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Glaciers and sea ice won’t be safe in a world that warms to 2 °C above pre-industrial levels.Credit: NASA/eyevine
Limiting global warming to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels would be a herculean task, involving rapid, dramatic changes in how governments, industries and societies function, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). But even though the world has already warmed by 1 °C, humanity has 10–30 more years than scientists previously thought in which to kick its carbon habit.
The world would have to curb its carbon emissions by at least 49% of 2017 levels by 2030 and then achieve carbon neutrality by 2050 to meet this target, according to a summary of the latest IPCC report, released on 8 October. The report draws on research conducted since nations unveiled the 2015 Paris climate agreement, which seeks to curb greenhouse-gas emissions and limit global temperature increase to between 1.5 and 2 °C.
The world is on track for around 3 degrees of warming by the end of the century if it doesn’t make major reductions in greenhouse-gas emissions. It could breach 1.5 °C some time between 2030 and 2052 if global warming continues at its current rate.
A world of hurt
Scientists have “high confidence” that 1.5 °C of warming would result in a greater number of severe heat waves on land, especially in the tropics, the report says. They have “medium confidence” that there will be more extreme storms in areas such as high-elevation regions, eastern Asia and eastern North America. The risk of such severe weather would be even greater in a 2 °C world. Temperatures on extreme hot days in mid-latitudes could increase by 3 °C with 1.5 °C of global warming, versus 4 °C in a 2 °C world.
The Arctic could experience ice-free summers once every decade or two in a 2 °C world, versus once in a century at 1.5 °C. Coral reefs would almost entirely disappear with 2 degrees of warming, with just 10–30% of existing reefs surviving at 1.5 °C.
Without aggressive action, the world could become an almost impossible place for most people to live in, says Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, director of the Global Change Institute at the University of Queensland in St Lucia, Australia. “As we go toward the end of the century, we have to get this right.”
Impossible dream
Given that current national commitments on greenhouse-gas emissionsfall well short of the goals laid out in the Paris climate agreement, many scientists have argued that meeting even the 2 °C goal is virtually impossible. But the IPCC report sidestepped questions of feasibility and focused instead on determining what governments, businesses and individuals would need to do to meet the 1.5 °C goal.
Measures include ramping up installation of renewable energy systems such as wind and solar power to provide 70–85% of the world’s electricity by 2050, and expanding forests to increase their capacity to pull carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
Most scenarios in the report suggest that the world would still need to extract massive amounts of carbon from the atmosphere and pump it underground in the latter half of this century. The technology to do this is in the early stages of development and many researchers say it could be difficult to develop it for use on a global scale.
Other proposed options involve changing lifestyles: eating less meat, riding bicycles and flying less. The report also waded into murky questions about ethics and values, stressing that governments must address climate change and sustainable development in parallel, or risk exacerbating poverty and inequality.
A bigger budget
The IPCC report incorporates recent research suggesting that the amount of carbon that humanity can emit while limiting warming to 1.5 °C might be larger than previously thought. The previous IPCC assessment, released in 2014, estimated that the world would breach 1.5 °C by the early 2020s at the current rate of emissions. The latest report extends that timeline to 2030 or 2040 on the basis of studies1 that revised the amount of warming that has already occurred.
“Every extra tonne of carbon that we dump into the atmosphere today is a tonne that will have to be scrubbed out at the end of the century,” says Myles Allen, a climate scientist at the University of Oxford, UK, and one of the lead authors of the report.
“I think we need to start a debate about who is going to pay for it, and whether it’s right for the fossil-fuel industry and its customers to be enjoying the benefits today and expecting the next generation to pay for cleaning it up,” Allen says.
But scientists have only “medium confidence” in the revised carbon budgets, says Thomas Stocker, a climate scientist at the University of Bern in Switzerland. He says that researchers will provide a more comprehensive look at the numbers in the next full climate assessment, which is scheduled to be released in 2021.
In the meantime, the newer and larger carbon budget could send the wrong message to policymakers, says Oliver Geden, a social scientist and visiting fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg, Germany. He fears that the IPCC report undersells the difficulty of achieving the 1.5 °C goal. “It’s always five minutes to midnight, and that is highly problematic,” he says. “Policymakers get used to it, and they think there’s always a way out.”
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-06876-2
https://clayandiron.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/logo-1.jpg00DrBillhttps://clayandiron.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/logo-1.jpgDrBill2018-10-09 15:03:452018-10-09 15:03:45IPCC says limiting global warming to 1.5 °C will require drastic action Humanity has a limited window in which it can hope to avoid the worst effects of climate change, according to climate report
Data collected by NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 satellite show the average level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere over five weeks in 2014.Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
European researchers are developing a miniaturized instrument that could precisely measure carbon dioxide coming from cities and power plants. If it works, the device could fly aboard a constellation of small satellites starting in the late 2020s, helping to track daily fluctuations in greenhouse-gas emissions.
Several satellites currently monitor CO2 emissions, including Japan’s GOSAT, the United States’ Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2), and China’s TanSat. But none of them launched with the explicit goal of tracking compliance with global treaties.
In 2015, before the signing of the Paris accord to limit greenhouse-gas emissions, the European Commission began exploring how it could develop satellites to assess whether nations are abiding by their climate pledges.
The new small sensor could play a part in that. “We want to improve the accuracy of monitoring anthropogenic CO2 emissions,” says Laure Brooker Lizon-Tati, an engineer with Airbus Defence and Space in Toulouse, France. She coordinates the project, called the Space Carbon Observatory (SCARBO), which is being developed by a consortium of eight European companies and research institutions.
Team scientists will describe first results at a space-optics conference in Chania, Greece, on 10 and 11 October.
The proposed Sentinel satellites would precisely measure greenhouse gases around the world. But they would not be able to make daily measurements above places of interest, such as cities. “This is where a constellation of tiny SCARBO systems could come into the game,” says Heinrich Bovensmann, a remote-sensing researcher at the University of Bremen in Germany.
SCARBO satellites would weigh just 50 kilograms each, roughly one-tenth the mass of OCO-2 or TanSat. An estimated two dozen working together would be able to cover the globe once a week, but could fly over particular areas of interest once a day. Together they could monitor frequent changes in carbon emissions, such as morning and afternoon surges from an industrial area.
But first, SCARBO scientists have to show that their plan can work. At its heart is a miniaturized spectrometer — no longer than an outstretched hand — that would detect CO2 concentrations in the air below. Fitting a spectrometer onto a small satellite requires shrinking optics and developing new methods for analysing carbon dioxide concentrations. “It’s a real challenge,” says Bovensmann.
The scientists’ goal is to measure CO2 concentrations to an accuracy of less than 1 part per million at a resolution of 2 kilometres — comparable to the data collected by larger satellites now in orbit. “We want to prove the technology can achieve these types of measurements,” says Etienne Le Coarer of the University Grenoble-Alpes in Grenoble, France, which is building the instrument along with the ONERA French aerospace laboratory in Palaiseau.
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, has worked on a similar concept for miniaturized sensors, but using a different type of spectrometer.
SCARBO scientists plan to test their instrument aboard a research aeroplane in 2020. It will fly alongside a Dutch-built instrument to study atmospheric aerosols, which are a major source of error when trying to measure greenhouse gases. The test will be the first time that aerosols and carbon dioxide are measured simultaneously to improve the quality of data on greenhouse-gas emissions, says Lizon-Tati.
SCARBO is focusing on CO2 monitoring, although it would also be useful for tracking methane emissions, says Le Coarer. Several private efforts to monitor methane emissions cheaply from space are already under way, including a Canadian microsatellite that has been flying since 2016 and a planned small satellite from the Environmental Defense Fund, an advocacy group in New York City.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-06963-4
https://clayandiron.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/logo-1.jpg00DrBillhttps://clayandiron.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/logo-1.jpgDrBill2018-10-09 15:01:232018-10-09 15:01:23Europe eyes fleet of tiny CO2-monitoring satellites to track global emissions Miniature instruments could help the European Union determine whether nations are meeting pledges to cut greenhouse-gas emissions.
Hillary Clinton has all of our encryption keys, including the FBI’s. “Encryption keys” is a general reference to several encryption functions hijacked by Hillary and her surrogate ENTRUST. They include hash functions (used to indicate whether the contents have been altered in transit), PKI public/private key infrastructure, SSL (secure socket layer), TLS (transport layer security), the Dual_EC_DRBG NSA algorithm and certificate authorities.
The convoluted structure managed by the “Federal Common Policy” group has ceded to companies like ENTRUST INC the ability to sublicense their authority to third parties who in turn manage entire other networks in a Gordian knot of relationships clearly designed to fool the public to hide their devilish criminality. All roads lead back to Hillary and the Rose Law Firm.
Click here to read a list of just some of the “more than 2000 organizations in 60 different countries” that Hillary can control. Source: ENTRUST 10-K Annual Reports (1998-2009). SEC Edgar. Return in a few days for links to each of the ENTRUST annual reports from 1998 to 2009.
AFI (Nov. 06, 2015). Complicit encryption geeks enable the American spy state. Americans for Innovation.
AFI (Nov. 25, 2015). Dell and Lenovo (IBM) ship computers with spy state backdoors. Americans for Innovation.
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DECIPHERING HILLARY’S ENCRYPTION KEYS THAT HAVE KEPT HER ONE STEP AHEAD OF THE SHERIFF
SPECIAL NOTICE: This post is a work in progress. You are encouraged to return to pick up additional evidence as it is added. Indictable evidence continues to pour in for use by prosecutors, independent media, Treasury, U.S. Marshalls and military tribunals. These criminals have relied on the fact that encryption, cryptography and cryptanalysis is a field of esoteric mathematics for which the average person has little interest. Hopefully, that will now change.
Cryptography—the use of codes and ciphers to protect secrets—began thousands of years ago. Until recent decades, it has been the story of what might be called classic cryptography — that is, of methods of encryption that use pen and paper, or perhaps simple mechanical aids. In the early 20th century, the invention of complex mechanical and electromechanical machines, such as the Enigma rotor machine, provided more sophisticated and efficient means of encryption; and the subsequent introduction of electronics and computing has allowed elaborate schemes of still greater complexity, most of which are entirely unsuited to pen and paper.
