Matt Taibbi writes a lengthy column calling out his colleagues for abandoning all pretense of civil liberties in an effort to ‘resist’ President Trump.
Within the column Taibbi walks-through the ridiculous Russia collusion story and notes the necessary use of the media pretending not to know what took place within the Obama administration; including what continues today in the prosecution of Flynn.
MATT TAIBBI – […] ” After Edward Snowden’s 2013 revelations about mass data collection, a series of internal investigations began showing officials were breaking rules against spying on specific Americans via this NSA program. Searches were conducted too often and without proper justification, and the results were shared with too many people, including private contractors. By October, 2016, the FISA court was declaring that systematic overuse of so-called “702” searches were a “very serious fourth Amendment issue.”
In later court documents it came out that the FBI conducted 3.1 million such searches in 2017 alone. As the Brennan Center put it, “almost certainly… the total number of U.S. person queries run by the FBI each year is well into the millions.”
Anyone who bothers to look back will find hints at how this program might have been misused. In late 2015, Obama officials bragged to the Wall Street Journalthey’d made use of FISA surveillance involving “Jewish-American groups” as well as “U.S. lawmakers” in congress, all because they wanted to more effectively “counter” Israeli opposition to Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran. This is a long way from using surveillance to defuse terror plots or break up human trafficking rings.
I can understand not caring about the plight of Michael Flynn, but cases like this have turned erstwhile liberals – people who just a decade ago were marching in the streets over the civil liberties implications of Cheney’s War on Terror apparatus – into defenders of the spy state. (READ MORE)
Maria Bartiromo broadcasts a taped interview with President Trump discussing the topic of Obamagate and how the IC, FBI and DOJ was weaponized against the Trump campaign and incoming administration.
This interview is interesting as to how much President Trump is aware of what took place.
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During the Obama administration the NSA database was continually used to conduct surveillance. This is the critical point that leads to understanding the origin of “Spygate”, or “Obamagate” as it unfolded in the Spring and Summer of 2016.
Initially in December 2015 there were 17 republican candidates that all could be potential targets for political surveillance and opposition research. However, when Donald Trump won New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina the field was significantly whittled. Trump, Cruz, Rubio, Kasich and Carson remained.
On Super Tuesday, March 2, 2016, Donald Trump won seven states (VT, AR, VA, GA, AL, TN, MA) it was then clear that Trump was the GOP frontrunner with momentum to become the presumptive nominee. On March 5th, Trump won Kentucky and Louisiana; and on March 8th Trump won Michigan, Mississippi and Hawaii.
The next day, March 9th, NSA security alerts warned internal oversight personnel that something sketchy was going on.
This timing is not coincidental. As FISA Judge Rosemary Collyer later wrote in her report, “many of these non-compliant queries involved the use of the same identifiers over different date ranges.” Put another way: attributes belonging to a specific individual(s) were being targeted and queried, unlawfully. Given what was later discovered, it seems obvious the primary search target, over multiple date ranges, was Donald Trump.
There were tens-of-thousands of unauthorized search queries; and as Judge Collyer stated in her report, there is no reason to believe the 85% non compliant rate was any different from the abuse of the NSA database going back to 2012.
As you will see below the NSA database was how political surveillance was being conducted during Obama’s second term in office. However, when the system was flagged, and when NSA Director Mike Rogers shut down “contractor” access to the system, the system users needed to develop another way to get access.
Mike Rogers shuts down access on April 18, 2016. On April 19, 2016, Fusion-GPS founder Glenn Simpson’s wife, Mary Jacoby visits the White House. Immediately thereafter, the DNC and Clinton campaign contract Fusion GPS… who then hire Christopher Steele.
Knowing it was federal “contractors”, outside government with access to the system, doing the unauthorized searches, the question becomes: who were the contractors?
