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January 24, 2017 · 3:01 pm

Repeating my message… again

President Trump’s fans consider him a genius at “counter-punching” and many “experts” and  journalists have written about this.  Saleno Zito ran a very good piece, How Trump made small town America matter again,  at the New York Post on January 22, 2017.  She wrote:

“All he needed was that connection that he had with the people and that simple but brilliant tangible benefit he was offering to take them toward, the cry of “Make America great again.”

All he needed were the rallies.

It was the secret sauce that reporters, pollsters, academics and critics almost all missed.

Trump’s plan was a genius gamble; use the press to get his message out, which he did, doing sometimes 10 to 12 media hits a day across the cable and network news shows. They were sometimes long-winded, rambling streams of consciousness, they were oftentimes controversial — and they never failed to get everyone’s attention.”

http://nypost.com/2017/01/22/how-trump-made-small-town-america-matter-again/

It wasn’t a genius gamble.  Someone taught Trump how to SPIN and repeat talking points and memes.  What Zito refers to as “sometimes long-winded, rambling streams of consciousness”, were actually gibberish interspersed with keyword messaging (talking points), that were carefully designed to resonate with flyover Americans.  Trump didn’t think up all those memes and keyword messaging – he was fed it.  It’s the same type of keyword messaging the Clintons, Obama and the Left have used since 1992.

The news media spent days on end repeating Trump’s keyword messaging and his “winning in the all the polls” polling data.   The media’s relentless cornering Republicans and rehashing their vote and stand on invading Iraq, as some sort of required penance, was replaced with media cornering Republicans in the primary and hounding them with, “Trump is winning in all the polls, don’t you need to support the winner?”  This was designed to create the perception that Trump was the legitimate GOP candidate and any Republican who didn’t get in line was trying to steal the nomination from him.

These types of media mind games, to create the perception that popularity equates to the “will of the people”, are a consistent theme in the mass media saturation information warfare.  The overriding goal is to convince people that polls are a legitimate representation of the will of the people, when really polls are the opinions of small groups of people, extrapolated as representing millions of people.  Convincing people polls are “scientific” was part of the long-term scam.

Zito wrote, “All he needed were the rallies.”

Well, yes the visual of large rallies broadcast live and in their entirety on all three cable networks during the GOP primary is the same mass media saturation con game as the Women’s March photo blitz of “crowd size” that played out this past weekend.  It is the same exact propaganda tactic.  The same way Trump repeating “great, great, great” was the same as James Carville repeating “sex, sex, sex”.

For Trump’s genius to work required active and knowing participation of the mass media in America, because they gave him BILLIONS of dollars in free media. It was massive media collusion that gave Trump the edge when he waged, what the media referred to as a “GOP Insurgency” (wonder who dreamed up that phrase, because I am sure it wasn’t Trump the “genius”).  Interestingly, in the general election Wikileaks started leaking DNC and Podesta emails which showed the corrupt media collusion to help Hillary.  There was massive media collusion to sell Trump as the “GOP Insurgent” in the primary too.  Who was the puppet-master behind the GOP Insurgency is a question that needs to be answered.  Who in the Trump campaign was selling Trump on SPIN should be exposed too. Finding out who orchestrated and funded Trump’s messaging, rallies and media blitz is equally as important as exposing the Clinton spin, the Obama narrative, Russian influence in the election and who organized and funded the Women’s March…”global movement”.

I’m a homemaker who likes reading about military history, strategy, and intelligence operations.  As an Army wife, as we moved from post to post, I spent many years signing out books at Army post libraries on these topics and buying books too.  I had a fascination for learning about propaganda and information warfare.  When I first started observing the Clinton “war room”, and the relentless repetition of talking points, I realized this was something different in American politics.

I’ve been dissecting Clinton SPIN  since it first entered American presidential politics in the 1992 presidential campaign.  I started wondering what it was, where it came from and what the goals of it were, both short-term and long-term.  By 1998, when the Clinton impeachment scandal hit, I had dissected it and  I keep repeating it, so that any new readers  understand what I’m talking about.  I call it mass media saturation strategy, because I have never seen anyone else write about SPIN in terms of it being information warfare.  Writing about it on the Excite message boards in 1998 evoked a massive reaction, so I believe I hit the nail on the head.  Here it is again:

Mass media saturation is the military strategy of swarming juxtaposed to a mass media battlefield

Scorched earth is the military strategy of scorched earth (a war crime under the Geneva Conventions btw) juxtaposed to a mass media battlefield, Scorched earth information warfare is a take no prisoners blitz of vicious character assassinations AND mass media saturation on steroids.

Combined, they have been ruthlessly used to divide America into hostile, warring factions

Here’s the way it works:

The messaging wall required for mass media saturation to succeed requires the active collusion of the mass media NEWS outlets to facilitate it, by actively and relentlessly repeating the messages of the political candidate or activists using this “buzz word, catchphrase spin (talking points messaging). Mass media saturation INFORMATION WARFARE requires mass media collusion to succeed.  This strategy can NOT succeed without mass media messaging dominance to CONTROL (“win”) the 24/7 news cycle (or as the Clinton team dubbed it – the spin cycle).