In a simple form, simply scrambling the letters in a word is a basic form of cryptography. HELLO might become OLHEL or LEHLO. In more sophisticated approaches, look up tables contain readable words in the first column and a replacement word in the second. The resulting message looks like jibberish until the look up table is used by the recipient. The public key infrastructure and certificate authorities discussed in this post are simply more scrambled forms of encryption.
The earliest example known was from an Egyptian scribe about 1900 BC. Assyrian merchants used a form of encryption called intaglio in 1500 BC. Hebrew scribes wrote a copy of the Book of Jeremiah in a substitution cipher in 605 BC. In 487 BC the Greeks used a “skytale” to encrypt important messages. Julius Caesar (100-44 BC) encrypted government communications. Abu ‘ Abd al-Rahman al-Khalil ibn Ahmad ibn Amr ibn Tammam al Farahidi al-Zadi al Yahmadi wrote a book on cryptography in 725-790 AD. Thomas Jefferson invented a wheel cipher. Tellingly, a design in 1976 by IBM based on “the Lucifer cipher” is now used and called “triple-DES” (the Triple Data Encryption Algorithm).
When the German Enigma Machine was cracked in World War II, the Allies could read ALL German communications from that point forward. In the same way, Hillary’s access to the PKI, Dual_EC_DRBG algorithm and Certificate Authorities gives her access to The Internet of Things’ version of the Enigma Machine break, which was considered by western Supreme Allied Commander Dwight D. Eisenhower to have been “decisive” to the Allied victory. SeeHistory of Encryption.
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IMAGINE THAT YOUR IDENTITY IS STOLEN SUDDENLY.
Your healthcare, education, police, employment and bank records are all altered overnight to make you look like an embezzler. Imagine you are jolted awake the following morning by the police bashing in your door to arrest you. Imagine that the local TV is already carrying news of your arrest using a drunken party photo of you off your phone.
Imagine further that you are Hillary Clinton. You need for 55,000 Clinton Foundation emails on FBI director James Comey computer to disappear. Poof. They’re wiped without a trace.
Imagine still further that you are Lord Mark Malloch-Brown from the Queen’s Privy Council. You need to erase the U.S. Department of Treasury’s new evidence of foreign meddling embedded in your Smartmatic voting machines. Your bunk buddy George Soros makes a call to Hillary. Poof. This evidence is digitally wiped, without a trace.
This cannot happen in America you say? Think again.
Since these people have full backdoor access to any computer or phone on the Internet, can they ever be caught? Yes, once we realize how they do it. That method has just been discovered.
Truth is, Hillary Clinton literally has access to every computer on the Internet through a company named ENTRUST. Her 19-year Rose Law Firm partner Jerry C. Jones directs the company (now ostensibly run by a Silicon Valley dude named Orlando Bravo and his private equity firm Thoma Bravo, LLC), and has done since Dec. 2003. Entrust issues the encryption keys for most major governments and companies in the world.
WHAT IS AN ENCRYPTION KEY AND WHY IS THIS DISCOVERY SO DEVASTATING TO THE DEEP STATE SHADOW GOVERNMENT?
Put simply, encryption keys are used on both the sender’s and receiver’s computers to send data. It takes two keys to make a connection to send or receive data. The Clinton Administration created “trusted Certificate Authorities (CA)” to check with to make sure that the two keys are the real sender and receiver. If your keys are not approved by the CA, your connection will be blocked. In the hands of tyrannical globalists like Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, George Soros, Eric Schmidt and Robert Mueller, this will be the new censorship on the Internet.
These CA’s make a big deal in their propaganda that you can “trust” them not to use or spoof your identity to get access to data that you and they are not authorized to have. That is a boldface lie. No wonder these people have the countenances of criminals. They are, and they know it.
Suppose you are the CA who issues keys to the FBI. Suppose you want to see the evidence being gathered against you in an investigation.
All you have to do is “borrow” the FBI key from Hillary or ENTRUST. Then you can connect to the target FBI computer using a bogus key created for you by ENTRUST, and voile! You then have two “trusted” keys so the FBI computers let you in. There are technical nuances to this description, but basically, you can do what you want with these keys. Don’t let trollers try to baffle you with techno-jargon to throw your dogs off the scent. Lucifer (literally, IBM Triple-DES) is in these encryption details.
Hillary Clinton has this level of access to practically all data on the planet, including the FBI, NSA, Departments of State, Commerce, Energy, Treasury, GSA, Patent Office, Post Office, NIST, as well as numerous foreign government and commercial entities. SeeENTRUST 10-K Annual Reports (1998-2009). SEC Edgar.
Now that we finally know how the Clinton’s stay one step ahead of the sheriff, we can now stop them.
MORE HARD PROOF THAT HILLARY CLINTON IS A DIGITAL MONSTER
In this post, we will prove without a doubt how Hillary Clinton cleverly wormed her way into full access and control for 50,000 FBI encryption keys.
They are likely managing this empire from Obama’s Google-constructed U.S. Digital Service bunker three blocks from the White House manned by Valerie Jarrett and Eric Holder.
We admit that these findings sound more like Grisham fiction. But the evidence is a pesky thing. The evidence is now pouring out.
THE EVIDENCE PROVIDED IS “JUDICIALLY RECOGNIZABLE” AND INDICTABLE, WE BELIEVE
“Notoriously public” information, like the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission filings that we cite, is evidence that requires no further verification to be used in litigation, hence the adjective “notoriously.” This means that the information is so publicly noteworthy that further proof of validity is unnecessary. For example, John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963. That is a notoriously public fact and no proof is needed.
Notoriously public facts, like SEC filings, are “judicially recognizable” and can be accepted as truthful since the submitter attests to the SEC that they are true. It is criminal fraud to lie intentionally in SEC filings.
TIMELINE: BILL AND HILLARY CLINTON BEGAN ORCHESTRATING UNFETTERED ACCESS TO THE FBI’S ENCRYPTION KEYS IN 1993
On Jun. 07, 1993, the new Clinton Administration convened the “Third CPSR Cryptography and Privacy Conference (CPSR – Computer Professionals For Social Responsibility).”
The conference was held two days before an important Jun. 09, 1993 House hearing on “encryption and telecommunications network security.” The conference gathered over 106 attendees representing government, politics, commerce, manufacturing, industry, media, technology, telecommunications, healthcare, banking, education, faith and accounting. That’s plenty of arm-twisting, even for Washington, D.C.
The meeting sponsor was globalist advocate Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
The hosts included:
(1) James P. Chandler, III, George Washington University intellectual property and national security law professor, and later patent attorney for social networking inventor Leader Technologies, Inc. (Jan. 2000);
2) John D. Podesta, chief of staff and campaign manager to Bill Clinton, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton;
(3) Stephen D. Crocker, founding member of the illegal public-private conspiracy group Highland’s Forum/Group (Feb. 1995), then Barack Obama’s director of ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) who ceded control to the UN on Oct. 01, 2016—one month before Donald J. Trump was elected president.
HILLARY HID THE 1993 ENCRYPTION MEETING ATTENDEE LIST
The information about this meeting was hidden on Hillary’s private email server. It was unearthed by corruption watchdog Judicial Watch after they pressed the State Department in court to release the document. See meeting agenda here.
IN 1993-1994, MORE THAN 20 PEOPLE CLOSE TO OR INVESTIGATING CLINTON CORRUPTION DIED UNDER SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES.
THEFT AND WEAPONIZATION OF U. S. INVENTIONS
In Feb. 1995, the Highlands Forum/Group was formed. It was and is a highly illegal private “public-private” meeting sponsored by the Department of Defense Net Assessment group run by Senior Executive Service (SES) members Richard P. O’Neill and Andrew W. Marshall. See also AFI. (Nov. 22, 2017). The Weaponization of Social Media Should Concern Us All. Americans for Innovation.
The no-notes meetings involve no-bid crony insiders from the military, intelligence, banking, technology, telecom, transportation, defense, venture capital, media an academia to discuss the weaponization of new inventions stolen by DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency).
On Apr. 17, 1995, Clinton signed Executive Order 12958 titled “Classified National Security.”
This order consolidated control of classification procedures to just seven people: (1) Secretary of State, (2) Secretary of Defense, (3) Attorney General, (4) C.I.A. Director, (5) U.S. Archivist, (6) National Security Director and (7) the President.
A most dubious provision said that any U.S. security classification that contradicted another country’s laws or treaty rendered it of no effect. In other words, if Obama wanted to release a classified document, all he had to do was call up Justin Trudeau in Canada and ask him to pass a law saying America’s XYZ classified information was harmful to beavers on the northern slopes. That would nullify the U.S. classification and give Obama the excuse to release it. Clearly, it was a precursor to Obama’s foreign trade entanglements in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) that President Trump killed, thankfully.
On Apr. 19, 1995, the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City, was bombed by Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols—just two days after Bill Clinton formed a secret White House intelligence operation via Executive Order 12958 cited above.
This bombing created more excuses for mass surveillance against Americans. Notably, Clinton body guard Alan G. Whicher was killed in this weapons grade-energy blast that could not have been caused by a fertilizer bomb, as were led to believe by MSM. Retired FBI superstar Theodore L. Gunderson, a short-list candidate to be FBI director, revealed that psychiatrist Dr. Jolly West, one of the founders of the C.I.A. MKUltra mind control program, paid a visit to McVeigh before the trial. Gunderson said he believed that McVeigh was a brainwashed MKUltra drone.
On Jul. 12, 1995, IBM and Lotus merged. Lotus Notes became the Deep State’s groupware platform of choice for establishing a global mass surveillance spy grid. PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) encryption standards were selected to build into IBM/Lotus/Microsoft/Novell/Red Hat software, hardware and firmware.
LAWS CHANGED TO PREPARE FOR THE PATRIOT ACT ABOLISHMENT OF THE BILL OF RIGHTS
Between 1995-1999, a series of national security laws, executive orders (EOs) and presidential policy directives (PPDs) were written for Clinton by James P. Chandler, III, his national security and intellectual property advisor.
