by Peter Koenig
President Trump may be wondering himself about the miracles and mysteries and confusions he creates. As a megalomaniac, he is the only one who knows everything. His ideas range and flash from right to left, crisscrossing the political spectrum to favor the globalized world – and yet he is largely acting against globalization – and in the ‘interest of people’. That would be great.
He also seeks truth by telling truth; that Obama and Hillary created ISIS and the CIA created Al Qaeda, that 9/11 was not the way the Nine-Eleven Commission says it was, and that the Government lies about statistics. Poverty, unemployment and inflation figures are much higher than those published by the various US statistical offices. He loves BREXIT, congratulating Teresa May for it, and joyfully predicts the end of the European Union and of the Euro. It would be a good thing for the world. But does he mean what he says? – As a megalo he loves to be an Enigma.
The non- intervention policy – as candidate Trump he said he would not intervene in other countries’ affairs. Fair enough. That’s what most of the world wants; that’s what most of the Americans who voted for him want. Yet, Donald Trump, the almighty, along with his chief vassals of Europe, France, Germany and the UK, has just tried imposing new sanctions on Syria, among other deceitful allegations, because of some military commanders’ use of toxic gas attacks. By now, most of the informed world knows that this is a lie and nothing but a UN proven lie – a lie that has been repeated since the beginning of the CIA imposed war on Syria in 2011 to justify ‘regime change’.
Both China and Russia opposed the motion. Mr. Putin went on a news conference saying that sanctions would not be helpful for the new peace negotiations in Geneva. – Of course, not. But that’s precisely what they are supposed to do- undermine the peace process. There are enough ‘outside’ negotiators in Geneva with brainwashed, preconceived ideas that Bashar Al Assad is a mass murderer, having killed ‘hundreds of thousands of his own people’. Literally.
That’s the concept of some of the western negotiators. It is an outright shame that such people are allowed to help negotiate peace – even worse, they claim the right to rewrite Syria’s Constitution for a country without President Assad, who still has 80% of Syrians’ backing. Seriously? – Yes, very seriously. If it wouldn’t be a grave breach on a country’s sovereignty, it would be laughable. Who is sponsoring such nonsense anyway? The western world once again proves without impunity that they have no respect for human and civil rights, for those they consider below their boots. What would those foreigners say who are ‘negotiating’ a new Constitution for Syria, if foreigners were to decide on their own country’s Constitution? – Trump should know better. Is this the same Trump, who pledged non- intervention in foreign lands?
Trump, Netanyahu’s puppet – Or is it the ‘new’ Trump? The even more submissive Trump – submissive to Netanyahu’s Israel? Outranking by far his predecessor. – The little boy Trump we saw during the joint Press Conference with Bibi in Washington last month? – So sad and almost insulting to the American people, witnessing the President of the United States in total adulation of the Zionist-in-Chief. Surely, he may have swayed Trump’s good intentions away from staying out of other peoples’ and countries’ business. – The exceptional nation of the US of A is a sheer vassal of Israel, the Zionist-run 8-million people country in the Middle East, adamant to turn the entire zone into a huge chaos, a zone which they eventually hope to take over from shiny Euphrates to Shiny Nile, much like the Brits did, by killing all the indigenous people in North America to eventually create an empire from Shiny Sea to Shiny Sea? – Not bad. But why would The Donald not know about it? And go along with such atrocities? Who twists his arm? How does one twist the arms of the President of the United States?
Peace with Russia – candidate, as well as President Donald Trump was pledging for a future peaceful relationship with Russia. However, when pressed, he is not a friend of Putin’s and doesn’t know whether he will get along with him. In any case, to deserve a friendly relation with the exceptional nation, Mr. Putin must return Crimea – return to whom? – to Kiev’s Nazi regime? Anybody who hears this must be thinking it’s a joke, or sheer lunacy.
And withdrawing Russian troops from Ukraine? Anybody who says this and propagates it around the world is mad. People who by now haven’t gotten to the truth are insane. Because the truth is everywhere, except in the presstitute. Get away from the presstitute. Crimean people decided by a 97% majority to rejoin Russia, where they were during the past 300 years; and Ukraine – it is by now a little secret that the US Embassy in Kiev, helped by CIA, MI6, NATO and the EU vassal states, instigated the coup in February 2014 against the democratically elected – pro-Russian President Yanukovych. Rather than intervene in Kiev’s Washington and Brussels driven Nazi war against her own people in the Donbass, Putin has explicitly refused the democratically voted demand by the Donbass people also to be reintegrated into Russia. Ukraine for hundreds of years was part of Russia.
Instead, President Putin has initiated the Minsk II Agreement of February 2015. Minsk II was a Russian initiative after Minsk I of September 2014 collapsed, mainly because the warrying parties Kiev and NATO didn’t adhere to the accord. At Minsk II the leaders of Germany and France, Russia and Ukraine’s oligarch President, Poroshenko, shook hands for peace. For the west, this was mere propaganda, as they can say now, that Russia didn’t adhere to the deal. Lie after lie after miserable lie. Mr. Trump, despite his pledges to the contrary – and he said once as much as Obama was responsible for Maidan, the Kiev coup in February 2014 – is back-tracking on his own common sense. Did here too, Netanyahu’s evil wisdom prevail?
Sanctions – Trump was clear during his campaign and in the first days of his Presidency that he didn’t think sanctions were a good idea, especially not applied to Russia. Has he had a change of mind or a twist of arms? – The war industry, of course, does not like the notion of peace with Russia. The President of the United States has nothing to say. Is he a mere marionette of the war and security faction of the Deep State? Naturally, well accompanied by a bunch of stooges from Brussels. Never mind that these sanctions hurt Europe more than they hurt Russia. As Mr. Putin said repeatedly – thanks god for the sanctions. They have helped Russia to become independent again, building her own agriculture and manufacturing capacity – let alone research and development which is already producing cutting edge technology, by far superior to the US-outsourced kind, coming from such low-wage countries like India.
Appointing Nikki Haley Ambassador to the UN – the new mandate for the former Governor of South Carolina, is another ruse that should please Israel. Judging from her first moves in the UN body, Nikki Haley looks not much different from her predecessor, Samantha Power, especially when she flies such lies in the face of the world, like, “It is a sad day on the Security Council when members start making excuses for other member states killing their own people. The world is definitely a more dangerous place,” in response to Russia’s and China’s veto to the new western attempt to impose more sanctions on Syria.
She knows – or should know better. Trump definitely knows better. If he let her get away with this slander propaganda, it’s because he has been told to do so, or wants to bend over backwards to please his friend Bibi, and / or because he himself thinks the UN has become a useless body of bla-bla nations, devoid of any backbone; it should melt away, as it is unreformable in its current structure, like the EU. Both have been hijacked by the world’s Deep State of neocons. It’s time to wake up to this new reality.
Firing Michael Flynn, Mr. Trump’s first choice as National Security Advisor – was a horrible betrayal of a friend and possibly a peacemaker. Did Trump simply follow orders from non-peace-loving Pentagon masters – Deep state warriors? With that unsavvy move the President lost all his respect from people, whose ethics weigh infinitely more than those of the Washington swamp. The no-nonsense strategist Flynn, who was about to seek harmonious relations with Russia, and would defend Trump’s non-intervention policy, is gone. The masters of the Pentagon, the military industrial complex have won. – By firing Flynn, did Trump hand over de facto his Presidency to neocon Vice-president, Mike Pence? Thanks to Pence who created a storm in a water glass about a private citizen talking to the Russian Ambassador, Flynn is out – and Trump has lost his worldwide standing.