It is a form of mass media brainwashing and antithetical to American free speech principles!  To succeed this strategy requires MEDIA COLLUSION.

It can NOT work without that media collusion.

Here are the components:

  • Talking points and buzz word messaging, which are relentlessly repeated by both political operatives and the media.

  • Mass media domination of the messaging, to control the 24/7 NEWS cycle, which requires mass media collusion.

  • Relentless repetition of polling data by both the political operatives and media, to facilitate the manufacture of opinion cascades (winning in all the polls)

    https://libertybellediaries.com/2016/07/30/the-pieces-of-the-media-messaging-puzzle/

The media is the lynchpin in Clinton spin & Obama narratives. Without that mass media saturation, the Left has to play on a level playing field & compete in the arena of ideas, where they lose. No signs of it letting up, when the media ran the Clinton scorched earth in the general & are still hard at it.  The media attacks on Trump are more overt and extreme than the attacks they waged against GWB..

Keeping Trump and the Left at war is more about destabilizing America than it is about Republicans or Democrats winning.

This past weekend a massive propaganda effort was staged and waged globally.  The whole effort centered on a photo blitz launched by mass media of showing large crowd size at the Women’s March locations around the world.  Very little information about these marches accompanied the photos, but there was a propaganda ploy to pit Trump against the media, presenting the Women’s March crowd as larger than his inauguration crowd.  By afternoon on Saturday, the media started a meme accompanying photos of the march in Chicago – “too big to march”.  Not long after that, the media started saying the march in  WashingtonDC  was also “too big to march”.

These memes and talking points sound very similar and the same tactics to pit Left vs. Right have been used repeatedly.  From the beginning, interjecting military terms into their jargon is popular too.  And when it all comes out eventually, I expect a large hand in fueling “The Tea Party” movement had the larger purpose of splitting the GOP and when that fizzled, along came the “GOP Insurgency”.  It all started in America with a “war room” in an American presidential campaign in 1992.  By 1998, the “throw anything and hope it sticks” mass media saturation war was waged – the scorched earth campaign to save Bill Clinton’s presidency.

The US Armed Forces, the FBI, and our national security agencies are America’s last bastion, where Americans have confidence in their government.  The GOP was the political party that was adamant about The Constitution AND our founding principles.  Destroying American faith in these institutions  has been at the center of this vicious information warfare.

This massive SPIN effort was intended to, not only delegitimize President Trump, but to show American democracy in chaos, a theme of continuing the imagery of two disgusting presidential scorched earth campaigns, reducing American democracy to a crude, vulgar, Reality TV show with two totally corrupt candidates.  Those Wikileaks leaks were not so much to help Trump, but to expose the corrupt media collusion, sow distrust of the media and cast doubt on our political system.  Rabid Dems and Trump played along, attacking our FBI and intelligence agencies, attacking the legitimacy of our ballot boxes ( recount fiasco), our constitution (Electoral College), and both Dems and Trump have attacked the FBI, and Trump expanded that to US intelligence agencies.

The “fake news” hype fueled hysteria on the right about the Left censoring news, but it also exposed the lazy, sloppy journalism of journalists sitting on Twitter and retweeting each other’s stories with no real fact-checking.  As this lack of journalistic standards became more obvious in recent weeks, Trump has latched onto hyping the “dishonest media” to deflect from his own blatant lies.   Many journalists have hunkered down like college-campus snowflakes, debating whether they should cover White House press conferences, akin to college kids needing their safe spaces to avoid being triggered.  The media is still spinning and Trump is now lying through his teeth to “counter-punch”.   Oh, and the Russians are still using Wikileaks to agitate both sides.  Over the weekend, Wikileaks started tweeting that Trump needs to release his tax returns.

This mass media saturation information warfare is not just about Republicans vs. Democrats.

Here’s a big picture analysis I wrote on October 20, 2016:

For the record, I could not care less when people attack me personally or call me a crazy conspiracy nut, but I sure hope that the people entrusted with our national security get their heads out of their butts SOON, because the Russians ARE on the move and they have a COMPREHENSIVE MILITARY STRATEGY and they have been incrementally waging it for DECADES against America and the West. There should be a few Cold Warriors, who remember how this game is played.

Hillary or Trump are both surefire losers for America – one is too stupid to realize Putin is fluffing him and the other has so much dirt that the Russians are holding and ready to blackmail her, that she’s compromised six ways to Sunday.

This isn’t just about presidential “politics” or some benign media messaging strategy, because the Clinton mass media messaging is just part of this. The Russians are escalating their cyber warfare actions, their geopolitical actions AND military actions.

