Done & Sworn in: 45th US president Donald Trump: The Sequels...

[Hervé]

How do "investors" always win and get back trillions on their penny-millions?

Zakharova said that she had formulated the claim while visiting New York during an official visit with a Russian delegation in September.

JEWISH SUPPORTERS wear kippot showing their support for Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.. (photo credit:REUTERS)

Controversy erupted in Moscow Friday afternoon after a Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson suggested that the recent US presidential election was influenced by a "Jewish conspiracy," according to the BBC.

During an interview with a Russian television chat show, Maria Zakharova quipped that the best template to gauge America's political landscape was the New York Jewish community.

"If you want to know what will happen in America, who do you need to talk to? You have to talk to the Jews, of course. It goes without saying."

At this, the live studio audience applauded loudly, according to the BBC.

Zakharova added that she had formulated the claim while visiting New York during an official visit with a Russian delegation in September.

"I have a lot of friends and acquaintances there, of course I was interested to find out: how are the elections going, what are the American people's expectations?"

The Russian state employee than attempted to mimic a Jewish accent and said Russian Jews had told her: "Marochka, understand this - we'll donate to Clinton, of course. But we'll give the Republicans twice that amount.' Enough said! That settled it for me - the picture was clear," adding that "if you want to know the future, don't read the mainstream newspapers - our people in Brighton [Beach] will tell you everything."

In response, several political figures came out against Zakharova's statements, including Russian opposition activist Roman Dobrokhotov, who wrote on Twitter (in Russian) that the spokeswoman had "explained Trump's victory as a Jewish conspiracy," the BBC reported.

Former US ambassador to Moscow Michael McFaul also took to social media, writing: "Wow. And this is the woman who criticizes me for not being diplomatic."

[note that it is the BBC that's suggesting a "conspiracy" out of the "template" statement]
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So...in the US (at least), presidential campaigns are - basically - a 4-year hedged investment... whoever the winner is, said investors will get back dollars on their pennies and whoever has the best insiders' dope wins the jackpot...

[Hervé]

Bombshell: David Gergen’s elite connections, his attempt to stop Trump

by Jon Rappoport Nov27, 2016

Yes, he works for CNN. He’s operated as “White House advisor” to four presidents: Ford, Nixon, Reagan, and Clinton. That should give you pause.

Why?

Because Washington insider David Gergen, currently a CNN political commentator, is also a member of the executive committee of the Trilateral Commission (TC) (see here, here, and here). The TC is one of the most powerful elite groups on the planet. Founded by David Rockefeller in 1973, the TC has been making domestic and foreign policy for America since the Jimmy Carter administration.

Before we get to the significance of Gergen’s TC ties, here is a sprinkling of critical statements about Donald Trump that Gergen made during the presidential race:

“Whatever chance Donald Trump still had of capturing the White House largely evaporated Sunday night in his second debate with Hillary Clinton.” (here)

“Donald Trump’s behavior on stage Thursday night and in the days that have followed strike many as unfathomable: How can anyone act so arrogantly and meanly in public life?” (here)

“[Donald Trump made the 2016 election a] ‘national joke’ [when he guested on The Dr. Oz Show to say he was in good health].” (here)

“[Trump delivered a] ‘slanderous speech’ [against Hillary Clinton, saying she should go to jail].” (here)

“Donald Trump is a walking example of someone who’s dismissive of women. Can you imagine what it’s like for him to think that he might be beaten by a woman? Serves him right.”

David Gergen never writes in depth about his own membership in the elite Rockefeller Trilateral Commission. The TC a) is a Globalist juggernaut, and b) Donald Trump’s attack on Globalism, its trade treaties, and its wholesale theft of US jobs, is in direct opposition to the Trilateral Commission’s aims.

A simple conflict-of-interest statement from Gergen would do. Something like this:

“Hi, I’m David Gergen, and I’m a member of an elite group determined to create a new international economic order. We favor the eventual eradication of national borders and the ascendance of transnational corporations and banks as the captains of the world. Therefore, I’m ideologically opposed to what that son of a bitch Donald Trump stands for.”