Magically, the laws that Chandler drafted passed nearly unanimously. (Note: Whenever that occurs, all of Congress has been bought off or fooled en masse before the vote. Remember: Clinton had likely already had access to the FBI encryption keys by this time. Therefore, he had amassed plenty of blackmail and extortion information on every influential member of Congress.)
On Feb. 28, 1996, FBI Director Louis Freeh self-consciously deferred to James P. Chandler, III in his testimony on economic espionage, revealing that Chandler controlled FBI security policy for Clinton. Freeh was clearly the puppet and Chandler the puppet master.
S. Hrg. 104-499 (Feb. 28, 1998). Economic Espionage Act Hearing, testimony of FBI Director Louis Freeh acknowledging James P. Chandler. U.S. Senate. Professor James P. Chandler biography, National Intellectual Property, p. 6; Chandler admission and notorious Washington, D.C. knowledge among Chandler associates in the National Intellectual Property Law Institute. Citation: U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee.
On Oct. 11, 1996, Congress passed three Clinton-Chandler laws that were used to further gut Congressional oversight over security and privacy. It enabled the FBI to increase mass surveillance, then lie about it.
The False Statements Accountability Act of 1996, 18 U.S.C. § 1001.
Hindsight shows that the names for these laws were a cruel, unlawful, immoral, devilish deceit and had the opposite of the intentions of the rogue C.I.A., Clinton’s, Chandler, Mueller, Comey, etc. to fuel economic espionage, theft of trade secrets and lying to Congress, courts, the President and We the People.
On Feb. 12, 1997, Chandler incorporated Eurotech, Ltd. to hire former Soviet scientists and engineers to build embedded encryption spy backdoors inside all computer hardware, firmware and software in Italy. The key Eurotech players were/are Microsoft, IBM, Intel, Cisco, Oracle and Wind River, among others. JPMorgan Chase’s John McNeil Wilkie helped expand the company, as did Fenwick & West LLP (another Leader Technologies patent attorney and Silicon Valley C.I.A. co-conspirator).
Mar. 5, 1998—Jul. 11, 1999, Clinton and Gen. Wesley Clark prosecuted the Kosovo fraud based on a so-called “Račak genocide massacre” false flag. French journalists have proved that Račak was completely staged. However, it did succeed in cajoling Congress to approve U.N. intervention (led by Gen. Wesley K. Clark), and it succeeded in disabling Orthodox Christian resistance to the planned jihadi migration wave now occurring.
On Aug. 06, 1998, Robert S. Mueller, III’s law firm Hale & Dorr (now Wilmer Hale) helped file “The Internet of Things” patents for Hewlett-Packard’s Richard C. Walker that described a global surveillance grid that even monitors and controls individual body functions and describes human beings as “wet-ware.” The invention also contains an accounting and taxing capability to manage “certificate authorities” to control Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) encryption, tax the Internet and control “wet-ware” access.
On Aug. 18, 1998, Entrust Technologies, Inc. went public after being started as a spin-off of Nortel Networks (Canada) to manage and distribute Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) Certificate Authorities—the encryption keys for the Internet. Their customers include important military, banking, healthcare and government entities in the U.S., U.K., Australia, Canada, Sweden, Denmark, France, Italy, Spain and China.
On Aug. 18, 1998, Entrust Technologies, Inc. went public after being started as a spin-off of Nortel Networks (Canada) to manage and distribute Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) Certificate Authorities—the encryption keys for the Internet. Their customers include important military, banking, healthcare and government entities in the U.S., U.K., Australia, Canada, Sweden, Denmark, France, Italy, Spain and China.
On Dec. 20, 1998, globalist psychopath George Soros admitted to having been a Hungarian Jewish Nazi collaborator without remorse for betraying his own Jewish brothers and sisters.
On Mar. 09, 1999, Clinton’s Vice President Al Gore took credit for founding the Internet, laughably.
On Jul. 01, 1999, Clinton Attorney General Janet Reno created a new “Office of Special Counsel” inside the Department of Justice after the Special Counsel law was not re-authorized by Congress. This dubious Department of Justice policy (not a law) is now being used to justify the Mueller witch hunt.
On Jul. 02, 1999, Clinton appointed Larry H. Summers Treasury Secretary. The next day, on Jul. 03, 1999, Summers appointed Sheryl K. Sandberg as chief of staff. Sandberg later started Gmail in Jan. 20, 2001, and then became Facebook chief operating officer on Mar. 14, 2008.
Summers’ former Treasury staffer (1993-2001), Marne L. Levine (Deutch) became Summers’ chief of staff starting at Harvard on Jul. 02, 2001 where she oversaw the C.I.A.’s MKUltra establishment of the 19-year old Mark Zuckerberg as their Facebook cardboard cut out. Then, she became product vice president at AOL on Apr. 06, 2009. Then, she became Summers’ chief of staff for the National Economic Council on Jan. 21, 2009. Then, she became Obama’s Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy on Jun. 24, 2010. Then, she attended an exclusive dinner with Hillary and Sandberg on Mar. 27, 2012. Then, she became chief operating officer of Instagram on Oct. 07, 2014. Truly magical.
WHITE HOUSE ROGUE INTELLIGENCE NOC (NETWORK OPERATING CENTER): NATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE ASSURANCE COUNCIL
On Jul. 14, 1999, the Clinton White House set up a spy skunk works that has run rogue intelligence operations called the “National Infrastructure Assurance Council (NIAC)” On Jan. 18, 2001, Clinton appointed James P. Chandler, III and Bill Gates, Microsoft, as directors on NIAC the day before he left office and the same day he pardoned his former CIA director John M. Deutch (Marne L. Levin-Deutch’s father in law) and fraudster Marc Rich.
On Sep. 16, 1999, Clinton announced “relaxed” encryption rules in a flurry of press releases and letters to Congress, which were most assuredly drafted by national security advisor James P. Chandler, III. This action effectively gutted normal engineering security practices. It had the effect of enabling unfettered foreign and domestic access to U.S. classified data.
On Sep. 29, 1999, Bill Clinton established In-Q-Tel Silicon Valley cardboard cutouts for the C.I.A. to be able to raise private venture capital funds to build its rogue operations. It is illegal for a government agencies to invest in private companies.
On Sep. 29, 1999, Clinton C.I.A. institutionalized crony capitalism and the digital take over of America by a Shadow Government, on this day.
On Nov. 12, 1999, Bill Clinton and Larry Summers abolished Glass-Steagall banking controls, enabling the banks to fund In-Q-Tel “private” companies.
On Nov. 17, 1999, Agilent Technologies went public using Robert S. Mueller’s III’s law firm Hale and Dorr (renamed Wilmer Hale). Agilent Technologies was tasked with building the digital infrastructure for “The Internet of Things” global mass surveillance of everything using the Richard C. Walker HP/Agilent patents for monitoring all human beings called “wet-ware” in the patents.
On Jun. 08, 2000, Clinton espionage attorney James P. Chandler, III, participated in seminal Leader invention design meetings as Leader’s newly-appointed patent attorney. He was fully briefed on Leader’s social networking innovations at this meeting (see photo below) without disclosing his Deep State shadow government conflicts of interest and treachery.
JAMES P. CHANDLER, IIII, BILL CLINTON SPY MASTER first learned about Leader/McKibben’s social networking designs in early 2000. By this meeting on Jun. 8, 2000 he was studying every detail. Chandler is pictured here seated in the white shirt against the wall on the right side of this photo with his legal assistant Kelley E. Clements to the viewer’s right. Co-inventor Michael McKibben and Jeffrey Lamb are picture standing in the back left of the photo. Photo: Leader Technologies, Inc.
On Jun. 20, 2000, Sir Geoffrey E. Pattie was awarded the ISSA Silver Star Award in Washington, D.C. Pattie is the primary spy director for the Queen’s Privy Council and founder of SCL Ltd. and Cambridge Analytica—two C.I.A. MKUltra mind control and brain washing operations in the UK.
On Aug. 25, 2000, F. Gary Davis, Acting Director of the U.S. Office of Government Ethics, issued a tortured 13-page “advisory” that dramatically muddied the waters on mutual fund investing disclosure. Davis left government service soon thereafter. This opinion opened the door to massive nondisclosure fraud by politicians, SES and federal bureaucrats.
In 2001, NSA Director Michael V. Hayden recommended expansion of the NSA’s Senior Executive Service (SES) programs.
On Apr. 15, 2001, C.I.A. whistleblower Susan Lindauer warned American senior intelligence leadership that “I first learned of the 9/11 Conspiracy from my CIA handler, Dr. Richard Fuisz, in mid-April, 2001.” She was imprisoned for a year without due process to shut her up as the first casualty of The Patriot Act.
In Jul. 2001, Department of Justice John C. Yoo was hired into the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) and gave legal opinion cover for a proposed NSA project “Stellar Wind” for mass surveillance of American citizens.
On Sep. 04, 2001, Robert S. Mueller, III was sworn in as FBI Director by President George W. Bush, just 10 days before 9/11.
On Sep. 11, 2001, World Trade Center, Pentagon and Shanksville “terror” attacks were timed simultaneously with DoD NORAD war games and a stand down order.
On Oct. 04, 2001, President Bush approves operation “Stellar Wind” mass surveillance on American citizens.
On Oct. 16, 2001, President Bush signed Executive Order 13231 “Critical Infrastructure Protection in the Information Age” forming the “National Infrastructure Advisory Council (NIAC).” The order used the same NIAC acronym used by Clinton as the excuse for setting up a mass surveillance networking operating center run out of the White House.
On Oct. 26, 2001, President Bush signed The Patriot Act that has essentially destroyed the Bill of Rights. Just look at the flies that gathered to watch the signing.
On Oct 31, 2001, NSA whistleblower and former chief architect William E. Binney resigned the NSA saying the agency had “gone rogue.”
On Nov. 29, 2001, IBM intellectual property attorneys James P. Chandler, III and David J. Kappos used a $40 million IBM “donation” to start the IBM Eclipse Foundation which has been the exclusive distributor of Leader Technologies’ social networking innovations.
On Aug. 29, 2002, IBM Eclipse Foundation distributed Version 2.0.1 that included all of Leader Technologies’ social networking innovations.
