65 Responses to DONALD J. TRUMP: President-Elect, United States of America, November 9, 2016

1. Lucas Daniel Smith says:

   November 12, 2016 at 10:08 pm

   Congrats Bruce! You seem to have known all along that Trump would be victorious! I was watching the news on election night and it appeared that at no point was Clinton in the lead.
2. Bruce says:

   November 13, 2016 at 9:56 am

   @ Lucas Daniel Smith:
   Thanks for your kind words.

   I did indeed believe, despite the ENTIRE WEALTHY AND POWERFUL WORLD ESTABLISHMENT being against him, that Trump would SOMEHOW be victorious. (See: http://www.wasobamaborninkenya.com/InspectorSmith/showthread.php/10371-TRUMP-Das-Ende-Der-Welt-(The-End-of-the-World) )

   The next few years are going to be incredibly tough, both economically and culturally, because we as a country have been doing things so wrong in many ways for so many years. However, with Trump as our LEADER, I think we at least NOW HAVE A CHANCE to right the ‘Ship of State’ and start steering her in the right direction. I hope all goes well.

   btw. Like a lot of other folks, I lost some significant money in the options market betting on a WIN for Trump! The market had been DROPPING for about 8 days starting on October 25th when investors began to realize that Trump actually had a chance of winning. Then, the market then rocketed UPWARDS on November 7th after FBI Director Comey stated in a letter that Clinton would not be prosecuted for her email transgressions. (So far, everything the market did made perfect sense to me. That is, if Trump wins, THE MARKET WILL DROP.) On election evening, November 8th, the futures market logically started DROPPING again because investors now really believed that Trump might win. However, AND THEN TOTALLY UNEXPECTEDLY, the market again rocketed UPWARDS and I lost money on my downside trade.

   However, I didn’t let my temporary financial setback on the S&P 500 ruin MY VERY HAPPY WEDNESDAY when I learned that Trump was in the end, despite all the odds, VICTORIOUS.
3. Bruce says:

   November 13, 2016 at 10:33 am

   The CONCLUSION to the greatest hoax in recorded history is now proceeding forward and can not be stopped.

   President Barack Hussein Obama II WAS born at the Coast Province General Hospital in Mombasa Kenya on August 4, 1961, and not in Hawaii as claimed, as shown on the authentic ‘Lucas Daniel Smith, Obama Kenyan Birth Certificate’ – http://www.wasobamaborninkenya.com/1961%20Kenyan%20Birth%20Certificate%20of%20Barack%20Hussein%20Obama%20II,%20Copy.pdf

   (1) Donald J. Trump, as President, will work secretly behind the scenes to facilitate the exposure of Obama as a liar, fraud and impostor.

   (2) Consequently, ‘Team Arpaio’ will be able to achieve national acknowledgement that the Obama Hawaiian Long Form Birth Certificate published on the official White House website is a forgery.

   (3) The American People will start asking — If Obama’s Hawaiian birth certificate is a forgery, then WHERE WAS HE ACTUALLY BORN?

   (4) The ‘Lucas Daniel Smith, Obama Kenyan Birth Certificate’ will become widely accepted in the U.S.A and worldwide as AUTHENTIC.
4. Bruce says:

   November 14, 2016 at 11:33 am

   It’s going to be an incredibly tough next few years for the U.S.A. folks! Decades of gross mismanagement of resources and serious errors on a broad spectrum of issues must somehow be intelligently reversed. KEEP THE FAITH.
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   China fires its first warning shot, warning iPhone sales will suffer if Trump starts a trade war

   CNBC
   by Arjun Kharpal
   11/14/2016

   Excerpt:

   Apple iPhones and other U.S. goods could suffer sales hits in China if President-elect Donald Trump goes through with his “naive” plan of slapping a large import tariff on Chinese products, a state-backed newspaper warned on Sunday.

   During his election campaign this year, Trump spoke of a 45 percent import tariff on all Chinese goods while failing to outline how it would work. Should any such policy come into effect, China will take a “tit-for-tat approach”, according to an opinion piece in the Global Times, a newspaper backed by the Communist party.

   “A batch of Boeing orders will be replaced by Airbus. U.S. auto and iPhone sales in China will suffer a setback, and U.S. soybean and maize imports will be halted. China can also limit the number of Chinese students studying in the U.S.,” the Global Times article read.

   Apple has not responded to CNBC’s request for comment.

   But the Chinese newspaper was not convinced Trump would go through with his suggestion, calling it “merely campaign rhetoric” and questioning its legal validity. U.S. law dictates that presidents can only impose tariffs of no more than 15 percent for a maximum of 150 days on all imports.

   As an example of earlier tariff-tit-for-tats, the Global Times pointed toward the 35 percent tariffs imposed in 2009 on Chinese tires. China retaliated with its own tariffs on U.S. car parts and chicken.

   “Both China and the U.S. suffered losses as a result. From then on, the Obama administration waged no trade war against China. If Trump imposes a 45 percent tariff on Chinese imports, China-U.S. trade will be paralyzed,” the Global Times said.

   The opinion piece said Trump was a “shrewd businessman” and would not be naive, but, if he was serious with the policy, it would affect a number of U.S. industries.
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   View the complete article, including image and video, at:

   http://www.cnbc.com/2016/11/14/apple-iphones-could-be-hit-if-trump-imposes-a-45-percent-tariff-on-china-exports-beijing-warns.html
5. Bruce says:

   November 20, 2016 at 11:56 am

   ITB – What Next for the Fogbow?

   View the contributor’s posts on the topic at:

   http://thefogbow.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=9245

   WARNING: The Fogbow site is not birther friendly
6. Bruce says:

   November 21, 2016 at 1:33 pm

   What Should Trump Do?

   Thoughts from the Frontline
   by John Mauldin
   11/20/2016

   Excerpt:
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   No matter who won the presidency, the economic way forward was not going to be easy. The Republican team understands they must “stand and deliver.” But as we will see in today’s letter, that is not going to be easy. I’m going to depart from the normal format of my letters, where I talk about the economic realities we face and how we should invest, and instead offer my view of what I think the Trump administration and the GOP-led Congress should do.

   Please note, this is not necessarily what they will do. In complete candor, what I’m proposing will be remarkably difficult for certain members of the Republican and Democratic Congress to countenance. It requires accepting some significant philosophical heresies that are anathema to all politicians (different heresies/anathemas for different politicians, according to their philosophical bent), but I see it as the only way forward if we want to dodge a deep recession and/or a greater crisis in the future.

   I know for a fact that many of the people you have seen listed on the Trump economic transition team will be reading this. That is one reason I’ve been taking so long to put these thoughts to paper. And some of the ideas I’ll share are quite frankly things I have come around to in just the last week. I will readily admit to having already mentally written my post-election letter based on the assumption that Hillary Clinton was going to win; and on Wednesday morning I had to throw out everything I had thought about and start all over. And it’s not just you and I who had to shift gears quickly: I know that quite a few people on the transition team had speaking engagements and other projects arranged for later that week, and they had to scramble to redo their schedules.

   I’ve done a lot of talking with a lot of people and listening and reading in the last 10 days. This letter is where I currently come out. What I’m going to propose is something that I think is politically possible (in terms of gaining bipartisan support, which will be necessary for certain portions of what I’m suggesting). I also think it has the potential to solve the deficit/debt problem and provide the funding needed for healthcare, Social Security, and the other necessary categories of government spending. It would also be a massive stimulus to the economy – boosting jobs, new business creation, and entrepreneurial activity.

   Up front we must face the fact that the American people want several incompatible things at once: They want lots of expensive healthcare provisions for everyone; they want tax cuts; and they want a balanced budget. As we will see below, we can have relatively universal healthcare (no matter how it’s funded and delivered), tax cuts, or a balanced budget; but we can have only two of the three. Most Americans want all three and don’t see why they shouldn’t have them. There are some exceptions – there are, for example, some economists who don’t care about tax cuts or a balanced budget. They are working from an economic theory that says deficits and debt don’t matter; but in practice, in the observable, empirical world, they do matter. Greatly. Maybe not this year, but sooner or later the piper has to be paid.

   Setting the Stage

   Let’s look briefly at where we are now – at the constraining facts that any economic proposal must take into consideration.

   The US federal government debt will be slightly north of $20 trillion before Obama leaves office in January. Add in local and state debt of another $3 trillion (plus), for a total of more than $23 trillion of government debt. The US economy will be a few hundred billion dollars under $19 trillion at the end of this year. That is a debt-to-GDP ratio of somewhat over 121%. For the record, when you are trying to determine the effects of total government debt on the economy, not to include state and local debt is disingenuous. The debt must all be paid by the same general taxpayers at one level or another. (Please note: I am rounding out the numbers in this letter because when you’re talking about trillions and hundreds of billions, anything to the right of the decimal point is kind of meaningless.)

   That debt has risen roughly $10 trillion under Obama, in just eight years. Last year the debt rose $1.3 trillion, even though we were told that the budget deficit was only around $600 billion. Lots of off-budget debt gets added every year. It greatly annoys me when spin doctors don’t include total debt when they are talking about the deficit (and they do it on both sides of the aisle). I wish I could get my banker to adopt the same enlightened view.
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   View the complete article, including images and links, at:

   http://ggc-mauldin-images.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/pdf/161120_TFTF.pdf
7. Bruce says:

   November 22, 2016 at 1:44 pm

   Media Trapped in Trump Tower with no crayons or cookies!

   No Media Safe Space in Sight

   Canada Free Press
   by Judi McLeod
   11/22/2016

   Excerpts:

   Aside from two unidentified sources who supposedly high-tailed it to the New York Post , and grousing in the pubs, there have been no major mainstream media reports on how network bigwigs were ‘mistreated’ by big, bad Donald J. Trump at his first post-election meeting with the media yesterday; no splashy headlines about how he blatantly threatened them.

   There is no proof Trump threatened them, because what really happened is that they felt intimidated by him.

   And the media, those purveyors of monopolized truth telling fell hook, line and sinker for an ingenious Trump trap.

   “Trump’s meeting was a set up,” according to Gateway Pundit. “He brought them into one room then blasted away.”

   How many citizens propagandized and lied to over the past eight years and even before wish they had been there!

   Before and after photos of media bigwigs at the event are downright hilarious. Online pictures show them smiling broadly upon arrival and looking downright gobsmacked on their way out of Trump Tower.

   Little guy LOLs!

   “Donald Trump scolded media big shots during an off-the-record Trump Tower sitdown on Monday, sources told The Post.

   “It was like a f–ing firing squad,” one source said of the encounter.

   “Trump started with [CNN chief] Jeff Zucker and said ‘I hate your network, everyone at CNN is a liar and you should be ashamed,’ ” the source said.

   “The meeting was a total disaster. The TV execs and anchors went in there thinking they would be discussing the access they would get to the Trump administration, but instead they got a Trump-style dressing down,” the source added.

   “A second source confirmed the fireworks.

   “The meeting took place in a big board room and there were about 30 or 40 people, including the big news anchors from all the networks,” the other source said.

   “Trump kept saying, ‘We’re in a room of liars, the deceitful dishonest media who got it all wrong.’ He addressed everyone in the room calling the media dishonest, deceitful liars. He called out Jeff Zucker by name and said everyone at CNN was a liar, and CNN was [a] network of liars,” the source said.

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   Trump didn’t wait until yesterday to prove how out of it most mainstream media nincompoops really are. That reality was irrefutably proven by his election.
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   View the complete article, including image and link, at:

   http://canadafreepress.com/article/media-trapped-in-trump-tower-with-no-crayons-or-cookies
8. Bruce says:

   November 27, 2016 at 11:33 am

   ANTI-TRUMP RIOTS ARE A SMOKE SCREEN

   The Real Goal – Eliminate the Electoral College

   NewWithViews.com
   by Tom DeWeese
   11/27/2016

   Excerpt:

   Many seem bewildered by the anti-Trump riots and demonstrations. And many keep trying to find a reasonable response. Give it up. You can’t reason with them with words.

   Here is my take. They know full well that they aren’t going to overturn the election. These privately funded forces are being used to create pressure to destroy the Electoral College so they won’t have to deal with it next election. This is how the Left operates. Make a big deal over here to force the hidden agenda over there. The plan is to make enough trouble that Congress will move to abolish the EC to get some peace.

   For clues on who is behind this effort one only has to watch to see which member of Congress proposes such action. The answer of course is California Senator Barbara Boxer. It only took a week after the election for her to come to the rescue of the broken and distraught Left.

   Meanwhile, hidden forces are now meeting with and brow beating members of the Electoral College to get them to change their vote from the true winner of their state and vote out Trump.

   The danger is real and gaining ground. But it didn’t start with this election result. A campaign to eliminate the Electoral College and “let the people elect the president,” has been gaining steam for several years. A group called “National Popular Vote Interstate Compact,” started in 2006, has won commitments from eleven states to award their electoral votes to the winner of the popular vote. These include, Maryland, New Jersey, Illinois, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington, Massachusetts, California, New York, Hawaii and the District of Columbia. These states control 165 electoral votes. They only need states representing 105 more electoral votes to join and the Electoral College will be a thing of the past. Meanwhile, such legislation is under consideration in Missouri, Oklahoma and Arizona, to name a few.