Then we’d know.

Here are two key Trilateral Commission quotes that reflect its global outlook:

“The nation state as a fundamental unit of man’s organized life has ceased to be the principal creative force: International banks and multinational corporations are acting and planning in terms that are far in advance of the political concepts of the nation-state.” — Zbigniew Brzezinski, co-founder of the Trilateral Commission.

Any doubt on the question of Trilateral Commission goals is answered by David Rockefeller himself, the founder of the TC, in his Memoirs (2003):

“Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as ‘internationalists’ and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure—one world, if you will. If that is the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it.”

The Trans-Pacific Partnership Treaty (TPP), a Globalist nightmare, is now under consideration. Trump has vowed to stop it as soon as he takes office. David Gergen, of course, as a member of the Trilateral Commission, favors it.

Gergen:

“The [Obama] administration’s increasing focus on Asia is a welcome move, but it too has gone less well than expected…the famous ‘pivot’ will depend upon completion of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the most important trade agreement in decades. To its credit, the administration has aggressively pursued the deal but to little avail.”

Again, why doesn’t Gergen discuss his Trilateral membership in depth? Obviously, because it would fatally compromise his position as a journalist.

In order to avoid disseminating more fake news, CNN—already a Niagara of fake news—ought to introduce Gergen this way, every time he’s prepared to comment on Trump, the TPP, or Globalism:

“And now, remarks on the new president from our resident insider, David Gergen. David is a veteran member of the little-known but very powerful Trilateral Commission. He sits on its executive committee. The Trilateral Commission, founded by none other than David Rockefeller, favors eradication of national boundaries, a new international economic order, and Globalist trade treaties which of course give mega-corporations and banks control of the planet’s future. President-elect Trump opposes all this. David? What do you have for us today?”

“Well, when you put it that way…”

“Thank you, David. Talk to you again next week. We’ll be right back after the break.”

Going all the way back to 1978, here is the essence of an astonishing interview with two Trilateral Commission members about who was setting US domestic and foreign policy in Jimmy Carter’s administration.

The interview was conducted by reporter Jeremiah Novak. He was speaking with two American members of the Trilateral Commission:

NOVAK (reporter): Yes, but why doesn’t President Carter come out with it and tell the American people that [US] economic and political power is being coordinated by a [Trilateral Commission] committee made up of Henry Owen and six others? After all, if [US] policy is being made on a multinational level [by the Trilateral Commission], the people should know.

RICHARD COOPER [Trilateral Commission member]: President Carter and Secretary of State Vance have constantly alluded to this in their speeches.

KARL KAISER [Trilateral Commission member]: It just hasn’t become an issue.

Source: “Trilateralism: The Trilateral Commission and Elite Planning for World Management,” ed. by Holly Sklar, 1980. South End Press, Boston. Pages 192-3.

It didn’t become an issue because major media didn’t expose it, and neither did President Carter, contrary to what these two TC members claimed.

The very idea that Trump might not continue this massive covert op to deliver US government power into the hands of the TC and David Rockefeller…insider David Gergen and his TC cronies wouldn’t be happy about that at all. Not at all.

And CNN talks about “fake news.” They are Fake News Central.

They are complicit in maintaining the United States as a satellite of the Trilateral Commission.

You think this might be an overstatement of the TC’s power now?

In the run-up to his inauguration after the 2008 presidential election, Obama was tutored by the co-founder of the Trilateral Commission, Zbigniew Brzezinski.

Patrick Wood, author of Trilaterals Over Washington, points out there are only 87 members of the Trilateral Commission who live in America. Obama appointed eleven of them (!) to posts in his administration.

For example:

* Tim Geithner, Treasury Secretary
* James Jones, National Security Advisor
* Paul Volker, Chairman, Economic Recovery Committee
* Dennis Blair, Director of National Intelligence

Here is the payoff. The US Trade Representative (appointed by Obama in 2013), responsible for negotiating the TPP with 11 other nations, is Michael Froman, a former member of the Trilateral Commission. Don’t let the word “former” fool you. TC members resign when they take positions in the Executive Branch of government. And when they serve in vital positions, such as US Trade Representative, they aren’t there by accident. They’re TC operatives with a specific agenda.

