Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham holds a press conference after receiving the Principal Conclusion notification from AG William Barr. Within this presser Lindsey Graham starts the process toward public discussion of investigations against the FBI and DOJ around the fraudulent FISA application against Carter Page.
QUESTION: You mentioned that Rome had no national debt and no central bank. Exactly how did it function for 1,000 years?
JY
ANSWER: In addition to not having a national debt or a central bank, Rome had no police force or agency charged with enforcing the law. There were specific crimes against the state that would be prosecuted such as arson and treason. But the prosecution of a murder would be carried out by the family. The responsibility for enforcing the law thereby fell on the kin, tribe, gens and patron of the offended individual.
It was the King of England after Magna Carta who began to prosecute people for what was private crimes all so he could make money. By the time of the American Revolution, there were 240 felonies all of which carried the death penalty. So the king got to confiscate all your property and throw your family out on the street all based on what had historically been a private dispute.
As far as finances, the government simply minted coins to pay its expenses. As I have said, if we just created the money to fund the government rather than borrow, it would be far less inflationary. Because we borrow, with no intention of paying anything off, we must keep paying interest to roll the debt. That suppresses the economy, for it is competing with the private sector. It is a contributing factor as to why 70% of small business get turned down for loans that would expand the economy.
As shown here, the accumulative interest expenditures eventually exceed 70% of the total debt so the money never went to anything such as schools, roads, or social programs. If the government simply created the money, as did Rome, then the economy is segregated between public and private.
Today, the Fed raises interest rates to slow our spending yet it increases the spending of government. It is impossible for the economic theories of Keynes and Marx to ever function when the government is the single greatest borrower. Our current economic system is doomed. No rational person would EVER create such a completely flawed monetary system as this.
QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong; I assume you would know the answer. Is it true that the women in ancient times were more like Hillary seeking power compared to modern times?
JF
ANSWER: Yes, I have heard this assertion before. It is only partially true. Unquestionably, the first woman of Eastern culture to act politically was none other than Cleopatra VII. She loved Julius Caesar and bore his son in hopes of taking over Rome. When Caesar was assassinated, she fled Rome back to Egypt. She then seduced Marc Antony. That did not end well and Octavian defeated them as it was portraryed as one of the epic love stories which was probably more for political advantages as is the case with Hillary and Bill who now live separately.
However, it was not appropriate for Octavian to boast a victory over a Roman such as Marc Antony, and yet it was also inappropriate to drag a woman through the streets as being conquered. It was not out of the question that that Octavian had Cleopatra killed for this difficulty. The coinage he issued avoided proclaiming victory over Antony and Cleopatra personally and simply claimed he defeated Egypt.
There appears to be a cultural difference in history between the Eastern area of the Roman Empire and that of the West. The women in the East historically appear to be much more dominant in politics than in the West, where perhaps the saying originated, “Behind every great man stands a great woman supporting him.” I recommend an old BBC series to watch called “I Claudius.” It was a fantastic series that revolved around the Julio-Claudian family that was really driven by the intrigue of Augustus‘ wife- Liva. The series shows how she killed off the heir of her husband, Augustus, so her son, Tiberius, would become emperor. She was said to have more bodies than Hillary is alleged to have orchestrated. The difference was that Liva did not seek to be emperor, where Hillary stuck with Bill to make a run for president.
There was also Agrippina, Jr., who most likely orchestrated the assassination of Britannicus, the son of Emperor Claudius, so her son would become Emperor Nero. Where Livia’s portrait appears on coinage, it is always in the form of a goddess rather than in her own name. In the case of Agrippina, Jr, she is the first woman to be pictured on Roman coinage in her own name. Here she is pictured with her son Nero facing him as she ruled the empire. Eventually, she was so manipulative that Nero was blamed by the people for the murder of Britannicus. Nero eventually turned against her and had her killed.
