September 24, 2016 · 12:22 am

Same old Public Corruption

The media’s news hounds leaped on the news that Ted Cruz announced he will endorse Donald Trump, but they are completely AWOL on investigating Hillary’s email server scandal, other than giving it the most cursory reporting, before dismissing it and jumping back into exposing Trump’s corruption.

Trump’s corruption needs to be exposed, but so does the Clinton corruption and most assuredly, the media needs to quit selling the Obama administration “narratives” and report on the Obama corruption, which has now led to the corruption of the FBI.  The partisan reporting results from the liberal media’s partisan political ideology.

This post jumps around a bit and it goes way beyond Cruz’ lack of integrity, to the  WHOLESALE PUBLIC CORRUPTION.

Ted Cruz endorsed Trump today, so you know Cruz thinks there’s some political advantage for himself in this.  I’ve never felt comfortable with Cruz’ character.  So, Trump insulted Cruz’ wife and went along with the story that Cruz’ father was present with Lee Harvey Oswald and yet, Ted Cruz, for personal political gain, can still endorse Trump???  I suspect most #NeverTrump people will cave in the end.

Back in May, I posted “A GOP Post Mortem”.  I don’t know if the Cruz’ father/JFK story is pure fiction, if there’s some connection between his father and Lee Harvey  Oswald or Cuban intelligence, or if Cuban/Russian intelligence fabricated this entire story as a disinformation effort, BUT something is VERY wrong with this story appearing in the middle of an American election in 2016 (especially with all the overt Russian intelligence interference in our election).  I sure would like to know, not only if there’s anything to this story (unlikely as that may be), even more so, I would like to know WHERE this story originated and how it ended up in the National Enquirer.

The email leaks, all over the place, keep illuminating all sorts of corruption and also a concerted foreign effort to interfere in our election.  Trump’s campaign is as corrupt as Hillary’s and geesh, Corey Lewandowski is still drawing a paycheck from Trump, while he’s working for CNN.  I wonder if he’s being paid by Clinton operatives too.  Speaking of operatives, David Brock, the Media Matters/Soros front guy, is running 14 Pro-Clinton operations out of his office.  Zero Hedge blog states:

Submitted by Andrew Kerr via The Citizens Audit,

This is serious.

  • David Brock operates over a dozen pro-Clinton organizations from his office in Washington DC.
  • Uncovered records expose a constant flow of money between his organizations.
  • Brock’s unregistered Professional Solicitor, the Bonner Group, receives a 12.5% cut every time money is moved.

There’s a reason why David Brock chooses to house an unregistered Professional Solicitor in his office to raise money for his conglomerate of Super PACs and non-profits.

Professional Solicitors are required to disclose their active solicitation contracts.  Brock wants his unregistered solicitor, the Bonner Group, to keep their client list hidden for a very specific reason.

David Brock is laundering money

David Brock has 7 non-profits, 3 Super PACs, one 527-committee, one LLC, one joint fundraising committee, and one unregistered solicitor crammed into his office in Washington DC.”

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-09-20/money-laundering-scheme-exposed-14-pro-clinton-super-pacs-non-profits-implicated

I wonder if the FBI will bother to investigate this…  What a joke.  Comey will find some excuse, Brock’s just “extremely careless” with his accounting or something…

There’s a Washington Post reporter, David Fahrenthold,  hot on the trail, exposing the Trump Foundation corruption, but he doesn’t bother to even look at the Clinton Foundation corruption.  Kurt Eichenwald, at Newsweek,  wrote a lengthy piece, detailing all the dubious foreign connections in Trump’s financial empire and the Trump Foundation, but he completely exonerated the Clintons with their Clinton Foundation….  sure, “nothing to see there, just move along”.  This is the partisan liberal press at work – they work to cover-up for the Clintons, at every turn.  Andrea Mitchell is so overtly a Hillary cheerleader, that the Hillary campaign should be paying her as a campaign spokesperson.

Trump and the Clintons are the same CORRUPTION!  There is no better between them.

I won’t vote for Hillary or Trump – I just can’t!  This entire election was a fraud perpetrated on the American people.  Both Hillary and Trump are corrupt to the core.  Their foundations are cesspools of public corruption.  These two are sociopaths to the nth degree, so assuredly this debate will be interesting to see how they try to destroy each other.  Let’s see if the crazy eye fells Hillary or if she gets Trump to go full “loose cannon”, which isn’t that far-fetched, considering her screeching tirades can make just about anyone go berserk…

Here we are, days away from the first presidential debate and the FBI dumps 189 pages of heavily redacted interview notes, at the end of the day, on a Friday.   Comey was part of the cover-up in Hillary’s email scandal.  He caved to the Obama/Clinton pressure.  Cheryl Mills was granted immunity as a witness and then allowed to be present for Hillary’s FBI interview, as one of Hillary’s lawyers???  What the hell kind of corrupt bullshit is that?

