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Glenn Greenwald: the U.S. government’s indictment of Julian Assange poses grave threats to Press freedom.
Jonathan Cook on 7 years of lies about Assange that won’t stop now.
James Bovard says the Assange arrest is a deadly threat to a free press.
Thomas Knapp says that pardoning Julian Assange would be the first step toward the rule of law. (I’m not holding my breath.)
And Kelley Vlahos says we should fear the arrest of Julian Assange.
These people in Washington are completely loony-tunes, quite frankly.
The “authorities” have arrested WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. And for what, publishing whistleblowers’ information that gives Americans the truth about the crimes, incompetence and corruption of their government rulers? Ooooh, poor Mike Pompeo doesn’t want the truth about the U.S. government to be told, awww, poor baby.
As noted previously, the “deep state” going after Julian Assange is related to its going after Carter Page, et al. And notice how the Assange arrest today is just a week after the Mueller report has been released. The national security state, a.k.a. “deep state,” knows that a lot of the FBI-DOJ corruption will be exposed and its high-up employees will be indicted as a result of the whole Mueller kangaroo investigation. This is a big reason why these apparatchiks are going after Assange, because his WikiLeaks have provided us commoner Americans with information on everything from Iraq war crimes to DNC corruption and the DNC-government-news-media complex.
Now, given what a national-security-state-loving authoritarian Donald Trump is, I think he is going to side with the Pompeo-Bolton creeps against Julian Assange regarding the 2010 Manning leaks, rather than side with his own vindication thanks to WikiLeaks after Trump’s having been the target of a massive abuse-of-power scheme committed by the aforementioned apparatchiks of the national security state. Sad.
And I wonder what the Democrat candidates for President are going to say now about Julian Assange, if anything. What about Elizabeth Warren, a.k.a. Liawatha, who is running 3rd in her home state of Massachusetts? And what about Bozo O’Snork, the disgusting reprobate who plays pranks and practical jokes on his own wife? Meanwhile, the mayor of South Bent, Indiana, Pete Sudafed, is on all the important talk shows. In fact, he made a long-awaited appearance on Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me!, in which I think he might eventually replace Peter Sagal as host.
Sometimes I just get so tired of these people, I try to write a “serious” post, but I just end up making fun of them. Don’t they all deserve it?
NYU and Princeton Russian Studies Prof. Stephen F. Cohen gives some terrific analysis on “Russiagate” or “Intelgate.”
Richard Gale and Dr. Gary Null on America’s “medical deep state” and the role of the CDC.
And Laurence Vance says, Equal employment opportunity is bad law.
Former State Department employee Peter van Buren has an article in which he details the “primordial ooze of the collusion conspiracy,” that begins with the Clinton campaign and the DNC in mid-2016, their using Fusion GPS and British spy Christopher Steele to dig deep and get oppo dirt on Trump as well as make stuff up (the “Steele dossier”), and how Steele got the made-up information to the FBI and DOJ who used it as a basis for fraudulent, unlawful FISA warrants to spy on the Trump campaign and to start a propaganda campaign promoting the conspiracy theory of “Trump-Russia collusions” that never happened.
Additionally, Justin Raimondo on his twitter linked to his article of January, 2017, “The Foreign Plot to Oust Trump” stretching from London to Langley.
Justin Raimondo has returned and writes about defeating the counterrevolution, the conspiracy theory of Trump-Russia collusions and the interference in the 2016 election that wasn’t interfered with. “In Russia-gate we see the real purpose of the system of universal surveillance: to track and control the channels of dissidence in this country…We can and must defeat them by disempowering the instruments of control – the FBI, the CIA, and the entire national security bureaucracy – and making an example in this most egregious case. John Brennan must be charged and prosecuted. The FBI cabal that turned a federal law enforcement agency into an arm of an incipient police state must be held accountable in a court of law.” You betcha!
Dr. Jane Orient asks, What if the government is your doctor? (I think that Dr. Bureaucrat would be very much like McCabe, Comey, Brennan, and Zeke Emanuel. Not good.)
Mark Perry and Ross McKitric on Earth Hour: a celebration of ignorance and poverty. (And April 22 is Earth Day. Keep all the lights on, and your TVs and stereos, space heaters and air conditioners, if you can. Just don’t blow a fuse. Celebrate Earth Day!)
Jacob Hornberger on the incorrigible hypocrisy of the Wall Street Journal and conservatives on foreign policy. (I thought leftists were narcissistic, but conservatives are pretty bad as well in their narcissism when it comes to their rejection of the Golden Rule.)