NATO is outdated – superfluous – those were the wise words of candidate Trump. He repeated them, somewhat weakened after his inauguration – but not for long. The puppets in Europe were crying big Crocodile Tears; the newly appointed James “Mad Dog” Mattis, true to his name went to Brussels, telling his subjects that there was nothing to worry about; the US would continue protecting Europe with NATO against the evil Russians – but they had to pay up, sharing more of the cost of this expensive, but highly profitable enterprise, the weapons industry. He didn’t tell them the latter part. That was implicit, though. – We can assume that Mattis didn’t go to Brussels on his own initiative, but as the emissary of his boss, the President and Commander-in-Chief of the United States.
Increasing the Defense budget by US$ 54 billion – Trump’s recent announcement, wasn’t exactly a move towards peace. Earlier, within his first couple of weeks in the White House, Trump went to the Pentagon and told the generals to come up within a month with a plan on how to renew the war equipment, including the nuclear arsenal – sort of confirming Obama’s plan to put a trillion dollars into ‘nuclear renewal’ within the next ten years.
None of this smells of peace, or even of promoting harmonious relations with the rest of the world. It has nothing to do with wanting to become a nation of equals. And it goes way beyond simply ‘Making America Great Again’. It rather smacks of perpetuating Washington’s status of the exceptional nation – pure insanity.
Iran Bashing – calling her “The World’s Biggest State Sponsor of Terrorism”, – another outrageous lie destined to spread negative propaganda about Iran, to intimidate other countries from renewing their commercial dealings with Iran. After all, the ‘Nuclear Deal’ promised to abandon sanctions. Yet, Trump just started a new regime of sanctions. Trump also wants to ‘scrap’ or rip apart the 5+1 and Iran (Permanent Security Council Members, plus Germany and Iran) ‘Nuclear Accord’ of January 2016. This may not be easy, as there are more players involved than just the exceptional nation.
Trump and his aids, have been demonizing Iran already during his campaign and reiterated the groundless accusations after his inauguration. – Why? – He knows that there is no substance to back up his claims and that Iran is backed by Russia and China and that a direct confrontation with Iran would mean a clash – nuclear? -with Russia and possibly also with China. Is this a way of getting at Russia (and China) through the back-door? Or is it just one more goody for his Pal, Bibi? – We don’t know yet. But it is not excluded that Israel launches an attack against Iran – supported by Washington, of course. Any intervention by Russia would be considered an aggression on the US.
Truth be told, this appears to be sheer sabre rattling. Nobody dares attacking Iran, which would mean attacking the entire axis of Middle East stability, China-Russia-Iran – and more, attacking the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), of which Iran is now a member. Confronting SCO would be aggressing one half of the world’s population that commands one third of the world’s GDP. That’s heavy stuff. More than a conventional WWIII. From there, nuclear is just an emotional breath away, or a tiny misunderstanding — who wants to risk that? – Least the war industry. Because once the planet is eviscerated, there is no more need for arms. Those few elitists who may survive, have killed their milk cow. Trump should know that. He is a businessman.
Better is eternal chaos – leaving the arms and bankster business booming – reducing at the margin the world population by continuous merciless killing; by armed conflicts; by artificial food shortages; by clandestine sterilizations through GMOs (plus a myriad of deadly diseases potentially implanted in genetically engineered food seeds); by an out-of-bounds pharma-industry, today already responsible for one third of annual deaths, right after cancer and heart failure – all with the goal of leaving more resources for the few. That’s ideal for the empire and those who are in command of the empire. In the meantime, sabre rattling with nuclear warheads is an excellent tool for intimidation. Scared people are much more submissive.
And on the domestic front….
The wall on the Mexican border – a promise, Trump seems adamant to keep. Has he been told how many particularly southwestern US businesses he would kill? Agriculture, hospitality and tourism, small businesses depend on illegal workers. They all do work Americans don’t want to do. So, there is no immediate alternative. Did Trump think this over?
Forced evictions of illegal immigrants from their often longtime homes in the US, fall in the same inhuman category. The trained brutes of US police enjoy this ‘new freedom’ to use force tremendously. A more generous, more civil and more human – and for both sides more beneficiary move would be granting all illegals with no criminal records – at least 97% – amnesty, with work visas or immigration status, depending on their situations.
But The Wall has become so abjectly popular among the non-thinking US rednecks that there seems to be no crawling back. Or is there, Mr. Trump? – Like coming to reason?
Renegotiating NAFTA – or abolish this nefarious trade deal altogether – yes, but done professionally. That should in the long run please both Mexico and Canada, as both of these countries have lost enormously for signing on the 1992 Clinton- imposed dotted line. Mexico alone lost 1.3 million farm jobs, as the US 2002 Farm Bill subsidized US agribusiness by as much as 40% of net farm income, thereby driving countless Mexican farmers into ruin. – So, renegotiating NAFTA would be welcome by Mexico and Canada, but surely that’s not the way Trump sees it. – Or has he or some of his economic advisors told him what is really at stake?
Bringing back jobs and Making America Great Again – the Trump slogan of the year. Probably coined by some members of the Deep State, to emulate Obama’s ‘Yes we Can’ – just coming through other lips, is nothing but the same trick – but with the naked emperor wearing differently shaded clothes. If Trump can pull this through – it would be truly amazing, a true feather in his hat. Of course, it doesn’t happen overnight, and it requires thorough planning. Just giving homecoming corporations tax breaks is not the solution. Analysts say it would take at least 20 years to build up a job base, mainly in the rust belt, that could rival what was there before the big exodus to cheap labor countries in the late 80s and 90s.
Not only would it help bring back job sovereignty to the US, it would be a tremendous blow to globalization; this evil structure created by the neocons and their institutions, FED, IMF, World Bank at the Washington Consensus Conference at the end of the 1980s. Globalization has had nothing but devastating effects for the large majority of the world population. This would clearly be an unparalleled trump in Trump’s basket. He seems to be serious, as he congratulated the British PM to BREXIT and doesn’t believe in the long-term survival of the European Union and the single currency, the Euro. And he is right.
Canceling the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement – and possibly also the highly controversial TTIP (Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership) deal – would be a tremendous achievement for Trump. The people of Europe and of the 11 Pacific Countries might be forever thankful to Trump for his genius move. Never mind that he believes they would have been bad for the US of A. Let him. A good deed to the world, so anathema to his other business- oriented discourse. Here’s to the enigma Trump!
Trade war with China – may it be Trump’s soft version of Obama’s South China Sea aggression? He already announced a 45% import tax for anything coming from China that could be made in the US of A. Of course, this is first meant as an incentive for all the US corporations who outsourced their manufacturing to bring them back home. But, he thinks, by the way it would hurt China as a rising star on the world economic horizon. It hardly would. Especially not in the long-run. More hurt would be the United States if China were to retaliate.
As of the end of 2016 Chinese foreign direct investments (FDI) since 2005 in the US cumulatively amounted to 109 billion dollars, a mere10% of all of China’s FDI, worldwide. But, they are accelerating. China’s FDIs in the US in 2016 with 45.6 billion were about triple those of 2015. This compares with about 644 billion dollars of US FDI in China over the past 15 years. Punishing China with steep import taxes is about as effective as ‘sanctioning’ Russia – namely almost nil. China has huge investments in Asia, in her principal export market. This is one area where Obama wanted to interfere with his pivot to Asia. The other one, of course is militarily, by stationing about two thirds of the US Naval Fleet in the South China Sea. They won’t be twiddling thumbs for long.
Let’s see what the twittering Trump does. Will he get the license to play business with China? Or will the Deep State of the Pentagon-Security clan get the best of him – through an arm-twisting provocation in the South China Sea?
