Disguised as an opinion piece, Newsweek writes The Russian Plot: How Putin and Trump Colluded.
The Newsweek article is laughably ridiculous and links to even more fake Newsweek news from the same author, Ryan Goodman (along with Kate Brannen) who ask in bold: Which Trump Aides were involved in the Russian Plot?
Haven’t these jackasses learned their lesson already? Apparently not.
Deserving a “Load of Trump”
A friend of mine pinged me with this pertinent thought just moments ago:
I have to admit that in spite of his tendency to exaggerate, Trump isn’t totally wrong. All of these papers and TV networks are guilty of spreading propaganda by the wagonload.
In fact, it is incredible how many lies they have told over the past 20 years. Often this involved whipping up war-lust, which makes it especially despicable. The heavy lying started in Gulf War 1 and got thicker as time went on.
In the Serbian/Yugoslavian conflict, they faked a photograph that went around the world and IMO directly caused the bombing of Serbia.
Oh, and we never see apologies or retractions when the lies are debunked, so f them, they deserve a load of Trump.
The above email was in response to Is Everything Fake News? Trump Blasts “Failing” NY Times, NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN as “Enemy of the American People!”
Russian Dead Horse
There are many things on which to attack Trump. Free trade is a standout.
Instead, all these mainstream media schmucks keep pounding a Russian dead horse with nothing but allegations disguised as “opinion” articles.
What a load of crap.
Mike “Mish” Shedlock
In 2012, President Obama was overheard over a hot microphone telling President Dmitri Medvedev of Russia he would have “more flexibility” to negotiate with Putin after the election.
And the American fake legacy media just yawned…
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Yep. The media yawned right through that one.
Then, just last summer, they slept through the news that former president of Serbia Slobodan Milosevich wasn’t actually the perpetrator of war crimes during the Balkans crisis. Whoops a daisy! Guess they got that one wrong – for twenty some years. Oh, well. The intelligence community needed an enemy to be found and it was slim pickings back in the 90’s. Had to drum up somebody to bully around before the American public gets antsy about receiving their “peace dividend”.
John Pilger, always a worthwhile read, explains it :
http://www.greanvillepost.com/2016/08/31/milosevic-exonerated-but-whod-know-it-the-media-keep-mum/
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Diogenes,
Thank you for the John :Pilger link, a superb article.
DavidC
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Negotiating is a little different than getting blackmailed and being Putin’s bitch. You right wingers are in denial about what you elected. I would like to see how financially involved Mish is with Russia, and also how many Russian trolls are posting in the comments here.
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You are a special snowflakes, aren’t you?
No proof. No evidence. Just allegations disguised as “opinion” articles
Just stomping your feet.
Stomp them. Stomp them harder
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Consider: http://journal-neo.org/2016/04/28/flashback-top-journalist-exposes-how-intelligence-agencies-control-western-media/
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Phil, go check your mailbox. My Obama secret decoder ring indicates that there is a Russian agent hiding in there. Be careful… very very careful.
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Phil, I just spilled my wine laughing – AT YOU!
Ha ha ha.
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“Negotiating is a little different than getting blackmailed and being Putin’s bitch. You right wingers are in denial about what you elected.”
The mainstream Media COLLUDED with the Hillary campaign, against Trump.
You are in denial of the truth, Joe. The MSM/Hillary plan was to get a Pied Piper candidate nominated by the Republicans, then defeat him in the national election. It backfired spectacularly.
“Trump is Putin’s bitch,” is a propaganda campaign, nothing more, as you well know.
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The only issue globalist owned MSM has with Putin is absence of a Rothschild controlled central bank in Russia. Same for Iran Syria and North Korea. See the pattern?
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The Rothschild’s had a major role in the creation of the US Federal Reserve. For details, read “The Creature from Jekyll Island”. That was where the world’s most powerful bankers met in secret to draw up the plans for the Fed.
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The fundamental problem is the career politician, not the Fed. You could end the Fed tomorrow, but it would not suddenly make the career politician moral.
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BTW, I like everything that G. Edward Griffin does, especially with Freedom Force. However, his sincere effort to expose a conspiracy around the Fed is a similar flaw of other honest people who want to label the normal cycle of the invisible hand as a conspiracy. The fact is the people accused of being behind the conspiracy are just not that smart.