Monday, June 27, 2016:  Bill Clinton met with Loretta Lynch on the tarmac in Phoenix.

Saturday, July 2, 2016:  There’s this shifty FBI interview set-up, with Hillary on  a Saturday morning on a HOLIDAY WEEKEND, at the FBI Headquarters in Washington – when LOTS of FBI employees were off (fewer witnesses).  The entire interview was jut a charade and Comey is a LIAR – he covered this up.  Who was actually present is an interesting question – out of Hillary’s team of lawyers, the FBI  redacted ONE name from the notes.  It listed David E. Kendall, Cheryl D. Mills, Heather Samuelson, Katherine Turner.  The NY Times, back in July, reported that other lawyer as Amy Saharia, but I doubt that is the truth.  It makes NO sense to redact her name.  The FBI redacted the names of THREE DOJ officials present.  Who the heck was present on a Saturday morning, on a long holiday weekend???  It’s a cover-up.

Tuesday , July 5, 2016: In the morning, after this long holiday weekend,  FBI Director Comey makes his bizarre announcement that there would be no criminal charges.

So, when we get to the FBI releasing the notes from Hillary’s interview, in the first paragraph, the FBI redacted one of her lawyer’s names and three DOJ officials’ names.

There are several redactions on who was present from the DOJ.  The FBI Notes list two people from the DOJ/FBI side and have three names redacted, which comes to 5 names, although the NY Times story says there were 8 DOJ/FBI people present, so who are 3 redacted names + 3 others mentioned in the NY Times story???  Something is very wrong when you compare the NY Times report to the FBI Notes.

It’s suspicious and my bullshit detector says, Comey/Lynch/Obama/Bill Clinton scammed us.  Back in the beginning of September, I wrote “Who was there?“:

“On July 2, 2016, the New York Times reported:

Accompanying Mrs. Clinton into the meeting were her lawyer David E. Kendall; Cheryl D. Mills and Heather Samuelson, longtime aides who are also lawyers; and two lawyers from Mr. Kendall’s firm, Williams & Connolly, Katherine Turner and Amy Saharia.

Eight officials from the F.B.I. and the Department of Justice conducted the interview, according to a person who was familiar with the substance of the session but declined to be named because the meeting was private. This person characterized the meeting as “civil” and “businesslike.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/03/us/politics/hillary-clinton-fbi-emails.html?_r=1

When we get the answer to who was there, we will know fully the extent of the Obama administration corruption, to help bury the Clinton email server scandal for Hillary.  James Comey , Mr. Integrity, allowed the FBI to become a part of the cover-up, I believe.    The “extremely careless” was in leaving clues, like this redacted name of a Clinton lawyer that makes no sense.  Who is left to investigate corruption, when the FBI is corrupted too??

So, Ted Cruz’s perfidy today didn’t even phase me really, because all along I kept mentioning, that while he spouted the conservative message, every move he made was calculated for personal political advantage.  His integrity was suspect all along.

I doubt very many people in positions of power in America still possess even an iota of integrity.

Trump or Hillary…. it won’t matter, both are a further descent into lawlessness and wholesale public corruption.

 

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September 23, 2016 · 1:52 am

Some important facts in Charlotte case

The problem about ascertaining facts in these high-profile race cases is important.  The family of the black man, shot by a police officer in Charlotte, has presented him as a family man and insists he was sitting in his car reading a book.

The Charlotte Observer reports the previous record for Keith Lamont Smith, as follows:

“A public records search shows that Scott was convicted in April 2004 of a misdemeanor assault with a deadly weapon charge in Mecklenburg County. Other charges stemming from that date were dismissed: felony assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill, and misdemeanors assault on a child under 12, assault on a female and communicating threats.

In April 2015 in Gaston County Court, Scott was found guilty of driving while intoxicated.

In 1992, Scott was charged in Charleston County, S.C., with several different crimes on different dates, including carrying a concealed weapon (not a gun), simple assault and contributing to the delinquency of a minor. He pleaded guilty to all charges.

Scott also was charged with aggravated assault in 1992 and assault with intent to kill in 1995. Both charges were reduced, but the disposition of the cases is unclear.

According to Bexar County, Texas, records, Scott was sentenced in March 2005 to 15 months in a state jail for evading arrest. In July of that year, records show, he was sentenced to seven years in prison on a conviction of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. A Texas Department of Criminal Justice spokesman said Scott completed his sentence and was released from prison in 2011.”

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September 23, 2016 · 1:46 am

My backwoods view on race relations

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PA Dutch hex sign: Morning Birds (Health and Happiness)

Talking about racial issues is one of those touchy issues, where,  even if you choose your words carefully, you’re liable to offend someone.  I’ve been exploring Twitter for a couple weeks and frankly, it’s not me, or rather I think the format isn’t one where I’ll ever feel comfortable, that I’m presenting myself in a way that accurately expresses my views or who I am, and what I believe or think about issues.  What we think about race and race relations in America is a very serious matter, one that I don’t want to leave to 140 characters.