   When a state passes legislation to join the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, it pledges that all of that state’s electoral votes will be given to whichever presidential candidate wins the popular vote nationwide. These bills will take effect only when states with a majority of the electoral votes have passed similar legislation. States with electoral votes totaling 270 of the 538 electoral votes would have to pass NPV bills before the compact kicks in and any state’s bill could take effect.

   As usual, it’s easy to get people to join this cause – yet annother sound bite based on emotion rather than knowledge or logic. “Let the people decide.” “It’s the American way.” “It’s Democracy at work.” Yep, that’s why America was never set up as a democracy. Here’s another sound bite for you – “Democracy is a lynch mob.”- Here’s another one – “Democracy is three wolves aand a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.” Majority rule violates the rights of minorities. It’s not a good thing. Get the picture?

   The United States was created by the individual sovereign states. They were already free and independent governments on their own. As they came together to create a central government they feared it would grow too strong and overpower the states, making them subjugated to the central government. So, to prevent that, the states created the Electoral College to make the election of the President a STATE election.

   Throughout history, certain factions have challenged the legality of the Electoral College. Opponents point out that our President is actually elected by 538 virtually unknown people who are members of 51 small delegations in fifty States and the District of Columbia. Moreover, in most states the electors are not even bound to vote for the candidate that won the popular vote. In fact, many Constitutional scholars believe that’s just what the founders intended, 538 independent thinkers, bound to no one. There is reason and logic behind the idea.

   The Founding Fathers, particularly those from small States, were very concerned that they would be smothered by the larger states. Under the representative republic (not a democracy) established by the founders, the United States is made up of fifty sovereign States. Under the Constitution, except for limited powers specifically defined for the central government, power for the rule of law is intended to reside in the States.

   To deal with the problem, the founders decided on a compromise that would establish two chambers for the Congress; the House of Representatives, whose size would be dictated by the population in each state and the Senate in which every state would get two representatives, regardless of its size or population. You see, in the beginning, the states appointed Senators to be their representatives in Congress. But, like these so-called scholars of today who want to wreck the Electoral College, previous “experts” came up with the idea that Senators should be elected by the people ? “It’s only fair,” wentt the mantra! The result is an imperial Senate that answers to no one but their own elite club members. That’s what happens when you mess with the real genius of the Constitution.

   The same problem arose in deciding how to select a President, the one nationally-elected official. Here again there was the fear that election by popular vote would overwhelm the will of smaller States. Again, compromise was reached to address the issue in a fair and equitable manner in order to maintain the power of the states. Each state was assigned a number of presidential electoral votes equal to its representation in the House and the Senate. In each state, the electors would vote for a President and Vice President. The candidate receiving the largest number of electoral votes would be elected.

   Under the plan, the connection to the popular vote was the selection of state electors. The popular vote was to be used to select individuals trusted by the people to select the President. Each presidential candidate has a slate of electors committed to them. As the people vote for a candidate, they are actually electing his/her slate of electors. Again, the selection of electors goes directly to local control of the process. Under the Constitution, even the smallest state was assured at least three votes in the process. To provide a further check to protect the smaller states, in the event no candidate won a majority of the electoral vote, the names of the top five would go to the House of Representatives, where each state delegation would cast one vote for one of the candidates. In this process each state, again, is equal.
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   View the complete article, including links and image, at:

   http://newswithviews.com/DeWeese/tom277.htm
9. Bruce says:

   November 28, 2016 at 11:43 am

   The Democrats’ Real Strategy in Launching Recounts

   The Daily Trump
   by Richard Baehr
   11/28/2016

   Excerpt:

   By Richard Baehr — The recount in Wisconsin, and the coming ones in Michigan and Pennsylvania will not change the outcomes in any of the states. No recount ever changes thousands of votes. I do not think that is the purpose.

   The recounts, if done by hand, which can be demanded, may take longer than the last day for completing the official counts in a state and directing Electoral College voters. If all 3 states miss the deadline, Trump is at 260, Hillary at 232. No one hits 270.

   Then this goes to Congress, where the House voting 1 vote per state elects Trump, and Senate selects Pence. This would be first the time this happened since 1824, but in that case, John Quincy Adams won in the House, though he had fewer electoral college votes than Andrew Jackson.

   If this goes to the US House and Senate, and the result is the same as result from the Electoral College without the recounts, why do it? The answer is to make Trump seem even more illegitimate, that he did not win the popular vote (he lost by over 2.1 million), he did not win the Electoral College (did not reach 270), and was elected by being inserted into the presidency by members of his own party in Congress.
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   View the complete post, including link, tweets and image, at:

   http://thedailytrump.org/trump-recounts/
10. Bruce says:

    November 28, 2016 at 5:47 pm

    True The Vote Supports Trump’s Claim on Illegal Voters

    Breitbart / Big-Government
    by Joel B. Pollak
    11/28/2016

    Excerpt:

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    True the Vote released a press statement on Sunday, which is reproduced below, in full (original emphasis):

    STATEMENT REGARDING TRUMP’S CLAIM OF ILLEGAL VOTING

    HOUSTON, TX. – November 27, 2016: True the Vote (TTV), the nation’s leading voters’ rights and election integrity organization, today released a statement with respect to President-Elect Donald Trump’s claim that “millions” of individuals illegally voted in the 2016 Election.

    “True the Vote absolutely supports President-elect Trump’s recent comment about the impact of illegal voting, as reflected in the national popular vote. We are still collecting data and will be for several months, but our intent is to publish a comprehensive study on the significant impact of illegal voting in all of its many forms and begin a national discussion on how voters, states, and the Trump Administration can best address this growing problem.”

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    View the complete article, including image, tweet and videos, at:

    http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/11/28/illegal-voters-true-the-vote-supports-trumps-claim/
11. Bruce says:

    December 2, 2016 at 1:26 pm

    

    Image Credit: Doug Mills / New York Times

    President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect Mike Pence toured a Carrier plant in Indianapolis Thursday.

    Carrier deal done, Trump to dial up more companies on jobs

    Boston Globe
    by Tim Logan
    12/1/2016

    Excerpt:

    So this is what a dealmaker-in-chief looks like.

    President-elect Donald Trump took to a stage Thursday at a Carrier Corp. furnace factory in Indiana, triumphant over the deal he cut to keep the plant open and save about 1,100 good-paying jobs from moving to Mexico.

    Before a room full of cheering workers, he recounted his phone calls with the chief executive of Carrier parent United Technologies Corp. and promised more personal intervention with executives of other companies who might ship work overseas, part of a carrot-and-stick approach toward corporate America that he said will preserve and grow American jobs.

    “Companies are not going to leave the United States any more without consequences,” Trump said. “It’s not going to happen”
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    View the complete Boston Globe article, including image, at: https://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2016/12/01/carrier-deal-done-trump-dial-more-companies-jobs/jTqg1n88zBHlXRhc6IywWJ/story.html
12. Bruce says:

    December 13, 2016 at 1:46 pm

    Donald Trump Vs. CIA: Wow!

    Published on Dec 12, 2016 by ‘David Seaman’

    It’s now Donald Trump vs. Obama shills at the CIA. We know who wins this one (hint: Donald Trump does).
13. Bruce says:

    December 15, 2016 at 9:17 pm

    OBAMA’S HAWAIIAN, LONG-FORM BIRTH CERTIFICATE IS A FORGERY, Maricopa County, AZ, Sheriff Joe Arpaio: Press Conference, 4:00 pm (MT) 12/15/2016

    Published on Dec 15, 2016 by ‘LIVE ON-AIR-NEWS’

    Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio held a press conference in Phoenix on Thursday afternoon where he announced after a five year investigation his investigators have determined that the birth certificate presented by President Barack Obama was a fraudulently created document which has been represented as an official copy of the original certificate. The Sheriff’s office said they have been working this case since August 2011 after the Tea Party asked him to investigate.

    “We had to follow the evidence,” Arpaio said during the press briefing. The lead investigator, Mike Zullo, presented a video which claimed to show the Obama birth certificate shows “9 points of forgery.” He says they consulted several experts from all across the world including in Italy. We will post the video here as soon as we get it. In the meantime, you can watch the press conference live.

    The investigators took aim at the media for the way they have characterized their investigation. “You have continued to mischaracterized this.. This was not about where President Obama was born. This was about his birth certificate,” said the Maricopa County public information officer.

    “I didn’t want to be the guy that figured everything out, I wanted it to be the clearinghouse,” Zullo said during the press briefing.

    84-year-old Arpaio lost his reelection bid in November to the Democratic contender. The sheriff is among the last high-profile “birthers” left, who question whether the President was born in the United States. Former birther President-elect Donald Trump held his own presser during his campaign, where he acknowledged that President Obama was indeed born in this country, and that he indeed had a legitimate birth certificate.
14. Bruce says:

    December 18, 2016 at 11:23 am

    The ‘DISMAL DC SWAMP’ appears to be growing inexorably MORE FETID daily, prior to Trump’s celebratory January 20th inauguration.

    Till that happy day arrives for us ‘little folk’, radical-left FASCIST and former Führer wannabe, BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA II, will likely continue to pole his pathetic little pirogue through the DC Swamp into the sunset-of-his-exposure as a LIAR, FRAUD and IMPOSTER.

    I can only hope that a major portion of our unscrupulous MSM and ESTABLISHMENT ELITE will follow in his shallow wake leading to their shameful oblivion.
15. Bruce says:

    December 30, 2016 at 3:52 pm

    Putin: Russia will not expel anyone in response to US sanctions

    RT News
    12/30/2016

    Excerpts:

    The Russian president has rejected a suggestion of the foreign ministry to expel 35 American diplomats in response to a similar move by the US. He said Obama’s act was designed to provoke a reaction, but Russia would not take the bait.

    “We reserve the right to retaliate, but we will not sink to the level of this irresponsible ‘kitchen’ diplomacy. We will take further moves on restoring Russian-American relations based on the policies that the administration of President-elect Donald Trump adopts,” Russian President Vladimir Putin said in a statement published by the Kremlin website.

    Putin said that, unlike the Obama administration, Russia will not target foreign diplomats and their families days before New Year’s celebrations.

    “We will not forbid families and children from spending the New Year’s holidays at the places they are used to. Moreover, I invite the children of all American diplomats with accreditation in Russia to New Year’s and Christmas festivities in the Kremlin,” the Russian president said.

    Putin said he regretted that US President Barack Obama is ending his term “in such a way,” but that he extended his New Year’s congratulations to the outgoing US president and his family nevertheless.

    “I congratulate President-elect Donald Trump and the entire American people!” he concluded. – (bold emphasis added in three paragraphs above)

    The Kremlin said it will send a government plane to the US to evacuate the expelled diplomats and their family members. Earlier, there were reports that the diplomats were having problems buying tickets on such short notice, with airlines already booked by New Year’s travelers.

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    President Obama targeted Russian diplomats as a part of wider sanctions against Russian, which he justified by the alleged interference by the Russian government in the November presidential election in the US. Moscow denies the allegations.

    The US claimed that the vacation houses had been used for espionage. Russia insists that they were used by the diplomatic staff to spend holidays with their families.

    View the complete article, including video, at:

    https://www.rt.com/news/372256-putin-diplomats-expulsion-rejects/

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    See also: “Russians laughing off Obama’s ridiculous temper tantrums”, Canada Free Press, by Judi McLeod, 12/30/2016 at – http://canadafreepress.com/article/russians-laughing-off-obamas-ridiculous-temper-tantrums
16. Bruce says:

    January 2, 2017 at 11:32 am

    Reporter Asks Arpaio “Motive” in Creation of Obama Birth Certificate Forgery

    BUT ISN’T IT HIS JOB TO FIND OUT?

    The Post & Email
    by Sharon Rondeau
    12/31/2016

    Excerpts:

    (Dec. 31, 2016) — In an interview with Fox Channel 10’s John Hook and Maricopa County, AZ Sheriff Joseph Arpaio on December 30, Hook expressed incredulity at Arpaio’s claim that he attempted to “clear the president” in his five-year investigation of the long-form birth certificate image posted on the White House website bearing the name “Barack Hussein Obama II.”

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    Hook, who co-anchors a nightly news program with Kari Lake, asked Arpaio the “motive” for the creation of a forged government document, in this case, belonging to Barack Hussein Obama.

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    “Why spend time on it and even your posse money on it if the end result is it doesn’t change anything; he’s going to be the president?” Hook asked at the 1:00 mark.

    “It has nothing to do with the president,” Arpaio responded.

    “What would have been the point of a fraudulent document?” Hook persisted. “They did this why?”

    “Good question,” Arpaio replied. “We proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that the media will not cover it, AGAIN. Probably the biggest cover-up in history, and the media’s involved in it.”

    Arpaio referenced “a little sensitive information” collected by investigators that has not yet been released to the public as well as ForLab in Italy, which performed a forensic investigation on the image and whose findings were made public at a third and final press conference on December 15.

    Hook again asked, “What would have been the motive, though, of doing this? If the document is forged or doctored in some way, is it to prevent President Obama from some declaration on that document that he is Muslim…?”