This is the culmination of a DECADES’ long comprehensive military strategy to neuter the United States and the West and the main effort has been to fuel virulent partisan factions in America and destroy Americans’ confidence in the media, in their economic system (Wall Street attacks ring a bell), the police (hey BLM, ring a bell), and the entire American governmental system. It has been a comprehensive military strategy all along.

Putin will be the only winner come November 8th.

https://libertybellediaries.com/2016/10/20/repetitive-messaging/

There are larger forces at play in this beyond American Left vs. Right partisan politics. Russian influence operations were very real, Soros money is very real.  Rupert Murdoch coming in to personally run the largest right-wing propaganda outlet in America is very real. Rupert Murdoch fired Roger Ailes on the very day Trump secured the Republican nomination.

There’s an information war being played out on an international scale battling over the international system.

I believe Russian, Soros & Murdoch are on the same team – trying to dismantle the international system. Putin wants to be the leader of a new international order, but if push comes to shove, the big money will topple him too.

In America they’re fomenting left vs right battles and black distrust with their endless propaganda.

FOX just brought in Nigel Farage to agitate the American right and ditched constitutional conservative, George Will.

The three most stable democracies are in internal chaos – Britain was conned into Brexit playing patriotic & economic themes, but leaving the country battling the EU and with massive internal divides. Germany was duped into the humanitarian route, welcoming in a radical Jihadist army, that will ruthlessly try to destroy the cultural fiber and foment ethnic battles. America has just endured two virulent scorched earth presidential campaigns with two very corrupt candidates – those scorched earth campaigns had huge money pouring in and information warfare help from the Russians, Soros, Murdoch – spewing endless propaganda designed to play Americans against each other.

Where it ends is anybody’s guess.

President Trump has no clue that he’s a dupe in the larger game, but hopefully some of his advisers can keep him fighting for American national interests. General Mattis just reassured NATO that we are committed – good move.  Let’s hope for many more good moves to bolster the international order, that America led the way building.

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January 23, 2017 · 8:35 pm

Message from the Netherlands

C’mon, watch this video and laugh:-)

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January 22, 2017 · 12:51 am

Size doesn’t matter… follow the money

Beyond the partisan rancor, today’s Women’s March, touted as a  global movement, was highly coordinated agitation propaganda on a massive scale.  While the media, Democratic Party activists and Trump administration were lost in a rabid partisan haze, they missed the big picture and national security implications completely.  They were willing accomplices at participating in agitation propaganda designed to make American democracy look unstable and America to be in chaos. Finding out who all was involved in organizing and funding this global movement is a national security imperative, just as much as investigating the Russian influence in the election.  In fact, many of the same hands may be involved in both.

Yesterday, the media began another massive spin effort comparing the crowd size of President Trump’s inauguration with President Obama’s 2008 inauguration.  Most of the coverage centered on posting side-by-side photos of The National Mall in WashingtonDC.

In recent months I’ve started using Twitter and I follow several hundred journalists, news sites and some politicians.  By watching how the journalists and news organization tweet, their sloppy journalism and outright collusion to spread Democrat and Leftist talking points is obvious.

Today, while on Twitter, I noticed this massive spin effort underway to post photos of massive crowds at the Women’s March from all over the country and abroad.  This was an orchestrated propaganda effort, but even more than that, I believe there’s way more to this Women’s March than just the Dem and American Left trying to delegitimize Trump.  All day long, march speakers talked about this as a “movement”, just like Trump talked about his election as a “movement”.  The Left is worried about Russian influence in the election and Russian mob ties within Trump’s inner-circle.  That’s a legitimate concern and needs to be fully investigated.

The WomensMarch was touted as a spontaneous event that is just a grassroots event, but it’s  highly orchestrated, organized and funded.

Asra Q. Nomani wrote a piece at the New York Times yesterday, Billionaire George Soros has ties to more than 50 ‘partners’ of the Women’s March on Washington.  Nomani writes:

“Nick Fish, national program director of the American Atheists, another march partner, told me, “This is not a ‘partisan’ event.” Dennis Wiley, pastor of Covenant Baptist United Church of Christ, another march “partner,” returned my call and said, “This is not a partisan march.”

Really? UnitedWomen.org, another partner, features videos with the hashtags #ImWithHer, #DemsInPhily and #ThanksObama. Following the money, I poured through documents of billionaire George Soros and his Open Society philanthropy, because I wondered: What is the link between one of Hillary Clinton’s largest donors and the “Women’s March”?

I found out: plenty.

