by Eric Zuesse for The Saker Blog
The last leg of the Russiagate hoax to become exposed was on August 16th, when Gareth Porter bannered at The American Conservative, “U.S. States: We Weren’t Hacked by Russians in 2016”. He revealed there that, “A ‘bombshell’ Senate Intelligence Committee report released in July repeated the familiar claim that Russia targeted the electoral websites of at least 21 states — but statements from the states themselves effectively undermine that narrative,” and NONE of the states was claiming that even a possibility had existed that its vote-counts had been affected, at all, by any hacker, anywhere. However, in one case, that of Illinois, there actually had been a hack; but it might have been by a criminal in order to sell the information, and not by any politically involved entity.
Porter reported:
The states’ own summary responses contained in the report show that, with one exception, they found either no effort to penetrate any of their election-related sites or merely found scanning and probing associated with an IP address that the FBI had warned about ahead of the 2016 election. Hardly a slam dunk.
Federal authorities, including Independent Counsel Robert Mueller, later claimed that the Russians used that IP address to hack into the Illinois state election systems and access some 200,000 voter records, though Mueller provided no additional evidence for that in his report. Nor was there any evidence that any data was tampered with, or a single vote changed.
About the same time, in August 2016, it was reported that Arizona state election systems were also breached, and it was widely speculated afterward that the Russians were behind it. But the Senate committee itself acknowledged that it was a criminal matter, and didn’t involve the Russians.
The “Russian” hack on the Illinois website, however, eventually became part of conventional wisdom, mainly because of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s indictment of 12 GRU (Russia’s foreign intelligence agency) officers for allegedly carrying it out.
But the overarching reality here is that there was no real penetration anywhere else. As for outside “probing” and “testing of vulnerabilities” (which, when closely read, makes up the vast majority of the “targeting” cited in the Senate report), that is something that states contend with every day at the hands of an untold number of potential hackers, including, but not limited to, foreign actors.
As Lisa Vasa, Oregon’s chief information security officer, explained to The Washington Post, the state blocks “upwards of 14 million attempts to access our network every day.” And Colorado Secretary of State Wayne Williams told the Post that the kind of scanning that was discussed by DHS “happens hundreds, if not thousands, of times per day.”
Furthermore, not all federal officials buy into the theory that the Illinois intrusion was political — rather than criminal — in nature. In fact, DHS Assistant Secretary for Cyber Security and Communications Andy Ozment testified in late September 2016 that the aim of the hackers in the Illinois case was “possibly for the purpose of selling personal information,” since they had stolen the data but made no effort to alter it online.
The Senate Intelligence Committee, DHS, and the intelligence community nevertheless chose to omit that reality from consideration, presumably because it would have interfered with their desired conclusion regarding the Russian cyber attacks on the 2016 election.
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Prior to that revelation, here were highlights from the major news-reports which had exposed other fraudulent aspects of the “Russiagate” accusations:
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9 May, 2019 in Uncategorized by craig | View Comments
Robert Mueller is either a fool, or deeply corrupt. I do not think he is a fool.
I did not comment instantly on the Mueller Report as I was so shocked by it, I have been waiting to see if any other facts come to light in justification. Nothing has. I limit myself here to that area of which I have personal knowledge – the leak of DNC and Podesta emails to Wikileaks. On the wider question of the corrupt Russian 1% having business dealings with the corrupt Western 1%, all I have to say is that if you believe that is limited in the USA by party political boundaries, you are a fool.
On the DNC leak, Mueller started with the prejudice that it was “the Russians” and he deliberately and systematically excluded from evidence anything that contradicted that view.
Mueller, as a matter of determined policy, omitted key steps which any honest investigator would undertake. He did not commission any forensic examination of the DNC servers. He did not interview Bill Binney. He did not interview Julian Assange. His failure to do any of those obvious things renders his report worthless.
There has never been, by any US law enforcement or security service body, a forensic examination of the DNC servers, despite the fact that the claim those servers were hacked is the very heart of the entire investigation. Instead, the security services simply accepted the “evidence” provided by the DNC’s own IT security consultants, Crowdstrike, a company which is politically aligned to the Clintons.
That is precisely the equivalent of the police receiving a phone call saying:
“Hello? My husband has just been murdered. He had a knife in his back with the initials of the Russian man who lives next door engraved on it in Cyrillic script. I have employed a private detective who will send you photos of the body and the knife. No, you don’t need to see either of them.”
There is no honest policeman in the world who would agree to that proposition, and neither would Mueller, were he remotely an honest man.
Two facts compound this failure.
The first is the absolutely key word of Bill Binney, former Technical Director of the NSA, the USA’s $14 billion a year surveillance organisation. Bill Binney is an acknowledged world leader in cyber surveillance, and is infinitely more qualified than Crowdstrike. Bill states that the download rates for the “hack” given by Crowdstrike are at a speed – 41 Megabytes per second – that could not even nearly be attained remotely at the location: thus the information must have been downloaded to a local device, eg a memory stick. Binney has further evidence regarding formatting which supports this. …
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“US Govt’s Entire Russia-DNC Hacking Narrative Based On Redacted Draft Of Crowdstrike Report”
17 June 2019
It’s been known for some time that the US Government based its conclusion that Russia hacked the Democratic National Committee (DNC) on a report by cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike, which the DNC paid over a million dollars to conduct forensic analysis and other work on servers they refused to hand over to the FBI.