Bretigne Shaffer has more on the “anti-vaxxer” parents who try to educate the ignorant on the vaccine controversy.
And Gareth Porter explains how the U.S. Navy sold the Vietnam War.
Andrew McCarthy asks, How long has Mueller known there was no Trump-Russia collusion?
Jacob Hornberger comments on the New Zealand gun-grabbers.
And Laurence Vance writes about gross violations of the Constitution.
So yesterday I’m listening to these Sunday news shows Meet the Depressed, Fake the Nation and Faux News Sunday, rebroadcast on Bloomberg Radio, and today these local liberal talk radio personalities, and it’s like they’re all living in a different world of non-reality. They are in a world far removed from the truth, especially when it comes to the long-anticipated “Mueller Report,” and attorney general William Barr’s spin on it to Congress.
The media groupies are still clinging to the notion that Trump “obstructed justice” and they’re still talking impeachment, when in reality it was the high-up FBI and DOJ flunkies who “obstructed justice” in their falsely exonerating Hillary Clinton in her rogue email mishandlings, by changing the words “gross negligence” to “extremely careless,” in order to falsely get out of criminally indicting Clinton.
And will the impeachment-obsessed Jerrold Nadler and Adam Schiffty look into the “insurance policy” that the high-ups at DOJ and FBI implemented to try to ward off a Trump presidency or to sabotage it if it were to occur? The usage of the Steele dossier that British spy Christopher Steel wrote up on Trump that was filled with made-up allegations with no verification whatsoever?
In fact, Bruce Ohr at the DOJ told senior FBI and DOJ bureaucrats, and obviously the signers of the FISA warrant applications that were used to illicitly spy on Trump campaign people, that the information used for those FISA applications, the “Steele dossier,” was unverified, and the officials then misled FISA court judges who signed the warrants. So, if there are to be indictments for “obstruction of justice” and “conspiracy,” they need to be handed to James Comey, Andrew McCabe, Sally Yates and Rod Rosenstein, the officials who submitted FISA warrant applications with unverified information to the FISA judges. I wrote about all that in this article in January.
I have a feeling that, thanks to the propagandists of the mainstream media, most people have never even heard of Bruce Ohr.
So will the Obama-Comey FBI/DOJ spy ring get indicted? That also includes the former director of national intelligence (sic) James Clapper and CIA director John Brennan. Kimberly Strassel of the Wall Street Journal called Brennan the “ringmaster” and Giuliani referred to him as the “quarterback.”
Can you imagine if the Bush DOJ and FBI spied on the Obama campaign and attempted to falsely accuse Obama of “collusions with Russia to sway the 2008 election”?
And all those indictments handed down by the Mueller fishing expedition? Nothing to do with “Russia collusions” to change the 2016 election.
The first group of Russians who were indicted were using social media because they were trying to make money. It was a money-making click-bait scheme.
But the second group of Russians from the Russian intelligence GRU, were indicted to do with non-existent “hacking” of the DNC and the Clinton campaign computers, but the indictments were not substantiated with any evidence whatsoever, as we heard from Moon of Alabama and Joe Lauria. The Mueller people just made it all up.
And Paul Manafort’s dealings were with Ukrainians, not Russians, and having nothing to do with the 2016 election, and his tax-related indictments were from years ago, well before the 2016 election! Then there was Mike Flynn’s “guilty” plea for lying to investigators, after having been entrapped by FBI, even though FBI’s top agent Strzok believed that Flynn was not lying.
The whole thing has been a fishing expedition and an attempted frame-up of Trump. And I’m not even a Trump supporter.
The reasons these “national security” apparatchiks went after Trump — joined enthusiastically by the toadies of the media and the rest of the government losers in Washington — wasn’t just because he criticized the national security establishment and their terrible wars.
It was also because he’s a successful entrepreneur. Government losers HATE successful entrepreneurs. So it’s also a part of their ENVY that we are seeing more and more of from government worshipers now. That is part of why government “law enforcement” went after Martha Stewart — and Michael Milken, Aaron Swarz, Joseph Nacchio and John Kinnucan, and others.
And now government “law enforcement” is going after Robert Kraft. The goons can easily go after ANY famous celebrity male patronizing a house of prostitution. So why Robert Kraft, and only weeks after his Patriots won their 6th Super Bowl? I have answered my own question. Duh. There’s that envy again. And that’s why. (And maybe because Kraft is a Trump supporter? Ya think?)
It’s the inherent nature of the government parasite who would never make it in the private sector, or anywhere were it not for the forced redistribution of wealth scheme that’s been financed by the thievery of the income tax for the past century.