By my draft research, which I’m opening up for crowd-sourcing on GoogleDocs, Soros has funded, or has close relationships with, at least 56 of the march’s “partners,” including “key partners” Planned Parenthood, which opposes Trump’s anti-abortion policy, and the National Resource Defense Council, which opposes Trump’s environmental policies. The other Soros ties with “Women’s March” organizations include the partisan MoveOn.org (which was fiercely pro-Clinton), the National Action Network (which has a former executive director lauded by Obama senior advisor Valerie Jarrett as “a leader of tomorrow” as a march co-chair and another official as “the head of logistics”). Other Soros grantees who are “partners” in the march are the American Civil Liberties Union, Center for Constitutional Rights, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch. March organizers and the organizations identified here haven’t yet returned queries for comment.”

http://nytlive.nytimes.com/womenintheworld/2017/01/20/billionaire-george-soros-has-ties-to-more-than-50-partners-of-the-womens-march-on-washington/

So, if this “movement” was just an American Left event, it wouldn’t alarm me so much, but this was a “global” event, with obvious coordination with the American march.  The intent was to show American democracy in chaos.  The big picture questions worry me a great deal, because of the scope of this event and the obvious coordination, and our fearless news media was willingly participating with some idiotic, partisan, petty “crowd size” SPIN effort to advance the organizers of this march’s messaging.  For all intents and purposes, most of the American media is little more than political operatives for the Democratic Party and Left.

Trump reacted to the “crowd size” spin with a bizarre speech at the CIA, where he lied through his teeth to try and sell that he loves the intelligence community and the entire controversy about his comments about US intelligence agencies was something the media created.  He is the one who tweeted that the US intelligence agencies are like Nazis. Here is his tweetstorm from the morning of January 11, 2017:

15h15 hours ago

Russia just said the unverified report paid for by political opponents is “A COMPLETE AND TOTAL FABRICATION, UTTER NONSENSE.” Very unfair!

15h15 hours ago

Russia has never tried to use leverage over me. I HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH RUSSIA – NO DEALS, NO LOANS, NO NOTHING!

15h15 hours ago

I win an election easily, a great “movement” is verified, and crooked opponents try to belittle our victory with FAKE NEWS. A sorry state!

14h14 hours ago

Intelligence agencies should never have allowed this fake news to “leak” into the public. One last shot at me.Are we living in Nazi Germany?

Later today, Trump’s White House spokesman, Sean Spicer, had his first press conference, which was a continuation of Trump’s bizarre CIA bombast meant to ingratiate himself with the CIA and play the victim of the “dishonest media” (and yes, many of them are very dishonest political hacks).  Spicer’s press conference was an attack on the media where he pointed out some dishonest media reporting, that obviously was intended to make Trump look bad.

For instance, a reporter tweeted that Trump had removed the bust of MLK from the Oval Office.  That wasn’t true.  The media crowd size comparison started yesterday, it was very likely deliberately planned to bait Trump into lashing out (and he did).  Many in the  media reacted to Spicer lashing out at them, like snowflakes, whining on Twitter about how terribly they were treated. Some rushed to investigate all the details Spicer presented about “crowd size” and as Trump’s spokesman, you know Spicer put forth that Trump’s was bigger…   Did anyone expect anything else?

The media quickly started tweeting fact-checking,  pointing out all of Spicer’s lies about Trump’s “crowd size”…  Spicer, like Trump at the CIA earlier, took a few grains of truth, upon which he built a whole sandcastle of lies.  They both lied and distorted facts to make the media out to be the villain and to cast Trump as the victim.  The sole purpose was to assuage Trump’s bruised ego over bad press about his “crowd size”.

I tweeted comments to journalists and retweets many times today, pointing that “size doesn’t matter” and suggesting they investigate who all was involved in organizing and funding these marches.  Who are the foreign political groups involved in organizing and funding the marches in foreign countries?  Did any money move between the US and foreign groups?  What connection do they have to the groups in America, who organized and funded the marches here?  Don’t know if any of them will move beyond their anger at  Trump and Spicer lashing out at them and start following the political and money trails in this global “movement”.

Hopefully, some people in our national security community aren’t asleep at the switch and are investigating this global “movement”.

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January 21, 2017 · 10:52 am

Russian mob story & Trump inauguration snapshots

With all the talk about Russian influence and Donald Trump and/or people near him being connected to the Russian mob, above is an hilarious Russian mob story.

Now, on to politics:

Donald J. Trump was sworn in as America’s 45th President yesterday.

Here are some things I noticed:

Most of the mainstream media still reports as if they’re Democratic Party operatives and the campaign is still going on. There were many media reports about the smaller crowd size compared to President Obama’s inauguration in 2008. They were reporting trying to use “crowd size” as indicative of “popularity” and conflate that to “legitimacy”.   It was a pretty sad journalistic spectacle all day long.

Several normal administration changeover procedures were hyped to paint President Trump as Hitler.  Chris Matthews, the liberal pundit, even referred to Trump’s inaugural address as “Hitlerian”.  The speech sounded like campaign red meat and divisive at parts, is fair to say, and I had hoped for a speech with loftier rhetoric, but “Hitlerian”…. c’mon.

There were reports Trump removed the bust of MLK from the Oval Office, but later that one was debunked.   There were reports about the White House website being removed, where the normal procedure seems to be to take down the website and archive the info, then restart with each new administration.  It wasn’t the Trump administration trying to erase the Obama website history.   Each time the media spins (they retweet and reprint) these stories to trash Trump that turn out false, the media loses more credibility.

