Transition into Trump

[turiya]

TIME MAGAZINE RIPS OF MAD MAGAZINE

[AutumnW]

Whoever replaces Trump will be far worse and is my worst fear. Pence makes me shudder.

[turiya]

X22 Report.... for May 18 2017...

SIDE NOTE: Oracle States: Trump will not be impeached, replaced or assassinated... attempts may be made, but will not be successful... In fact, Trump will serve two full terms as POTUS. You can take that to the 'new' bank system.

The Coup d'état Has Begun Which
Will Divide America - Episode 1283b
(Published on May 18, 2017)

VIDEO

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Related Articles...

BUSTED: Trump-Comey NYT Journo @NYTMike Admits He Never Saw Memo! -- GotNews!


New York Times Mexican telecom mogul Carlos Slim’s blogger Michael Schmidt told professional liar Brian Williams that he hadn’t seen the memos that James Comey allegedly wrote. “Someone that had seen them recounted details to me,” Schmidt said in what is a breach of journalistic protocol.

• May 18, 2017

BUSTED: Trump NatSec Adviser Dina Habib Powell Leaks to @NYTimes Democrat Operative @MaggieNYT Haberman -- GotNews!


Presidential Adviser Dina Habib Powell can’t stop betraying President Donald J. Trump by leaking to New York Times White House Correspondent Maggie Haberman, according to sources close to GotNews and patriot pundit Mike Cernovich.
Dina Habib Powell is only the latest national security threat in the White House GotNews has exposed. In February, we revealed Deputy Chief of Staff Katie Walsh as a White House leaker to the Times’s Haberman, resulting in Walsh’s firing.

• May 18, 2017

BUSTED: Sources Confirm NatSec Advisor H. R. McMaster & His Deputy Dina Powell Are Leaking To The Anti-Trump Media -- GotNews!


Two separate National Security Council sources have confirmed that National Security Advisor H. R. McMaster and Deputy National Security Advisor Dina Powell have been leaking negative material about President Donald J. Trump to their allies in the anti-Trump media, GotNews can exclusively report.
“It’s very hard when your boss, the President, and your boss, the NSC advisor, see the world so differently,” says one staffer, who opposes regime change in Syria.

• May 16, 2017

Trump Under Siege: More than 60 Percent of NSC Employees Placed by Obama -- Breitbart


A White House source estimates more than 60 percent of employees at the National Security Council are not Trump administration appointees, but career officials who were appointed to the White House from other agencies under the Obama administration.
The source said there are “whole departments” at the NSC with only one Trump appointee.
“I think the lesson here is that these things are going to continue to happen until the Trump White House does a serious housecleaning,” said Fred Fleitz, a former CIA and Bush administration official.

• May 17, 2017

China, ASEAN approve framework for South China Sea code of conduct -- IHS Jane's Defence Weekly


China and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) have agreed on a draft framework for a code of conduct (COC) in the South China Sea (SCS) in a bid to ease regional tensions over territorial disputes in the area.

• May 19, 2017

US: Venezuela crisis worsening, wants to prevent new Syria -- Washington Post


The United States called Wednesday’s first-ever U.N. Security Council consultations on Venezuela because the crisis is getting worse and the Trump administration wants to prevent another conflict like Syria, North Korea or South Sudan, U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley said.
Venezuelan Ambassador Rafael Ramirez strongly rejected the U.S. bringing his country’s political dispute to the United Nations’ most powerful body and accused Washington of again trying “to interfere in our domestic issues.”

• May 17, 2017

Putin, Venezuela's Maduro Discuss Oil Market Situation in Phone Call - Kremlin -- Sputnik


The sides also discussed urgent issues of the Russian-Venezuelan strategic partnership and implementation of mutually beneficial projects in various spheres.

• May 18, 2017

South Korean Envoy: Trump Willing to Accept North Korea Diplomacy ‘Under Right Conditions’



President Trump’s discussion with South Korea’s newly dispatched presidential envoy was followed by upbeat reporting in the South Korean media, saying that Trump had assured the ambassador that he is willing to accept diplomatic engagement with North Korea “under the right conditions.”

