Saturday, January 27, 2018
Senator Lindsey Graham accepts award from La Raza (The Race) in March 2007, tells audience, 'We're gonna tell the bigots to shut up.' Per Graham, Americans who expect a secure border and oppose amnesty for illegal immigrants are 'bigots'
Sen. Lindsey Graham accepts award from National Council of La Raza in March 2007.
At :12: "We're gonna tell the bigots to shut up."
You Tube video posted by Stand with Arizona
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Added: More La Raza tributes to Republican US Senators including 4 in 'Gang of 8': Lindsey Graham, John McCain, Marco Rubio, and Jeff Flake, March 2014 ceremony:
You tube video by Unidos:
"At the National Building Museum (March 4, 2014), with more than 700 corporate, legislative and community leaders in attendance, the 2014 NCLR (National Council of La Raza) Capital Awards were presented to two groups that have significantly impacted the push for immigration reform over the past year. The first award of the night was presented to the U.S. Senate "Gang of Eight"—the group of senators responsible for creating the bipartisan immigration bill introduced last April [2013]. Sens. Michael Bennet (D--Colo.), Richard Durbin (D--Ill.), Robert Menendez (D--N.J.), and Chuck Schumer (D--N.Y.) were on hand to accept the award on behalf of the Gang of Eight, which also includes Sens. Jeff Flake (R--Ariz.), Lindsey Graham (R--S.C.), John McCain (R--Ariz.), and Marco Rubio (R--Fla.). The "Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act of 2013" (S. 744), which is designed to overhaul the nation's outdated immigration system and provide a roadmap to citizenship for the 11 million aspiring Americans, passed through the Senate last June."
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Added: The "Gang of 8" plan would go no further as 3 months later in June, 2014, the Establishment was stunned by the defeat of Republican open borders advocate, Wall St. darling, and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor in his Virginia district:
6/14/2014, "Analysis: Why Eric Cantor’s shocking loss likely kills immigration reform this year," Miami Herald, Marc Caputo
"The No. 2 Republican in the U.S. House is a goner. And amid the ashes of House Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s shocking defeat Tuesday night, comprehensive immigration reform smolders.
This is not to say that immigration reform would have passed this year if the Virginia Republican had not been the first House majority leader to lose since 1899. Immigration reform was already endangered in 2014.
But Cantor’s defeat to tea partyer David Brat was so intertwined with immigration-“amnesty” and “illegal aliens”- that the few fence-sitters in the GOP-led House are going to flock back to the politically right side of the divide."...
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Additional source:
6/10/2014, "Immigration Reform Died With Eric Cantor's Shocking Loss to a Tea Party Challenger," New Republic, Danny Vinik
"The immediate policy implications of this are clear: Immigration reform is completely dead."
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Comment: Evidence if needed that in the minds of the entire US political class the US no longer exists. Getting rid of the southern border solves their second biggest problem as well--us. Our role as global slaves is formalized. In 2014 the House would likely have gone with the Senate's La Raza bill if one person, the revolting Eric Cantor, hadn't lost his election. Yes, he did go straight to a job on Wall St.
Incidentally, to keep the record straight, "the Tea Party" didn't elect Dave Brat. Activist citizens of Virginia district 7 get all the credit with an assist by Laura Ingraham. She went to the district and campaigned for Dave Brat. She said there was no tea party involvement at all. One national tea party group in particular which had raised millions of dollars said they considered him but decided he wasn't worth backing. Never gave Dave Brat a penny. Co-opted on day one if not earlier by the Establishment, so-called National Tea Party groups eventually became just another Trojan Horse. Local Tea Party groups are something different and many still exist, are active in their local areas, but have little or no money. It's accurate to say Dave Brat agreed with grassroots Americans who since 2009 had identified as Tea Party supporters, people alarmed that the country was being trashed by both political parties. They gave time and money they often didn't have in a desperate attempt to save the country.
Dave Brat likely noticed that GOP House "leadership" hated the Nov. 2010 landslide they were given by the tea party movement and spent most of their time trying to get rid of the people gifted to them. The GOP had done nothing to deserve being catapulted to House majority--everyone agreed about that. By 2014 citizens of Virginia district 7 had been working for years politely trying to get Eric Cantor to pay attention to the needs of the district. At best they were scorned, treated as dirty peasants. So they walked neighborhoods, went to endless meetings. Giving up was not an option.
Virginia is thick with GOP Establishment saboteurs whose only purpose is to prevent citizens from getting the candidate they need. Why? The Establishment and trillions of dollars behind them will not allow the GOP to be an opposition party to the democrats. Meaning, the US has one party rule, ie, a de facto dictatorship. The GOP E and democrats have the same agenda: America Last, open borders with endless flows of slave labor from corrupt and violent cultures, extreme globalism, constant foreign wars paid for by US taxpayers, massive free trade deals, and control of fake elections to fool the rubes into thinking they live in a free country. If elections meant anything, The Wall would've been half built by now. Some Communist countries may have "elections", you can go and vote, but every candidate will give you the same result.
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PropOrNot Unmasked: Fake News industry was launched by PropOrNot in 2017. Household names involved like CNN, Daily Beast, Atlantic Council. Unable to win on a level playing field, their only chance is to silence opposition by calling them Putin stooges and possibly costing them their livelihood. Their definition of Truth: Rube US taxpayers must shut up and fund nuclear war with Russia-George Eliason
How empty does your life have to be for you to be obsessed with controlling the minds of billions of other human beings?
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1/25/18, "PropOrNot Unmasked," zero hedge, by george washington
"By George Eliason, an American journalist living in Ukraine.
Preface by Washington's Blog: A leading cybersecurity expert has publicly said that Mr. Eliason's research as presented in this article does not violate the law. Washington's Blog does not express an opinion about whether or not the claims set forth in this article are accurate or not. Make up your own mind.
Note: If any images are hard to see, you can look here. (I'm not sure why, but these images are a tad fuzzier at ZH.)"
"A little over a year ago, the deep-state graced the world with Propornot [claiming to define propaganda for you]. Thanks to them, 2017 became the year of fake news. Every news website and opinion column now had the potential to be linked to the Steele dossier and Trump collusion with Russia. Every journalist was either with us or against us. Every one that was against us became Russia's trolls.
Fortunately for the free world, the anonymous group known as Propornot that tried to "out" every website as a potential Russian colluder, in the end only implicated themselves.
Turnabout is fair play and that's always the fun part, isn't it? With that in mind, I know the dogs are going to howl this evening over this one.
The damage Propornot did to scores of news and opinions websites in late 2016-2017 provides the basis of a massive civil suit. I mean huge, as in the potential is there for a tobacco company sized class-action sized lawsuit. I can say that because I know a lot about a number of entities that are involved and the enormous amount of money behind them. How serious is this?
In 2016, a $10,000 reward was put out for the identities of Propornot players. No one has claimed it yet, and now, I guess no one will. There are times in your life that taking a stand has a cost.
To make sure the story gets out and is taken seriously, this is one of those times.
If that's what it takes for you to understand the danger Propornot and the groups around them pose to everyone you love, if you understand it, everything will have been well worth it.
In this article, you'll meet some of the people staffing Propornot. You'll meet the people and publications that provide their expenses and cover the logistics. You'll meet a few of the deep state players. We'll deal with them very soon. They need to see this as the warning shot over the bow and start playing nice with regular people. After that, you'll meet the NGO's that are funding and orchestrating all of it. How am I doing so far?
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The image that you see is the clincher or game winner that supplies the necessary proof up front and the direct path to Propornot. This was a passive scan of propornot.com showing the administrative dashboard belongs to the InterpreterMag.com as shown on the left of the image. On the right, it shows that uploads to Propornot.com come from InterpreterMag.com and is a product of that publication.
Now we have the first layer of Propornot, fake news, and our 1st four contestants. We have a slew of new media organizations that are influenced by, or feeding Propornot.
Remember, fake news got off the ground and got its wings because of the attention this website received from the Washington Post in Dec. 2016.
At the Interpreter Mag level, here are the people:
The Interpreter is a product of the Atlantic Council. The Digital Forensics Research Lab has been carrying the weight in Ukrainian-Russian affairs for the Atlantic Council. Fellows working with the Atlantic Council in this area include:
Propornot- Atlantic Council - Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG)
Who are the BBG? According to Wikipedia- "The Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) is an independent agency of the United States government. According to its website, its mission is to "inform, engage, and connect people around the world in support of freedom and democracy. The BBG supervised Voice of America (VOA), Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Radio y Television Marti, Radio Free Asia, and the Middle East Broadcast Networks.
The board of the BBG was eliminated and replaced with a single appointed chief executive officer as part of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017, which was passed in December 2016."
On January 1, 2016, the Interpreter became a special project of RFE/RL and under the oversight of the BBG. The Secretary of State had a seat on the board of the BBG until December 2016. Why the change?
During the 2016 election, the BBG developed a major conflict of interest. At least two BBG board members worked actively for the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign. These government officials were working against the president-elect after the election. It looks like it didn't go unnoticed. In the following linked article, it shows that they should be investigated for their part in an attempted coup.
From a Nov 7, 2016, article- "Karen Kornbluh is helping refine and to get Hillary Clinton’s message out. ” All of them are names to watch if Clinton wins — and key jobs at the FCC and other federal agencies are up for grabs.”
According to her bio: Karen founded the New America Foundation’s Work and Family Program and is a senior fellow for Digital Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations. Karen has written extensively about technology policy, women, and family policy for The Atlantic, The New York Times and The Washington Post. New York Times columnist David Brooks cited her Democracy article “Families Valued,” focused on “juggler families” as one of the best magazine articles of 2006.
Michael Kempner is the founder, President and Chief Executive Officer of MWW Group, a staunch Hillary Clinton supporter, and may get a greater role if she is elected. Kempner is a member of the Public Relations Hall of Fame. Michael Kempner hired Anthony Weiner after the sexting scandal broke in 2011.
Jeff Shell, chairman of the BBG and Universal Filmed Entertainment is supporting a secondary role by being an honor roll donor to the Atlantic Council. While the BBG is supposed to be neutral it has continuously helped increase tensions in Eastern Europe. While giving to the Atlantic Council may not be illegal while in his position, currently, the Atlantic Council’s main effort is to ignite a war with Russia. This may set up a major conflict of interest.
According to journalist Robert Parry “The people that will be taking senior positions and especially in foreign policy believe “This consensus is driven by a broad-based backlash against a president who has repeatedly stressed the dangers of overreach and the need for restraint, especially in the Middle East.”
Parry goes on to say that at the forefront of this is the Atlantic Council, a think tank associated with NATO. Their main goal is a major confrontation with nuclear-armed Russia."