As regular readers know, I grew up in a large, blue-collar family in the Pocono Mountains, located in northeastern Pennsylvania.  I was born in 1960, a child during the Civil Rights era. This is no lie, I had heard about Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, but I didn’t read the entire speech until my “pasty white” son, was selected by his black first grade teacher to play Martin Luther King, Jr., in a play for parents (circa 1990).  We were living in Germany, so this was a DODDS school.  It was quite awkward sitting there watching my son recite that speech, with this angry black father behind me fussing about why there was this “pasty white” kid playing Martin Luther King (true story).  I didn’t know whether to apologize to that man or defend the teacher and my son.  She told me she picked my son, because he was the best reader in the class.

Growing up, my family lived in one half of a large two-family old house on the outskirts of a village (yes, PA has actual villages – the signs say “Village of XYZ”).  My paternal great-grandmother lived on the other side of the house and our house was filled with a lot of family drama with my great-grandmother and assorted relatives.  My father was illegitimate, his mother, being my great-grandmother’s only daughter, in a family with 8 sons.  My grandmother had the luck to get pregnant by a young man, who had two girls pregnant at the same time, and he married the other one.  My grandmother later married, but she left my father with her parents and he was raised by his grandparents.  In those days, people didn’t talk about stuff like this, they kept things hush hush.

When my great-grandfather was dying, he asked my father to look after my great-grandmother and my Pop kept his word.  My great-grandmother despised my mother, actually, perhaps despise is too mild of a word.  My mother wanted to buy a house, for as far back as I can remember, and move away from my great-grandmother, but my father said he gave his word to his grandfather, so that was that.

My great-grandmother adored me, she loved my brothers and sisters, but she hated my mother with a passion.  My mother always spoke to her respectfully and whenever my great-grandmother had one of her many heart attacks, a stroke, and then later as she was dying of cancer, my mother, being a registered nurse, organized her care at home.  She made my sisters and me help her with caring for my great-grandmother, until she died. Growing up, my mother made us clean my great-grandmother’s side of the house every week.  My mother had a strong sense of “duty” and her feelings played no role in doing right by family, even ones who hated her guts.

Against this backdrop, it’s fair to say that my great-grandmother could only be termed “a very difficult woman” (she was a tyrant, of sorts), but I loved her dearly.  Odd as that sounds, it’s true.   She always gave us change for the ice cream truck that came around in the summertime or to buy candy at the general store, she spent many hours teaching me needlework and gardening, she helped me learn to write my letters before I went to school, and well, she adored me.  She also, despite her third grade education, possessed the skills of a great storyteller.  I wish I had written down some of her stories.  She was a very good cook and baker, expert needlewoman and quilter, expert gardener, dedicated to her family, read the Bible daily, but she was also very bigoted and racist.  That’s the truth.  I am sure many people have family members like this, so even though they hold views and beliefs you abhor, you still love them.

In our end of the county (the backwoods end), there weren’t any black families until I was in Junior High.  I remember the first day my school bus stopped to pick up a small group of black children, who were part of a church group, that had moved out of Philadelphia.  We, being one of my brothers, two of my sisters, two of my cousins next-door, and me were the first stop for our bus in the morning, so one of my sister’s and I always sat all the way in the back.

By the time the bus stopped for these black children, the bus had a lot of kids on it and all these kids, to include my brother, spread out to sit on every seat, right at the aisle.  These black kids got on the bus and they were scared.  That bullying tactic made me so furious that I stood up and ordered them to move over or give seats to these kids (true story).  It was a spontaneous response on my part, because I can’t stand bullies.  I told one little black girl that there was room by me and that little girl was shaking with fear.  Thus ended our racial incident and I became friends with those black kids.  Of course, for standing up, two brothers from a large farm family, called me many nasty names constantly, but I didn’t really care.  I knew I could beat the crap out of them, if it came to that (yes, I got into more than one fistfight on the school bus… with bullies).

We had many discussions on race at home too.  My brother and I went back and forth, my father, one of the kindest people imaginable, grew up with my great-grandmother, but he didn’t hold her views and my mother believed everyone must be treated with respect.  I know many of my relatives hold racist views, because it’s learned and at its heart it’s fear of outsiders and people who are different, I believe.

The thing about bigotry and racist views is it permeates, not only in some white areas in America, it permeates in black communities too.

We can toss in the anti-Semitism and here again, my great-grandmother, whom I loved dearly, hated Jewish people too.  Our church’s parsonage was right across the road from our house.   Our pastor was PA Dutch, not from our area of PA, but he fit right in.  His wife, however, was a Jewish lady from New York City.  My great-grandmother spoke politely to her, but she never treated her like a neighbor or a friend.  By the time I was a teenager, our pastor’s wife was elderly and I spent a great deal of time with her.  She needed help caring for her husband at home, because he was very difficult and the nursing home would not keep him.  She asked my mother for help and my mother sent me to help her.