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Trump, the enigma. These are just a few of the bountiful contradictions and controversies of the new Trump Administration. If he manages to stop Globalization, the nefarious trade deals set up under Obama, bringing back the work force to the US, rehabilitating his country’s decaying infrastructure and bringing back security to the common citizen, plus decent health care and education – and foremost, keeping wars at bay, then he has achieved more for the US and the rest of the world than any of his predecessors for the last 100-plus years. – To be fair, The Donald, less than 50 days in office, deserves the benefit of the doubt, as anybody would who dares oppose and attack the “fake news” lie culture of western media.
Peter Koenig is an economist and geopolitical analyst. He is also a former World Bank staff and worked extensively around the world in the fields of environment and water resources. He lectures at universities in the US, Europe and South America. He writes regularly for Global Research, ICH, RT, Sputnik, PressTV, The 4th Media, TeleSUR, TruePublica, The Vineyard of The Saker Blog, and other internet sites. He is the author of Implosion – An Economic Thriller about War, Environmental Destruction and Corporate Greed – fiction based on facts and on 30 years of World Bank experience around the globe. He is also a co-author of The World Order and Revolution! – Essays from the Resistance.
The Arc of History does not believe in tears. As one period of history ends and another succeeds it it is natural that the systems which formerly functioned properly become in-operative. As such a period begins it is manifest as formerly efficient institutions becoming chaotic and therefore corrupt – and beginning to loot the public weal.
This is to say that the US is well into collapse. He knows that – made it plain. He said what he’s trying to do – save the country. He needs to stay focused and avoid contradictions so characteristic of chaotic times.
Trump is a heroic figure of his time, but he cannot control the Fates. These dictate. And they permit Trump to salvage some from the wreckage of the US. They permit him to try.
His foreign policy must align with his domestic policy – and that must address employment and domestic production – and that requires overall modernization and repair of infrastructure…
Any other effort he may muster will fail, as it cannot align. He must stabilize the society with work and goods they can afford….otherwise. war and the abyss.
Trump is no enigma. He is a very visible product of a fundamentally flawed society that values appearance over substance, quick-retort verbal bullying over careful thought dialogue and the ability to cynically amass wealth over real knowledge, empathy and understanding. He has zero critical thinking skills and covers it with erratic grandstanding and a cult of personality.
This is why he is flailing all over the domestic and geopolitical spectrum.
He thinks he “knows” and knows who “knows”, because in the past all that was required in his corporate dictatorship was that he displayed the confidence of a snake oil salesman (ya got trouble right here in River City) combined with the wealth/power to intimidate or eliminate any who disagreed with him.
In Obama and Bush the Second, the international Rothchild/Bilderberg Deep State had puppets they could easily control, either by simple misdirection (Bush) or barely veiled threats and future financial incentives… or ruin (Obama, that $60million book deal didn’t magically appear on its own). Trump is as simple/stupid as Bush and cannot be threatened/led like Obama.
And Trump is where he is by the massive miscalculation of the power-brokers thinking Trump was the easiest GOP candidate for Clinton to defeat. Sanders would have thrashed Trump by the widest margin seen in modern US elections, but even Bernie’s milquetoast “socialism” was a step to far for a Deep State that saw a Clintonesque shortcut to a covertly installed New World Order.
So simply, Trump has no idea what he’s doing, and doesn’t really care who actually gets hurt by his “pen and phone” autocratic behaviour. Getting elected is a far different game than actually running a gov’t “by and for the people”.
@nice try
I think there is something you are missing here. It is this : that any reasonably intelligent 12-year-old can explain what the Constitution says and means. The chasm between this and the “interpretation” the corporate state has imposed on it by fiat is the issue in a nutshell.
You think that devious sophistication is required. Andrew Jackson showed you that it is not — only the ability to identify the core problems and address them effectively. By force if necessary.
@ talks to cats: Still trying to play parent eh? Any 12 year old can see that ploy as the damp squib it is in an intelligent environment like the Saker comments.
Obviously you are mainly referring to my reply to Active Patriot below, and so why did you not post this reply there? Could it be to fill the thread with noise so readers would be more likely to not scroll down to that other post? Not my first time at a comment rodeo…
In any case, the above post neither refers to the Constitution (except obliquely, by and for the people) nor any devious sophistication regarding Trump. Andrew Jackson, you’re actually comparing Trump to Andrew Jackson? Maybe to Michael Jackson… rich?-check, loves attention?-check, is completely self-absorbed, vain to a fault?-check, has a tenuous grip on reality?-check, easily manipulated by those he trusts?-check… I’d say we have a winner! Nice revisionist take on A. Jackson tho’, actually slave owner, Native American genocidist, patronage position dispenser.
Sophistication, devious or otherwise I plainly say Trump does not have. He is a simple corporate brute, who would never have succeeded but for the fortune he inherited and his unparalleled ability to play the “bullshit baffles brains” game. Great attributes for winning elections, terrible attributes for running a country. He couldn’t identify a presidential-level domestic or foreign policy “core problem” if it bit him on the ass, let alone formulate any means to “address” same. If nothing else, the post inauguration flailing shows that in spades.
He has completely missed the “core problem” that all his cabinet picks are either warmonger has-been generals (the only difference being where they’d bomb/invade first) and Wall Street/ex-Goldman lackeys. And his means to “address” it is to fold to the least bit of pressure from the election sore losers (in both parties) and the spy-spooks. As bad as his top picks may have been, if Trump wants to make it clear that HE runs the executive branch and is Commander-in-Chief, then why is he not starting the mass firings at the level immediately below those he chose to head those operations. Would only take a few examples of the current traitorous “leakers” ending up in jail for a decade or two to smarten up the rest.
Trump is only experiencing the prelude to having to go toe-to-toe with the real geopolitical giants… Putin and Xi. Putin and Xi have studiously stayed out of Trump’s way hoping he’d figure out which way was up… alas that is looking less and less likely. But if Pence gets to hear “Hail to the Chief” played for him (or would that be Hail to the Thief” ?), and decides to make WW3 his legacy, y’all better put your heads between your legs and kiss your ass good bye.
Parenting impulse nearly nonexistent.
Knee jerk reality check definitely involved.
Spare me the amateur psychoanalysis, OK ?
Working in state prisons for 2 decades, I got to know any number of people pretty well who, although their formal education effectively stopped around third grade and their newspaper articles/TV-based “knowledge” of the world beyond the mean streets was near zero, were Donald Trumps of the criminal underworld — experts at recruiting and managing people into formidably lucrative empires. And this despite IQs noticeably short of 100. These were men who saw opportunities, understood complex situations, devised/implemented brilliantly effective strategies and got results. Decisive risk-takers with initiative and guts.
I’d hire any one of these men (if they ever got out) for the same reason Trump recruits billionaires — street smarts over bullsh*t every time, whether those are Mean Street or Wall Street.
Bullsh*t staffs bureaucracies — paper pushers are a dime a dozen. The last 30 years show you exactly what kind of results they produce. Poster Children = Barak Obama & Hillary Clinton. Your faith in that mentality is touching, but it’s a worthless orientation for the task at hand.
A career in the bureaucracy is 30 years of playing “Survivor.” For bold initiative and effecting genuine change you want a George Patton. A Douglas McArthur. Or a Donald Trump. Disparaging him because he doesn’t fit the public persona profile you’re used to and assume is necessary is the kind of MSM echo chambering that’s already in oversupply elsewhere.
Andrew Jackson II is exactly what the times call for. Or (with reservations) an Abraham Lincoln (who suspended habeas corpus and jailed defiant opposition demagogues). Nonentity presidents are what settled times call for — that’s why we have long, unbroken strings of them — nobody wants anything disturbed. Radical reform requires a radical-in-chief : someone with a radically different mentality and skill set. I would add : and a functional set of stones.
(simply a soft suggestion to posters…sarcasm tends to undermine communication value of posts, as does vulgarity. Sometimes it may be difficult to avoid, but, well, real idlectic and dialogue require it. Please everyone, be just a bit more polite…please!)
