that wall" on the southern U.S. border with Mexico. "Let
me be very clear.
.
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"The Democrats in Congress, who oppose the border wall
and stand in the way of border security, you are putting all
of America's safety at risk."
In standard Trump-rally fashion, the president lauded his
accomplishments but also noted North Korean dictator
Kim Jong Un might have renewed respect for the U.S. in
light of their oral showdown over Guam in recent weeks.
"I respect the fact that I believe he is starting to respect
us," Trump told the crowd. "I respect that fact very much.
"And maybe — probably not, but maybe — something
positive can come about.
"They won't tell you that," he added, referring to the
media. "Maybe something positive can come about."
 Alt-Left Protesters Show Up To Phoenix Rally
Armed With AR-15’s And Bullet Proof Vests (PHOTOS)
Cristina Laila
Aug 22nd, 2017 7:46 pm

President Trump is holding a rally in

Phoenix, Arizona Tuesday evening and
Trump supporters are already lined up
at the convention center chanting,
“Build the Wall!”.

Members of the left-wing John Brown

Gun Club Phoenix Chapter showed up
to the Phoenix rally Tuesday evening
armed with AR-15’s and bullet proof
vests. They claim they are in Phoenix to
protect protesters from white
supremacists.

Open carry is legal in Arizona.

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UPDATE: A person claiming to be a descendant of John
Brown warned protesters against using the name of his
homicidal ancestor.

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 FBI Suspects Members Of Congress Leaked Grand Jury
Indictment To The Awans; DOJ Officials
Possibly Implicated Too
By Investigative Bureau
Posted On August 22, 2017
FBI agents suspect somebody in Congress tipped off the
Awans that they would be indicted and now the criminal
cases once-seemingly isolated to a group of rogue
Pakistani IT specialists working for Congress suddenly has
gotten much larger. And much more troubling.
Federal agents said preceding his arrest, Imran Awan acted
like a man who was recently tipped off that he would be
pinched and moreover, it was no coincidence Awan’s wife
was whisked out of the country in March after sidestepping
the FBI at Dulles International Airport to flee to Pakistan.
“She had cardboard boxes for luggage,”
one FBI agent said. “The school didn’t even
know she took her kids out.”
Now a faction of FBI veterans believe the couple’s
puzzling behavior is explained by even more troubling
revelations: Information about the Grand Jury convened to
investigate Awan and his wife Hina Alvi for bank fraud
and illicit money transfers was likely leaked to the
Pakistani couple. Awan and Alvi were both former IT
workers hired by Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman
Schultz. Additionally, Imran and his wife — along with
two brothers — performed IT and computer programming
work for at least 18 more Democratic lawmakers in
Congress. But it was Wasserman, the former chairwoman
of the DNC, who kept the pair employed despite the
booming criminal case.
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Federal agents said it appears more than likely a leak could
have originated from any member of Congress linked to
the Awan family. Federal law enforcement sources believe
officials in Congress were tipped off by a subsequent leak
in the Justice Department or the hierarchy of the FBI itself.
The Grand Jury convened in U.S. District Court in the
District of Columbia on Nov. 13, 2016. Within weeks,
Awan and his wife started moving money. Lots of it. To
Pakistan and parts unknown, federal agents said. By the
time Awan and Alvi were indicted on Aug. 17th, they had
liquidated well over $2 million in U.S.-backed assets and
property, sources and records show. That amount is likely
to grow, as agents continue to work the cases.
And as much as $800,000 of that money was liquidated
after Awan’s FBI arrest, exactly two weeks before his
indictment.
It is no coincidence Awan began liquidating assets “like a
mad man” in the days before his July 24th arrest, FBI
sources and public records confirm. In fact, Awan closed