CrowdStrike’s report made its way into a joint FBI/DHS report on an Russia’s “Grizzly Steppe“, which concluded Russia hacked the DNC’s servers. At the time, Crowdstrike’s claim drew much scrutiny from cybersecurity experts according to former Breitbart reporter Lee Stranahan.
Now, thanks to a new court filing by longtime Trump adviser Roger Stone requesting the full Crowdstrike analysis, we find out that the US government was given a redacted version of the report marked “Draft,” …
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“CrowdStrikeOut: Mueller’s Own Report Undercuts Its Core Russia-Meddling Claims”
5 July 2019 By Aaron Maté, RealClearInvestigations, 6,539 words
Mueller’s other “central allegation” regards a “Russian ‘Active Measures’ Social Media Campaign” with the aim of “sowing discord” and helping to elect Trump.
In fact, Mueller does not directly attribute that campaign to the Russian government, and makes only the barest attempt to imply a Kremlin connection. According to Mueller, the social media “form of Russian election influence came principally from the Internet Research Agency, LLC (IRA), a Russian organization funded by Yevgeniy Viktorovich Prigozhin and companies he controlled.”
After two years and $35 million, Mueller apparently failed to uncover any direct evidence linking the Prigozhin-controlled IRA’s activities to the Kremlin. …
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W. 31 July 2019 by Eric London
US federal court exposes Democratic Party conspiracy against Assange and WikiLeaks
In a ruling published late Tuesday, Judge John Koeltl of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York delivered a devastating blow to the US-led conspiracy against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
In his ruling, Judge Koeltl, a Bill Clinton nominee and former assistant special prosecutor for the Watergate Special Prosecution Force, dismissed “with prejudice” a civil lawsuit filed in April 2018 by the Democratic National Committee (DNC) alleging WikiLeaks was civilly liable for conspiring with the Russian government to steal DNC emails and data and leak them to the public.
Jennifer Robinson, a leading lawyer for Assange, and other WikiLeaks attorneys welcomed the ruling as “an important win for free speech.”
The decision exposes the Democratic Party in a conspiracy of its own to attack free speech and cover up the crimes of US imperialism and the corrupt activities of the two parties of Wall Street. Judge Koeltl stated:
If WikiLeaks could be held liable for publishing documents concerning the DNC’s political financial and voter-engagement strategies simply because the DNC labels them ‘secret’ and trade secrets, then so could any newspaper or other media outlet. But that would impermissibly elevate a purely private privacy interest to override the First Amendment interest in the publication of matters of the highest public concern. The DNC’s published internal communications allowed the American electorate to look behind the curtain of one of the two major political parties in the United States during a presidential election. This type of information is plainly of the type entitled to the strongest protection that the First Amendment offers. …
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4 Aug, 2019
Douglas Adams famously suggested that the answer to life, the universe and everything is 42. In the world of the political elite, the answer is Russiagate. What has caused the electorate to turn on the political elite, to defeat Hillary and to rush to Brexit? Why, the evil Russians, of course, are behind it all.
It was the Russians who hacked the DNC and published Hillary’s emails, thus causing her to lose the election because… the Russians, dammit, who cares what was in the emails? It was the Russians. It is the Russians who are behind Wikileaks, and Julian Assange is a Putin agent (as is that evil Craig Murray). It was the Russians who swayed the 1,300,000,000 dollar Presidential election campaign result with 100,000 dollars worth of Facebook advertising. It was the evil Russians who once did a dodgy trade deal with Aaron Banks then did something improbable with Cambridge Analytica that hypnotised people en masse via Facebook into supporting Brexit.
All of this is known to be true by every Blairite, every Clintonite, by the BBC, by CNN, by the Guardian, the New York Times and the Washington Post. “The Russians did it” is the article of faith for the political elite who cannot understand why the electorate rejected the triangulated “consensus” the elite constructed and sold to us, where the filthy rich get ever richer and the rest of us have falling incomes, low employment rights and scanty welfare benefits. You don’t like that system? You have been hypnotised and misled by evil Russian trolls and hackers.
Except virtually none of this is true. Mueller’s inability to defend in person his deeply flawed report took a certain amount of steam out of the blame Russia campaign. But what should have killed off “Russiagate” forever is the judgement of Judge John G Koeltl of the Federal District Court of New York.
In a lawsuit brought by the Democratic National Committee against Russia and against Wikileaks, and against inter alia Donald Trump Jr, Jared Kushner, Paul Manafort and Julian Assange, for the first time the claims of collusion between Trump and Russia were subjected to actual scrutiny in a court of law. And Judge Koeltl concluded that, quite simply, the claims made as the basis of Russiagate are insufficient to even warrant a hearing.
The judgement is 81 pages long, but if you want to understand the truth about the entire “Russiagate” spin it is well worth reading it in full. Otherwise let me walk you through it. …
The key finding is this. Even accepting the DNC’s evidence at face value, the judge ruled that it provides no evidence of collusion between Russia, Wikileaks or any of the named parties to hack the DNC’s computers. It is best expressed here in this dismissal of the charge that a property violation was committed, but in fact the same ruling by the judge that no evidence has been presented of any collusion for an illegal purpose, runs through the dismissal of each and every one of the varied charges put forward by the DNC as grounds for their suit.
Judge Koeltl goes further and asserts that Wikileaks, as a news organisation, had every right to obtain and publish the emails in exercise of a fundamental First Amendment right. The judge also specifically notes that no evidence has been put forward by the DNC that shows any relationship between Russia and Wikileaks. Wikileaks, accepting the DNC’s version of events, merely contacted the website that first leaked some of the emails, in order to ask to publish them.