The possibilities are quite vast. Essentially anyone the FBI or intelligence apparatus was using could have participated. Crowdstrike was a known FBI contractor; they were also contracted by the DNC. Shawn Henry was the former head of the FBI office in DC and is now the President of Crowdstrike Services; a rather dubious contractor for the government and a politically connected data security and forensic company.
Henry testified to congress that Crowdstrike was an FBI contractor providing intelligence:
Additionally, James Comey’s special friend Daniel Richman was an unpaid FBI “special employee” with security access to the database. Nellie Ohr began working for Fusion-GPS on the Trump project in November 2015 and she was a CIA contractor; and it’s entirely likely Glenn Simpson or people within his Fusion-GPS network were also contractors for the intelligence community.
Remember the Sharyl Attkisson computer intrusions? It’s all part of this same network; Attkisson even names Shawn Henry as a defendant in her ongoing lawsuit.
All of the aforementioned names, and so many more, held a political agenda in 2016.
It seems likely if the NSA flags were never triggered then the contracted system users would have continued exploiting the NSA database for political opposition research; which would then be funneled to the Clinton team. However, once the unauthorized flags were triggered, the system users (including those inside the official intelligence apparatus) needed to find another back-door to continue… Again, the timing becomes transparent.
Immediately after NSA flags were raised March 9th; the same intelligence agencies began using confidential human sources (CHS’s) to run into the Trump campaign. By activating intelligence assets like Joseph Mifsud and Stefan Halper the IC (CIA, FBI) and system users had now created an authorized way to continue the same political surveillance operations.
When Donald Trump hired Paul Manafort on March 28, 2016, it was a perfect scenario for those doing the surveillance. Manafort was a known entity to the FBI and was previously under investigation. Paul Manafort’s entry into the Trump orbit was perfect for Glenn Simpson to sell his prior research on Manafort as a Trump-Russia collusion script two weeks later.
The shift from “unauthorized exploitation of the NSA database” to legally authorized exploitation of the NSA database was now in place. This was how they continued the political surveillance. This is the confluence of events that originated “spygate”, or what officially blossomed into the FBI investigation known as “Crossfire Hurricane” on July 31.
If the NSA flags were never raised; and if Director Rogers had never initiated the compliance audit; and if the political contractors were never blocked from access to the database; they would never have needed to create a legal back-door, a justification to retain the surveillance. The political operatives/contractors would have just continued the targeted metadata exploitation.
Once they created the surveillance door, Fusion-GPS was then needed to get the FBI known commodity of Chris Steele activated as a pipeline. Into that pipeline all system users pushed opposition research.
Sidney Powell is a lawyer doing stellar work as our nation’s number one MAGA lawyer. She has helped General Flynn with his case involving a politicized and corrupt Justice Department. Her book, “Licensed to Lie,” is must reading for all Americans. Sidney was kind enough to send us a signed copy and it’s riveting reading. She’s a very smart and courageous watchdog who has been doing a great job at exposing the corruption among ambitious, power-seeking federal prosecutors.
Bill Gates has determined that there are way to many humans on the planet; and he has decided to do something about it. That something is a virus that he had China develop for him and then after it was in play the The World Health Organization (also controlled by Gates) hid it from the world until it was to late to stop. But that was not all Gates master stroke was to cultivated the head of the National institute o Health (NIH) one Dr. Anthony Fauci into his circle of “friends” where he could control him. Fauci has been nothing but a shill for Gates and at this point and both he and Gates along with: Neil Ferguson and Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus should all be arrested and tried for crimes against humanity.
This picture represents Bill Gates’ vision of Utopia where he and the world elites live in a futuristic city of plenty while the rest of us hovel in abject poverty and only life to serve the Gates and the rest of the lords of the world.
Playing the role of Forrest Gump’s mom, Dr. Ivette Lozano of the Lozano clinic in Dallas, Texas has been treating her patients with a 100% record of success. She has been prescribing hydroxychloroquine in spite of intense resistance from politicians and the medical community.
You Tube posted a video of Dr. Lozano addressing a group of citizens who cheered heartily as she described the spectacular success stories coming from her approach to the COVID-19 pandemic.