The original intent of the Fed was sound – buy CORPORATE bonds in weak areas of the country to help the private sector. It was the Federal govt that forced the Fed to purchase treasury bonds to fund war, and like everything govt does, like the very limited application of the income tax, it cannot control its self-interest. Govt self-interest can Trump everyone else’s, which of course is why the Founders tried to limit/constrain govt.
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You hit the whole shebang right on the nose. Trump is f***ing the establishment and so far their efforts have been undermined by the availability of internet news sites.
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Putin’s biggest “crime” is that he did not allow Russia to be robbed blind like was done under Yeltsin and Yeltsin hand-picked Putin to ensure the robbing of all natural resources of Russia for pennies on the dollar would continue but Putin turned out to be a nationalist and took most of Russian oil and gas under government ownership by buying it back from Russian oligarchs that had stolen it before those oligarchs could sell it to western companies.
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Those oil and gas companies which are foreign owned in Russia still pay money to the Russian state because the pipes are government owned.
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Putin is funding limited welfare state for russians with the oil money whereas western countries fund welfare states with just debt.
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“Putin’s biggest “crime” is that he did not allow Russia to be robbed blind like was done under Yeltsin and Yeltsin hand-picked Putin to ensure the robbing of all natural resources of Russia for pennies on the dollar”
BINGO
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I have become convinced there are plans going back a long way as to how the world should look. If I typed it all up it would be a very long essay.
Putin fits as a blockage they want removed. He’s inconvenient. There is a plan and much more to this.
“We have been commemorating the centenary of the Great War of 1914-18 and should perhaps consider the war aims for which Germany fought. On 9 September 1914, the Imperial Chancellor, Bethmann-Hollweg, wrote: “Russia must be thrust back as far as possible from Germany’s Eastern frontier and her domination over non-Russian vassal peoples broken…We must create a Central European Economic Association through common customs treaties to include France, Belgium, Holland, Denmark, Austria-Hungary and perhaps Italy, Sweden and Norway….
All members will be formally equal but in practice under German leadership and must stabilise Germany’s economic dominance over Central Europe”.
The EU fits this long-held purpose exactly,which is the reason for the EU’s present proxy war in the Ukraine. If Mr. Putin stops the insane eastward expansion of the EU project, the “Drang nach Osten”, he will have done us as big a favour as the Red Army did at Stalingrad.””
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I fully agree with the observation of the German conquest of Europe. Trump realizes this and is working with Russia to prevent or minimize carnage when Germany finally starts a military war.
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Early on Putin gave a rather earthy speech telling the IMF to stuff it and Russians didn’t need their rescue.
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To avoid giving control away to international bankers that have little regard for sovereignty. It means nothing to them. States become subservient to whomever holds the purse strings.
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I’m confused. So Putin is a good guy now? Is this because Trump said so?
This seems fake to me.
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Nothing to be confused about
And I never said Putin was a “good guy”
But Talking with Russia is a good thing. And Putin did not conspire with Trump.
That notion is obviously ridiculous.
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Putin is a thug.
However he is a nationalist thug trying to keep ownership of oil and gas and mineral riches partially in government control so the profits benefit ordinary russians.
Putin usually increases pensions always before elections to make sure the common people like him so Putin is no different than welfare supporting democrats in that regard.
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The situation in Russia is that russian media treats Putin like US media treated Obama.
The opposition is given almost no airtime in russian tv-channels however there are newspapers in both Moscow and St. Petersburg that cover what opposition does.
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There are administrative blocks put in place by the courts so leading opposition figures are many times prevented from standing in elections due to claims of corruption or similar.
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There have been a few murders of opposition figures and couple reporters during Putin’s reign that started in 1999.
These might be tied somehow to Putin but there has been no proof of that.
Those few murders might also have been because corrupt oligarchs did not like those reporters or they exposed corruption by the local politicians.
The opposition is funded by corrupt oligarchs who would like to get control of government so everything government owns could be privatized for pennies on the dollar like back in the good times of Yeltsin when corruption was extreme.
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Obama dropped over 100,000 bombs during his presidency.
26,000 during his last year.
Who’s the damn thug?
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I Perceive the PTB in The City and in Brussels suffering a bit of exasperation the their campaign to take down and parcel out Russian assets might be delayed by US politics.
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Katsaus – what do you make of this:
http://ccaa.elpais.com/ccaa/2017/02/18/catalunya/1487428212_810988.html
A Barcelona large pro-immigrant protest demanding Spain take in its EU cuota of migrants.