So, to make sense of all this, most of the people listed would have held cabinet positions in a Hillary Clinton presidency. If the Interpreter is a project of RFE/RL then the decision to go ahead with Propornot would have to go across their desk. That includes then Sec of State, John Kerry.
The unasked question of why would a US Government Agency do this (?) needs to be addressed. All the people listed above were actively working for Clinton to get her elected and throw Donald Trump's campaign off the rails.
After the election, they were going to take care of Clinton's "deplorables" by dissecting alternative media. I wrote about this before the election and I warned several major new sites what they could expect. I was right on the money. After she lost, it was already in motion. The deplorable media didn't fall into a particular political pattern other than they did not promote Hillary Clinton.
The purpose of Propornot has been to get people to demand freedom of speech be rolled back. This was/is to be done by destroying fact-based media. If you read further, the entire plan is laid out starting from 2015 when it started coming together.
These people want reality shaped on what the perceived majority (louder) group believes to be true, regardless of what the facts are. Perception based reality is only a Facebook like away from killing one person or elevating another to hero status regardless of what they have done.
That little statement about the free speech rally says it all.
It's something that would hardly be noticed unless you were looking for it because it is part of the meta-data.
Now you can say it's only a sentence and who cares? Nobody communicates through metadata do they? Wasn't that what Propornot was all about? Yes, they do communicate through metadata. That's why I look at it.
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Do you see it? No? Look again. There in the metadata, at the bottom of the image is an ad for a job. Go for it and remember to mention the header. It could just as easily be hacking instructions, or a do not disturb sign. That's why it pays to really research carefully.
The Boston 'Free Speech' Rally was billed by the social networks and MSM as a fascist rally. It was really a Free Speech Rally. What they learned is that with just a little nudge, they can make you demand nationalist repression. Nice going Boston! [See Kuhner article and photo at end of this post]
Hey, is this starting to sound a little conspiratorial? If it is, we need ruskie hackers with Guy Fawkes masks to make this work.
They have to admit to changing international politics through hacking in 2016, belong to a foreign country, code in Russian, and use spear phishing techniques to lure people in. Let's not forget that they also have to work for some form of Intelligence.
Most importantly, they have to work with and influence all of the people above. They will definitely impact US foreign policy toward Russia. Let's raise the stakes even more. The hackers have to answer to whoever is funding a lot of the illegal and immoral activities.
They are not even savvy enough to stay clear of outing each other.
This is the Pravy Sektor hacker RUH8. The common thread for these hackers is clear if you read the linked material on the profiles that make up these organizations. They work for Bellingcat, Informnapalm, the Atlantic Council, Ukrainian Intel, and the Diaspora.
In a follow-up article, I have reason to ask if they were given access to United States Government Top Secret Secure Servers. I'm not kidding. In a Euromaidan Press article dated November 2nd, 2016, the hackers state enthusiastically "Ukrainian hackers have a rather high level of work. So the help of the USA… I don’t know, why would we need it? We have all the talent and special means for this. And I don’t think that the USA or any NATO country would make such sharp movements in international politics.”
And we have a winner. In 2016 the sharp movement in international politics was caused by...survey says....hacking!!!!
According to Donna Brazille, the Democratic Party servers were hacked multiple times and the hacking didn't stop until December 2016. At this juncture, we should be able to agree that Seth Rich leaked the information to Wikileaks. But, now we are talking about other hacks.
In the above linked article, these hacker specifically say their favorite route is spear phishing email accounts. In the article, you'll also see they work directly for Ukrainian Intel. Bellingcat works directly for Ukrainian Intel and works with them and the Atlantic Council. Stopfake is a product of Irena Chalupa who works for RFE/RL, the Atlantic Council and the Ukrainian government.
Stopfake works directly with them and is a product of the Ukrainian government. Crowdstrike has an ongoing relationship with Ukrainian Intel and these particular hackers. Crowdstrike conjured up Fancy Bear. Well say, hello to the real fancy bear of 2016 (*fancybear is technically a set of tools and not people).
This means that former Secretary of State John Kerry approved of Ukrainian Intelligence hackers having access to servers inside a US Government Agency because of Propornot and the Atlantic Councils reliance on the hackers.
How are the Ukrainian hackers tied into Propornot at any level?
James Miller isn't shy about using their work. Propornot relies on the work of the Atlantic Council, Aric Toler, Aaron Weisburd, Clint Watts, and Joel Harding. The Ukrainian hackers work directly with InformNapalm and are the go-to resource for most of the people involved and all of the people just named.
Below we have assessed the details of the reports from InformNapalm, and have expanded on their investigation. — James Miller
Americans are attacking Americans for a foreign country for what amounts to pennies. We'll deal with them again soon.
Who does the Atlantic Council work for? It's the same people that staff RFE/RL.
"On 29 January 2016 in Washington, U.S.A., Ukrainian World Congress (UWC) President Eugene Czolij and Atlantic Council President and CEO Frederick Kempe officially signed a Memorandum of Agreement to renew the cooperation between the UWC and the Atlantic Council, that began in September 2014.
In accordance with this Memorandum, the UWC will continue its cooperation with the Atlantic Council on implementing the “Ukraine in Europe Initiative”, which aims to galvanize international support for an independent, sovereign and territorially integral Ukraine, including Crimea. This initiative is also intended to support reforms in Ukraine and its EuroAtlantic integration, and to counter Russian disinformation."
This one little paragraph spells out clearly what I have shown in detail throughout this article.
The Ukrainian World Congress is represented in the US Congress by the Ukrainian Caucus headed up by ISIS supporter and Nazi cheerleader Marcy Kaptur [Democrat representative from Ohio]. Her Ukrainian Caucus represents people with political positions that scared Adolf Hitler in WWII.
The obvious takeaway is that a lawsuit is a bare minimum that needs to happen. People need to be investigated for crimes against the state. When we take a closer look at who had potential access to top-secret servers, that will become painfully obvious.
These people have tried and are trying to rip the fabric of society in pieces. At the very least, they have earned a good tarring...and feathering. When you look at the financial end of this a lawsuit in the billions would barely touch it.
Just one company the Ukrainian Diaspora started for this is valued over 100 million dollars. This will need to be a class action suit with a cease and desist to the BBG.
In early 2015, almost 2 years before most people took the idea of censorship seriously, I documented its inception. In the same way, it happens with many of the biggest stories of our times, I stumbled onto it by accident. In early March 2015, Ukrainian Information Policy designer Joel Harding laid out what to expect going forward in the following statements: "In military IIO operations center on the ability to influence foreign audiences, US, and global audiences, and adversely affect enemy decision making through an integrated approach.
Even current event news is released in this fashion. Each portal is given messages that follow the same themes because it is an across the board mainstream effort that fills the information space entirely when it is working correctly.
The purpose of “Inform and Influence Operations” is not to provide a perspective, opinion, or lay out a policy. It is defined as the ability to make audiences “think and act” in a manner favorable to the mission objectives. This is done through applying perception management techniques which target the audiences emotions, motives, and reasoning.
These techniques are not geared for debate. It is to overwhelm and change the target psyche.
Using these techniques information sources can be manipulated and those that write, speak, or think counter to the objective are relegated as propaganda, ill-informed, or irrelevant."- Harding
While the above sounds gloriously overoptimistic, Harding, along with his little band of Kremlin Troll hunters personally started developing the idea of organizations capable of blackballing journalists and publications in a way that could not be construed as censorship.
From another March 2015 article- A “Disinformation Charter” for Media and Bloggers: Top-down censorship should be avoided. But rival media, from Al-Jazeera to the BBC, Fox and beyond, need to get together to create a charter of acceptable and unacceptable behavior. Vigorous debate and disagreement are ,of course, to be encouraged—but media organizations that practice conscious deception should be excluded from the community. A similar code can be accepted by bloggers and other online influencers.
This “Disinformation Charter” for responsible behavior (Ministry of Truth?) he describes is to fight “conscious deception” can only be weighed against how he describes Propaganda. “The word is frequently used to describe any news emerging one’s opponent.”– Harding
Journalists that need to be excluded are those “our side” label as propagandists or active measure agents.”
Harding's connections in media are very large. Through his friend Mathew Armstrong, Harding had access to and the ear of the board of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG). The BBG board is staffed by the who's who of network and radio broadcast, print media and shortwave CEO's and heavy hitters. They are behind RFE/RL (Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty).
On the other end of this in 2015, Joel Harding was assembling a group of miscreants to attack the social networks of different journalist and publications. The crude logic behind a direct assault was that by developing, training, and overseeing vast troll networks they could speak over their opposition (people that their employers wanted to be silenced) and subdue dissident online conversation and control the information.
Where this wasn't feasible, they set up hack and harass attacks at various publications to get them to stop publishing hard-hitting journalists. This still hasn't been effective because it caused publishers to dig in and harden their internet properties instead.
The softer more indirect approach Harding pushed in March 2015 quickly developed into the unified media strategy he wanted for the US and Europe. Control the information and don't allow contradicting information or news into the media stream. When it does get in, call it propaganda.
Enter Propornot."
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Added: More on hijacked Boston Free Speech Rally in August 2017 referenced above. The following article was written by Jeff Kuhner and appeared on WRKO radio's site. The link is now inactive, defaults to iHeart:
"The media refuses to report this seminal truth: There were no white supremacists or neo-Nazis. None. Not even one. Instead, they engaged in a massive disinformation campaign.....The media establishment celebrated an assault on the First Amendment. Their aim is obvious: to broaden the definition of “fascism” or “white supremacy” to include anyone—conservatives, libertarians, patriots, Trump populists or progressives—who refuses to bow at the altar of Political Correctness....The mainstream media has become the enemy. "
8/23/17, "Kuhner's Corner: The media lies about the Boston rally," WRKO Radio, Boston, Mass.
"There were no white supremacists or neo-Nazis."
"The Boston rally was a watershed event. But not in the way the mainstream media has been portraying it, as a bold stand against white supremacy in the wake of Charlottesville. Rather, it demonstrates the power of propaganda to foment mass hysteria and mob rule. Reality no longer matters.
For the media refuses to report this seminal truth: There were no white supremacists or neo-Nazis. None. Not even one. Instead, they engaged in a massive disinformation campaign that spurred over 40,000 “antifascists” to descend upon Boston Common. The alt-left’s goal: to counter-demonstrate against an alleged “white nationalist” rally.
Yet, what they were protesting was the very opposite. The Free Speech rally had nothing to do with white supremacy or the Ku Klux Klan—never mind the violence in Charlottesville. In fact, the rally was planned well before Charlottesville (one even took place earlier this year in May). More importantly, the rally was about defending the First Amendment, stressing the importance of free speech and freedom of expression in an age of growing intolerance.