    “The motive would have been he doesn’t have a birth certificate,” Arpaio responded, explaining that he asked to see the microfiche on which Obama’s original birth certificate would have been stored and which has never been produced. – (bold emphasis added)
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    View the complete article, including image and links, at:

    Reporter Asks Arpaio “Motive” in Creation of Obama Birth Certificate Forgery
17. Bruce says:

    January 3, 2017 at 10:07 am

    MOTIVE for OBAMA Hawaiian Birth Certificate FORGERY?

    OBAMA WAS BORN IN KENYA

    !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
18. Bruce says:

    January 11, 2017 at 12:39 pm

    LOL / ITB

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    4Chan Claims To Have Fabricated Anti-Trump Report As A Hoax

    ZeroHedge
    by Tyler Durden
    1/11/2017

    Excerpt:

    In a story that is getting more surreal by the minute, a post on 4Chan now claims that the infamous “golden showers” scene in the unverified 35-page dossier, allegedly compiled by a British intelligence officer, was a hoax and fabricated by a member of the chatboard as “fanfiction”, then sent to Rick Wilson, who proceeded to send it to the CIA, which then put it in their official classified intelligence report on the election.

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    For expanded excerpt, see: http://www.wasobamaborninkenya.com/InspectorSmith/showthread.php/10524-LOL-ITB-4Chan-Claims-To-Have-Fabricated-Anti-Trump-Report-As-A-Hoax-ZeroHedge?p=14744#post14744

    View the complete article, including images, links and tweets, at:

    http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-01-10/4chan-claims-have-fabricated-anti-trump-report-hoax
19. Bruce says:

    January 13, 2017 at 4:16 pm

    Buzzfeed’s Golden Shower Article & Trump’s Response

    https://youtu.be/Jdps9BkwX94

    Published on Jan 11, 2017 by ‘reallygraceful’

    Fake News: BuzzFeed Runs ‘Unverifiable’ Trump-Russia Claims: Left-leaning news outlet abandons all journalistic ethics in publishing explosive dossier:
20. Bruce says:

    January 16, 2017 at 11:41 am

    Meet the Trumps: America’s new first family

    AFP / Yahoo News
    by Jennie Matthew
    1/16/2017

    Excerpt:

    New York (AFP) – The new first family is a tight-knit celebrity clan, wealthy beyond the wildest dreams of most Americans and well used to the public eye.

    Here is a breakdown on the 45th US president’s nearest and dearest:

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    View the complete article, including image, at:

    https://www.yahoo.com/news/meet-trumps-americas-first-family-064630490.html
21. Bruce says:

    January 16, 2017 at 12:17 pm

    An Execrable Coup—An Exhilarating Counter-Coup

    Canada Free Press
    by Joan Swirsky
    1/16/2017

    Excerpt:

    In 2009, America experienced a genuine coup d’état, exquisitely formulated and flawlessly executed after decades of planning by the socialists, communists, and jihadists among us who loathe America and have wished for nothing less than transforming our great country into a mecca of far-left, anti-American policies, punctuated by preposterous liberal constructs like political correctness and multiculturalism, and ultimately subservient to Sharia law.

    As strange, indeed mind-bending, as this seems, remember that anything that is alien to American values and promises to undermine America’s passion for freedom and strength is considered a good thing and heartily embraced by the America-hating left. Hence, their fetish with Islam, a political system-cum-“religion” that is antithetical to every value that sane Americans hold dear.

    As proof, the policies and laws enacted over the past eight years have consistently militated against America’s well-being. This is the proverbial drop in the bucket:

    — An eviscerated military and favor-the-enemy Rules of Engagement.

    — Porous borders over which tens of thousands of unvetted illegal aliens have swarmed, many of them violent criminals and, no doubt, stealth jihadists.

    — A Big Government mentality that encourages unemployment (95-million) and therefore dependency on government from cradle to grave.

    — Massive debt—currently pushing $20 trillion—which weakens our country’s ability to pay for essential needs like infrastructure, Medicare and Medicaid, et al., again with the goal of dependency on government.

    — A horrific healthcare system (Obamacare) that alienates doctors, punishes patients with sky-high premiums and inferior care, and simply doesn’t work—‚Äìhence its inevitable implosion (taking place right now).

    — The most dumbed-down educational system in American history—Common Core—that is based on the fantasy of fairness but in fact deprives every public-school student of even a minimally decent education and a chance to succeed…more government dependency.

    — Implanting operatives from terrorist organizations like the Muslim Brotherhood into every branch of our government, including (to name a few) the State Dept., the Pentagon, Homeland Security, the Attorney General’s office, the EPA, the FBI, the CIA, on and on and on—all of them intent on subverting the U.S. Constitution and replacing it with Sharia law, the animating force of Islam, which dictates not only that gays be executed and women who are raped be tried and convicted for infidelity, but that a failure to embrace Islam be punished with either a hefty tax or death.

    — A foreign policy that supports our enemies and spits in the faces of our most faithful allies, for instance Israel, England, Egypt, the list is long.

    — Handing over control of the Internet to the United Nations—the most corrupt, tin-pot-dictator-driven, anti-American, anti-Semitic, American-resource-draining cesspool in our country. If I had one piece of advice for President-Elect Trump, it would be to kick this rancid organization out of the United States! Nothing they’ve ever done has been good for our country. Talk about “draining the swamp”!

    AGENT OF CHANGE—GIMME A BREAK!

    Americans were both horrified and dumbfounded when the former community organizer, Barack Obama, turned out not to “transform” America for the better, but to be the figurehead—no one would accuse him of being a leader—who left our country in devastating debt, largely unemployed, perceived as the prototypical 97-pound weakling by our allies, and viewed by our own citizens as a lazy but golden-tongued puppet who preferred non-stop golfing vacations and entertaining rap stars and police-hating performers like Beyonc√© in the White House to even a remote semblance of governing.

    Even more horrifying was the depth and breadth and immense scope of this coup. It included, a la Karl Marx, a complete takeover of the media—the vehicle by which the American public imagines it knows what is going on. This takeover included non-stop false flags and a steady stream of fake news, which the public might never have known about save for Wikileaks.

    Except for a very few outlets, the TV networks, radio stations, and newspapers all sang the same song. Why? Not only because the media has always leaned left, but because Mr. Obama had gotten complete control over the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and therefore could and did censor what he pleased, supporting those who danced to his radical tune and trying to marginalize those who didn’t.

    But wait! Things got even worse. Hundreds and perhaps thousands of conservative groups that applied for tax-exempt status to the Internal Revenue Service found that their petitions were routinely denied—not for weeks or months but years. When the career crooks in the IRS were exposed, they were magically allowed to resign with full back pay and pensions intact. Nice.

    And then there were Mr. Obama’s, ahem, legacy items, according to editorial graphic artist Dixon Diaz:

    — Lowest economic growth in American history.
    — Record number of mass shootings.
    — Record number of terrorist attacks on American soil.
    — Record number of people on food stamps.
    — Record high health insurance costs.
    — Worst rioting since 1967.
    — Highest poverty level in American history.

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    View the complete article, including image and links, at:

    http://canadafreepress.com/article/an-execrable-coup-an-exhilarating-counter-coup
22. Bruce says:

    January 18, 2017 at 10:39 am

    Trump Operative Roger Stone Survives Assassination Attempt

    Doctors told him he had been poisoned with polonium and CDC tests found the substance in his blood

    Infowars.com
    1/17/2017

    Excerpt:

    Former Trump adviser Roger Stone was recently targeted for assassination, he revealed on the Tuesday edition of the Alex Jones Show.

    The renowned Republican operative says he’s usually very healthy, but became violently ill unexpectedly several weeks ago.

    “I am generally a healthy person. I have been a runner and a weight lifter. I am very careful in my diet. I’m a user of the Infowars supplements. I have been treated with acupuncture by perhaps the greatest acupuncturist in the state of Florida if not the United States,” Stone told radio host Alex Jones.

    Stone went on to describe that his symptoms presented themselves first as a “routine stomach virus,” but that he eventually grew “exceedingly ill.”

    “So I ultimately went to the doctors at Mt. Sinai hospital in Miami Beach, my own personal physician. They conducted extensive blood tests. Those blood tests were passed on to CDC.”

    “The general consensus is that I was poisoned,” Stone says.

    “I was poisoned with, they now say, a substance that may have been polonium or had the characteristics of polonium. This made me exceedingly ill. The conjecture of all the doctors was that I did not receive a large enough dose to kill me, but I have never been this ill.”

    Polonium-210 is a radioactive substance that releases extremely harmful alpha particles throughout the body producing cancer-causing free radicals. It has been used in numerous high profile assassinations, including that of former KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko, and was suspected in the death of former PLO leader Yassar Arafat.

    Stone went on to contemplate who may have been behind the possible assassination attempt, fingering Democrat opposition and the intel community.

    “Who would want to do this to me? I am an enemy of the deep state. I think people know that I was an insider in American politics I was close to power in nine presidential elections. Everything Glenn Greenwald says [about the “deep state”] is true,” Stone claimed, referring to a recent The Intercept article which outlined how the intelligence community is attempting to stifle Trump.

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    View the complete article, including image, links, tweets, comments and videos, at:

    http://www.infowars.com/exclusive-trump-operative-roger-stone-survives-assassination-attempt/
23. Bruce says:

    January 20, 2017 at 12:03 pm

    The Obamas Welcome Donald and Melania Trump to the White House

    Video link: https://youtu.be/G_CueftcvfY

    Published on Jan 20, 2017 by ABC News

    President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama welcome President-elect Donald J. Trump and future First Lady Melania Trump to The White House.
24. Bruce says:

    January 20, 2017 at 12:39 pm

    Donald Trump Pre Inauguration Concert FULL Speech 1/19/17

    Video link: https://youtu.be/Nukfe_SWz10

    Published on Jan 19, 2017 by ‘LesGrossman News’

    Donald Trump Pre Inauguration Concert FULL Speech 1/19/17. Trump Family applauds at feet of Abraham Lincoln as fireworks spell out U-S-A. LIVE NOW: Donald Trump appears at first inauguration day activities
25. Bruce says:

    January 20, 2017 at 2:18 pm

    DEPLORABALL Inaugural Ball feat. Mike Cernovich, James O’Keefe, Jack Posobiec

    Video link: https://youtu.be/i12nux7sa64

    Published on Jan 20, 2017 by ‘David Seaman’

    Coverage of last night’s DEPLORABALL inaugural ball at the National Press Club in Washington, DC.
26. Bruce says:

    January 20, 2017 at 7:52 pm

    “God Bless the USA” – Kristy Lee Cook

    Video link: https://youtu.be/y9dxWJ83fI4
27. Bruce says:

    January 21, 2017 at 10:35 am

    Donald J. Trump Inauguration Speech, January 20, 2017

    Video link: https://youtu.be/tcfrbB9hpoI
28. Bruce says:

    January 24, 2017 at 11:45 am

    Trump’s Immigration Plan

    Video link: https://youtu.be/JQ10xoE2xz8

    Published on Jan 23, 2017 by ‘Canada Free Press’

    End Federal Funding to Sanctuary Cities
    Deport criminal illegal Aliens
    Stop Visa from countries that do not take their criminals back
    Build the Wall
29. Bruce says:

    January 28, 2017 at 9:29 pm

    Video: Trump Weekly Address, January 28, 2017

    Video link: https://youtu.be/MTzp-wEC-3g

    Published on Jan 28, 2017 by ‘Right Alerts’
30. Bruce says:

    January 30, 2017 at 12:35 pm

    Next on Trump’s List: Rein in the UN Dictators Club

    The New American
    by Alex Newman
    1/26/2017

    Excerpt:

    Establishment globalists were right to be concerned about the fate of their schemes. After a fast-paced first week of putting “America First” by targeting pseudo-“free trade” regimes and rogue regulatory agencies, President Donald Trump is reportedly preparing to take on the United Nations. Its swarms of agencies, programs, bureaucracies, conventions, and associated schemes are also in the crosshairs. According to a January 25 report in the anti-Trump New York Times, which claimed to have seen a set of draft orders being prepared by the administration, Trump plans to drastically reduce the U.S. government’s role at the UN and other international organizations. He is also planning a review of sovereignty-stealing UN treaties, with a view toward restoring self-government in various policy areas and saving U.S. taxpayers billions of dollars. Globalists everywhere are in a panic.

    Under one of the two draft orders, headlined “Auditing and Reducing U.S. Funding of International Organization,” the U.S. government would cut funding to any UN agency or international organization that meets any specific criteria. One of those criteria, the Times reported, was granting full membership to the Palestinian Authority (PA) or the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). Deceitfully, the Times did not mention until close to the bottom of its report is the fact that two 1990s-era federal laws already require the U.S. government to halt all funding to any UN entity that admits the PA or PLO as a member state. That is why the UN’s extremist “education” agency UNESCO has been defunded, despite Obama’s best efforts. Then-President Bill Clinton signed one of those measures into law, with the other being signed by George H.W. Bush.

    Also subject to being defunded under Trump’s draft executive order, according to the Times, is any UN or international outfit that “is controlled or substantially influenced by any state that sponsors terrorism.” That would likely include the UN’s widely ridiculed “Human Rights Council.” The extremist body, run by an Islamic dictatorship’s prince who equated Trump with ISIS and claims “international law” requires “robust gun control” in America, is literally dominated by a majority of unfree regimes — including some of the most savage and murderous dictatorships on the planet that have sponsored terrorism for decades. UN entities controlled or substantially influenced by regimes that persecute marginalized groups or systematically violate human rights would also be defunded.