To date there has been little press coverage of her successes with the exception of a One America News piece aired on May 16, 2020. It is believed that the You Tube video may be pulled soon, so this is a news item that may sink before the public gets the whole story.
Where’s Fox?
Forget the fox in the hen house—is there a chicken in the fox den? Do something on this story,Tucker!
While Dr Lozano did not actually say stupid is as stupid does, after listening to how she was treated by politicians, pharmacists and certain drugstore chains, she didn’t have to.
All of her patients became asymptomatic within 24 to 48 hours after being treated at her clinic. After hearing about her success people from all over Texas have been showing up at her clinic.
Dr. Lozano is an activist who cares about her patient’s health, but also wants the public to know the truth.
The truth, she says, is that when victims of the coronavirus show up at hospitals and clinics, they are sent home to quarantine and suffer.
Dr. Lozano is without fear, a quality we need to see more of during this pandemic, she is unafraid to say where she first learned about the effectiveness and the treatment protocol of hydroxychloroquine. Dr Ivette boldly proclaims that it was President Trump who gave her the key. She followed the President’s first revelation about the protocol and followed through with it—now all of her coronavirus patients are glad that she did.
Dr. Lozano says the hydroxychloroquine cost a mere $13.00 – so there is little chance that people may be saddled with a bill for treatments that they could never handle.
Senator Bob Hall has stood by Dr. Lozano in her fight against the pharmacies and the pharmacy board. At one point the pharmacies insisted that Dr. Lozano provide a diagnosis for every hydroxychloroquine prescription she wrote. Besides being a clear violation of doctor—patient confidentiality, it is also, clearly, very stupid.
And that is why—stupid is as stupid does.
“Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment.” (Ex 23:2)
The scriptures admonish us not to follow a crowd to do something evil—would it also be expedient not to follow a crowd to do something stupid?
Making people stay home to suffer and possibly die when they don’t have to is well, super stupid.
Grab onto your sense of reality and hold onto it for dear life—‘Operation Warp Speed’ is here.
‘Operation Warp Speed’ (OWS), not to be confused with Occupy Wall Street, was announced by President Donald Trump in the White House Rose Garden yesterday.
‘The United Vaccine Front’
“In a Friday press briefing, President Donald Trump discussed “Operation Warp Speed,” a new federal government initiative to finish the development, manufacture and distribution of a proven coronavirus vaccine.(Fox News, May 15, 2020)
“Operation Warp Speed, that means big and it means fast,” President Donald Trump said in a Friday press briefing, remarking on how the initiative would accelerate the development and diagnostics of COVID-19 breakthrough therapies, and would be “unlike anything our country has seen since the Manhattan Project.”
Hold on, Mr. President, before Dr. Anthony Fauci, who shows up standing behind you in all camera shots wearing a ginormous mask, that radio talk show giant Rush Limbaugh described as “one of the biggest masks I have ever seen in my life time” and who described Dr. Deborah Birx as “the scarf lady wearing a scarf that came down to her knees”, fly the President’s Task Force straight over the cuckoo’s nest.
Though Fauci was the only person other than the president always in yesterday’s camera shots, both he and Birx could have been human billboards for something called ‘The United Vaccine Front’.
They’ve certainly been canoodling together on the current coronavirus shutdown
So Fauci and Birx—who keep moving the goal posts as to when America can be reopened—let their masks do their talking for them, unlike reporters who wear them into all Rose Garden briefings but slide them down when asking questions—to make sure their all-important voices can be easily heard.
“The president said the initiative will bring together the efforts of federal agencies such as the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). (Fox News)
Since when have the efforts of federal agencies not been together?
They’ve certainly been canoodling together on the current coronavirus shutdown.
Is the President’s Task Force hoping that the masses will forget that Fauci and Birx started off their response to the Coronavirus pushing mitigation and a necessary 15-day shut down to “lessen the curve”? Now two months later it’s stay closed until the vaccine is ready, with ominous hints that life in America may never return to normal.