Very sharp comment, liked especially the first part. For me it seems like the West is simply going up in the seams.
When the MSM is going so far down in the mud with disgusting manipulation techniques, and Western leaders so desperately openly lie, cheat and murder, it looks like a company before receivership.
UN has no legacy, EU is an office joke, US is indebted and show corrupt rotten incompetency in everything they do.
Western leaders are on the defensive, losing their masks and in quarrel over constantly failed policies.
Trump´s weird appointments, filling up the swamp with Fallujah massacre Generals and Wall Street Hitman darlings, looks like he is showing US biggest biceps to convince the world by appearance that USA is still the greatest.
What an ugly ugly face behind the Western human right masks.
I imagine you misunderstand my remark above – as I only said what he must do, and that he may try to save the country. May. Try.
It’s long odds. It’s chaos. The end of a period of history and the beginning of another – this ending period is attended by, of course, the end of empires and the formation of new empires. Trump mist try, but he’ll probably fail – that’s what heroic figures in history and in mythic history do – they challenge the gods and sacrifice themselves to change history.
Domestic ephemera such as what’s sometimes called “politics” is irrelevant to the arc of history – indeed it is the product, not the cause, of “politics”.
The anglosaxon “economic model” now called “globalisation” is nothing more than the most recent iteration of the European diaspora coming to dominate, briefly and imperfectly, the world. This relationship of master class and subject class has become non-functional due to a combination of immutable situational forces. It failed. It’s over.
Trump’s the systemic cultural “chosen by Fate” Hero – whose job is salvage. Abandon the Empire that can’t work anymore… If he can accomplish that while preventing civil war he’ll have done well and his Fates will have smiled. I shall wait for the film.
If he fails there will be a war with the “Earth”. (read MacKinder and Jevon’s to understand). He’ll probably fail. That’s, I bet (!) what Comrade P was thinking about yesterday fishing in Siberia…
To many of us, “stopping globalization”, which Peter lists as a good thing, would mean repatriating a high percentage of the tens of millions of illegal immigrants. They are the vanguard of globalization. Obviously, immigration has been weaponized by those very same Anglo-American elitists that this web site regularly attacks. The presence of these folks also makes it impossible for low-skilled workers to get integrated into society – besides being a massive subsidy to specific industries that shouldn’t receive any help. Why should Silicon Valley get massive subsidies to lay off native workers? What is the point in making it so inner-city youth can never get an entry job? There is always a serf/slave who can do the job for less.
More broadly, though, his enigmas are not as hard to understand if you realize that Trump is a dealmaker. You ask for a 45% tariff on Chinese goods and then compromise on 10%. You threaten them over the South China Sea so that a compromise is that they agree to stop building new islands. It isn’t rocket science, nor is it really an enigma.
I don’t think Peter Koenig is thinking what you say Paul 2 — I’m sure he’s talking ‘financial globalization.
There’s a difference – people should actually be able to live where they want to in the world. But if the finance of all sovereign countries was protected and properly distributed among the inhabitants of that country, the illegal migrants wouldn’t even exist –
This is of course assuming that illegal war has already been ended = we’re a long way from this vision, but we will have to go down the long road to get there. Its a long and winding road with many problems…probably will take a thousand years…but humanity has started on this road…not all – ever – but many.
Ann,
We all know that he is talking about “financial globalization” – and I am pointing out the obvious that globalization is a weapon on many fronts. Liberals, conservatives, and others of all stripes need to consider that you can’t pick and choose so much about which parts of the Anglo-American Empire you like and want to keep. That is like saying you supported blowing up Libya but not Syria. Or the TPP is good because it threatens China, but the TTIP is bad.
So, no, people should actually be able to live where they want in the world is not OK. They should be able to live where they want if the other country, in a reasonably unpressured manner says it is in their interest. The only realistic alternative to globalization is the nation-state. There is no libertarian or liberal or conservative or populist alternative at the moment. We can work towards that, but it takes brute force to oppose the globalist cartel, and the nation-state is the only thing with that kind of muscle for the time being.
– people should actually be able to live where they want to in the world. But if the finance of all sovereign countries was protected and properly distributed among the inhabitants of that country, the illegal migrants wouldn’t even exist –
Been waiting for such comment here on The Saker for longtime. Since I was sick of reading comments such as Europe being invaded by third world countries
Paul: To add to your comments. Trump is a businessman, a real estate developer and hotel magnate. As such, he values political stability, safety for property and people occupying the properties, and security above all else to preserve the value of his property and good reputation. In his presidential office, he views the US as property and occupants in the same way – safety, stability, and security. His vision of the world is actually quite simple to understand.
Yes, Putin will return Crimea to kiev as soon as the americans return guantanamo to the Cubans, return Texas to the Mexicans, 19% of the Okinawa island to the Japanese (that ´s the portion taken by the base).
And what about the Gibraltar rocks? They fit no purpose for old britain – because the outdated Brit pirates neither serve a purpose anylonger.
Tell the Brits to return them immly to the spaniards – in this case a mere telephone call to friend and vassal theresa May would suffice.
And the Maldives to Argentina, and more important, Diego Garcia to the rightful inhabitants.
And the rest of the nearly 1,000 US military bases and black prisons world-wide.
The good “In (the Christian) God We Trust” US should take the log out of their own eye before coming after the sliver in Russia’s or China’s.
Augusto. Agree partially to your comment. It is not possible to equate Crime to Texas, Guantanamo, etc, since Crimea has been since ages inhabited by Russians so Crimea is now right back where it belongs. I even think that Donbas, Luhansk, Mariupol even Odessa should go back to Russia.
It has become apparent to me that trying to analyze Trump on a day-to-day basis–focusing on this comment or that, this action or that–is counter-productive, leading only to confusion and pendulum swings in opinion and judgment. I’ve certainly been guilty of this myself. Trump is mercurial, moving back and forth between impulsive tweets and more measured messages. Some of what he says seems new and promising; some old and disheartening. It will take at least several months to accurately assess whether he represents a resurgent nationalism with genuine populist elements, or whether he merely pays lip service to the desperate plight of ordinary people in the vice grip of global neoliberal capitalism. My suggestion is that we suspend our ultimate judgments on this enigmatic leader of the free (to pursue profit) world until (1) he gets his feet more firmly on the ground, and (2) that the ground upon which he stands is more clearly defined. Daily commentary, which, of course, is required of journalists, should concentrate on individual pieces of the puzzle instead of rushing to predict the big picture in the early stages of formation. With only a few pieces joined together, one can only guess at what the big picture will turn out to be.
Sorry no, Trump is just fulfilling the old saw, “when in danger, when in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout”.
I also took that “wait and see” approach after “Sunny Ways” Trudeau began to show early signs of being another corporate-shill Deep State-puppet. And sure enough, after the media spotlight shifted off the Selfie Princeling’s election promises, he fell right in line. Signing off on exactly the same Harperite Conservative policies… not new policies, the SAME ones as Harper was defeated on. Pipelines, trade agreements (including arms/vehicles to Saudi Arabia), military misadventures on US orders (1,000 troops and many planes on Russia’s doorstep, 200 “advisers” to help the Kiev junta shell Donbass), playing US-yappy-lap-dog-demonizing Putin/Russia… cancelling electoral reform, a scummy move indeed… soon to be followed by refusing to legalize recreational pot because Trumpy’s dumbass AG Sessions says good people don’t smoke pot.
Not only has Trump not begun to drain the swamp, he went back to the Dinosaur Age to find cabinet picks to fill it. And considering Washington is built on a former, actual swamp, not much has changed.