On Sep. 18, 2002, career IBMer Thomas E. Noonan (Internet Security Systems, Inc.) was appointed to the National Infrastructure Assurance Council (NIAC) by George W. Bush, surely recommended by James P. Chandler, and he remains a member of the Council to this day. In 2003, Noonan became a partner to ENTRUST INC. Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) controlled by Hillary Clinton.
On Oct. 29, 2003, ENTRUST INC was awarded the contract to supply all 50,000 encryption keys for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
ENTRUST INC, ENTU, Form 8-K. (Oct. 29, 2003). Entrust Announces Third Quarter-Financial Results and Targets Breakeven for Year-end 2003. Accessed Sep. 08, 2018. SEC Edgar. (Despite losses, highlights new contracts with Northrup Grumman, FBI, UK Customs & Excise, Research in Motion Blackberry, Thomas Noonan, Acxiom Corp., California State Senate Counsel, KPMG).
On Dec. 04, 2003, ENTRUST INC elected Jerry C. Jones as a “Class I” director to replace retiring Gen. Wesley K. Clark. Jones is a 19-year Hillary Clinton partner at the Rose Law Firm, Little Rock, Arkansas. With the appointment of Jones, FBI Director Robert S. Mueller, III had an ethical duty to disclose to the public that his approval of ENTRUST INC to manage 50,000 FBI encryption keys enabled his political mentor Hillary Clinton to have full access to the entire FBI operation.
ENTRUST, INC., 10-K. (Dec. 23, 2003). Annual Report, first appearance of new director Jerry C. Jones, PDF page 33. SEC Edgar.ENTRUST, INC., 10-K. (Mar. 15, 2004). Annual Report, first appearance of Jerry C. Jones biography disclosing 19-year partner of Hillary Clinton in the Rose Law Firm, Little Rock, AR. SEC Edgar.
On Mar. 11, 2009, ENTRUST INC. issued its last 10-K annual report before selling its operation to Orlando Bravo, LLC and his Thoma Bravo private equity firm in San Francisco, CA. They disclosed that they had “more than 2,000 customers in 60 different countries.”
On Jul. 16, 2009, ENTRUST, INC. proposed to shareholders to sell to Orlando Bravo and his Thoma Bravo, LLC private equity firm in San Francisco, CA., which occurred on Aug. 07, 2009.
CONCLUSIONS:
Conclusion #1: Robert S. Mueller, III had an affirmative duty to disclose his approval of the contract for ENTRUST to manage the FBI’s 50,000 encryption keys in late 2003. The FBI itself has been scandalously compromised to Hillary Clinton and the Rose Law Firm ever since.
Conclusion #2: ENTRUST’s planetary control of the encryption keys for “over 2000 customers in 60 different countries” means that any matter handled by their customers at the FBI, Department of State, NSA, Treasury, etc. is the fruit of a poisonous tree—tainted by Clinton corruption.
Conclusion #3: President Trump has enough evidence here to seize and prosecute the leaders of every government agency that has involved that agency, or induced other agencies to work with ENTRUST, without disclosing their total compromise to Hillary Clinton and her crime syndicate.
Clearly, Hillary Clinton’s director surrogate at ENTRUST, INC., Jerry C. Jones (2003-2009), steered the development of the company’s control over encryption keys for the maximum benefit of his Clinton overlords.
At a bare minimum, Mueller and the FBI leadership has had an ethical duty ever since Jerry C. Jones became an ENTRUST director to disclose his direct conflict of interest and compromise of FBI operations by Hillary Clinton, his mentor.
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I was interviewed some time ago by the North Carolina Museum of History concerning the writing of this trilogy.
“The Confederate Secret Services, a conversation with W. Patrick Lang, novelist, retired U.S. Army colonel, and military intelligence consultant
Patrick Lang discusses his two novels, The Butcher’s Cleaver and Death Piled Hard, both of which focus on Claude Devereux, a Virginia banker who is recruited by the Confederate secret service and placed in the office of Union secretary of war Edwin Stanton. Approximate run time: 24 minutes. Podcast ”
“Science currently holds that time travel is an impossibility, but readers of Down the Sky, thefinal volume of Colonel Pat Lang’s Strike the Tent trilogy will question that assertion. Code-named “Hannibal,” Confederate penetration agent Claude Devereux is firmly lodged in the upper echelons of the Federal war machine. Now a Brigadier General of the Union forces with the new Congressional Medal of Honor on his chest, Major Devereux of the Confederate Secret Service knows time is running out. His minders in Richmond may no longer trust him, his personal life is a shambles, and Union spy-catcher Lafayette Baker is determined to bring him down. Only his peculiar, personal friendship with President Lincoln holds his enemies at bay.
Claude’s missions for the Federal War Department take him to major battles, and the reader will experience Cedar Creek, and Fort Fisher as if in person. The vision of Lincoln standing in full view of the Confederate sharpshooters at Fort Stephens is indelible, as is the vignette of a severely wounded Union officer on the grounds of the Belle Grove Plantation after Cedar Creek. Such a view of battle could only have come from the author’s personal experiences.
The book stands alone, but it is a worthy successor to its two predecessors, The Butcher’s Cleaver, and Death Piled Hard. The great Shelby Foote said:
‘The Civil War brings everything into a sharper focus with heightened color. Anytime you want to study human behavior, it is well to study the Civil War, because in that you study human behavior under terrific pressure and heat. So that men show what they are for good or bad more readily than in ordinary times.’
Readers of the trilogy, and of Down the Sky in particular will find this unerringly demonstrated by the historical rigor and deep creativity of Patrick Lang.
James Peak
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The third novel in the “Strike The Tent” trilogy is now available for purchase at; iUniverse, Barnes and Noble and Amazon. The cover painting, “Lincoln, 1863” is by Keith Rocco.
The first and second volumes, “The Butcher’s Cleaver” and “Death Piled Hard” are available from the same booksellers.
These books are available in electronic formats to include “Kindle’ from major vendors. pl
I’m afraid the recent “defensive attack” by US attack helicopters and artillery on Syrian tribesmen loyal to Damascus is not just a one-off fluke. It is a feature of the current US policy in Syria that will most likely result in another full blown war in the region… one that will put the US on a track to war with Russia.
First, here’s an account of the fighting southeast of Deir Ezzor on the eastern side of the Euphrates taken from the twitter feed of Maxim A. Suchkov, Russian editor for Al-Monitor. I’ve put it into prose form and corrected some spelling/grammar for easier reading.
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“Russia’s Defense Ministry on US-coalition killing of 100+ pro-Assad forces: “The incident once again exposed true American intentions in Syria which is not the fight against terrorism but seizure & control of economic assets.” Russia’s MoD version of the incident:”On Feb.7, a Syrian pro-Assad militia was making an incursion to destroy a terrorist group which had been sporadically shelling pro-gov positions.The SYR militia was near El Isba, former oil refinery, 17 km south-east of Salkhiyakh. Suddenly, the Syrian pro-Assad militia came under mortar and multiple artillery rocket system fire, shortly followed by US helicopter strikes. 25 militiamen were wounded (no mention of how many killed). Russia’s MoD suggests the US attack on pro-Assad militia were made possible because “the militia movements hadn’t been coordinated with the Russian military there.” Following the attack Russia hosted reps of US coalition forces in Khmeymim airbase for talks during which according to Moscow, US told the oil refinery was under SDF and US control (which probably was meant to say “stay out” and what prompted Russian response on US trying to seize Syrian economic assets). Finally, Russian MoD claims attacks on Syrian pro-gov positions are getting more frequent over recent days from settlements of Mazlum, Al-Tabiya, and Ksh Sham. Moscow references its military radio intercepts saying it’s done by one of ISIS “sleeper cells.” (@MSuchkov_ALM)
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Maxim A. Suchov continues with the Russian reaction to the attack.
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Follow-up on Moscow’s reaction to US strike on Syrian pro-gov forces:
1. Russia’s UN Ambassador Nebenzya will raise the issue at the upcoming UN Security Council closed-door briefing on the humanitarian situation in Syria. 2. Moscow is now conducting a thorough investigation of the incident, Russia’s MFA asks “How could a decision to open a massive fire to defeat the Syrian militiamen be made in such a short period of time [between SDF attacks and time US aviation came to the field]?” 3. Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Zakharova: “US military presence in Syria presents a serious challenge to the peace process and thwarts the protection of the country’s territorial integrity.” 4. Russia’s MFA spox Zakharova: “A 55-kilometer zone unilaterally created by US around mil base near al-Tanf used by scattered units of Daesh terrorists [who] have opportunity to hide from gov forces in area as well as regroup and prepare for new raids in the Syrian deserts” (@MSuchkov_ALM)
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An editorial in the pro-Turkish government paper “The Daily Sabah” lays the blame squarely on the shoulders of an out of control Pentagon and rogue CENTCOM generals. In so many words, they call on Trump to grow a pair and correct the situation. The full editorial is well worth reading.
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“During his 2016 election campaign, U.S. President Donald Trump kept asking: “Why are we in Syria and Afghanistan?” He called for an end to entanglements abroad and a focus on domestic problems. President Barack Obama’s Syria policy was based on little more than indifference and, the Trump administration just automatically adopted it.
After all these years, the U.S. still does not have a good grasp on what its policies on Syria are. What does it want to achieve? What is its endgame? What kind of timeframe has it settled on to achieve its objectives? American politicians seem clueless about what they have gotten themselves into.
No one knows who is in charge of the U.S.’s Syria policy. Chaos reigns. Who do we call to ask what the U.S. is doing in Syria?
It seems that with no lead from the top, United States Central Command (CENTCOM) has decided it is the boss. While operationally, it is good that soldiers are in charge, it seems soldiers have also taken over the decision making that should be under the purview of elected officials. CENTCOM and its officers now make statements, formulate strategies and even conduct diplomacy. Turkey has a history of power-hungry generals seeing themselves as guardians of the country and the U.S. is well-advised not to repeat it.” (Daily Sabah)
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Maxim Suchkov holds out a similar hope that Trump, himself, will step in and right the ship. He retweeted Trump and provided a comment to that tweet.