For almost two years I helped get my great-grandmother settled in bed, then went across the road and helped our pastor’s wife with caring for her husband.  I slept at her house, because often her husband would get up during the night and wander.  He was blind, and had dementia, so it took both of us to get him back into bed and calmed down (Thorazine drops helped…)

I watched Roots with her and she had all sorts of interesting insights into race relations in America.   It was while watching Roots, that she told me that she didn’t know that my father was my great-grandmother’s grandson for many years.  She believed he was another son.  It seemed incredible that she could live across the road and have no idea.  She told me that my great-grandmother barely spoke to her for many years and that it wasn’t until my father wanted to enlist in the Air Force in WWII, that she learned that he was the grandson. She helped search the church records for my father’s baptismal records.

Did I ever doubt my pastor’s wife perception about my great-grandmother hating Jewish people?  Heck no, I remember watching TV with my great-grandmother, when I was around 10 or 11, and Henry Kissenger was on TV.  I told my great-grandmother that he sounded like a very smart man.  My great-grandmother launched into an anti-Semitic diatribe and that was my first experience with Antisemitism.  Later, I mentioned Henry Kissinger to my mother, because he had left such an impression on me.  I told my mother what my great-grandmother had said and she told me to ignore her.  She said, “Henry Kissinger is a brilliant man!”   I still believe my mother was right on that too.

Truthfully, I believe that racist and bigoted views, exist in most groups of people, to varying degrees.  I also believe that often in many families, you’ve got a wide variety of viewpoints on race, racial politics, politics, religion and just about every other topic, to include sports, TV personalities, you name it.

Now, here’s the truth, we all need to think about, each and every one of us has biases too, not just the out and out racists and bigots.  We need to learn to work to get to know people as INDIVIDUALS, rather than heaping them into groups – that’s the real key to moving beyond race.  Black people, who are locked into seeing everything in terms of race, have just as wide of a hurdle to move beyond the racial divide, as white people who hate black people. Luckily, I think most Americans aren’t at the farthest extremes on race, so we can find plenty of room to work on attitude adjustments.

It’s heartbreaking to see so much effort going into stirring up violent protests, but it’s alarming that the President of the United States has NOT condemned Black Lives Matter, an anarchist group, intent on overthrowing the police.  Watching the downward spiral on race relations, under President Obama’s endless racial grievance agitating, depresses me.  He fixates on cases to sensationalize, he lectures, he stereotypes white people, he jumps to conclusions before having facts, and most alarmingly he is trying to use the power of the executive branch to push his political agenda, by spreading fear, mayhem and encouraging these racial confrontations with police.  Al Sharpton and other racial agitators spend a lot of time working with the White House, to stir up racial controversy.

The mayor of Charlotte and the police department failed their citizens last night.  Another young black man was shot in Charlotte at that protest and tonight it was reported that he died.  There was thousands upon thousands of dollars in damage to businesses and private property last night too.  Looting and destruction of property has nothing to do with any valid political point – that’s criminal conduct.

Every leader in America should be condemning these violent mob actions, which are not about FREE speech or improving race relations.   The only way forward is to ditch the rage and commit to the hard road ahead of building trust in our communities.  It’s going to take, not only speaking out; it’s going to take the courage to sit down and listen to other viewpoints too.

The path forward isn’t going to come from rioting mobs in the street.

 

 

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September 19, 2016 · 1:39 pm

Twitter glitch

Just a short note. Twitter went off the tracks over the weekend with the liberal media talking more about Trump saying a “bomb” exploded than they did about possible terrorist connections. Now it is obviously Islamic terrorist-related.

I’m wondering if I’ve been blocked on Twitter – my tweets and retweets stopped showing up in my timeline feed. I signed out and signed back in, but still not working. I sent a message to Twitter in their Help section.

I had posted some comments to Tom Nichols over the weekend about how we define “terrorism”. I say such dangerous things:

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September 18, 2016 · 11:19 am

Situational Awareness….

Hillary’s comments are carefully edited.

Here’s what she really said (pay attention to the first few seconds).

Trump said, “A bomb went off in NYC.” He spoke in a calm voice.

Hillary said, “I’ve been briefed about the bombings in NY and NJ.” She spoke in an almost comatose tone and looks very exhausted.

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The Washington Post started tweeting Hillary’s caution, about you need to get the facts, BUT the photo of Hillary they put with this story is one of Hillary from a few days ago, NOT a photo of her looking haggard, as she actually made the comments referenced in the story.

There’s so much liberal media effort going into making Trump look bad (which he does with little help usually) and trying to make Hillary look better. The problem, once again, is that the media is colluding with politicians to sell a political candidate in the actual hard news reporting, NOT on the editorial page.

Frankly, President Obama and Democrats across the board have spent years trying to sell us that Al Qaeda was defeated. They sell the lie that right-wingers are more of a threat than Islamic nutjobs. And they bend over backwards to call terrorist attacks anything other than TERRORIST ATTACKS.

