Trump era: Fascist dawn, or road to liberation?

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Donald Trump said that Jerome Powell is his nominee for the next chairman of the Federal Reserve.

Trump Selects Federal Reserve Board Member Powell to Be Next Fed Chairman
https://sputniknews.com/us/201711031058772564-trump-selects-federal-reserve-powell/

President Donald Trump announced on Thursday that he has nominated Jerome Powell to become the next chairman of the Federal Reserve.

It is my pleasure and my honor to announce the nomination of Jerome Powell to be the next chairman of the Federal Reserve. Congratulations," Trump said at the White House.

Jerome Powell will succeed Janet Yellen who was the first woman to head the US central bank. Powell has served as a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors for five years. Many economists claim that in his monetary policy he is a dove, emphasizing other issues rather than keeping the inflation low, but close to neutral.

Current chairman of the Federal Reserve Janet Yellen advocated against Trump's administrative and fiscal reforms, saying that in economic policy, it’s better to be safe than sorry.

On Wednesday, a judge in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, sentenced a US Marine in charge of a military court’s legal representation to three weeks of confinement and ordered him to pay $1,000 for failure to follow orders concerning a case that involved the bombing of the USS Cole in 2000.

Gitmo War Court Orders US General Jailed For Supporting Detainee’s Legal Rights 2 Nov. 2017
https://sputniknews.com/us/201711021058769735-gitmo-court-jails-general-rights/

Brig. Gen. John Baker, 50, chief defense counsel for military commissions, received the sentence from US Air Force Judge Col. Vance Spath.

Spath said Baker failed to follow orders when he excused three Defense Department-paid attorneys — Rosia Eliades, Mary Spears, and Rick Kammen — from a military court case involving the USS Cole, something he did not have the authority to do, the Miami Herald reported. Spath said the decision to excuse them had been declared "null and void."

The attorneys sought to leave the case on the basis that they should be able to represent and defend clients without government surveillance —
the Daily Beast reports that the attorneys believed the government was listening in on what should be privileged communications. Baker, supported their exit, and in standing up for this principle, was found in contempt of the court — a court, he argued, that had no proper jurisdiction over his actions in the first place.

The ruling was the first time the military tribunal in Cuba issued a ruling since 2008.

Appearing in the war court Wednesday, Baker argued that the court was set up to prosecute foreign terrorists and lacked jurisdiction to punish him since he was a US citizen. Baker was apparently denied the ability to defend himself after he made this assertion and was ordered to sit down.

"There are things I want to say, and you are not allowing me to say them," Baker told the judge, according to the Herald. "This is not a pleasant decision," the judge replied, adding that the legal proceedings were neither "fun" nor "lighthearted." Without the judge's ruling, though, he said there would be "havoc" in the justice system.

The particular case concerns Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, a 52-year-old Saudi Arabian national who has been detained at Guantanamo for the past 11 years, two months. In 2008, CIA Dir. Michael Hayden confirmed al-Nashiri was among the al-Qaeda operatives the agency tortured.

Speaking at Georgetown University's 2016 NATSECDEF conference, Baker said that "put simply, the military commissions in their current state are a farce as Rick Kammen — lead counsel for Mr. al-Nashiri — stated on the record last week, these commissions are ‘hopelessly flawed.'"

The USS Cole case judge Wednesday found the Marine general in charge of war court defense teams guilty of contempt for refusing to follow his orders and sentenced him to 21 days confinement and to pay a $1,000 fine.

Gitmo Judge Sentences Marine General to 21 Days' Confinement 1 Nov 2017
http://www.military.com/daily-news/2017/11/01/gitmo-judge-sentences-marine-general-21-days-confinement.html

Air Force Col. Vance Spath also declared "null and void" a decision by Marine Brig. Gen. John Baker, 50, to release three civilian defense attorneys from the case, and ordered them to appear before him in person here at Guantanamo or by video feed next week.

At issue was Baker's authority to excuse civilian, Pentagon-paid attorneys Rick Kammen, Rosa Eliades and Mary Spears from the case because of a secret ethics conflict involving attorney-client privilege. Also, the general refused a day earlier to either testify in front of Spath or return the three lawyers to the case.

In court Wednesday, Baker attempted to protest that the war court meant to try alleged terrorists who are not U.S. citizens had no jurisdiction over him. Spath refused to let him speak and ordered him to sit down.

Spath said Baker, the chief defense counsel for military commissions, was out of line in invoking a privilege in refusing to testify about both the decision to release and the absence of the three attorneys at the court. Spath ordered the three to come to Guantanamo this week; and they refused.

Privilege, the Air Force judge declared, is a judge's domain and that a judge has the authority to weigh and review privilege.

Without that, he said, there would be "havoc in any system of justice."

The judge said in court that a senior official at the Pentagon, Convening Authority Harvey Rishikof, would review his contempt finding and sentence. Meantime, however, he ordered court bailiffs to arrange for the general to be confined to his quarters -- a room in a trailer at Camp Justice, behind the courtroom -- until Rishikof acted or found a different place. Rishikof had approved the site provisionally, Spath said, and was permitting Baker to have internet and phone communications at his quarters.

The Marine general in charge of war-court defense teams at Guantanamo Bay has been found in contempt for allowing defense lawyers to quit a case.
• He and they believed attorney-client confidentiality could not be assured.
• The judge in the case wants to continue with proceedings, but a federal judge is set to decide on an injunction.

A Gitmo judge has ordered a Marine general to be confined after a dispute over surveillance in USS Cole case
http://www.businessinsider.com/gitmo-marine-general-confined-uss-cole-2017-11

The judge in the death-penalty case against a suspected USS Cole attacker has found the the chief defense counsel for military commissions, Marine Brig. Gen. John Baker, in contempt, according to a report from the Miami Herald.

Baker is being held in contempt for releasing civilian defense attorneys from the case and is sentenced to confinement at Guantanamo Bay.

Earlier this month, three lawyers representing Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri quit the case because they believed the US government was monitoring their communications with their client, a decision that Baker had supported.

They said they were unwilling to "provide unethical legal services to keep the façade of justice that is the military commissions running."

Nashiri is alleged to be the mastermind behind the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole, in which 17 American sailors were killed.

The lawyers previously concluded there was significant reason to believe the US government was listening to their communications with Nashiri, according to The Daily Beast.

Baker also came to believe there was no assurance that attorney-client communications were not being monitored.

Baker's conclusion was based on information that is still classified, according to Politico. For that reason, Spath also barred the lawyers for discussing their reasons for leaving with Nashiri, meaning the alleged Al Qaeda member lost his legal representation without knowing why.

The judge in the case, Air Force Col. Vance Spath, had ordered the lawyers to return to Guantanamo on Sunday for a pretrial hearing. They refused, and Richard Kammen — a death-penalty expert who has represented Nashiri for 10 of the 15 years he's been in custody — called Spath's travel order "illegal," according to the Herald.

The only member of Nashiri's defense team who appeared at Guantanamo this week was a Navy lieutenant who received a law degree in 2012 and has never tried a murder case, according to Politico. Nashiri's case has been in pretrial proceedings for nine years. He was arraigned in 2011.

Baker returned to the war court this week and refused Spath's order to reverse his decision to release the lawyers.

In a 35-minute hearing on Wednesday, Spath found Baker in contempt for his refusal. The judge sentenced Baker to a 21-day confinement in his quarters in a trailer park behind the courthouse on the US Navy base located in at the eastern tip of Cuba. Baker was also ordered to pay a $1,000 fine.

Hours after that decision, Spath called Baker's decision to release the lawyers "null and void" and ordered them to return — via remote feed from Washington — for a hearing on Friday. He also threatened them with contempt-of-court charges.

No trial date for the case has been set because the defense and prosecution are still deciding what Top Secret evidence the defense will be able to access.

Nashiri, who suffered brain damage while in secret CIA custody, also needs to undergo a court-ordered MRI.

A Defense Department lawyer who works for Baker has asked a US District Court for an injunction in Nashiri's case, arguing that Spath is violating the defendant's rights by pushing ahead with the pretrial process. The law covering the military commissions mandates that defendants have a capital-defense lawyer.

On Thursday, a federal judge denied the request for an injunction. That decision was immediately followed by an unlawful-detention petition filed by Baker's lawyers. It remains to be seen whether the civilian defense lawyers will appear on Friday for the pretrial hearing, as Spath has ordered.