Remarkably and irresponsibly, bordering on the criminal, the media repeatedly perpetuated the myth that a rally devoted to free speech was a cover for a KKK lovefest. Not one single major media outlet bothered to investigate or search for the facts; like sheep, they ran with the false narrative that Nazis were invading Boston. The reason: They got their marching orders from Mayor Marty Walsh and the liberal establishment.
It was (Mayor) Walsh, who peddled the fiction about white supremacists descending on Boston, trying to replicate the chaos and bloodshed in Charlottesville. He held a press conference earlier in the week, denouncing the so-called “bigots” and “racists” supposedly attending the Free Speech rally. It was like ringing the dinner bell for the alt-left activists to pour onto the streets in rage and protest.
Walsh even went so far as to claim he would “march” with the counter-demonstrators against “hate” and “white supremacists.” The genie was now out of the bottle: Black Lives Matter, Antifa and radical left-wing activists (including the Communist Party and Workers of the World) vowed that tens of thousands of protestors and street thugs would show up.
No one, however, asked a basic question: Who were the scheduled speakers and supposed rally goers? Were any of them Nazis or white nationalists? Instead, the media mindlessly repeated the Big Lie. And as Nazi Propaganda Minister, Joseph Goebbels, famously said, repeat a lie often enough it becomes accepted as fact. This is what happened in Boston.
The listed speakers at the Free Speech rally were a diverse group; none of them comes close to being a KKK-style supremacist or Nazi. One of them was Rinaldo Del Gallo, a First Amendment lawyer and supporter of Bernie Sanders. He is a progressive, who believes in free speech. So is Bernie a neo-Nazi now? Another one was Donnie Palmer, a veteran and professional boxer. He is also an African-American. He is from Dorchester, and his big issue is the need to discuss openly about the scourge of crime and drugs infesting our inner cities. So is a black man, who is pro-law and order, a white supremacist now? Another one was Shiva Ayyadurai, an Indian-American businessman. He is a constitutionalist running for the GOP nomination to challenge Sen. Elizabeth Warren. To put it crudely: Is a brown-skinned man, who supports the Bill of Rights, now a white supremacist?
Or take Samson Racioppi, a Libertarian candidate for Congress. His issue is the need for limited government and maximizing personal freedoms. Are libertarians now Nazis? Another was Garret Kirkland, an anti-war and pro-civil liberties activist. His main issue is opposition to military intervention in Syria, and how free speech is critical for the anti-war movement to get its message out. Are anti-war activists now members of the KKK?
In the eyes of the media, the leftist counter-demonstrators and Walsh, the answer is clear—and chilling: yes. The massive protests achieved its goal. Free speech was shut down. A hate-filled mob took over the streets. And the radical Left won a decisive battle in its war against the Constitution, the First Amendment and freedom itself. That this occurred in Boston of all places—the cradle of liberty and the American Revolution—makes the Left’s triumph even more striking.
Moreover, the media could not single out one—just one—neo-Nazi or white supremacist among the Free Speech rally attendees. In Charlottesville, they were everywhere; in Boston, they were nowhere. The reason is obvious: Because they never planned to attend. The entire “antifascist” protest was a counter-demonstration against a phantom menace—one that was conjured out of thin air.
The only real fascists were the Antifa and BLM thugs among the counter-demonstrators. Dressed in black and wearing masks (like Mussolini’s Black Shirts or Hitler’s Brown Shirts), roving paramilitary gangs threw urine bottles, rocks and sticks at the police. They blocked and spit upon rally attendees. And they assaulted Trump supporters. Contrary to media spin, there was nothing “peaceful” or “non-violent” about the protests.
Just ask Sue, an elderly woman and Trump voter. She wanted to attend the Free Speech rally. She was prevented by an angry leftist crowd. So, she decided to stand on the grass and peacefully hold up an American flag. For her alleged crime of patriotism, Antifa thugs punched and beat her. She was then dragged on the ground as they ripped away her flag. The incident was captured on video. Sue was then spit in the face by a rabid BLM woman, who called her a “Nazi” and said the flag represents “slavery and oppression.”
Walsh refuses to condemn the attack; the media will not even speak to her.
“I could not believe the sheer hatred that those protestors had,” Sue said in an interview on my radio show. “They were like rabid animals.”
She’s right. What took place in Boston was Orwellian. In the name of “anti-fascism,” left-wing fanatics used fascist tactics to muzzle opposition and silence speech. The media establishment celebrated an assault on the First Amendment. Their aim is obvious: to broaden the definition of “fascism” or “white supremacy” to include anyone—conservatives, libertarians, patriots, Trump populists or progressives—who refuses to bow at the altar of Political Correctness
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The radical Left is waging war upon America’s history, culture, identity and institutions. They despise the Constitution, especially the First Amendment, which is the bedrock of our freedoms. The mainstream media has become the enemy. Boston has become ground zero.
Only one question remains: Which side are you on?"
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Among comments to this article at Free Republic
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"And not one member of our government defended this group’s right to speak! How does a people know for certain that they have lost their right to freedom of speech? When they are forbidden to talk about losing their right to freedom of speech. That’s exactly where we are.
8 posted on 8/23/2017, 8:34:59 PM by KyCats"
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1/25/18, "PropOrNot Unmasked," zero hedge, by george washington
"By George Eliason, an American journalist living in Ukraine.
Preface by Washington's Blog: A leading cybersecurity expert has publicly said that Mr. Eliason's research as presented in this article does not violate the law. Washington's Blog does not express an opinion about whether or not the claims set forth in this article are accurate or not. Make up your own mind.
Note: If any images are hard to see, you can look here. (I'm not sure why, but these images are a tad fuzzier at ZH.)"
"A little over a year ago, the deep-state graced the world with Propornot [claiming to define propaganda for you]. Thanks to them, 2017 became the year of fake news. Every news website and opinion column now had the potential to be linked to the Steele dossier and Trump collusion with Russia. Every journalist was either with us or against us. Every one that was against us became Russia's trolls.
Fortunately for the free world, the anonymous group known as Propornot that tried to "out" every website as a potential Russian colluder, in the end only implicated themselves.
Turnabout is fair play and that's always the fun part, isn't it? With that in mind, I know the dogs are going to howl this evening over this one.
The damage Propornot did to scores of news and opinions websites in late 2016-2017 provides the basis of a massive civil suit. I mean huge, as in the potential is there for a tobacco company sized class-action sized lawsuit. I can say that because I know a lot about a number of entities that are involved and the enormous amount of money behind them. How serious is this?
In 2016, a $10,000 reward was put out for the identities of Propornot players. No one has claimed it yet, and now, I guess no one will. There are times in your life that taking a stand has a cost.
To make sure the story gets out and is taken seriously, this is one of those times.
If that's what it takes for you to understand the danger Propornot and the groups around them pose to everyone you love, if you understand it, everything will have been well worth it.
In this article, you'll meet some of the people staffing Propornot. You'll meet the people and publications that provide their expenses and cover the logistics. You'll meet a few of the deep state players. We'll deal with them very soon. They need to see this as the warning shot over the bow and start playing nice with regular people. After that, you'll meet the NGO's that are funding and orchestrating all of it. How am I doing so far?
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The image that you see is the clincher or game winner that supplies the necessary proof up front and the direct path to Propornot. This was a passive scan of propornot.com showing the administrative dashboard belongs to the InterpreterMag.com as shown on the left of the image. On the right, it shows that uploads to Propornot.com come from InterpreterMag.com and is a product of that publication.
Now we have the first layer of Propornot, fake news, and our 1st four contestants. We have a slew of new media organizations that are influenced by, or feeding Propornot.
Remember, fake news got off the ground and got its wings because of the attention this website received from the Washington Post in Dec. 2016.
At the Interpreter Mag level, here are the people:
- Michael Weiss is the Editor-in-Chief at the InterpreterMag.com. According to his Linkd profile, he is also a National Security Analyst for CNN since Jul 2017 as well as an Investigative Reporter for International Affairs for CNN since Apr 2017. He has been a contributor there since 2015. He has been a Senior Editor at The Daily Beast since Jun 2015.
- Catherine A. Fitzpatrick is a Russian translator and analyst for the Interpreter. She has worked as an editor for EurasiaNet.org and RFE/RL.
- Pierre Vaux is an analyst and translator for the Interpreter. He's also an intern. He is a contributor to the Daily Beast, Foreign Policy, RFE/RL and Left Foot Forward and works at Dataminr Inc.
- James Miller's bio at the InterpreterMag.com includes Managing Editor of The Interpreter where he reports on Russia, Ukraine, and Syria. James runs the "Under The Black Flag" column at RFE/RL which provides news, opinion, and analysis about the impact of the Islamic State extremist group in Syria, Iraq, and beyond. He is a contributor at Reuters, The Daily Beast, Foreign Policy, and other publications. He is an expert on verifying citizen journalism and has been covering developments in the Middle East, specifically Syria and Iran, since 2009. Follow him on Twitter: @MillerMENA- Miller even works for the US Embassy in Kiev "diplo-page" the Kiev Post.
The Interpreter is a product of the Atlantic Council. The Digital Forensics Research Lab has been carrying the weight in Ukrainian-Russian affairs for the Atlantic Council. Fellows working with the Atlantic Council in this area include:
- Bellingcat- Aric Toler and Eliot Higgins- This linked article shows how an underwear salesman became one of the most important faces of the deep state. Don't laugh, the image is really appropriate. Higgins' insecurity runs so deep because of his failures that Higgins tries to get publications censured that question his author-i-tie.
- Anne Applebaum
- StopFake- Irena Chalupa- Chalupa is the sister to the same Alexandra Chalupa that brought the term Russian hacking to worldwide attention. Irena Chalupa is a nonresident fellow with the Atlantic Council’s Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center. She is also a senior correspondent at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), where she has worked for more than twenty years. Ms. Chalupa previously served as an editor for the Atlantic Council, where she covered Ukraine and Eastern Europe. Irena Chalupa is also the news anchor for Ukraine’s propaganda channel Stopfake.org She is a Ukrainian Diaspora leader. The Chalupa's are the 1st family of Ukrainian propaganda. She works with and for Ukrainian Intelligence through the Atlantic Council, Stopfake, and her sisters Andrea (Euromaidanpr) and Alexandra.
- Dimitry Alperovich- CEO of Crowdstrike and person who consulted a Ouija board and guessed Russia may have hacked something, somewhere, sometime.
Propornot- Atlantic Council - Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG)
Who are the BBG? According to Wikipedia- "The Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) is an independent agency of the United States government. According to its website, its mission is to "inform, engage, and connect people around the world in support of freedom and democracy. The BBG supervised Voice of America (VOA), Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Radio y Television Marti, Radio Free Asia, and the Middle East Broadcast Networks.