Will the ‘initiative’ called ‘Operation Warp Speed’ leave American society as helpless test rabbits in creepy ‘scientist’ Bill Gates’ laboratories?
President Trump said yesterday that he doesn’t care who gets the contracts for the coronavirus vaccine, which will be delivered “at scale” by the military.
There is no valid argument that the millions the vaccine will be tried on sure do.
“U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper said that the Department of Defense would deliver a vaccine “at scale” by the end of the year, while the president remarked that providing larger vaccine quantities to areas in higher need of them would “make sense.” (Fox News)
As for Fauci and Birx, why should the masses trust scientists who have yet to come up with a cure for the common cold?
“Previous optimistic projections by White House health officials for when a COVID-19 vaccine may be available have been between 12-18 months. When asked by a reporter on why this initiative would supposedly take less time, the president did not provide specifics. (Fox News)
Is that because he doesn’t have them?
“While remdesivir, chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine have been used to treat COVID-19 patients in hospitals and health settings, there are studies still underway exploring their supposed efficacy and potential side effects.
“On April 24, the Food and Drug Administration cautioned against the used of hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine for COVID-19 treatment outside of a hospital setting or clinical trial, as the drugs had been linked to serious “heart-related adverse events” and death in patients with COVID-19.
“As of May 15, more than 1.4 million people in the U.S. had been confirmed to have COVID-19. There had been more than 86,000 deaths and 246,000 recoveries, according to Johns Hopkins’ data.
‘Operation Get Real’ would have been a better name for OWS
Problem is that with questionable computerized models, inaccurate death certificates, padded death numbers and the forced placement of COVID patients into vulnerable nursing homes and long term facilities, the actual number may always remain more myth than fact.
Unless the president knows something that we don’t ‘Operation Warp Speed’ should be used with the manure fill that keeps the flowers growing in the White House Rose Garden.
‘Operation Get Real’ would have been a better name for OWS.
To begin, recall recently, after damning evidence surfaced of a corrupt FBI prosecution of an innocent 3-Star Star General, Fed Judge Emmet Sullivan was directed by the DOJ to vacate the conviction. The DOJ had already moved to drop the case. But instead, the Judge refused to reverse the plea deal and now acts like the entire matter is still a fair case. But why??
Question: Surprised the Judge overseeing Lt. Gen. Flynn’s Fed Prosecution isn’t angry at FBI shenanigans, but now doubles-down to save this half-aborted monster? Despite manifest problems with Gen. Flynn’s prosecution, Judge Emmet Sullivan might pursue perjury or contempt charges against Michael Flynn, apparently convinced defendant and family have not suffered enough.
So “contempt” is for Flynn’s “perjury” for admitting he lied to the Judge. Huh? Confused yet? Is it immaterial to Sullivan that Flynn was misled, did not receive Due Process, was menaced with a dead law, and threatened with jail and by family prosecutions? His FBI file was set aside when it was decided he answered honestly – before being reopened to slander Flynn and use this for propaganda purposes.
WHAT MOTIVATES JUDGE?
Some theories bouncing around the internet follow: Did Obama’s people contact this judge to stress how incredibly important it was to hang onto some element of the Russia Investigation as being ethical to protect the FBI and Intelligence community? Did the judge realize his failure to notice the contrived nature of this case would ruin his reputation for probity? Perhaps the judge is a true believer in the progressive wing of grievance leftism? Maybe the judge just doesn’t like military folks, or Flynn specifically and still thinks he is a sellout? Perhaps he accepts “progressive” politics, where adherence to pragmatism means that the outcome equals justice?!! Or maybe this is all more gas-lighting.
Obdurate refusal to cooperate leads to several disruptive decisions. Now what? Sadly, this will reinflate all pompous windbags who’ve spent 3 years lecturing us about how corrupt Trump’s staff is. But is there really a sound argument to convict Flynn for anything?