“The Body Count Grows: Covert War is Being Waged Against Russia. But if Russia speak-out, it would mean al-out war. What can be done?” (RI). “For more extraordinary is how constrained Russia’s response has been.” That’s the way to do it, Russian’s way. Give some stupid excuses: “heart attack”, “engine misfunction”, etc. Just don’t be “smart” like Habsburgs after assassination of the duke Ferdinand in Sarayevo. Let more Ruskis die and save the World.
Evil Empire will never stop to kill Ruskis as many they want. That’s their lot, duraks. 20 mil. dead in WW2, 60+ mil. murdered by Jews in Soviet Union so few more isnot a big deal. They get used to it. They lives are cheap. Putin know that so he stays cool.
“We’d already be at war if a Gringo diplomat had dropped dead in Moscow.” Very true. Nobody can mess-up with Evil Empire. They take good care for their own. That’s the difference.
Looking for good article from Saker, how wise is Mr. Putin. Just cannot miss the laughter from CIA’s HQs.
Excellent, fair and sobering report on Trump’s progress so far. I think it will indeed be three steps forward, two back for a long time to come. How long did it take for Putin to become solidly the man of the people, or even Assad? I think both men came out of corrupt regimes and had much to overcome. I’m no expert but it did seem as if there were many regrets when the Communists were replaced in Russia – replaced by what?
It could be said that Yeltsin was a disaster, and at the worst, Trump may be also. Certainly both were and are now susceptible to capitalism’s worst aspects, but at the same time they were not their predecessors and perhaps they paved the way for the leadership to come. Trump may have a very hazy and flawed idea of what makes America ‘great’, but many of those who held their noses and voted for him do – it would be the same sort of idea that Putin has about Russia, which goes back to founding ideals for every democracy.
I was saddened by so much pretense in the speech Trump gave to Congress. There is little to build on in that speech – any president could have given it. It sounded very false to me, nor was there anything new in it. I think that is a danger for Trump. The more he says the same things he said in the campaign, the less hope and trust he will accrue, and he does need to accrue that. But I’m bearing in mind that he was speaking to a bunch of charlatans in the main. Maybe that’s why he didn’t dare say anything beyond what they had already been accustomed to hearing.
Maybe it was the sort of speech Putin or Assad would have made at the beginning of their statesmanship path. Others would know better than me. And at least, Putin does.
Hi Peter, sad but true. the Bernie Sanders’ retort to the latest Presidential speech was good…too bad Bernie Sanders isn’t the president now. But he too, is an enigma.
Pathetic.
Here’s Bernie’s 15 minutes of talking about the disappointment that is Trump
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eK-5ivYb3o
Bernie has actually been quite busy. I’m guessing he’s in Hillary’s pocket…just like Trump is in Netyanhoo.
Money money money – this isn’t exactly the right song – except if you think that Trump is still chasing money even though he’s a billionaire. I suppose it was naive to think that he would not be a money hungry meglomaniac. I suppose Alex Jones and all those alt-news guys that pushed Trump non-stop and still are – are in his pocket.
https://youtu.be/uP0sC_s5EfE
When its all said and done, for the world at large he was the best of a bad bunch. The simple fact that he slipped through the Globalist’s fingers is its own miracle.
My ignorant “redneck” opinion for the readers to digest…
We are either a nation of laws or we are not. You can’t pick and choose what laws you want to follow or not claiming that controlling immigration is “inhumane”.
Just because there are “jobs Americans don’t want to do”, you think that is justification to turn a blind eye to our nations immigration laws? There are practical approaches to this issue which get buried by special interests. The fact is, companies like employing illegal immigrants because when they exploit them, the illegal immigrant has little recourse under our legal system which is intended for American citizens. The practical solution is a modernized work visa system which would include company sponsorship of visa and the company having to prove the case that they put a public job offer out at the same pay/benefits and American citizens did not apply. That same job at that same pay (not a penny less) could then be offered to a non-citizen visa holder.
“Amnesty” – No, not really. Work visa eligibility if applied within 120 days, after that if you did not apply for visa you are out. Criminal record, you are out. No verifiable employer of head of household, you are out.
MAGA – Everything is always buried in the macro picture of large corporations. Small business (private/nonfarm) makes up about 46% of GDP. Small business has been killed by outsourcing. Yes, large corporations would take years to tool up factories again. Small business manufacturing could go from concept to finished product in a year or 2 and be competitive with an administration that isn’t a total traitor to Americans like the last 3 administrations have been. China was handed our manufacturing, they did not earn it. Our leadership gave it to them at the expense of Americans so they could squeeze out a little more profit.
Globalism is bullshit. Local manufacturing can be competitive on an equal playing field and is better for the environment. Also, large companies have no interest in building a product that lasts anymore, that would hurt their sales. I have a 1949 Ford 8N tractor. Beat to hell and hasn’t been rebuilt yet. You won’t find a Chinese tractor that could match half it’s lifespan. With modern materials/design capabilities, refrigerators/stoves/washing machines etc… should be built to last 30 years. That would be good for the environment right? Bad for Big Co. sales though. But smart small businesses would come in and make these and be more than happy with their 4-5% market share and you would see those cases grow and grow.
15 of the largest container ships put out more hazardous emissions than all of the worlds automobiles combined. But you don’t hear liberals and the green snobs pushing against manufacturing everything in China and shipping it to the U.S.
Source: http://www.enfos.com/blog/2015/06/23/behemoths-of-emission-how-a-container-ship-can-out-pollute-50-million-cars/
Trade war with China:
I sure do hope so. Do we really need their cheap, garbage design/garbage materials? If they designed to our standards and had our materials/quality controls they would not be much cheaper. Manufacturing cost is not all about cheap labor.
I had not know that ignorant “redneck” opinions were so good. Maybe you are a fellow deplorable?
The bottom line, traditionally, is people think there is something wrong with a law or regulation, the it should be changed, not ignored, and especially not let it be ignored by those who have wealth or power.
I can support more or less open immigration, but then those who come in have to have the same basic rights as those here so they can’t be enslaved or exploited (which should apply to all American.s of course) — but the hat trick is to also stop making war on other countries and using unfair tactics such as subsidies to drive the economies down and workers out of the countries the immigrants are coming from (who would rather sty home if it were possible to live there).
Blue,
Thanks, being considered a fellow Deplorable is a compliment.
Exactly on point there, rule of law shoulr be followed not ignored. We have processes in place to change laws to adjust to changing times and public needs/desires. Ignoring laws must no longer be an option. Applying the laws equally to all must also be enforced as well.
Regarding war on other countries (whether economic, covert or overt military actions) the solution to this also exists within our current laws which must be enforced. Only congress has the authority to declare war. “War” should be defined further to include economic and covert actions. CIA actions in Ukraine and Syria are illegal currently. Congress needs to vote openly to approve or disapprove these actions for the country and the world to see. How many of our congressmen would openly vote for a coup in Ukraine or to support ISIS to destabilize Assad’s legitimate government? We all know what piece or garbage McCain is. Put it in his voters face that voting for him is voting to support ISIS.
I guess we’ll see what Trump turns out to be. To me, he is an “Atlas Shrugged” capitalist who has no love for the government leaches and that is a decent start. A lot of people are writing him off way too soon. He’s a sharp guy but an outsider who is going to suffer a few defeats until he really gets up to speed on the game.
Yes, in general. But any time you make obeying the law an all-or-nothing proposition, you are establishing tyranny.
One familiar example : Fugitive Slave Laws. Even though northern courts might order compliance with them, people refused, making them dead letters. Another would be Andrew Jackson defying the Supreme Court over the removal of Native Americans to Oklahoma Territory : “Mr. Taney has made his decision. Now, let him enforce it.”
My favorite is Shenandoah, Pa. during the Prohibition era. Anthracite miners liked their beer after work and saw no reason to stop drinking it just because the Temperance lobby had gotten the 21st Amendment enacted. With the result that the local brewery continued to operate openly. Eventually this became annoying enough to the feds that J. Edgar Hoover dispatched the FBI to shut it down.