The board of the BBG was eliminated and replaced with a single appointed chief executive officer as part of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017, which was passed in December 2016."
On January 1, 2016, the Interpreter became a special project of RFE/RL and under the oversight of the BBG. The Secretary of State had a seat on the board of the BBG until December 2016. Why the change?
During the 2016 election, the BBG developed a major conflict of interest. At least two BBG board members worked actively for the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign. These government officials were working against the president-elect after the election. It looks like it didn't go unnoticed. In the following linked article, it shows that they should be investigated for their part in an attempted coup.
From a Nov 7, 2016, article- "Karen Kornbluh is helping refine and to get Hillary Clinton’s message out. ” All of them are names to watch if Clinton wins — and key jobs at the FCC and other federal agencies are up for grabs.”
According to her bio: Karen founded the New America Foundation’s Work and Family Program and is a senior fellow for Digital Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations. Karen has written extensively about technology policy, women, and family policy for The Atlantic, The New York Times and The Washington Post. New York Times columnist David Brooks cited her Democracy article “Families Valued,” focused on “juggler families” as one of the best magazine articles of 2006.
Michael Kempner is the founder, President and Chief Executive Officer of MWW Group, a staunch Hillary Clinton supporter, and may get a greater role if she is elected. Kempner is a member of the Public Relations Hall of Fame. Michael Kempner hired Anthony Weiner after the sexting scandal broke in 2011.
Jeff Shell, chairman of the BBG and Universal Filmed Entertainment is supporting a secondary role by being an honor roll donor to the Atlantic Council. While the BBG is supposed to be neutral it has continuously helped increase tensions in Eastern Europe. While giving to the Atlantic Council may not be illegal while in his position, currently, the Atlantic Council’s main effort is to ignite a war with Russia. This may set up a major conflict of interest.
According to journalist Robert Parry “The people that will be taking senior positions and especially in foreign policy believe “This consensus is driven by a broad-based backlash against a president who has repeatedly stressed the dangers of overreach and the need for restraint, especially in the Middle East.”
Parry goes on to say that at the forefront of this is the Atlantic Council, a think tank associated with NATO. Their main goal is a major confrontation with nuclear-armed Russia."
So, to make sense of all this, most of the people listed would have held cabinet positions in a Hillary Clinton presidency. If the Interpreter is a project of RFE/RL then the decision to go ahead with Propornot would have to go across their desk. That includes then Sec of State, John Kerry.
The unasked question of why would a US Government Agency do this (?) needs to be addressed. All the people listed above were actively working for Clinton to get her elected and throw Donald Trump's campaign off the rails.
After the election, they were going to take care of Clinton's "deplorables" by dissecting alternative media. I wrote about this before the election and I warned several major new sites what they could expect. I was right on the money. After she lost, it was already in motion. The deplorable media didn't fall into a particular political pattern other than they did not promote Hillary Clinton.
The purpose of Propornot has been to get people to demand freedom of speech be rolled back. This was/is to be done by destroying fact-based media. If you read further, the entire plan is laid out starting from 2015 when it started coming together.
These people want reality shaped on what the perceived majority (louder) group believes to be true, regardless of what the facts are. Perception based reality is only a Facebook like away from killing one person or elevating another to hero status regardless of what they have done.
That little statement about the free speech rally says it all.
It's something that would hardly be noticed unless you were looking for it because it is part of the meta-data.
Now you can say it's only a sentence and who cares? Nobody communicates through metadata do they? Wasn't that what Propornot was all about? Yes, they do communicate through metadata. That's why I look at it.
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Do you see it? No? Look again. There in the metadata, at the bottom of the image is an ad for a job. Go for it and remember to mention the header. It could just as easily be hacking instructions, or a do not disturb sign. That's why it pays to really research carefully.
The Boston 'Free Speech' Rally was billed by the social networks and MSM as a fascist rally. It was really a Free Speech Rally. What they learned is that with just a little nudge, they can make you demand nationalist repression. Nice going Boston! [See Kuhner article and photo at end of this post]
Hey, is this starting to sound a little conspiratorial? If it is, we need ruskie hackers with Guy Fawkes masks to make this work.
They have to admit to changing international politics through hacking in 2016, belong to a foreign country, code in Russian, and use spear phishing techniques to lure people in. Let's not forget that they also have to work for some form of Intelligence.
Most importantly, they have to work with and influence all of the people above. They will definitely impact US foreign policy toward Russia. Let's raise the stakes even more. The hackers have to answer to whoever is funding a lot of the illegal and immoral activities.
They are not even savvy enough to stay clear of outing each other.
This is the Pravy Sektor hacker RUH8. The common thread for these hackers is clear if you read the linked material on the profiles that make up these organizations. They work for Bellingcat, Informnapalm, the Atlantic Council, Ukrainian Intel, and the Diaspora.
In a follow-up article, I have reason to ask if they were given access to United States Government Top Secret Secure Servers. I'm not kidding. In a Euromaidan Press article dated November 2nd, 2016, the hackers state enthusiastically "Ukrainian hackers have a rather high level of work. So the help of the USA… I don’t know, why would we need it? We have all the talent and special means for this. And I don’t think that the USA or any NATO country would make such sharp movements in international politics.”
And we have a winner. In 2016 the sharp movement in international politics was caused by...survey says....hacking!!!!
According to Donna Brazille, the Democratic Party servers were hacked multiple times and the hacking didn't stop until December 2016. At this juncture, we should be able to agree that Seth Rich leaked the information to Wikileaks. But, now we are talking about other hacks.
In the above linked article, these hacker specifically say their favorite route is spear phishing email accounts. In the article, you'll also see they work directly for Ukrainian Intel. Bellingcat works directly for Ukrainian Intel and works with them and the Atlantic Council. Stopfake is a product of Irena Chalupa who works for RFE/RL, the Atlantic Council and the Ukrainian government.
Stopfake works directly with them and is a product of the Ukrainian government. Crowdstrike has an ongoing relationship with Ukrainian Intel and these particular hackers. Crowdstrike conjured up Fancy Bear. Well say, hello to the real fancy bear of 2016 (*fancybear is technically a set of tools and not people).
This means that former Secretary of State John Kerry approved of Ukrainian Intelligence hackers having access to servers inside a US Government Agency because of Propornot and the Atlantic Councils reliance on the hackers.
How are the Ukrainian hackers tied into Propornot at any level?
James Miller isn't shy about using their work. Propornot relies on the work of the Atlantic Council, Aric Toler, Aaron Weisburd, Clint Watts, and Joel Harding. The Ukrainian hackers work directly with InformNapalm and are the go-to resource for most of the people involved and all of the people just named.
Below we have assessed the details of the reports from InformNapalm, and have expanded on their investigation. — James Miller
Americans are attacking Americans for a foreign country for what amounts to pennies. We'll deal with them again soon.
Who does the Atlantic Council work for? It's the same people that staff RFE/RL.
"On 29 January 2016 in Washington, U.S.A., Ukrainian World Congress (UWC) President Eugene Czolij and Atlantic Council President and CEO Frederick Kempe officially signed a Memorandum of Agreement to renew the cooperation between the UWC and the Atlantic Council, that began in September 2014.
In accordance with this Memorandum, the UWC will continue its cooperation with the Atlantic Council on implementing the “Ukraine in Europe Initiative”, which aims to galvanize international support for an independent, sovereign and territorially integral Ukraine, including Crimea. This initiative is also intended to support reforms in Ukraine and its EuroAtlantic integration, and to counter Russian disinformation."
This one little paragraph spells out clearly what I have shown in detail throughout this article.
The Ukrainian World Congress is represented in the US Congress by the Ukrainian Caucus headed up by ISIS supporter and Nazi cheerleader Marcy Kaptur [Democrat representative from Ohio]. Her Ukrainian Caucus represents people with political positions that scared Adolf Hitler in WWII.
The obvious takeaway is that a lawsuit is a bare minimum that needs to happen. People need to be investigated for crimes against the state. When we take a closer look at who had potential access to top-secret servers, that will become painfully obvious.
These people have tried and are trying to rip the fabric of society in pieces. At the very least, they have earned a good tarring...and feathering. When you look at the financial end of this a lawsuit in the billions would barely touch it.
Just one company the Ukrainian Diaspora started for this is valued over 100 million dollars. This will need to be a class action suit with a cease and desist to the BBG.
In early 2015, almost 2 years before most people took the idea of censorship seriously, I documented its inception. In the same way, it happens with many of the biggest stories of our times, I stumbled onto it by accident. In early March 2015, Ukrainian Information Policy designer Joel Harding laid out what to expect going forward in the following statements: "In military IIO operations center on the ability to influence foreign audiences, US, and global audiences, and adversely affect enemy decision making through an integrated approach.
Even current event news is released in this fashion. Each portal is given messages that follow the same themes because it is an across the board mainstream effort that fills the information space entirely when it is working correctly.
The purpose of “Inform and Influence Operations” is not to provide a perspective, opinion, or lay out a policy. It is defined as the ability to make audiences “think and act” in a manner favorable to the mission objectives. This is done through applying perception management techniques which target the audiences emotions, motives, and reasoning.
These techniques are not geared for debate. It is to overwhelm and change the target psyche.
Using these techniques information sources can be manipulated and those that write, speak, or think counter to the objective are relegated as propaganda, ill-informed, or irrelevant."- Harding
While the above sounds gloriously overoptimistic, Harding, along with his little band of Kremlin Troll hunters personally started developing the idea of organizations capable of blackballing journalists and publications in a way that could not be construed as censorship.
From another March 2015 article- A “Disinformation Charter” for Media and Bloggers: Top-down censorship should be avoided. But rival media, from Al-Jazeera to the BBC, Fox and beyond, need to get together to create a charter of acceptable and unacceptable behavior. Vigorous debate and disagreement are ,of course, to be encouraged—but media organizations that practice conscious deception should be excluded from the community. A similar code can be accepted by bloggers and other online influencers.
This “Disinformation Charter” for responsible behavior (Ministry of Truth?) he describes is to fight “conscious deception” can only be weighed against how he describes Propaganda. “The word is frequently used to describe any news emerging one’s opponent.”– Harding
Journalists that need to be excluded are those “our side” label as propagandists or active measure agents.”
Harding's connections in media are very large. Through his friend Mathew Armstrong, Harding had access to and the ear of the board of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG). The BBG board is staffed by the who's who of network and radio broadcast, print media and shortwave CEO's and heavy hitters. They are behind RFE/RL (Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty).
On the other end of this in 2015, Joel Harding was assembling a group of miscreants to attack the social networks of different journalist and publications. The crude logic behind a direct assault was that by developing, training, and overseeing vast troll networks they could speak over their opposition (people that their employers wanted to be silenced) and subdue dissident online conversation and control the information.