• May 17, 2017

[section9]

Slow motion coup. This won't end well.

[onawah]

Is There a Point to All This Cruelty?
Betsy DeVos knows nothing about public education.
http://www.esquire.com/news-politics...ducation-cuts/
(My objections to Trump have little to do with "political correctness", and if he shakes things up, that's great. Things need a good shaking. But besides his boorish behavior, what I find problematical is things like this. )

BY CHARLES P. PIERCE
MAY 18, 2017

While we're on the subject of bad hiring in the executive branch, let's not forget that Betsy DeVos, the Secretary of Education, was the single most obviously unqualified Cabinet nominee—Grizzlies!—in the history of the republic. On Thursday, from The Washington Post, we find that DeVos is finding ways to fulfill her life's dream of destroying public education and monetizing all those bright shiny faces.

The cuts would come from eliminating at least 22 programs, some of which Trump outlined in March. Gone, for example, would be $1.2 billion for after-school programs that serve 1.6 million children, most of whom are poor, and $2.1 billion for teacher training and class-size reduction. The documents obtained by The Post — dated May 23, the day the president's budget is expected to be released — outline the rest of the cuts, including a $15 million program that provides child care for low-income parents in college; a $27 million arts education program; two programs targeting Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian students, totaling $65 million; two international education and foreign language programs, $72 million; a $12 million program for gifted students; and $12 million for Special Olympics education programs...
...The Trump administration would dedicate no money to a fund for student support and academic enrichment that is meant to help schools pay for, among other things, mental-health services, anti-bullying initiatives, physical education, Advanced Placement courses and science and engineering instruction. Congress created the fund, which totals $400 million this fiscal year, by rolling together several smaller programs. Lawmakers authorized as much as $1.65 billion, but the administration's budget for it in the next fiscal year is zero.
Is there a point to all this gratuitous cruelty? Why, yes, there is.

The cuts would make space for investments in choice, including $500 million for charter schools, up 50 percent over current funding. The administration also wants to spend $250 million on "Education Innovation and Research Grants," which would pay for expanding and studying the impacts of vouchers for private and religious schools. It's not clear how much would be spent on research versus on the vouchers themselves.
Pell Grants take a beating, too, and the proposed budget eliminates the public-service-based debt forgiveness program on student loans that the Obama administration put in place in 2007. (People who go into teaching or who become doctors in underserved rural communities qualify for the program.) Over half a million people have signed up for this program, which is due to kick in this October. What happens to them is anybody's guess.

Betsy DeVos does not know anything about public education except that she doesn't believe in it as a concept. Free public education is one of the unquestioned triumphs of the American experiment, but it's a disposable commodity to a know-nothing fanatic who married into a vast fortune and dedicated a lot of it to wrecking public education. One of the worst things about electing an unqualified dolt to be president is that the dolt's administration is a paradise for free-range maniacs and their personal crusades. This is a case in point.

[turiya]

Related Articles to post #2943... (continued)

US Coalition Jets Strike Assad Convoy In Southern Syria


According to Reuters coalition jets have struck an Assad convoy in Southern Syria; near Tanf where US and British special operations forces have been training Syrian rebel fighters near the border with Iraq and Jordan. A US-led coalition spokesperson has confirmed that coalition strikes in southern Syria struck Syrian government militia "after it moved against US-backed forces in Syria."

• May 18, 2017

US-led Coalition Carried Out Airstrikes On Syrian Army Convoy Advancing Towards Iraqi Border -- Southfront


A Jordanian warplane operating under the US-led coalition carried out airstrikes against a Syrian Arab Army (SAA) convoy advancing along the Al-Tanf-Damascus-Baghdad international road. The airstrikes targeted Syrian forces in Al-Shuhaimi area, 50 km from the town of Al-Tanf located at the Syrian-Iraqi border.
The airstrikes destroyed two battle tanks, and damaged a Shilka vehicle, several pickups and trucks. Six SAA fighters lost their life and 3 were injured.
According to some US defense official, cited by the Russian state-run news agency Sputink, the US coalition commander considered the Syrian army as a threat to coalition troops.