When they arrived and announced what they were there for at the brewery, the local sheriff arrested them for trespassing and kept them in jail until the brewery equipment was dismantled and moved to another location they didn’t have a warrant for. Not seeing any good reason to provoke a fight they would not win, the feds dropped the matter.
“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is it’s natural manure.” — Thomas Jefferson
Authentic history is the antidote to mind control by the state : “The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.” — George Orwell
“Stories make a place. Without stories there is no place, but without place there can still be stories. If your stories are not organically grown, but imposed on you by those who hate everything about you, then you’re virtually dead.” — Linh Dinh (essay “Ashland, Pa.”)
Well I hope your message falls on deaf ears here. The problem with the claim of the US being a “nation of laws” is that the laws were/are skewed to protect the interests and position of the 0.001%.
“We the people” originally meant “we, the white, wealthy land owning, correctly politically connected men”. Only 150 years later where women, non-whites and the poor grudgingly allowed to participate in the US “democracy”. But by the 1900’s, as Twain said, “If voting made any difference, they wouldn’t let us do it.”
It would take 2 World Wars and a Depression for the post-Golden Age keepers of the cashbox to realize they overstepped. I would have like to be a fly on the wall at post WW2 union negotiations, where the big business managers realized they were sitting across from men hardened by deprivation and war. Men who killed and saw their comrades in arms die for an idea… the idea laid out in the Constitution and Bill of Rights. These men of war would not be denied, and were well educated enough to organize themselves to insurrection if that was required. This was no Bonus Army, they undestood their 2nd Amendment very well and had the ability to remove a corrupt regin=me in a short period. And the US military of that time would not have stood in their way. So the corporate/political carpetbaggers gave in for a couple decades until those who fought were older and certain the Constitutional idea and a chicken in every pot car in every garage was forever secured. Then in the 1970’s the covert erosion of the working man’s gains were begun, to the incremental result we see now. So don’t blame the people of other countries for accepting what traitorous US corporations offered in offshoring. Blame yourselves for being lulled to sleep by bread and circuses.
And who buys the goods loaded onto those container ships? US citizens. And what business interests off-shored all the production/jobs that formerly produced those types of goods in the US? Your own US corporations, run by homegrown scum like the Rockefellers, Kochs, Waltons, Vanderbilts, Fords and johnny-come-latelies like Jobs and Gates. Who builds cars in Mexico? Ford, GM, Chrysler, so why wouldn’t the “import” makers?
The misery so many “illegal” migrants seek to escape is most properly laid at the feet of deliberate US Imperialist corporate warmonger policy. You think Manifest Destiny ended when WW1 broke out? Have you never heard of the United Fruit Company?
The hypocrisy of ignoring the consequences of your country’s inability to recognize and respect for other countries and their citizens what you demand for yourself is breathtaking. To rebut George W. Stupid, they don’t hate you because of your freedoms, they hate you because you deny them the freedoms you demand for yourself. And kill and destroy indiscriminately while claiming some exceptional moral basis for it.
US citizens should be very afraid of the endless warmongering of their leaders… all other world wars were fought everywhere but the Americas. WW3 WILL bring death and destruction to the US mainland. Don’t say you weren’t warned.
I wrote practically the same thing on another website, nice try. Thanks for saving me the bother of cutting and pasting it here. Looks like you are another fellow Canuck like Ann.
“We the people” originally meant “we, the white, wealthy land owning, correctly politically connected men”. Only 150 years later where women, non-whites and the poor grudgingly allowed to participate in the US “democracy . . . It would take 2 World Wars and a Depression for the post-Golden Age keepers of the cashbox to realize they overstepped. I would have like to be a fly on the wall at post WW2 union negotiations, where the big business managers realized they were sitting across from men hardened by deprivation and war”
Kindly spare us the doctrinarian socialist revisionist history. The industrialist cartels in places like Pittsburgh deliberately and systematically recruited immigrant labor from Italy, Austria-Hungary, and across eastern Europe to Russia. Their aim was to create such a mass of ethnic minorities that they would be unlikely ever to combine into labor unions effective enough to demand decent wages (native Americans did, and wouldn’t work in the mines and mills for subsistence-level wages).
You are, as always, entitled to your own opinions. But not to your own “facts.”
Ignorant is the word. You seem to have a hatred of China because of what the US has done to itself.
In importing tooling in a small way I tested Chinese products against the same American products both produced to the same ISO standards. Chinese quality was the same or better. Quality control over the years I have been buying Chinese has been excellent. The tooling is one tenth the price of US product.
As far as globalism goes, every country should protect their own manufacturing, but your rant is why the US needs to be shoved back into the hole it crawled out of. Trying to pass your own problems onto someone else.
Trump is right to get manufacturing back into the US. It is what the leader of any nation should do.
But I see the a…. is trying to do it with aircraft carriers. So much for negotiation. Hope China gets to use those US aircraft carriers as diving spots in the future.
This stark juxtaposition of the statement that ” We are either a nation of laws or we are not. You can’t pick and choose what laws you want to follow or not claiming that controlling immigration is “inhumane”.” ” given above seems to assume that the US is governed by law.
Alas, reasoning from false assumptions seldom, and then only accidentally, yields a valid conclusion.
I should have thought that everyone knew that the US, while it absolutely has and makes laws on a vast scale, does not follow that law. It is not a nation of law,
It is a State “captured” by transnational globalist brigands. A satrapy in revolt.
Anybody whose even been touched by “law” in the US knows what it was – raw force driven by political expediency. Going to court yield results according to class interests, not law. Most lawyers with any experience know that “court’s political”, whatever the fairy-tales may claim.
It may be a common “red-neck” assumption that courts follow law, not class. If so, then this is an indication of the power of cryptofascist propaganda.
If dear Pres Trump is an enigma you have to explain what is the difference between his USA and any USA that has gone before. Where is the difference between the political parties, both major parties are Might-is-Right, as is US business, finance, military, intelligence(?) and allies(eg:Israel&Saudi)….Trump is an American businessman. The USA is a corporation first.
Where is fair negotiation with lesser people businesses and countries (and indeed a helpless environment) that Putin’s Russia is apparently offering…..So therefore why is Putin so hated?….it explains itself.
Any attempt at offering a different way is confused by enigmas that aren’t and quickly put down using varying degrees of force.
They all do work Americans don’t want to do. So, there is no immediate alternative. Did Trump think this over?
I have heard this nonsense everywhere, even in Australia, for decades.
It is not true. I suspect that they do work that Peter Koenig has no interest in doing, but it should really be stated as “they do work for crappy wages that Americans are not happy with”.
In essence, this is one of the main tenets of Globalization. Flood western countries with immigrants to force down wages. Then, with all the crap jobs filled by immigrants, anyone can smugly declare that they “do work Americans don’t want to do”.
So who doesn’t believe in the free market? I suggest that without these immigrants, the alternative is obvious and immediate. Higher wages.
Did Peter Koenig think this over?
Saker: you really are a one-man crusade for Truth.
This article should be compulsory reading by all UN members and be all MPs in all Atlantacist parliaments.
Thank you for contributing some sanity to this world, and allowing a fellowship of,like minds to build here at your blog.
No sign yet that Trump has given up or tempered the main pillars of US hegemony- Full Spectrum dominance, exceptionalism, Bretton Woods global finance model.
Until this happens it is business as usual.