Where this wasn't feasible, they set up hack and harass attacks at various publications to get them to stop publishing hard-hitting journalists. This still hasn't been effective because it caused publishers to dig in and harden their internet properties instead.
The softer more indirect approach Harding pushed in March 2015 quickly developed into the unified media strategy he wanted for the US and Europe. Control the information and don't allow contradicting information or news into the media stream. When it does get in, call it propaganda.
Enter Propornot."
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Added: More on hijacked Boston Free Speech Rally in August 2017 referenced above. The following article was written by Jeff Kuhner and appeared on WRKO radio's site. The link is now inactive, defaults to iHeart:
"The media refuses to report this seminal truth: There were no white supremacists or neo-Nazis. None. Not even one. Instead, they engaged in a massive disinformation campaign.....The media establishment celebrated an assault on the First Amendment. Their aim is obvious: to broaden the definition of “fascism” or “white supremacy” to include anyone—conservatives, libertarians, patriots, Trump populists or progressives—who refuses to bow at the altar of Political Correctness....The mainstream media has become the enemy. "
8/23/17, "Kuhner's Corner: The media lies about the Boston rally," WRKO Radio, Boston, Mass.
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"There were no white supremacists or neo-Nazis."
"The Boston rally was a watershed event. But not in the way the mainstream media has been portraying it, as a bold stand against white supremacy in the wake of Charlottesville. Rather, it demonstrates the power of propaganda to foment mass hysteria and mob rule. Reality no longer matters.
For the media refuses to report this seminal truth: There were no white supremacists or neo-Nazis. None. Not even one. Instead, they engaged in a massive disinformation campaign that spurred over 40,000 “antifascists” to descend upon Boston Common. The alt-left’s goal: to counter-demonstrate against an alleged “white nationalist” rally.
Yet, what they were protesting was the very opposite. The Free Speech rally had nothing to do with white supremacy or the Ku Klux Klan—never mind the violence in Charlottesville. In fact, the rally was planned well before Charlottesville (one even took place earlier this year in May). More importantly, the rally was about defending the First Amendment, stressing the importance of free speech and freedom of expression in an age of growing intolerance.
Remarkably and irresponsibly, bordering on the criminal, the media repeatedly perpetuated the myth that a rally devoted to free speech was a cover for a KKK lovefest. Not one single major media outlet bothered to investigate or search for the facts; like sheep, they ran with the false narrative that Nazis were invading Boston. The reason: They got their marching orders from Mayor Marty Walsh and the liberal establishment.
It was (Mayor) Walsh, who peddled the fiction about white supremacists descending on Boston, trying to replicate the chaos and bloodshed in Charlottesville. He held a press conference earlier in the week, denouncing the so-called “bigots” and “racists” supposedly attending the Free Speech rally. It was like ringing the dinner bell for the alt-left activists to pour onto the streets in rage and protest.
Walsh even went so far as to claim he would “march” with the counter-demonstrators against “hate” and “white supremacists.” The genie was now out of the bottle: Black Lives Matter, Antifa and radical left-wing activists (including the Communist Party and Workers of the World) vowed that tens of thousands of protestors and street thugs would show up.
No one, however, asked a basic question: Who were the scheduled speakers and supposed rally goers? Were any of them Nazis or white nationalists? Instead, the media mindlessly repeated the Big Lie. And as Nazi Propaganda Minister, Joseph Goebbels, famously said, repeat a lie often enough it becomes accepted as fact. This is what happened in Boston.
The listed speakers at the Free Speech rally were a diverse group; none of them comes close to being a KKK-style supremacist or Nazi. One of them was Rinaldo Del Gallo, a First Amendment lawyer and supporter of Bernie Sanders. He is a progressive, who believes in free speech. So is Bernie a neo-Nazi now? Another one was Donnie Palmer, a veteran and professional boxer. He is also an African-American. He is from Dorchester, and his big issue is the need to discuss openly about the scourge of crime and drugs infesting our inner cities. So is a black man, who is pro-law and order, a white supremacist now? Another one was Shiva Ayyadurai, an Indian-American businessman. He is a constitutionalist running for the GOP nomination to challenge Sen. Elizabeth Warren. To put it crudely: Is a brown-skinned man, who supports the Bill of Rights, now a white supremacist?
Or take Samson Racioppi, a Libertarian candidate for Congress. His issue is the need for limited government and maximizing personal freedoms. Are libertarians now Nazis? Another was Garret Kirkland, an anti-war and pro-civil liberties activist. His main issue is opposition to military intervention in Syria, and how free speech is critical for the anti-war movement to get its message out. Are anti-war activists now members of the KKK?
In the eyes of the media, the leftist counter-demonstrators and Walsh, the answer is clear—and chilling: yes. The massive protests achieved its goal. Free speech was shut down. A hate-filled mob took over the streets. And the radical Left won a decisive battle in its war against the Constitution, the First Amendment and freedom itself. That this occurred in Boston of all places—the cradle of liberty and the American Revolution—makes the Left’s triumph even more striking.
Moreover, the media could not single out one—just one—neo-Nazi or white supremacist among the Free Speech rally attendees. In Charlottesville, they were everywhere; in Boston, they were nowhere. The reason is obvious: Because they never planned to attend. The entire “antifascist” protest was a counter-demonstration against a phantom menace—one that was conjured out of thin air.
The only real fascists were the Antifa and BLM thugs among the counter-demonstrators. Dressed in black and wearing masks (like Mussolini’s Black Shirts or Hitler’s Brown Shirts), roving paramilitary gangs threw urine bottles, rocks and sticks at the police. They blocked and spit upon rally attendees. And they assaulted Trump supporters. Contrary to media spin, there was nothing “peaceful” or “non-violent” about the protests.
Just ask Sue, an elderly woman and Trump voter. She wanted to attend the Free Speech rally. She was prevented by an angry leftist crowd. So, she decided to stand on the grass and peacefully hold up an American flag. For her alleged crime of patriotism, Antifa thugs punched and beat her. She was then dragged on the ground as they ripped away her flag. The incident was captured on video. Sue was then spit in the face by a rabid BLM woman, who called her a “Nazi” and said the flag represents “slavery and oppression.”
Walsh refuses to condemn the attack; the media will not even speak to her.
“I could not believe the sheer hatred that those protestors had,” Sue said in an interview on my radio show. “They were like rabid animals.”
She’s right. What took place in Boston was Orwellian. In the name of “anti-fascism,” left-wing fanatics used fascist tactics to muzzle opposition and silence speech. The media establishment celebrated an assault on the First Amendment. Their aim is obvious: to broaden the definition of “fascism” or “white supremacy” to include anyone—conservatives, libertarians, patriots, Trump populists or progressives—who refuses to bow at the altar of Political Correctness
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The radical Left is waging war upon America’s history, culture, identity and institutions. They despise the Constitution, especially the First Amendment, which is the bedrock of our freedoms. The mainstream media has become the enemy. Boston has become ground zero.
Only one question remains: Which side are you on?"
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"And not one member of our government defended this group’s right to speak! How does a people know for certain that they have lost their right to freedom of speech? When they are forbidden to talk about losing their right to freedom of speech. That’s exactly where we are.
8 posted on 8/23/2017, 8:34:59 PM by KyCats"
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Friday, January 26, 2018
Trump's mere presence in Davos is a rebuke to the elites who got him badly wrong. Two years ago, Davos delegates dismissed Trump's chances of winning-NY Times Deal Book, Una Galani
Jan. 10, 2018, "Trump’s ‘America First’ Agenda Is Crashing Davos Party," NY Times Deal Book, Breaking Views, Una Galani
"President
Trump is crashing the global elite’s ultimate party: He’s planning to
attend the World Economic Forum’s annual gathering in Davos this month,
the White House confirmed on Tuesday. It’s hard to imagine an audience
less receptive to Mr. Trump’s “America First” agenda. Yet, whether he is
seeking reconciliation or pitching for strongman status, his mere
presence is a rebuke to the elites who got him badly wrong.
Mr.
Trump will stand out among the 3,000-odd political leaders, financiers
and company executives due to convene in the Swiss resort on Jan. 23.
His threats to raise barriers to the movement of goods and people, his
rejection of the Paris climate change accord and his belligerence toward
North Korea have convinced the gathering’s wealthy and mostly liberal
delegates that the United States is giving up on global leadership.
Indeed, this year’s Davos theme — “Creating a shared future in a
fractured world” — seems an attempt to mitigate Mr. Trump’s influence.
The
self-proclaimed billionaire will be the first sitting United States
president to attend the gathering since Bill Clinton in 2000. Just as
President Richard M. Nixon’s right-wing credentials made it possible for
him to visit Communist China, Mr. Trump’s anti-globalization stance has
enabled him to risk a trip to the European mountain resort. Imagine the
vitriol that Barack Obama would have endured at home if he had put in
an appearance.
What
Mr. Trump hopes to achieve is less clear. There will be optimism that
his visit is a sign that White House moderates have gained the upper
hand. Even so, it is hard to imagine Mr. Trump giving a conciliatory
speech or defending globalization, as the Chinese leader, Xi Jinping,
did last year.
It’s
more likely that he will be party pooper in chief, reasserting his
isolationist policies while reminding the crowd of what it failed to
foresee. At Davos two years ago, delegates dismissed Mr. Trump’s chances
of winning the presidential election. A year later, attendees talked up
his pragmatic deal-making credentials — only to watch Mr. Trump’s dark
and foreboding inaugural address.
The
Davos crowd does not object to autocrats: Mr. Xi and Vladimir V. Putin
of Russia have received applause in previous years. Prime Minister
Narendra Modi of India, another nationalist, will deliver this year’s
keynote speech. Ultimately, Mr. Trump will not be that different to the
other wealthy attendees on the ski slopes, debating what the masses
really think."
Thursday, January 25, 2018
Many Americans don't seem to understand what's at stake with Russiagate, nor do many understand that the Republican Establishment isn't going to do anything to prevent the removal of Trump-Paul Craig Roberts...(GOP E wants war with Russia and in any case can't allow voters to choose US president, wants to remind rubes who's boss)
"When Department of Justice (sic) congressional liaison [and longtime Jeff Sessions aide] Stephen Boyd says
the DOJ is “unaware of any wrongdoing,” he is lying through his teeth.
The DOJ has already confessed its wrongdoing to the FISA court."
1/26/18, "Paul Craig Roberts Warns, "The Russiagate Stakes are Extreme," zero hedge
Authored by Paul Craig Roberts,
"The Republicans’ delay in releasing the summary of the House Intelligence Committee’s Russiagate investigation is giving weight to the presstitutes’ claim that the report is not being released, because it is a hack attempt at a Trump coverup that is not believable. Only Republicans are stupid enough to put themselves in such a situation.