The ACLU has called Baker's confinement "unlawful and an outrage" and said the judge's decision needs to reversed and Baker released.

"The military commissions are willing to put people in jail for defending the rule of law," Jay Connell, who represents another Guantanamo detainee facing a military commission, told The Daily Beast. "If they're willing to put a Marine general in jail for standing up for a client's rights, they're willing to do just anything."

Baker is a 28-year career officer who is now the second-highest-ranking lawyer in the Marine Corps. He became chief defense counsel for military commissions two years ago, according to the Herald, and he has since become a vocal critic of the war-court system set up to try terror suspects.

In a speech late last year, he called the military commissions at Guantanamo Bay "a farce" in their current state, saying they were "characterized by delay, government misconduct and incompetence, and even more delay."

Baker outranks Spath, who refused to let the Marine general speak during the hearing on Wednesday. The decision to confine Baker was the first contempt conviction at military commissions, and it was the first conviction without a plea at the military tribunals since 2008.

Gitmo Judge Convicts U.S. General—Because He Stood Up for Detainee Rights
https://www.thedailybeast.com/gitmo-judge-convicts-us-generalbecause-he-stood-up-for-detainee-rights

 

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US Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl has received a dishonorable discharge but will avoid prison time for desertion and misbehavior before the enemy after abandoning his outpost in 2009, a military judge ruled Friday.

Judge rules Bowe Bergdahl will serve no prison time November 3, 2017
http://wtkr.com/2017/11/03/judge-rules-bowe-bergdahl-will-serve-no-prison-time/

The judge also ruled that Bergdahl’s rank be reduced from sergeant to E1. Additionally, Bergdahl will be required to pay a $1,000 fine from his salary for the next 10 months.

A military judge has come to a decision in Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl’s sentencing hearing.

Journalists have been asked to return to the courtroom at Fort Bragg in North Carolina where the trial and hearings have been held.

The Army soldier, who was held captive by the Taliban for five years after he deserted his Afghanistan outpost in 2009, pleaded guilty last month to charges of desertion and misbehavior before the enemy.

Bergdahl was released in May 2014 in a controversial exchange for five Guantanamo Bay detainees.

He originally faced the possibility of life in prison, but the prosecution asked the judge, Army Col. Jeffery R. Nance, for a 14-year sentence. Bergdahl’s attorneys asked Col. Nance for a punishment of dishonorable discharge.

Bergdahl previously chose to be tried by a military judge instead of a jury.

Bergdahl’s lawyers asked the judge for leniency during sentencing hearings, arguing he had a previously undiagnosed mental illness when he left his post.

“Hypothetically, he probably should not have been in the Army,” said Capt. Nina Banks, one of Bergdahl’s military defense attorneys, in her closing argument.

Bergdahl suffered from numerous mental illnesses, including schizotypal personality disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder, according to Dr. Charles Morgan, a forensic psychiatrist and professor at the University of New Haven and Yale University, who testified for the defense Wednesday.

Morgan said Bergdahl was raised in a tense and sometimes scary household that contributed to social anxiety and cognitive defects that he was suffering from before he enlisted in the Army.

The defense also argued that the information Bergdahl was able to provide upon his return — and his willingness to share that information and cooperate with investigators — warranted a more lenient sentence.

But government prosecutors said Bergdahl was aware of the risks when he deserted, and that doing so put his fellow soldiers in danger.

Soldiers who searched for Bergdahl after he deserted were called to testify by the prosecution and shared stories of the grueling conditions they endured while looking for him.

One of the witnesses, Capt. John Billings, was Bergdahl’s platoon leader in Afghanistan. Billings said the platoon searched for the then-private first class for 19 days, going without food or water.

Retired Navy SEAL Chief Petty Officer James Hatch testified last Wednesday that he and his dog came under fire while looking for Bergdahl. He was shot in the leg, and his K-9 partner, Remco, was shot in the face and killed.

“I thought I was dead,” said Hatch, who now walks with a heavy limp after 18 surgeries. He said he was concerned because there was little time to plan the search for Bergdahl, and other soldiers knew he had willfully walked away.

When asked why he would go searching for Bergdahl, Hatch said, “He is an American.” “He had a mom,” he added.

Bergdahl tearfully apologized this week to the service members who searched for him after he deserted.

“My words can’t take away what people have been through,” he said. “I am admitting I made a horrible mistake.”

Since his return home to the United States, the 31-year-old from Idaho has been the subject of scrutiny while the US military investigated his decision to leave his post.

Bergdahl has said he abandoned his post because he wanted to travel to a larger base to report “a critical problem in my chain of command,” though he did not specify what the problem was.

He was charged with desertion and misbehavior before the enemy in March 2015.

Kenneth Dahl, the Army general who led the investigation into Bergdahl’s actions and interviewed the soldier for a day and a half, previously testified in a preliminary hearing that jail time would be “inappropriate.”

During his time in captivity, Bergdahl said he was tortured, beaten and spent months chained to a bed or locked in a cage while his health deteriorated. For five years, he said, he was completely isolated, had no concept of time and was told he would be killed and never see his family again.

Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, the controversial soldier who abandoned his combat outpost in Afghanistan eight years ago and was swiftly captured by the Taliban, was punished Friday with a demotion, a dishonorable discharge and a fine of $1,000 a month for 10 months. He received no time in prison.

Bowe Bergdahl to get no prison time for desertion, judge rules
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-bowe-bergdahl-trial-sentencing-20171103-story.html

The military judge presiding over the trial, Col. Jeffery Nance, had wide leeway to impose anything from no sentence to life imprisonment. While prosecutors had urged the judge to sentence Bergdahl to 14 years in jail, defense lawyers had argued for no prison time – just a dishonorable or bad conduct discharge — because of the torture he suffered as a prisoner of war.

The 31-year-old from Hailey, Idaho, clenched his jaw and began to shake uncontrollably as the judge read the sentence, which included a demotion to the rank of E1 (private). Two defense attorneys on each side of him wrapped an arm around his back.

Bergdahl, who was captured in June 2009 within hours of walking off his remote post in eastern Afghanistan’s Paktika province near the border with Pakistan, pleaded guilty last month to two charges: deserting his post in Afghanistan in 2009, which carries a punishment of up to five years, and “misbehavior before the enemy,” a more serious charge that involves endangering the lives of fellow troops and carries a potential sentence of life imprisonment.

During his trial, prosecutors highlighted the hazards to which he exposed his comrades who embarked on a massive search and rescue mission in the days and weeks after his disappearance. The judge heard emotional testimony from former Navy SEAL James Hatch, who was hit by enemy fire that shattered his right femur, and the wife of Master Sgt. Mark Allen, who was shot in the head, leaving him unable to speak or walk.

In turn, the defense team appealed for leniency, stressing the physical and emotional toll of five grueling years of captivity by the Taliban and its allies. In court, Bergdahl recounted how he was caged, tortured and beaten, and he apologized to those whose lives he endangered.

Jail time, the defense argued, threatened to exacerbate Bergdahl’s already severe mental health problems. A forensic psychiatrist testified during the trial that Bergdahl suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder, as well as schizotypal personality disorder, which includes severe anxiety, unconventional behavior and grandiose thinking.

A dishonorable discharge, the most serious punitive discharge a judge can impose, strips a service member of all military and veteran healthcare and education benefits. A bad conduct discharge also removes all benefits, but allows the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs to determine benefit eligibility on a case-by-case basis.

Bergdahl’s fate has been the subject of fierce disagreement, in and outside the military, ever since he was brought home by President Obama in May 2014 in a widely criticized swap for five Taliban commanders held at a U.S. prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

While Obama celebrated his return, saying the U.S. does not ever leave its men and women in uniform behind, the U.S. House of Representatives swiftly passed a resolution condemning the Obama administration’s failure to notify Congress before striking the deal and expressing national security concerns over the Taliban prisoners’ release.

On the presidential campaign trail last year, Donald Trump called Bergdahl a “dirty rotten traitor” who deserved to be executed by firing squad or ejected from a plane without a parachute — comments that Nance subsequently described as “disturbing and disappointing.”