Cataluña is traditionally more mixed ethnically than Spain as a whole, ( the Spanish public are not very pro-immigrant) , but still the protest seems politically motivated given Catalan secession is an upcoming topic… I am wondering if this is a new front of pressure designed to underline the divide in Spanish/Catalan perceptions while making Spain look bad and Cataluña more ‘EU’ and more ‘reasonable’ to part of the rest of EU.
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Spain has so far taken EU burden sharing asylum seekers as follows:
144 from Italy.
667 from Italy
For a total of 811.
Spain has made available 900 places so far so the asylum seekers seem not to be too excited to get to Spain because not all 900 available places have been filled.
This is understandable because Spain does NOT provide the generous welfare that Sweden and Germany and some others provide.
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There are further 8512 for Spain to take to fulfill it’s obligations it “voluntarily” agreed after threats from Merkel and EU-commission gangster Juncker.
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Some others are effectively BOYCOTTING Merkel’s incompetent burden sharing plan that increased the pull of Italy and Greece and thereby made the situation worse.
Austria has taken 0 burden sharing asylum seekers so far.
Sweden which was DEMANDING that others signup to burden sharing together with Germany has so far taken 39 from Italy and 0 from Greece and Sweden still has 3727 to take.
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The craziest and most incompetent lapdogs of Merkel seem to be Finland, Netherlands and France which have taken burden sharing asylum seekers at a rapid clip.
Finland has taken much more than even France and Netherlands out of their burden sharing quota so the finnish government must be asleep at the wheel and totally incompetent when it comes to considering their national interest.
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Prime Minister of Finland Juha Sipila is completely clueless and actually offered his mansion in Kempele in Finland to asylum seekers and thereby ATTRACTED thousands of more asylum seekers to Finland when BBC made a fawning news story about him and it spread to Iraq’s television news as well.
Iraqis have stated in Finland that they came because Prime minister Sipila invited them.
In the end Sipila did NOT give his mansion to asylum seekers because some asylum seekers were placed elsewhere in Kempele and on the first weekend they raped a 15-year old finnish girl in the middle of the road.
As a consequence there was a demonstration march against Sipila in Kempele with signs that called Sipila “Satans Sipila” and Sipila CANCELLED giving out his mansion to asylum seekers, ordered all asylum seekers removed away from Kempele and then sold his mansion in Kempele and has never returned there because the locals think he is “Satans Sipila” and an incompetent idiot.
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United Kingdom and Denmark have opted OUT from Merkel’s burden sharing craziness because they have ability to OPT out because they have not given as much power to EU as others have.
Eastern european countries have taken just a few and part is because they do NOT want to take them but bigger part is that there is NO WELFARE in eastern Europe and the syrians and army-deserting eritreans that are the two groups being burden shared from Italy and Greece came to Europe because they wanted free apartment and free welfare money so of course they would only like to go to Sweden and Germany which have the best welfare but are also going to Netherlands, Finland and France which also have good welfre although not as generous as Sweden and Germany.
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All european countries should decide that there is 0 euros given and accommodation is 4-6 people in a room in a common accommodation just food ingredients are given and one cooks by themself and residence permits are only temporary one year at a time and return immediately home once situation is more peaceful and NOBODY would come to Europe.
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Catalans are playing their internal politics towards the spaniards with the issue but catalans are also more naive than others because they have not experienced the Ikea murders committed by eritrean like Sweden has or the rapes committed by syrians like Sweden, Germany, Austria and Finland have.
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There should be NO WELFARE and NO FREE APARTMENTS anywhere in Europe so NOBODY would come…
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Here is the page for statistics on how the “voluntary” burden sharing that Merkel and Juncker rammed through and that spreads asylum seekers from Greece and Italy to around Europe is working out:
https://ec.europa.eu/home-affairs/sites/homeaffairs/files/what-we-do/policies/european-agenda-migration/press-material/docs/state_of_play_-_relocation_en.pdf
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Since the US is largely responsible for the mess that the Middle East enjoys today, the US should be accepting most of the refugees.
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ALL syrians were SAFE once they reached Turkey.
Syrians started coming in large numbers to Europe because Sweden and Germany in their virtue-signaling INCOMPETENCE gave 100% acceptance to all syrians and with that acceptance came permanent residency, FREE apartment, FREE generous welfare money and all the other goodies like free healthcare, free dental, free schools, free daycare, generous childrens allowance paid for each child, quick family re-unifications straight to welfare.