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    View the complete article, including image and links, at:

    http://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/north-america/item/25242-next-on-trump-s-list-rein-in-the-un-dictators-club
31. Bruce says:

    February 2, 2017 at 11:05 am

    Tech Companies Throwing in with Progressive Left to rid the world of Trump

    Lost to the tech world is that some the 63 million people who voted for Trump see his immigration ban as an attempt to keep America safe

    Canada Free Press
    by Judi McLeod
    2/1/2017

    Excerpt:

    WARNING:The Internet world’s top tech companies have thrown in with the progressive left in trying to drag the President Donald Trump administration into the life-sucking quicksand of their cesspool.

    While Hollywood and entertainment celebrities hold public attention with their daily rants and screams of outrage, the battle to rid the world of Trump and turn it back to the absolute control of the progressive left has opened the way for a new battle frontier.

    This one’s a guerrilla war with the ability to send millions of Internet surfers into the raging battle as its most numerous foot soldiers.

    Tech reaction to Trump’s immigration plan is as comprehensive as it was swift.

    Everybody in the tech world’s suddenly got a blood relative who was, or is, an American immigrant, even though the issue isn’t about their family’s immigrant history, but about tightening national security.

    Their message is clear that support for Trump’s temporary halt on the admission of refugees from Syria, and the banned admission of the citizens of several Muslim-majority countries from entering the U.S. is tantamount to racism.

    Tech companies, which tend to draw from a global talent pool, have big skin in the game.

    We already know that the high and mighty of the Internet’s social media world were lobbying the government for foreign workers long before Donald Trump’s election.

    For them the fight’s getting down and dirty.

    Google, which found itself too late to call its employees from abroad, issued a statement on Trump’s immigration ban:

    “We’re concerned about the impact of this order and any proposals that could impose restrictions on Googlers and their families, or that create barriers to bringing great talent to the U.S.,” the company wrote in an official statement. “We’ll continue to make our views on these issues known to leaders in Washington and elsewhere.” (TechCrunch, Jan. 28, 2017)

    In the meantime, Google sent 2000 employees protesting on the streets yesterday, including co-founder Sergey Brin who joined the protests at San Francisco International Airport.

    Then there’s Facebook, which like Google, goes out of its way to suppress conservative news sites but provides room for the ongoing Fake News of the mainstream media.

    “Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, too, yesterday noted in a Facebook post that he is “concerned about the impact of the recent executive orders signed by President Trump” though he also added that he was “glad” that Trump was willing “to ‘work something out’ for Dreamers” and that the President “believes our country should continue to benefit from ‘people of great talent coming into the country.’” (TechCrunch)

    Facebook added in a statement today, “We are assessing the impact on our workforce and determining how best to protect our people and their families from any adverse effects.”

    Microsoft?

    Count them in on the fight to stop Trump.

    “Microsoft told us that it is already providing legal assistance to its employees affected by this: “We share the concerns about the impact of the executive order on our employees from the listed countries, all of whom have been in the United States lawfully, and we’re actively working with them to provide legal advice and assistance.”()

    “Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella spoke out in favor of immigration in a post on LinkedIn. “As an immigrant and as a CEO, I’ve both experienced and seen the positive impact that immigration has on our company, for the country, and for the world. We will continue to advocate on this important topic,” Nadella said.

    “Nadella also shared a memo from Microsoft’s chief legal officer Brad Smith, in which Smith revealed that at least 76 Microsoft employees are affected by Trump’s order. “But there may be other employees from these countries who have U.S. green cards rather than a visa who may be affected, and there may be family members from these countries that we haven’t yet reached,” Smith added. Smith said he and Nadella would answer employee questions during a question-and-answer session on Monday.

    In a memo obtained by TechCrunch, Apple CEO Tim Cook says the company has reached out to employees affected by the order. “In my conversations with officials here in Washington this week, I’ve made it clear that Apple believes deeply in the importance of immigration — both to our company and to our nation’s future,” Cook wrote. “Apple would not exist without immigration, let alone thrive and innovate the way we do.”

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    View the complete article, including images and links, at:

    http://canadafreepress.com/article/tech-companies-throwing-in-with-progressive-left-to-rid-the-world-of-trump
32. Bruce says:

    February 5, 2017 at 12:19 pm

    Our Most Dangerous and Treacherous Times in our History?

    “THE REAL WORK HAS ONLY JUST BEGUN”

    The Post & Email
    by Sharon Rondeau
    2/5/2017

    Excerpt:

    by Sher Zieve, ©2017

    (Feb. 5, 2017) — We have entered a time in the history of the United States of America that augurs whether or not we will survive as a nation. When We-the-People elected Donald J. Trump as our president, the globalist powers, visibly headed by Luciferian leader and ObamaFriend George Soros, began their malicious work to overturn the election and end the USA as it was founded. Since 20 January 2017, the protests against our elections—and us–have increased as more anarchists have been and are continuing to be brought into the fray by these same New World Order globalists. George Soros—just as he fomented and spurred on the Ferguson and other paid-for riots—is firmly behind the worldwide rioting and attempted overturn and destruction of the Trump administration…and the USA. In order to effect that destruction, it is necessary for most, if not all, government institutions to stop following any and all US laws that would defeat the ultimate purpose of the New World Order, which is the complete dismantling and destruction of the United States as it now stands. To wit, Obama and Soros met multiple times in our White House during Obama’s presidency.

    Note: From my perspective, it strongly appears Soros gained a great deal of assistance from Obama in the [their] fight against the USA and is still gaining it from all of the Obama hires and appointees still working in US government positions.

    Recently, calls from leftist CEOs for the assassination of our president are being openly shouted and tweeted by the perpetrators. ‘Reporters’ are now openly calling for the assassination of President Trump. And the elite celebrity classes have become even more vicious in their demands for violence against the newly-elected Trump Administration. Madonna says she has “thought about blowing up the White House,” while Ashley Judd’s “nasty” speech during the faux “women’s march” was one of the more repugnant and presumptuous ever to be given in public. Even major news stations—think CNN—have mused in multiple television programs as to what would happen if Trump and much of his administration were killed and then speculated as to how they might get an Obama-Democrat back into the White House to rule over us. Democrat leaders in the US Senate, House and leftist judges across the country are continuing to effect all in their power to bring down the Trump government. One of these tactics is the Senate Democrats’ refusal to vote up or down on President Trump’s cabinet nominations. These “leaders” are now refusing to even show up. They do not intend to allow President Trump to have his own people in place in order to govern.
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    View the complete article, including comments, links and image, at:

    Our Most Dangerous and Treacherous Times in our History?
33. Bruce says:

    February 5, 2017 at 12:34 pm

    Everything Said About Trump’s “Muslim Ban” Is a Lie

    The Daily Trump
    by Staff
    2/5/2017

    Excerpt:

    Ann Coulter cuts through the rhetoric.

    Everything said about President Trump’s “Muslim ban” is a lie—including that it’s a Muslim ban.

    The New York Times wore out its thesaurus denouncing the order: “cruelty … injury … suffering … bigoted, cowardly, self-defeating … breathtaking … inflammatory … callousness and indifference”—and that’s from a single editorial!

    Amid the hysteria over this prudent pause in refugee admissions from seven countries whose principal export is dynamite vests, it has been indignantly claimed that it’s illegal for our immigration policies to discriminate on the basis of religion.

    This is often said by journalists who are only in America because of immigration policies that discriminated on the basis of religion.

    For much of the last half-century, Soviet Jews were given nearly automatic entry to the U.S. as “refugees.” Entering as a refugee confers all sorts of benefits unavailable to other immigrants, including loads of welfare programs, health insurance, job placement services, English language classes, and the opportunity to apply for U.S. citizenship after only five years.

    In 2011 the Obama Administration blocked all Iraqi refugees from entering the U.S. for six months. There were no protests. The left said nothing.

    Most important, though, Soviet Jews were not required to satisfy the United Nations definition of a “refugee,” to wit: someone fleeing persecution based on race, religion or national origin. They just had to prove they were Jewish.

    This may have been good policy, but let’s not pretend the Jewish exception was not based on religion.

    If a temporary pause on refugee admissions from seven majority-Muslim countries constitutes “targeting” Muslims, then our immigration policy “targeted” Christians for discrimination for about 30 years.

    Never heard a peep from the ACLU about religious discrimination back then!

    According to the considered opinion of the Cato Institute’s David J. Bier, writing in The New York Times, Trump’s executive order is “illegal” because the 1965 immigration act “banned all discrimination against immigrants on the basis of national origin.”

    In 1966, one year after the 1965 immigration act, immigrants from Cuba suddenly got special immigration privileges. In 1986, immigrants from Ireland did. People from Vietnam and Indochina got special immigration rights for 20 years after the end of the Vietnam War.

    The 1965 law, quite obviously, did not prohibit discrimination based on national origin. (I was wondering why the Times would sully its pages with the legal opinion of a Grove City College B.A., like Bier! Any “expert” in a storm, I guess.)

    In fact, ethnic discrimination is practically the hallmark of America’s immigration policy—in addition to our perverse obsession with admitting the entire Third World.
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    View the complete article, including image and comments, at:

    http://thedailytrump.org/everything-said-trumps-muslim-ban-lie/#more-2150
34. Bruce says:

    February 16, 2017 at 2:34 pm

    MSM fake news feeding frenzy to take down Trump

    American Thinker
    by Rick Moran
    2/16/2017

    Excerpt:

    How serious has the war gotten between Donald Trump’s White House and the government he supposedly runs?

    Gizmodo – a website that deals with science and technology as well as politics – has launched a new site to encourage government employees to leak damning information about the Trump administration. TellonTrump.com is the subject of a massive advertising campaign on Facebook and will give government turncoats a safe and secure means of passing along damaging documents.

    Wall Street Journal:

    One thing we know about Donald Trump is that there are a lot of things Donald Trump doesn’t want people to know about. If you’ve reached this page, you might have information about the conduct of Donald Trump or his administration that you’d like people to know about. Here’s how you can tell us, the site explains.

    The Univision Communications Inc.-owned media group, which operates sites like Fusion and the former Gawker Media sites like Gizmodo, Deadspin and Jezebel, started running ads on the social media platform within the last week that specifically target people who list certain government agencies as their employers. The ads don’t specify which news outlet is running the campaign, but the site which the ads point to clearly identifies the Gizmodo special projects desk.

    We are targeting people who are employed by federal agencies because we want them to know that if they see or know about something they think is newsworthy, we are here for them, said John Cook, Gizmodo’s head of investigations.

    Mr. Cook said Gizmodo is also working to purchase bus shelter ads near certain government agencies in Washington, D.C., encouraging people to contact them with information about the Trump administration.

    Amazing, incredible – frightening. The German word that describes what’s going on is Götterdämmerung – a “cataclysmic downfall or momentous, apocalyptic event, especially of a regime or an institution.” Trump’s enemies are willing to tear the entire country down in order to destroy the president. The fact that they will destroy the presidency and the country in the process is regrettable but worth it because Trump is, well, evil. – (bold emphasis added)

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    View the complete article, including links, at:

    http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2017/02/msm_fake_news_feeding_frenzy_to_take_down_trump.html
35. Bruce says:

    February 17, 2017 at 1:19 pm

    Dirty Dossiers coming from Barack Obama’s Blackmail Bait?

    Canada Free Press
    by Judi McLeod
    2/16/2017

    Excerpt:

    The howls of the hounds can be heard running the latest fox to ground in Washington, D.C.

    The vociferous, blood-smelling hounds out on the loose are not Russian. They hunker down under the cover of anonymity right inside the White House, lying in wait for the next fox hunt ordered by the Barack Obama Shadow Government, still up and running three months after the election.

    Somewhere incognito since Donald Trump Inauguration Day, Barack Obama clings onto the kind of control that comes from his stores of Blackmail Bait.

    Review the last eight years of Republicans in office for proof of how Blackmail Bait really works.

    How many go through each day hearing inside their heads that Barack Obama’s got a dirty dossier on me and can feed it to the mainstream media any time he wants?

    The never media-mentioned Blackmail Bait worked like a charm for Obama while he was in office, and will now be used to keep Donald Trump from succeeding as president. – (bold emphasis added in the 4 preceding paragraphs)

    Bye-bye National Security Adviser Michael Flynn! Hello next Fox X who will soon be hound-run to ground.

    Yesterday it was Flynn. Who knows who it will be tomorrow?

    Tune in to Saturday Night Live to see the lineup.

    Shouldn’t someone in the mainstream media be asking if the dirty dossier released on President Trump came directly from Obama’s dossier trove?

    Media too busy comparing Trump to Hitler

    Or are they mostly too busy comparing Trump to Hitler and demanding that the suppression of minor media getting in their questions at the White House Press Corps. continues?

    Folks, we’ve been here before and not all that long ago either.