Judge Koeltl also notes firmly that while various contacts are alleged by the DNC between individuals from Trump’s campaign and individuals allegedly linked to the Russian government, no evidence at all has been put forward to show that the content of any of those meetings had anything to do with either Wikileaks or the DNC’s emails.
In short, Koeltl dismissed the case entirely because simply no evidence has been produced of the existence of any collusion between Wikileaks, the Trump campaign and Russia. That does not mean that the evidence has been seen and is judged unconvincing. In a situation where the judge is duty bound to give credence to the plaintiff’s evidence and not judge its probability, there simply was no evidence of collusion to which he could give credence. The entire Russia-Wikileaks-Trump fabrication is a total nonsense. But I don’t suppose that fact will kill it off. …
And in conclusion, I should state emphatically that while Judge Koeltl was obliged to accept for the time being the allegation that the Russians had hacked the DNC as alleged, in fact this never happened. The emails came from a leak not a hack. The Mueller Inquiry’s refusal to take evidence from the actual publisher of the leaks, Julian Assange, in itself discredits his report. Mueller should also have taken crucial evidence from Bill Binney, former Technical Director of the NSA, who has explained in detail why an outside hack was technically impossible based on the forensic evidence provided.
The other key point that proves Mueller’s Inquiry was never a serious search for truth is that at no stage was any independent forensic independence taken from the DNC’s servers, instead the word of the DNC’s own security consultants was simply accepted as true. Finally no progress has been made – or is intended to be made – on the question of who killed Seth Rich, while the pretend police investigation has “lost” his laptop.
Though why anybody would believe Robert Mueller about anything is completely beyond me.
So there we have it. Russiagate as a theory is as completely exploded as the appalling Guardian front page lie published by Kath Viner and Luke Harding fabricating the “secret meetings” between Paul Manafort and Julian Assange in the Ecuadorean Embassy. But the political class and the mainstream media, both in the service of billionaires, have moved on to a stage where truth is irrelevant, and I do not doubt that Russiagate stories will thus persist. They are so useful for the finances of the armaments and security industries, and in keeping the population in fear and jingoist politicians in power.
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“Did Russian Interference Affect the 2016 Election Results?”
8 August 2019 Alan I. Abramowitz, Senior Columnist, Sabato’s Crystal Ball
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE
— Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s recent testimony was a reminder that Russia attempted to influence the outcome of the 2016 election and very well may try to do so again in 2020.
— This begs the question: Is there any evidence that Russian interference may have impacted the results, particularly in key states?
— The following analysis suggests that the 2016 results can be explained almost entirely based on the political and demographic characteristics of those states. So from that standpoint, the answer seems to be no.
What explains the 2016 results?
Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s recent testimony before the House Judiciary and Intelligence Committees, and the Mueller Report itself, make it very clear that the Russian government made a major effort to help Donald Trump win the 2016 U.S. presidential election. What the Mueller Report did not determine, however, was whether that effort was successful. In this article, I try to answer that question by examining whether there are any indications from the 2016 results that Russian interference efforts may have played a clear role in the outcome. One such indication would be if Trump did better in key swing states than a range of demographic, partisan, and historical factors would have predicted.
We know from the Mueller Report that Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort briefed a longtime associate who the FBI believes had ties with Russian intelligence about campaign strategy and, according to Manafort deputy Rick Gates, discussed decisive battleground states such as Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. Manafort also directed Gates to share internal polling data, which may have influenced Russian operations.
In order to address the question of whether the Russian interference effort worked, I conducted a multiple regression analysis of the election results at the state level. The dependent variable in this analysis was the Trump margin. My independent variables were the 2012 Mitt Romney margin, to control for traditional state partisanship, state ideology measured by the Gallup Poll (the percentage of conservatives minus the percentage of liberals), the percentage of a state’s population made up of whites without college degrees, the estimated turnout of eligible voters in the state, the state unemployment rate in November 2016 (to measure economic conditions), the number of Trump campaign rallies in the state, the number of Clinton campaign rallies in the state, a dummy variable for the state of Utah to control for the large vote share won by an independent conservative Mormon candidate from that state, Evan McMullin, and, finally, a dummy variable for swing states. The swing states included Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Minnesota, Nevada, New Hampshire, Ohio, and Virginia, in addition to Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. The results of the regression analysis are displayed in Table 1 along with a scatterplot of the actual and predicted results in Figure 1.
Table 1: Results of regression analysis of Trump margin in the states
Source: Data compiled by author.
Figure 1: Scatterplot of actual Trump margin by predicted Trump margin in the states
Note: Alaska and District of Columbia omitted due to lack of state ideology data.
Source: Data compiled by author.
The regression equation proved to be extremely successful in predicting the election results, explaining a remarkable 98% of the variance in Trump vote margin in the states. Several of the independent variables had very powerful effects including the 2012 Romney margin, state ideology, and the percentage of non-college whites in the state. Even after controlling for traditional state partisanship and ideology, the size of the non-college white population in a state was a strong predictor of support for Donald Trump. The data in Table 1 also show that Evan McMullin’s candidacy dramatically reduced Trump’s vote share in Utah — although Trump still carried the state easily. In addition, the results show that voter turnout had a modest but highly significant effect on the results — the higher the turnout in a state, the lower the vote share for Trump. These results seem to confirm the conventional wisdom that higher voter turnout generally helps Democrats.