In addition to Germany and Sweden the biggest culprit and GUILTY party was Greece because Syriza and Tsipras stopped detention, stopped border control and just PUSHED asylum seekers towards Germany and Sweden starting in early 2015.
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Blaming USA for stupid and incompetent policies by Sweden and Germany that LURED syrians that were ALREADY SAFE in Turkey and policy by Greece to have NO border control and just push syrians towards Germany and Sweden which caused the 2015 rush is insane.
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Germany, Sweden and Greece are RESPONSIBLE.
German, swedish and greek voters in their stupidity voted for incompetent leaders.
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Merkel should have RESIGNED but instead she is protected by german lapdog media and is running for another term and german media is so BAD quality that Schulz who is a even more open borders fanatic and immigration fanatic and EU fanatic than Merkel is presented by German media as change when Schulz is more of the same…
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Thanks Katsaus – that makes it very clear. Unless the Spanish have somehow blocked access to the available places by bureaucratic means ( they have no reason to over a few dozen places), then it does show that migrants are shopping, or at the least staying where benefits are better. The Catalan protest is symbolic because Cataluña is closer to France in its political and social outlook ( republican aims) as well as having close financial ties.
ejh – Europe is as involved, the US is just the most obvious. If there were no refugee/migrant plan/backup plan then the whole idea of stirring up/involved in Syria would have been rethought if not abandoned.
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It is not a surprise that the news outlets are failing. No one wants to pay for crazy stories you can get for free from conspiracy sites.
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I figured out that Newsweek and Time Mag. are fake news many years ago. Since then I have made sure neither are anywhere near my house. Recently I mailed NYT’s bargain rate subscription offer back to them in their prepaid envelope with the message: “No fake news needed here!”.
I did however just renew my subscription to Reason Magazine.
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If progressives were ever susceptible to reason and fact, they wouldn’t exist.
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Ever read Mother Jones or Salon… that’s where they get their “ideas”.
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Put something heavy in the envelope and it could cost them more for the return. If everyone did that they’d stop sending out the crap.
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It really worries me that Trump would be colluding with Russia to prevent a nuclear world war. Obviously he is a traitor.
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The media is owned lock, stock and barrel by the banks. And they’ll lie through their teeth to please their owners to work another day. There is no honor in journalism anymore. Only presstitutes. The journalist oath is history. I don’t think there’s one real investigative journalist left in the country. If there were they could pick off scandals like shooting ducks in a pond.
The media was always our second line of defense against tyranny. Now we’re on our own.
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Advertisers call the shots if the press isn’t in hock to the bank.
Why do advertisers want to be associated with NYT etc?
Boycott their advertisers. Trump should encourage that in the electorate.
All they will then have is bank debt to fund them with massively reduced ad revenue.
A list of main ad revenue sources per publication would be a starting point then open a campaign against them on-line.
Don’t buy from these SOB’ because……..
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although i haven’t been able to figure it out, there must be several reasons for the Russians
being the bogey-man for the mass media vs. Trump. i realize the mm hates Trump. i know
they distrust Putin. there are many more avenues to explore where the mm could use actual
facts to discredit Trump, but they don’t. in my opinion, they are click-baiting Russians in a
competitive media environment with a desperate attempt to remain relevant.
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Can anyone here explain WHY progressives “appear” to despise and fear Russia so much….a nation that as far as I know has done NOTHING to any American, while they “appear” to be bending over backwards to accommodate Muslims, many of which who have devoted themselves to our destruction, and illegal immigrants who have been a DIRECT challenge to the very people progressives claim to represent…American middle class and low wage workers?
This is not just hypocrisy. It’s abrogation. It’s deliberately misleading, LYING to people to manipulate them in a way benefiting progressive power. The ONLY sin a progressive can commit is to cause loss to their agenda of world domination.
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Left hates nationalism.
Putin is a russian nationalist.
Trump is an american nationalist.
Putin prevented big corps from profiting by not letting foreign companies and oligarchs rob all russian oil, gas and mineral wealth.
Trump has promised to stop big corps from profiting through illegal immigration, H1B immigration and from overpriced military contracts.