So yes, the power of the Trilateral Commission is alive and current. It entangles and befouls one president after another.

It is diametrically opposed to America as a sovereign independent nation.

Dear David Gergen: I’d be happy to interview you on these subjects. Perhaps you’ll tell me you’re only a TC member in some “honorary” sense, you don’t really participate, your TC position is just another line in your bio; whatever. Let’s get it on the record.

Any time.

Jon Rappoport

[TargeT]

Well, the recount is off to an interesting start... Pennsylvania was one of the most important states for this "recount effort"... hmm
Pennsylvania State Department says Stein missed recount deadline

in fact with out Penn..... If a recount did happen and tilt to HRC, it would be obviously faked at this point (SANS Pennsylvania over turn).

[norman]

Posted by TargeT (here)
Well, the recount is off to an interesting start... Pennsylvania was one of the most important states for this "recount effort"... hmm
Pennsylvania State Department says Stein missed recount deadline

in fact with out Penn..... If a recount did happen and tilt to HRC, it would be obviously faked at this point (SANS Pennsylvania over turn).

Why am I SO relieved about this ?

[TargeT]

Posted by norman (here)

Posted by TargeT (here)
Well, the recount is off to an interesting start... Pennsylvania was one of the most important states for this "recount effort"... hmm
Pennsylvania State Department says Stein missed recount deadline

in fact with out Penn..... If a recount did happen and tilt to HRC, it would be obviously faked at this point (SANS Pennsylvania over turn).

Why am I SO relieved about this ?

Maybe its meant to be obvious?

I'm open to about anything at this point... crazy (s)election cycle.

[Hervé]

Jill Stein's Wisconsin recount backfiring? Donald Trump nets 3 additional votes

Alex Christoforou The Duran Sun, 04 Dec 2016 00:00 UTC

Clinton gained 3 votes. Trump gained 6 votes. Net Trump gain of 3 votes on Day 2.

The Wisconsin recount vote is not turning out quite how Jill Stein, Hillary Clinton or George Soros had hoped.

With day 2 now in the books, Donald Trump has moved ahead by a three more additional votes.

After a second day of wasting everyone's time and money, Wisconsin now has Trump ahead by an additional three votes.

Heavy.com reports on Stein's massive recount failure...

The Wisconsin Election Commission posts recount data on a spreadsheet every day. The latest spreadsheet totals as of 1:30 p.m. CST on December 3 show that the recount isn't changing much, although a smattering of errors have been found throughout the state. The candidates each lost and gained a smattering of votes in towns, cities, and villages that are reporting, so any losses were basically cancelled out.

The Election Commission doesn't tally the returns, but, rather, just posts a raw spreadsheet of numbers. Heavy went through the spreadsheet and tallied the lost and gained votes for Trump and Clinton for each county so far, and then subtracted the two totals for a net gain or loss for day 2.

Here's what the returns show so far:

Day 2 totals
Clinton gained 89 votes but lost 86 for a net gain of 3 votes.
Trump gained 98 votes but lost 92 for a net gain of 6 votes.

OVERALL
Clinton gained 3 votes
Trump gained 6 votes
Net Trump gain of 3 votes on Day 2

Trump won Wisconsin by more than 22,000 votes.

That means that Trump inched ahead by a grand total of 3 votes in a recount expected to cost more than $3.5 million. Green Party nominee Jill Stein raised more than $6 million to fund recounts in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania. The latter two recounts are now bogged down in legal issues and challenges. On December 3, Stein dropped her request for a Pennsylvania recount, saying she couldn't afford the $1 million required, even though she raised $7 million overall for recounts. Clinton would have needed all three states - Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Michigan - to flip in order to take the White House back from Trump, an exceedingly tall order.