• May 18, 2017

U.S. Airstrikes Hit Syrian Military Vehicles for Violating ‘De-Confliction Zone’ -- Breitbart via CNN


The U.S. Coalition warplane entered Syrian airspace from the Jordanian border
- A convoy of five T-62 tanks were hit by the U.S. Coalition
- Two tanks were destroyed
- A Shilka was damaged
- Six military personnel were killed and another three were wounded
- Convoy consisted of soldiers from the Syrian Arab Army (SAA), National Defense Forces (NDF), Hezbollah, and Imam Al-‘Ali Battalions

• May 18, 2017

US Intelligence Says Daesh Putting Together New Chemical Weapons Cell in Syria -- Sputnik


The US intelligence community believes the Islamic State terrorist group (Daesh) is establishing a new unit on chemical weapons, comprising of experts from Iraq and Syria who have never worked together before, media reported.

• May 18, 2017

[onawah]

If this is Trump's way of rubbing our noses in our own excrement in order to demonstrate how much needs to be cleaned up, I hope it works, but I don't think this is the best or wisest approach.
Perhaps it's simply what karma dictates at this point in the planetary evolution.
I hope we get through it soon...

Posted by onawah (here)
Is There a Point to All This Cruelty?
Betsy DeVos knows nothing about public education.
http://www.esquire.com/news-politics...ducation-cuts/
(My objections to Trump have little to do with "political correctness", and if he shakes things up, that's great. Things need a good shaking. But besides his boorish behavior, what I find problematical is things like this. )

BY CHARLES P. PIERCE
MAY 18, 2017

While we're on the subject of bad hiring in the executive branch, let's not forget that Betsy DeVos, the Secretary of Education, was the single most obviously unqualified Cabinet nominee—Grizzlies!—in the history of the republic. On Thursday, from The Washington Post, we find that DeVos is finding ways to fulfill her life's dream of destroying public education and monetizing all those bright shiny faces.

The cuts would come from eliminating at least 22 programs, some of which Trump outlined in March. Gone, for example, would be $1.2 billion for after-school programs that serve 1.6 million children, most of whom are poor, and $2.1 billion for teacher training and class-size reduction. The documents obtained by The Post — dated May 23, the day the president's budget is expected to be released — outline the rest of the cuts, including a $15 million program that provides child care for low-income parents in college; a $27 million arts education program; two programs targeting Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian students, totaling $65 million; two international education and foreign language programs, $72 million; a $12 million program for gifted students; and $12 million for Special Olympics education programs...
...The Trump administration would dedicate no money to a fund for student support and academic enrichment that is meant to help schools pay for, among other things, mental-health services, anti-bullying initiatives, physical education, Advanced Placement courses and science and engineering instruction. Congress created the fund, which totals $400 million this fiscal year, by rolling together several smaller programs. Lawmakers authorized as much as $1.65 billion, but the administration's budget for it in the next fiscal year is zero.
Is there a point to all this gratuitous cruelty? Why, yes, there is.

The cuts would make space for investments in choice, including $500 million for charter schools, up 50 percent over current funding. The administration also wants to spend $250 million on "Education Innovation and Research Grants," which would pay for expanding and studying the impacts of vouchers for private and religious schools. It's not clear how much would be spent on research versus on the vouchers themselves.
Pell Grants take a beating, too, and the proposed budget eliminates the public-service-based debt forgiveness program on student loans that the Obama administration put in place in 2007. (People who go into teaching or who become doctors in underserved rural communities qualify for the program.) Over half a million people have signed up for this program, which is due to kick in this October. What happens to them is anybody's guess.