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The Left Loves Nationalism (of their kind)
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See post above – Putin is a blockage to a large plan that goes back close to 100 years. It’s a very long story on a very long time line
Its also a reason why the US and IMF are co-opt’ed to support the EU/Euro as without that the plan of pan-Europa will fail and that will not be allowed to happen.
Anyone blocking the plan arrives in the cross-hairs. Have no surprise if Trump is pulled to one side, has his DNA changed, and comes back anti-Putin.
It is also why I am sure LePen will not win in France. It won’t be allowed to happen. Just not allowed.
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Who needs nationalism when you can have trans-national socialism, it’s an equal opportunity public led endeavour that supercedes identity.
It’s great, you get to be anyone and no-one else will know.
Please register all details about yourself in the individual concession sheet attached, as we may need to need to remind you of who you once were.
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Because they’re brainwashed by beltway politicians who aren’t happy with Russia’s interference into US plans in the Middle East? It’s also just a knee-jerk reaction to Trump, who they think is linked to Putin at the hip.
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Think about it this way. Those who own the media also own the most important institutions of democracy. They do own those institutions in Russia, but that is a work in progress. But wouldn’t it be nice to regain lost ground in the US by fabricated collusion with Russia? Two flies with one swat.
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You Americans are so stupid-many older Europeans alive still remember being in very bad places run by the Germans when they steamrolled through the continent with their nationalism-and Trump is no different with his “America First”. I recall Mish liking to occasionally post some old Dr. Seuss cartoons about the dangers of freeloading-he would best get himself acquainted with the good Doctor’s biting drawings on the “America First” phenomenon that is now rearing its ugly head again before it’s too late.
Those people, who have lost a sense of history, are going to have to re-live it themselves.
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I actually wish these stories were true and that Trump and Putin were actually colluding. This would be a great step towards a much safer world as well as providing many trading opportunities between the US and Russia.
I find it amusing that the American public has been so brainwashed with decades of anti Russian propaganda that any link to either Putin or Russia is assumed as bad/evil.
One day Americans might just wake up and treat Russia as an ally.
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Hail Hydra!
Trump is Captain America!
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The ideal that Russia, or any other nation state would have gave the podesta emails to WikiLeaks is ludicrous. At a bare minimum they prove bribery and racketeering beyond a shadow of a doubt. If Russia had the emails, I’m assuming they did, but if they had them AND they remained secret they would have had so much leverage they would have effectively owned her. Moreover her whole administration would have been composed of similarly compromised people, at thier insistence.
Keep in mind that before the leak there is no way she could have known no one would care.
Why would they have favored Trump in such a circumstance?
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The MSM must really hate having a leader use direct communication to the people leaving their interpretations in the dust. Gotta love it!
They now have very little value in the overall equation. Thank you Twitter for stifling the spin masters….. even though you didn’t want to.
Can’t stop my mouse from posting this group 😛
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Coincidentally, Scott Adams just wrote about “imaginary news” today:
http://blog.dilbert.com/post/157358914491/imaginary-news
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The Newsweek article from yesterday links to a Just Security article (oh sorry, piece of “Fake News”) from the day before that, written by Ryan Goodman and Joel Ehrenkranz [Professor of Law at New York University School of Law, who served as Special Counsel to the General Counsel of the Department of Defense (2015-16)]. This in turn leads to the declassified ICA summary document dated 6th January 2017: https://www.dni.gov/files/documents/ICA_2017_01.pdf
Perhaps those commenting and Mister Mish himself should read that and decide whether the United States CIA/NSA /Dept. of Justice are also pumping out “Fake News” as you put it, along with virtually every major news and media outlet in the USA. Even Fox has been calling out in recent days. Then continue the Fake News paranoia and vaguely anti-semitic racist tones.
Of course Russia has always tried to influence American elections, especially in the Soviet era, but this is something much bigger than that.
It’s all getting pretty desperate for Captain America and his followers I suspect, when the – Fake News – is coming from ABC, CNN, NBC and just about every trustworthy news outlet as well as the city of Los Angeles now. That list is lengthening!
Of course Mr. Trump and his pals were colluding (and concluding) with Russia! Carp? Perhaps not. Come on people. [Answers on a postcard please]
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From the DNI-piece:
“When Intelligence Community analysts use words such as “we assess” or “we judge,” they are conveying an analytic assessment or judgment.
Some analytic judgments are based directly on collected information; others rest on previous judgments, which serve as building blocks in rigorous analysis”
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So that is an opinion piece based on the judgements of agents who base their judgements on previous opinion pieces.