    A former British ambassador to Russia has today admitted he told John McCain about the contents of the dirty Trump dossier – but denied handing it to the President-elect’s sworn enemy. (Daily Mail, Jan. 12, 2017) – http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4115134/NAMED-British-Ambassador-played-key-role-revealing-dirty-dossier-ex-MI6-man-Donald-Trump.html

    Sir Andrew Wood, 77, believes its author Christopher Steele, 52, a former MI6 agent he knows from Moscow, is right to have vanished amid claims he fears for his life.

    The diplomat says the salacious file was pretty much public last Autumn and spoke to Senator McCain about its contents at a Canada security conference at the time of the US election.

    Donald Trump has again lashed out over the affair, calling Steele a failed spy employed by sleazebag political operatives and suggesting he wants to sue the ex-MI6 agent if he ever comes out of hiding.

    He tweeted: It now turns out that the phony allegations against me were put together by my political opponents and a failed spy afraid of being sued.

    The row has plunged Britain and Russia into a fresh outbreak of Cold War hostilities with Russia claiming Steele has never left MI6 and security sources say he spoke to UK Government officials before handing the dossier to the FBI.

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    View the complete article at:

    http://canadafreepress.com/article/d…blackmail-bait
36. Bruce says:

    February 21, 2017 at 11:02 am

    REPORT: White House Deputy Chief of Staff and #NeverTrumper Source of LEAKS

    The Daily Trump
    by Staff
    2/20/2017

    Excerpt:

    GotNews reported Sunday that one of the primary sources of the series of leaks that were designed to undermine the Trump Administration and his presidency have been coming from none other than #NeverTrumper Kate Walsh. She is being investigated as one of the primary persons of interest that have been distributing highly confidential information to sources such as The (Failing) New York Times, and others.

    When TGP reached out to GotNews founder, Charles Johnson, for comment on the story he said that it was “100% reliable, I’m unwilling to reveal the primary White House sources, but Walsh was behind the leaks.”

    From GotNews:

    “Everyone knows not to talk to her in the White House unless you want to see it in the press,” says a source close to the president. “The only question is whether or not she’s doing it at the behest of [White House Chief of Staff] Reince Priebus or if she’s doing it to advance herself in DC media circles.”

    One source in particular stands out: Walsh is close to Maggie Habberman, a New York Times reporter who wrote fawning pro-Republican National Committee stories during the presidential election. Walsh has also planted stories in The Washington Post and Politico.

    Walsh is referred to as “Madame President” in the White House, says a senior aide. “It isn’t a compliment.”

    Walsh would have significant access as she controls the president’s schedule. There’s also reportedly a trove of e-mails where Katie Walsh and Reince Priebus discuss how to rid themselves of Trump, according to a former #NeverTrump consultant.

    “The president and his allies have been deliberately feeding her fake information in order to find her network,” says a source close to the president’s family. “It’s been going well.”

    Walsh was a #NeverTrump Republican during the campaign. Neither Walsh nor her family were supporters during the campaign, says a source from Walsh’s hometown of St. Louis.

    A White House investigation is planned into Walsh, who couldn’t be reached for comment.“Everyone knows not to talk to her in the White House unless you want to see it in the press,” says a source close to the president. “The only question is whether or not she’s doing it at the behest of [White House Chief of Staff] Reince Priebus or if she’s doing it to advance herself in DC media circles.”

    One source in particular stands out: Walsh is close to Maggie Habberman, a New York Times reporter who wrote fawning pro-Republican National Committee stories during the presidential election. Walsh has also planted stories in The Washington Post and Politico.

    Walsh is referred to as “Madame President” in the White House, says a senior aide. “It isn’t a compliment.”

    Walsh would have significant access as she controls the president’s schedule. There’s also reportedly a trove of e-mails where Katie Walsh and Reince Priebus discuss how to rid themselves of Trump, according to a former #NeverTrump consultant.

    “The president and his allies have been deliberately feeding her fake information in order to find her network,” says a source close to the president’s family. “It’s been going well.”

    Walsh was a #NeverTrump Republican during the campaign. Neither Walsh nor her family were supporters during the campaign, says a source from Walsh’s hometown of St. Louis.

    A White House investigation is planned into Walsh, who couldn’t be reached for comment.

    This comes shortly after the Washington Examiner has reported that The House Intelligence Chair, Devin Nunes, set forth that there are also Obama-era officials in the Trump Administration, who are leaking formation as the Administration re-staffs.

    UPDATE: Maggie Habberman, who is being investigated for collusion with Kate Walsh, was previously exposed in the Podesta email leaks:

    View the complete article, including image, links and comments, at:

    http://thedailytrump.org/report-white-house-deputy-chief-staff-nevertrumper-source-leaks/#more-2251
37. Bruce says:

    February 22, 2017 at 1:52 pm

    Brzezinski: ‘Our Job’ Is to Control ‘Exactly What People Think’

    ‘He is trying to undermine the media’

    grabien
    2/22/2017

    Excerpt:

    Controlling “exactly what people think” is the job of the media, MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski boldly declared Wednesday morning.

    While discussing President Trump’s entreaties to the American people to remain skeptical of the press, Bzezinski worried that if the economy turns south, Americans may end up trusting him over the media.

    “And it could be that while unemployment and the economy worsens, he could have undermined the messaging so much that he can actually control exactly what people think,” Brzezinski said. “And that, that is our job.”

    SCARBOROUGH: “Exactly. That is exactly what I hear. What Yamiche said is what I hear from all the Trump supporters that I talk to who were Trump voters and are still Trump supporters. They go, ‘Yeah you guys are going crazy. He’s doing — what are you so surprised about? He is doing exactly what he said he is going to do.'”

    BRZEZINSKI: “Well, I think that the dangerous, you know, edges here are that he is trying to undermine the media and trying to make up his own facts. And it could be that while unemployment and the economy worsens, he could have undermined the messaging so much that he can actually control exactly what people think. And that, that is our job.”

    The comment failed to raise any eyebrows from her co-panelists. Instead, her co-host, Joe Scarborough, said that Trump’s media antagonism puts him on par with Mussolini and Lenin.

    SCARBOROUGH: “It’s the — it’s the ground noise that he is throwing out there also, whether he is questioning, Mark, the legitimacy of federal judges to do what they have done since Marbury v. Madison. It’s when he says the media is the, quote –”

    BRZEZINSKI: “Enemy.”

    SCARBOROUGH: “– ‘enemy of the people’, where he sounds like Mussolini or Lenin which obviously causes concern that phrase right there makes him sound more like a dictator in training, when he sends Stephen Miller out and says, basically the president has absolute power, he shall not be questioned.”

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    View the complete article, including video, at:

    https://news.grabien.com/story-brzezinski-our-job-control-exactly-what-people-think
38. Bruce says:

    February 22, 2017 at 7:29 pm

    fbianon round 2

    VOAT
    Submitted by ‘timesup’
    2/19/2017

    Those of us that have been here since the beginning (yes, i’ve been here since the beginning despite this 30 minute account) remember fbianon doing several different sessions of AMA’s; well, good news to you guys, he’s back.

    I wasn’t going to even bother with VOAT anymore on the account of my main account being banned by certain mods, but that’s not fair to the rest of you like myself that actually care deeply and search for new information/leads on an hourly basis, so here you go:

    https://steemit.com/fbianon/@ausbitbank/fbi-anon-returns-to-4chan

    http://boards.4chan.org/pol/thread/112808283/news-from-the-inside

    View the complete post, including comments and links, at:

    https://voat.co/v/pizzagate/1658975
39. Bruce says:

    February 23, 2017 at 4:52 pm

    Former CIA agent: Intel community playing ‘very dangerous game’ designed to damage Trump

    Canada Free Press
    by Robert Laurie
    2/23/2017

    Excerpt:

    Last night, on the Tucker Carlson show, the host interviewed Bryan Dean Wright. Wright’s is not a Trump supporter. He’s a Democrat and a former CIA who has deep concerns about how the intelligence community is dealing with the new President. While Wright claims most of the nation’s spies are fine, upstanding, people who have the country’s best interests at heart, there are a “fair amount” who are out to destroy Donald Trump.

    From Fox News: http://insider.foxnews.com/2017/02/22/former-cia-agent-tucker-intelligence-community-withholding-information-trump

    “There are a fair amount of these folks who are engaging in this very, very dangerous game,” Wright said, adding that he supports the president’s efforts to identify them and “throw them in jail.”

    When such officers withhold information or try to undermine a sitting president, they put their finger on who wins and loses in the political world, Wright said. “When we see this garbage we’re in deep deep trouble.”

    Deep trouble, indeed. If a President can’t trust the intel community to give him accurate information, or if he’s worried they’re withholding information, there’s no way he can make solid decisions. Wright seems to think that’s precisely what’s happening.

    As he says, “It’s not the job of the spy to figure out who wins and loses,” yet some in the spy game have allegedly decided that it’s their job to kneecap the new administration.
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    View the complete article, including image and video, at:

    http://canadafreepress.com/article/former-cia-agent-intel-community-playing-very-dangerous-game-designed-to-da
40. Bruce says:

    February 24, 2017 at 6:41 pm

    Trump Blasts Media, Outlines His Presidential Promises at CPAC 2017 National Harbor, Maryland, 2/24/2017 (Full CPAC Speech)

    View the video and transcript of the speech on the InspectorSmith Forum at:

    https://www.wasobamaborninkenya.com/InspectorSmith/forum/main-forum/videos-of-potential-interest-to-concerned-american-patriots/16456-video-trump-blasts-media-outlines-his-presidential-promises-at-cpac-2017
41. Bruce says:

    March 2, 2017 at 12:14 pm

    The “Alternative Government” Vs. Trump

    Any investigation of what Trump calls “illegal leaks” should begin with Washington Post columnist David Ignatius

    Canada Free Press
    by Cliff Kinkaid
    3/2/2017

    Excerpt:

    President Trump gave a good speech on Tuesday night, but his presidency is still hanging by a thread. Attorney Larry Klayman says an “alternative government” in the intelligence community continues to target him. “These intelligence agencies are more powerful than the president himself,” Klayman said on the Fox Business Network. “They have the ability to blackmail people in this administration to the point that the American people’s interests are going to be subverted.”

    Klayman, the founder of Freedom Watch, said, “How can he [President Trump] represent the interests of the American people when he knows the NSA is likely wiretapping everything he says with foreign leaders and everyone else?”

    It may seem like ancient history, but the media used to be concerned about surveillance of American citizens by U.S. intelligence and law enforcement agencies. After President Trump was elected, such concern suddenly disappeared. In fact, the media became the recipients of illegal leaks of private conversations by Trump administration officials. One such leak forced the resignation of national security adviser Michael T. Flynn.

    Claude Barfield, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), writes that there was nothing improper with U.S. intelligence surveillance of phone calls to and from the Russian ambassador. However, in regard to Flynn, existing law does not permit the NSA or FBI to “listen to the communications of Americans who may be caught in…eavesdropping.”

    The allegation that Flynn violated “the ancient 18th century Logan Act that forbids diplomatic activity by private U.S. citizens is no longer relevant, according to almost all legal experts,” notes Barfield. So the wiretaps could not be justified on that flimsy basis.

    Flynn was forced out on the equally spurious grounds that he forgot to tell Vice President Mike Pence about elements of the conversations he had with the Russian official.

    Barfield says that “a criminal—and certainly civil rights—violation did occur with the public leaks of the details of his conversations with the foreign ambassador from someone (or some persons) in the intelligence community.” The leak violated the Espionage Act, which makes intentional disclosure of classified “communications intelligence activities” a felony. What’s more, citing Timothy H. Edgar of Brown University, it is also a crime for national security officials “to leverage legitimate foreign intelligence collection to reveal public information in order to damage [an] individual they do not believe should serve.”

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    View the complete article including image video and comments at:

    http://canadafreepress.com/article/the-alternative-government-vs.-trump
42. Bruce says:

    March 7, 2017 at 5:41 pm

    WikiLeaks Vault 7: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know

    Heavy
    by Stephanie Dube Dwilson
    Updated 3/7/2017

    Excerpts:

    WikiLeaks released access to its hugely hyped Vault 7 on Tuesday morning, an hour earlier than anticipated. The passphrase was supposed to be released at 9 a.m. Eastern, but WikiLeaks released it an hour early at 8 a.m. instead, when it was originally scheduled to have a press conference about the release. It turns out that Vault 7 is about a global hacking program being covertly operated by the CIA. Today’s release was just the first in a series of releases about Vault 7.

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    WikiLeaks tweeted a series of six cryptic tweets about Vault 7 in February, causing speculation ranging from Vault 7 being related to 9/11 to Hillary Clinton to a shadow government of some sort. WikiLeaks even dropped another Vault 7 clue in its tweet, with a photo hidden in what looked to just be a plain black background. Now we know that Vault 7 is about CIA’s “global hacking force”:

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    One of the biggest issues that WikiLeaks sought to bring to light in its release was that the CIA’s secret hacking division had produced malware and other means of hacking iPhones, Android phones, Samsung Smart TVs, and even bypassing encrypted apps like WhatsApp, Signal, and Telegram — and then lost control of the malware. According to WikiLeaks, an archive with the malware and other exploits was being circulated and some of it was given over to WikiLeaks by an unnamed source. But because the CIA didn’t tell the companies about its capabilities, they weren’t able to close the holes. According to WikiLeaks, the CIA even found ways to access phones that had used Presidential Twitter accounts and were looking into hacking into cars and trucks.