Betsy DeVos does not know anything about public education except that she doesn't believe in it as a concept. Free public education is one of the unquestioned triumphs of the American experiment, but it's a disposable commodity to a know-nothing fanatic who married into a vast fortune and dedicated a lot of it to wrecking public education. One of the worst things about electing an unqualified dolt to be president is that the dolt's administration is a paradise for free-range maniacs and their personal crusades. This is a case in point.

update: Also see Stop Trusting Megalomaniacs: https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...=1#post1154160

[turiya]

WannaCry XXL? 2nd even bigger global cyber attack already underway


As the world reels from the WannaCry ransomware attack, it’s now emerged that a second, potentially larger attack, is already under way. It seems the widespread proliferation of military-grade cyberweapons has ushered in a new era of digital crime.

“Initial statistics suggest that this attack may be larger in scale than WannaCry, affecting hundreds of thousands of PCs and servers worldwide: because this attack shuts down SMB networking to prevent further infections with other malware (including the WannaCry worm) via that same vulnerability, it may have in fact limited the spread of last week's WannaCry infection,” wrote a security researcher who goes by the alias Kafeine at cybersecurity company Proofpoint.

• May 18, 2017

STEVE PIECZENIK - OPUS 5
(Published May 14, 2017)

VIDEO

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From X22 Report 1280b...

The Central Banker, Deep State Secret
Weapon, The 'Kill Switch' - Episode 1280b
(Published on May 15, 2017)

VIDEO

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X22 Report 1280b:
[@ 17:13]
But what's very interesting about this is to understand what happened here... In a matter of hours, countries were stopped in their tracks. China ATM machines frozen, hospitals went dark.

If they can do this on this type of scale, think about what they can do with world with the banking system. And we know they've been planning this for a very long time. We know that they will use whatever they have to... to blame this on another group, another person, or any type of entity. And the only way to basically show that they're not responsible for the economy going down, is to use some type of cyber attack. Remember they have kill switches for the stock market, the S&P 500... [they have it for the BA system]... they've developed this a long time ago.

British and U.S. agents, they've been carrying out mock cyber attack war games. The Bank of England & the commercial banks in the city of London and on Wall Street - they were part of these tests.

And what we're seeing right now is a system which they can bring down in a split second. Which means... All funds, all digital currency, they can completely wipe out. This is their 'kill switch' for the system. This is what I'm talking about... how they can take this system down in a split.

Now if they figure that Trump is winning and he, and the good guys in part of his administration, and they're bringing down the system, they [the Deep State] might go ahead & try to bring down the system in this manner - whereby they will freeze everything. They will say it wasn't them, they might even blame it on Trump, they might blame it on North Korea, who knows... Doesn't really matter at this point. But, the point is: they will make sure that they're not blamed for it. Then, they will make it look like they are coming to the rescue. And you can see how this whole thing can unfold right now.

Now remember, their job - the Deep State / the central bank - their job right now is to create an instance where they can create war, if they can't get that started... because, if they have a war, well, they can say that 'since, we're in a war, the economy is not doing well & system is collapsing, everyone has to, basically, sacrifice.'

If they can't get the war started, and they see that Trump is bringing down the system, and they have no alternative but to bring it down, they will use a cyber attack. This way, they can blame whoever they want. They can blame it on Trump, and plus, they will still be in control of the system.

They also are trying to get rid of Trump. What do you think this Russian collusion whole thing is about... This is why they've never let it go. And I'm sure they're going to come up with alot more information about Trump, because they want him gone. They don't want him in office. He is 'The Enemy'.

And this is why they've been trying so hard... Actually, during the campaign, during the election, right after the election... think about all the things they've done to try to get rid of him. And now they're continually pushing the Russian collusion. I wouldn't be surprised if they come up with even more to try to get him to resign, or to try to impeach him... and if all this doesn't work, they're still going to try to assassinate him.

But they do have the 'kill switch' ready to go, which means, they will bring down the financial institutions if they have no way out of the entire situation. If they feel that they're losing, and they have no alternative, they are going to throw the switch & everything is going to come down...