No one could find anything bad to say about Melania Trump.  She acted dignified and might be the most elegantly dressed First Lady in American history.  The family behaved with dignity.  And Trump was Trump, but at least he wasn’t the most obnoxious Trump yesterday.  So, late in the day, a SNL writer tweeted that Barron Trump will be the first homeschool school shooter and some other liberal tweeted that he probably has killed hundreds of small animals.  Why they would think it’s funny to pick on a little kid, I don’t know.

The so-called peaceful protests descended into rioting in Washington DC and that imagery disgusts most people in America and it reflects on the Democratic Party, who is fomenting the efforts to delegitimize President Trump – they own the protests.  Today is the women’s march and that will also turn off many more Americans than it will attract to their cause.  Howling, screeching, angry women shouts hysterical women, not strength.

There were media reports painting Trump’s inauguration team as warmongers and dangerous:

“Donald Trump’s inauguration team wanted to show off the U.S. military during inauguration weekend and even suggested including tanks and missile launchers in his inaugural parade, The Huffington Post reportedThursday.

“They were legit thinking Red Square/North Korea-style parade,” an inauguration team source told The Huffington Post, referring to massive military parades in Moscow and Pyongyang that are often interpreted as displays of aggression.”

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/315184-trump-team-wanted-tanks-missile-launchers-in-parade-report

This report and all others I saw stemmed from a Huffington Post story, which was based on one unnamed source, yet it was retweeted and repeated in the media without any fact-checking or additional sourcing – this is how the mainstream media has operated for years, because in 1992 they began “spinning” and by 2008 they were repeating Obama “narratives” and behave as de facto political operatives advancing Leftist political agendas and talking points without vetting information.

Here’s Snopes on this tanks and missile launchers story:

“The claim that Trump wanted a “full Soviet-style inaugural parade, with tanks, missiles and missile launchers” was widely aggregated by other online outlets, but we’ve so far been unable to locate any corroboration of it other than the unnamed “source involved in inaugural planning” reference by the Huffington Post.” (my highlight)

http://www.snopes.com/trump-military-inaugural-parade/

Hollywood joined the Democratic Party machine in trying to wreak havoc with Trump’s inauguration too, by pressuring celebrities not to perform at any inauguration events.  This too backfired, because the inauguration was heavy in military participation and that was highlighted.  I think it’s fair to say that even Americans who fear a President Trump, were relieved yesterday when General Mattis was sworn in as Secretary of Defense and General Kelly was sworn in as director of Homeland Security.  All this leads me to believe that the celebrity boycott backfired and actually bolstered Trump’s image yesterday.  The elites on the Left don’t understand that most Americans love and respect the US military, because their sons, daughters, friends, neighbors serve and have served in the US military.  The media spinning this seems very disconnected from the rest of America outside their elite bubble.

While reports linger about FBI and intelligence investigations into Trump connections to Russia, the problem unfolding with a media at war with Trump, Trump at war with the media and Democrats and any Republicans who don’t bow to him, America will continue to be deeply divided on what to believe is the truth.  We are in a very dangerous information situation where Americans are frequently bombarded with highly politicized, poorly vetted, and often fabricated “news” by prominent mainstream news media.

The reputation of the FBI and intelligence agencies suffers from many self-inflicted credibility problems, where the Obama administration highly politicized intelligence and assuredly James Comey’s July 5th announcement on Hillary’s email server reads as one of the most illogical statements ever put forth.  He read off very serious charges and then dismissed them as “not criminal” and dismissed criminal behavior as just “extremely careless” that flew in the face of the first half of his statement laying out the “facts”.  The Loretta Lynch meeting with Bill Clinton on the tarmac the week before in Phoenix solidified the image that the fix was in on the FBI investigation into Hillary’s private email server.  Since then Comey reopened that investigation right before the election, then closed it again, while top Democrats howled that the FBI is nothing more than old, white Trump fanboys.

Fast forward to this recent leak by Buzzfeed of the Trump dossier that seems to be false.  Trump lambasted the FBI and  intelligence agencies, Obama, Clapper and Brennan lectured how Trump was undermining the credibility of the FBI and intelligence agencies and the media ran wild with trashing Trump.  Trump is undercutting the FBI and intelligence agencies, but the intelligence community leadership undercut their own credibility by behaving like politicians advancing the Obama narrative.  Democrats are now howling that Trump is dangerously undermining the FBI and intelligence agencies’ credibility, but they were doing the same thing when James Comey reopened the criminal investigation of Hillary Clinton.