    Here’s everything we know about Vault 7 so far. We will add to this as more information is available.

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    1. Vault 7 Is a Series of Leaks about the CIA that WikiLeaks Is Releasing, Starting With Year Zero

    Vault 7 isn’t just one release, it’s a series of leaks that WikiLeaks is releasing starting March 7, all about a covert global hacking program being run by the CIA. (Interestingly, WikiLeaks may have named the leaks “Vault 7” because they are releasing it on the 7th. Or they may have picked this date to correspond with the Vault 7 release.)

    The tweet announcing Vault 7’s release contained a photo hidden in what a casual viewer might have thought was just a plain black background. That photo read Prefecture 353. Find out more about the photo in this story below:
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    2. WikiLeaks Released the Year Zero Documents Via a Torrent File and a Passphrase

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    View the complete article including images, tweets, links and comments at:

    WikiLeaks Vault 7: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know
43. Bruce says:

    March 9, 2017 at 7:35 pm

    CIA Dirty Cyber Tricks?

    View the InspectorSmith Forum thread at:

    https://www.wasobamaborninkenya.com/InspectorSmith/forum/main-forum/recent-news-related-to-obama%C2%92s-major-fraud-issues-and-serious-character-flaws/16512-cia-dirty-cyber-tricks
44. Bruce says:

    March 15, 2017 at 8:46 am

    Napolitano: 3 Sources confirm Obama used British agency to spy on Trump

    Whoa. Huge, if true

    Canada Free Press
    by Robert Laurie
    3/14/2017

    Excerpt:

    Until we can put a name with the sources, or have something a little more concrete, I’d take all of this with a grain of salt, but If what Judge Andrew Napolitano revealed this morning on ‘Fox & Friends’ is true, the Trump wiretapping story is about to get a whole lot more interesting.

    According to Napolitano, Fox has three intelligence sources who claim that Obama bypassed the U.S. intel chain of command, contacted the British spy agency GCHQ, and obtained transcripts and records of then candidate Donald Trump’s phone calls. In doing so, he allegedly avoided the evidentiary paper trail that would have resulted had he used sources at the DOJ, CIA, or NSA.

    Three intelligence sources have informed Fox News that President Obama went outside the chain of command. He didn’t use the NSA, he didn’t use the CIA, he didn’t use the FBI, and he didn’t use the Department of Justice. He used GCHQ. What the heck is GCHQ? That’s the initials for the British spying agency. They have 24/7 access to the NSA database. So by simply having two people go to them and say President Obama needs transcripts of conversations involving Candidate Trump, conversations involving President-Elect Trump, [Obama’s] able to get it, and there’s no American fingerprints on this.

    Like I said, anonymous sources should always be treated skeptically, but Napolitano is making a massive accusation here. If he’s not 100% sure of his sources, I doubt he’d be so brazen.obtained transcripts and records of then candidate Donald Trump’s phone calls

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    View the complete article including images and videos at:

    http://canadafreepress.com/article/napolitano-3-sources-confirm-obama-used-british-agency-to-spy-on-trump

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    MY COMMENT: I’m very skeptical of Obama going to the BRITISH intelligence agency to obtain transcripts and records of then candidate Donald Trump’s phone calls. Obama has always HATED the British. It goes back to his Kenyan birth and lineage through his father’s side. He even went so far as to remove the bust of Winston Churchill.from the Oval Office. It looks like a ‘straw-man’ setup to me. If so, the matter will just be allowed to ‘cook’ for awhile and then the British agency, in collusion with our own (untrustworthy?) intel groups, will DENY the entire story. BINGO — The entire very serious wiretapping matter is then simply forgotten.
45. Bruce says:

    March 17, 2017 at 11:08 am

    Russian conspiracy an Elaborate Computer Ruse

    Meanwhile don’t count on the mainstream media pulling their thumbs out of their mouths and going after the story so long as the Trump administration is messing with their monopoly on White House pressers

    Canada Free Press
    by Judi McLeod
    3/17/2017

    Excerpt:

    It won’t need face recognition to catch agent provocateur operatives behind the Russian conspiracy that President Donald Trump and surrogates were in league with Russia ‘to steal the election from Hillary Rodham Clinton’, because the provocateur in this case was a specially set-up computer.

    In the ongoing Russia conspiracy, The Trump administration wasn’t operating with James Bond-like finesse, it was an in-house hoax played out by an elaborate digital ruse.

    This is a story that would never have seen sunlight and would have kept going over the heads of a thumb-sucking mainstream media, much more concerned that the Trump administration is giving access to ‘Conservative’ outlets when they worked in Club Exclusive for years.(Cliff Kincaid)

    Had it not been that is, for ground-breaking reporters John Solomon and Sara Carter over at Circa.

    A Russian bank has reported to U.S. authorities that mysterious communications resumed recently between one of its computers and an email server tied to President Trump’s business empire, and it has developed evidence the new activity may be the work of a hacker trying to create a political hoax, Circa has learned.

    Alfa Bank is asking the U.S. Justice Department for help solving the mystery and pledged its full cooperation.

    Given all that has been going on at the Justice Department during the still somewhere in cyberspace Hillary Clinton emails, Alfa could be knocking at the wrong door.

    Ditto for U.S. Intel agencies who will likely downplay Alfa’s discovery because it doesn’t fit the progressive’s narrative.

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    View the complete article including image and links at:

    http://canadafreepress.com/article/russian-conspiracy-an-elaborate-computer-ruse
46. Bruce says:

    March 19, 2017 at 7:04 pm

    Bombshell Report: NSA Spied on Trump, Employees; Alex Jones, Arpaio, Zullo

    UNDER “PROJECT DRAGNET”

    The Post & Email
    by Sharon Rondeau
    3/19/2017

    Excerpt:

    (Mar. 19, 2017) — Dr. Jerome Corsi of Infowars is reporting that “records” obtained from former Maricopa County, AZ Sheriff Joseph Arpaio and former Cold Case Posse leader Mike Zullo show that Donald Trump, a number of his employees and one of his ex-wives, and Infowars radio show host Alex Jones were “targets of electronic surveillance from 2004” to 2010.

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    View the complete article including image, links and comments at:

    Bombshell Report: NSA Spied on Trump, Employees; Alex Jones, Arpaio, Zullo
47. Bruce says:

    March 19, 2017 at 7:24 pm

    Disastrous National Security Breach in U.S. Congress

    They are working with the secular Progressive Socialists to bring down not merely President Donald Trump, but our nation

    Canada Free Press
    by Doug Hagmann
    3/19/2017

    Excerpt:

    Unless you’re plugged in to the independent media, there’s a good chance that you’ve not yet heard of one of the largest and arguably most important cases of government infiltration in recent history.

    On February 2, 2017, three Pakistani brothers with top access to the computer systems inside the U.S. House of Representatives containing some of the nation’s most sensitive information were removed from their positions by U.S. Capitol Police.

    The three brothers who are the target of a criminal probe, deliberately understated as a ‘procurement scam’ include Imran Awan, Abid Awan and Jamal Moiz Awan, each who were the ‘shared employees’ of at least 31 Democratic Congressional Representatives. But the case itself and potential damage is much, much worse than is being reported, if it’s being reported at all.

    While the corporate media is obviously more intent to prove some nebulous cyber connection between President Donald Trump and the Russians, they have yet to pay even the most basic lip service to this case of apparent espionage that has taken place at the highest levels of our government.

    The Amal brothers had complete and direct access to information of three extremely sensitive committees: The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, the Homeland Security Committee and the House Foreign Affairs Committee. The access to the information they had, along with their known or suspected affiliations to such groups as Hezbollah and the Muslim Brotherhood, has ‘shaken’ government insiders with knowledge about the case.

    Imran Awan has been identified as the group’s leader, initially providing computer services for Florida Democrat and former Democratic National Committee (DNC) chairman Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz. Recall that it was Schultz’s email which was ‘hacked’ during the 2016 election when she served as DNC Chairman.

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    View the complete article including image and links at:

    http://canadafreepress.com/article/disastrous-national-security-breach-in-u.s.-congress
48. Bruce says:

    March 21, 2017 at 12:30 pm

    Rand Paul: ‘Somebody Was Spying on the Trump Campaign’

    Breitbart / Video
    by Jeff Poor
    3/20/2017

    Excerpt:

    Monday on the Fox News Channel, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) questioned President Donald Trump’s detractors who argued there was no validity to his assertion that he had his “wires tapped” in a tweet earlier this month.

    According to Paul, most people acknowledge Trump’s former National Security Adviser Mike Flynn, a member of Trump’s presidential campaign, had been spied upon and it is coming down to what the definition of wiretap is.

    “You know what’s funny about that — everybody admits that somebody spied on Mike Flynn, and he was part of the Trump campaign,” Paul said. “So, it sounds like what the president said has already been proven to be true. Somebody listened to Mike Flynn’s conversation and revealed it to the press, which is a felony, and you don’t do that unless you eavesdropped on his phone conversation.”

    “The media has been kind of confused on this,” he continued. “The think there has to be an old-fashioned bug place on a wire. If you haven’t looked recently, most of our cell phones don’t have wires. ‘Wiretapping’ is a broad term for surveillance. Somebody spied on Mike Flynn then illegally released that conversation.”

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    View the complete article including image and videos at:

    http://www.breitbart.com/video/2017/03/20/rand-paul-somebody-spying-trump-campaign/
49. Bruce says:

    March 21, 2017 at 12:57 pm

    Judge Napolitano pulled from Fox News airwaves

    American Thinker / Blog
    by Thomas Lifson
    3/21/2017

    Excerpt:

    The MSM are exultant. They imagine Judge Andrew Napolitano’s metaphorical (and distinctive) scalp hanging on a peg somewhere. A taboo has been established and enforced.

    John Koblin of the New York Times deadpans:

    Andrew Napolitano, the senior legal analyst for Fox News, has been temporarily sidelined following his unproved assertion last week that former President Barack Obama had asked for British assistance in spying on Donald J. Trump, a person briefed on the decision said on Monday.

    Mr. Napolitano did not appear on Fox on Monday, even though there were two news events that normally would have called for his services: hearings involving the F.B.I. director James B. Comey, and the Supreme Court nominee Neil M. Gorsuch.

    Mr. Comey’s hearing touched on Judge Napolitano’s allegation – which both President Trump and his press secretary, Sean Spicer, repeated – that British intelligence officers wiretapped Mr. Trump at Mr. Obama’s request.

    It is not clear how long Mr. Napolitano will be off the air, but his absence from Fox’s airwaves on Monday was an indication that the network was not pleased with the unwanted attention focused on his unfounded allegations.

    The Los Angeles Times reported Mr. Napolitano’s absence on Monday. Fox News declined to comment.

    Last week, Mr. Napolitano, a former New Jersey Superior Court judge, reported on the morning show “Fox and Friends” that the Obama administration had asked British intelligence to wiretap Mr. Trump during the 2016 presidential campaign.

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    View the complete article including image and links at:

    http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2017/03/judge_napolitano_pulled_from_fox_news_airwaves.html
50. Bruce says:

    March 22, 2017 at 6:22 pm

    James Comey, the chicken hiding in the woods

    American Thinker / Blog
    by Clyde Ward
    3/22/2017

    Excerpt:

    Media analysis of the recent testimony by FBI director James Comey before Congress misses the forest for the trees.

    Was Trump Tower wiretapped?

    Well, who isn’t?

    That was the revelation of Ed Snowden in 2013, something NSA director James Clapper perjured himself to cover up.

    Had Clapper simply refused to answer the question as to the existence of such a pervasive, intrusive, and probably unconstitutional covert surveillance apparatus, he would have given it away.

    Covert is, well, “covert” if it’s to be of any use at all.

    But that brought up the nature of the surveillance, itself. How can anything of that nature be subjected to public oversight? Concerns of this nature were swept away in the bipartisan interest of national security.

    But now, the chickens have come to roost.

    When every American is under perpetual surveillance and classified information of an obviously very partisan political nature routinely leaks, we have to ask: is there any reason to trust anyone?

    The legacy of Obama is “all politics, all the time,” with no law at all. It doesn’t matter anymore who is right or wrong. When our major institutions have compromised themselves, the only thing that matters is winning.

    That’s a dangerous situation for any government.

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    View the complete article at:

    http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2017/03/_james_comey_the_chicken_hiding_in_the_woods.html
51. Bruce says:

    March 22, 2017 at 6:46 pm

    Nunes Confirms There Was “Incidental Surveillance” Of Trump During Obama Administration, “Seems To Be Inappropriate”

    ZeroHedge
    by Tyler Durden
    3/22/2017

    Excerpt:

    Update: House Intel Chairman Nunes spoke to reporters when he left the briefing at The White House and had some more stunning things to say:

    *NUNES: BRIEFED PRESIDENT ON CONCERNS OVER INCIDENTAL COLLECTION

    *NUNES: `PRESIDENT NEEDS TO KNOW’ THESE INTEL REPORTS EXIST

    *NUNES: SOME OF WHAT I’VE SEEN SEEMS TO BE `INAPPROPRIATE’

    *NUNES: TRUMP, OTHERS IN TRANSITION PUT INTO INTELLIGENCE REPORT

    *NUNES: QUESTION IS IF TRUMP SHOULD BE IN THESE `NORMAL’ REPORTS

    And the punchline: there are “multiple FISA warrants outstanding against Trump” Nunes also told reporters:

    As we detailed earlier, it appears Trump may have been right, again.