Readers ask me why the summary memo is not released if it is real. There must be some reasons besides the stupidity of Republicans. Yes, that is so. Among the many reasons that might be blocking release are:
1) Republicans are very national security conscious. They don’t want to provide precedents for the release of classified information.
2) Many Republican congressional districts host installations of the military/security complex. Upsetting a large employer and directing campaign financing to a challenger is a big consideration.
3) The George W. Bush/Dick Cheney regime was a neoconservative regime. One consequence is that Republicans are influenced by neoconservatives who stress the alleged “Russian threat.”
4) The Israel Lobby can unseat any member of the House and Senate. The Israel Lobby is allied with the neoconservatives and this alliance intends to keep the US militarily active against perceived threats to Israel’s hegemony in the Middle East and against Russia, which supports Syria and Iran, countries perceived as threats by Israel.
5) Many Republicans are themselves invested in false Russiagate allegations against Trump and would like to replace him with Pence. Other Republicans believe that Trump is undermining Washington’s expensively-purchased foreign alliances and, thereby, undermining US power.
Many Americans do not seem to understand what is at stake. What America is confronted with is a coup conspiracy organized by top officials of the Obama Justice Department, FBI, CIA, the Hillary DNC, and the presstitute media to overturn the result of a democratic election and remove the president from office. The basis of the coup is a fake dossier purchased for money that consists of unsupported allegations against Trump and that was used to obtain warrants from the FISA court to spy on Trump and various associates hoping to find something that can be used against Trump. Regardless, the false allegations could be fed to the CIA’s media assets and used to create a scandal requiring a special prosecutor to investigate Russiagate....
If the highest reaches of the police state agencies can get away with an attempted or successful coup against the president of the United States, then that is the complete end of democracy and all accountability in government. The House, Senate, and judiciary will become as powerless as the Roman senate under the caesars. We will live under a dictatorship ruled by police state agencies.
Many Americans say they don’t need the House Intelligence Report, because they don’t believe the Russiagate BS in the first place. They miss the point. They need the report, because those responsible for this attempt at a coup must be identified, charged, and prosecuted for their act of high treason.
This is not minor stuff. This goes to the heart of whether any form of liberty will exist. We all know that the ability of the people to hold government accountable is not assured by democracy. However, there is no prospect of holding government accountable if it is a police state, a road that the US has been going down for some time. The audacious coup attempt against President Trump is our opportunity to stop the momentum to a police state.
Despite my recent postings, many people do not understand that the somewhat redacted FISA court document that has been declassified and released and explained by myself, William Binney, and former US Attorney Joe di Genova contains admissions by the FBI and DOJ that they improperly spied and obtained warrants from the court under false pretenses. In other words, we have it on the authority of the FISA court itself that the FBI and DOJ have admitted to the court their transgressions. When Department of Justice (sic) congressional liaison [and longtime Jeff Sessions aide] Stephen Boyd says the DOJ is “unaware of any wrongdoing,” he is lying through his teeth. The DOJ has already confessed its wrongdoing to the FISA court.
(See Lendman on Boyd’s [aide to AG Jeff Sessions] claim that releasing the memo would harm national security and ongoing investigations. This is always the claim made when government has to cover up its crimes.)
When Admiral Rodgers, director of the National Security Agency, discovered that the FBI and DOJ were misusing the spy system for partisan political reasons, he let it be known that he was going to inform the FISA court. This caused the FBI and DOJ to rush to the court in advance and confess to “mistakes” and to promise to tighten up procedures so as not to make mistakes in the future. It is these “mistakes” and corrections that the FISA court document reveals.
In other words, the information already exists in the pubic domain that proves that Russiagate was a conspiracy organized for the purpose of bringing down the elected president of the United States.
A case can be made that it would be just as well if the coup succeeds as it would bring an end to Washington’s cover as the government of a great democracy with liberty and justice for all.
Most other governments, and one would hope certainly the Russian and Chinese governments, would see the coup as America’s final transition into a police state and give up their utopian ideas of reaching accommodation with Washington. The constraints on Washington’s ability to bully the world would be greatly strengthened by the universal perception that the government of the United States had devolved into a police state."
Image above from 3/20/2016, "There Was no Republican Establishment After All," Frank Rich, NY Magazine. I added this image to the article of the GOP Establishment stripped of everything but their shorts by Trump. susan
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Jan 26, 2018 12:14 AM Permalink
Could Trump not declassify the memo and order its release?"
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My comment: I disagree with the author that Republicans involved are "stupid." They simply have the same agenda as Democrats: defend the police state, get rid of Trump, go to war with Russia, and never again allow American voters to choose the president. Republicans who hold committee chairmanships do so only because the Establishment fully controls them. Trump just watches all this go on. He created some of the biggest problems, could end them, but chooses not to. For example, he allows Jeff Sessions to remain AG while Sessions is preparing the noose to hang him. My guess is the only thing Trump cares about is clearing a path for Ivanka to become president someday. Maybe not in the next few years, but eventually. She's basically George Soros in a dress, so she should win with no problem.
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1/26/18, "Paul Craig Roberts Warns, "The Russiagate Stakes are Extreme," zero hedge
Authored by Paul Craig Roberts,
"The Republicans’ delay in releasing the summary of the House Intelligence Committee’s Russiagate investigation is giving weight to the presstitutes’ claim that the report is not being released, because it is a hack attempt at a Trump coverup that is not believable. Only Republicans are stupid enough to put themselves in such a situation.
Readers ask me why the summary memo is not released if it is real. There must be some reasons besides the stupidity of Republicans. Yes, that is so. Among the many reasons that might be blocking release are:
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| 3/20/2016, NY Mag, D. Koch, Ryan, C. Koch, McConnell, Murdoch |
1) Republicans are very national security conscious. They don’t want to provide precedents for the release of classified information.
2) Many Republican congressional districts host installations of the military/security complex. Upsetting a large employer and directing campaign financing to a challenger is a big consideration.
3) The George W. Bush/Dick Cheney regime was a neoconservative regime. One consequence is that Republicans are influenced by neoconservatives who stress the alleged “Russian threat.”
4) The Israel Lobby can unseat any member of the House and Senate. The Israel Lobby is allied with the neoconservatives and this alliance intends to keep the US militarily active against perceived threats to Israel’s hegemony in the Middle East and against Russia, which supports Syria and Iran, countries perceived as threats by Israel.
5) Many Republicans are themselves invested in false Russiagate allegations against Trump and would like to replace him with Pence. Other Republicans believe that Trump is undermining Washington’s expensively-purchased foreign alliances and, thereby, undermining US power.
Many Americans do not seem to understand what is at stake. What America is confronted with is a coup conspiracy organized by top officials of the Obama Justice Department, FBI, CIA, the Hillary DNC, and the presstitute media to overturn the result of a democratic election and remove the president from office. The basis of the coup is a fake dossier purchased for money that consists of unsupported allegations against Trump and that was used to obtain warrants from the FISA court to spy on Trump and various associates hoping to find something that can be used against Trump. Regardless, the false allegations could be fed to the CIA’s media assets and used to create a scandal requiring a special prosecutor to investigate Russiagate....
If the highest reaches of the police state agencies can get away with an attempted or successful coup against the president of the United States, then that is the complete end of democracy and all accountability in government. The House, Senate, and judiciary will become as powerless as the Roman senate under the caesars. We will live under a dictatorship ruled by police state agencies.
Many Americans say they don’t need the House Intelligence Report, because they don’t believe the Russiagate BS in the first place. They miss the point. They need the report, because those responsible for this attempt at a coup must be identified, charged, and prosecuted for their act of high treason.
This is not minor stuff. This goes to the heart of whether any form of liberty will exist. We all know that the ability of the people to hold government accountable is not assured by democracy. However, there is no prospect of holding government accountable if it is a police state, a road that the US has been going down for some time. The audacious coup attempt against President Trump is our opportunity to stop the momentum to a police state.
Despite my recent postings, many people do not understand that the somewhat redacted FISA court document that has been declassified and released and explained by myself, William Binney, and former US Attorney Joe di Genova contains admissions by the FBI and DOJ that they improperly spied and obtained warrants from the court under false pretenses. In other words, we have it on the authority of the FISA court itself that the FBI and DOJ have admitted to the court their transgressions. When Department of Justice (sic) congressional liaison [and longtime Jeff Sessions aide] Stephen Boyd says the DOJ is “unaware of any wrongdoing,” he is lying through his teeth. The DOJ has already confessed its wrongdoing to the FISA court.
(See Lendman on Boyd’s [aide to AG Jeff Sessions] claim that releasing the memo would harm national security and ongoing investigations. This is always the claim made when government has to cover up its crimes.)
When Admiral Rodgers, director of the National Security Agency, discovered that the FBI and DOJ were misusing the spy system for partisan political reasons, he let it be known that he was going to inform the FISA court. This caused the FBI and DOJ to rush to the court in advance and confess to “mistakes” and to promise to tighten up procedures so as not to make mistakes in the future. It is these “mistakes” and corrections that the FISA court document reveals.
In other words, the information already exists in the pubic domain that proves that Russiagate was a conspiracy organized for the purpose of bringing down the elected president of the United States.
A case can be made that it would be just as well if the coup succeeds as it would bring an end to Washington’s cover as the government of a great democracy with liberty and justice for all.
Most other governments, and one would hope certainly the Russian and Chinese governments, would see the coup as America’s final transition into a police state and give up their utopian ideas of reaching accommodation with Washington. The constraints on Washington’s ability to bully the world would be greatly strengthened by the universal perception that the government of the United States had devolved into a police state."
Image above from 3/20/2016, "There Was no Republican Establishment After All," Frank Rich, NY Magazine. I added this image to the article of the GOP Establishment stripped of everything but their shorts by Trump. susan
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Jan 26, 2018 12:14 AM Permalink
Could Trump not declassify the memo and order its release?"
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My comment: I disagree with the author that Republicans involved are "stupid." They simply have the same agenda as Democrats: defend the police state, get rid of Trump, go to war with Russia, and never again allow American voters to choose the president. Republicans who hold committee chairmanships do so only because the Establishment fully controls them. Trump just watches all this go on. He created some of the biggest problems, could end them, but chooses not to. For example, he allows Jeff Sessions to remain AG while Sessions is preparing the noose to hang him. My guess is the only thing Trump cares about is clearing a path for Ivanka to become president someday. Maybe not in the next few years, but eventually. She's basically George Soros in a dress, so she should win with no problem.