In addition to showing what mattered in explaining the results of the 2016 presidential election in the states, the data in Table 1 also show what did not matter. Economic conditions at the state level, at least as measured by state unemployment, did not matter. The number of campaign rallies held by the candidates in a state did not matter. Finally, and perhaps most importantly from the standpoint of estimating the impact of Russian interference, Donald Trump did no better than expected in the swing states. The coefficient for the swing state dummy variable is extremely small and in the wrong direction: Trump actually did slightly worse than expected in the swing states based on their other characteristics.
Table 2: Predicted and actual Trump margin in key swing states
Source: Data compiled by author.
This can also be seen in Table 2, which compares the actual and predicted results in the three swing states that ultimately decided the outcome of the election: Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. What is most striking about the data in this table is that Donald Trump actually slightly under-performed the model’s predictions in all three states. He did about one point worse than predicted in Michigan, about two points worse than predicted in Pennsylvania, and between two and three points worse than predicted in Wisconsin. There is no evidence here that Russian interference, to the extent that it occurred, did anything to help Trump in these three states.
Conclusions
I find no evidence that Russian attempts to target voters in key swing states had any effect on the election results in those states. …
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“Overstock CEO Turned Over Docs To DOJ ‘In Greatest Political Scandal In US History’”
12 August 2019
Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne delivered to the Department of Justice a number of documents, including emails and text messages, in April, regarding both the origins of the Russian investigation, and an FBI operation into Hillary Clinton with which he was personally involved during the first months of 2016, according to a U.S. official who spoke SaraACarter.com.
Byrne has also confirmed the account.
Byrne claims the documents, which have not been made public and are currently under investigation by the DOJ, are allegedly communications he had with the FBI concerning both the Clinton investigation and the origins of the Russian investigation. …
“I gave to the DOJ documents concerning both the origin of the Russian probe and the probe into Hillary Clinton, both of which I was involved in, and both of which turned out to be less about law enforcement than they were about political espionage,” Byrne told SaraACarter.com Monday. …
“This is going to become the greatest political scandal in US history,” he said. …
Byrne said the investigation into Clinton was one of the main reasons he came forward. …
“Here’s the bottom line. There is a deep state like a submarine lurking just beneath the waves of the periscope depth watching our shipping lanes. …
“I think we’re about to see the biggest scandal in American history as a result. But it was all political. …
“It’s all a cover-up. It was all political espionage.” …
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The Russiagate hoax was used by Obama’s successor, Trump — who, of course, had been one of the two targets of the Obama-initiated hoax — in order to step up actions against Russia. Here is one example of that:
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“U.S. Escalates Online Attacks on Russia’s Power Grid”
By David E. Sanger and Nicole Perlroth June 15, 2019 front page Sunday 16 June 2019
WASHINGTON — The United States is stepping up digital incursions into Russia’s electric power grid in a warning to President Vladimir V. Putin and a demonstration of how the Trump administration is using new authorities to deploy cybertools more aggressively, current and former government officials said.
In interviews over the past three months, the officials described the previously unreported deployment of American computer code inside Russia’s grid and other targets as a classified companion to more publicly discussed action directed at Moscow’s disinformation and hacking units around the 2018 midterm elections.
Advocates of the more aggressive strategy said it was long overdue, after years of public warnings from the Department of Homeland Security and the F.B.I. that Russia has inserted malware that could sabotage American power plants, oil and gas pipelines, or water supplies in any future conflict with the United States.
But it also carries significant risk of escalating the daily digital Cold War between Washington and Moscow.
The administration declined to describe specific actions it was taking under the new authorities, which were granted separately by the White House and Congress last year to United States Cyber Command, the arm of the Pentagon that runs the military’s offensive and defensive operations in the online world.
But in a public appearance on Tuesday, President Trump’s national security adviser, John R. Bolton, said the United States was now taking a broader view of potential digital targets as part of an effort “to say to Russia, or anybody else that’s engaged in cyberoperations against us, ‘You will pay a price.’”
Power grids have been a low-intensity battleground for years. …
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MY CONCLUSION: Both the liberal (Democratic) and conservative (Republican) wings of the U.S. aristocracy hate and want to conquer Russia’s Government. The real question now is whether that fact will cause the book on this matter to be closed as being unprofitable for both sides of the U.S. aristocracy; or, alternatively, which of those two sides will succeed in skewering the other over this matter. At the present stage, the Republican billionaires seem likelier to win if this internal battle between the two teams of billionaires’ political agents continues on. If they do, and Trump wins re-election by having exposed the scandal of the Obama Administration’s having manufactured the fake Russiagate-Trump scandal, then Obama himself could end up being convicted. However, if Trump loses — as is widely expected — then Obama is safe, and Trump will likely be prosecuted on unassociated criminal charges. To be President of the United States is now exceedingly dangerous. Of course, assassination is the bigger danger; but, now, there will also be the danger of imprisonment. A politician’s selling out to billionaires in order to reach the top can become especially risky when billionaires are at war against each other — and not merely against some foreign (‘enemy’) aristocracy. At this stage of American ‘democracy’, the public are irrelevant. But the political battle might be even hotter than ever, without the gloves, than when the public were the gloves.
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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of They’re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010, and of CHRIST’S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity.
There seems to be an unwritten rule that politicians in high office avoid prosecution -they will avoid prosecuting each other.