[Baby Steps]

Stein may have a different agenda.

let's say she knew that in the Key three that Trump won narrowly, there had been massive Clinton fiddling in the urban parts. Uncovering this is no threat to Trump, but is another blow for HC.

Corporate Media seems intent on suppressing the very idea that any fraud could be possible. If Stein can prove that bad stuff took place, it opens up the very necessary debate about cleaning up these procedures. It may finally help wake up some more of the left from its fluffy deluded world.

It means that a good candidate on the left next time is more likely, and Stein will have raised her profile by fixing things....

[waves]

Posted by Baby Steps (here)
Stein may have a different agenda.....

I don't think it's just Stein's agenda. I see this charade purely as a way for the Dem's to begin the process of getting Stein's name into the arena for next time. What's funny to me is that they already obviously feel they have no choice but to play the female card again like that's their best sheeple swaying advantage.

[Hervé]

From Jim Stone:

PEOPLE, HERE IS THE MEME: Russia hacked the election so well that Hillary's votes got counted SIX TIMES.

As of this morning, the Pennsylvania vote tabulation web site has not changed after it was offline yesterday.

I have a hunch, I think I know what stopped the recount efforts everywhere, and I don't think they will be re-started anywhere. I don't think Jill Stein will push lawsuits anywhere now, I think it is over.

REASON: It was proven that Hillary most likely stole 100, 000 plus votes in Detroit. Who knows how many, but it looks like she stole 85 percent of her total votes. SHE GOT BUSTED THERE. And I know damn well she did this nationwide.

What happened to prove it? A certified box that was marked to have over 300 ballots inside, which was used to represent that many voters, was opened and it only had 50. Some were obviously Trump votes, and whatever was left for Hillary was re-run through the counting machines however many times it took to get the count up to over 300.

People are erroneously saying Hillary was over represented by 6 X because they are taking the entire number of ballots and dividing 300 by that. But the cold hard reality was that there were probably fewer than 20 votes in that box for Hillary, and the people we are supposed to trust to count the election may have run them in excess of 15X each.

[Ron Mauer Sr]

I am wondering if recounts are done by people?
Or are the recounts done with the closed source/unverified software that was used for the original count?

[Bluegreen]

Posted by Ron Mauer Sr (here)
I am wondering if recounts are done by people?
Or are the recounts done with the closed source/unverified software that was used for the original count?

Wisconsin recount is conducted by the Board of Canvassers, which is each "Municipal Clerk and two other qualified electors (election inspectors)". My understanding of state law is that electronic votes are to be recounted electronically and physical votes physically.

From Politifact.com and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (12-9-16):

According to State House Republican Sean Duffy: "We only have one county that's hand counting the votes, that's Dane County, which is the home of (state capitol) Madison. It's the progressive-liberal-Communist community of Madison."

[Hervé]

Wisconsin recount ends, Trump... gains more votes

Published time: 13 Dec, 2016 10:33
Edited time: 13 Dec, 2016 10:58
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FILE PHOTO © Ben Brewer / Reuters

The final results of the Wisconsin recount are in, much to Donald Trump's delight. The president-elect took to Twitter to bask in the glory of the final numbers, which threw additional votes his way.

Nearly 3 million votes were recounted in the swing state, with the result handing Trump even more votes than were originally recorded.

Using what seems to be his favorite means of communication, Trump tweeted the news, once again calling the recount led by Green Party candidate Jill Stein a “scam.”

Donald J. Trump Verified account ‏@realDonaldTrump

The final Wisconsin vote is in and guess what - we just picked up an additional 131 votes. The Dems and Green Party can now rest. Scam!

While Trump's tweet said the recount landed him an additional 131 votes, AP reported that he picked up a net 162 votes.

The Wisconsin results changed by fewer than 1,800 votes, or 0.06 percent. Overall, Trump won the state by more than 22,000 votes.

In addition, the recount found no evidence of widespread problems or hacking, despite suggestions from Stein, who argued – without evidence – that voting machines in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan were susceptible to hacking.

Stein responded to the recount results in a statement on her website, saying she is “disappointed that not all counties conducted a full hand recount, which is considered the ‘gold standard’.”