    Two days after FBI director Comey shot down Trump’s allegation that Trump was being wiretapped by president Obama before the election, it appears that president Trump may have been on to something because moments ago, the House Intelligence Chairman, Devin Nunes, told reporters that the U.S. intelligence community incidentally collected information on members of President Trump’s transition team, possibly including Trump himself, and the information was “widely disseminated” in intelligence reports.

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    View the complete article at:

    http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-03-22/nunes-trump-transition-members-and-possibly-trump-himself-were-under-surveillance-du
52. Bruce says:

    March 23, 2017 at 9:56 am

    Nunes: FBI Is Not Cooperating with Our Investigation into Trump Camp Surveillance

    So far the FBI has not told us whether or not they’re going to respond to our March 15th letter which is now a couple weeks old

    grabien News
    3/22/2017

    Excerpt:

    The FBI is not cooperating with the House of Representatives’ investigation into the NSA’s surveillance of the Trump campaign during the 2016 election, the chairman of the U.S. House Permanent Select Committee, Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), said today.

    During an explosive press conference outside the White House, Nunes told reporters that communications from the Trump team were picked up and disseminated within the government during the 2016 campaign. Nunes said sources within the intelligence community presented him with the information. He spoke to the press after briefing the administration.

    “We don’t actually know yet officially what happened to General Flynn,” Nunes said of how communications from Gen. Flynn’s calls were leaked to the press. “We just know that his name leaked out but we don’t know how it was picked up yet. That was one of the things that we asked for in the March 15th letter, was for the NSA, CIA, and FBI to get us all the unmasking that was done.”

    “And I’ll tell you, NSA is being cooperative,” Nunes continued, “but so far the FBI has not told us whether or not they’re going to respond to our March 15th letter, which is now a couple of weeks old.

    Nunes also reported that as of now, he “cannot rule out” President Obama ordering the surveillance.

    And contrary to earlier media reports, Nunes clarified that the surveillance was not related to the FBI’s investigation into possible collusion with Russia. This surveillance, he emphasized to reporters, does not “have anything to do with Russia.”

    View the complete article including image and links at:

    https://news.grabien.com/story-nunes-fbi-not-cooperating-our-investigation-trump-camp-surve
53. Bruce says:

    March 24, 2017 at 10:31 am

    Potential ‘smoking gun’ showing Obama administration spied on Trump team, source says

    FOXNEWS
    by James Rosen
    3/23/2017

    Excerpt:

    Republican congressional investigators expect a potential ‘smoking gun’ establishing that the Obama administration spied on the Trump transition team, and possibly the president-elect himself, will be produced to the House Intelligence Committee this week, a source told Fox News.

    Classified intelligence showing incidental collection of Trump team communications, purportedly seen by committee Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., and described by him in vague terms at a bombshell Wednesday afternoon news conference, came from multiple sources, Capitol Hill sources told Fox News. The intelligence corroborated information about surveillance of the Trump team that was known to Nunes, sources said, even before President Trump accused his predecessor of having wiretapped him in a series of now-infamous tweets posted on March 4.

    The intelligence is said to leave no doubt the Obama administration, in its closing days, was using the cover of legitimate surveillance on foreign targets to spy on President-elect Trump, according to sources.

    The key to that conclusion is the unmasking of selected U.S. persons whose names appeared in the intelligence, the sources said, adding that the paper trail leaves no other plausible purpose for the unmasking other than to damage the incoming Trump administration. — (bold emphasis added in preceding 2 paragraphs)

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    View the complete article including video at:

    http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/03/23/potential-smoking-gun-showing-obama-administration-spied-on-trump-team-source-says.html
54. Bruce says:

    March 24, 2017 at 10:59 am

    Fox News: NSA to Release Documents on Friday Which Could be Definitive Evidence of Trump Surveillance

    WILL TRUMP BE FULLY ‘VINDICATED’?

    The Post & Email
    by Sharon Rondeau
    3/24/2017

    Excerpt:

    (Mar. 24, 2017) On Friday morning’s ‘Fox & Friends’, co-hosts Pete Hegseth, Ainsley Earhardt, and Clayton Morris spoke with their Fox News colleague Tucker Carlson about a report initiated by Fox News White House correspondent James Rosen on Thursday alleging that a ‘smoking gun’ could soon be released containing evidence of surveillance of the Trump transition team by the Obama regime.

    According to this morning’s exchange, the National Security Agency (NSA) is expected to release documentation on Friday believed to show, based on Rosen’s sources, that Trump transition team member’s names as well as Trump’s could have been collected during surveillance activities between November 2016 and January 2017 and ‘unmasked’ by the intelligence community.

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    Fox News: NSA to Release Documents on Friday Which Could be Definitive Evidence of Trump Surveillance
55. Bruce says:

    March 24, 2017 at 11:46 am

    Video: Klayman Discusses NSA/CIA Whistleblower Dennis Montgomery & FBI Investigation of Mass Surveillance

    Video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TXYhWLDAaM

    Published on Mar 23, 2017 by ‘Freedom Watch’

    Klayman Discusses NSA/CIA Whistleblower Dennis Montgomery and the FBI Investigation of Mass Surveillance That Has Apparently Been “Deep Sixed” by FBI Director James Comey
56. Bruce says:

    March 30, 2017 at 10:31 am

    That time China interfered with U.S. elections…

    Sharyl Attkisson
    by sattkisson
    3/29/2017

    Excerpt:

    The following is a news analysis

    Let me be clear: Do I think it’s possible Russia tried to influence the outcome of our elections? Absolutely. In fact, I consider it quite likely. Not because of the unsubstantiated conclusions made in the press, but because intelligence officials I trust tell me that Russia and other nations have attempted to influence our elections for decades, the same way we’ve often dabbled in influencing foreign elections.

    However, the disproportionate media and political attention paid to Russia’s alleged efforts in 2016—and to the Russia threat generally—smacks of politics and propaganda. For example, top former Obama intel sources tell me they consider N. Korea, by far, the biggest foreign threat to the U.S. today. But N. Korea is barely mentioned in news reports. These intel officials put Iran and China next on the threat list—both, again, rarely discussed on the news, relative to Russia. The intel experts also mention ISIS and Islamist extremist terrorism as higher on the list than Russia.

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    https://sharylattkisson.com/that-time-china-interfered-with-u-s-elections/
57. Bruce says:

    March 30, 2017 at 11:14 am

    With Washington’s Blessing, Telecom Giants Can Mine Your Web History

    Congress’s repeal of FCC privacy rules could be data boon for Verizon, Comcast, AT&T

    Wall Street Journal
    by Jack Marshall
    3/30/2017

    Excerpt:

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    Lawmakers on Tuesday voted to overturn privacy rules that required telecom companies to get customers’ permission before sharing their web-browsing and app usage history with third parties. The White House said Wednesday President Donald Trump intends to sign the measure into law.

    Undoing the rules, which had been adopted last fall by the Federal Communications Commission but hadn’t gone into effect, is a boon to Verizon Communications Inc., VZ Comcast Corp. CMCSA and AT&T Inc., which are all in the process of building data-driven digital ad businesses to complement the broadband, wireless and TV services they offer.

    The telecom providers had argued the rules put them at a competitive disadvantage to online ad giants Google and Facebook, which generally aren’t regulated by the FCC.
    Google and Facebook have built huge businesses powered by reams of data they collect about consumers’ online actions, both on their own properties and across the web. That trove of information largely explains their dominance — combined, they have a roughly 47% share of the global digital ad market, according to eMarketer.

    But online advertising executives say telecom providers potentially have access to more powerful data than the two tech powerhouses. Their networks — both wired and wireless — could give them a window into nearly everything a user is doing on the web.

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    https://www.wsj.com/articles/with-washingtons-blessing-telecom-giants-can-mine-your-web-history-1490869801
58. Bruce says:

    April 1, 2017 at 10:31 am

    Intel Official Behind “Unmasking” Of Trump Associates Is “Very Senior, Very Well Known”

    ZeroHedge
    by Tyler Durden
    3/31/2017

    Excerpt:

    Day after day, various media outlets, well really mostly the NYT and WaPo, have delivered Trump-administration-incriminating, Russia-link-related tape bombs sourced via leaks (in the hope of keeping the narrative alive and “resisting.”). It now turns out, according to FXN report, that the US official who “unmasked” the names of multiple private citizens affiliated with the Trump team is someone “very well known, very high up, very senior in the intelligence world.”

    As Malia Zimmerman and Adam Housley report, intelligence and House sources with direct knowledge of the disclosure of classified names (yes, yet another “unnamed source”) said that House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, now knows who is responsible – and that person is not in the FBI (i.e. it is not James Comey)

    Housley said his sources were motivated to come forward by a New York Times report yesterday which reportedly outed two people who helped Nunes access information during a meeting in the Old Executive Office Building. However, Housley’s sources claim the two people who helped Nunes “navigate” to the information were not his sources. In fact, Nunes had been aware of the information since January (long before Trump’s ‘wiretap’ tweet) but had been unable to view the documents themselves because of “stonewalling” by the agencies in question.

    For a private citizen to be “unmasked,” or named, in an intelligence report is extremely rare. Typically, the American is a suspect in a crime, is in danger or has to be named to explain the context of the report.

    “The main issue in this case, is not only the unmasking of these names of private citizens, but the spreading of these names for political purposes that have nothing to do with national security or an investigation into Russia’s interference in the U.S. election,” a congressional source close to the investigation told Fox News.

    The White House, meanwhile, is urging Nunes and his colleagues to keep pursuing what improper surveillance and leaks may have occurred before Trump took office. They’ve been emboldened in the wake of March 2 comments from former Obama administration official Evelyn Farkas, who on MSNBC suggested her former colleagues tried to gather material on Trump team contacts with Russia.

    White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said Friday her comments and other reports raise “serious” concerns about whether there was an “organized and widespread effort by the Obama administration to use and leak highly sensitive intelligence information for political purposes.”

    “Dr. Farkas’ admissions alone are devastating,” he said.

    Clearly this confirms what Evelyn Farakas said, accidentally implicated the Obama White House in the surveillance of Trump’s campaign staff:

    The Trump folks, if they found out how we knew what we knew about the Trump staff dealing with Russians, that they would try to compromise those sources and methods, meaning we would not longer have access to that intelligence.

    Furthermore, Farkas effectively corroborated a New York Times article from early March which cited “Former American officials” as their anonymous source regarding efforts to leak this surveillance on the Trump team to Democrats across Washington DC.

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    http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-03-31/intel-official-behind-unmasking-trump-associates-very-senior-very-well-known
59. Bruce says:

    April 1, 2017 at 11:16 am

    Latest WikiLeaks release shows how the CIA uses computer code to hide the origins of its hacking attacks and ‘disguise them as Russian or Chinese activity’

    —- WikiLeaks published 676 source code files today which it claimed are from CIA

    —- It says the CIA disguised its own hacking attacks to make it appear those responsible were Russian, Chinese, Iranian or North Korean

    The Daily Mail
    by Mail Online Reporter
    3/31/2017

    Excerpt:

    WikiLeaks has published hundreds more files today which it claims show the CIA went to great lengths to disguise its own hacking attacks and point the finger at Russia, China, North Korea and Iran.

    The 676 files released today are part of WikiLeaks’ Vault 7 tranche of files and they claim to give an insight into the CIA’s Marble software, which can forensically disguise viruses, trojans and hacking attacks.

    WikiLeaks says the source code suggests Marble has test examples in Chinese, Russian, Korean, Arabic and Farsi (the Iranian language).

    It says: ‘This would permit a forensic attribution double game, for example by pretending that the spoken language of the malware creator was not American English, but Chinese.’

    This could lead forensic investigators into wrongly concluding that CIA hacks were carried out by the Kremlin, the Chinese government, Iran, North Korea or Arabic-speaking terror groups such as ISIS.

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    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4367746/WikiLeaks-says-CIA-disguised-hacking-Russian-activity.html#ixzz4cy05xTjN
60. Bruce says:

    April 1, 2017 at 12:16 pm

    First They Came for Judge Napolitano

    No wonder the Post wants to destroy Nunes. He is standing in the way of the establishment reasserting the primacy of their narrative on the Russians and Trump. They got Napolitano’s scalp; now they want to get that of Nunes

    Canada Free Press
    by Cliff Kincaid
    3/31/2017

    Excerpt:

    An admitted CIA mouthpiece writing for The Washington Post receives classified information and publishes it. He remains in good standing at the paper. Yet the Senior Judicial Analyst for Fox News offers his informed opinion that the British helped conduct surveillance on President Trump and is suspended for several days from on-air appearances.

    This action by Fox News reflects disrespect for someone who has worked for the channel since 1998. It sends a message that the intelligence community, here and abroad, cannot be investigated.

    The scalp of Judge Napolitano will forever be nailed to the wall of Fox News

    Since the British NSA, the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), had issued a denial of what Napolitano had said, the feeling of most of the media (and the management of Fox News Channel) was apparently that this was the Gospel and must not be challenged.