So I seriously doubt Obomber, Killary or the Trumpster will ever face justice on this planet.
And the oligarchs of the West never criticize one another. There is an unwritten rule that such behaviour is unacceptable and can lead to demotion. Let’s fact it, they are all running monopolies of various sorts and it is very easy to administratively undermine them.
Conjecture
Maybe, maybe not. Time will tell. The point is that the US aristocracy (the people who control the banks, corporations and media) have been at war with Russia since at least 1917, when they financed the Bolshevik Revolution, installing free masons Lenin and Trotsky in power, an act overturned by Stalin in 1924. As the late Lyndon LaRouche has stated, the only thing that will save the US dollar is the break up of Russia and the plunder of Siberia and the Caspian region of Russia.
Donald Trump in his election campaigns stated that he wanted to drain the swamp. History will tell how sincere he was, or if his election campaign was nothing more than a sophisticated psyops, him being controlled by the deep state all the time.
As for Russiagate, the whole thing was nothing more than psychological warfare directed against the US population by the Deep State, the aim being to brainwash the population into believing that Russia was a permanent enemy, the truth being the opposite. There was no Russian hacking of the American electoral process. Even American electronics specialists have openly stated that such a thing was impossible without it being detected, which is the reason why Russia did not do it. However, this was of no importance to the Deep State, the truth never being it’s goal, only disinformation for it’s own interests.
Will the power of the Deep state ever be terminated in the US ? I think that this is virtually impossible, where approximately 50 % of the population is willing to believe everything that is presented by the MSM, controlled by the Deep State. I fear the US will be destroyed internationally and domestically by the greed of the Deep State. As one analyst has recently stated, Trump has already been warned by foreign representatives that the US will face isolation if it does not play ball with other countries on an equal basis.
BF Trump has already admitted in 2016 that “drain the swamp” was just a campaign slogan. He didn’t make it up or even particularly like it. During his “Thank You” tour after the 2016 election Trump said:
Funny how that term caught on, isn’t it? Trump mused during a rally this month [December 2016] in Des Moines, Iowa. I tell everyone, I hated it. Somebody said ‘drain the swamp’ and I said, ‘Oh, that is so hokey. That is so terrible.’
I said, all right, I’ll try it, Trump continued. So like a month ago I said ‘drain the swamp’ and the place went crazy. And I said ‘Whoa, what’s this?’ Then I said it again. And then I start saying it like I meant it, right? And then I started to love it, and the place loved it. Drain the swamp. It’s true. It’s true. Drain the swamp.
Newt Gingrich who served as vice chairman of the Trump transition team confirmed this in December 2016.
I’m told he now just disclaims that. He now says it was cute, but he doesn’t want to use it anymore,
“As the late Lyndon LaRouche has stated…” Many readers here might misunderstand this: LaRouche was advocating radical reform of the U.S.’s economics policies, and thus no desire, less even need to have USSR/Russia be an enemy.
Yet another, related point: The Saker was wrong the other day when he suggested that Reagan’s policy proposal called the “Strategic Defense Initiative” was really a way for the USA to defeat Russia once and for all. Au contraire: it was an acceptance of LaRouche’s proposal to develop “new physical principles” into workable tools, including, but not limited to the making of nuclear intercontinental weapons obsolete. (And thus revolving war-orientation and social pessimism into scientific/moral/strategic optimism. (The political slogan was: “Beam the Bomb!).
Thirdly: about Mueller: his keystone early case was to indict LaRouche on (in layman’s terms) Conspiracy to Defraud political donors in his Presidential campaign. The case was brought in Boston. Many intra-trial judicial rulings went against Mueller. Finally he suffered a huge setback. So Mueller abandoned the case in Boston. Instead he indicted LaRouche on similar charges in Alexandria Virginia. It is crucial to note here reasons for that choice of Mueller’s. Alexandria was and is a very, very close suburb of Washington DC (a couple of hundred yards across the Potomac River), It was and is the home of very, very many bureaucrats and their families. (It is a bit cheaper to live there than in D.C. and only about a 20-minute commute to–for instance–Capitol Hill. No surprise, then, that verdicts were quick (it was called the “rocket docket”) with the government side quickly and routinely winning the cases.
Finally, A Russian scientist–I don’t have his name in mind at the moment–once suggested that the unit of measurement of LaRouche’s concept of Relative Potential Population Density –devised to help measure the physical, mental, and moral health of a society at a place and time–suggested call it {a LA “like amp”–after Ampere) : (for LaRouche, of course).
One of the Guardian Zionazis, Wolffe, today declares that Trump’s lame-brained offer to buy Greenland was another sign that he is controlled by Putin!!!!!! I hesitate to be so ‘antisemitic’ as to conjecture whether Wolffe is bonkers, but if it walks like a duck, squawks like and duck and craps everywhere like a duck…. I searched, in vain, for signs that it was all a very sick joke, a parody of the Russophobe insanity that has the Atlanticist ‘elites’ in its thrall, but no-the lunatic really seems to mean it.
The elephant in the room is the Exceptionals’ and Indispensables’ utterly braindead starting point itself. To wit: ”Our elekschuns are the most important event on the planet and therefore the envy of our rotten adversaries” (or some such garbage). Well, if the Pindos imagine the Russians being impressed by hard-core reactionaries and their political screamfests, then at least the Russians have an ample supply of this in neighbouring Ukraine. No need to swoon at the Pindos’ feet.