She went on to say that the recount was not about changing the outcome of the election, but about “validating the vote and restoring confidence in our voting system...”

Stein paid for the Wisconsin recount after crowdsourcing the $3.5 million required.

Meanwhile, Pennsylvania's recount efforts also came to a close on Monday, with a federal judge rejecting Stein's request to recount paper ballots and scan some counties’ election systems for signs of hacking.

Trump won Pennsylvania after taking home 2.97 million votes compared to Hillary Clinton’s 2.93 million. The result represents the closest percentage victory in a presidential race in Pennsylvania since 1840.

A judge also halted Michigan's recount last week.

Trump has repeatedly called the recount efforts a scam by Stein and her Green Party, tweeting last month that it was aimed to “fill up their coffers.”

[Hervé]

Intelligence Officer Who Personally Met the Democratic Email Leaker Confirms Leaker Is with AMERICAN INTELLIGENCE Services

by George Washington Dec 12, 2016 5:33 PM

The former intelligence analyst, British Ambassador to Uzbekistan, and chancellor of the University of Dundee, Craig Murray, wrote yesterday:

As Julian Assange has made crystal clear, the leaks did not come from the Russians. As I have explained countless times, they are not hacks, they are insider leaks – there is a major difference between the two.

***

I know who leaked them. I’ve met the person who leaked them, and they are certainly not Russian and it’s an insider. It’s a leak, not a hack; the two are different things.

In other words, Murray – a close friend of Julian Assange – says he knows for a fact that there were no hacks at all … instead, an American insider leaked the information to Wikileaks.

Today, Murray writes:

If you set up the super surveillance state, hoovering up all the internet traffic of pretty well everybody, that is not just going to affect the ordinary people whom the elite despise. There is also going to be an awful lot of traffic intercepted from sleazy members of the elite connected to even the most senior politicians, revealing all their corruption and idiosyncracies. From people like John Podesta, to take an entirely random example. And once the super surveillance state has intercepted and stored all that highly incriminating material, you never know if some decent human being, some genuine patriot, from within the security services is going to feel compelled to turn whistleblower.

Than they might turn for help to, to take another entirely random example, Julian Assange.

This confirms what the NSA executive who created the agency’s mass surveillance program for digital information, who served as the senior technical director within the agency, who managed six thousand NSA employees, the 36-year NSA veteran widely regarded as a “legend” within the agency and the NSA’s best-ever analyst and code-breaker, who mapped out the Soviet command-and-control structure before anyone else knew how, and so predicted Soviet invasions before they happened (“in the 1970s, he decrypted the Soviet Union’s command system, which provided the US and its allies with real-time surveillance of all Soviet troop movements and Russian atomic weapons”) – previously said: the leaker was from U.S. intelligence services. And see this.

And Murray confirmed to Washington's Blog by email that Binney "was on the mark." And see this.

In other words, Russia did not hack the Democratic party emails. Instead, an American intelligence whistleblower leaked them.

It wouldn't be the first time.

Update: David Swanson interviewed Murray today, and obtained additional information. Specifically, Murray told Swanson that: (1) there were two American leakers ... one for the emails of the Democratic National Committee and one for the emails of top Clinton aide John Podesta; (2) Murray met one of those leakers; and (3) both leakers are American insiders with the NSA and/or the DNC, with no known connections to Russia.

And see this.

Postscript: As we've pointed out for years, the NSA is collecting all digital communications, including emails, in America.

The NSA then shares this information with numerous other agencies, including the FBI, DEA, etc.

We've noted that the NSA’s big data collection itself creates an easy mark for hackers. Remember, the Pentagon itself sees the collection of “big data” as a “national security threat” … but the NSA is the biggest data collector on the planet, and thus provides a tempting mother lode of information for foreign hackers.
And we've documented that the Obama administration has prosecuted more whistleblowers than all other presidents combined.

It sounds like this witches brew of bad policy is what led to the Democratic email leaks from an insider in the intelligence services.

But if anyone wants to try to prove Murray and Binney wrong, it should be easy to check.