The obsession with RT is almost sad because the reach of RT is low but I am sure RT leadership will use the DNI assessment in trying to get more funding from Putin to make silly leftist programs that nobody watches.
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I do NOT understand why the intelligence community is so desperate to attack Trump.
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Did the CIA do something truly horrible in relation to ISIS under Obama so lots of CIA leaders and agents are deathly afraid that they could be tried for TREASON (since ISIS is enemy of America providing them arms is treasonous behavior) or GENOCIDE (sunni-ISIS committed GENOCIDE against shia-alawites, christians and yazidis in Syria, if they committed that via CIA guns then CIA leadership and the agents doing the actual handover of weapons (together with extremist-Qatar and extremist Saudi Arabia) are guilty for GENOCIDE)?
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IF ISIS has PROOF of CIA giving them arms then CIA leadership is susceptible to blackmail which would explain the total ineffectiveness of CIA in the fight against ISIS during the Obama years.
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Are State department staff also guilty of TREASON and GENOCIDE with CIA?
Tillerson just sacked lots of career operatives at State who may have gone over the dark side of humanity during Hillary Clinton’s war-hawk days when the view of the world had gotten so perverted at State that laughing about Gaddafi being tortured to death (after French fighter jet destroyed his convoy that tried to escape out of Libya after US satellite intelligence gave them the location) in front of a reporter seemed like the thing to do for Hillary Clinton.
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Anyone who does not understand why the CIA, the FBI, the Dept. of Justice, many (most?) senior people in the Army, Navy and USAF, most of the US Defense Dept., as well as the entire honest media in America is going to work very hard to change this around legally, then they should simply read the 25 pages of the declassified document ICA_2017_01.
I imagine the Classified version is a lot more revealing. This is about competence and professionalism. The US Presidency has been turned into an appallingly embarrassing and eternally damaging circus. Harward turned him down. Mattis was seriously considering doing so and was horrified he had been nominated. Clinton was a bad candidate. So was he. Both too old in any case. Open your eyes.
“Somebody once said that in looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. And if you don’t have the first, the other two will kill you. You think about it; it’s true. If you hire somebody without [integrity], you really want them to be dumb and lazy.” – Warren Buffet.
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Why he wants a room with no columns?
No 5th column.
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Care is needed on reading any opinion piece.
Remember the dodgy Iraqi WMD dossier from Blair?
A few lessons have been learnt since so material is more convincing now but nevertheless needs real caution when reading. In fact, even more caution as its written more convincingly now.
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And they clearly state that Russia acted through “Guccifer” who has completely denied he had anything to do with Russia. The intelligence community who is know to be ABSOLUTELY attached to the progressives puts out an “opinion” piece that has very sketchy “proof” and much supposition and they are to be taken as credible.
Further, if the Russian’s intent was to damage the credibility of our democratic process, has ANYONE done as much damage as the progressives in this regard. Between KNOWN voter fraud and their continual allegations that our system WAS corrupted, has made this FACT to the world from their very own lips….something that Hillary stated was antithetical to our democracy…..the simple suggestion that our election system was not sound. And look at them now. They are doing EVERYTHING within their power to denigrate not only Trump, but our entire government. Not only are the alleging infiltration and fraud but are PROVING it by incentivizing our intelligence agencies to BREAK THE LAW by leaking. Progressives have made our country look so much more of a joke than Trump ever could have by himself.
It is apparent to me that any risk posed by Russian interference is hugely overshadowed by this coup attempt by the left which seeks to overturn the very democratic election that they claim to love. It is an obvious and deliberate destruction on the level we saw in Egypt with their inspired overthrow, in Libya with THEIR inspired overthrow, with SYRIA with THEIR inspired overthrow, with Yemen, the Ukraine and on and on. World chaos is their agenda using the premise of democracy and liberty while destroying all hopes of either.
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Mish Article 1: “Is Everything Fake News?…”
Mish Article 2: “Newsweek Fake News…”
Looks like you answered your own question… 🙂
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Phil, how’s your Yiddish?
You’re a real schmuck!