deals on the sale of two houses for over $800,000. Both
real estate assets were owned by he and his wife and he
accepted buy offers on the properties the same day of his
arrest. This was a small feat in itself because she was
hiding 7,500 miles away in Pakistan. Awan was also lining
up cash advances on credit line accounts and liquidating
other financial instruments, federal sources said.
Federal agents said it is evident Awan was in a rush to
liquidate assets prior to an arrest and indictment in a
possible attempt to shield the real estate from prosecutors
who could seize or freeze the couple’s properties.
These new revelations of high-placed leaks flowing from
multiple branches of the government follow similarly
disturbing news that when Awan’s wife was preparing to
flee the United States to Pakistan, the FBI’s efforts to
arrest her were blocked by now-fired ex FBI director
James Comey and Andrew McCabe, deputy FBI director.
A disturbing pattern has emerged in this growing case
where it has become evident that Awan has been helped
along the way, including intervention by Wasserman
Schultz who vouched for at least one Awan Congressional
Federal Credit Union loans, a transaction which is now
central to the indictment.
Awan’s strategy to sell his wife’s real estate assets while
she was far from the clutches of the FBI might have paid
off. Public records show just two weeks before the
couple’s indictment, Awan closed on a sale of at least one
Lorton VA home on August 3 for $617,000.
FBI agents may not have been aware of the August 3rd
cash out at the time either, sources said. But they know
now. Awan, by selling assets prior to the date of the
couple’s indictment, may have again found a loophole to
stay under the radar of federal agents, sources said. This is
another reason federal agents believe he had some
guidance on these matters. After his indictment any large
financial transactions would be monitored by the Justice
Department and Awan’s federal pretrial intervention case
worker who reports to the District Court Clerk and
ultimately Awan’s federal case judge. Awan’s assets
would have been essentially frozen, with any sales pending
the approval of the courts and DOJ, sources said.
Likewise, when Alvi was preparing to flee the United
States, she liquidated retirement funds and wired mortgage
settlements totaling almost $600,000 to Pakistan prior to
her departure.
Federal agents said it was apparent Alvi had no intentions
to return to the United States when three weeks after her
departure, Imram started listing his Hawkshead Drive
home in Lorton, among others, on the market for
$629,000. Then, approximately three days before his
arrest, he dropped the sale of the house to $617,000.
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Awan’s real estate agent edited the property’s MLS listing
at that time to reflect the emotions of a worried seller,
adding:
“PRICE IMPROVEMENT! MOTIVATED
SELLERS!”
Days later, it was sold. Again, on the same day Awan was
arrested while trying to flee to Pakistan himself.
Alvi purchased the Lorton home in 2008 for $470,000
form Avelo Mortgage with less than three percent down
payment, records show. The sale price of the home was
almost $400,000 lower than the previous sale of $840,000.
Avelo at the time was the residential mortgage arm of
Goldman Sachs, generous and longtime personal and
campaign benefactors of Hillary Clinton and the
Democratic National Committee which was previously
chaired by Wasserman Schultz.
Awan and his wife, as well as his two brothers are also
targets of an investigation into an alleged procurement
scam where the group is suspected of stealing equipment,
Blackberry phones, and hacking House IT systems without
permission.
Wasserman Schultz could not be reached for comment.
The lingering question is whether the FBI will be granted
permission to investigate Congress for leaks which could
implicate the Justice Department or bosses at the FBI.
Sources at the Bureau said they have their doubts.
 Paul Ryan Made It Clear:
He’s Gone As Far As He’s Willing To
On Trump And Charlottesville
By Amber Phillips
August 22, 2017