Last month, Bergdahl’s defense team submitted a fresh motion to dismiss the case after Trump said he could not comment on the case, but then added: “I think people have heard my comments in the past.”

Bergdahl’s attorneys argue that Trump’s inflammatory comments constitute an “undue command influence” that has made a fair trial impossible. Yet on Monday, Nance ruled that while unlawful command influence is the "mortal enemy of military justice,” Trump's comments would not prevent Bergdahl from receiving a fair trial because, as the sole sentencing authority, he was uninfluenced by Trump's opinions and held “no fear of any repercussions from anyone” who did not agree with the sentence he imposed.

Rejecting a defense motion to dismiss the case, Nance said he would consider Trump’s comments as mitigating evidence that could lessen punishment.

“While somewhat ambiguous, the plain meaning of the President's words to any reasonable hearer could be that, in spite of knowing that he shouldn't comment on the pending sentencing in this case, he wanted to make sure that everyone remember what he really thinks should happen to the accused,” Nance wrote in his five-page ruling.

Legal experts say the sentencing likely does not represent the end of the Bergdahl case, noting that Bergdahl’s lead attorney, Eugene R. Fidell of Yale Law School, is one of the nation’s leading military appeals lawyers.

“In some ways, this sentencing may be the warm up for the main event,” said Geoffrey Corn, a retired lieutenant colonel who is a professor at South Texas College of Law Houston. “Bergdahl is represented by probably the best military appellate expert in the country. Trust me. He’s had the long-term battle on the radar from the beginning.”

 

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CPB Had A Busy October Along the US/ Mexican Border Thursday, November 2, 2017
Posted by Yaqui for Borderland Beat from: Globalincidentmap.com
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2017/11/cpb-had-busy-october-along-us-mexican.html
https://twitter.com/customsborder?lang=en&lang=en

October 2017 Nogales CBP Officers Seize $458K in Heroin Oct 5, 2017

Yuma, Ariz.
San Luis CBP Officers Intercept Meth Smuggler; Oct 10, 2017

$1.9 M in Narcotics Seized at San Ysidro Port of Entry; Oct 16, 2017

Eagle Pass, Texas: CBP Officers Seize Cocaine, Meth at Port of Entry; Oct 10, 2017

Packages containing 85 pounds of methamphetamine seized by CBP officers at Laredo Port of Entry; Oct 18, 2017

CBP Officers Seize More Than $1.7 Million in Crystal Methamphetamine at the Laredo ,Texas Port of Entry; October 23, 2017

Methamphetamine seized by CBP in El Paso, Texas; Oct 23, 2017

CBP in Presidio, Texas seizes Cocaine; October 23, 2017

More than 60 Lbs of Coke seized at Pharr Intl Bridge in two unrelated incidents; Oct 24, 2017

Meanwhile: Mexican BCAuthorities are off to a Good Start in Tijuana; November 1, 2017

Trump threatens drug war ally Colombia over cocaine surge Video
September 14, 2017, 9:03 AM
_https://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-trump-threatens-colombia-cocaine-production-ally-war-against-drugs/
Snip:

BOGOTA, Colombia -- U.S. President Donald Trump is threatening that he may decertify Colombia as a partner in the war against drugs unless the South American nation reverses a record surge in cocaine production.

The shock rebuke for Washington's staunchest ally in Latin America came Wednesday in the White House's annual designation of nations it deems major drug-producing or drug-transit zones.

But the record drug seizures aren't keeping pace with the explosion in cocaine production, which the U.S. estimates surged more than 200 percent since 2013 to potentially 710 metric tons last year.

23 Oct 2017

_https://twitter.com/jaeson_jones/status/922454099244802048

CBP‏Verified account @CustomsBorder Nov 1 2017
_https://twitter.com/CustomsBorder/status/925724132796436480
In FY16 #AMO actions resutled in seizures of more than 200K lbs of cocaine, 650K lbs of marijuana, and 3800 lbs of meth. #BorderSecurity

CBP Arizona 17 Oct 2017
MS13 gang member stopped in his tracks attempting to enter the United States. at #CBP Port of Nogales #AlwaysVigilant
_https://twitter.com/CBPArizona/status/920451543328894976

‘Putin is very important’: Trump on possible meeting with Russian leader at APEC summit
Published time: 3 Nov, 2017 16:53
https://www.rt.com/news/408735-putin-trump-meeting-apec/
Snip:

US President Donald Trump says he might meet with Russian president Vladimir Putin during his 12-day Asia tour, calling him “very important.” The meeting would come amid the ongoing Congressional probes into alleged Russian meddling in US elections.

Asked by Fox News host Laura Ingraham on The Ingraham Angle whether the US president will speak with Putin on the trip,

Trump enthusiastically replied:

“We may have a meeting with Putin.”

“And, again – Putin is very important because they can help us with North Korea. They can help us with Syria. We have to talk about Ukraine,” Trump added.

Tom Fitton on FBI Recusal Scandal in Clinton Investigation, DOJ & Clinton Corruption, & Mueller 23:47
Judicial Watch Streamed live 5 hours ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_-zWOpHeYs

Stunning, new FBI Documents on Clinton Email Investigation...Where is the Justice Dept. on Clinton Corruption? & Mueller’s Out of Control Investigation

Trump’s temperament: Crazy or crazy like a fox? 30:13
Published time: 28 Oct, 2017 08:41
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXAVbP-TTiA
https://www.rt.com/shows/big-picture/408069-trump-crazy-communication-way/

Holland Cooke talks with US presidential historian Doug Wead and media analyst Lionel of Lionel Media about President Donald Trump’s unprecedented way of communicating with the American people. Then, Holland talks to Emmy Award winning broadcaster Ron Barr about the growing lack of interest in pro sports by many fans.

Colorado announces one of largest drug trafficking ring busts in Colorado history Video
Posted 3:53 pm, November 2, 2017, by Macradee Aegerter, Updated at 06:08PM, November 2, 2017
_http://kdvr.com/2017/11/02/fbi-announces-one-of-largest-drug-trafficking-ring-busts-in-colorado-history/

Roger Bujanda, Jesus Mercado Valdez, Gage Rael, Leonard Aragon and Daniel Vasquez were identified as major sources in the supply of heroin and all five were arrested.

“These were violent felons walking around in our neighborhoods, carrying automatic weapons, selling massive quantities of heroin and other illegal drugs,”

said Marc McCulloch with the FBI.

Vasquez was the owner of the raided and now shuttered Get Your Fix Auto Body, where agents said he would fix vehicles and load up customers with baggies of illegal drugs.

“This is poison. The things that you see in these pictures and that poison spawns violent crime,” Pueblo police chief Troy Davenport said

.

The task force said it seized more than $500,000 cash; 35 guns, including a machine gun and several others that were stolen; methamphetamine; cocaine; and 60 pounds of heroin.

 

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Floating around on 4-chan, for the past week, is this strange supposed data dump of behind the scenes political events about to happen. Notable predictions are Tony Podesta indicted today and Huma (Hillary’s peon) indicted tomorrow.

Nov 3-4: Q Clearance Government Insider: Major Government Shakeup Coming
_http://fromthetrenchesworldreport.com/nov-3-4-q-clearance-government-insider-major-government-shakeup-coming/211015#more-211015

At the following link, the original author in this link is supposedly anonymous, they have a yellow circle on their ID number. Everyone else in the thread are participants.

_http://boards.4chan.org/pol/thread/147433975#p147433975

Below is a cut and paste of the major posts by this person.

What will happen on Monday. What you didn’t know. SSA37 ID:fAbSCQGT Sun 29 Oct 2017 10:27:36 No.147017701 ViewReplyOriginalReport
Quoted By: >>147018895 >>147019364 >>147019610 >>147020412

Look, I feel bad for /pol/. You guys have been thrown off so much by intentionally misleading breadcrumbs that no one has any idea what’s been happening for the past 10 months. So I’m gonna throw you guys a bone. Forget the dossier. The real story is Uranium One.