And the FBI has been going after The Donald since at least 2003, as we know from Felix Sater. The anti-business FBI has probably been wanting to get Trump since the 1980s, quite frankly.
Very sorry for not writing as much in recent days or weeks here. I know there are readers out there. The past couple of weeks have been a bit much. I have been doing this writing for almost 10 years now, many, many blog posts and articles. Is it time for me to “retire” from this writing? I’d rather not, as long as we have con-men and phonies like The Donald and The Ocasio then I have to keep doing this.
And now there is this big snow storm. Nothing in December or January, not until the end of February and now March do we have snow storms. There’s at least 10 inches out there now, and continuing. The parking lot across the street has a “Bobcat” plow trying to keep up with the snowfall. But after he plows the main part of the lot the snow covers it all up again, and he has to start all over again. I assume the operator is a “he,” because rarely do we find women snow plow operators. Feminazis please spare me your complaints.
Speaking of feminazis, Hillary Clinton was given the “International Unity Award” at the Martin Luther King and Coretta Scott King Unity Breakfast in Selma, Alabama. I have to put that award in quotes, because I almost puked when I heard that. In the Fox News article, the caption below the still-picture of Hillary (prior to the video starting), read, “Hillary Clinton: 2020 women have to avoid looking angry,” and that still-picture is of Hillary Clinton … “looking angry“!! It cracked me up.
Hillary getting a “Unity Award” is like Obama getting the Nobel Peace Prize, before he even became President, after which he bombed the crap out of Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, and all the rest, as well as becoming the “Deporter-In-Chief.” And he still hasn’t given back the award he knows he does not deserve. Fraud. (Just like the Fake Indian fraud.)
The Rev. Jesse Jackson was at the “Unity Breakfast.” He was the eldest of the Jackson Five, in case you didn’t know. (I don’t think the Rev. Al Shrapnel was at the “Unity Breakfast” this time.)
Yesterday on Bloomberg Radio I heard a rebroadcast of Meet the Press with Chuck Toady. Yech. He was grilling Rep. Jim Jordan, who, unfortunately has to repeatedly get into the scripted talking points. Jordan should have spent more time talking about the criminality of the FBI and DOJ presenting judges with FISA spying applications with false information. Chuck Toady couldn’t shut up about Paul Manafort, whose convictions were irrelevant to “Trump-Russia collusions” allegations, and had to do with taxes from over 10 years ago! I just saw a brief excerpt video of their discussion online. What is that on Chuck Toady’s chin, I think that’s called a goatee, he looks like he just ate some spinach. And nice hair, Chuck. I know, we shouldn’t make fun of someone’s appearance. Best to stick with someone’s character. So I will.
So I would like to point out about Chuck Toady that he knew as early as March of 2017 that no evidence has existed of “Trump-Russia collusions,” yet he has continued in his discussions with the “Trump-Russia collusions” assumption anyway. Very dishonest Toady. He interviewed Director of National Intelligence (sic) James Clapper on March 5, 2017, who told Toady, “we had no evidence of such collusion.” Now, all the national security-related department heads report to the Director of National Intelligence, including the heads of FBI, NSA and CIA. Not one of them had reported to Clapper any evidence of said “collusion” (or conspiracy, coordination etc.) to change election results. What that means is that there really is no evidence.
But Rep. Jordan is just as bad, in my view. He says that while the intelligence community has had no evidence of “Trump-Russia collusions,” there nevertheless is legitimacy in the “collusion” assertion because Clapper et al. says that believe it anyway, without evidence. Even though I’m sure that Jordan and the rest of the House Conservative Carcass know that there was never any “collusion” and that the Russians didn’t “meddle” in the election, they still kowtow to the national security state despite its Soviet-like danger to civilization.
So not only has Chuck Toady been acting as a propagandist apparatchik on behalf of the corrupt national security state in Washington, D.C., in my view, but he has been helping to cover up the Comey-Strzok-FBI false exoneration of Hillary Clinton, by intentionally not reporting on it or discussing it. Please don’t tell me these news “journalists” don’t know about all that, as well as the illegal FISA applications and warrants to spy on Trump people. And if the Dear Reader doesn’t know about those things, I have covered that in my exhaustive article on the whole Orwellian Mueller fiasco. (I’m exhausted just thinking about it.)
And see my article on the government media, including Chuck Toady, they’re all the same, especially on those Sunday talk shows, George Snuffleupagus, and Margaret Brennan. Hey Margaret, look at all the conservatives you have on your discussion panel. Don’t overdo it, now.