Not sure where America goes from here, but the divides in America seem deeper and nothing President Trump said or did yesterday reassured me that we’re on a path to heal our troubled nation.  However, if you have a few minutes, please watch the video at the top  and laugh a little:-)

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January 19, 2017 · 9:37 pm

Senator Ben Sasse explains Inauguration Day

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January 19, 2017 · 2:44 pm

Russia continues playing chess

Moving away from my relentless repetition about America’s mass media saturation information warfare strategy, which operates to allow one political party to control the 24/7 news cycle in America and operates very much like Soviet/Russian influence operations, well, here’s how the Russian “influence” operations work in the geopolitical and military realm:

“Khalifa Haftar toured Russia’s aircraft carrier anchored off the Libyan coast and held a video call with Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, the biggest sign yet of growing ties between the Kremlin and the eastern Libyan-based military commander.”

The story continues:

“Russia is seeking to restore some of its Soviet-era influence in the Middle East after turning the tide in Syria’s war through military intervention in support of President Bashar al-Assad. Russian President Vladimir Putin angrily condemned a NATO-led military campaign that overthrew Qaddafi in 2011 as a “crusade.”

Haftar visited Moscow twice in the past seven months, meeting with the Russian foreign and defense ministers as well as the national security chief to seek support. Russia printed 4 billion Libyan dinars ($2.8 billion) on contract for the Libyan central bank — and transferred it to an eastern city that is loyal to the military chief.”

https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-01-11/russian-warship-hosts-libya-s-haftar-as-putin-courts-new-ally

So much for, “We came, we saw, he died!” and the great Obama liberation of Libya…

I admit to being a tad naive and influenced in my thinking by a lot of writings pushing Putin as someone we can work with and also into buying into some of the Russian provocations in Ukraine.  Like many Americans who got frustrated with President Obama’s endless appeasement of Islamists and Iran, while exhibiting extreme weakness everywhere abroad, seeing Putin’s decisive moves has an appeal.  Americans are used to being the strong horse in the world and being diminished and having America’s military hobbled by the Obama administration left me and many other Americans chafing at the bit for stronger leadership.

Of course, many Americans see Donald Trump as the answer to stronger American leadership and I remain convinced he’s a total fraud.  Hopefully, some of the people he chose in key national defense positions are the real deal strong leaders, because America desperately needs men and women of principle at this time of increasing peril to world stability.  Trump has had since November to demonstrate he’s the man to lead, but instead he doubled-down on engaging in his war against the media and Democrats via Twitter and he’s handed off serious policy to Mike Pence and aides.

Sure, I admit that I believe Trump is a corrupt, lying, con man and if the FBI and intelligence agencies do come up with solid evidence of nefarious criminal activity committed by Trump or any of his cronies, it won’t surprise me in the least.  However the FBI and intelligence agencies should not be politicized so they should keep  Congress and the Justice Department informed.

Here’s a tweet by Rep. Elijah Cummings today:

6h6 hours ago

.: If the public knew what Members of Congress knew… We need to be doing more to investigate &

Until the FBI and intelligence agencies go through proper channels, the leaks and innuendo by Democrats and their friends in the media are delegitimizing the FBI and intelligence agencies, just as much as Trump’s reckless tweeting.  Here’s a report from McClatchyDC, that exemplifies my point:

“WASHINGTON

The FBI and five other law enforcement and intelligence agencies have collaborated for months in an investigation into Russian attempts to influence the November election, including whether money from the Kremlin covertly aided President-elect Donald Trump, two people familiar with the matter said.

The agencies involved in the inquiry are the FBI, the CIA, the National Security Agency, the Justice Department, the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network and representatives of the director of national intelligence, the sources said.

Investigators are examining how money may have moved from the Kremlin to covertly help Trump win, the two sources said. One of the allegations involves whether a system for routinely paying thousands of Russian-American pensioners may have been used to pay some email hackers in the United States or to supply money to intermediaries who would then pay the hackers, the two sources said.”

(highlights are mine)

To the degree Trump’s erratic tweets on foreign policy have alarmed me, some of his picks for key national security positions, like General Mattis, General Kelly and Mike Pompeo have reassured me.  Best for all Americans to remain optimistic and see what a Trump presidency turns out to be.

We have checks on power for a reason, so even if Trump turns out to be as terrible as his worst critics imaginings, I have faith in The Constitution, as should all Americans.

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January 15, 2017 · 12:47 pm

One more photo

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Just one more photo: Here’s the finished tissue box cover for my friend, Marrietta.

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January 15, 2017 · 12:32 pm

Sunday morning stitching update

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Put my Christmas Amazon gift card to good stitching use… used  patterns;-)  Of course, I need more patterns about as much as I need more books…

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Here’s the first project I’m making from The Ultimate Tissue Topper Collection.  I made the first side and then realized that I mixed up the white and yellow on the pattern, because the only yellow is supposed to be outlining the star in the center.  So, I sent a photo to my youngest daughter and asked her if it looks okay with so much yellow. I kind of like it with more yellow, so I’m leaving it this way.

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Finished these two tissue box covers in the past couple weeks.  The information war being waged in America worries me a great deal and needlework relaxes me…  so, I guess it’s time to pull out all those not completed sewing and craft projects and get busy on those too in the next 4 years.  Who knows, I might even clean out my sewing and craft room and donate a bunch of stuff to schools, nursing homes or the senior citizen center.  My fabric collection is more than a dozen large plastic tote containers, from years of working in a fabrics and crafts department at Wal-mart and buying fabric that was on clearance.