“I will be meeting with Henry Kissinger at 1:45pm. Will be discussing North Korea, China and the Middle East.” (@realDonaldTrump)
“Very interesting given Kissinger has now long been Putin’s go-to on messaging of Russia’s own position on same issues. Putin also holds Kissinger in high regard, seeking his wisdom, experience and balanced analysis of US-related matters.” (@MSuchkov_ALM)
I certainly hope Suchkov and the editors at The Daily Sabah are correct and that our current course in Syria is a temporary result of Trump’s inattention. The thought that a simple rage-filled outburst, accompanied by a few firings, can correct our course is oddly reassuring. However, I also have my doubts. Are the generals deflecting Trump by mentioning we control the Syrian oilfields when the President brings up the issue? Are the generals filling the President’s head with fears of Hezbollah and IRGC hordes running rampant across Syria?
Al-Monitor has an article out today extensively quoting Secretary of Defense Mattis. He downplays the role of Russia in Syria and Russian influence over Assad. He seems to be downplaying the risks that our aggressive talk and actions in Syria could lead to a confrontation with Russia. Well I think this jarhead is full of crap this time. To reinforce this man’s fullness of crap, a story appears this morning in Al Masdar News about attacks by the US controlled Deir Ezzor Military Council on SAA and NDF forces in Khashim and Tabiyyah on the Eastern shore of the Euphrates. Unlike the YPG/SDF, the Deir Ezzor Military Council is on the direct payroll of the State Department. This is a dangerous game we are playing.
“And finally, there’s the BFR: the ship Musk wants to use to colonize Mars.
On paper, SpaceX’s Big Falcon Rocket looks like the megarocket to end all megarockets. It’s a completely reusable launch system and features a massive spaceship on top of an equally massive booster powered by 31 SpaceX Raptor engines. (The Falcon Heavy uses 27 of the company’s Merlin engines.) [The BFR: SpaceX’s Mars-Colonization Architecture in Images]
The combined rocket and spaceship will stand 348 feet (106 meters) and will be able to launch 150 tons (136 metric tons) to low Earth orbit (LEO), making the BFR more powerful than NASA’s Saturn V moon rocket, which could launch 135 tons (122 metric tons) to LEO. (The Falcon Heavy may be the most powerful rocket in operation today, but it would take more than one to match the Saturn V, Musk said.)” Space.com
On February 7, the Syrian Arab Army (SAA), backed up by the Russian Aerospace Forces, repelled a Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) attack on its positions in the southeastern Idlib countryside, according to Syrian pro-government sources. The SAA reportedly killed and injured several fighters of HTS and its allies during the clashes.
Additionally, Russian warplanes destroyed several headquarters and ammo depots of the so-called Free Idlib Army in the city of Maarrat al-Nu’man in the southern Idlib countryside, according to Syrian activists.
Syrian opposition sources revealed that thirteen Free Idlib Army fighters, including their general commander “Mohammad Abu Najib”, were killed in the Russian airstrikes on Maarrat al-Nu’man. Russian warplanes also destroyed more than four vehicles armed with anti-aircraft guns belonging to the group. SF
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The SAA is rapidly eliminating jihadist forces in the East Hama pocket. Bereft of a source of re-supply through encirclement the jihadis are being rapidly overrun and destroyed. By the time of this writing that pocket may be altogether eliminated. This will free up the forces involved to return to the attritional grinding process underway NW of Abu Duhur around the town of Tel Sultan. The SAA made a decision to eliminate the East Hama pocket before continuing to the west into Idlib Province. At their positions around Tel Sultan they had clearly gone past the culminating point of their drive to Abu Duhur and although they could have continued immediately, the risk of a sudden reversal brought on by exactly the kind of jihadi counter-attack now underway would have been great. Wisely they decided to improve the odds in their favor and have reduced the East Hama pocket to their operational rear and are bringing up more logistical support before continuing into Idlib. The wealth of air support available to them has been a great help in this. When they re-commence forward movement I hope they share my view that a right hook to Al-Eis to roll up the jihadi flank south of the Aleppo City is the best course of action. pl
“A local militia was conducting reconnaissance actions in the area to detect and eliminate the ISIS cell when it was surprisingly shelled by mortars, rocket launched and then the US-led coalition’s attack helicopters. 25 militiamen were injured as a result of the attack.” SF
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It appears to me thus far that the “troops” attacked were NDF militia from the area. They are likely to be Arab tribesmen, heavily trained and advised by IRGC Quds force people and supported by SAA artillery and and armor. These Arab tribesman are undoubtedly very hostile to the presence of the Kurdish SDF this far south of traditional Kurdish haunts. The US is pursuing an enduring role in Syria and had previously warned the Russians and through them the SAG that intrusions east of the Euphrates in Deir al-Zor Province would be met by force. This does not bode well for future US/SAG relations. US and Iranian hegemonic ambitions are nose to nose in Eastern Syria. pl
“Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has rejected the recent statement by the head of Turkey’s Republican People’s Party (CHP), Kemal Kilicdaroglu, regarding a potential meeting between Ankara and Damascus.
“What would we talk about with a murderer who has killed a million of his citizens,” Erdogan said in his address to mukhtars— heads of Turkish villages and neighbourhoods—at the presidential complex in Turkey’s capital, Ankara, as quoted by TRT World.” AMN
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The sultan is pretending to be motivated by concern for the Syrian peoples. Nonsense. He sees the opportunity to weaken Syria in pursuit of some future de facto annexations in northern Syria. Unfortunately for him the TSK is not doing well in establishing “facts on the ground” to support such ambitions. At the same time, the Turks are positioning small bodies of troops at Al-Eis, Idlib City and Saraqib supposedly to implement the Russian/Iranian/Turkish de-escalation agreement on Idlib Province but IMO their real purpose is to obstruct SAG recovery of the province. pl
Last night’s release of the memo by Senator’s Grassley and Graham asking the Department of Justice to open a criminal investigation of Christopher Steele for possible violations of 18 U.S.C. § 1001 provides critical confirmation of charges presented in the HPSCI memo prepared under the leadership of Devin Nunes, but it also confirms that Christopher Steele was not just some random guy offering good gossip to the FBI. He was an official intelligence asset. He was, in John LeCarre’s parlance, our “Joe.” At least we thought so. But, there is growing circumstantial evidence that Steele was acting on behalf of Britain’s version of the CIA–aka MI-6. If true, we are now faced with actual evidence of a foreign country trying to meddle in a direct and significant way in our national election. Only it was not the Russians. It was our British cousins.
The FBI has since provided the Committee access to classified documents relevant to the FBI’s relationship with Mr. Steele and whether the FBI relied on his dossier work. . . .it appears that either Mr. Steele lied to the FBI or the British court, or that the classified documents reviewed by the Committee contain materially false statements.
October 21, 2016, the FBI filed its first warrant application under FISA for Carter Page. . .The bulk of the application consists of allegations against Page that were disclosed to the FBI by Mr. Steele and are also outlined in the Steele dossier. The application appears to contain no additional information corroborating the dossier allegations against Mr. Page, although it does cite to a news article that appears to be sourced to Mr. Steele’s dossier as well.
March 17, 2017–the Chairman and Ranking Member were provided copies of the two relevant FISA applications, which requested authority to conduct surveillance of Carter Page. Both relied heavily on Mr. Steele’s dossier claims, and both applications were granted by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC).
December of 2017, the Chairman, Ranking Member, and Subcommittee Chairman Graham were allowed to review a total of four FISA applications relying on the dossier to seek surveillance of Mr. Carter Page, as well as numerous other FBI documents relating to Mr. Steele.
When asked at the March 2017 briefing why the FBI relied on the dossier in the FISA applications absent meaningful corroboration–and in light of the highly political motives surrounding its creation–then Director Corney stated that the FBI included the dossier allegations about Carter Page in the FISA applications because Mr. Steele himself was considered reliable due to his past work with the Bureau.
In short, it appears the FBI relied on admittedly uncorroborated information, funded by and obtained for Secretary Clinton’s presidential campaign, in order to conduct surveillance of an associate of the opposing presidential candidate. It did so based on Mr. Steele’s personal credibility and presumably having faith in his process of obtaining the information.
. . . the FBI continued to cite to Mr. Steele’s past work as evidence of his reliability, and stated that ”the incident that led to the FBI suspending its relationship with [Mr. Steele] occurred after [Mr. Steele] provided” the FBI with the dossier infonnation described in the application. The FBI further asserted in footnote 19 that it did not ,believe that Steele directly gave information to Yahoo News that “published the September 23 News Article.”
The Grassley/Graham memo is devastating for Jim Comey. We can entertain only two possibilities–Jim Comey is a monumental dunce or he is a liar. One need only read the Michael Isikoff piece from 23 September 2016 to realize that Christopher Steele was a primary source for Isikoff. We are asked to believe that Comey is a naive, trusting soul bereft of curiosity, who refused to entertain the possibility that Steele was double dealing intel.
One of the most surprising revelations from the Grassley/Graham memo is in footnote 7. I’m surprised this was not redacted because it is drawn from a redacted/blacked out paragraph. Here is a critical bit of intel:
Attack Pilot Major Roman Filipov (RuAF) has been posthumously awarded the “Hero of the Russian Federation” decoration. Filipov was shot down near Saraqib while flying a ground attack mission against jihadi fighters massing to counter-attack SAA spearheads west of Abu Duhur town. Filipov ejected from his aircraft and then fought it out with the jihadis on the ground until they gotthe better of him. IMO opinion he richly deserved the aw ard.
The Russian expeditionary force needs to improve its Search and Rescue service so that more Russian air crew are not left to die alone in enemy hands. US practice is such that a rescue package would have been standing by in the air with gunships and extraction birds waiting, waiting.