Bottom line: The ’Russian meddling’ tripe is 100% based on Pindo Exceptionalism with all its narcissistic rage and imbecilic lying.
The mastodon in the room is that the USA has interfered, intervened and maliciously meddled in the internal affairs of more other countries, including numerous ‘democracies’, than all other states in history put together. And they do it arrogantly and hypocritically, as they do all things, and then have the unspeakable audacity to screech about others interfering in their precious, and highly corrupt, election shams. And not a single presstitute dare mention this humbug, or, one suspects, even notice it.
Absolutely correct. And that, in turn, explains in full the West’s non-stop lies and slanders about the one party system in the USSR and Eastern Europe. It made this meddling appreciably more difficult.
Yeah, Mulga…and they are still at it… trying every trick in the book to expand their empire!
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-08-21/trump-hammers-nasty-greenland-pm-knocks-nato-spending
And the Orange Crested Cockatoo with a vocabulary of the average pre-schooler once again demonstrates his pig ignorance and hypocrisy. He even has the gall to accuse the Danish PM of being “very not nice” in responding to the US offer to buy Greenland!
You could hardly make this s%%$#e up!
Col
Col, The Tangerine Nightmare went ballistic this week. I hear that Pence is manouvering to have him sectioned and fitted for a Presidential strait-jacket. Damn pity! I was just getting to really enjoy Trump taking down the Real Evil Empire, one-handed, so to speak. Mind you, the fires in Brazil and the Hellish scenes from Sao Paolo sort of shout-‘Too late!’
Yeah Mulga
That’s right…I mentioned the word ‘pig’ in my earlier post.
What Trump’s ‘co-author’ Tony Schwartz said about his contribution to the book “The Art of the Deal” springs to mind.
He was later reflecting on what he had actually done…he said he really regretted “putting lipstick on a pig”…oh yeah that’s right…also that the book should be ‘reclassified as fiction”.
Yes, I know “this is very not nice”…but these are not my words…just quoting some interesting stuff you know… that’s all.
Cheers
Col
https://www.latimes.com/books/la-et-jc-art-of-the-deal-fiction-trump-tony-schwartz-20190510-story.html
Yes, Col-I saw a shrink describing how Trump’s father, a monster, hated his son, and Trump’s mother so detested him that she went overseas when Donny had his summer holidays. By thirteen Trump was a bully with an arsenal of switch-blades, so Daddy shipped him off to a Gulag type military school. Etc. I begin to suspect that he will be removed due to madness, but Pence is far more dangerous, in my opinion.
”A politician’s selling out to billionaires in order to reach the top can become especially risky when billionaires are at war against each other — and not merely against some foreign (‘enemy’)”
That’s exactly the striking parallel between Nazi Ukraine and the US with both of them relying heavily on Russophobia as State ideology. Still, the present ’issue’ of ’Russian meddling’ is an example of a really boring, insignificant row because it is a faked, staged piece of propaganda where no real pain and anger are involved. Zionazi fury makes for top class entertainment when the emotions displayed are genuine, like in the case of Crimea, post-Maidan.
It all reminds me of a wonderful quote from the late musician Frank Zappa. “In America elections are a product of the entertainment division of the military industrial complex.” Russiagate is “entertainment” in that sense. However the specific nature of this particular piece of “entertainment” does have the useful effect of showing the masses how little trust they can put in their “entertainers”. The media’s hidden hideously anti-American bias (in the true sense of the term) becomes a feature of the entertainment. That is useful is it not?
Becoming very close to the absurdity as expressed by ELP perhaps
Welcome back, my friends
To the show that never ends
We’re so glad you could attend
Come inside! Come inside
There behind a glass
Stands a real blade of grass
Be careful as you pass
Move along! Move along
Come inside, the show’s about to start
Guaranteed to blow your head apart
Rest assured you’ll get your money’s worth
The greatest show in Heaven, Hell, or Earth
You’ve got to see the show, it’s a dynamo
You’ve got to see the show, it’s rock and roll
Right before your eyes
We’ll pull laughter from the skies
And he laughs until he cries
Then he dies, then he dies
Etc etc
When you’re weary
Feeling hacked
When Russians steal your vote
I can see you’re whacked
I’m on your side
Oh, when Vlad gets rough
And friends just can’t be found
Like a slob from the Waffen SS
I will smear him brown
Like a slob from the Waffen SS
I will beat him down
In the aftermath of Russiagate, I find it extremely unlikely that future US elections will ever be fully trusted. The power of corruption is now absolute. We will never really know who gets elected or how, only that “the little people” will have less to do with it than the monied interests.
The 2000 Presidential election was stolen by the Republicans on the Supreme Court. So much for ‘The Rule of Law’!! The 2004 Presidential election was stolen in Ohio, the 2016 Democratic Presidential Nomination was stolen from Sanders, who was in on the conspiracy, as his roll-over at the Convention showed. All directed and controlled by Putin, of course.
Honestly, I think that as time goes by the behavior of all of these creatures will become more visibly bizarre. I believe that the process has begun, in earnest, which makes it impossible for people to ‘not see’ this fact any longer. This process will continue until it has been undeniably established in the consciousness of people who happen to have eyes that these creatures are all bat shit crazy. Eventually these creatures will destroy themselves or be taken into custody, and brought to trial, for their very real crimes by the nearest rational force that happens to be available at that time.