Women seem to have remained behind the throne following Agrippina Jr. certainly in advising but also acting more like a first lady would. The next woman in the middle of a scandal was the wife of Emperor Trajan – Plotina. A letter Trajan was said to have composed on his deathbed appeared in Rome with Plotina’s signature on it, in which he adopted Hadrian naming him successor to the Empire. This raised suspicion that it was crafted by Plotina who was fond of Hadrian.
We do not really encounter the outright politically dominant women until the late 2nd century and they are from the East. It is not just one woman, but a number of them that began to manipulate politics and take more of an open role. The first is Julia Domna who was the wife of Septimus Severus and the mother of Caracalla.
It was the women of Julia Domna’s family that really dominated politics under 235 AD. Julia Maesawas the sister of Julia Domna and sister-in-law of the Emperor Septimus Severus. Julia Maesa bore two daughters, Julia Soaemias and Julia Mamaea, the mothers of the Emperors Elagabalus and Severus Alexander respectively. Julia lived in Rome with her sister during the reign of Caracalla. Following Caracalla’s assassination and Macrinus’ rise to the throne, Julia was permitted to retire to her home at Emesa in 217 AD. This act of mercy on the part of Macrinus would later prove to be a fatal mistake. Once back in Syria, Julia Maesa masterminded the conspiracy in the provinces that led to the fall of Macrinus and the elevation of her grandson Elagabalus to the throne of the Roman Empire in 218 AD. When Elagabalus was murdered, his mother went with him and they dragged their bodies through the streets of Rome in celebration. Julia Mamaea was the mother of Severus Alexander. She was murdered when her son was assassinated. She was the last of this line of Eastern women to rule.
There was Zenobia, also of the East located in Syria. She led a rebellion and split off the Eastern provinces from Rome. She raised her son to the rank of emperor, but she was the dominant political figure and issued coins proclaiming she was effectively the Empress. Because she was a woman, when she was conquered by Aurelian she was allowed to retire. There was a cultural issue that it did not appear to be appropriate for a man to conquer a woman and execute her.
In 479 AD, the emperor Zeno’s mother-in-law, the meddlesome dowager empress Verina, the wife of Leo I, managed to convince her other son-in-law Marcian, son of the late western emperor Anthemius, to a raise a revolt. It collapsed due to the quick reaction of Zeno’s Isaurian general Illus, and Verina’s complicity in both it and in an attempted assassination of Illus was quite plain. She was then given to Illus to be imprisoned in Dalisandus in Isauria. By 484 AD, however, the situation had changed: Illus was reported to be intriguing against the emperor, and not only refused the empress Ariadne’s request that her mother be released, but had the audacity (in Ariadne’s opinion) to avoid being assassinated by her agents (who seem to have been as incompetent as her mother’s had been five years earlier).
Illus withdrew to his native Isauria, and Zenothen sent the patrician Leontius with orders to obtain Verina’s release. The unexpected result of this was that Leontius made peace between Verina and Illus, and after Illusbrought her in full regalia to Tarsus, she crowned Leontius emperor on July 19th, 484 AD. She attempted to convince the provincial forces to go over to him by stressing her legitimate right as empress to crown an emperor, but after a very short occupation of Antioch the rebels were tossed out again, and in September were heavily defeated by Zeno’s army under John the Scythian. The survivors fled to the virtually impregnable fortress of Cherris in Isauria where they remained bottled up until their capture and execution in 488 AD (Verina herself had already died in late 484 AD).
Whenever possible, rebels like Leontius and Illus would have wanted their own coinage, both to underscore their legitimacy as rulers, as well as to pay the troops they so desperately needed. The capture of Antioch provided them with a mint, though one which was not accustomed to gold coinage, and they must have immediately begun turning all available gold into coins bearing the name and titles of Leontius as emperor. The fact that the obverse legend is in the dative case, rather than the expected nominative, shows that it was meant to be seen as an acclimation issue.
The dies for Leontius’ solidi were cut with great rapidity by relatively unskilled craftsmen (the legends can be slightly garbled, Greek U’s are used rather than Latin, etc.). Traditionally, Leontius is thought to have only held Antioch for 12 days but it has been suggested by others that the coronation of Leontius took place in March and that his occupation of Antioch lasted two months.