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In 2013 EU placed duties on China solar panels, said price of panels sold in Europe should be 88% higher-BBC
June 4, 2013, "China solar panel duties imposed by EU," BBC
"The European Commission has announced it is imposing temporary anti-dumping levies on Chinese solar panel imports.
It comes despite opposition from Germany and other European Union members, and amid fears it could spark a trade war.
The Commission - the EU's executive arm - argues that Chinese firms are unfairly undercutting rivals.
EU trade commissioner Karel De Gucht has said Chinese panels are being sold below cost and damaging competition.
The measures come into force on Thursday, 6 June, in all of the bloc's 27 member states.
The duties will be phased in gradually. Initially they will average 11.8% - less than originally proposed.
They will only reach an average of 47.6% after two months, if no compromise with China can be found.
Also, if negotiations fail to resolve the dispute, the provisional duties will become permanent for five years from December.
Mr. De Gucht said the price at which the Chinese panels are sold in Europe should be 88% higher, according to the Commission's calculations.
"It has the potential to destroy an important industry in Europe if we don't act today,'' he said.
Mr De Gucht added that the duties now provide an incentive for the Chinese to negotiate.
"It provides a clear window of opportunity for negotiations, but the ball is now in China's court," he said.
Under EU law, such provisional tariffs provide the option for a negotiated solution, such as reaching agreement on a minimum price at which Chinese producers can sell solar panels in Europe.
China is the world's largest producer of solar panels. Its exports of them to Europe totalled 21bn euros ($27bn; £18bn) in 2011.
The anti-dumping case is the biggest ever undertaken by the Commission.
The Chinese government warned the European Union last month that if Brussels went ahead with provisional duties, it would "take necessary steps" to defend its national interest.
However, it didn't specify exactly what the measures would be.
It was a German company, Solar World, which first raised the complaint against China."
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"BBC Analysis by Andrew Walker, BBC World Service Economics correspondent"
"How likely is a trade war? China is certainly angry about the tariffs and there is a lot of trade at stake - 21bn euros worth in 2011, according to the European Commission. But anti-dumping actions are an everyday feature of the global trade landscape. There has been an average of more than 200 a year. They are perfectly legal under World Trade Organisation (WTO) rules, provided they follow the WTO's procedures. Indeed China is a fairly big user of anti-dumping actions itself. The European Commission's plan to start the anti-dumping duty tariff relatively low, and then increase it later, looks like a negotiating tactic. If the Chinese firms were prepared to undertake to charge a sufficiently higher price, the Commission could accept that. The duties are provisional at this stage and they could be removed if the EU countries decide to do so in December. That is a possibility. So the heat is on now, but there are still opportunities to extinguish the trade fires."
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"The European Commission has announced it is imposing temporary anti-dumping levies on Chinese solar panel imports.
It comes despite opposition from Germany and other European Union members, and amid fears it could spark a trade war.
The Commission - the EU's executive arm - argues that Chinese firms are unfairly undercutting rivals.
EU trade commissioner Karel De Gucht has said Chinese panels are being sold below cost and damaging competition.
The measures come into force on Thursday, 6 June, in all of the bloc's 27 member states.
The duties will be phased in gradually. Initially they will average 11.8% - less than originally proposed.
They will only reach an average of 47.6% after two months, if no compromise with China can be found.
Also, if negotiations fail to resolve the dispute, the provisional duties will become permanent for five years from December.
Mr. De Gucht said the price at which the Chinese panels are sold in Europe should be 88% higher, according to the Commission's calculations.
"It has the potential to destroy an important industry in Europe if we don't act today,'' he said.
Mr De Gucht added that the duties now provide an incentive for the Chinese to negotiate.
"It provides a clear window of opportunity for negotiations, but the ball is now in China's court," he said.
Under EU law, such provisional tariffs provide the option for a negotiated solution, such as reaching agreement on a minimum price at which Chinese producers can sell solar panels in Europe.
China is the world's largest producer of solar panels. Its exports of them to Europe totalled 21bn euros ($27bn; £18bn) in 2011.
The anti-dumping case is the biggest ever undertaken by the Commission.
The Chinese government warned the European Union last month that if Brussels went ahead with provisional duties, it would "take necessary steps" to defend its national interest.
However, it didn't specify exactly what the measures would be.
It was a German company, Solar World, which first raised the complaint against China."
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"BBC Analysis by Andrew Walker, BBC World Service Economics correspondent"
"How likely is a trade war? China is certainly angry about the tariffs and there is a lot of trade at stake - 21bn euros worth in 2011, according to the European Commission. But anti-dumping actions are an everyday feature of the global trade landscape. There has been an average of more than 200 a year. They are perfectly legal under World Trade Organisation (WTO) rules, provided they follow the WTO's procedures. Indeed China is a fairly big user of anti-dumping actions itself. The European Commission's plan to start the anti-dumping duty tariff relatively low, and then increase it later, looks like a negotiating tactic. If the Chinese firms were prepared to undertake to charge a sufficiently higher price, the Commission could accept that. The duties are provisional at this stage and they could be removed if the EU countries decide to do so in December. That is a possibility. So the heat is on now, but there are still opportunities to extinguish the trade fires."
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Wednesday, January 24, 2018
No mention of 63 million 2016 voters in WSJ article about speedy end to "shutdown." We voted in 2016 for regime change to end decades of crony "bipartisan" deals especially about the border. Ignored yet again, voters are given a "bipartisan" deal engineered by far left NY Times darling Republican Senator Collins who, what a doll, convinced McConnell to promise a "sweeping range of immigration policies" to avert another shutdown. (What? We already have immigration policies)-Wall St. Journal...(The Wall isn't negotiable. It should never again be mentioned as part of any deal)
1984 Wall St. Journal Editorial Board: "We propose a five-word constitutional amendment: There shall be open borders."
Not once in WSJ article below are 2016 voters or American citizens even mentioned. 2016 was a landslide call to end decades of crony "bipartisan deals." Between 6.7 and 9.2 million Obama voters bypassed Mrs. Clinton and became Trump voters: "The biggest common denominator among Obama-Trump voters is a view that the political system is corrupt and doesn’t work for people like them."... "The Wall" is not a negotiable item to Trump voters. It's the reason he was elected. Nothing else matters.
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1/22/18, "Centrist Senators Outflanked Party Leadership to End Shutdown," Wall St. Journal, Siobhan Hughes, Rebecca Ballhaus and Byron Tau
"Bipartisan group grew frustrated by party leaders’ standoff over immigration."
"The 2018 government shutdown may go down as one of the shortest, and much of the credit for that is going to a bipartisan group of senators who wrested control from their own leadership. Inside the Capitol, Democrats attributed their decision to allow the government to reopen to a commitment from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) to bring an immigration measure to the Senate floor if an agreement can’t be reached before Feb. 9. Outside the Capitol, progressive activists attributed the reversal to the lack of a plan for how to stand firm.
“Democrats went into battle and then buckled and weren’t ready for it,” said Adam Green, a co-founder of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee. “There should have been an outside game that was planned.”
How Senate Democrats got to the point of charging forward on Friday night and then pulling back on Monday morning is the story of a Republican party more organized than the Democratic insurgents and centrists in both parties who challenged the partisan rhetoric of both Mr. McConnell and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.)., forging a path forward during meetings where one senator nearly broke a glass elephant with a “talking stick.”"
[Ed. note: "Partisan rhetoric?" Please, WSJ. There are no "partisans" in the US Senate. Occasional "partisan rhetoric" is a phony charade by both "sides" and sold by media such as WSJ to fool the rubes. The entire US political class has the same agenda: open borders, extreme globalism, endless foreign wars paid for by US taxpayers, and massive free trade deals.]
(continuing): "A shutdown could be repeated in several weeks if lawmakers fail to reach agreement on a sweeping range of immigration policies, including protecting those children brought illegally to the U.S. by their parents.
This article is based on dozens of interviews with lawmakers, administration officials and advocates.
That the Senate would become the focal point of the shutdown surprised some of Washington’s top officials, who saw greater risks in the House.
On Thursday, Mr. Trump dialed into a meeting of the Freedom Caucus, a group of staunch House conservatives,"...
[Ed. note: What exactly qualifies these members in 2018 to be described as "staunch House conservatives?"]
(continuing): "and warned: “We’re one party and we control the House, Senate and White House,” said one senior administration official with knowledge of the call. “Shutting down the government is not productive to us gaining leverage on the issues we care about.”
Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney said the call “sent a very clear message” and added: “That was the best work he did.” The House passed a short-term extension of government funding later that day.
Some Senate Democrats, many of whom expected the spending bill would fizzle in the House, weren’t fully prepared for the shutdown fight now upon them.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.) was pushing a three-week spending deal—shorter than the measure that passed the House—and a commitment by Mr. McConnell to take up immigration legislation. Centrist Democrats, crowded around Mr. Schumer’s desk on the chamber floor, wanted to back the Graham fix.
Mr. Schumer sided with the liberal wing of his caucus, saying there was no guarantee Mr. McConnell would allow the legislation to pass, people familiar with the matter said. The Democratic caucus was also still steaming over Mr. Trump’s controversial remarks about African immigrants.
On the other side of town, Mr. Trump was smarting over Mr. Schumer’s characterization of a lunch in which they had discussed immigration issues, including funding for a border wall."...
[Ed. note: The Wall is non-negotiable. Why is Trump discussing it with Schumer? The Wall should've been half built already.]
(continuing): "“It took the president by surprise that Schumer would mischaracterize the meeting that badly that quickly,” Mr. Mulvaney said. “The president decided: That’s the end of those negotiations...That’s when we first realized that we might go to a shutdown.” Mr. Schumer has stood by his recollections of the meeting.
Later that evening, Mr. Mulvaney spoke with the president, who said for the first time he thought a shutdown was likely. “OK, what’s going to happen?” Mr. Trump asked. He told him: “Make sure we keep open as much of the government as we can.”
In the wee hours of Saturday morning, all but five Democrats lined up behind their leader and blocked the spending bill on a procedural measure that needed 60 votes. The government officially shutdown at 12:01 a.m.—before the final vote, 50-49, was gaveled to a close.
Over the weekend, Mr. Trump largely receded from public view, save for a few tweets touting the nation’s economic gains and criticizing Democrats for their role in the dispute that the White House said was “holding our troops hostage and our border agents hostage.” His re-election campaign ran ads that claimed Democrats were “complicit” in murder perpetrated by immigrants in the country illegally. [Elected Republicans want open borders as much or more than Democrats do, so are also "complicit."]
Democrats, meanwhile, found their offices inundated with phone calls.
“I called and left messages at their offices,” Gregg James, the vice president of a Minnesota branch of the American Federation of Government Employees, said of his efforts to reach Sens. Amy Klobuchar (D., Minn.) and Tina Smith (D., Minn.) He said he understood their concerns about immigration but that “we never feel shutting down the government is the right thing to do.”