Saraqib is not in Turkish Armed Forces hands, but they clearly have men on the ground in the area and in liaison with the jihadis. In that context, the GRU (Russian military intelligence) or lower level Russian MI were able to obtain the cooperation of the Turks in recovering Major Filipov’s body. People who exist outside the world of soldiering and its military intelligence function do not generally understand the level of collegiality that exists in that world. That collegiality often extends across political boundaries and the momentary whims of politicians. was Erdogan consulted? Certainly, but the retrieval of Filipov’s body speaks of more than that. pl
1. Nikki Haley is either completely gullible or is in thrall to some collection of Borgists at State. Someone remarked of a previous US Secretary of State that “if only he were still alive this would not happen.” Unfortunately he was still alive and in office. Much the same could be said of Rex Tillerson. Haley is now tub thumping for US air attacks on Syria. This a reprise of several previous US assertions of Syrian Arab Government (SAG) use of chemical weapons including the East Ghouta and Khan Sheikhoun fiascos. After Khan Sheikhoun the SAG invited US and UN investigations of the air base but somehow this was not accepted. Now James Mattis is asserting that the SAG is manufacturing chemical munitions although the US has no evidence of this as yet. I believe this is called “confirmation bias?”
2. As shown above , the SAA is committed to elimination of the East Idlib pocket. The jihadis are without re-supply and will progressively be running out of the means of resistance. This should not take too long and is actually a good idea before proceeding further into Idlib Province to the west. I believe I expressed an opinion as to the wisdom of such a move.
3. The SAA has begun shelling the Turkish strong point (observation post) at Al-Eis. The Turks have been attempting tricky cleverness by claiming that they are occupying the hill at Al–Eis un accord with a Russian/Iranian/Turkish de-escalation igreement. In fact IMO they are seeking to position themselves so as to impede SAG liberation of Idlib Province. pl
Do you want to know why the FBI continued to insist that the Nunes’ memo not be declassified and released to the public? The answer is right there on page 2, (see 1b) in the discussion about what was excluded from the application to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court:
The application does not mention Steele was ultimately working on behalf of-and paid by-the DNC and Clinton campaign, or that the FBI had separately authorized payment to Steele for the same information.
I believe that the part in bold is what the FBI wanted out of the memo because it exposes the uncomfortable fact that Christopher Steele was (and had been for some time) a paid asset of the FBI. That is huge news. In other words, Steele was not a mere consultant or sub-contractor for the FBI. He was being paid to provide information/intelligence to the FBI. There are two classes of FBI “informants.” One is serving as a “criminal informant” and the other is as an “intelligence asset.” Information from “criminal informants” can be used in a U.S. judicial proceeding and the informant called as a witness. Getting money under that circumstance can be problematic because the source’s credibility can be impeached by defense counsel, who can argue that the testimony is purloined.
You do not have to worry about that with an “intelligence asset.” In that case the priority is protecting the identity of the source. The fact that Steele had been on the FBI payroll for a while sheds new light on Glen Simpson’s testimony (which was leaked by Senator Feinstein) to the U.S. Senate. Simpson testified that Steele told him in late September 2016 that the FBI wanted to meet him in Rome to discuss the dossier. That struck me initially as quite odd. If Steele was just acting as an average “foreign” citizen who was trying to help the FBI then he could easily have met with the Bureau in London. That city hosts the largest number of FBI agents in the world outside of the U.S. But Steele was asked to go meet in Rome. That’s what you do when you are meeting an intelligence asset that the Brits do not know about.
“When SpaceX was competing to fly cargo to the International Space Station, Musk mocked his rival’s rockets. Vying to launch spy satellites, SpaceX sued the US Air Force for a chance to bid on classified launches. Plotting a satellite internet constellation, he promised a network “an order of magnitude” more sophisticated than his competitors. Tomorrow (Feb. 6), his space company will attempt to launch the largest rocket in the world, the Falcon Heavy—and if successful, the rocket entrepreneur could find himself set for collision with a gigantic rocket NASA been building for more than a decade.
SpaceX’s goal since 2002 has been to develop the technology to make humanity a multi-planetary species. The Falcon Heavy is the first vehicle built by Musk’s company with the capability of taking a usefully large scientific robot—or even, in stages, a human exploration mission—beyond earth orbit, and to another astronomical body.” Qurtz
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Tomorrow, Musk will try to put his red roadster into Mars orbit. “Up, up and away!” “Fly me to the moon!” Pick your tune. I had just arrived in Frankfurt in 1969 when the first moon landing occurred. I remember that the local newspaper had a headline the next day that read “Jetzt der mann in der mond ist ein Ami,” or something like that. pl
Steele, Shvets, Levinson, Litvinenko and the ‘Billion Dollar Don.’
In the light of the suggestion in the Nunes memo that Steele was ‘a longtime FBI source’ it seems worth sketching out some background, which may also make it easier to see some possible reasons why he ‘was desperate that Donald Trump not get elected and was passionate about him not being president.’
There is reason to suspect that some former and very likely current employees of the FBI have been colluding with elements in other American and British intelligence agencies, in particular the CIA and MI6, in support of an extremely ambitious foreign policy agenda for a very long time. It also seems clear that influential journalists, such as Glenn Simpson was before founding Fusion GPS, along with his wife Mary Jacoby, have been strongly involved in this.
This agenda has involved hopes for ‘régime change’ in Russia, whether as the result of an oligarchic coup, a popular revolt, or some combination of both. Also central have been hopes for a further ‘rollback’ of Russia influence in the post-Soviet space, both in areas now independent, such as Ukraine, and also ones still part of the Russian Federation, notably Chechnya.
And, crucially, it involved exploiting the retreat of Russian power from the Middle East for ‘régime change’ projects which it was hoped would provide a definitive solution to the – inherently intractable – security problems of a Jewish settler state in the area.
Important support for these strategies was provided by the ‘StratCom’ network centred around the late Boris Berezovsky, which clearly collaborated closely with MI6. As was apparent from the witness list at Sir Robert Owen’s Inquiry into the death of Alexander Litvinenko, which produced a report based essentially on a recycling of claims made by the network’s members, key players were on your side of the Atlantic – notably Alex Goldfarb, Yuri Shvets, and Yuri Felshtinsky.
The question of what links these had, or did not have, with elements in U.S. intelligence agencies is thus a critical one.
In making some sense of it, the fact that one key figure we know to have been involved in this network was missing at the Inquiry – the former FBI agent Robert Levinson, who disappeared on the Iranian island of Kish in March 2007 – is important.
Unfortunately, I only recently came across a book on Levinson published in 2016 by the ‘New York Times’ journalist Barry Meier, which is now hopefully winging its way across the Atlantic. From the accounts of the book I have seen, such as one by Jeff Stein in ‘Newsweek’, it seems likely that its author did not look at any of the evidence presented at Owen’s Inquiry.
“Amid ongoing offensive operations by the Syrian Arab Army and allied paramilitary groups against Islamist militias in the southern countryside of Aleppo province, elite troops have taken control of yet another town as they eye-out a possible advance towards the rebel stronghold of Al-Eis.
Military-affiliated sources report that forces of the Syrian Army’s Republican Guard have seized from armed rebel groups the town of Tal Mamu in the last hour after kicking-off another day off offensive operations in southern Idlib.” AMN
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IMO the correct move by the Syrians just now is to turn right with their main forces and roll up the jihadis who are now facing east south of Aleppo City. This should collapse the whole jihadi force west of Khanassar and south of Aleppo City and lead to a rapid liberation of the province. Screening forces should be left to “cover” Saraqib and the left flank SE of Saraqib. I have looked at the hill at Al-Eis just north of the town of the same name and it does not seem to be a great obstacle. It can be heavily bombarded with preparatory aerial fires and then attacked from several directions by mobile forces.
The Turks are there? This would be a good opportunity to force them to back away. pl
Now that the Devin Nunes memo is out in the public—with no redactions—and a counter-memo by Adam Schiff is expected to be released within days, it is a good moment to step back and look at the bigger picture of what has gone wrong with our system and where we are headed as a country.
First, it has been clear, long before the Nunes memo flap, that a network operating within the U.S. law enforcement and intelligence community had it out for Donald Trump for reasons that had little or nothing to do with alleged Russian ties. Hardcore Obama-Clinton loyalists at the top of the FBI, the CIA, the ODNI and the DOJ abused their positions in a flagrant partisan effort to prevent Donald Trump’s election. After he won the presidency, they continued in their efforts to deny him the job, deluding themselves that they could forestall the inauguration by claiming that Trump’s victory was solely the result of Russian interference, and by extension, that Trump was a blackmailed dupe of Moscow and Putin.
Post-Nunes memo claims by the Borg media that it was the George Papadopoulos comments to an Australian diplomat that led to the FISA Court surveillance request—not the Steele MI6 memos—are flagrantly phony. The Steele memos were passed to the FBI, as well as to Fusion GPS from the outset. The references to Carter Page appeared in Steele memos months before the FISA Court applications, and before the alleged Peter Strzok probe of Page began in late July 2016 (Page’s name came up in the July 19, 2016 Steele memo and the allegations of Russian possession of damaging material on Hillary Clinton were in the first Steele memo, dated June 20, 2016).
It is one thing for people in government service to have political views and biases, it is another thing for those biases to infect the workings of our law enforcement and intelligence agencies. Likewise for the House Select Committee on Intelligence, which had been one of the last bastions of non-partisan work on Capitol Hill (the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence appears to have preserved some semblance of bipartisan collaboration). That above-politics commitment has been trashed and it may never be restored. And it began with Adam Schiff, who seems to have spent half his time on CNN and MSNBC since the Trump election.
While the entire Mueller probe may have been the result of the fruit of a poison tree (the salacious Steele allegations, which even the FBI admitted were never corroborated), I doubt that the Mueller probe will be shut down before completion. Mueller moved quickly to dismiss Strzok and Page once the amorous emails were turned over to him in July 2017 and somewhat insulated himself from their bile.
If there was credible evidence of Russian attempts to interfere in the 2016 elections—outside of the toxic claims in the Steele dossier—that is a fair subject for counterintelligence investigation. But it is becoming more and more clear that the inclusion of President Trump in the Mueller probe derived almost 100 percent from the Steele product. FBI Director James Comey read the documents and was reportedly so horrified that he threw himself fully into the scheme—along with Obama partisans John Brennan and James Clapper—to stop Donald Trump from taking office.
That, IMHO, is criminal. Comey, Brennan and Clapper are legitimate targets for Federal investigation. Only by getting to the bottom of the abuse of the awesome powers of the Federal law enforcement and intelligence services can we hope to ever restore credibility and non-partisanship, two hallmarks of a genuine republic.