Ryan said he doesn’t think Trump needs to:

“I think just he needs to do better and I

think he just did.”

Would you support a censure of the president by the

House? That’s a hard no. Ryan:

“That would be so counterproductive, if we

descend this issue into some partisan
hackfest.”
House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) appeared on CNN for a town hall
forum on Aug. 21. Here’s what he said about President Trump and
repealing the Affordable Care Act. (Amber Ferguson/The Is a Facebook post and three tweets enough to set the
Washington Post) country straight? No, but we “all need to do better,” Ryan
said vaguely.
House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) has not hidden the
fact he disapproves of President Trump equating white
supremacists in Charlottesville with counterprotesters.
But on Monday night he also made clear he’s not going to
do much about it beyond a 500-word tsk-tsk Facebook
post that doesn’t even mention the president by name.

Nine days after a woman died when an alleged white

supremacist rammed his car into a crowd, Ryan posted a
statement on Facebook saying:

“There is no moral relativism when it comes

to neo-Nazis.”

The aim was to set the tone for a CNN town hall in his
Wisconsin district later Monday. When Ryan got in front
of the cameras, he didn't do much more than put a name to
his nameless criticism on Facebook.
“I do believe that he messed up in his
comments Tuesday,” Ryan said at the town
hall, “when it sounded like moral
equivalency, or at the very least, moral
ambiguity, when we need extreme moral
clarity.”
Okay then, asked constituents and CNN host Jake Tapper.
Will you ask the president to apologize, like Mitt Romney
said the president should?
Trump and Ryan chat during an appearance in the Rose Garden in
May. (AP)
Ryan briefly allowed that he’d consider bills to limit white
supremacists’ reach on the Internet. But he quickly
followed up by saying the ugly sewer of racism that
burbled to the surface in Charlottesville is “beyond a bill in
Congress.”
“This is our society. This is our culture. This
is our values,” Ryan said, by way of
explaining that he thinks Congress getting
involved would probably only politicize it.

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Ryan has gone about as far as he’s willing to go to stand
up to this president on Charlottesville. While some of his
colleagues in the Senate are questioning Trump’s fitness to
lead, other party leaders are directly calling on the
president to apologize for giving cover to white
supremacists, and business leaders ditched Trump’s
advisory boards en masse, Ryan is ready to move on.
From Ryan’s point of view, that makes sense. There are
tax changes to pass and sign. Maybe health care to take up
again. A budget to pass and a debt ceiling to raise. Ryan
will need Trump for all of that, and it doesn’t make sense
to kick a president while he’s down, said Molly Reynolds,
a congressional expert with the Brookings Institution.
“I think it’s pretty clear how weak Trump is,
especially in a legislative context, and a
specific statement from Ryan — even one
that is strongly worded — doesn’t do much
more to illustrate that,” she told The Fix
earlier Monday.
Polling suggests Ryan may be making a politically safe
move. A new Washington Post-ABC News poll finds that
56 percent of Americans disapprove of Trump’s response
to Charlottesville but finds no noticeable change in
Trump’s approval ratings.
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But when it comes to Trump’s approval rating staying the
same after Charlottesville, that’s not saying much. At 37
percent, his approval rating is already the lowest in history
for a president at this point.
Ryan’s decision to move on carries with it a
giant risk that the president himself hasn’t.
Trump’s condemnations of bigotry,
delivered this Monday and last Monday,
were scripted. They were written by his
staff, and he delivered them after
overwhelming criticism for staying silent.
When Trump was left to his own devices — specifically at
a news conference supposedly on infrastructure last
Tuesday — he took it all back.
Ryan has got to be asking himself: Which Trump is the
real Trump? In more or less deciding to stand with the
president on this, it sounds like he’s gambled it’s not the
one who gave cover to white supremacists.
Tensions rise as white nationalists hold
a rally in Charlottesville, Va.
Aug. 12, 2017 A white nationalist and a counterprotester face off.
Evelyn Hockstein/for The Washington Post
 14 Times Trump Warned
Against Doing What He Just Did in Afghanistan
Written by Aaron Nelson
August 22, 2017 at 9:32 am
(ANTIMEDIA) — On the same day millions of
Americans were thrilled to witness — and equally
distracted by — a total solar eclipse, Donald Trump
decided it was time to announce a “dramatically different”
foreign policy plan for the U.S. military in Afghanistan.
Just how “different” is Trump’s new plan? In reality, the
‘new’ plan is simply more of the same failed policy of the
past, one Trump promised to put an end to numerous times
over the years prior to moving into the White House. The
only difference is the childish language Trump used to
justify the decision, repeatedly vowing to “win” the same
conflict James Mattis told Congress “we are not winning”
back in June.
On Monday, August 21, 2017, Trump revealed to Fox
News that he had signed off on sending 4,000 additional
troops to Afghanistan in what is officially the longest war
in the history of the United States. Early Tuesday morning,
NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg praised Trump’s decision to
commit more soldiers to fight on the ground in
Afghanistan, reminding allies that NATO is fully
committed to backing the ‘new’ plan:
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“NATO remains fully committed to
Afghanistan and I am looking forward to
discussing the way ahead with [U.S.
Defense] Secretary [James] Mattis and our
allies and international partners,”
Stoltenberg said in a statement.
America’s favorite war hawk, John McCain, also praised
President Trump’s strategy for Afghanistan.
He said in a statement that he believes “the
President is now moving us well beyond
the prior administration’s failed strategy of
merely postponing defeat,” also noting that
Trump faces the challenge of keeping “the
right level of effort, in the right places, with
the right authorities and resources to see
this conflict through to success.”
He continued:
“To do this, the President must conduct
himself as a wartime commander-in-chief.
He must speak regularly to the American
people, and to those waging this war on
their behalf, about why we are fighting, why
the additional sacrifices are worth it, and
how we will success.”
On Fox News, Lindsey Graham said he was “proud” of
Donald Trump’s decision:
“President Trump has the smarts and the
moral courage to listen to his generals and
take their advice rather than go the political
way.”
Despite such fawning praise, the president is now
contradicting multiple previous statements he made on the
quagmire in Afghanistan. Here are 14 times Donald Trump
called for the U.S. to withdraw from the war torn country
on Twitter and television:
 “Let’s get with it, get out of Afghanistan,”
Trump said in the video tweeted above.
“We’ve wasted billions and billions of
dollars, and more importantly, thousands
and thousands of lives — not to mention all
of these young men and women that come
home and they really have problems.”