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Trump flew to Mexico, and talked to the president of Mexico during the election campaign. No doubt, both Trump and Hillary talked to Israeli agents/reps. Trump claims that besides Russia, Flynn talked to agents of 30 countries, as that was part of his job. The USA has become such a Politically Correct police state, that the NSA/CIA et al. have a full recording of every phone conversation and every email sent almost anywhere in the USA and the world. This goes beyond the capabilities of the Weimar Republic and Gestapo in the German police state of the 1920s and 1930s. Used to be said that J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI had something on every USA Senator, and would thereby get their budget increases under implied threat of releasing damaging information. USA Intell agencies are essentially running a blackmail state. The Russia fuss and Flynn wiretaps leaks to the Fakestream Media are just one symptom of the larger problem.
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Definition below from Wikipaedia. Control of MSM is necessary for this to occur.
You may have been living under its development and Trump upended the last blocks to be put in place, hence the blowback. It also reads as how the EU has been developing, regulating and harmonising all areas. Totally controlling.
“Totalitarianism is a political system in which the state recognizes no limits to its authority and strives to regulate every aspect of public and private life wherever feasible. A distinctive feature of totalitarian governments is an “elaborate ideology, a set of ideas that gives meaning and direction to the whole society”.
The concept of totalitarianism was first developed in the 1920s by the Weimar German jurist, and later Nazi academic, Carl Schmitt, and Italian fascists. Schmitt used the term, Totalstaat, in his influential work on the legal basis of an all-powerful state, The Concept of the Political (1927). The concept became prominent in Western political discourse as a concept that highlights similarities between Fascist states and the Soviet Union.”
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I guess it was real news when Trump accused Cruz’s father to be involved in JFK assassination. Why let go of a golden goose? Tillerson, “Leninist” Bannon, Flynn, Manafort are the laid eggs so far. Trump’s tax return can clear his Russian connection, if any. So he should level with the American peeps.
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i doubt its a political attack. the media is more driven by ratings and advertising than anything else. how else to explain why this very same media gave trump tons of free air time during the primaries. the russian angle is just a story that generates clicks
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Just telling people what they want to hear?
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Find out where their ad revenue originates and boycott those products/producers via an online campaign.
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“how else to explain why this very same media gave trump tons of free air time during the primaries.”
Wikileaks exposed the collusion between the mainstream media and the Hillary campaign. Get the republicans to nominate a Pied Piper candidate to knock down in the national election. Trump was that intended Pied Piper for the media to build up, then knock down, to get Hillary elected.
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The body of the opinion piece contradicts the title.
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Lavrov has called for a “post-West” world order.
With EM growth and China you can see why.
This is one reason the EU bitches so much as they see the exit ramp of history right ahead.
Like some attention seeker.
The French cling onto any institution that increases their leverage. Just happens to be the EU.
Why is a French person heading the IMF – AGAIN.
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This was inevitable with the event of the Internet. The MSM are slowly losing the battle for the hearts and minds of America. Very few people watch MSM anymore and only a small number of them believe what they see and hear. All news is suspect when information becomes so widespread. Someday the government will minimize information in this country similar to Russia and China. They will have no choice when it becomes clear they cannot control the narrative.
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“The Russian Plot: How Putin and Trump Colluded”
See, there’s the headline that nearly 60% of Americans will forward to friends without even reading the associated column. See how easy the manipulation of a majority of the population is in the digital age? You will NEVER see a headline from the same source which says “Well, we were wrong about Trump and Putin.”
A Nation of Sheep by Andrew P. Napolitano
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Social media sites are the seeding place for operation like that. All they needed was a few people to promote certain ideas and a few others to decide what to censor. The digital age made it easy to control the intellectua)ly inept.
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Govt propaganda, aided by a complicit MSM, is virtually impossible to combat, short of a coup. Can Trump and his silent majority win against the establishment (D’s, R’s, MSM, IMF, UN, EU, Industrial Complexes, etc.)? If the majority is silent, NO. If Trump and the majority let their patriotism and nationalist pride cloud their judgement, the military industrial complex will insure the answer is, HELL NO!
Brutal honesty is needed, as the Left/Collectivist/Fabian Socialist are fully prepared to “shatter it (the world) to bits and then remold it nearer to the hearts desire” – http://www.silverbearcafe.com/hiddenagendas.html. Obama included these nut jobs on his cabinet, including Francis Fox Piven, of Cloward & Piven, who wrote about over-burdoning the welfare state to take down capitalism – https://www.thenation.com/article/weight-poor-strategy-end-poverty/#ixzz2VBQ5fMyL.