1. We’ve known that Holder was covering up Russian bribes for Uranium One for a long time now. Hell, even Clinton Cash tells everyone about the bribes that were taking place. The reason Mueller left the FBI was because he was fed up with the corruption of Holder/Clinton/Obama. Holder kept telling Mueller to kill investigations and bury evidence. I don’t know what you think about Mueller, but I can tell you, he’s an honorable man. The corruption of Holder/Obama/Clinton was eating him up alive. He resigned in 2013 when he just couldn’t keep doing this. Then they got Comey who was coerced in to continuing the cover up. SSA37 ID:fAbSCQGT Sun 29 Oct 2017 10:28:10 No.147017762 Report

2. Manafort, Comey, Rosenstein, Podesta, Clintons, Holders, and Lynch are all on one team. We affectionately call them “The Clinton Cabal”. To take this cabal down, we needed someone who was close to career FBI agents because they were holding all the evidence. When the DNC and Clinton campaign spun the Trump/Russian collusion conspiracy back in Dec., we couldn’t believe it. They gave us the perfect way to expose them. We would use the Russian investigation to expose the bribery/extortion racket that took place back in 2009 and continued through 2015.

3. We got Mueller to sign on to investigate the connection. We needed him because he had been at the FBI for almost as long as Hoover and knew all the agents that were sitting on the Russian/Clinton connection. More importantly, he hates Holder/Obama/Clinton. The plan was, to get the special investigative council headed by Mueller and have the FBI agents handover all the evidence. Unfortunately, we didn’t count on Comey being such an obstacle. In the short time he was the Director of the FBI, he had made many allies who were proving to be loyal to him. He had to go. We knew it would be messy, but we had Pres Trump fire him. It caused a lot of headache for us, but in the end, it was worth it. Mueller’s been gathering evidence from his former agents for months now. Along with the raid to Manafort and Podesta, we now have enough evidence to connect all the dots. Mueller also convinced the FBI informant to speak up. Getting the gag order removed was trivial. SSA37 ID:fAbSCQGT Sun 29 Oct 2017 10:28:35 No.147017807 Report
Quoted By: >>147018677

4. We gave The Hill a heads up. We knew the switch in the narrative from Trump/Russia to Clinton/Russia would take a little time. We had them drop the Uranium One article exactly one week before we would make the first arrests. Couple of days later, we dropped the dossier info. We needed to hammer the train The first arrests will be Manafort and Tony Podesta. These guys are not the real target, they are just soldiers. The real targets are Hillary, Holder, Rosenstein, and John Podesta. We would love to expose Obama as well but Pres Trump is adamant about protecting former Presidents. Even if they are corrupt pieces of ****, he believes in the dignity of the office. He feels that ruining the legacy of a President will do nothing but hurt our country. This is why both Bush’s., Bill Clinton, Obama, and even LBJ will be spared. The rest of the JFK files released will not include the essential information implicating LBJ and Bush Sr.

5. This is it. The final moves will take place over the next 4 weeks. They could have let this go. Honestly, Pres Trump wanted to get on with Making America Great Again. Period. But Hillary and the DNC just couldn’t let it go. They asked for this. They kept making up **** and now they’re going to pay. If they kept their heads low and faded in to obscurity, we would not have gone this route. They have no one to blame but themselves.
SSA37 ID:fAbSCQGT Sun 29 Oct 2017 10:30:40 No.147018069 Report
Quoted By: >>147019851
I won’t be responding to questions here. I know for a fact who is watching. They’re probably trying to trace me right now. Take care anon. Peace be with you.

And another dump:

SCI[F] Military Intelligence.
What is ‘State Secrets’ and how upheld in the SC?
What must be completed to engage MI over other (3) letter agencies?
What must occur to allow for civilian trials?
Why is this relevant?
What was Flynn’s background?
Why is this relevant?
Why did Adm R (NSA) meet Trump privately w/o auth?
Does POTUS know where the bodies are buried?
Does POTUS have the goods on most bad actors?
Was TRUMP asked to run for President?
Why?
By Who?
Was HRC next in line?
Was the election suppose to be rigged?
Did good people prevent the rigging?
Why did POTUS form a panel to investigate?
Has POTUS *ever* made a statement that did not become proven as true/fact?
What is POTUS in control of?
What is the one organization left that isn’t corrupt?
Why does the military play such a vital role?
Why is POTUS surrounded by highly respected generals?
Who guards former Presidents?
Why is that relevant?
Who guards HRC?
Why is ANTIFA allowed to operate?
Why hasn’t the MB been classified as a terrorist org?
What happens if Soros funded operations get violent and engage in domestic terrorism?
What happens if mayors/ police comms/chiefs do not enforce the law?
What authority does POTUS have specifically over the Marines?
Why is this important?
What is Mueller’s background? Military?
Was Trump asked to run for President w/ assurances made to prevent tampering?
How is POTUS always 5 -steps ahead?
Who is helping POTUS?

There are more good people than bad. The wizards and warlocks Onside term) will not allow another Satanic Evil PUS control our country. Realize Soros, Clintons, Obama, Putin, etc. are all controlled by 3 families (the 4th was removed post Trump’s victory).

11.3- Podesta indicted
11.6- Huma indicted
Manafort was placed into Trump’s camp (as well as others). The corruption that will come out is so serious that deals must be cut for people to walk away otherwise 70% of elected politicians would be in jail (you are seeing it already begin). A deep cleaning is occurring and the prevention and defense of pure evil is occurring on a daily basis. They never thought they were going to lose control of the Presidency (not just D’s) and thought they had control since making past mistakes (JFK, Reagan).
Good speed, Patriots.
PS, Soros is targeted.
Get the popcorn, Friday & Saturday will deliver on the MAGA promise. POTUS knows he must clean house (gov’t) in order to ‘free up and demonstrate who has authority in order to pass important legislation. This was always the priority. Remember, AG Sessions cannot look like an impartial player that is out to get all former Obama team members as we need him for other important work. All will come into focus and for anyone to think POTUS is not in control is
kidding themselves. Also, he’s 100% insulated with zero risk of impeachment (fact).
Why does Obama travel in advance of POTUS to foreign locations?
Why is this relevant?
Focus on the power of POTUS as it relates to the Marines.
How can MI be applied to prosecute bad actors and avoid corrupt agencies and judges? Biggest drop on Pol.
Above is reason why the shills are sliding. In case you didn’t know, shills log and send new info
back to ASF for instruction. They use a 5 prong pre packaged injection (one post auto generates four more at random designated times). Common drive of posts they all tap into.
Since they misjudged the influence of the MSM they are aggressively looking to censor throughout major platforms in exchange for CIA slush funds and WW access for expansion of said networks. Everything they do has been forecasted and prepared for
Why did Mueller meet POTUS 1 -day prior to FBI announcement if Mueller COULD NOT be offered director due to prey term limits rule?
Why is Pelosi begging for a new special counsel?
What is Pelosi’s net worth?
How was this obtained given salary as career official?
Why is Pelosi’s memory going?
Could it protect against prosecution?
How so?
What if John M’s surgery was fake?
Why would this occur?
What could this prevent potentially?
What is the Mayo Clinic?
Who sits on the BOD there?
Why do D’s want to control the black pop?
Why do they intentionally keep poor and in need?
Why do D’s project racism on a daily basis against R’s?
Why do black elected officials do the crazy talk on behalf of D’s?
How do D’s cover the historical facts of forming the confederacy, KKK, and oppose all things pro black re: legislation?
What happens if D’s lose the slave grip on the black pop?
Why do D’s, through the funding of the CIA, prop up and install Hollywood/media assets?
Does this fall within Operation Mockingbird?
What were the historical advantages D’s gained by having MSM and famous people peddling narrative?
Who exposed the pedo network within H wood?
You can’t answer the above but will laugh once disclose details.
The network which controls this false narrative which in turns keeps the black pop under control is being dismantled.
False local and national black leaders will be exposed next as shills for the D party.
Follow the money.
Maxine W has a $4mm home and cash assets in excess of $6mm.
How is that possible? One example.
All of these questions help to paint the full picture.
Who did POTUS meet with yesterday?
Was AG Sessions there?
How many MI generals were on the WH list to attend a separate meeting?
Could those meetings have been combined?
Why were certain rooms in the WH renovated?
Where was the meeting on Monday?
Why aren’t phones allowed in this room (one of many).
What firm was contracted to conduct the renovations?
I’ve dumped some crumbs like this over the weekend which started the intense shilling. At this point we are far enough along you can paint the picture without risk of jeopardizing the operation.
Who controls the NG? (National Guard)
Why was the NG recently activated in select cities within the US?
Can the NG work in coordination w/ the marines?
Do conditions need to be satisfied to authorize?
What former President used the military to save the republic and what occurred exactly?
Biggest drop to ever be provided on Pol. Study and prepare. The masses tend to panic in such situations. No war. No civil unrest. Clean and swift.
Note MI has the same SAPs as NSA, CIA etc. as designated post 9-11.
Why is this relevant?
Who can be held hostage and controlled?
CIA thinks its foreign offshore assets are strong enough to defend against the US executive (not accounting for military use on domestic soil).
Why does the Constitution explicitly grant this authority to the President and what is it to prevent?