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 Below is a compilation of Twitter users’ reactions to the
news and mocking Trump for not providing any details or
mentioning a timeline for ending America’s longest war.

In the video linked to in the tweet above, Trump asked Fox

and Friends:

“What are we doing there? These people

hate us. As soon as we leave, it’s all going
to blow up anyway. And you say, ‘What are
we doing there?’ We’re spending hundreds
of billions of dollars, trillions of dollars on
this nonsense. … What are we doing?
We’re a debtor nation. We can’t build our
own schools, yet we build schools in
Afghanistan.”

In December 2011 on CNN, Trump said we should “get

out” of Afghanistan, declaring:

“We have to rebuild our country. We’re

rebuilding. You know, you go to
Afghanistan. There is a school. It gets
blown up. We rebuild it. We build a road to
the school. They both get blown up. We
rebuild. In the meantime, if you want to
build a school in Brooklyn or Iowa or
California, you can’t build them.”

As president, it seems Donald Trump is suddenly viewing

the war in Afghanistan differently, and the Internet
immediately noticed his ‘new’ plan was just more of the
same.

Twitter Is Very Unhappy

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 The only facts that were clear following President Trump’s
speech on Afghanistan was that nobody knows what to do,
and America is clearly not winning.

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 Twitter Savages CNN’s Don Lemon After His Epic
Meltdown Over Trump’s Phoenix Speech (VIDEO)
Cristina Laila
Aug 22nd, 2017 11:55 Pm

CNN’s Don Lemon absolutely melted Don Lemon got savaged by Trump supporters:
down after President Trump gave his
speech at the Phoenix rally Tuesday
evening.

Don Lemon went on and on in an

unhinged rant and Trump supporters on
Twitter absolutely destroyed him.

Don Lemon accused Trump of lying to the American

people by eclipsing facts. He also compared Trump to a
child who blames everyone else. Lemon accused Trump of
being unhinged and insane.