JUDGE GLEESON ARRIVES OPPOSED
Sullivan requested amicus briefs from any party. Further, Sullivan appointed former Fed Judge John Gleeson, to help on the DOJ’s request, ruling on the perjury charges. Gleeson judging Gen. Flynn is shocking, having just published an anti-Flynn screed. Wrote Gleeson, “Flynn’s guilt has already been adjudicated. So if the court finds dismissal would result in a miscarriage of justice, it can deny the motion, refuse to permit withdrawal of the guilty plea and proceed to sentencing.” But what if the court made a mistake, or if serious misconduct profoundly affecting the prosecution was exposed?
Does Gleeson’s choice expose liberalism’s worst error – conceit? Should the FBI prevail even in Due Process busting scenarios? There must be a rational reason for all the Trump hate which started with the FBI before he entered office. Maybe Trump imbalances what progressives feel is the natural order – leadership by Ivy League scions, as naturally socialist as philosophy professors.
LEFTISM’S INFLUENCE
Some might say the general problem with America is the shocking number of high officials across the nation whose values, thinking skills and habits are completely compromised by progressive fables – such as Marxism. And should you doubt Sullivan’s leftist passions, he once sent out an email to his entire federal email list for a Global Warming convention, then was taken to the woodshed for apparent open leftist ideology by the Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals.
PROSECUTORIAL MISCONDUCT
Whatever the story, Judge Sullivan still has an absolute duty to insure the US Federal Court does not perpetrate crimes or aid in the stripping of American citizens of their civil rights. This has nothing to do with personal feelings. And how does Sullivan square all of the dishonest elements of this prosecution? And the fact that Flynn was considered innocent until FBI “leadership” decided his case would be rewritten to make a prosecution? Whatever happened to Prosecutorial Misconduct?
The theory of prosecuting Gen. Flynn for perjury in a case where he suffered reckless bias, frame-ups and deceit by the FBI would, according to one blogger – be like charging a girl rent for her time spent in a closet where she was hiding from a convicted pedophile frantically kicking in doors to find her.
If an FBI agent is not conducting a formal, predicated, announced investigation of a suspect – how can a person be charged with lying to the authorities?
NATURAL LAW JUSTICE
Regarding rules which the Natural Law places on liberal democracy, John Finnis has written:
Deeper and more demanding than any constitutional or other legal limits on governments are the moral principles and norms which natural law theory considers to be principles and norms of reason, and which are limits, side-constraints, recognized in the conscientious deliberations of every decent person. The public responsibilities and authority of rulers do not exempt them from these limits:” no intentional killing of the innocent; no rape; no lies; no non-penal enslavement, and so forth. The reassertion of the truths that there are indeed such limits on government, and that they can well be articulated in the relatively modern language of truly inviolable rights (is essential). See Liberalism and Natural Law Theory, John Finnis.
But if Flynn’s conviction is upheld, the Fed Government will now stand for the proposition that regardless of how many rules or laws cops break for a conviction, it doesn’t matter. For as long as there is a guilty plea – even if the charge is based upon bogus charges emanating from casual comments made to government workers, not under oath – the state can always claim a victory.
The point here is that all rulers and judges are under a moral, higher law which does not allow hoax setup prosecutions and kangaroo courts. And that general fairness and common sense can never be set aside, even when members of the society pursue their ambitions for greater power. And so targeting Gen. Flynn to trick him into pleading guilty to embarrass Trump and punish the General for supposed past sins is nothing short of evil, which no leader is justified to pursue.
Demonstrations of average citizens, not DNC or Soros’ paid protestors, continue to express just how fed up citizens are of lockdowns that may have moved well past their purpose in many states and localities across America. Several “Democratic” governors are showing their true colors as they cannot resist exercising their executive power over hairdressers, ministers, and the regular people of faith. Prisoners are allowed to go free from prison; yet, the people of faith are prevented by law to leave their homes to go worship God. Several thousands of years ago, that same scenario played out between an all powerful Pharaoh and a simple shepherd named Moses.