They knew our agencies would grow in power so much so they could/can hold the executive hostage or engage with bad actors.
Trump nominated someone new to direct every agency but one. He controls the top.

This all has meaning – everything stated. Big picture stuff – few positions allow for this direct knowledge.
Proof to begin 11.3.
We all sincerely appreciate the work you do. Keep up the good fight. The flow of information is vital.
God bless.
Think about it logically.
The only way is the military. Fully controlled. Save & spread (once 11.3 verifies as 1st marker). Biggest advanced drop on Pol.
Not everything can be publicly disclosed because so much ties back to foreign heads of state.
Much will be revealed, we want transparency but not at a cost we can’t recover from.
Some things must remain classified to the very end. NK is not being run by Kim, he’s an actor in the play. Who is the director? The truth would sound so outrageous most Americans would riot, revolt, reject, etc.
The pedo networks are being dismantled.
The child abductions for satanic rituals (ie Haiti and other 3rd world countries) are paused (not terminated until players in custody).
We pray every single day for God’s guidance and direction as we are truly up against pure evil.
Would you believe a device was placed somewhere in the WH that could actually cause harm to anyone in the room and would in essence be undetected?
Fantasy right?
When Trump was elected you can’t possibly imagine the steps taken prior to losing power to ensure future safety & control.
When was it reported Trump Jr. dropped his SS detail?
Why would he take that huge risk given what we know?
I can hint and point but cannot give too many highly classified data points.
These keywords and questions are framed to reduce sniffer programs that continually absorb and analyze data then pushed to z terminals for eval. Think xkeysc on steroids.
World stalemate.
We all have the goods on everyone else.
That’s part of the reason why some things that tie back to foreign heads of state will remain classified (not all).
We are in one of the most critical times of our country. Trump and others are working to balance the we’re doing well for America (for the common person to endorse) while at the same time purify our govt and remove the bad actors who are entrenched. There is so much string pulling and blackmail that we need to cut these off to truly gain the power granted to us by the Patriots and hard working people of this great country.
I’m hopeful my time spent here was not wasted.
Note few if any shills inside this thread. Reason for that. It’s being monitored, recorded, and analyzed and don’t want the clutter
Take good care. God bless.

Comment - When reading this - I kept getting a mental picture of Steve Bannon. I wonder, if he might be behind this or someone close to him?

 

[Voyageur]

Had a listen to this now dated 2013 interview between the ex-Canadian, Conrad Black and the Donald. I say "ex" because Conrad was bestowed the title (with a wink and a nod by the UK's Tony Blair) of Baron Black of Crossharbour back in 2001 by Queen E.

Black was a newspaper baron owning such dailies as The Jerusalem Post - he is well known to most Canadian readers after he ran afoul of some laws, trumped up or otherwise, and did time in an American prison. You can read about him here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conrad_Black

Conrad now writes occasionally for the Canadian National Post, such as his latest one here http://nationalpost.com/opinion/conrad-black-trump-is-already-the-most-successful-u-s-president-since-ronald-reagan titled;

'Conrad Black: Trump is already the most successful U.S. president since Ronald Reagan' - which I read with some interest as he hits on some good points and avoids other.

Conrad is a Historian of sorts with a bent to exclude and to embellish the gentry of the day...

Anyway, have a listen to these two obvious friends as can be discerned at the end with well wishes from both he and his wife Barbara, to Donald and his wife - I think Black had a house in Miami or somewhere like that so they were likely running in the same circles. The talk is rather interesting considering when and now. It jumps from politics to golf courses.

2013 Interview Conversations With Conrad Black and Donald Trump

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[Divide by Zero]

From March, Trump already set destroying net neutrality in motion:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/30/technology/net-neutrality.html

So it looks like Trump's plan to deregulate the internet, by taking down net neutrality rules is coming to a head. Great job to support huge telecoms (and the websites who can pay extra for bandwith) and lead the way to someday make smaller independent sites sit on the slow side of the internet.

You would think a president that is dealing with the deep state and other manipulation from big business would appreciate the open internet that got an "outsider" like him to popularity???

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2017/11/17/trump_s_fcc_is_about_to_destroy_net_neutrality.html
What's odd is here about the feedback a few months ago from people when the FCC asked for opinions:

For instance, she said, there have been allegations that most of the comments came from bots, or some even from dead people. Most of those fraudulent comments were suspiciously against net neutrality, while data analysts found the overwhelming majority of organic comments to be in favor of the internet regulations.

 

[angelburst29]

‘Impeach Trump’ Billboards Go Up in Times Square Wed Nov 22, 2017
http://en.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13960901000780

For 10 minutes out of every hour through to New Year’s Eve, billboards on Times Square will direct passers-by to a website where they can sign a petition calling for US President Donald Trump’s impeachment.

Over 350,000 people walk across Times Square each day, one of the busiest pedestrian zones in the world. It will only get busier on New Year’s Eve, when up to a million people will go to watch the countdown. They might also catch a glimpse of the billboards paid for by billionaire Democratic Party donor Tom Steyer. The billboards direct their viewers to Steyer’s website, needtoimpeach.com, where they can sign a petition asking Congress to take action against the Commander-in-Chief, RT reported.

“We’re putting a couple of large billboards in Times Square calling for the impeachment of the president,” Steyer, who put $20mn toward the campaign, told Bloomberg on Monday, adding that “We legitimately feel that this is the huge issue in front of the American people that no one is standing up for what the overwhelming number of Americans think.”

Steyer, a former hedge fund manager who has since turned his focus to environmentalist causes like fighting climate change, has already run a series of TV ads in which he called the Trump administration a “clear and present danger” that threatens to drag the United States into a nuclear war. The ads ran on Fox News’ Fox & Friends show, known to be a favorite program of the president, prompting a response.

“Wacky & totally unhinged,” was how Trump described Steyer on Twitter.

Although over 2,650,000 have signed the petition for Trump’s impeachment so far, senior Democratic leaders like Nancy Pelosi have reportedly told Steyer that they consider his campaign a distraction from the party’s overall political strategy.

“It seems as if elected officials don’t think this is the time or don’t think that it’s tactically smart,” he said, adding that “We’re not trying to be tactically smart. We’re not trying to in some way, shape or form… this for the [2018] midterms.”

Opponents of Trump’s controversial presidency have long called for his impeachment, accusing him of colluding with the Russian government during the 2016 presidential election campaign, among other things. However, no clear or definitive evidence of such collusion has yet been found.

Last week, six Democrats in the House of Representatives, including two sitting on the House Judiciary Committee, introduced articles of impeachment. They singled out five of President Trump’s acts which they believe to be impeachment-worthy, including the firing of FBI Director James Comey.

President Donald Trump started off his first day of Thanksgiving vacation by resuming his taunts of the father of a UCLA basketball player detained for shoplifting in China, saying Wednesday that he was an “ungrateful fool.”

Trump calls father of freed UCLA player an ‘ungrateful fool’
https://www.mail.com/sports/basketball/8098598-trump-calls-father-freed-ucla-player-ungrateful-fo.html#.7518-stage-hero1-7

In a series of tweets fired off before dawn, the president complained yet again that LaVar Ball, father of LiAngelo Ball, hasn’t given him credit for the release of his son and two other UCLA basketball players from detention in China.

Tweeting from his Florida vacation home, Trump said: “It wasn’t the White House, it wasn’t the State Department, it wasn’t father LaVar’s so-called people on the ground in China that got his son out of a long term prison sentence – IT WAS ME.”

“Too bad! LaVar is just a poor man’s version of Don King, but without the hair,” he said, referencing the flamboyant boxing promoter whom Trump once saluted as “a phenomenal person” despite a conviction for manslaughter.