Speaking of the conservatards, they had their annual pajama party at the “Conservative Political Action Conference,” a.k. CPAC. Notice how that’s conservative political action, not economic action or social, etc.
As noted by Franz Oppenheimer, the economic means is the means of peaceful productivity, and one gets what one wants through voluntary action and voluntary contract.
But the political means, which is the CPAC crowd’s way of life, is the means of predation, coercion and parasitism by way of aggression and theft through the State’s violence.
So these statists are not really that different from the authoritarian statists on the Left. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, they all love the State’s process of stealing from their neighbors and using the police state apparatus to order their victims around. The authoritarian conservatards are no different, with their trade and immigration restrictions, and their terrible warvangelical foreign policy. And I will stay on their case as long as I keep hearing these talk radio ditto-heads and their collectivist fanatical belief in some kind of imagined common ownership of the territory as a whole, ownership by the “citizens” (versus the “invasion” of non-citizens). These people are just as dumb, indoctrinated and communist as those on the Left, in my view.
The news and talk radio stations are broadcasting “Important Live Coverage” of Trump’s former attorney Michael Cohen’s testimony before a House committee. I think the news and program directors at these radio stations are probably mostly on the left, and extremely ignorant of what is “important.”
On the radio “Important Live Coverage” of the Michael Cohen hearings, some of the Democrats are like yapping dogs in their excitement hearing about “Trump-Russia collusions” and “hacking the 2016 election” which never occurred. Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Sgt. Schultz was really, really excited to get the truth of “Trump-Russia collusions” that never existed and there’s no evidence of it whatsoever (and despite growing calls for Sgt. Schultz to be investigated for her own House IT scandal).
I enjoyed some of the bickering between Cohen and Congressman Mark Meadows (I think that’s who it was), and between Cohen and Congressman Jim Jordan. (Why do they bother?)
So, this House committee thinks that testimony by a lawyer who has just lost his law license because he was convicted of lying to Congress, and is someone who had secretly recorded his meetings with clients including Trump without their knowledge or consent, is important. And they are taking him seriously, just as the news and talk radio stations I listen to who are broadcasting “Important Live Coverage” of this historic event.
Arg.
It is possible that the “special counsel” Robert Mueller will issue his final report of his 2-year-long fishing expedition on behalf of the national security state and the Democrats, maybe next week. However, some people have expressed concerns that some of the report may be redacted. If so, then that will be for no good reason, as there is nothing that should be classified in that report. The only reason to redact anything will be to prevent embarrassing the FBI awww poor precious FBI, and embarrassing themselves the Mueller people in their indicting people in “crimes” having nothing to do with “Russia hacking” or “collusions,” but never having presented ANY evidence of any Russia hacking, or hacking at all, or evidence of Trump-Russia collusions, because no such evidence exists!
Now, will the new AG William Barr present the whole report to the people? I say no. He’s a national security state apparatchik as I’ve stated before. I’ll be shocked if he presents an unredacted report to us, the people (and not just to Congress!) — let the New York Slimes and the Washington Pest publish it in its entirety. Although those two rags won’t want to do that because it doesn’t contain any smoking guns that they had desperately been trying to fabricate these past two years. Let Fox News and Unz publish it.
Wendy McElroy lists a whole bunch of links to articles that I’m not going to bother linking to here. So, I’ll just comment on some of them.
The Chinese regime is banning millions of its people from flights because of a social media crackdown. They are very totalitarian scum, in my view. And Donald Trump says he likes China’s President Xi Jinping. But then, Trump himself is quite the totalitarian. After all, who but a totalitarian would put a government wall along the whole government border and support a horrific police state to harass and terrorize one’s own fellow people as well as immigrants? And a police state to enforce this prohibition of drugs! In Donald Trump’s totalitarian Amerika, the gubmint may have the power to tell you what you may or may not put into your own body, and throw you in jail if you disobey!
Oregon wants to mandate rent control, statewide. Because of a housing shortage. They do not understand that price controls and other regulations already in place distort these markets and cause shortages. The solution is not fascism as Oregonian legislative dictators want, but freedom. Repeal all those laws. Just like in Venezuela, in which food price controls (and outright government seizure of food production and distribution) have caused shortages, long lines, mass starvation, chaos, and violence. Government interventionism causes all these problems.
Arizona wants to require all citizens to give their DNA to a centralized database. Arizona legislative creeps have not read the U.S. Constitution and its Fourth Amendment. As far as I know, Arizona is still part of the U.S. and has not yet been sucked down into Mexico. And the FBI also wants to have a national database of everyone’s DNA. Abolish the FBI!
And that’s what I have to say about that.