Americans are witnessing firsthand the differences in leadership style
Americans are witnessing firsthand the differences in leadership style between several “Democratic” governors and Republican governors as they navigate the COVID-19 Pandemic. Americans are witnessing “Democratic” governors and other elected and unelected “Democratic” officials disregard, even trample, basic freedoms across America. This “Pharaoh phenomenon” is not limited to governors, but citizens see control freaks at every level of government. It means that elected officials and administrative appointees,
do not really believe they are elected to serve the will of the people.
The COVID-19 “pandemic,” defined rather narrowly, can be used as a “legitimate” way to absolutely control people under the legal authority via whatever administration inclined to put “shutdown” or “lockdown” orders in place. Most Americans, however, do not pay too much attention to the loss of freedoms that do not involve them very directly. Yet, fear is also a major deterrent to react to unconstitutional mandates from on high.
Ironically, unless one is receptive to a liberating thought, and then acts upon that thought, that idea is never transformed into a substantial reality. And, the notion of whether anyone is receptive to a liberating thought is primarily dependent on the individual. If no one paid attention to the ideals in the Declaration of Independence, the U.S.A. would not have been born.
Even if people can consume and digest liberating wisdom, the challenge is whether the receivers of such ideals can do something about them. If the founding generation had not accepted the ideals woven into the Declaration of Independence, America would not have been “conceived in liberty.” More importantly, if the founders had not had the courage to act upon such ideals in the Declaration of Independence, the nation would not have been born. America could have been aborted by fear. And, the founding generation had much to fear.
The Continental Congress was deliberating their collective colonial destiny at the same time Britain was launching their largest deployment of troops to control a colony in their history to that point. Yet the founding fathers voted to declare independence. Those brilliant and very brave men accepted the ideals of the Declaration of Independence, and overcame their fears, and acted upon their faith. They had the courage to be willing to die for what they believed in. And, many did die—for what they believed in.
In 2020, amidst the COVID-19 “pandemic,” we know many people are dying, and that is truly tragic. As President Trump has said, one life is too many. But, the deeper question may be: is our Republic in danger of dying?
Americans are now at this point in history, and again face the reality that the Hebrews faced as they witnessed the struggle between Moses and the mighty Pharaoh. Americans again face the same concerns confronting the Pilgrim fathers as they were the victims of the Anglican church with the weight of the British government behind it.
Big brother has arrested and jailed hairdressers for simply trying to survive amidst the shutdown rules for “non-essential” businesses
Yet, for American citizens there is nowhere left to run. America is the last bastion of principled freedom of any type. There can be no Exodus from Egypt, nor an escape from England. American citizens have enjoyed several privileges of growing up in a land of plenty, within the land of the Free. But in 2020, American citizens need to make a decision as to whether they still hold those truths to be self evident, or whether those truths are no longer relevant.
In 2020, big brother has arrested and jailed hairdressers for simply trying to survive amidst the shutdown rules for “non-essential” businesses. Yet, more importantly, in some localities, Christian ministers have been arrested for defying the government shutdown mandates, which restrict the freedom of worship. The logic, which is not truly logic, does not align with the Bill of Rights. While much of the lockdown mandates seem logical and reasonable, those mandates that violate the First Amendment freedoms are practically ignored. This should not be tolerated in the Land of the Free.
When ministers are being arrested and congregants are fined for gathering in parking lots in their cars, despite the MSM, it is being witnessed by those who still value religious freedom and the freedom to worship. This gets back to Moses and the Pharoah. It also gets back to why the Pilgrims fled to the New World: ministers were being arrested and congregations were living in fear because of what they believed. The Pilgrims were really Separatists who did not align well with the Church of England. We seem to have come full circle in 400 years!