Obama is the first President not to leave DC after being President. He is continuing to rally his comrades, so they can prevail, and be viewed as great statesmen. Are we ready to do what’s needed to expose these sociopaths for what they are – great criminal?
“We shall go down in history as the greatest statesmen of all time, or as the greatest criminals” ― Joseph Goebbels
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“Can Trump and his silent majority win against the establishment (D’s, R’s, MSM, IMF, UN, EU, Industrial Complexes, etc.)? If the majority is silent, NO.”
The “majority” isn’t even on his side as seen with the popular vote, a significant percentage of the large number who didn’t even vote (44.6% of those eligible) likely having no idea about what is actually going on or not caring if they do, and I’d suspect a significant number of those who voted for him not realizing the seriousness of what is going on and continuing to be optimistic about his chances of putting any kind of a real dent in the VAST status quo swamp even IF he isn’t hit with a major economic downturn within the next four years which WILL be due to previous moronic economic and financial polices but which WILL be blamed on him.
In the modern west, the stupid, the intellectually lazy, the uninformed, and the misinformed instant gratification seekers of bread and circuses will ALWAYS outnumber those who aren’t, easy prey for the highly successful, ethics-free Machiavellian manipulators present throughout human history as described by James Burnham. All apes with car keys are equal, but some are more equal than others (sorry, George).
You will be a much happier person with the side benefit of a lower average blood pressure if you just accept that FACT and simply work to protect ONLY yourself and your own.
“Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.” – George Carlin, referring to the IQ bell curve
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My reference to “majority” was silent majority, which is a much smaller subset. It took less than 5% of the population to start a revolution against the oppressive Brits. I agree with everything you said.
The invisible hand (the trend that results from everyone pursuing their own self-interest) oscilates like everything in the universe – be it sound, light, sun spots, the climate, and the passions of man, which never changes, causing history to repeat. If we fail to learn and harness the lessons of history, this transition from public (trust) to private (no trust) will be extremely violent, as the amplitude of the normal cycle is being exaggerated. There’s a reason the govt does not want an honest account of history, or no accounting at all.
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The Tragic Over-arching Aspect of this Situation…it is merely a Small Slice…..Of FULL SPECTRUM BALONEY..put into One of Many Propaganda Sandwiches,eagerly Consumed by an Ill-informed,lazy and at times Media & I-Phone Mesmerized Populace…..simply Amazing
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The problem, Mish, is that Trump threw Flynn “under the bus,” and by doing so, gave credence to everything false the media is publishing. Who would go to work for Trump now? Perhaps if you were desperate for a job. Flynn did nothing wrong, and he actually supported and worked for Trump in a long, hard campaign. But Trump just tossed him aside like a piece of trash. By doing so, all of Trump’s enemies “won” and all the false media allegations were instantly “validated.”
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Problem is that Flynn was recorded and he had to know that a man in his position would be. I wonder if he was complicit in a plot against Trump’s credibility.
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An interesting historical analysis of our bureaucracy:
February 18, 2017
Taking on the Mandarins
By Jonathan F. Keiler
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2017/02/taking_on_the_mandarins.html
Intro:
“Bureaucrats benefit complex societies and are necessary to modern industrial states, but also impose costs and perils. Modelling the United States’ civil service in part on the Chinese use of mandarins, 19th-century government reformers hoped to create a highly skilled apolitical professional bureaucracy. That bureaucracy is now monstrous and tilted dangerously towards one political alignment over another. The American professional bureaucracy’s barely concealed hostility to the Trump administration is but the latest evidence of this. The president has an opportunity to reform the civil service, but such a hazardous undertaking must be done doggedly and deliberately.”
Conclusion:
“None of this would be easy, and reinstituting an exam and merit pay would likely require new legislation. Likewise, for such a large task, eight years would be better than four. I have nothing against federal bureaucrats. My father was one, and I’ve worked there myself. But the system has obviously become dangerously corrupted by politics in a way that the civil service reforms of a century ago were meant to eliminate. By putting this issue in high relief, Trump’s election could provide the impetus to undo the damage before it is too late.”
Of course, as has become so painfully obvious to me in the mere 30 DAYS since the start of the Trump administration, neither the VAST swamp nor their lapdog media will allow this. It is already far, FAR too late.
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Aloha Winston…(as your ‘name-sake’ would tell us)its NEVER too Late. IT just becomes Increasingly more Difficult Day by Day….lolol aloha
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