Are you people blind? instead of using rational thinking you fall into utopia?
what could’ve you done better if you were in his place?
the whole swamp is against this brave man; he’s almost alone in a small canoe in the swamp overgrown with reeds and hungry beasts and where the busy beavers keep on adding to the dam of lies and treason all day long..
from the shore the dogs bark from all sides, show their threatening teeth, ready to bite at any hour.
what a lunacy to believe that that lazy Bum from cuckoo state, the sellout for a summer house and some trinkets, the parasite that lived by mooching on others for so long is better or even worth to be compared with the self made man – our president.
God help us, in this schizo times, one day sunny next one in the dumps.
I am sick of even reading anything, you can’t plan anything, you can’t hope, you can’t trust anyone!
You’ve got a point, somebody.
You’re somebody ’cause you put yourself in his shoes, rather than just carping about Trump who is skating through a mine field trying to survive long enough to do something, while a fourth of the country wants to see him blow up, another fourth wants to complain about him not doing it all for them, like yesterday, another fourth doesn’t know what to think, and the last fourth wishes he’d tell them what they could do.
I’m not sure Americans as a whole quite yet deserve Trump, much less someone much better than him.
Same goes for Europeans. Do they deserve better than the “leaders” they have?
It’s debatable. Like the French people in RM’s article, 90% of whom consider all French politicians corrupt. The people are corrupt, that’s why!
These articles and comments that either pretend that that is not so or neglect to point out that problem at the base of societies are actually silently propitiating the corruption at the base of societies which makes large improvements in giant steps extremely hazardous to practically impossible to undertake alone, by any single person.
Robert David Steele may be right to say Trump is the Accidental President, that never expected to win.
But there is progress! If a president is killed this time, unlike in 1963, 1/4 of the people (instead of a miniscule handful in 1963) will know who the accomplices are: Those who watch television and were too stupid to turf theirs years ago.
How do you get from this deplorable situation to an informed electorate that could deserve good leadership and keep it alive?
Wayne Madsen has written:
President-elect Trump is facing a two-pronged attack by his opponents. One, led by entrenched neo-con bureaucrats, including former Central Intelligence Agency and National Security Agency director Michael Hayden, former Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, and Bush family loyalists are seeking to call the shots on who Trump appoints to senior national security, intelligence, foreign policy, and defense positions in his administration. These neo-Cold Warriors are trying to convince Trump that he must maintain the Obama aggressiveness and militancy toward Russia, China, Iran, Venezuela, Cuba, and other countries. The second front arrayed against Trump is from Soros-funded political groups and media. This second line of attack is a propaganda war, utilizing hundreds of anti-Trump newspapers, web sites, and broadcasters, that will seek to undermine public confidence in the Trump administration from its outset.
As protests and riots continue and spread – high school students are now being organized by professional agitators and covert social media campaigns designed to forment civil stress against the President-Elect, Trump has been slow to recognize that he is a 27% “fringe” president (as Barack Obama was and as Hillary Clinton would have been), and slow to understand that his first priority, having been elected “unshackeled” and therefore an existential threat to the dual Democratic-Republican Establishment that represents only 30% of the eligible voters, must be to unify the country by educating the 73% who did not vote for him, on how the system is rigged twelve different ways, and by passing the Electoral Reform Act – the Unity Act – to demonstrate to one and all that our President-Elect represents the fastest, cheapest path toward restoring integrity to our government and making our government, for the first time in a very long time, one that is Of, By, and For We the People instead of the 1%.
Only after doing this – and securing a mandate twice that of any prior president (by engaging the 47% that did not vote and the 26% who voted for Hillary Clinton (less the three million illegal immigants and dead people – she did not win the popular vote), can he then begin to plan for the future.
An Electoral Reform Act – a Unity Act – empowers the President-Elect by stopping the protests and demonstrating his resolve to represent the 99% instead of the 1%; by liberating the Members of Congress from dependency on lobbyists and corporate funding; and by exploding the talent pool available to him should he decided to create an open system, a Kennedy-esque system that integrates the best and the brightest from across the political spectrum.
A Grand Strategy Summit in which candidates for ALL Cabinet positions and from ALL sources are tested against one another before being considered by President-Elect Trump, and a Presidential Academy that trains the incoming political leadership cadre as a whole, are the two additional recommendations being made to President-Elect Donald Trump.
Anyone not supporting a peaceful transition of power to this miracle President is a traitor. Trump is a blessing in part because he is “unshackeled” — he is not beholden to anyone outside those few who truly believed in him and have been loyal when all others repudiated him. He has the power to unrig the system and create an evidence-based government that is Of, By, and For the 99% — We the People. He merits our support, our prayers, and our ideas.
I think this appraisal by PK is very fair. He describes both the downsides and upsides of the regime.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-syria-assad-idUSKBN15P1AK
Assad said U.S. troops would be “welcome” in Syria to fight Islamic State provided Washington coordinate with Damascus and recognize the sovereignty of his government.
“If the Americans are genuine, of course they are welcome. Like any other country, we want to defeat and to fight the terrorists,” he said
“Troops is part of the cooperation … (but) you cannot talk about sending troops … if you don’t have a clear political position toward not only the terrorism, toward the sovereignty of Syria, toward the unity of Syria,” he said.
“It must be through the Syria government.”
According to Wayne Madsen, the Trump regime is not a unitary regime but has 3 power centers–with the third center–that of Pence, Mattis, and Tillerson–appearing to emerge as the dominant power:
“The third Trump administration of Pence, Mattis, and Tillerson signaled the world that the actual Trump administration, the one representing America’s «deep state», will continue to run the U.S. government. This is the part of the Trump administration that will continue to conspire with the world’s elite at places like Bilderberg, Davos, Bohemian Grove, Cernobbio, APEC, and G-7. Trump has not «drained the swamp» as he promised. He has merely joined the reptiles already in it. In fact, Eric and Donald Trump Jr., who now head up the Trump Organization, recently opened a luxurious Trump golf course in Dubai. That set the ground for a very amiable meeting at the G20 meeting in Bonn between Tillerson and his counterpart from the United Arab Emirates. The French have a saying for Trump’s «revolution» – «plus ca change, plus c’est la meme chose» or «the more things change, the more they stay the same».”
The Three Trump Administrations
http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2017/02/24/three-trump-administrations.html
As for Trump being a peacemaker, if you believe this, you should also believe that Barack Obama was the Messiah of Hope and Change.
‘America First’ Is a Mantra for Unilateral Aggression
http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2017/02/27/america-first-mantra-for-unilateral-aggression.html
Trump or anybody else. which difference does it make?
BIS – Secret History of Bank of International Settlements Switzerland
NewsNotShownonTV
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1Nd4IBbwQ4
Only 3 Countries Left Without a Rothschild Central Bank
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-4Jd0o-Emw
So is Russia owning a State-owned State-controlled central bank or not?
p.s. How can it be that even on Russia-1 TV all you see all the time are german and American Top-500’s running advertisements?
Including ex IG-Farben companies!
So if it is a state-TV why does it have to run Ads at all?
I would understand it for Russian owned companies (which ones are in fact, really?)
But russian TV channels need to advertise the enemy? Odd.
Here decide yourself: http://live.russia.tv/index/index/channel_id/1
Yes. Russia got its international bank “gifted” during the 1990s post Soviet collapse.
Putin is an irritant in that he does not fully comply with the orders issued from the Demons.
That is why he is termed “recalcitrant” and the scapegoat for everything.
But yes, the Bankers control the Russian Central Bank,,and thus to a large degree control Russia
Russia has a Constitution written by the Americans during the 1990s. …
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Dear All,
Just got this from Moon of Alabama – who has written excellent analysis of Trump administration
Trump now hired some partisan Russia expert from the Clinton aligned Brookings to run Russia policy in the NSC. She will institute anti-Russian bias in his policies. This would not have happened under a national security advisor Flynn. For now the Obama assault on Trump’s announced policy has succeeded. Those who voted for Trump for a change in Russia policies have been disenfranchised.