The ruling US elite are selected for their unquestioning loyalty to the ruling elites, particularly the Zionazis. That removes a percentage of the better types, and, as one observer has declared, the current US Congress contains only two individuals with doctoral level academic qualifications, whereas nearly all Chinese leaders have such qualification. Then they must rule for the elite ONLY, but must be adept at pretending otherwise. They must, therefore, have no conscience. They need to support the MICC so therefore need to be bloodthirsty psychopaths. And then they get their rewards, in sexual perversions like the Epstein operation and scores of others of similar type. Moreover they indulge in much drug and alcohol abuse, thereby addling what brains they do possess. Some of Trump’s closest economic gurus allegedly ‘formerly’ had gigantic cocaine habits, paid for by economic larceny. And they must observe the lunatic partisan hatreds that divide the US society so increasingly hatefully.
I think I meant to say that the ‘ruling US POLITICAL elites’ are selected for their loyalty to the ‘REAL US ruling elites, those of the economic power’, etc.
The hoax is not fully exposed.
No one including you reading this can explain how it is that Obama’s boyfriend Comey struck Hillary down 2 weeks out from election day if Obama was so against Trump. If Obama and his Intel agencies were he’ll bent on preventing Trump from winning the election why would Comey (the very right hand of Obama) destroy Hillary by resurfacing the email scandal two weeks prior to the election.?
Can’t answer that easily, can you.?
Obama was a chooser of Trump over Hillary.
The evidence for that is found in Comey’s actions.
To top it off it was Obama’s people who advised Hillary to focus on the coastal strips because she had the interior states in the bag. Obama misled Hillary.
The Russia hoax was started by Obama, not Hillary.
“purely private privacy interest ”
The Democratic National Committee is actually a private organization.
https://ivn.us/posts/dnc-to-court-we-are-a-private-corporation-with-no-obligation-to-follow-our-rules
Most people don’t realize that.
It is outrageous but true that although political parties are semi-private/semi-public, the national committees that actually run them are private.
At least, this is waht I read in an article that came out sometime around the 2016 election.
The story above confirms this point.
Katherine
I just read the article linked above in full, and it really does bear reading. It is pretty shocking, actually.
E.g.,
From the [court] transcript:
“The party could have favored a candidate. I’ll put it that way. Maybe that’s a better way of answering your Honor’s original question. Even if it were true, that’s the business of the party, and it’s not justiciable.” – DNC attorney Bruce Spiva
“[I]f you had a charity where somebody said, Hey, I’m gonna take this money and use it for a specific purpose, X, and they pocketed it and stole the money, of course that’s different. But here, where you have a party that’s saying, We’re gonna, you know, choose our standard bearer, and we’re gonna follow these general rules of the road, which we are voluntarily deciding, we could have — and we could have voluntarily decided that, Look, we’re gonna go into back rooms like they used to and smoke cigars and pick the candidate that way. That’s not the way it was done. But they could have. And that would have also been their right, and it would drag the Court well into party politics, internal party politics to answer those questions.” – DNC attorney Bruce Spiva
Leaked DNC emails showed that Democratic leaders indeed tried to minimize and undermine Sanders’ campaign, despite organization bylaws that say DNC officials must be neutral in the primary process.”
the DNC claims the right to choose the party’s candidate irrespective of bylaws, voters’ donations or expectations that the whole electoral process will be fair and equitable from beginning to end. In fact, back in teh forties the DNC tried to bar black Americans from participating in its primaries.
Yet another comment on American “democracy.”
IOW, the DNC, which controls the Dem Party, one-half of our “two-party system,” is “owned” by I think about 500 individuals. I sure am glad I piulled out of this organzation. I immed. throw their paper bumpf into the recycling bin.
Katherine
To paraphrase my comment on “Cafe” yesterday (I know, I’m quoting myself, inexcusable) at the end of the day, what the hell does it matter;
or
Elections don’t matter.
When the sheeple finally come to this realization, maybe the billions and billions spent on this charade, this exercise in narcissm, will wind down but i am not at all optimistic that we will ever see this.
It is in your face self denial, pls don’t confuse me with facts, e.g. the farce that was russia gate, continues and continues to be disproven but still, here we go:
https://news.antiwar.com/2019/08/18/us-forms-new-task-force-to-combat-russian-influence/
https://thenationalsentinel.com/2017/09/29/false-no-russia-did-not-hack-election-systems-in-21-states/
Rachel Madcow and the other harridans and male fifth-raters at MSNBC are acting as if NOTHING has changed. Russiagate raves on and on and on, and, as Chomsky observed months ago, it renders the US political system a laughing stock around the world. If it causes war between Russia and the USA we won’t be laughing however, but I doubt that a narcissistic psychopath like Madcow gives a stuff about that.
madcow is a mossad putting us off the scent, trump is actually a Manchurian candidate of Israel (embassy transfer,etc). Acosta cabinet appointment is the giveaway, epsteins videos at work there.
The Manchurian Candidate was hidden from sight, as were the Greeks inside the Trojan Horse. Trump is up front, 100% controlled by Sheldon Adelson and Bibi. Nothing hidden at all. Yet he is still being libeled by the Democratic sayanim and Sabbat Goyim as an ‘antisemite’, but, these days, who is not? Half the Jews in the world are, apparently, ‘self-hating’ ‘antisemites’, let alone any goyim.
“Both the liberal (Democratic) and conservative (Republican) wings of the U.S. aristocracy hate and want to conquer Russia’s Government.”
Full Spectrum Dominance is the stated goal of the US.