X22 Report Episode 1280b

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Ransomware Segment of Episode 1283b @ 21:00
(Published on May 18, 2017)

VIDEO

X22 Report Episode 1283b
@ 21:00]

There is information out there that there's another piece of Ransomware that's out there, and its much larger than WannaCry. And, its called EternalBlue and Double Pulsar Exploits developed by used by the NSA which was released by The Shadow Brokers hackers back in April. The initial statistics suggest that this attack may be larger in scale than WannaCry, affecting hundreds of thousands of PCs and Servers worldwide.

Now, they don't shut them down, they don't ask for money. What they do, is they use your processing power to, basically, mine crypto currency. So if you see your PC, your laptop slowing down & you really can't do anything, you may have this on your system.

And we know that the Deep State / The Cental Bankers, we know that eventually what they're going to do, when they can't get their way, when their plans don't pan out... and they have no alternative, they are going to hit the world with a cyber attack - Not just the U.S. We can see already from the Wannacry, all they had to do was to flip a switch & Boom, it was out there. And this was kind of benign.

Think about the more advanced Ransomwares, or the more advanced malware or viruses that they have - systems that they can use - where they can just bring down systems in a snap of a finger. Remember, because of Wikileaks, we know that they have access to every single system. So, to bring something down is quite easy.

And this is why when I was speaking to Bix Weir in an interview, when he said 'yes, all digital currency is going to completely disappear. They can do this in a snap of a finger & wipe everything out. And this would be the perfect explanation of Why the economy failed. You can't track anything that they've. Everything they've done many years in the past is completely gone.

And they can say, "Listen, this wasn't our fault. This was because of this country, this group... and, we'll restart the system for you - no problem - All the debts gone. And, we'll just help everyone. And, of course, we'll have to go through a period where things are chaotic & things like that." And they'll have to restart the entire system.

And this is what the fight is about... Who is going to control the next economy... Who's going to control the creation of currency. Is it going to be 'We the People'? Or, is it going to be the Central Bank once again!

X22 Report #1283b

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Cyberattacks & the Vulnerability
of a Cashless Society

Guest Post by Martin Armstrong

QUESTION:

Cyberattacks vs. Cash elimination – an argument against eliminating cash. Hello Mr. Armstrong, it is quite apparent that no government, no financial institution, Anti-virus software developer, or either ‘whatever’ is is really capable to stop cyberattacks. Now these people want to eliminate cash, make larger cash amounts illegal. So theoretically these cyber attackers could/ maybe will, eventually just stop the whole economy. Nobody may even be able to buy food. So instead of eliminating cash, should it not be policy people carry at least a month’s worth of expenses in cash? Your reply should be quite interesting to us, your readership!

ANSWER:

The WannaCry Ransom attack is actually variant from a February 2015 sample attributed to the Lazarus Group, a Kaspersky-tracked actor tied to the North Korean government. Parts of the code go beyond shared code. It appears to be written by the same programmer.

Let’s get something straight here. At the core of those responsible is really the NSA and Microsoft itself. The attack exploited a Windows networking protocol to spread within networks, and while Microsoft released a patch nearly two months ago, it’s become very clear that patch didn’t reach all users particularly because institutions often do not install patches fearing that proprietary software may not function.

If behind the curtain we have government demanding back-doors into iPhones and computer so they can listen to everything everywhere, well guess what – so can everyone else. Patches will work for individual users, but not major institutions. Trying to upgrade their operations is a real effort. They are slow to act and thus vulnerable.

The NSA was well aware of this little trick. The real answer is the NSA and FBI must do investigation the old fashion way. Stop asking for secret back-doors that never remain secret very long. The entire world will become vulnerable and they use to counterfeit an adversary’s currency to undermine their economy. Today, if we keep this nonsense up, they will hack into the entire thing and shut it down.

The idea of moving to a cashless society is just insane. Somebody has to give up something here. Trust me – the intelligence community will not take responsibility.