Trump also warned that Ball “could have spent the next 5 to 10 years during Thanksgiving with your son in China, but no NBA contract to support you” had it not been for his intervention. “But remember LaVar, shoplifting is NOT a little thing. It’s a really big deal, especially in China,” he wrote.

LiAngelo Ball and two UCLA teammates were released after a brief detention in China while Trump was visiting the country. Trump has taken credit for the release, saying he discussed the situation with Chinese President Xi Jinping.

LaVar Ball, whose eldest son, Lonzo, plays for the Los Angeles Lakers, has repeatedly minimized Trump’s involvement in winning the players’ release, telling CNN earlier this week: “If I feel nobody did anything, I don’t have to go around saying thank you to everybody.”

Trump had previously said he should have left all three players in jail. Trump on Wednesday also spoke out against the idea of keeping NFL players in the locker room during the playing of the national anthem as a response to some players refusing to stand to protest racial inequality and police brutality.

“That’s almost as bad as kneeling! When will the highly paid Commissioner finally get tough and smart?” Trump wrote. “This issue is killing your league!”

Donald Trump's national security adviser reportedly mocked the US president and called him a "kindergartner" during a private dinner.

White House National Security Adviser Calls Trump a 'Kindergartner'
http://en.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13960901000140

General H.R. McMaster is said to have made the disparaging remarks about his boss during a meeting with Oracle CEO Safra Catz in July, BuzzFeed reported.

During the meeting General McMaster mocked Trump, calling him an "idiot" and a "dope", adding he had the intelligence of a "kindergartner", five different sources said.

The general is also reported to have criticized other members of Trump's administration, including secretary of defense James Mattis, former strategist Steve Bannon and Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner.

General McMaster, who serves as Trump's top adviser on national security matters, also reportedly told a sixth source that the president lacked the intelligence to understand the matters before the National Security Council.

Ms Catz, who has been touted as a future White House staff member, and Trump's administration have robustly denied the comments.

“Actual participants in the dinner deny that General McMaster made any of the comments attributed to him by anonymous sources,” said Michael Anton, a spokesman for the National Security Council.

It is not the first time a member of the Trump administration is reported to have made such comments about the president's intelligence.

 

[angelburst29]

I wonder, what kind of shenanigans he's up too?

On Tuesday, former President Barack Obama embarked on a five-day trip to China, India, and France, where he will meet with Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi before speaking at the introductory session of the Les Napoleons Summit in Paris.

Obama to Meet Chinese, Indian Leaders on Asia Tour
_http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2017/11/28/barack-obama-meets-world-leaders-asia-tour/

Obama reportedly began his trip Tuesday in Shanghai with private meetings. He also spoke at a trade summit. On Wednesday, he will head to Beijing where he will speak at a summit for education and be reunited with Xi.

The former president’s trip is taking place shortly after President Donald Trump’s historic 12-day trip to Asia and First Daughter Ivanka Trump’s trip to India, where she is visiting between November 28-30 for the Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES).

It is rare for past presidents to meet with world leaders while a president from the opposing political party is in power.

In 2008, former President Jimmy Carter, a Democrat, met with the exiled leader of Islamic terrorist organization Hamas in Syria, despite stark opposition from the Republican Bush administration and Israel, a staunch U.S. ally.

“As President, Obama forged a close and cooperative partnership with President Xi on issues ranging from growing the global economy to combating climate change, and he looks forward to catching up with his former counterpart,” Obama spokeswoman Katie Hill told CNN.

Following his meeting in late October with Xi Jinping, President Trump said, “People say we have the best relationship of any president-president.” He added, “Now some people might call him the king of China. But he’s called president. But we have a very good relationship and that’s a positive thing.”

In addition to his meeting with Modi in New Delhi on December 1, Obama will reportedly speak at an Obama Foundation Town Hall as well as at the HT Media Leadership Summit.

On Tuesday, Ivanka Trump tweeted, “It was an honor to meet with you Prime Minister Modi. Thank you for co-hosting the 8th annual Global Entrepreneurship Summit! @StateDept.”

The summit’s slogan this year is “Women First, Prosperity for All.”

Amid growing tensions between Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and the White House, Tillerson decided against sending a high-level delegation to support the first daughter on her trip to Hyderabad, India.

A new policy of the Department of Defense threatens to shut down an exhibition of artworks by Guantánamo Bay prisoners at New York’s John Jay College of Criminal Justice, provoking a heated debate over art censorship and the appropriateness of displaying art by suspected terrorists.

Department of Defense Threatens to Shut Down New York Show of Artwork by Guantánamo Prisoners November 27, 2017 (Photos)
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/guantanamo-prisoner-art-show-censorship-1161182

The show, titled “Ode to the Sea: Art from Guantánamo Bay,” opened on October 2 and features 36 paintings and sculptures by current and former detainees, many of whom have been held indefinitely without trial. Art crime professor Erin Thompson, who co-curated the show with archivist Paige Laino and artist/poet Charles Shields, told the Guardian she hoped the works would help viewers reexamine how they think about Guantánamo detainees. “In the era of Trump, who is saying he wants to expand Guantánamo, the exhibit now has a more activist purpose,” she added, “which is showing that indefinite detention harms detainees and the people working in the prison.”

The artworks on view, many of which depict scenes of the ocean, are available for purchase through the detainees’ respective lawyers. Each of the works was examined for hidden messages and cleared by the military. Many of the pieces still bear the stamp “approved by US forces.”

Nevertheless, the Department of Defense reportedly wants to shut down the exhibition and incinerate the works. Staff of the publicly funded college are preparing for the art to be seized, according to the New York Post.

In an abrupt shift in policy, the Pentagon has decided that art made by wartime detainees is the property of the US government, according to a report in the Miami Herald. Accordingly, the Guantánamo Bay detention center has stopped releasing security-screened prisoner art to the public. (Under President Barack Obama, the military introduced prison art classes for Guantánamo detainees in 2009, albeit with strict restrictions prohibiting any supplies that might be used as a weapon.)

Ramzi Kassem, a lawyer and professor at CUNY School of Law, believes the new policy means government intends to do more than just seize the art, telling the Herald that the works would be incinerated. The Department of Defense did not immediately respond to artnet News’ request for comment.

A John Jay College professor has launched an online petition to protest any government plans to burn the artwork. “Let them know that burning art is something done by fascist and terrorist regimes—but not by the American people,” the petition states. “Art is an expression of the soul. This art belongs to the detainees and to the world.”

Opponents of the show, meanwhile, believe that it should never have been allowed to take place. “I cant understand how this college, in particular, would allow such a thing,” Michael Burke, whose brother, firefighter Billy Burke, died on 9/11 and was a John Jay alumnus, told the New York Post. “Where’s their decency? Where’s their dignity… It’s denying and softening what happened.”

 

[Ca.]

President Trump: "Roy Moore denies it. That's all I can say." (C-SPAN) / 4:33
Published on Nov 21, 2017

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President Trump answers questions departing the White House, including those about Roy Moore. "Roy Moore denies it. That's all I can say. He denies it. And by the way, he totally denies it."

Published on Nov 29, 2017 / 2:19

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Roy Moore Accusers Have Ties To Drug Dealers, & The Washington Post

CrossTalk: Trumpian World / 24:19
RT Published on Nov 29, 2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zH1wJMAcZHk

Candidate Trump was criticized for not having a coherent understanding of global affairs. Indeed, he largely dismissed the foreign policy elites. A year after his election and since his inauguration is there such a thing as a 'Trumpian view' of the international system?
CrossTalking with George Szamuely, Tighe Barry, and John Walsh.

 

[goyacobol]

Be the first on your block to speculate on the next false flag...

That's how I feel about posting this but it may be something to place in awareness only. My son-in-law is in the National Guard and is frequently going for training in various locations. He is in North Dakota this week for some such "training".

The Health Ranger seems to have a little "inside" information which to me does not seem over sensationalized and his thinking seems critically sound in reasoning to me. It's a short video about 12 minutes. This is not something we don't already expect may happen but hearing this gives a sense that the PTB may be getting very desperate to distract and manipulate using another "false flag" scenario.
What can we do? I suppose just be aware of reality left and right. If this is really being set up it shows how close together the "false flags" may be occurring with the Las Vegas Shooting still fresh in our minds.