Back in August, Secretary of State, John Kerry, explains the Democrats’ view on terrorism perfectly (at 0:19):

“Perhaps the media would do us all a service, if they didn’t cover it quite as much. People wouldn’t know what’s going on.”

For the next few days the media will try to get mileage out of this “Trump spoke without facts” meme, when BOTH candidates referred to the explosion as the result of a bomb. AND the real “big picture” takeaway is events don’t happen in a vacuum. There was another “explosion” earlier in the day yesterday in NJ, where a pipebomb exploded. CBS reported:

Last Updated Sep 17, 2016 7:06 PM EDT

“SEASIDE PARK, N.J. — An explosive device detonated in a Jersey Shore town Saturday shortly before thousands of runners were due to participate in a charity 5K race to benefit Marines and sailors, authorities said.

An official with law enforcement told CBS News the device consisted of three small pipes somehow tethered together and possibly wired. All pipes apparently had explosives, though only one detonated.”

You’d think some degree of situational awareness would break through the rabid, partisan political mind-set that is holding, not only politicians, but also the American people and more ominously, the media, hostage.

Geesh, just report the facts as honestly as possible! How hard is that?

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September 17, 2016 · 1:13 pm

#ConstitutionDay

Today is #ConstitutionDay

Easy interactive on:

“What is the Constitution?

and

Why does it matter to me?”

Some of us, of a certain age, grew up with Schoolhouse Rock:

Here’s one more link: Constitution Day

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September 16, 2016 · 11:52 pm

Out of the Mouths of Babes

While the mainstream media remains immersed in this stupid Clinton/Trump Twitter finger-poinitng on “he started it”/”no she started it”,  in regards to the President Obama birther issue, and we’re still titillated by General Colin Powell’s “#DickingBimbos, calling it like he sees it” personal emails leak, here’s what every American, especially our leaders need to be aware of and alarmed about. –

Russian active measures

Back in January 2013, I wrote a blog post, “Putin By A Mile”, where I mention a debate with the older of my two sons:

“Later one of my sons brought up a continuing discussion we’ve had for a long while now and finally I think he sees my point of view.  When I first mentioned to him that if  it came to picking Vladimir Putin vs Barack Obama for a hypothetical geopolitical competition , I’d pick Putin in a heartbeat.  When this conversation began a year or so ago, my son would list off all the “evils” that are Putin, such as the alleged polonium poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko (here) and his KGB  past.  The following is my reasoning for picking Putin.”

I went on to say:

“Here are  some of the things I considered.  This all goes back to something I mentioned in a previous post that I think  knowing people always trumps knowing “about” people.  Years ago, I read a book that I had signed out from our local library that was Putin’s first lengthy interview with a western reporter.  His answers provided clues to how he thinks about being a leader of his country and what his hopes and aspirations are for Russia”

And more of the same naive claptrap:

“While Putin’s actions do remain diametrically opposed to ours and most assuredly will produce future friction points, his actions make perfect strategic sense from the Russian viewpoint.  He aggressively has secured energy resources and engaged the US in nuclear arms wrangling where he certainly pushed and received the things that are advantageous to Russia.

Then we have Barack Obama where he refused to sign the Keystone Pipeline deal, he gave away too much in the nuclear arms dealing and he and Madame Secretary have made one after another terrible missteps, stabbing our allies in the back, while bowing and scraping to our adversaries.  He’s put us on the path to not only universal healthcare, but to being a universal third-rate bit player on the world stage.  If I were assessing how the strategic plain looks from others’ vantage points, I would wonder, “those stupid Americans, they don’t even have the national will to promote their own interests”.  And truly, any administration that utters a phrase like,”leading from behind” is worthy of only supreme contempt, in my opinion.

The ill-mannered TV reality urchin, Honey boo boo can keep Barack Obama, but as for me I’d pick Putin by a mile.”

Tonight my son was talking to me about Putin again and he knew from these many discussions over the years, that I had naive blinders on when it came to Putin, believing that the man who gave that first interview to a Western reporter, was the same man America is dealing with today.  I wasn’t seeing Putin as the very serious threat he is.  My son was right all along, as he’s been warning me, “Vladimir Putin is a very bad man!”… and I kept saying naive stuff,  like, “we should try to see the world from his eyes” and “at least he is a strong leader, looking out for Russian national interests”.

My son said, “Putin’s playing Alexander Dugin’s “Foundations of Geopolitics” perfectly.”

I had heard mention of this book, but didn’t really take it seriously.  My son told me he read it in Russian, while at college, and he hadn’t seen any English translation available online.  He told me about how a lot of hardline Russian nationalism was even apparent in Russia, 11 years ago, when he did a study abroad in Russia one summer.

I’ve been awakened in the past year to Russian actions dominating the world geopolitical sphere and usurping American influence around the world.