In any event, thanks to Verina, Leontius’ gold coinage is among the rarest of Roman issues. Few coins have survived simply due to the collapse of the rebellion and the demonetization of any usurper’s coinage. It was tradition to recall all the coinage of a usurper and melt them down. There are in fact only four known examples with each struck from a different pair of dies makes the original abundance of the coinage fairly clear. With this number of dies, it implies that the coinage issue could have easily produced 400 lbs of gold coins to pay the troops. The discovery of these coins confirms both the location and the fact that they were culled out of circulation. The coin illustrated here is from a 19th century Levantine hoard of several hundred solidi of Zeno and Leo I, suggesting that the hoarder did not notice the image of the usurper.
Over the centuries, sailors have told legends of monster waves that would appear out of nowhere in the middle of the open sea. Most scientists dismissed the stories as fabrications and legends. These stories were reported over the centuries by sailors who repeatedly saw these rogue waves of gigantic proportions rise up from nothing far above the surrounding waves in the middle of nowhere. In the 16th century when sailors began to venture past the Pillars of Hercules after Columbus, these stories began to commonly emerge. Many attributed them to the wake of some hidden sea monster. The ships that vanished were said to have been swallowed by these sea monsters they called the Kraken from Greek mythology.
What was missing were any reliable measurements until New Year’s afternoon in 1995. On that day, there were between ten to twelve-meter high storm waves and a wave of almost 83 feet (26 meters) high under the oil drilling platform named Draupner. This was the very first time one of these rogue waves was actually measured by the sensors on the platform. Since then, what was once dismissed as legend has entered the field of reality.
Hundreds of such monster waves have since been documented and they occur in different forms. For example, the convergence of waves in a nonlinear process can cause single superwaves to result from otherwise ordinary waves. I have found this stunning for scientists have been baffled by these rogue waves when in fact the same exact thing takes place is wave analysis of even the economy.
The Draupner wave was one of those mysterious lone superwaves that appeared to tower over all other waves. They are strikingly different from a tidal wave, which is when energy is passing through the wave until it hits shore. One of these superwaves appear out of nowhere, but they also vanish and disappear without a trace. This is what the scientists have failed to comprehend.
Since the Draupner wave discovery, finally, research has been taking place to try to understand these interesting wave formations. Essentially, a normal wave that hits the shoreline is produced by a wave of energy that flows through the water which is the medium. Those are quite distinct whereas a rogue wave is produced by the cycle of several waves that suddenly sync and produce a combined wave which is a singularity. If you look at something floating just off the beach, you will notice it rises and falls with the waves for it is not actually the water which is moving, rather it is the energy passing through the water. It is similar to what would occur if you received an electric shock; your flesh is not moving, it is the electricity passing through your flesh.
Essentially, everything in the universe is subject to cyclical theory. These rogue waves are no different from a market that suddenly erupts, crashes, and in the end, wipes out economies and investors. Politicians then respond with laws and investigations to try to blame the event on some human cause and effect.
Now, look at Bitcoin. The computer pinpointed the high in Bitcoin to the day. It understands these rogue waves, how they form, and how they will quickly vanish. We heard nothing but scenarios of the new age of knowledge and how Bitcoin would become the new reserve currency. So many people lost their shirt because they wanted to believe the hype and they ignored the reality of what takes place in a rogue wave.
CTH is going to break down the AG Barr Principal Conclusion notification letter against more than three years of background research. Yes, more than “three years“, is the correct time-frame here. The origin of the DOJ/FBI operation against Donald Trump goes back to 2015; the Mueller probe was a 2017 concluding chapter in the seditious conspiracy effort.
I’m going to cite as much background as possible; however, this review encompasses so much granular history that some parts might be too complex for a person who only recently jumped into the story. Disclaimer: this outline does not fit the narrative from those who claim Mueller and Rosenstein are honorable men. They ain’t.