Also, with rumors of Clinton related indictments, the North Korean fear-mongering, the never ending Russia bashing and the whole Middle East/Isis fiasco there may be any number of reasons that a "false flag" would look like a solution to push the U.S. into another money making war with Iran, North Korea or practically any country that the PTB see stands in their way.

There basically two scenarios mentioned in the video one is a city/regional power rgrid shutdown or the dreaded "dirty-nuke" scenario which the Cs say could be a possibility. I'll leave to you as whether it is worth your time to watch. Some have expressed a feeling or intuition that something bad may be close at hand. I guess I am placing this that category. With the holidays coming I suppose that would be a very devastating time to create chaos. It's not much fun trying to think like a psychopath. :(

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[Ca.]

ICE’s ‘Operation Raging Bull’ nets 267 MS-13 arrests
Nov 16, 2017

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ICE’s ‘Operation Raging Bull’ nets 267 MS-13 arrests
https://www.ice.gov/features/raging-bull
Snips Link for graphs and illustrations

The operation was conducted in two phases, targeting dangerous gang members and their global financial networks. In September, ICE announced the results of the first phase of this operation which netted 53 arrests in El Salvador at the conclusion of an 18-month investigation. The second phase was conducted across the U.S. from Oct. 8 to Nov. 11, and concluded with 214 MS-13 arrests nationwide

Sixteen of the 214 arrested were U.S. citizens and 198 were foreign nationals, of which only five had legal status to be in the U.S. Foreign nationals arrested were from El Salvador (135), Honduras (29), Mexico (17), Guatemala (12), Ecuador (4) and Costa Rica (1).

“With more than 10,000 members across 40 states, MS-13 is one of the most dangerous criminal organizations in the United States today,” said Attorney General Jeff Sessions. “President Trump has ordered the Department of Justice to reduce crime and take down transnational criminal organizations, and we will be relentless in our pursuit of these objectives.

Sixty-four individuals had illegally crossed the border as unaccompanied alien children; most are now adults.

Examples of domestic arrests made during this operation include:

In Baltimore, Maryland, the arrest and indictment of four MS-13 members on charges that include violent crimes in aid of racketeering and conspiracy to commit murder in aid of racketeering.
In McKinney, Texas, the arrest of an MS-13 gang member and citizen of El Salvador who is wanted for homicide by the National Civil Police of El Salvador (PNC).
In Denver, Colorado, the arrest of an MS-13 gang member and citizen of El Salvador who is wanted on an outstanding warrant for DUI and was found with three machetes in his possession.
In Los Angeles, California, the arrest of an MS-13 member and citizen of El Salvador, subject of an INTERPOL Red Notice for gang offenses and involvement with the murder of an PNC officer in El Salvador.
In San Francisco, California, the arrest of an MS-13 member and citizen of El Salvador, who is a wanted fugitive in El Salvador on an arrest warrant for violent crimes including homicide.

How ICE is cracking down on MS-13 (Deep State News) 4:55
CBS This Morning Published on Nov 16, 2017
_https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Adsy59qp8M

Updated:

Judicial Watch
Streamed live on Dec 8, 2017 / 33:39

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In this week’s Video Weekly Update, JW President Tom Fitton discusses the revelations about corruption at the FBI & DOJ, notably involving Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s out-of-control operation. Also– Tom dives into the latest Clinton/Lynch tarmac meeting records obtained by Judicial Watch. It appears the FBI was more concerned about a whistle-blower who notified the press about the infamous meeting than the illicit-nature of the meeting itself. Finally, Tom gives an update about the latest sanctuary city lawsuit in which JW’s case is allowed to proceed.

Day 50 Part 1 - Survey of All The Working Stories / 9:40
George Webb Published on Dec 9, 2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=7&v=_fhEefwVd5I

 

[angelburst29]

UGLY! and it definitely doesn't blend in with it's surroundings?

Why Does The New $1 Billion US Embassy In London Need The First Moat Since Medieval Times Dec 15, 2017 (Photos)
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-12-14/why-does-new-1-billion-us-embassy-london-need-first-moat-medieval-times

If you google “London moats”, you’ll probably alight on a link which will take you to “London’s Top 10 Moats: A Spotter’s Guide”. We had no idea there were so many and could only think of the “obvious” one surrounding the Tower of London, even if it’s waterless these days. According to the guide, a defensive ditch has surrounded the Tower since its origins in the eleventh century. The moat, which contained water from the thirteenth century until the 1840s, helps to protect the roughly cuboid “White Tower” keep, which gives the Tower of London its name. Built by William the Conqueror in 1078, the White Tower was resented as a symbol of oppression inflicted on London by the new ruling elite.

Yesterday saw the press launch for the new US embassy in London which is situated on the south bank of the River Thames in the re-developed – albeit unattractively - part of the city near to Battersea Power Station. During the “celebrations”, architect James Timberlake, of Philadelphia-based firm Kieran Timberlake, described the new building as “the embodiment of peace and security”. The Daily Mail reported a spokesperson saying the glass structure “gives form to the core democratic values of transparency”. The lobby looks a bit “imperial” to us, but we’re probably mistaken.

 

[angelburst29]

Across the government, career staffers are finding ways to continue old policies, sometimes just by renaming a project.

Washington Bureaucrats Are Quietly Working to Undermine Trump’s Agenda
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-12-18/washington-bureaucrats-are-chipping-away-at-trump-s-agenda

In report after report following Donald Trump’s election, career staffers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration kept saying the same thing: climate change is real, serious and man-made.

That’s surprising because Trump has called global warming a hoax. His political appointees at the Commerce Department, which oversees NOAA, have complained to its staff, but stopped short of demanding changes or altering the findings. So the reports, blog posts and public updates kept flowing. The bureaucrats won.

“Everything coming out of NOAA does not reflect this administration,” said David Schnare, a retired lawyer for an industry-backed think tank who served on Trump’s transition team and is skeptical about climate change. “It reflects the last one.”

That’s true across the government as some of the roughly two million career staff have found ways to obstruct, slow down or simply ignore their new leader, the president.

Staff at the Securities and Exchange Commission, for example, issued a report contradicting the White House’s position about the negative effects of banking regulations. The State Department’s embassy staff preserved Obama-era programs to boost the economies of developing countries — at odds with Trump’s “America First” campaign pledges — not by changing the substance of the programs but merely by relabeling them as a way to create markets for U.S. exports.

Perhaps no policy area better illustrates the dynamic than climate change. A report commissioned by the energy secretary to explore the dangers of wind and solar energy to the power grid initially found just the opposite. Pentagon staffers effectively stalled a Trump reversal of an Obama policy on climate change and national security by initiating a review that’s apparently still underway nine months later. Federal procurement officials have kept promoting zero-emission vehicles but by focusing on economic gains rather than environmental benefits.

Two factors may be making it harder for this White House to impose order: a desire to reorient major agencies from their traditional missions and the slow pace at which it has filled key posts. Less than two-thirds as many appointments have been submitted and won Senate confirmation as were in place at this time during the Obama administration.

But even that wouldn’t fully tame the “permanent government” layer of bureaucrats who stay on from president to president, burrowed deep in agencies across Washington.

“It’s an enormous challenge for a new president and administration to exert influence over the bureaucracy,” said David Lewis, chairman of the political science department at Vanderbilt University. “They know a lot more than the political appointees who come into the agencies. That gives them an advantage.”

Before taking office, Trump repeatedly dismissed global warming as a hoax — a position at odds not only with the vast majority of scientists, but also with the longstanding policy of the U.S. government.

In 1990, Congress directed the executive branch to research the effects of global warming, and convey that research at regular intervals. Since then, the federal government’s involvement in fighting climate change has grown, to include regulating emissions and working to mitigate their consequences.

Trump has used his executive authority to reverse some of the most prominent environmental policies initiated by President Barack Obama, including rolling back limits on greenhouse gas emissions from power plants, pulling out of an international agreement to cut carbon emissions signed in 2015 in Paris and effectively opening up more public land to oil drilling and coal mining.

But when it comes to the endless number of more mundane policies and decisions farther from the spotlight, Trump and his appointees have met with resistance — some of it subtle, some of it not.