Martin Armstong

[turiya]

Via Ben Garrison



DEEP STATE COUP


Via Branco

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[Chester]

Posted by section9 (here)
Slow motion coup. This won't end well.

Its already a fantastic ending no matter what else happens... get it? Trump exposed it all. Even the blindest of the blind see it now. Thank you, Donald J. Trump for doing exactly what I hoped you would do.

Expose

Now anything else good he does (and he's already done plenty) is just icing on the cake.

[turiya]

Harley Schlanger Interview goes over the Russian Collusion meme... the appointment of an Independent Counsel... Glass Steagall, the Federal Reserve, the IMF, etc., etc., etc....

Trump's Secret Plan For America & Why The
Deep State Is Trying To Stop It: Harley Schlanger
(Published on May 20, 2017)

VIDEO

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Greg Hunter interview w/ Warren Pollock...
Side Note: @ 30:42 Greg Hunter says it perfectly, imo:

"I think Trump is divinely protected."

--Greg Hunter

Warren Pollock-Patriot Trump
Must Go On Offensive
(Published on May 20, 2017)

VIDEO

Published on May 20, 2017

Geopolitical and financial analyst Warren Pollock says Trump it a “Patriot,” for blocking criminal politicians on both sides of the aisle from getting the White House, but he must to go on the offensive. Pollock explains, “If he plays spoiler, he will have to go on the offensive, but he’s not going to be able to make America great again. What he’s going to be able to do, if he gets his act together, is to start to take down some of this criminality at a very high level.

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[turiya]

BREAKING... From Bill Still Report #1639... regarding the Seth Rich murder....

ER Doc Who Operated on Seth Rich
Says He Was OK Until … SR #1639
(Published on May 20, 2017)

VIDEO

Synopsis:

This is an anonymous source alert – and at least that’s more than either the Wash Post or the NYT has given you.

A person on something called Boardnet – and within Boardnet, on something called - /pol/ - posted the following last Wednesday, May 17.

=> Side Note: Actual URL is: http://boards.4chan.org/pol/

https://img.4plebs.org/boards/pol/im...5062770662.png

“[I am a] 4th-year surgery resident here who rotated from WHC (Washington Hospital Center) last year, it won’t be hard to identify me but I feel that I shouldn’t stay silent.”

”Seth Rich was shot twice, with three total gunshot wounds (Entry and exit, and entry). He was taken to the OR emergency where we performed and exlap and found a small injury to segment three of the liver which was packed and several small bowel injuries (pretty common for gunshots in the back exiting the abdomen), which we resected—12 cm of bowel and left him in discontinuity (didn’t hook everything back up) with the intent of performing a washout in the morning. He did not have any major vascular injuries or otherwise. I’ve seen dozens of worse cases than this which survived and nothing about his injuries suggested to me that he’d sustained a fatal wound.”

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SOURCE

[Helene West]

I saw my Mom and two sisters yesterday:

One sister - Trump Hater, easily triggered, sees or hears trump and it's off to the races with the name calling. Has complete justification in place for non-stop slandering, etc.
Other sister - Voted Trump but gets news from mainstream sources.
Mom - Voted Trump and watches fox news exclusively but the day and earlier shows, not hannity.

!None of them - ever heard of Seth Rich!

Talk about 'divide and conquer' or 'controlled opposition'! With this extent of Segregation of groups of the population, why would the Tptb disband alternative news the way people worry they are out to? Alt news seems to help keep a segment of the population separated from the moderate conservatives thereby weakening the entire conservative/liberatian, etc element.
We're all in our separate bubbles.

[turiya]

Trump Speech in Saudi Arabia...