Related:
Top US Spy Agency Refuses To Endorse CIA's Russian Hacking Assessment Due To "Lack Of Evidence"

[Hervé]

Interesting follow up from the above:

Facebook blocks access to Craig Murray's "Russian hacking" debunking, then grants access after they're called out

By Craig Murray
CraigMurray.org.uk
Sun, 11 Dec 2016 18:23 UTC

So far 564 people believe they have shared on Facebook my article conclusively refuting the CIA's invention of lies about Russia hacking the DNC, using the share button on this site. Another 78 have tried to share it from my Facebook page. Between them those 650 people will have, according to the Facebook average, about 200,000 friends. The total amount of incoming traffic from these 200,000 friends? 22 people. Almost nobody can currently reach this site through Facebook, as the "came from" interface on my statcounter below shows. Nothing from Facebook. Facebook are actively colluding in preventing social media from contradicting the mainstream media lies about Russian involvement in the US election campaign.

Don't believe me? If you think you shared the article on Facebook, phone one of your Facebook friends and ask if it appeared for them.

The only way to defeat this is to republish the article yourself. I waive any copyright. If you have access to a blog, copy and paste it there and post a link to that blog on Facebook. Or simply cut and paste my whole article and copy it to your Facebook page, in sections if required.

I am similarly ghost banned on twitter. The work round to this, which plenty of people have found, is to create a new tweet yourself with a link to my site, rather than retweet one of my tweets. As with the Facebook share, if you do retweet you will be unaware it doesn't work.

There are profound implications for society in the compliance of the major social media corporations with establishment demands to prevent social media from effectively challenging the mainstream media narrative - and I cannot think of a more classic example than this case. I do urge you to take action as described above, to show that the people will not stand for it.

UPDATE:
Calling Facebook out worked, we have just been unblocked! If you contrast this new came from log with the above, you will immediately see the difference - and just how important social media is to a dissident website like this one.

Related: Craig Murray's expose: The CIA's big lies about 'Russian hacking' puts everyone in danger

[Hervé]

'Losers always look for someone to blame': Putin slams claim that Russia hacked US elections

Alex Christoforou The Duran Fri, 23 Dec 2016 12:52 UTC

© Sputnik/ Michael Klimentyev - Vladimir Putin

Once again Putin has one-upped Obama, showing how a true statesmen and diplomat behaves.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is holding his traditional end-of-year Q&A marathon session.

Over 1,400 journalists are in attendance at this year's event, free to ask a variety of questions to the Russian President.

Alleged Russian tampering in the US elections, was one hot topic discussed during the Q&A, for which Putin noted...

'Losers always look for someone to blame, but they should first of all look at themselves. The most important thing is what was revealed. It's not like people invented this information - what they reported is true. It showed how the Democratic Party manipulated the system against Bernie Sanders. Instead of apologizing, they began to look for people to blame.'

Unlike US President Obama, who felt he needed to prove his manhood by bragging about how he warned the Russian President in September "to cut it out" or else "there were going to be some serious consequences if he did not" stop hacking US emails (for which no evidence exists), Russian President Putin said that details of conversations with President Obama will remain confidential...

'I never reveal the contents of private discussions with foreign leaders.'

Once again Putin has one-upped Obama, showing how a true statesmen and diplomat behaves.


The entire Q&A press conference (4 hours long):

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=hlLb5s2rr_E

[Hervé]

Trump questions claim of Russia hacking DNC, says he ‘knows things other people don’t’

Published time: 1 Jan, 2017 03:58
Edited time: 1 Jan, 2017 04:02
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U.S. President-elect Donald Trump talks to reporters as he and his wife Melania Trump arrive for a New Year's Eve celebration with members and guests at the Mar-a-lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida, U.S. December 31, 2016. © Jonathan Ernst / Reuters

US President-elect Donald Trump said it was possible “somebody else” compromised the Democratic campaign’s servers as he spoke to reporters on New Year’s Eve, adding that he will reveal some previously undisclosed facts in the coming days.