The first part that matters is a few paragraphs into the letter. Here we find the scale of the investigative group, and a description of some of the investigative paths they traveled:
There are several takeaways that are worthy of notation.
♦ First, the team of 19 lawyers and 40 FBI agents is more than the original Crossfire Hurricane investigative team (lawyers added), but includes the exact same group of FBI and DOJ staff level investigative officials that originated the Trump operation long before Robert Mueller was selected to lead them.
The transferring team assembly has been missed by media; and also missed by those who have researched the investigators. It is an important point, yet completely overlooked.
The same career staff unit that originated the unlawful activity to weaponize the DOJ and FBI is the same team that transferred into the Mueller probe. Their supervising officials changed, Comey, McCabe, Baker, Lynch and Yates (et al) were fired; however, the career investigative officials within the process are identical.
The FBI agents transferred from Operation Crossfire Hurricane into the Mueller Special Counsel. This is a key, heck, critical point, that is continually missed and glossed over.
The Mueller Special Counsel in May 2017 did not start from a clean slate of investigators. Yes, new additional lawyers were added, but the investigators who conducted the Mueller probe were the same investigators who were carrying out the 2016 unlawful and illegal surveillance activity.
Initially Lisa Page and Peter Strzok also transferred to the Mueller team; but they had to be removed in July 2017 due to the discovery of their paper trail. If their paper trail had never been discovered they would have remained with their comrades.
And that takes us to an important SIDEBAR that everyone forgets. Lisa Page and Peter Strzok were removed because Inspector General Horowitz accidentally stumbled upon their communication. Originally Horowitz was looking at “media leaks”, and that led him to question Deputy FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe. McCabe denied the leaks, but when the IG questioned Lisa Page about media contacts she said McCabe told her to give stories to the media. McCabe and Page were contradicting each-other.
The IG asked Page if she could prove her side of the story, Page said she had texts from McCabe and gave her phone to INSD investigators…. the rest is history. Those IG investigators, while validating the instructions from McCabe (showing he lied), uncovered the Peter Strzok and Lisa Page bias and communication that set the ground work for “spygate”. The IG then had to inform Mueller of the compromised position.
♦The second point that needs to be noted from these paragraphs, is the scale of tools used by the Special Counsel (paragraphs reposted for additional review):
Remember, Robert Mueller and Rod Rosenstein re-authorized and re-submitted the third renewal of the Carter Page Title-1 (not title-3) FISA warrant in mid-July 2017.
That Carter Page Title-1 warrant did not expire until mid-October 2017. So when we look at search warrants, subpoenas, and specifically “50 authorized pen registers“, we should note most of them were generally not needed while the Page FISA warrant was active.
When Mueller’s team began; and remember this is the same operational team – just using a new leader; they had the legal authority to conduct active electronic surveillance on any individual who was within two hops of Carter Page. [So anyone who was in direct contact with Carter Page, and anyone that person was in contact with, and anyone that second person was in contact with.] All of those officials were under surveillance. A typical two-hop Title-1 warrant ends up hitting a network between 900 to 2,500 people.
The “pen registers” are ‘trap and trace warrants’ [SEE HERE], essentially another form of electronic surveillance (phone, email, etc) and extraction. They would not have been needed for anyone within the Carter Page orbit (the Trump campaign), until the Title-1 FISA warrant expired (October 2017). The pen registers fall under Title-3, ordinary domestic, non-FISA related, DOJ suspect searches and inquires, ie. “phone taps”.
Between the Title-1 FISA warrant (entire trump orbit captured) and the 50 pen registers (unknown orbit) and 500 search warrants (also Title-3), there was a massive dragnet of active surveillance and extraction of electronic files from all targets. Active wire-taps, or “listening bugs”, would also fall under the FISA warrant and/or the Title-3 pen registers.
This gives us the scale of reach for those 40 active and assigned FBI agents.
Understanding that President Trump was a defined initial target of the investigation (as also noted in the Barr letter), those wire-taps, electronic surveillance, phone intercepts and listening “bugs” would have applied directly to President Trump and the White House.