Trump Speech in Saudi Arabia to Muslim World
(Published on May 21, 2017)

VIDEO

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Alex Jones Full Show for Sunday, 5/21/2017... Paul Joseph Watson clip @ 37:00... Saudi Arabia analysis @ 43:40... phone calls @ 58:45

Alex Jones (FULL SHOW Commercial Free) Sunday 5/21/17:
Trump in Saudi Arabia News & Analysis
(Published on May 21, 2017)

VIDEO

[ThePythonicCow]

Here's an excellent article giving the background of James Comey, the recently fired FBI directory: Trump Dropping the Hammer on Comey

Trump fired Comey while Comey was 1000's of miles away from his Washington DC office, without Comey or any ally of Comey or the Clinton's having a clue it was going to happen. Then immediately, the Attorney General Jeff Sessions had Comey's office sealed off like a crime scene and cease all the papers, files and computers in Comey's office.

Comey goes a long way back with the Clintons, helping them get money and stay out of jail.

Here's what Comey has done for the Clintons:

When Bill Clinton was leaving the office of the President in January 2001, he pardoned a major criminal named Marc Rich. This caused a public (and law enforcement) outrage, sufficient to cause the Dept of Justice (DOJ) to investigate. Comey, a US attorney in the DOJ at the time, led that investigation, which cleared Clinton of any wrong doing.

Then Comey left the DOJ and became the head attorney (Counsel) for Lockheed Martin, a very large US defense contractor. While Comey was at Lockheed, Lockheed made major contributions to the Clinton Foundation, and received major contracts in return from the US Dept of State, while it was under the "leadership" of Sec of State Hillary Clinton.

Then left Lockheed (with an $6 million parting bonus), and joined the Board of Directors of HSBC bank during a major outbreak of scandals. HSBC has major involvement in a variety of drug money laudering, violations of the sanctions on Iran, terror funding operations and other criminal activity. They also pay heft speaking fees to Bill Clinton and make major donations to the Clinton Foundation. Thanks to the work of Comey and others, HSBC escaped the prosecution with just a fine, and no one going to jail.

Then as Hillary Clinton was leaving the Dept of State, Obama appointed Comey (whose background was in avoiding the law, not enforcing it) as Director of the FBI. Apparently the Clinton's figured that they had better have a trusted ally heading the FBI, to put a damper on any investigation or prosecution of their many crimes, such as Hillary's use of a private-server, her mis-handling classified information, her selling access to favors/contracts from the State Department to Clinton Foundation Donors (including Comey’s Lockheed Martin), and much more.

During the "investigations" that followed into Hillary's email server and activities, James Comey brought his brother's law firm in to handle the investigation, which never found anything worth prosecuting in two years. Meanwhile Comey and his key lackeys lost evidence, didn't find obvious evidence, gave immunity to the key suspects, and had evidence destroyed.

Comey ... a bought and paid for accomplice to the Clinton crime syndicate.

The article provides quite a bit more detail, and is well written. Check it out: Trump Dropping the Hammer on Comey

The Washington swamp has some nasty critters in it, who play for keeps, no holds barred.

I am impressed that Trump managed to fire Comey, and do so with sufficient surprise that he was able to have Comey's office searched before Comey or his people could get to it.

[turiya]

SGTreport.com video report of the coming crisis of this Fourth Turning as described in Neil Howe's book, 'The Fourth Turning'...

THE FOURTH TURNING:
Destruction Coming To America
(Published on May 21, 2017)

VIDEO

Published on May 21, 2017

Squawker contributor Michael Hart joins me to discuss the destruction that is coming to America. According to Hart, A crisis is not coming. It is already here, and it will be as defining a moment in the history of the United States as the Great Depression, World War II, or the American Civil War — that is, if you believe in an interesting theory laid out in a book called “The Fourth Turning: What Cycles of History Tell Us About America’s Next Rendezvous With Destiny.”

Hart notes that According to the book 'The Fourth Turning' authors Strauss and Howe, reveal that the relative geographic and historical isolation of the United States provides a unique opportunity to view this historical cycle unfold regularly and predictably every 80 years.