Fiona Hill – google her and you will see she is a nut job who writes obsessively about President Putin. There are videos of her speaking insane rubbish on you tube about Russia
She is Victoria Nulands 2.0
Can we look at the facts now – not all the BS hope and change with Trump.
Russia need to be on guard.
Look at France they are destroying and candidate who wants good relations with Russia.
The daily hate of Russia by the Democrats and Republicans is paying off. Things are going to get bad – really quick.
the latest proof we thinking people don’t need to wait and “give Trump more time”:
Time’s up and we know EXACTLY what Trump is:
https://sputniknews.com/politics/201703021051198341-us-trump-ross-trade/
Wall Street ‘Vulture’ Wilbur Ross Now at the Helm of US Trade
US investor Wilbur L. Ross joined the Trump administration Wednesday as Commerce Secretary. The businessman, who made his fortune restructuring failed companies, has also been dubbed a “Wall Street vulture.” The question arises why Donald Trump, who ran as an anti-establishment politician, surrounded himself by billionaires.
On Tuesday American billionaire investor Wilbur L. Ross was sworn in as US Commerce Secretary.
“I am not anti-trade, I am pro-trade. But I’m pro-sensible trade, not pro-trade that is to the disadvantage of the American worker and the American manufacturing community,” Ross stated at the Commerce Secretary Confirmation Hearing on January 18.
President-elect Donald Trump meets with Wilbur Ross at the clubhouse of Trump National Golf Club November 20, 2016 in Bedminster, New Jersey.
© AFP 2016/ Don EMMERT
‘No Political Experience’: Why Wilbur Ross Became US Secretary of Commerce
According to Fox News, both Democratic and Republican senators “were deferential to Ross at his nearly four-hour confirmation hearing, which was much more subdued than the confirmation hearings of other Trump nominees.”
On February 27 the Senate approved Ross’ nomination as US President Donald Trump’s Secretary of Commerce by a vote of 72-27. The billionaire investor drew votes from 19 Democrats and one independent, Sen. Angus King, I-Maine, as well as 51 Republicans.
“I believe his extensive management experience in the private sector, and his understanding of the challenges faced by workers and businesses alike, will equip him well for the job of leading the Department of Commerce,” Chairman of the Commerce Committee Sen. John Thune, R-S.D. said, as quoted by the media outlet.
Predictably, the US President’s political opponents have not missed a chance to attack Trump’s nominee and routinely accuse him of having “shady ties to Russia.”
excuse me while I gloat and say: WE TOLD YOU SO!
So Trump wants to restructure a failing system and he chooses someone who has experience in that with companies. What’s the big surprise?
And it is stupid to ask why he surrounds himself with billionaires. He wants successful people. To him, the establishment swamp that needs draining is government and bureaucracy, not capitalism as such.
We have just seen off a white horse called al-buraq.
Is a Drumpf a red horse…perchance.?
Or could it be that Trump signifies Mars. He glows red – don’t you know.? It’s not carotene. He glows red.
Will he take peace from the earth.?
Will he make war.
Unintended consequences and all that jazz.
Ashton Kutcher exposes PIZZAGATE in front of congress and the media stays silent.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dgh0xLWgA0w
Pretty accurate summary of the Trump’s presidency so far. Will he gradually be defeated on all fronts, and become a useless mouthpiece for the neocons, like Obama? Looks like it.
Another reason to consider pence runs things in the tuppence regime and that trump plays more of a PR role:
A Tough Job to Deal With? Who Will Be New US Ambassador to Russia
https://sputniknews.com/world/201703031051233964-united-states-huntsman-russia-ambassador/
“During the 2016 presidential polls, Huntsman first supported Donald Trump’s candidacy, but later, after the “sexist” scandal, joined Trump’s critics, urging his party members to give a voice to Michael Pence.”
Still surprised that people are taking Trump seriously – not being able to understand that he, like the previous “presidents,” was elected precisely not to interfere with his job! He’s just another mask on the same ugly face of ziofascism.
lay down your hopes. Trump is afraid of killary and establishment. If he were serious he would go after her when there was momentum. Instead he back off and now they are all after him like leeches slowly suck him dry. He’s a looser perhaps he’s more worry about money than pursuid criminals
Good to see Peter König’s anti-Trump rhetoric coming down to a simmer.
Is Trump a Zionist surrounded by Zionists? Yes.
Is Trump Jewish himself? Yes.
Does he belong to the Elite? Yes.
Will he still be able to upset a (Globalist Elitist) apple cart or two? You bet.
War now inevitable. Trump is caged. And as “slave” his fate? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharmakos
Elite ruling class 4th Reich evidently, ie according to natural way of history, plans to load all war guilt onto that brave fool, and escape themselves…just like last time…with “operation paperclip” and the Organisation the 3rd Reich set up to save themselves from the gotterdammerung in ’45 tossed Hitler – only Hitler may have made it out alive with Borman…there’s a real mystery. But the “physics” is the same – load the blame onto some named individual, and chase him off into the desert, or jail, hang him, or simply make him disappear…l’ poof!
Just one small problem. In dance with bear, is bear who decides…and bear wins whenever he decides.
I wish to add a remark here too – “democracy” is now a false term, meaningless.
But we need the meaning…
New word: “ELEUTHERIA” Of course not new…ancient.
In a tyranny the tyrant experiences eleutheria, and everyone else experience slavery.
In working Communist Organisation – a tribal smallholding, all experience eleutheria. Less perfect, say China…at least many experience it. You tell me about eleutheria and Ahmerka…it will be on the test….but eleutheria the people desire, and always operate toward.
This is what distinguish “democracy” from “dictatorship” – who benefits… Voting is nearly irrelevant. But if the people in their will decide to vote, they do – no one can or may stop them… Now, about the Donbass….
Right! Eleutheria.
Russia? Eleutheria. There is no other method for a State to create stability. No other whatsoever.
Lack of “E” in aggressor tends to failures on the field…as internal economy unable/unwilling to support also unwilling propagandized soldiers and sutler theft of funds… See Sun Tsu on how war impoverishes according to time…
“Work Americans won’t do”
“No immediate solution”
How about this new thing called RAISE THE WAGES
VV
“How about this new thing called RAISE THE WAGES”
Shhhh, that heresy is no longer allowed in the zionazi colonies. It is in line with promoting antislavery, after Marxism and the dreaded leftwingers, the absolute worst thing that can happen in the colonies.
https://thelastgreatstand.com/2017/03/07/fbi-insider-resurfaces-offers-chilling-update-on-us-government-purge/
Very interesting indeed : )
Check it out.
Great piece from OffGuardian “In a Society of “Deniers” & “Believers” we all become Inquisitors
https://off-guardian.org/2017/03/11/in-a-society-of-believers-or-deniers-we-all-become-inquisitors/
An awesome analysis, in plain and honest English! I will read what books he has written. The honest descriptions of Europe, Brussels, Washington and the actual state of the USA to itself and to the globe, are vital to human life remaining un-Atomised.
One thing I am seeing every day is the normalisation by the entire USA of genocide. The genius if the Russian who made sure over one thousand Orthodox Churches were built in Russia ever year for a generation was it ,stopped the inevitable growth to great heath of Nihilism in vast Russia, what Hitler brought the globe such a short time ago. Presently, the USA whose oligarches all supported a bankrupt Hitler in the 1930s, such as Henry Ford, is now growing new shoots of Nihilism globally meeting the only Western direct “No Way!”from Russia, Asia, China, Iran and the endangered BRIKS.
But, as the US controlled media has shown, fake news is not profitable, even it is hated for the open lies. Fake news therefor cannot last. Same with Nihilism. The massacres of Asian, Islamic Christians by US soldiers is incredible., and yet to be expected if you are really watching.