“The bureaucracy is generally resistant, no matter what the hell you’re trying to do,” Leon Panetta, who guided presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama through transitions, said in an interview. But when a president sets out to be as disruptive as Trump has, Panetta added, getting career staff to implement those policies “is gonna take a hell of a lot longer.”

As the case of NOAA illustrates, the most radical example of bureaucratic resistance may also be the simplest: continuing to issue information or reports that are factually accurate, even when they clash with the administration’s policies.

Different agencies have taken different approaches to the reports written. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross told Bloomberg in a statement, “I have not suggested one word of change to any NOAA research report on any topic.” But political officials in other departments have been more willing to get involved — sometimes triggering pushback from civil servants.

Just ask Rick Perry. In April, Perry, Trump’s secretary of energy, directed career staff at his agency to write a report on the question of whether the expansion of wind and solar power threaten the stability of the electricity grid, by reducing the amount of “critical baseload resources” — in other words, power generated by coal, nuclear and other traditional sources.

With Trump pledging to reverse regulations that have harmed coal, the study was viewed by critics as a way the administration would justify curtailing the surging expansion of wind and solar power and provide help to coal plants and coal miners.

But the draft staff report, coordinated by an Energy Department contractor, reached a surprising conclusion: the growth in renewables wasn’t endangering the reliability of electric power after all. “Grid operators are using
technologies, standards and practices to assure that they can continue operating the grid reliably,” concluded the draft report, obtained by Bloomberg in July.

The draft’s conclusions were those of the contractor, not of career staff at the agency, according to Shaylyn Hynes, a department spokeswoman.

Trump appointees at the agency pushed back on the draft’s conclusions; one official called some of its findings “unacceptable” and “inflammatory,” according to a copy of the draft marked up by the official. Drafts of the report soon leaked out, making it harder for political staff to alter them.

Officials eventually unveiled a version of the report that hewed closely to the initial draft, but with policy recommendations that supported Perry’s stated goal of preserving the nation’s coal and nuclear fleet. Travis Fisher, a political appointee in Perry’s office and a lead author of the study, said in an interview that the leak “didn’t have an effect on the overall posture” of the report. “It was always going in the direction that it ended up,” he said.

But career staff, who asked not to be identified, viewed the episode as a qualified success, arguing that report’s findings would otherwise have been even more hostile to renewables.

Bureaucrats can also continue programs or initiatives that pre-date Trump by calling them something new or describing them in different ways.

Take the General Services Administration, which manages the federal government’s fleet of more than 640,000 cars, trucks and other vehicles. Since 2011, GSA has added more than 1,000 electric vehicles to the fleet — a policy that was presented in distinctly environmental terms.

“The Federal Government is leading by example,” the GSA boasted when it announced the electric-vehicle program in 2011. The goal was “to build a 21st century clean energy economy.”

Those goals are now squarely at odds with the Trump administration’s view on climate change, which strongly favors fossil fuels.

Rather that cutting the program, GSA staff have focused on its contributions to jobs and cost cutting, rather than reducing emissions.

That messaging workaround was on display in late summer when the GSA promoted National Drive Electric Week, whose presenters include the Sierra Club. “Welcome to National Drive Electric Week!” the agency said in a September blog post that it said was to celebrate the benefits of alternative-fuel vehicles.

“GSA recognizes that emerging technologies play a significant role in our mission to save taxpayer dollars, create jobs and stimulate economic growth in the United States; which is one reason we provide the federal fleet with vehicles that offer the latest and most efficient transportation technologies available, including electric vehicle (EV) technology,” the agency wrote on its website in a post promoting the event.

The post made no mention of environmental benefits. If the agency had any non-economic reasons for using electric vehicles, they went unmentioned. A GSA spokeswoman, Pamela Dixon, didn’t respond to emails seeking comment.

“The career bureaucracy is seen by many in the administration, and by the president himself, as sort of the problem,” said Paul Verkuil, who served under Obama as chairman of the Administrative Conference of the United States, an independent federal agency charged with improving the efficiency of the bureaucracy. “The irony is, because they’re not confirming their own policy people, the quote-unquote ‘problem’ is running the government.”

In other agencies, officials have found it best to simply delay implementation of new initiatives in hopes they may be modified or canceled.

In March, for example, Trump, flanked by Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt and coal miners, signed an order that rescinded some Obama policies to fight climate change. “You’re going back to work,” Trump told the men around him.

Among the policies Trump reversed was Obama’s 2016 Presidential Memorandum on Climate Change and National Security, which had instructed the Defense Department to account for the effects of global warming. Those effects include rising sea levels that threaten U.S. naval facilities; stronger and more frequent heat waves, which interfere with the military’s ability to train its personnel; and the interplay between extreme weather events and conflicts overseas, which risks entangling U.S. forces.

The department was aware of those threats, and had already started putting Obama’s policy into effect through a directive called “Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience.”

But rather than reverse or alter that directive after Trump’s order, staff at the Pentagon launched what it called a review, which served to forestall changes. Adam Stump, a department spokesman, refused to say whether that review has concluded, or what it found. For now, he said, the directive issued under Obama’s administration remains current.

Defense Secretary James Mattis has said that “Climate change can be a driver of instability and the Department of Defense must pay attention to potential adverse impacts generated by this phenomenon.”

Even seemingly insignificant actions by civil servants can add up to a meaningful difference in federal policy, according to Anna Aurilio, director of the Washington office at Environment America, a nonprofit.

“I don’t think it’s a silver bullet, unfortunately,” Aurilio said. Still, “It can be very helpful for career staff to actually do their jobs properly, and not rubber stamp the rollback or weakening of regulations.”

Career staff who slow down policy directives are sometimes justified in doing so, according to Lewis, the Vanderbilt professor. For example, they may feel that stalling gives political appointees, some of whom are new to the policy areas they’re responsible for, time to consider other options.

“To carry out your job faithfully requires you to balance sometimes conflicting demands — from the president, from Congress and from the law itself,” Lewis said. “What can be seen as slow-walking something, and has a nefarious meaning, also has a charitable interpretation.”

In the long run, career staff can face consequences. While it’s hard to outright fire a civil servant, congressional Republicans in January gave themselves the ability to reduce the annual pay for any individual federal employee to $1.

An administration can also punish bureaucrats through punitive reassignments, designed to make them quit. Joel Clement, a senior policy manager at the Department of Interior, was moved to the accounting office in June — retaliation, he alleged, for speaking out about the risks of climate change.

A department spokeswoman, Heather Swift, denied that, telling Bloomberg the move was “to better serve the taxpayer and the Department’s operations.”

Clement, who has since left the agency, described a checklist he said bureaucrats should follow before acting to impede a political directive.

Clement said career staff should first consider whether they simply didn’t like the new policy, which he said wasn’t a reason to get in its way. But if the new policy put public health and safety at risk, for example, or was based on deliberately inaccurate information, Clement argued staff should then try to raise their concerns through internal channels. “You first have to try a legitimate approach before you obstruct,” he said.

Only if that didn’t work, Clement said, should civil servants take action outside of normal channels — leaking documents, for instance, or slowing down the implementation of the policy. But he said he expects more career staff to start doing so, as more of the Trump administration’s specific policy initiatives make their way through the bureaucracy.

“The tide is rising on that kind of resistance,” Clement said. “Whether it’s public or not.”

 

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Trump declares national emergency, Dec. 21.(full declaration) https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-blocking-property-persons-involved-serious-human-rights-abuse-corruption/

Executive Order Blocking the Property of Persons Involved in Serious Human Rights Abuse or Corruption

I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States of America, find that the prevalence and severity of human rights abuse and corruption that have their source, in whole or in substantial part, outside the United States, such as those committed or directed by persons listed in the Annex to this order, have reached such scope and gravity that they threaten the stability of international political and economic systems. Human rights abuse and corruption undermine the values that form an essential foundation of stable, secure, and functioning societies; have devastating impacts on individuals; weaken democratic institutions; degrade the rule of law; perpetuate violent conflicts; facilitate the activities of dangerous persons; and undermine economic markets. The United States seeks to impose tangible and significant consequences on those who commit serious human rights abuse or engage in corruption, as well as to protect the financial system of the United States from abuse by these same persons.

I therefore determine that serious human rights abuse and corruption around the world constitute an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States, and I hereby declare a national emergency to deal with that threat.