Of course, President Obama’s totally feckless and clueless foreign policy played right into the hands of all of America’s adversaries.

The book, “Foundations of Geopolitics: The Geopolitical Future of Russia”, written by Alexander Dugin and co-authored by General Nikolai Klokotov, in 1997, lays out an empire-building blueprint for Russia.   Wikipedia lays out a content listing of this book , which will give you an idea of Dugin’s Russian strategy. Wikipedia also states:

“Colonel General Leonid Ivashov, head of the International Department of theRussian Ministry of Defence, apparently advised in the project.[1] Klokotov stated that in the future the book would “serve as a mighty ideological foundation for preparing a new military command.””

Here’s another link with the table of contents only (I have not located an English translation of the book itself). 

In 2004, John B. Dunlop, a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, wrote an article, “Russia’s New—and Frightening—“Ism”. Dunlop writes:

“Few books published in Russia during the post-communist period have exerted such an influence on Russian military, police, and foreign policy elites as Aleksandr Dugin’s 1997 neo-fascist treatise Osnovy geopolitiki: Geopoliticheskoe budushchee Rossii(Foundations of Geopolitics: The Geo-political Future of Russia). The impact of this intended “Eurasianist” textbook on key Russian elites testifies to the worrisome rise of fascist ideas and sentiments during the late Yeltsin and the Putin periods.

Five years before President George W. Bush announced his “axis of evil,” Dugin had introduced three key neo-Eurasian axes: Moscow-Berlin, Moscow-Tokyo, and Moscow-Tehran. The basic principle underlying these three axes was said to be “a common enemy,” by which he meant the United States”

Dunlop continues further in the article on one of those axes:

“The most ambitious and complex part of Dugin’s program concerns the South, where the focal point is a Moscow-Tehran axis. “The idea of a continental Russia-Islamic alliance,” he writes, “lies at the foundation of anti-Atlanticist strategy. . . . This alliance is based on the traditional character of Russian and Islamic civilizations.” As the result of a broad Grand Alliance to be concluded with Iran, Russia-Eurasia will eventually enjoy realizing a centuries-old Russian dream of reaching the “warm seas” of the Indian Ocean. Russia is to enjoy “geopolitical access—in the first place, naval bases—on the Iranian shores.”

As the result of such an alliance, Dugin argues, Russia-Eurasia should be prepared to divide up the imperial spoils with “the Islamic Empire [of Iran] to the south.” Which part of the South should come under Russia? “What is the Russian South?” Dugin asks at one point in his book. He answers that it includes “the Caucasus [all of it],” “the eastern and northern shores of the Caspian,” “Central Asia [that is, all of the former Soviet republics],” plus Mongolia. Even these regions, he adds, should be seen “as zones of further geopolitical expansion to the south and not as ‘eternal borders of Russia.’” Turkey is seen as being almost as dangerous to Russia-Eurasia as are the United States and China. Turkish minorities must be provoked into rebellion, and there is a need, he stresses, to create “geopolitical shocks” within Turkey.”

Putin’s moves in Syria, in cahoots with the Iranians, is a key strategic  objective in the Dugin strategy. Above all else, according to the Wikipedia entry on Dugin’s “Foundations of Geopolitics”, is the strategic objective to:

“The book declares that “the battle for the world rule of [ethnic] Russians” has not ended and Russia remains “the staging area of a new anti-bourgeois, anti-American revolution.” The Eurasian Empire will be constructed “on the fundamental principle of the common enemy: the rejection of Atlanticism, strategic control of the USA, and the refusal to allow liberal values to dominate us.”[1]

Military operations play relatively little role. The textbook believes in a sophisticated program of subversion, destabilization, and disinformation spearheaded by the Russian special services. The operations should be assisted by a tough, hard-headed utilization of Russia’s gas, oil, and natural resources to bully and pressure other countries.[1]”

Further in the Wikipedia entry:

“The book emphasizes that Russia must spread Anti-Americanism everywhere: “the main ‘scapegoat’ will be precisely the U.S.”

In the United States:

Russia should use its special forces within the borders of the United States to fuel instability and separatism. For instance, provoke “Afro-American racists”. Russia should “introduce geopolitical disorder into internal American activity, encouraging all kinds of separatism and ethnic, social and racial conflicts, actively supporting all dissident movements – extremist, racist, and sectarian groups, thus destabilizing internal political processes in the U.S. It would also make sense simultaneously to support isolationist tendencies in American politics.”[1]”

So, I admit, that I, like many Americans (especially Donald Trump),  have been very naive about Putin, because this Moscow/Tehran axis is already threatening American forces.  AND  these email leaks sure seem like CYBER WARFARE, to undermine Americans’ faith in our electoral process.  All those blog posts of mine, about how the Clinton SPIN and the Obama NARRATIVES are part of an INFORMATION WARFARE strategy and antithetical to American free speech principles, well, I think I am right about that and I also think there’s a great deal of Russian influence in that information warfare.