“I think it’s unfair if we don’t know. It could be somebody else,” Reuters cited Trump as telling media at his Mar-a-Lago estate as he referred to the pinning of the blame for the alleged hacks on Russia.

“I also know things that other people don’t know, so we cannot be sure,” Trump added. “You will find out on Tuesday or Wednesday.”

He also reiterated his willingness to have “great relations” with other countries, including Russia and China.

Trump was apparently asked about his position on the alleged Moscow-backed “hacking” of the Democratic National Committee that resulted in the emergence of leaks unfavorable to Hillary Clinton. While he has consistently shrugged off the accusations, which also claimed he was backed by Russia against Clinton, Trump on Thursday reacted to the new sanctions against Russia and the release of a report by the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with a promise to attend intelligence briefings to be updated on the matter.

Trump also said then that the US needs to “move on to bigger and better things.”

The latest report by the FBI and the DHS did not reveal any convincing evidence of the Russian government being behind the alleged hacks, and came with a disclaimer, saying the DHS “does not provide any warranties of any kind regarding any information contained within.”

On Saturday, Trump was also asked about the possibility that he may meet with the Taiwanese president if she was to visit the US after his January 20 inauguration. The issue of Trump talking with Tsai Ing-wen appeared shortly after the two had a phone conversation following Trump’s election victory. The conversation appeared to contradict Beijing’s “One China” policy, meaning that Taiwan should be considered part of China, which the US has upheld for decades.

“We’ll see,” Trump said about meeting Tsai Ing-wen, without elaborating, leading US media to conclude he was leaving a door open to such a possibility.

Trump’s conversation with Taiwan’s leader was rebuked by Beijing and drew some criticism at home, while the president-elect said he was simply accepting a congratulatory call.


Related:
‘Russian hackers’ penetrate US power grid with ‘outdated Ukrainian malware’

[TouchTone]

Posted by Hervé (here)
Trump questions claim of Russia hacking DNC, says he ‘knows things other people don’t’

Published time: 1 Jan, 2017 03:58
Edited time: 1 Jan, 2017 04:02
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U.S. President-elect Donald Trump talks to reporters as he and his wife Melania Trump arrive for a New Year's Eve celebration with members and guests at the Mar-a-lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida, U.S. December 31, 2016. © Jonathan Ernst / Reuters

US President-elect Donald Trump said it was possible “somebody else” compromised the Democratic campaign’s servers as he spoke to reporters on New Year’s Eve, adding that he will reveal some previously undisclosed facts in the coming days.

“I think it’s unfair if we don’t know. It could be somebody else,” Reuters cited Trump as telling media at his Mar-a-Lago estate as he referred to the pinning of the blame for the alleged hacks on Russia.

“I also know things that other people don’t know, so we cannot be sure,” Trump added. “You will find out on Tuesday or Wednesday.”

He also reiterated his willingness to have “great relations” with other countries, including Russia and China.

Trump was apparently asked about his position on the alleged Moscow-backed “hacking” of the Democratic National Committee that resulted in the emergence of leaks unfavorable to Hillary Clinton. While he has consistently shrugged off the accusations, which also claimed he was backed by Russia against Clinton, Trump on Thursday reacted to the new sanctions against Russia and the release of a report by the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with a promise to attend intelligence briefings to be updated on the matter.

Trump also said then that the US needs to “move on to bigger and better things.”

The latest report by the FBI and the DHS did not reveal any convincing evidence of the Russian government being behind the alleged hacks, and came with a disclaimer, saying the DHS “does not provide any warranties of any kind regarding any information contained within.”

On Saturday, Trump was also asked about the possibility that he may meet with the Taiwanese president if she was to visit the US after his January 20 inauguration. The issue of Trump talking with Tsai Ing-wen appeared shortly after the two had a phone conversation following Trump’s election victory. The conversation appeared to contradict Beijing’s “One China” policy, meaning that Taiwan should be considered part of China, which the US has upheld for decades.

“We’ll see,” Trump said about meeting Tsai Ing-wen, without elaborating, leading US media to conclude he was leaving a door open to such a possibility.