[Insert “by the book” notation from President Obama here.]
Do you think we’ll ever hear about how Team Mueller took over active bugs within the White House?… I digress.
Again, I’m going to repeat…. The same investigators who initiated the Trump operation in late 2015, through spygate, and into Crossfire Hurricane (July 2016), were the same investigators in May 2017 when Mueller became their boss. That’s three years of active electronic surveillance, intercepts and extraction. Think about it.
♦ Next we move on to Page Two. Here AG Barr tells us the Mueller report has two elements. Russian interference, including Trump’s potential collusion with Russians; and the second element is the Obstruction investigation:
The key point on the Russian collusion/conspiracy aspect is not actually within Barr’s letter, but is really the unwritten 800lb gorilla in the corner of the letter. There was NO actual Russian election interference to speak of. The entire premise was/is absurd.
A Macedonian content farm producing shit memes on social media isn’t exactly a vast Russian election conspiracy. So it is absurd that the predicate for the Special Counsel was to see if Trump was coordinating with irrelevant shit-posting meme providers etc.
The lack of evidence, for a premise that doesn’t exist, leads Robert Mueller to quote in his report: “The investigation did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities”.
No shit? Really?
I wonder how long it took them to figure that out? Maybe something like this:
Mueller (May 2017): Hey Pete, did Trump’s social media guys talk to those Macedonian dudes, or re-post their stuff?
Strzok: Nope. Not that we could ever find.
Mueller: OK, well, that part of the investigation is over. After lunch how about your guys, move on to obstruction.
Strzok: Gotcha.
Unfortunately, that’s only partially tongue-in-cheek on my part. See the next paragraph:
Remember, Rod Rosenstein made a grand splash about indicting the Internet Research Agency. However, he buried the indictment evidence in the DOJ-NSD (National Security Division)… never to be seen from, or brought up, ever again.
The ridiculous nature of that FEB-2018 insufferable ruse, was the breaking point for CTH in giving Rosenstein any benefit of the doubt.
It was/is transparently obvious that Team Mueller and DAG Rod Rosenstein needed to throw up something, anything, that would validate the fraudulent “Muh Russia” premise behind the corrupt DOJ/FBI political operation that was started back in 2015. The IRA indictments were theatrics; a ruse; a cover. Hell, even the damned Washington Post noted it:
(WaPo) A 37-page indictment issued by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s team on Friday brings fresh American attention to one of the strangest elements of alleged Russian interference in the 2016 election: The Internet Research Agency (IRA), a state-sponsored “troll factory” in St. Petersburg.
But much of the information Mueller published on Friday about the agency’s efforts to influence the election had already been published last October — in an article by a Russian business magazine, RBC.
In a 4,500-word report titled “How the ‘troll factory’ worked the U.S. elections,” journalists Polina Rusyaeva and Andrey Zakharov offered the fullest picture yet of how the “American department” of the IRA used Facebook, Twitter and other tactics to inflame tensions ahead of the 2016 vote. The article also looked at the staffing structure of the organization and revealed details about its budget and salaries. (read more)
Someone get a banana for the 800lb gorilla. I hear CNN has extras, I digress.
The next part of Barr’s letter, as determined from the investigative material provided by Team Mueller, is even more disingenuous as it pertains to Russia:
How could the Special Counsel find that Russian “actors” hacked into computers without being able to do a forensic audit of the servers from the DNC?
Wait….
No, really, wait…
Notice how this is oddly worded:
…”hacked into computers and obtained emails from persons affiliatedwith the Clinton campaign and Democrat party organizations.”…
That paragraph could be describing anyone. Those who are skilled in reviewing professionally obtuse legalese verbiage from the government will immediately pick up something. They are not saying the “DNC” was hacked, and we know Podesta was NOT hacked (he was a victim of a phishing password change). Oh snap, the gorilla farted.