My first reaction to reading the much ballyhooed Nunes memo was to wonder why the DOJ and FBI fought so vociferously to prevent its release. It didn’t give a lot of what I would consider worthy of a TOP SECRET classification nor did it reveal any FBI transgressions a hundred times worse than Watergate as promised. What it did reveal is the fact that a FISA warrant was granted on 21 October 2016 targeting Carter Page and that it was subsequently renewed three times.
Typically the DOJ and FBI offer only a Glomar response (neither confirm nor deny) to any inquiry about FISA warrants. I believe this is why they fought the release of this memo. It sets the precedent that the Government acknowledges the issuance of a specific FISA warrant. This will have consequences beyond the Mueller investigation.
One consequence has already happened. Washington DC national security attorney Mark Zaid and his James Madison Project have had a long standing FOIA lawsuit in Federal Court seeking disclosure of any FISA warrants to spy on the Trump campaign. The consistent Government position has been a Glomar response. Earlier today Zaid put in a filing in this case taking into account the President’s unprecedented action to declassify the existence of this FISA warrant. The Court’s response was pretty damned quick. This was just tweeted. “Judge Mehta has just ordered DOJ to notify the court by February 14th whether the Nunes Memo requires the reversal of its Glomar Response. If DOJ says it does not, Judge Mehta wants an explanation from DOJ.”
So, we might all get to see the full, albeit redacted, FISA warrants including the Carter Page one. However, I wouldn’t hold my breath waiting for those FISA warrants to appear anytime soon. Mark Zaid also got word today that his FOIA lawsuit to get the Comey memos was denied because releasing those memos could effect an open investigation… the Mueller investigation. Perhaps we’ll see all the warrants and memos once the investigation concludes… or is stopped in its tracks.
Unless Trump uses this Nunes memo in a “go for broke” effort to fire all the top DOJ and FBI folks and replace them with new folks who have pledged their personal loyalty to Trump, I don’t see this memo having a tremendous effect on the Mueller investigation. By the memo’s own admission the FBI investigation began in July 2016 with information surrounding Papadopoulis, probably from Australia.
Prior to this FBI investigation, an interagency working group was established in April 2016 from the FBI, CIA, NSA, DOJ, the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network and representatives of the DNI to begin an inquiry into the movement of Russian money into the US to pay hackers and influence the election. This action was taken based on info received from the Estonian IS concerning Trump associates meeting RIS operatives in Europe and a recording indicating the Russian government was planning to funnel funds aimed at influencing the US election. GCHQ became aware in late 2015 of suspicious “interactions” between figures connected to Trump and known or suspected Russia. This intelligence was passed to the US as part of a routine exchange of information. Germany, Poland and possibly the French DGSE also passed on SIGINT.
The existence of neither of these investigations was leaked to the press before the 2016 election. I would think the vast Borg conspiracy would have done this as a vital part of their soft coup. It would have been effective. Instead, they publicly announced the reopening of the Clinton email investigation a week before the election. Is that any way to run a secret society?
The Mueller investigation is not a Borg conspiracy or a leftist conspiracy or a witch hunt. It is a federal counterintelligence and criminal investigation. I have no doubt there have been and will be instances of investigatorial and prosecutorial arrogance, overreach and even errors when this is all over. Whether there will be serious indictments that will permanently hobble or even destroy the Trump presidency is unknown. He may come out of this exonerated and stronger than ever. Only a thorough investigation, with proper oversight, will tell.
Based on the memo released today by the House Intelligence Committee (read it here), current and former members of the FBI and the Department of Justice who signed off on applications to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court will likely face contempt of court charges. Who? James Comey, Andy McCabe, Sally Yates, Dana Boente and Rob Rosenstein. The effectively lied to a Federal judge. That is not only stupid but illegal.
Here are the critical points from the Nunes memo that you should commit to memory.:
The Steele Dossier played a critical role in obtaining approval from the FISA court to carry out surveillance of Carter Page according to former FBI Deputy Director Andy McCabe.
Christopher Steele was getting paid by the DNC and the FBI for the same information.
No one at either the FBI nor the DOJ disclosed to the court that the Steele dossier was paid for by an opposition political campaign.
The first FISA warrant was obtained on 21 October 2016 based on a story written by Michael Isikoff for Yahoo News based on information he received directly from Christopher Steele–THE FBI DID NOT DISCLOSE IN THE FISA APPLICATION THAT STEELE WAS THE ORIGINAL SOURCE OF THE INFORMATION.
Christopher Steele was a long standing FBI “source” but was terminated as a source after telling Mother Jones reporter David Corn that he had a relationship with the FBI.
The FBI signers of the FISA applications/renewals were James Comey and Andy McCabe.
The DOJ signers of the FISA applications/renewals were Sally Yates, Dana Boente and Rod Rosenstein
Even after Steele was terminated by the FBI, he remained in contact with Deputy Attorney General Bruce Our, whose wife worked for FUSION GPS and was involved with the Steele dossier.
If you go back and read carefully what Isikoff reported in September 2016 it appears that the CIA and the DNI (as well as the FBI) are implicated in spreading the disinformation about Trump and Russia. Isikoff wrote:
Here are the White House letter about the memorandum of 18 January 2018 from the U.S. House Intelligence Committee and the memo itself that were released today.
White House Counsel Donald McGahn II dances around the delicate and not entirely clear issue of exactly what the legal grounds are for making information classified and unclassified and who in the federal government can do it. He opts for a common idea in favor of the executive branch and mentions executive order 13526, which I noted in a comment the other day.
He and President Trump have made it easy for everyone by saying, “… the President has authorized the declassification of the Memorandum”.
The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) was established to promote greater accountability of the taxpayer’s dollars being spent in Afghanistan. That they are saying the military is keeping information from the public that would illustrate the resurgence of Taliban (and other) insurgent elements deserves attention. Afghanistan’s fate will not be determined by the US / West.
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A new report released on Monday states the US military is keeping information from the public that gauges the war in Afghanistan and gains made by insurgents.
The US Defense Department has restricted data on population figures and on what areas are held by either government or insurgents, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) said in a report released on Tuesday.
“The number of districts controlled or influenced by the Afghan government had been one of the last remaining publicly available indicators for members of Congress … and for the American public of how the 16-year-long US effort to secure Afghanistan is faring,” John Sopko, the special inspector general, said in the report.
This however is the first time that SIGAR has been instructed not to release unclassified information in one of its quarterly reports, Sopko said, adding that the information will instead be included in an annex unavailable to the public.
The report stated that SIGAR was not given any justification for the new restrictions.
The SIGAR report stated that the “worrisome development” follows an increase of insurgent control or influence in Afghanistan.
As such, the non-disclosure of information was of particular concern, SIGAR reported.
It also comes after several other measures for gauging the development and strength of Afghanistan’s security forces were blocked or restricted in the fall. Among them were casualty and attrition rates.
A super-moon for a super speech by the new leader of a great country that doesn’t have a tin-pot dictator and an out of control secret police running the place. Here in this storied land when electing our new leaders we citizens know we’re Stronger Together. And our true leaders look stunning in white.
Yes, stronger together. Like when we have record employment for our most downtrodden citizens. That joyous news will make every politician stand and cheer.
Well, you must understand that sometimes our politicians have worked so hard to help their fellow citizens that the best they can do is Stand Sit to honor their fellow citizens because they know whose lives really matter.
Now some foreign readers might have heard that there is some kind of a scandal involving the most recent election of our great leader. Rest assured that here in this fabeled land of milk and honey and truth and justice there’s only one way to discover the truth. A fair and impartial investigation. Like we have here:
“FBI investigators in the Anthony Weiner sexting probe knew for weeks about the existence of newly discovered emails potentially related to the investigation of Hillary Clinton’s private email…”
IMO the SAA and friends are well past the culminating point of their drive into Idlib Province and vulnerable to a major reverse if things do not continue to go well, but fortune often favors the brave … A reverse could take the form of a counter-attack against the now very long “roots” (supply lines) of the spearheads fighting NW of Abu Duhur especially in the context of protracted fighting at rapidly stiffening defenses around the crossroads at Saraqib when SAA reaches that location.
But, pilgrims, fortune DOES favor the brave and a crushing defeat of HTS and collapse of jihadi resistance in the province could be accomplished if:
1. The SAA advances to Saraqib and then engages just sufficiently to fix the defending jihadi forces in position.
2. The SAA does not immediately divert scarce forces to the relief of the two besieged Shia villages just north of Idlib City. These places will be uncovered and will fall to government forces of their own weight if the major effort in Idlib Province is successful.
3. The main effort should now be made by a Tiger Force led column that wheels to the right to roll up jihadi forces from south to the north as they currently face government forces to the south of Aleppo City. This movement would turn jihadi forces out of their positions and enable a general government advance into Idlib Province from existing positions in Aleppo Province south of Aleppo City. pl
Why is Donald Trump winning? It is not because he has some a warm, charming personality. Nope. He understands the 21st Century media reality. That also explains why the Democrats and so many pundits who opine on politics are getting things wrong. The Dems and their pundit lackeys are living with a 1970s view of the media. They do not understand that ship has sailed.
Look first at the numbers of viewers for last night’s State of the Union speech. This tells part of the story:
FOXNEWS 11,500,000
NBC 7,100,000
CBS 7,000,000
ABC 5,400,000
FOX 3,600,000
CNN 3,100,000
MSNBC 2,700,000
That’s a total of 40,300,000 viewers. Sounds like a lot. But when you consider the fact that the population in America is approaching 330 million, that’s only 12 percent of the population.
Let’s take this to the level of who watches news. There is the assumption among those who turn on FOX or CNN or MSNBC that these outlets are influential in helping set policy and inform political opinion. That may have been true 30 years ago, but it is no longer the case.
On Monday, 29 January 2018, the U.S. House of Representatives Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence met for a business meeting and voted on five agenda items or motions concerning classified executive session memoranda. This is the tantalizing matter of conduct by one or more executive branch agencies of surveillance, perhaps of president-elect Donald Trump, campaign members, and others. Also said to possibly be involved is the secret federal court created by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), and maybe even the bawdy paper pushed during the presidential campaign by “former” (or current?) British MI6 agent Christopher Steele about Donald Trump and Russia. Here are the agenda items and the votes on each one by committee members–
The big one was item number four, which passed, and authorized the disclosure of one classified executive session memo.