Christian ministers have been arrested for defying the government shutdown mandates
Those Separatists had such faith that they pursued their freedom to worship even at the risk pf their “fortunes,” their familiar lives in England (comfort zones), and their survival (their very lives). They left their customary surroundings to go off into unknown territory – risking their very lives. In short, they did what patriot Patrick Henry proclaimed in 1775: “Give me liberty,or give me death!” Their pursuit of freedom in those days was more than an intellectual perception or acknowledgement of the egregious violations of religious liberty.
Patrick Henry and the brilliant and brave men of the founding generation not only shouted their faith, like the Separatists, they acted upon it. Henry’s very volatile speech voiced sentiments that inspired the revolutionary generation. Inside St. John’s Episcopal Church in Richmond, Virginia on March 23, 1775, the delegates to the Second Second Virginia Convention were moved to action by Henry’s words:
“Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me Liberty or give me death!”
COMMENT: Hello,
Some may view you blog as stirring the masses but for me it is a calming force. Not that I like what is happening but at least I know who, what and why. That’s better than freaking out and wondering if everyone else is insane.
This may seem naive but I use to think the SPY was too big to manipulate. Looking at Renko bars it’s easy to see computer programming and manipulation.
Thanks,
BS
REPLY: I get a lot of information from sources around the world I was informed of the protests being organized in Germany to weeks ago. I am careful to cover such things only when they happen. Otherwise, yes, I could be accused of organizing them. That is not my purpose. It is to explain what is in fact unfolding and I try desperately to ensure I am not just spinning conspiracy theories. I have probably better sources than anyone, especially because all our clients are on the same mindset and we are all sharing what is happening around the world to better understand the global trends.
It is total nonsense that the Russian influenced the 2016 election. Government try always to influence elections. All the propaganda put out by the various news organizations is never questioned by their core readers because they are incapable of thinking for themselves. They BELIEVE what they want to BELIEVE. I have explain that the independent forces account for probably 10%. That can increase with exposing the lies but only when the BELIEVERS are confronted with the realization that they have been stupid sheep. That is the tipping point. That can be determined cyclically.
It is far better to understand what is unfolding, for it does bring calm. You can then watch it unfold. We are in the last 12 years period of this cycle. They are the equivalent to a long-term Panic Cycle. This is how the West falls. The British Empire fell. They people survived. When the Greek Empire of the Heroic period fell, the people migrated because of Climate Change. When Rome fell, it split into many pieces and the separatist movement led to individual city states.
This is not Armageddon – the end of the world. This is just the end of the political system, and unfortunately, this Virus-Climate Change nonsense is deliberately trying to destroy the economy. They have no idea how to create the world they think needs to be created. They are ending Capitalism to be replaced with tyranny. They will not succeed, but this will come at the cost of blood in the streets which will vary depending upon where you are. The Midwest and the South will stand against California and New England – the stronghold of the Marxist believers.
In Florida, we had a “voluntary” stay at home. I would routinely go shopping and other than the mall and restaurants, most else was open. Police never pulled me over nor did they harass the people. The beach was supposed to be closed, but as long as you were walking the beach the police said that was fine. Of course, I live on a Private Beach so that was never an issue anyhow. In New England, police were nasty, ticketing people, arresting them, and generally acting as the right hand of ruthless illegal decrees.
So where you live will definitely be critical during the next 12 years.
Like you, I’m also a student of history. One clear parallel I’m now beginning to see if the close link between the Democratic Party(Jacobins) and the CDC-WHO-Medical Science community looking to target the center-right(Gironde-royalist bloc) repeating the escalating battle that consumer France starting in 1789. You know the story well. Foreign threats of invasion to reinstate the King after he tried to flee, then put him on trial, subsequently executed him, then turned against his defenders who vainly tried to position themselves as moderates, defenders of free property and free assembly. The Jacobins as a party became weaponized, using foreign threats, internal threats, real or imagined, to justify witch hunts, looking for saboteurs, looking for enemies within…a so called 5th column(which came into currency during the Spanish Civil war 1936-39)…we saw then the Jacobins take over what was then known as The Committee for Public Safety…I believe this originated in Paris, which was the center of radicalism then. This became a political body, later got radicalized and became the focus of the Jacobins to be used against the Gironde and other moderate parties in the Convention. Each of their leaders eventually either were guillotined, committed suicide or manage to flee the country. Eventually, the Committee decided who would be tried for treason, would be hanged, etc. Robespierre became its leader and ultimate hangman. Later, after the committee turned against him, he tried to kill himself, then was subsequent guillotined.