Here again, perhaps, my son has a better sense of the problem.  He said we might not find all sorts of active agents or active willing accomplices working for the Russians.  He said the entire Democratic Party and liberals, with their constant anti-Americanism, are ready-made USEFUL IDIOTS.  He said Americans, due to celebrity cult worship and failure to study history, are a ready-made army of USEFUL IDIOTS.   Even the Russian interference in our election has been turned into a partisan debate, making it difficult to cut through these partisan blinders and get Americans to wake-up and see the threats beyond America.

In high school, I had a German/Russian teacher, who was a retired US Army translator.  He actually helped fuel my interest in military strategy, with his love of  WWII Army war footage, where he seemed to have the Army vault at his disposal.  He would explain all sorts of historical stuff and he knew a lot about Nazi propaganda.  I took 4 years of German and 2 of Russian (remember very little of either), but I remember in my Russian class, which consisted of me and a handful of boys, we decided to order these pins to wear, with Russian phrases in Cyrillic.  I don’t know what happened to those pins, but the one pin, I sure think fits this election better than Hillary’s “Stronger Together” or Trump’s “Make America Great Again”.

The pin said: Русские идут (The Russians Are Coming)

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September 15, 2016 · 6:56 pm

What to tell Putin

Since we already know how Hillary’s reset with Russia turned out and Trump’s comments feed Putin’s foreign policy objectives, NOT America’s or our allies’, well, here’s what I think the next American president should do.

Keep in mind,  I had hoped Russia and the US could work together to defeat ISIS, but that didn’t happen.  Since President Obama and John Kerry grovel to Putin and Lavrov, Putin appears to have decided to capitalize on American weakness and feckless foreign policy.

Russia  is now buzzing American planes and Iran, Russia and China are harassing our ships in international waters, so the LAST thing Trump should be doing is praising Putin or promising some grand new relationship.

The next President should be telling Putin, loud and clear: “This is the only warning you will get. If your planes or ships harass American ships or planes, they will receive ONE warning only, to desist, or they will be treated as a lethal threat and neutralized.” And then offer some diplomatic mumbo-jumbo about how hopefully we can find some areas of mutual interest,  where we can work together, but the United States will defend its citizens, its soldiers, its allies and its military assets around the globe and that is NOT negotiable.”

And of course this message needs to be leaked to the press, so that all the other leaders acting aggressively toward American forces get the memo too.

Then follow through with dealing with the aggression, while clearly stating we hope to be able to move to a level of civilized discussions, IF our forces cease being harassed in international territory.  All the hysterical Sallies opining about starting the next world war, shouldn’t worry.  You don’t back down from bullies and Putin is certainly a bully.   Putin is also a very savvy geopolitical strategist and he will recognize that the old game, for our “leader from behind”, won’t work with an American leader, willing to lead from the front and defend American interests, EVERY day.

Sadly, I don’t believe Trump or Hillary have any potential to be anything other than self-serving, corrupt, extreme narcissists.  Oh well, I can still dream for a competent, honorable leader.

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September 15, 2016 · 2:03 pm

A staged Clinton photo-op?

Speculation on the internet about Hillary Clinton using a body double has raged on since her collapse leaving a 9/11 ceremony.  Online there’s been minute dissection of all the details in the video of Hillary seen leaving Chelsea’s apartment Sunday, looking chipper and in good health.   The thing that struck me, as something was amiss, was the lack of Secret Service surrounding her and how some little girl could just run up to her and hug her – with no Secret Service reaction….  Stranger than fiction.

Here’s a link to an American Thinker piece: “Hillary’s Body Double: Am I Nuts, or What?” by Bill Schanefelt. He writes:

“I remember that old saw: “just because you’re paranoid that don’t mean they’re not out to getcha.”

Well, just because it’s an internet meme, that don’t mean Hillary ain’t got a body double.

I viewed the video at the New York Post thinking I’d get a laugh at the expense of conspiracy nuts, but what I got was a shocking wake-up!”

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/09/hillarys_body_double_am_i_nuts_or_what_.html

It’s obvious this “Hillary looking fine”  photo-op, with the little girl running up to her, was a staged photo-op.

Whether all of the participants were actors or just the little girl, I don’t know for sure.   With the Clintons being the Clintons (Epic Liars), nothing would surprise me.  For instance, President Bill Clinton launched airstrikes to divert attention away from his impeachment scandal in late 1998.  For the doubters, there was absolutely no strategic military purpose to Operation Desert Fox ( I wrote about that on the Excite message boards in 1998).   Those strikes played no role in any overarching military strategy to contain Saddam Hussein.  NONE.  The media tossed around the “wag the dog” charge for a bit, but then it was “time to move on”.