President Trump slammed CNN in his speech in Phoenix

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 Former U.S. Attorney On Awan Indictment:
"There Is Something Very Strange Going On Here"
By Tyler Durden
Aug 23, 2017 5:15 AM
We've written frequently over the past couple of months
about the litany of unanswered questions surrounding the
mysterious case of Debbie Wasserman Schultz's (DWS) IT
staffers. Why did DWS seemingly threaten the chief of the
U.S. Capitol Police with “consequences” for holding
equipment that was confiscated as part of an ongoing legal
investigation? Why did DWS keep Awan on her taxpayer
funded payroll all the way up until the day he was arrested
by the FBI at Dulles airport while trying to flee the country
to Pakistan? What, if anything, does the Awan family
know about the DNC hacks that may have caused DWS to
act in this way?
Now, Andrew McCarthy III, the former
assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern
District of New York who led the
prosecution against Sheikh Omar Abdel
Rahman and eleven others for the 1993
World Trade Center bombing, says there
is "something very strange" about the
recent indictment filed against Imran
Awan and his wife Hina Alvi in the District
of Columbia.
In a National Review article, McCarthy points out that it's
not what's in the indictment that is necessarily surprising
but rather what is seemingly intentionally omitted. For
instance, McCarthy points out that
"the indictment appears to go out of its
way not to mention" that Imran was
apprehended while in the process of
fleeing the country, a fact that would
seem to be the best evidence available to
prove the fraud charges.
Let’s say you’re a prosecutor in Washington. You are
investigating a husband and wife, naturalized Americans,
who you believe have scammed a federal credit union out
of nearly $300,000. You catch them in several false
statements about their qualifications for a credit line and
their intended use of the money. The strongest part of your
case, though, involves the schemers’ transferring the loot
to their native Pakistan.
So . . . what’s the best evidence you could possibly have,
the slam-dunk proof that their goal was to steal the money
and never look back? That’s easy:
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One after the other, the wife and
husband pulled up stakes and tried to
high-tail it to Pakistan after they’d wired
the funds there — the wife successfully
fleeing, the husband nabbed as he was
about to board his flight.
Well, here’s a peculiar thing about the Justice
Department’s indictment of Imran Awan and Hina Alvi,
the alleged fraudster couple who doubled as IT wizzes for
Debbie Wasserman Schultz and many other congressional
Democrats:
There’s not a word in it about flight to
Pakistan. The indictment undertakes to
describe in detail four counts of bank-
fraud conspiracy, false statements on
credit applications, and unlawful
monetary transactions, yet leaves out
the most damning evidence of guilt.
In fact, the indictment appears to go out
of its way not to mention it.
Why would prosecutors leave that out of their indictment?
Why give Awan’s defense a basis to claim that, since the
indictment does not allege anything about flight to
Pakistan, the court should bar any mention of it during the
trial? In fact, quite apart from the manifest case-related
reasons to plead instances of flight, a competent prosecutor
would have included them in the indictment simply to
underscore that Awan is a flight risk who should have
onerous bail conditions or even be detained pretrial.
Then there is the case of Imran's wife, Hina Alvi. When
she fled the country back in March she was detained by
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$12,000 cash in her luggage, technically a crime by itself if
not properly disclosed, but was allowed by the FBI to
leave the country despite having been under investigation
for months.
We must also ask, again:
Why did the FBI allow Alvi to flee?
Before she boarded her March 5 flight to
Qatar (en route to Pakistan), agents
briefly detained her.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents had already
searched her baggage and found $12,400 in cash. As I
have pointed out, it is a felony to move more than $10,000
in U.S. currency out of the country unless one completes
the required government report (see sections 5316 and
5322 of Title 31, U.S. Code). There was no indication that
she did so in the complaint affidavit submitted to the court
when Awan was arrested last month (see FBI complaint
affidavit, pages 8–9).
By the time Alvi fled, the Awans had
been under investigation by various
federal agencies for at least three
months.
The FBI was sufficiently attuned to the Awans’ criminality
that its agents went to the trouble of chasing Alvi to the
airport.
If she didn’t fill out the required form, she
should have been arrested for the
currency violation.
Is it possible that, rather than arresting her, federal agents
instructed her to complete the form on the spot? One
would hope not, but even in such an unlikely event, Alvi
would undoubtedly have made false statements about the
provenance of the cash. That would also have been a
felony, providing more grounds for her arrest. Why let her
go, especially when, as its agent told the court in the
aforementioned affidavit, the FBI
“does not believe that ALVI has any
intention to return to the United States”?
And then there is just the continued secrecy surrounding
the case.
Why did the U.S. Attorney's office
decide against filing a press release in a
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case that has garnered significant
national attention? Why was the case
filed in a district where DWS's brother
has been an assistant U.S. attorney for
many years?
To begin with, it is not the easiest thing to get one’s hands
on the indictment. The case is being handled by the U.S.
Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia.
There is no press release about the
indictment on the office’s website,
though U.S. attorneys’ offices routinely
issue press releases and make charging
documents available in cases of far less
national prominence.
(I found the indictment through the Orlando Sentinel,
which obtained and posted it in conjunction with the
paper’s report on the filing of charges.)
By the way, the U.S. attorney’s office is
currently led by Channing D. Phillips, an
Obama holdover who was never
confirmed. Still awaiting Senate
confirmation is Jessie Liu, nominated by
President Trump in June. Meanwhile,
Steven Wasserman, Representative
Wasserman Schultz’s brother, has been
an assistant U.S. attorney in the office
for many years.
I have seen no indication that he has any formal role in the
case, notwithstanding some cyberspace speculation to the
contrary. What is clear, however, is that the office is low-
keying the Awan prosecution.
The indictment itself is drawn very narrowly. All four
charges flow from a financial-fraud conspiracy of short
duration. Only Imran Awan and his wife are named as
defendants. There is no reference to Awan-family perfidy
in connection with the House communications system.
Of course, we're sure it's probably nothing but at least one
former U.S. Attorney says
"there is something very strange going
on here."
The full Grand Jury indictment can be viewed starting on
next page:
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