Of equal interest is the fact that the U.S. Congress can declassify and make public a document or item that was deemed secret and not to be disclosed. Buried in the 45 pages of fine print in the Rules of the House of Representatives is the language that is claimed to authorize the disclosure. Rule 10 governs the organization of committees. Section or clause 11 of Rule 10 deals with the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. The good stuff describing the authority and procedure is on pdf pages 19 and 20 (document pages 15 and 16) of the rules, in parts 11(f) and 11(g). You start near the bottom of the middle column with part “f” on pdf page 19 and go through part/clause 11(g)(2)(G) in the first column on pdf page 20–
That Congress can decide what is classified secret and what is not, and can authorize disclosure, is self-evident from Article 1, section 1 of the U.S. Constitution: “All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives”. However, the House rules are not legislation. I have not yet tried to find a law passed by Congress that creates this unilateral power to declassify material, but I assume that it does exist, or it certainly should.
The members of the House intelligence committee are listed here–
One little item of interest is that committee member Will Hurd (Repub. Texas, 23rd District) is a former CIA officer. His Congressional district includes part of the San Antonio area. According to the committee document cited above with the motions that were voted on, he participated in all of the votes except number four, the one that starts the process to try to disclose the memo to the public. He did not vote “present”, so he may have ducked out of the room for that one. If he has a philosophical objection to disclosing material previously designated as classified, he may not be put on the spot as the deciding vote to disclose if the whole House has to vote on that question. If the Republicans have a surplus in their majority in the House, he might either not vote at all or make a symbolic “no” vote.
If the underlying material for the memo was submitted by the “executive branch” and the executive branch requests that it be kept secret, the committee notifies the president that the vote to disclose was made.
“The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.” 16th Amendment to the US Constitution
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The Democrat governors of; Connecticut, New York and New Jersey have sued the federal government in an attempt to block application of the new federal tax law. Their specific complaint is that the new law abolishes the federal income tax deduction for state income taxes. These three states and a few more including California have very high state income tax rates. They also have a disproportionate number of people whose incomes place them in the 1% percentile of highest US individual incomes across the country. It was reported this AM on Fox Business News that the average state income tax in New York for 1%ers is $500,000. Under the old federal tax law this state tax was deductible from gross income before net income for federal taxation was determined. To say that this is a massive loss for such folk is completely true. Deplorable Trump voters typically either live in states with much lower income tax rates or don’t make anything like that much money. So for them the loss is much less especially considering lower tax rates in the new law and a doubled standard deduction. In fact a great many of them will pay no federal income tax at all. Quite a few paid no federal income tax under the old law and now that number will be larger.
In any circumstance the 16th Amendment is clear in that the federal government is not required to “balance” taxation among the states. pl
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The new Chinese-created ACChain crypto currency blockchain will be the SDR-related world currency that will allow the international banking elite to digitize every tangible asset on earth, and they will then exert total control over all of it. Lynette Zang explains: “The goal is to capture your wealth, and when the say this is the LAST wealth transfer mechanism they mean it because they want it all. All of it.” Intel Software designer Brad peters takes it one step further, saying: “If a global crypto coin controlled by the Bank For International Settlements (BIS) comes to internationalize PROPERTY onto their crypto blockchain, they get their one world government and one world currency all in the same stroke. This IS your 1988 (2018 prediction) Economist magazine cover.” Here’s the original video Lynette posted on August 8, 2017: The Global Unit of Account is now shifting from the USD to the SDR – Lynette Zang https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYPsy… RELATED ACChain VIDEOS: ACCHAIN GLOBAL LINK https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVR5a… Join ACCHAIN.ORG become super node https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJ73h… Thanks for tuning in. For REAL news 24/7: http://sgtreport.com/http://thephaser.com/http://thelibertymill.com/
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WHAT I HAVE BEEN AFRAID TO BLOG ABOUT: THE ESF AND ITS HISTORY (PART 1-5) – FUNDING COVERT OPERATIONS – THE “DEEP STATE”: E$F – ESF’S CHOICES: LYING TO PEOPLE OR SCARING THEM TO DEATH
After months of work, the video series on the Treasury’s Exchange Stabilization Fund (ESF) is finally finished!
Why you should watch these five videos:
It is impossible to understand the world today without knowing what the ESF is and what it has been doing. Officially in charge of defending the dollar, the ESF is the government agency which controls the New York Fed, runs the CIA’s black budget, and is the architect of the world’s monetary system (IMF, World Bank, etc). ESF financing (through the OSS and then the CIA) built up the worldwide propaganda network which has so badly distorted history today (including erasing awareness of its existence from popular consciousness). It has been directly involved in virtually every major US fraud/scandal since its creation in 1934: the London gold pool, the Kennedy assassinations, Iran-Contra, CIA drug trafficking, HIV, and worse…
These five videos are the “answer” I have arrived at after three years of blogging on MarketSkeptics.com. They took me a month and a half to make (and months of research). You will not find the material covered anywhere else. So if you enjoyed them, please donate.
The Links to all the material covered can be found below the videos. I recommend following them and confirming the facts for yourself.
(The youtube view counts for these videos are incomplete (because they only count views on youtube’s website)).
What I have been afraid to blog about: The ESF and Its History – Part 1
What I have been afraid to blog about: The ESF and Its History – Part 2
What I have been afraid to blog about: The ESF and Its History – Part 3
What I have been afraid to blog about: The ESF and Its History – Part 4
What I have been afraid to blog about: The ESF and Its History – Part 5
Debt, debt and more debt is the ONLY economic future Americans will have….
The article immediately linked above was written by Anthony Scaramucci. Scaramucci was appointed by President Trump as the White House Communications Director on July 21, 2017.
A Scaramucci flashback:
A connection worth noting considering the article linked above in which Scaramucci thinks debt is alright and a part of the inevitability of American life now that he has been moved to the position as White House Communications Director:
Because its so secret, the activity’s of the giant Exchange Stabilization Fund, are not known by the public. Whoever controls this fund, my thinking is that it is Jack Lew, is probably one of the most powerful men in the world. It would be natural, for China to accuse the US, and Jack Lew, of being involved in pricking the Chinese stock market bubble. You have to ask yourself, does the pricking of the Chinese stock bubble help the US? How much? If its a lot, then probably the ESF is involved. The ESF enters all markets and controls them in the interest of the US government. They are also involved in pm manipulation. Anyone who acts as an agent for the ESF is exempt for the rule of law. Any bank who acts an agent for the ESF is exempt from all criminal prosecution. It explains a lot. Any covert project that the Treasury Dept or the President wishes to involve himself with can be covered by using the ESF. Whether it is the Secret Space Program, or Covert CIA or alphabet soup agency’s or sabotaging global stock markets. Its all opaque. There is no over site. It does not exist as far as the law is concerned. The most powerful man in the world controls this fund. Period.
You will never hear a politician discuss this fund. It does not exist.
Brother Nathnael has a few words about Jack Lew and David S. Cohen (the “synagogue rules with US Treasury”) on the US Treasury Department regarding economic sanctions against Russia:
What The Media Won’t Tell You About Putin – MUST SEE
REALITY . One ought not to be surprised at all, for Churchill was drunk with power and money long before World War I started. As we have argued in the past, Churchill was ultimately responsible for the deaths of millions of Germans and Indians. Churchill was the man who would do just about anything for money; the Jewish oligarchs put him power, therefore he had to kill for them. He had to save them from Hitler. And nothing was going to stop him from accomplishing his mission. Nothing.
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MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — A small Minnesota town is getting a lot of attention for a Satanic monument coming to their veterans park.
The monument going up for The Satanic Temple — which features an upturned helmet atop a black cube — will soon be at the site of the Veterans Memorial Park in Belle Plaine.
It is being built by a group of Satanists out of Massachusetts, and it will be the first Satanic monument on public property in United States history.
Belle Plaine Veterans Memorial Park (credit: CBS)
The city is allowing the monument to be built after a religious freedom group threatened to sue over another statue, which features a soldier praying over a grave marked with a cross.
City officials say the memorial, which is not inside the park yet, is finished, but they are still working out a date for when it will go in.
It has to be put in a small area called “The Free Speech Zone.” It is an area designated to 10 or fewer memorials, as long as they honor veterans.
“They said they were putting it up and I did not like it,” said resident Donna Karnitz.
The monument created by The Satanic Temple (credit: CBS)
City Councilmember Cary Coop says he voted against the designated free speech area.
“I don’t think there’s too many Satanists around here, but it’s free speech,” Coop said.
He says they anticipated other groups coming in.
“We were warned against creating this free speech zone, and it will be probably be just as well that we didn’t have one, that people could use private property to say whatever they want,” Coop said.
The monument that originally started the fervor at Veterans Memorial Park (credit: CBS)
Karnitz, whose husband is a veteran of the Vietnam War, says she finds the new Satanic monument offensive.
“It was approved a while back already, and it has not come here,” she said. “I am hoping and praying that it doesn’t come into the park here [laughs]!”
Karnitz is not alone. There is a protest planned at the park on Saturday during the city’s popular BBQ Days festival.
Despite its name, the Satanic Temple says it does not promote a belief in a personal Satan and that that “religion can, and should, be divorced from superstition.”
Kate Raddatz joined the WCCO-TV team in April 2013, but it wasn’t her first time inside the newsroom. She worked as the “Good Question” intern in college. An Excelsior native and proud Gopher grad, she’s thrilled to be telling stories in the place…
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(1) James P. Chandler, III, George Washington University intellectual property and national security law professor, and later patent attorney for social networking inventor Leader Technologies, Inc. (
If you doubt this statement, then take it from Churchill himself. When civilians were being killed by the thousands during World War I, Churchill did not hesitate to say: “I know this war is smashing and shattering the lives of thousands every moment—and yet—I cannot help it—I love every second I live.”http://www.veteranstoday.com/2017/07/23/daily-beast-winston-churchill-did-an-inside-job-to-get-america-into-world-war-ii-2/