The next segment is just as priceless when overlayed against what technically is not stated in the first:
…”the special counsel did not find that the Trump campaign, or anyone associated with it, conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in these efforts, despite multiple offers from Russian-affiliated individuals to assist the Trump campaign”.
Everyone here is projecting Hillary Clinton emails into this statement, but the Clinton emails were never hacked, stolen or released. [There were 30,000 missing Clinton emails that supposedly never surfaced until the Weiner Laptop was discovered.] But the second segment says “these efforts“, and it’s not exactly clear what “these efforts” mean, because nothing in this paragraph makes any sense. What are “these efforts“?
Read it again and see if you can make sense of it.
The key takeaway from this entire “Russian Interference” part, is that there wasn’t actually any Russian interference, so the predicate for Trump to be investigated for colluding or conspiring to do something that technically wasn’t being done is just silly.
And that’s the frustrating part of this entire three years. The Russian Interference narrative was constructed ex post-facto to cover for a political surveillance operation that was targeting candidate Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential election. The Carter Page FISA warrant (an insurance policy) was needed as cover for the investigative data trail and time spent by FBI officials enlisted in the surveillance operation.
The investigation into something that didn’t exist was predicated as a cover for something the DOJ and FBI were trying to hide. Considering that Robert Mueller came on board in May 2017, there’s no doubt he realized that within weeks (if he didn’t know that from the outset).
After we accept the Russian narrative was entirely false, when we move to the Obstruction narrative we find out why they spent so much time on it. Without any actual Russian interference to collude or conspire with, the possible obstruction case was the only case that could have ever existed.
♦ And it is within the obstruction nonsense where anger over this fiasco really starts to settle in and there’s absolutely NO ROOM to consider Robert Mueller and/or Rod Rosenstein anything except complicit with the sedition team.
What we find in the Barr letter about the Obstruction investigation is blood boiling. Here Team Mueller intentionally politicize their non-finding in an attempt to open the door for Nancy Pelsoi and Jerry Nadler to exploit an impeachment angle.
Team Mueller intentionally tells AG Barr they cannot make a determination of obstruction, and thereby force Barr to make the decision; and make it look political.
The obstruction angle was always what Team Mueller were working to deliver, in collaboration with their democrat political allies.
In my opinion it’s almost certain AG Barr saw this coming, which is why he forced DAG Rod Weaselstein to stick around, share in the decision and deflect the politics.
In summary it is almost certain that Team Mueller knew from the outset there was no Russian collusion/conspiracy because: 1) it’s the same team from 2016 through 2019; and 2) they knew from the outset there was no “there” there.
So, a reasonable question would be: How long did Mueller investigate conspiracy with Russia before jumping to Obstruction of Justice? I think the answer is that Mueller abandoned the Russia angle around August 2017, when he asked Rosenstein for an updated scope memo.
Everything from August 2017 through to March 2019 was Robert Mueller and his team trying to prove an obstruction case of a predicate Russian investigation that was non-existent, and based on a false premise.
FUBAR.
We have every right to be angry !
Published on Mar 22, 2019
Published on Mar 22, 2019
President Donald Trump delivers pointed remarks to the White House press pool upon return from Mar-a-lago.
Alan Dershowitz is exactly correct on the point; but he’s incorrect on the Mueller team’s motive.
Team Mueller didn’t punt the Obstruction issue to the Attorney General because Mueller’s a coward…. Team Mueller punted the Obstruction issue because they specifically wanted to create room for The House to work an impeachment angle. It was a political decision.
Techno Fog@Techno_FogIf Mueller thought Trump obstructed justice he would’ve said so.
Leaving his superiors to make that judgment is a political decision, an attempt to leave the question of obstruction to Democrats in Congress.
CTH will break down the important granules within the “Principal Conclusion Letter” to congress in another post; including the obvious evidence of how Robert Mueller’s team have conspired to assist the impeachment agenda. However, in the interim we celebrate the predictably obvious legal finding of ‘no collusion and no obstruction‘.
Here is President Trump responding to the four page summary from AG William Barr.
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