Activist Post with an article on a worldwide effort to restrict everyone’s right to travel.
Judicial Watch on docs revealing FBI cover-up of a “chart” of potential violations of law by Hillary Clinton.
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Apparently former Trump lawyer and “fixer” Michael Cohen has postponed his testimony before Congress for a few more weeks.
The latest controversy includes some emails that have surfaced between Cohen and Felix Sater.
Sater is known as “Individual 2” in the case against Cohen in this kangaroo Mueller fishing expedition. Sater, a felon, bar-brawl fighter, and Mafia-tied longtime FBI informant, is yet another sleazy character among the Trump universe.
Given that Sater has been an FBI informant since 1998 and had infiltrated the Trump organization as early as 2003, I would not be surprised to hear that the FBI has been using Sater to go after Trump for many years now. I would also not be surprised to hear Michael Cohen just make things up in his congressional testimony, like according to whatever made-up stories Herr Mueller told him to say.
Those latest controversial emails between Sater and Cohen include Sater allegedly writing, “Our boy can become president of the USA and we can engineer it.” And, “I will get Putin on this program and we will get Donald elected.”
The emails seem to indicate, at least to me, that Sater is writing the things he wrote in order to try to fabricate some sort of connection between Trump and Putin, on behalf of the FBI’s possible entrapment obsession. But, you can believe what you want to believe. Given the sleazy and corrupt characters in all this, I would not be surprised if Sater wrote those things like directed by the FBI for the purpose of entrapment. Call me cynical. (Call me realistic.)
Now, I’ve written this several times now, so, sorry if I sound like a broken record. The reason that government apparatchiks like John Brennan, James Comey, James Clapper, Rod Rosenstein and Robert Mueller go after successful entrepreneurs in the private sector, like Martha Stewart and Michael Milken, Aaron Swarz, Joseph Nacchio and John Kinnucan, and now Donald Trump, is that bureaucrats are a different breed of human being (if I can use the phrase “human being” to even describe them). They are parasites, generally with no real talents or abilities, except for playing along in an organization or racket whose main purpose is siphoning off the earnings of others, benefiting from the labor of others.
Bureaucrats, a.k.a. apparatchiks, have an anti-capitalistic mentality. Their persecution is of those whose success is based on voluntary action and the voluntary choices of consumers. The bureaucrats’ persecution is motivated by envy and covetousness. It’s the same kind of motivation behind those who want to steal as much as possible from “the rich,” from entrepreneurs. The apparatchiks are those who enrich themselves from such “taxation” i.e. theft and plunder. The government-monopolized “justice” system enables and empowers those parasites to go after peaceful traders who are guilty of made-up non-crimes in which there are no victims.
Ludwig von Mises called the apparatchiks and parasites’ mentality an “anti-capitalistic mentality.” [Also see Mises’s Bureaucracy (.pdf)]
It looks like, given that the FBI has probably been after Trump for decades, this is going to never end, until they see him taken down from the Presidency, by hook or by crook, or throw him in jail based on minor technical “offenses” from his taxes from 10 or 20 years ago.
Ray McGovern wonders if James Comey was trying to use the notorious Steele dossier as “leverage” (i.e. like J. Edgar Hoover style “leverage”).
Declan McCullagh writes that a judge has ruled that police cannot require people to unlock their own iPhones with thumb or iris.
Naomi Mathew on Lysander Spooner, the anarchist who single-handedly took on the U.S. post office.
And Arjun Walia on Anderson Cooper caught spreading fake information and lying about vaccines live on CNN.
James Bovard on AG nominee William Barr’s connection to Ruby Ridge, defending FBI snipers.
John Solomon with a FISA shocker: DOJ official warned Steele dossier was connected to Clinton, might be biased. (Two of the DOJ officials involved are now a part of the Mueller team. Not good.)
And Winslow Wheeler writes about those porky Pentacon earmarks that never went away.
Jacob Hornberger has written a lot about the JFK assassination. (Here is one of his major articles on that subject.)
In his most recent post on JFK, Trump, Russia, and the deep state, he writes:
Ever since I began writing on the JFK assassination, there have been those who have said to me, “What difference does it make whether this was a regime-change operation? Most everyone who engaged in it is dead by now anyway. What relevance does the assassination have for us living today?”
The answer: We are still living under the governmental structure that pulled it off, the same structure that has been conducting a counterintelligence investigation of President Trump to determine whether he is a secret agent of the Russian government and, therefore, a threat to “national security.”
And he goes on to explain the historical context of why Donald Trump is being “investigated” as a “national security threat.”
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