I see the CDC-WHO bloc as the modern version of the Committee, with people like Anthony Fauci, the media and Bill Gates now leading the charge to take over society and impose their views on everyone, claiming, like the Committee back in 1790-93, there were existential threats, also internal ones, that required extreme and emergency uses of power, to ensure the safety of the public. Today, there is no equal of Robespierre..who was a commanding figure back then, but one can look to the ranks of many demanding justice against their opponents…if they manage to get into power, its very easy to see how they will use the Federal Govt, form committees like the Committee of Public safety to impose their will and form of justice on their opponents…you mentioned the violence ahead…I think this is very probable, and like in the period 1789-1793, violence will reach a fever pitch, turning quite bloody, quite violent, with half the population being targeted, with police, with national guard with the media all being weaponized against those who opposed them.
I think it’s coming. The analogue is the French Revolution. Ironistic, isn’t it that terms like left, center and right all came from where people sat in the Convention in 1789? Isn’t it also ironic they used a crisis(the corona virus) to justify extreme measures? Isn’t it also ironic they looked at foreign threats to the country(Russia) to nationalize the economy…their ultimate goal, to print money, to create inflation which will destroy the middle class and wealthy. This is the Democratic party playbook. It is no accident.
MS
REPLY: This is how history repeats. It is like a Shakespeare plot that remains the same for centuries, only the actors change. This is not simply a grudge match against Trump. This is an attempt to actually restructure the entire economy into a Socialist-Climate Change agenda. They are deliberately trying to destroy the world economy to rebuild it in a Zero CO2 environment. This is a nothing virus. I have stated that a pandemic is defined only by widespread geographic impact the same a the flu. It is NOT serious unless it is an EPIDEMIC which is defined as infecting 7.7% of the population. They do not want to admit that 25% of the population is immune. That would simply defeat their entire agenda.
If we take the CDC numbers for the flu last season which was very mild and use the same scare tactics that the death rate is 4% with coronavirus, they arrive at that by only counting the hospitalizations. CDC estimates that the burden of illness during the 2018–2019 season included an estimated 35.5 million people getting sick with influenza, 16.5 million people going to a health care provider for their illness, 490,600 hospitalizations, and 34,200 deaths from influenza. Just taking the hospitalization to calculate the death rate that is 6.9%. LA Countyin California is taking 915 deaths of 19,538 cases to justify the lockdown claiming that death rate is 4% much high than the flu. But the flu calculation using the total infected is 0.0009%. Taking those who saw a doctor it rises to 0.002%.
This is a deliberate FRAUD to keep people imprisoned when the death rate using the same set of numbers is 4% v 6.9%. That is 42% less than the flu! This is an organized plot to overthrow not just Trump – but Capitalism. Welcome to the new Marxist Revolution. The Democrats are leading the charge and the hatred they have fanned the flames of class warfare.
Neil Ferguson which started all of this had a lover who was a activist working in Climate Change. That was his agenda as is Bill Gates. Gates’s friend are off building bunkers in New Zealand. I am aware that we had suggested that the South Island in New Zealand appeared to be a place to go. While they think this is for the Coronavirus, there are other issued in the background not being reported – they know the rise of socialists is coming.
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This is a library of News Events not reported by the Main Stream Media documenting & connecting the dots on How the Obama Marxist Liberal agenda is destroying America
Within the column Taibbi walks-through the ridiculous Russia collusion story and notes the necessary use of the media pretending not to know what took place within the Obama administration; including what continues today in the prosecution of Flynn.
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