I will mention that the general, americanrommel, whom I mentioned in my Messages of mhere story, was a very public defender of Operation Desert Fox.  Then again, he retired suddenly from a high-profile overseas position, a bit before the impeachment saga.  If the scuttlebutt, about the circumstances of his retirement, circulating in the Army were true, I understand why he would sympathize with Bill Clinton about the  impeachment scandal.  That general, after impeachment, was recommended for a very high-profile overseas position – in the same area where he was serving when he retired….   Hard to imagine how he wasn’t considered a security risk, but then again THE RULES  on national security protocols only apply to the peons in the military and intelligence community.   Others, like General David Petraeus and Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, are above the rules.

The Clintons delight in tossing out red meat agitation propaganda, to inflame the Republicans and conservative Clinton-loathers, to get them chasing it with abandon.  Then the liberal media, aiding and abetting the Clinton talking points, will come out and report on the crazy right-wing conspiracy nuts and how this is just another one of those “rabid, right-wing witch hunts”.

And on the right, there are some groups and individuals, who have invested a lot of time and money to take down the Clintons.  That is a fact.  I am going to state for the record, I am not aligned to any Republican or right-wing groups and my efforts since 1998, to expose the Clinton corruption, stem from my own experience during impeachment.   My reasons go way beyond my personal feelings.  I believe with the attack on me, assets from the US Army were used to attack a private citizen on American soil, based completely on fabricated “intelligence”.  I don’t even have a speeding ticket on my record, I have never owned a gun and I have never been involved in any political groups.  My “crime” was expressing my dangerous opinions, like “NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW” on the Excite message boards in 1998.

I want the names of every last person, involved in orchestrating using the US Army for a personal political hit squad, exposed.   If the US military can be used as a personal political tool to attack private citizens, well, we have moved completely away from being a constitutional republic.  And, if my FREE speech, on freakin’ online message boards, espousing that I believe in the rule of law, is grounds for being attacked in my home by a retired general, then something is very, very wrong in America.   The only place I was commenting on politics was on those Excite message boards.  I had had no contact with that general since Desert Storm.

Would Hillary Clinton use a body double for some staged PR gambit, well, I have no doubt she might.  Then again I  personally know how far the Clintons will go to silence political opponents.  Proving it has been the hard part, so I understand those who will cast me as a nutcase.  Guess that makes me a crazy Lone Wolf……  whatever, my plans have always been non-violent and to follow the law, no matter what.

#DefendTheConstitutionAlways

 

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September 14, 2016 · 5:40 pm

A Hillary Clinton email/FBI timeline

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Sharyl Attkisson published a timeline about Hillary Clinton’s  email mess and the FBI report:

The Clearest (No Spin) Summary of FBI Report on Hillary Clinton Email

I’m not sure I agree with  her first takeaway on the two Clinton servers.  Attkisson states:

  • “The Clintons’ Apple personal server used for Hillary Clinton work email could not be located for the FBI to examine.:

“In furtherance of its investigation, the FBI acquired computer equipment and mobile devices, to include equipment associated with two separate email server systems used by the Clinton, and forensically reviewed the items to recover relevant evidence.”

https://vault.fbi.gov/hillary-r.-clinton/hillary-r.-clinton-part-01-of-02/view

There’s so much information floating about, much of it contradictory , in addition to a long and complicated  timeline, that it’s difficult to keep facts straight.  I do recall reading in the FBI Notes that they did not recover all of the equipment associated with the servers, in addition to Hillary’s 13 missing mobile devices, 2 of her 5 ipads were not recovered and then there was a laptop, that Platte River Network mailed to someone, which got lost in the mail.

Yes, this woman is supposedly competent to handle our nation’s most sensitive information and she will take these aides, who moved highly classified information from a secure system to her home-brew server, with her to the White House

And just a reminder: Trump set up a fancy communication system in his company and then in court could not produce several years worth of  any email records… That was in one his many lawsuits and the judge found it unbelievable that he could not produce any  business records. This USA Today report states:

“In 2006, when a judge ordered Donald Trump’s casino operation to hand over several years’ worth of emails, the answer surprised him: The Trump Organization routinely erased emails and had no records from 1996 to 2001. The defendants in a case that Trump brought said this amounted to destruction of evidence, a charge never resolved.

At that time, a Trump IT director testified that until 2001, executives in Trump Tower relied on personal email accounts using dial-up Internet services, despite the fact that Trump had launched a high-speed Internet provider in 1998 and announced he would wire his whole building with it. Another said Trump had no routine process for preserving emails before 2005.

Judge Jeffrey Streitfeld was stunned. “He has a house up in Palm Beach County listed for $125 million, but he doesn’t keep emails. That’s a tough one,” he said, according to transcripts obtained by USA TODAY. “If somebody starts to put forth as a fact something that doesn’t make any sense to me and causes me to have a concern about their credibility in the discovery process, that’s not a good direction to go, and I am really having a hard time with this.””

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/06/13/trump-accused-destroying-email-evidence-lawsuit-10-years-ago-republican-hillary-president/85795082/

 

The real “Deplorables” in this election are Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump….

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