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While rummaging around in my plastic canvas supplies I came across this tissue box cover from the late 90s, that I had stitched all the sides and top and stuck it in a ziploc bag, thinking I’d start making several tissue box covers, put the pieces in ziploc bags with yarn to stitch the sides and top together later.  It takes very little time to stitch the pieces together and I thought these might be nice to have ready as last minute gifts.  So, after I make 4 more, that I committed to make for people, that’s my plan.

Somewhere in this stitching I want to make a couple of these adorable Salute to America samplers in the old leaflet, pictured at the top.  The Home Sweet Home pattern, that is stitched inside a USA shape, inside of an American flag would be a perfect addition to my I love America foyer.

This free Janlynn (that’s a needlework company) pattern is very simple, but cute and it’s on my list of needlework projects too.  Below is a photo from a Leisure Arts leaflet that is also on my short list of projects for this year.  I had intended to start stitching this sampler in 1998, but as they say, shit happens.  This year, I intend to get back to my needlework.

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January 14, 2017 · 2:07 am

Some thoughts on Russian influence

In light of the disturbing Trump tweets and US intelligence agencies statements, assuredly the Russian active measures aimed at America need a full and thorough investigation, but the Democrats relentless talking points messaging with their vast network of news media, who collude to amplify those talking points, make it hard to wade through the spin and glean facts.  The Buzzfeed leaked dossier story is a prime example.  Each time the media runs wild with unverified stories, it makes many people, especially Trump supporters, dismiss everything the mainstream media reports.

In this Trump vs intelligence agencies, there’s a concerted Russian effort to discredit US intelligence agencies and play Trump, by fomenting his distrust of US intelligence agencies. That Buzzfeed dossier smells like Russian provocation.

The Democrats launched a massive media effort to delegitimize Trump’s win.  That effort has been massive spin efforts, starting with the recount hoopla.  When the recount effort flubbed, the Dem/media machine launched a media effort to discredit the Electoral College, demanding the election rules be changed.  That media effort to illegally overturn a legitimate election failed too.

So, now the Dems are running a massive spin effort about “Russian influence”, but by doing so, their spin efforts are actually making it more difficult to get at facts.  Plus, their efforts are so blatantly partisan and many reporters are shamelessly retweeting every bit of rumor, without so much as a moment’s worth of independent fact-checking.

This media pack behavior is why so many Americans don’t trust the mainstream media and why they listen to Trump the Liar.  Trump is using the Democrat’s corrupt media collusion to not only discredit the media, but also the US intelligence agencies.  Trump figured out his own corrupt SPIN, on the cheap.  He uses Twitter to incite the media and Democrats, then when they react in massive SPIN efforts, he sits back and points out how corrupt they are.  FOX News, Drudge, Breitbart and some conservative pundits fuel the right-wing “Trump counter-punching” spin effort.  He also, has the Russian propaganda masters aiding his SPIN effort to discredit and play the mainstream media and Democrats.

The thing is I strongly suspect the Russian hostile  information warfare accelerated with the introduction of the SPIN technique that started with the Clinton’s “war room” in 1992 election, not in the 2016 election.   I believe in the intervening years that SPIN advanced to the Obama administration full-blown “narratives” and I believe the Russian influence in this election is not just within the Trump campaign, but that there are long-time Russian willing accomplices in the American media, both major political parties and academia.  There are also plenty of Marxists fueling the black grievance industry and they have been willing accomplices and useful idiots to spread Russian messaging for decades.

Information Warfare in America:

Mass media saturation is the military strategy of swarming juxtaposed to a mass media battlefield

Scorched earth is the military strategy of scorched earth (a war crime under the Geneva Conventions btw) juxtaposed to a mass media battlefield, Scorched earth information warfare is a take no prisoners blitz of vicious character assassinations AND mass media saturation on steroids.

Combined, they have been ruthlessly used to divide America into hostile, warring factions

How SPIN works:

Talking points and buzz word messaging, which are relentlessly repeated by both political operatives and the media.

Mass media domination of the messaging, to control the 24/7 NEWS cycle, which requires mass media collusion.

Relentless repetition of polling data by both the political operatives and media, to facilitate the manufacture of opinion cascades (winning in all the polls).

Why I am so convinced there’s Russian influence in the Clinton SPIN cycle is because of what happened to me in 1998 when I posted comments on the Excite message boards and mentioned that this SPIN is information warfare and smells like something the Soviets would dream up.   I borrowed their keyword messaging technique in my comments on the Excite message board, using capitalization and relentless repetition, right back at them. I refused to back down from their group attacks.  Too much effort went into silencing me.  In my situation in 1998, a retired general, who hates my guts, was located and recruited to come silence me.  He had to believe I was some sort of threat or he would never have participated in this attack.  The US military chain of command was corrupted and a retired general was recruited to attack an American citizen (and Army wife), whose only “crime” was to speak out on the Excite message boards against sophisticated information warfare, meant to manipulate public opinion and silence dissent in America.