Senate Republicans and Democrats alike were also growing frustrated with their leadership. A group of nearly two dozen members began meeting in the offices of Sen. Susan Collins (R., Maine) to hash out a solution."...
[Ed. note: That would be the offices of far left "NY Times Republican," Senator Susan Collins.]
(continuing): "“It is a pretty poor excuse to sit here and say: We can’t deal with President Trump,” Sen. Lamar Alexander (R., Tenn.), a member of the group, said on the Senate floor. “We don’t have to deal with President Trump. We are the U.S. Senate. We can make our own decisions.”"...
[Ed. note: A so-called Republican Senator says "we don't have to deal with" the US president--duly elected by 63 million Americans, "we can make our own decisions." This is why Trump was elected. Voters don't exist to "bipartisan Republican" Lamar Alexander.]
(continuing): "The Collins-led sessions began to grow. At one meeting, the senators used a Native American “talking stick” as a way of designating which member would speak at any given moment.
A gift to Ms. Collins from Sen Heidi Heitkamp (D., N.D.), its use wasn’t without drama, according to people familiar with the matter. Mr. Alexander at one point nearly broke a glass elephant with the talking stick during a dispute with Sen. Mark Warner (D., Va.) The senators eventually switched to using a basketball, tossing it to the next person due to speak. And Mr. Alexander apologized to Mr. Warner.
On Monday morning, the bipartisan group gathered with muffins, bagels and Dunkin’ Donuts coffee. “We had so many people in the office that we were running out of chairs,” Ms. Collins said."...
[Ed. note: "The bipartisan group" with muffins makes a deal for "sweeping immigration policy changes"? We didn't have an historic regime change election in 2016 to get yet another dreamy "bipartisan" crony deal on open borders. This massive charade against the United States and the security of its citizens must end.]
(continuing): "One issue that helped bond the group was the frustration vented toward their own leaders, Mr. McConnell and Mr. Schumer.
“I don’t believe that either leader on either side should have the powers that they have,” Sen. Joe Manchin (D., W.Va.), said Monday, complaining that it was too easy for leaders to force their conferences to block deals. “We weren’t going to be beaten into submission.”
Ms. Collins met privately with Mr. McConnell on Monday morning and urged him to make a stronger statement about his commitment to moving the immigration bill. “So that’s what happened, really,” Ms. Collins said.
Midday Monday, 28 Democrats who had initially voted to block government funding changed their positions and cleared the way for passage of the spending bill."
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Comment: We elected historic change via the ballot box in 2016. Establishments of both parties were rejected yet the political class acts like it's business as usual. If we can't get rid of you via the ballot box, how we can be rid of you? If you have no answer, then obviously elections must be cancelled.
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Not once in WSJ article below are 2016 voters or American citizens even mentioned. 2016 was a landslide call to end decades of crony "bipartisan deals." Between 6.7 and 9.2 million Obama voters bypassed Mrs. Clinton and became Trump voters: "The biggest common denominator among Obama-Trump voters is a view that the political system is corrupt and doesn’t work for people like them."... "The Wall" is not a negotiable item to Trump voters. It's the reason he was elected. Nothing else matters.
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1/22/18, "Centrist Senators Outflanked Party Leadership to End Shutdown," Wall St. Journal, Siobhan Hughes, Rebecca Ballhaus and Byron Tau
"Bipartisan group grew frustrated by party leaders’ standoff over immigration."
"The 2018 government shutdown may go down as one of the shortest, and much of the credit for that is going to a bipartisan group of senators who wrested control from their own leadership. Inside the Capitol, Democrats attributed their decision to allow the government to reopen to a commitment from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) to bring an immigration measure to the Senate floor if an agreement can’t be reached before Feb. 9. Outside the Capitol, progressive activists attributed the reversal to the lack of a plan for how to stand firm.
“Democrats went into battle and then buckled and weren’t ready for it,” said Adam Green, a co-founder of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee. “There should have been an outside game that was planned.”
How Senate Democrats got to the point of charging forward on Friday night and then pulling back on Monday morning is the story of a Republican party more organized than the Democratic insurgents and centrists in both parties who challenged the partisan rhetoric of both Mr. McConnell and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.)., forging a path forward during meetings where one senator nearly broke a glass elephant with a “talking stick.”"
[Ed. note: "Partisan rhetoric?" Please, WSJ. There are no "partisans" in the US Senate. Occasional "partisan rhetoric" is a phony charade by both "sides" and sold by media such as WSJ to fool the rubes. The entire US political class has the same agenda: open borders, extreme globalism, endless foreign wars paid for by US taxpayers, and massive free trade deals.]
(continuing): "A shutdown could be repeated in several weeks if lawmakers fail to reach agreement on a sweeping range of immigration policies, including protecting those children brought illegally to the U.S. by their parents.
This article is based on dozens of interviews with lawmakers, administration officials and advocates.
That the Senate would become the focal point of the shutdown surprised some of Washington’s top officials, who saw greater risks in the House.
On Thursday, Mr. Trump dialed into a meeting of the Freedom Caucus, a group of staunch House conservatives,"...
[Ed. note: What exactly qualifies these members in 2018 to be described as "staunch House conservatives?"]
(continuing): "and warned: “We’re one party and we control the House, Senate and White House,” said one senior administration official with knowledge of the call. “Shutting down the government is not productive to us gaining leverage on the issues we care about.”
Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney said the call “sent a very clear message” and added: “That was the best work he did.” The House passed a short-term extension of government funding later that day.
Some Senate Democrats, many of whom expected the spending bill would fizzle in the House, weren’t fully prepared for the shutdown fight now upon them.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.) was pushing a three-week spending deal—shorter than the measure that passed the House—and a commitment by Mr. McConnell to take up immigration legislation. Centrist Democrats, crowded around Mr. Schumer’s desk on the chamber floor, wanted to back the Graham fix.
Mr. Schumer sided with the liberal wing of his caucus, saying there was no guarantee Mr. McConnell would allow the legislation to pass, people familiar with the matter said. The Democratic caucus was also still steaming over Mr. Trump’s controversial remarks about African immigrants.
On the other side of town, Mr. Trump was smarting over Mr. Schumer’s characterization of a lunch in which they had discussed immigration issues, including funding for a border wall."...
[Ed. note: The Wall is non-negotiable. Why is Trump discussing it with Schumer? The Wall should've been half built already.]
(continuing): "“It took the president by surprise that Schumer would mischaracterize the meeting that badly that quickly,” Mr. Mulvaney said. “The president decided: That’s the end of those negotiations...That’s when we first realized that we might go to a shutdown.” Mr. Schumer has stood by his recollections of the meeting.
Later that evening, Mr. Mulvaney spoke with the president, who said for the first time he thought a shutdown was likely. “OK, what’s going to happen?” Mr. Trump asked. He told him: “Make sure we keep open as much of the government as we can.”
In the wee hours of Saturday morning, all but five Democrats lined up behind their leader and blocked the spending bill on a procedural measure that needed 60 votes. The government officially shutdown at 12:01 a.m.—before the final vote, 50-49, was gaveled to a close.
Over the weekend, Mr. Trump largely receded from public view, save for a few tweets touting the nation’s economic gains and criticizing Democrats for their role in the dispute that the White House said was “holding our troops hostage and our border agents hostage.” His re-election campaign ran ads that claimed Democrats were “complicit” in murder perpetrated by immigrants in the country illegally. [Elected Republicans want open borders as much or more than Democrats do, so are also "complicit."]
Democrats, meanwhile, found their offices inundated with phone calls.
“I called and left messages at their offices,” Gregg James, the vice president of a Minnesota branch of the American Federation of Government Employees, said of his efforts to reach Sens. Amy Klobuchar (D., Minn.) and Tina Smith (D., Minn.) He said he understood their concerns about immigration but that “we never feel shutting down the government is the right thing to do.”
Senate Republicans and Democrats alike were also growing frustrated with their leadership. A group of nearly two dozen members began meeting in the offices of Sen. Susan Collins (R., Maine) to hash out a solution."...
[Ed. note: That would be the offices of far left "NY Times Republican," Senator Susan Collins.]
(continuing): "“It is a pretty poor excuse to sit here and say: We can’t deal with President Trump,” Sen. Lamar Alexander (R., Tenn.), a member of the group, said on the Senate floor. “We don’t have to deal with President Trump. We are the U.S. Senate. We can make our own decisions.”"...
[Ed. note: A so-called Republican Senator says "we don't have to deal with" the US president--duly elected by 63 million Americans, "we can make our own decisions." This is why Trump was elected. Voters don't exist to "bipartisan Republican" Lamar Alexander.]
(continuing): "The Collins-led sessions began to grow. At one meeting, the senators used a Native American “talking stick” as a way of designating which member would speak at any given moment.
A gift to Ms. Collins from Sen Heidi Heitkamp (D., N.D.), its use wasn’t without drama, according to people familiar with the matter. Mr. Alexander at one point nearly broke a glass elephant with the talking stick during a dispute with Sen. Mark Warner (D., Va.) The senators eventually switched to using a basketball, tossing it to the next person due to speak. And Mr. Alexander apologized to Mr. Warner.
On Monday morning, the bipartisan group gathered with muffins, bagels and Dunkin’ Donuts coffee. “We had so many people in the office that we were running out of chairs,” Ms. Collins said."...
[Ed. note: "The bipartisan group" with muffins makes a deal for "sweeping immigration policy changes"? We didn't have an historic regime change election in 2016 to get yet another dreamy "bipartisan" crony deal on open borders. This massive charade against the United States and the security of its citizens must end.]
(continuing): "One issue that helped bond the group was the frustration vented toward their own leaders, Mr. McConnell and Mr. Schumer.
“I don’t believe that either leader on either side should have the powers that they have,” Sen. Joe Manchin (D., W.Va.), said Monday, complaining that it was too easy for leaders to force their conferences to block deals. “We weren’t going to be beaten into submission.”
Ms. Collins met privately with Mr. McConnell on Monday morning and urged him to make a stronger statement about his commitment to moving the immigration bill. “So that’s what happened, really,” Ms. Collins said.
Midday Monday, 28 Democrats who had initially voted to block government funding changed their positions and cleared the way for passage of the spending bill."
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Comment: We elected historic change via the ballot box in 2016. Establishments of both parties were rejected yet the political class acts like it's business as usual. If we can't get rid of you via the ballot box, how we can be rid of you? If you have no answer, then obviously elections must be cancelled.
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- susan
- I'm the daughter of an Eagle Scout and World War II Air Force pilot born in Brooklyn, finally settling in New Jersey.