Trump’s conversation with Taiwan’s leader was rebuked by Beijing and drew some criticism at home, while the president-elect said he was simply accepting a congratulatory call.


Related:
‘Russian hackers’ penetrate US power grid with ‘outdated Ukrainian malware’

This is exactly what I referred to in this post https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...=1#post1124527

The emails given to Wikileaks originated from within the US, collected by the US intelligence community as part of a long-standing and ongoing program engaged in the collection of intelligence. Every one of Hillarys emails are archived and legally available for evidence in court, despite the fact that those emails were deleted aterwards. Whether or not there will be legal action is up to those making these decisions. Not everyone within the intelligence community is committed to sitting idle and watching the current adminitration abuse their power. The leaking of the emails was a way to show the world just how corrupt the Clinton machine really is. RNC emails were also checked, and pretty much the only reason they were not released was a lack of evidence of attempted manipulation of the election. There were internal conflicts and bickering, but nothing of the level that the DNC had. The party that leaked those emails was not political, he doesn't even like Trump. But after reading through that mess (part of his job), he felt that the public had a right to know the truth about what was going on within campaign efforts. Obama is doing his best to blame Putin for something that Putin had no part of. He is politicizing something that was not intended to be political. It was an attempt to get the truth out to the public. It was an abundance of Democratic campaign dirt and a lack of Republican campaign dirt that made it appear to be politically motivated.

What Snowden revealed is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the capabilities of the international intelligence community. It is not only US based, it is a multi-national cooperative effort. I'll not go into great detail, but consider this. It is your smart devices that are being used to collect information about you. Phone calls, social media, email, computerized messaging, ect. Just because you may be paranoid does not mean that you are not being watched in one or more ways.

[Hervé]

Posted by TouchTone (here)
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... Obama is doing his best to blame Putin for something that Putin had no part of. He is politicizing something that was not intended to be political. It was an attempt to get the truth out to the public. It was an abundance of Democratic campaign dirt and a lack of Republican campaign dirt that made it appear to be politically motivated.
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See this post (<---) as well as this one (<---) for the evidence of an internationally orchestrated psy-op against Russia and Putin.

PS: Welcome to Avalon!

[TouchTone]

Posted by Hervé (here)
See this post (<---) as well as this one (<---) for the evidence of an internationally orchestrated psy-op against Russia and Putin.

PS: Welcome to Avalon!

Thank you Hervé

That is fairly old news now in the constantly evolving process. It does play into one of the reasons why Obama is taking advantage of the emotional upset over election results to further his puppetmasters agenda as much as possible before he steps down. He did not count on a revolt within the intelligence community over his orders to push forth a common agenda to blame this on Putin, and to delegitimize Trump in the process if he can.

The CIA will typically do whatever is asked by a POTUS, however other agencies have a higher charter and will tend to put the security of the nation over a POTUS request. The classification (clearance) of a standing POTUS is limited for a reason. Like enlisted military personell, a POTUS is limited in the term of employment. Long term positions at higher classifications are typically held for most of ones life. Even when we retire, we don't always totally retire. Many are kept in the loop and active, consulted at times, and reactivated if/when the need arises. I have been reactivated and I have retired several times since retiring for the first time.

[Hervé]

Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard has a bill to stop the U.S. arming ISIS

Paul Kaiser Russia Insider
Fri, 13 Jan 2017 19:33 UTC

Tulsi Gabbard

FOX's Tucker Carlson scored another great interview when he spoke to Hawaii's congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard. Rep. Gabbard talked about her meeting with President-elect Trump some weeks ago to discuss the danger of further neocon escalation of the war in Syria.

She has also recently introduced a bill in congress aimed at preventing the US from funding terrorist groups like ISIS in the future. The bill is brilliantly named the "Stop Funding Terrorists Act." Seems guaranteed to pass - who could possibly justify voting against it to their constituents? Having this on the books would be a useful tool to stop any further terror-funding operations. Something to watch.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=76GhC5d52d8