We are at a dangerous point in America – the partisan divides have the Democratic party run by very corrupt machines, the GOP was hijacked by a shady, NY real estate developer/celebrity who revels in publicly humiliating opposition, hides his financial dealings, lies constantly and has very disturbing connections to a whole host of sleazy operators, many with Russian business connections.  Finding out the facts on Trump’s Russian connections is a national security imperative, because he’s going to be President in a few days.

Bipartisan leadership is desperately needed.

I pray some of our elected leaders in Washington will put partisanship aside and work to aid in investigating the 2016 election wholesale public corruption on BOTH sides, because that corruption is why a con man touting Russian active measures helping his spin became the candidate on one party and it’s why another party covered-up massive pay-to-play, corrupt media collusion, criminally-negligent mishandling of highly sensitive information by their candidate.

How America ended up with two very corrupt candidates engaged in WHOLESALE PUBLIC CORRUPTION is the biggest national security crisis of all, because our most determined foreign adversaries are now using this political corruption to wage mass media propaganda efforts to pit American factions against each other.

The media inspired Russia influence hysteria that the Left is pushing has gone completely insane, where celebrities are raging and some have lost their minds completely, like Rosie O’Donnell on January 11th tweeted:

Jan 11

ROSIE Retweeted Karim Marquette

I FULLY SUPPORT IMPOSING MARTIAL LAW – DELAYING THE INAUGURATION – UNTIL TRUMP IS “CLEARED” OF ALL CHARGES

ROSIE added,

how about imposition of Martial Law until Trump is cleared of all allegations?

The public corruption and partisan warfare is rapidly destroying Americans’ trust in all of our institutions.  Russian influence could NOT succeed without the WHOLESALE PUBLIC CORRUPTION of both political parties, the media and the failure of the American people to be good citizens, which requires them to insist on virtue and integrity in their elected officials.  A candidate being touted as “Trump doesn’t play by the rules or the exposure of Hillary’s mishandling of highly classified information, should have had most Americans rejecting both of them, instead of buying into “binary choices” and morally-bankrupt arguments that one of these two very corrupt candidates was “the lesser of two evils”.  The lesser of two evils is EVIL and we should never sink to willingly choosing EVIL.

We all need to commit ourselves to protecting and defending The Constitution.

Here are some links I found interesting:

Why liberal elites are so resentful of middle America

The ‘Trump Report’ is a Russian Provocation

4-year-old Who’s Read 1,000 Books Tours Library of Congress

Schopenhauer on Cascades (2007 article on information cascades)

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January 13, 2017 · 12:50 pm

A LB repost on Russian influence – September 2016

Here’s a blog repost from September 5, 2016

The Russians are coming?

Throughout this election many alarms keep hitting the news about covert Russian operations to interfere in our election.  The Washington Post reports that the US intelligence community is looking into it:

“U.S. intelligence and law enforcement agencies are probing what they see as a broad covert Russian operation in the United States to sow public distrust in the upcoming presidential election and in U.S. political institutions, intelligence and congressional officials said.

The aim is to understand the scope and intent of the Russian campaign, which incorporates cyber-tools to hack systems used in the political process, enhancing Russia’s ability to spread disinformation.

The effort to better understand Russia’s covert influence operations is being spearheaded by James R. Clapper Jr., the director of national intelligence. “This is something of concern for the DNI,” said Charles Allen, a former longtime CIA officer who has been briefed on some of these issues. “It is being addressed.”

A Russian influence operation in the United States “is something we’re looking very closely at,” said one senior intelligence official who, as others interviewed, spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive matter. Officials are also examining potential disruptions to the election process, and the FBI has alerted state and local officials to potential cyberthreats.

The official cautioned that the intelligence community is not saying it has “definitive proof” of such tampering, or any Russian plans to do so. “But even the hint of something impacting the security of our election system would be of significant concern,” the official said. “It’s the key to our democracy, that people have confidence in the election system.””

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/intelligence-community-investigating-covert-russian-influence-operations-in-the-united-states/2016/09/04/aec27fa0-7156-11e6-8533-6b0b0ded0253_story.html

Due to Trump’s bizarre comment, hoping the Russians locate Hillary’s missing emails and return them to the FBI, his former campaign manager’s alleged ties to Russian oligarchs, and the DNC email hack and release of those emails (attributed to the Russians), the Democrats and Hillary’s campaign will be hyping this Russian threat.  How real or how substantial the “Russian threat” has yet to be determined, but you can expect the Democrats to being seeing Russian influence everywhere.

Of course, the “Russian threat” may be real and substantial, but at this point, no one can state that with certainty.

Never thought the Democrats would be stirring up a “red scare”, but then again I never thought a NYC liberal con man would ever be the Republican candidate….

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