It is not only Russia they want to conquer.
The objective of both the US elite and the Zionazi elect is to rule over the entire world, just as their psychopathic ‘God’ ordained. Total and irredeemable Evil.
“It is not only Russia they want to conquer.” However, Russia is the ultimate prize; and not only because it’s the other nuclear superpower, and not only because it has more natural resources, and also more land, than any country in the world, but also because as global warming forces populations northward and since Russia is by far the biggest northern country, increasing percentages of humanity will be living there. It is the land of the future, during what will be (if nuclear war doesn’t destroy the planet before global burnout does) the end-time for this planet’s biosphere. America’s billionaires aspire to control the future; so, they desperately want to grab Russia. This also is why Trump wants Greenland — the other major land-mass in the farthest north. He knows about global burnout, but simply lies about it. He has no desire to delay it but only to control the people, and Greenland is going to become very crowded as life ends on this planet.
Greenland is less of a prize than Trump thinks.
From the sea and air Greenland presents as a ring of mountains surround by a narrow coastal strip. The interior of Greenland is currently uninhabitable due to the kilometers of ice that have accumulated over the bedrock, which itself has been depressed to sea level by the overburden. When the ice melts, the interior will either be a sterile freshwater lake of a salt water bay. Remember, when the ice melts, sea level rises by 25 meters.
After the ice melts and the overburden relief allows the land surface to rebound, there will be earthquakes. Lots and lots of earthquakes. Even if the land surface became available, there is a problem with fertility. Bedrock does not support agriculture.
Mr. Trump would be better advised to seek ways to make the Canadian shield fertile. I suggest he study the beneficial effects of industrial scale vermiculture. Would probably help recover the Amazon, to.
Trump wants Greenland for its rare earth minerals…right now China has a monopoly on them.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/timtreadgold/2019/08/19/trump-might-want-to-buy-greenland-but-his-nemesis-china-is-there-before-him/amp/
” but also because as global warming forces populations northward and since Russia is by far the biggest northern country, increasing percentages of humanity will be living there.”
To me this is maybe the poison pill in the alliance with China.
Lebensraum, anyone?
Drang nach Westen?
I’m sure I’m not the only one wondering about this.
Putin must have figured out how this might play out in the future. Perhaps the Russians will want to populate their vast “Far East” (Russian far east) spaces with Chinese, as a bulwark against some other power trying to move its populations in.
Katherine
If mossad agent rachelmadcow has been banging on about Russia Russia Russia despite…, trump may actually be an israeli Manchurian (embassy transfer,baksheesh of the century annexation, acosta cabinet appointment) entrapped by ehudbarak access to Epstein videos. She has only been putting us goyim off the scent.
Tense Envoirment Shoigu worries about the situation of the western border
https://www.writenaregiven.com/2019/08/tense-environment-shoigu-worries-about-the-situation-on-western-borders.html
Naw! It’s not hopeless.
What’s hopeless is keeping anything with this many moving parts and eyeballs watching……from flying apart
And even if the Orange Wrecking Ball proves unable to construct anything……..a great deal of demolition was absolutely required…and still is.
SO: It’s a LOT more complicated than the weather….which will burn out more brains trying to predict it..(It’s already fried a few here!) ………than it will bikinis on all the world’s beaches…but simply give that Wrecking Ball……a bit more time to get more demolition done, bare minimum……….as long as it is of structures of corruption and treason (and mostly has been so far, despite the alarming smack talk with Kim…which wasn’t so bad in the end….was it??) and not vital infrastructure in any population centers.
Meanwhile is the Keystone murdered…..stolen ….or moved to Guantanamo??
At a minimum THOSE conspiracy theories are gaining more traction …BY FAR! …..LOL….than the Retarded Russiagate Retread ever will and a lot of those Deplorables kind of identify with the unjustly accused .Russia!…a real unforeseen risk for Obama, Anonymous,…… and for you and anyone else that introduces that much unpredictability and convoluted complication into their chess …or political gambits….a lot can go wrong with your plans!
But wait! There’s more!
https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.518649/gov.uscourts.nysd.518649.47.0_1.pdf
Motion to dismiss the Epstein Case by reason “of abatement” is signed by former FBI Director James Comey’s daughter…..Maureen Comey, Assistant United States Attorney, Southern District of New York.
“You just can’t make this stuff up!”
Where’s the body? Where’s the rope or sheet he used?
I know: Don’t even ask. “Nothing to see here…..”
If there are any White Hats and they moved him to Guantanamo………that’ll be a really cool twist to this movie.and I’ll want a closeup of Maureen Comey’s mug when she finds out
If there are none and absolutely all are feuding Black Hats…one big Deep State Empire Free For All…….at least we’ll have plenty of sequels as they destroy each other for many years to come!
Look on the bright side…
That’s what Lyndon always did despite catching the brunt their evil for decades, without EVER succumbing to the corruption of pessimism.
And yet, in a very real sense….it is he who is “winning” through OBOR and other valid ideas (Putin’s push for Fusion..another highly significant sign..that that boon to mankind may no longer be half a century off…..) while the infinitely greater exposure, increasing every day…. of the pure Satanism of his Empire enemies…intensifies in the awareness of millions of new people……..that never heard of him while he was fighting a lot more alone..and breathing …than he is now.
Does it strike anyone as questionable on one plane – and one plane only – that the “Democratic” Primary is never addressed, and that that is what the whole damned thing was actually about?