    The scalp of Judge Napolitano will forever be nailed to the wall of Fox News, setting an example of what happens when the establishment narrative about Russia and Trump is undermined. Napolitano was made into an example of what happens when the intelligence agencies are embarrassed.

    We understand that journalists use intelligence officials as anonymous sources and therefore accommodate them. But when a commentator like Napolitano breaks the mold with information that embarrasses the intelligence community, he must be supported, not punished with a suspension. Otherwise, the notion of a free and independent press is a joke.

    Meanwhile, an anchor for Fox News, gay activist Shepard Smith, makes a mockery of conservative values on a regular basis and continues to enjoy the blessings of the channel’s owners. This is what happens when a conservative channel takes its conservative base for granted and moves to the left in order to appear more acceptable to the rest of the media. Smith was actually designated to declare on the air that Napolitano’s report was incorrect. No details were offered on what investigations were done, if any, to question the sources behind his claims. One source came forward to validate what the judge had said.

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    http://canadafreepress.com/article/first-they-came-for-judge-napolitano
61. Bruce says:

    April 7, 2017 at 1:08 pm

    Citing Possible False Flag, Trump Launches Illegal War on Syria

    The New American
    by Alex Newman
    4/7/2017

    Excerpt:

    Citing a chemical attack blamed on Syrian dictator Bashar al Assad that increasingly appears to be a “false flag,” President Donald Trump ordered military strikes on government targets in Syria. According to media reports, Trump launched more than 50 missiles at Assad’s forces in Syria, backpedaling on repeated vows to stay out and seek congressional approval for war made during his presidential campaign. Because Congress has not declared war on Syria, multiple legal experts and lawmakers have noted that the newly started war is illegal and unconstitutional. Former Trump supporters across America and worldwide were horrified by the news, suggesting the president had either been misled or even co-opted by the “deep state.” Despite Trump’s repeated calls for the United States to stay out of Syria over the years, regime change now appears to be the goal.

    Before launching 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles on April 6, Trump told reporters that a Sarin gas attack in Syria’s northern region blamed on Assad had caused him to change his views on the conflict and the Syrian strongman. “I will tell you that attack on children yesterday had a big impact on me, big impact,” Trump said about the attack, which reportedly killed over 100 people. “My attitude toward Syria and Assad has changed very much…. You’re now talking about a whole different level.” Speaking at his Mar-a-Lago mansion in Florida, Trump called on other governments to join him. “Assad choked out the lives of helpless men, women and children,” he claimed in an assertion that has been widely disputed by analysts and foreign powers. “It is in this vital national security interest of the United States to prevent and deter the spread and use of deadly chemical weapons.”

    Prior to becoming president, though, Trump was adamant in lambasting Obama for his illegal warmongering in Syria. “What will we get for bombing Syria besides more debt and a possible long term conflict?” Trump asked on Twitter in August of 2013. “Obama needs Congressional approval.” Ironically, in October of 2012, Trump suggested Obama would attack Libya or Iran because his “poll numbers are in a tailspin.” “He is desperate,” Trump said. The Trump administration and the establishment media — which Trump has long ridiculed, correctly, as a dishonest enemy of the American people — claim to have “intelligence” showing that the attack was perpetrated by Assad. That was cited as the reason for Trump’s change of heart. But a similar chemical attack during Obama’s term was almost certainly a false flag perpetrated by jihadist rebels.

    According to news reports, the U.S. missiles were launched from two U.S. Navy ships, the USS Ross and the USS Porter, operating in the Mediterranean Sea. The target was Syria’s Shayrat Airfield, from which U.S. government officials claim to believe the Syrian military launched the Sarin gas attack. U.S. officials cited in media reports said all but one of the missiles hit their targets, destroying a runway, airplanes, fuel pumps, and infrastructure. Russian officials claimed that less than half of the missiles hit their targets. And Assad said the attack was a violation of “all international laws and customs” and had made the U.S. government a partner of the savage terror group ISIS. Islamist rebels praised Trump’s intervention against Assad.

    Regime change appears to be the goal, at least of certain globalists in key positions within the administration. When asked whether the Trump administration was planning to bring together a “coalition” to remove Assad from power, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said that “steps” were already “underway” to do that. “Assad’s role in the future is uncertain clearly, and with the acts that he has taken it would seem that there would be no role for him to govern the Syrian people,” Tillerson said at a Florida news conference, claiming the supposed “intelligence” leaves “no doubt” that Assad, who denied any role, was behind the chemical attack. “And we think it’s time that the Russians really need to think carefully about their continued support of the Assad regime.”

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    https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/foreign-policy/item/25782-citing-possible-false-flag-trump-launches-illegal-war-on-syria
62. Bruce says:

    April 10, 2017 at 12:22 pm

    Interesting Tidbit

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    Trump Surrenders Element of Surprise by Warning Russia of Planned Strike on Its Ally Syria

    The Intercept
    by Robert Mackey
    4/7/2017

    Excerpts:

    No doubt fearing the grave risk of killing Russian military personnel on the ground in Syria, the United States military gave Russia advance notice before launching cruise missile strikes overnight on a Syrian air base that is used to store chemical weapons, according to a U.S. intelligence assessment.

    A Pentagon spokesman, Capt. Jeff Davis, said in a statement that a pre-exiting “deconfliction” channel, set up to keep American and Russian jets from crossing paths in the skies over Syria, was used to disclose the planned attack to Russia. “U.S. military planners took precautions to minimize risk to Russian or Syrian personnel located at the airfield,” Davis said.

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    Evidence of the damage caused by the strikes is incomplete, but images of the base broadcast on Russian state television on Friday suggested that significant parts of it remain intact.

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    Trump Surrenders Element of Surprise by Warning Russia of Planned Strike on Its Ally Syria
63. Bruce says:

    April 11, 2017 at 1:01 pm

    Belligerence aside, Trump still hasn’t given up on Russia

    American Thinker / Blog
    by Monica Showalter
    4/11/2017

    Excerpt:

    The latest belligerent don’t-cross-me language and military positioning from both the U.S. and Russia in the wake of the Syria raid, are fairly disheartening, given that President Trump ran for the presidency on a platform of improving relations with Russia. The exile of K.T. MccFarland, who favored a Kissingerian realpolitick of finding common ground with Russia, from the National Security Council to an ambassadorship in Singapore didn’t help. The cheering of prominent neocons of the Syria raid was a bit dispiriting, too. Were we really going back to the same old unending Bush quagmires, with all their gooey sidelines of nation-building on the flawed assumption that stone-age slaves were really just Jeffersonian democrats in disguise? When we hear talk from administration officials about ‘letting the Syrians choose’ their leaders,’ how can we not think about all the lovely results that came of that idiocy during the Arab Spring, when dictator-tossing mobs elected far more hideous actors, as in Egypt? When we speak of supporting the Syrian rebels, how can we be sure we aren’t bankrolling Isis and al-Qaida? With Russia digging in its heels to support its Syrian ally and making common cause with Iran’s mullahs, the whole picture looked as though the outlines of the old Cold War power politics, the sour Bush era, and the far worse Obama era were back.

    Yet bad as the picture is, there are are some subtle signs that the original plan of finding a way to work with Russia might still be operative.

    For one thing, there was the subtle slip, which may not have been so accidental, of White House spokesman Sean Spicer, who suggested that Russia was an ally. Spicer is a professional public relations guy, he knows the importance of word use. He’s also not a Russia-softie. Was that intentional? The left squawked that it was, playing gotcha, but one wonders if it might have been entirely intentional.

    Administration officials and allies have said they want Russia to come on over to our side, emphasizing that Russia’s ally, Syria’s Assad, isn’t really a worthy one to stand by.

    President Trump is sending Rex Tillerson to Moscow now, and despite unnamed officials leaking a story that Russia knew in advance about the chemical weapons attack, Tillerson is known to be a smooth operator, particularly from a position of strength. It’s possible he might just be able to coax Russia to abandon Assad and join the allies, setting the stage for a bad actor to be replaced by a better one. The BBC says the U.S. and U.K. see it as a ‘window of opportunity.’ And if it leaves Iran isolated, it means a major blow for the already-tottering mullahs.

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    http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2017/04/belligerence_aside_trump_still_hasnt_given_up_on_russia.html
64. Bruce says:

    April 13, 2017 at 12:27 pm

    The United States Strike in Syria: Local Damage, Global Message

    Entrenchment of Iran and Hezbollah in Syria, as the Assad regime relies on them more heavily

    Canada Free Press
    by INSS — Amos Yadlin , Assaf Orion
    4/13/2017

    Excerpt:

    On the afternoon of April 4, 2017, the Assad regime launched a chemical weapons attack on the town of Khan Sheikhoun in northern Syria, murdering dozens of civilians, including children. On the night of April 6-7, the United States struck the Syrian air force base in Dardaghan-Shuayrat, from where the attack was launched, with dozens of cruise missiles. This was the first deliberate American attack against Assad regime targets. What follows is an analysis of the key implications of these events and the repercussions for Israel.

    On the physical and techno-tactical levels, the attack’s impact is insignificant. About 60 cruise missiles fired from destroyers in the Mediterranean Sea struck the air force base’s infrastructures and, as reported, caused few fatalities and destroyed a few aircraft. Other aircraft had been evacuated from the base earlier, following an advance warning issued by the United States to Russia, in order to avoid hitting Russian forces. Therefore, the attack did not significantly deprive the Assad regime of a significant capability to continue fighting, as can be seen from the subsequent resumption of the air strikes on Khan Sheikhoun itself. Nevertheless, the United States strike demonstrated the Assad regime’s vulnerability when the United States decides to take action against it, and neither Syria’s air defense systems, nor Russia’s, intercepted the cruise missiles, either out of choice or inability. Therefore, it is important to analyze the purposes of the US military action and its repercussions on the strategic level, which are expressed in terms of reputation, image, balances of power, rules of the game, deterrence, and the impact on decision making and on players’ calculus.

    On the American domestic level, the US strike enables President Donald Trump to differentiate himself from his predecessor

    On the American domestic level, the US strike enables President Donald Trump to differentiate himself from his predecessor, who refrained from attacking the Assad regime, even when it launched chemical attacks and crossed the red lines Obama himself had drawn; to position himself as a decisive leader who is unafraid of employing military force and a swift decision maker who nevertheless, remains level-headed and measured (the operation was defined as proportional and limited, while the course of action did not entail risking American combatants). Concurrently, Trump showed the US legislature that he is willing to employ military force even without obtaining the Congress’s approval. Perhaps most importantly, against the backdrop of the extensive public discourse about Russia’s interference in the last US elections and about prohibited contacts between personnel in Trump’s administration and Putin’s government, Trump demonstrated that he is unafraid of challenging Russia.

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    http://canadafreepress.com/article/the-united-states-strike-in-syria-local-damage-global-message
65. Bruce says:

    April 14, 2017 at 10:43 am

    Trump: Not Too Late to Prosecute Hillary

    President may also ask Comey to resign

    Infowars.com
    by Jerome Corsi
    4/13/2017

    Excerpt:

    WASHINGTON, D.C. – President Trump signaled Hillary Clinton could yet be prosecuted, emphasizing the point by noting it was not yet too late to ask FBI Director James Comey to resign.

    “When Jim Comey came out, he saved Hillary Clinton. People don’t realize that. He saved her life,” Trump told Fox Business Network host Maria Bartiromo. “When he was reading those charges, she was guilty of every charge, and then he said she was essentially OK.”

    Bartiromo also asked Trump why he had not asked for Comey to resign, noting he was one of many Obama-era staffers still in the Trump administration.

    “I have confidence in him [Comey], we’ll see what happens,” Trump said — after noting it’s “not too late” to replace him. “It’s going to be interesting… I want to give everyone a good, fair chance.”

    Then, on Wednesday, two top Republicans on the House Ways and Means Committee asked Attorney General Sessions to review the evidence against Lois Lerner, the IRS official who took the Fifth Amendment before Congress rather than answer questions why she had denied granting tax-favored status to conservative Tea Party groups applying to the IRS under Section 501(c) of the tax code.

    On Wednesday, the Hill reported House Ways and Means Chair, Kevin Brady, Rep.-TX, and tax-policy subcommittee Chair Peter Roskham, Rep.-IL, asked the Department of Justice to “take a fresh look” at the evidence against Lois Lerner “in order to assure the American people that DOJ’s prior investigation was handled fairly to restore taxpayers’ trust in the IRS.”

    On Oct. 23, 2015, the Hill had reported Attorney General Lois Lerner had decided the Justice Department would decline to bring criminal charges against Lerner, in a decision Rep. Darrell Issa, Rep.-CA, who led an investigation into the IRS when he was chair of the House Oversight Committee, characterized as the Obama DOJ giving Lerner a “free pass.”

    These developments confirm Infowars.com reporting that President Trump has not decided to ignore criminal allegations that continue to unfold against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and top Obama administration officials, including Lois Lerner.

    Clearly, President Trump did not want to take office appearing vindictive by making his first actions to demand the Justice Department should start convening grand juries against Obama administration officials like Clinton and Lerner.

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    https://www.infowars.com/trump-not-too-late-to-prosecute-hillary/