This 80-year cycle can be divided into four stages or seasons, each lasting approximately twenty years: High, Awakening, Unraveling and Crisis. We are in the Crisis stage and it will continue until 2025. The question is, how bad will it get? Join me and Michael Hart to find out.

https://squawker.org/analysis/america...

Watch THIS video on STEEMIT: https://steemit.com/@sgtreport

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Destruction Coming to America:
Donald Trump, Steve Bannon,
and ‘The Fourth Turning’

By Michael Hart
March 14, 2017

A crisis is not coming. It is already here, and it will be as defining a moment in the history of the United States as the Great Depression, World War II, or the American Civil War — that is, if you believe in an interesting theory laid out in a book called “The Fourth Turning: What Cycles of History Tell Us About America’s Next Rendezvous With Destiny.”

In this book published in 1997, authors William Strauss and Neil Howe make the argument that our ideas about the nature of history, linear time, and progress are illusory, and that if we want a more accurate concept on the way that history unfolds, we would do well to study the Ancient Greek concept of cyclical time. This concept views national and global historical phenomenon not as randomly occurring events, or the linear march of historical “progress,” but instead sees them as recurring archetypes placed into a larger tapestry of a greater repeating historical cycle.

The Fourth Turning: Destruction is Coming

According to Strauss and Howe, the relative geographic and historical isolation of the United States provides a unique opportunity to view this historical cycle unfold regularly and predictably every 80 years.

This 80-year cycle can be divided into four stages or seasons, each lasting approximately twenty years:

Immediately following WWII began the time of the “First Turning.”

1. High– This initial stage occurs immediately following a period of crisis. The High is characterized by strong institutions, a sense of collective destiny, and a weakness of individuality. The most recent example of this would be the period of prosperity and conformity in the U.S. immediately following the conclusion of World War II.

2. Awakening- The second stage, or turning, is a period of questioning established values and asserting one’s independence from established norms and morals, be they spiritual or political. This stage may be seen as a rebellion of the previous era’s emphasis on material wealth and conformity. The 1960’s, with the psychedelic revolution, anti-war protests, Civil Rights marches, and New Age spiritual movements can be seen as recent characteristics of this second stage, as well as Reaganomics and the mid-1980s Wall Street ethos.

“Justice for Mike Brown” and other social justice protests are symptoms
of the “Third Turning.” [Editorial credit: Rena Schild / Shutterstock.com]

3. Unraveling- The emphasis on autonomy and the questioning of spiritual, political, and individual authority in the Awakening stage eventually destabilizes society, leading to the Third Turning, in which institutions are weak and untrusted while the subjective experience of the individual is emphasized. This stage can be thought of as the inverse of the initial High stage, where collective destiny is replaced by atomization. A recent symptom of this stage would be the culture wars, corporate malfeasance, a lack of faith in government, and political correctness.

4. Crisis- In the Fourth Turning, a destabilizing event, usually involving warfare, leads to the destruction and reconstruction of institutions of power. In the face of destruction, Americans are forced to unite and forge a vision to restructure a disrupted society. This fourth stage can be seen as the inverse of the Awakening stage, and the authors cite World War II as the defining event of the most recent period of Crisis.

Destruction and war are symptoms of the “Fourth Turning.

”Strauss and Howe predicted that the next Crisis period that the US would face would happen sometime around 2005 and end around 2025. Anyone who has been paying attention over the last decade would have a difficult time refuting this. The financial crisis of 2008 threw the planet into discord, and we are now just beginning to see some of the political ramifications of this.

Much of the establishment press have made note of Steve Bannon’s interest in this book, striking a fearful and disturbing tone inferring that Bannon wishes to somehow ‘bring about’ this Fourth Turning. If you take the ideas of cyclical time seriously, one can no more accelerate or delay the arrival of these repeating natural events than one could delay winter or somehow lengthen summertime.

The Crisis is here, and Trump, as well as the rest of the western rebellion against the destabilizing forces of globalism are symptoms of the crisis as well as the cure to it.

Buckle up, because I’ve got a feeling that the coming decade is going to get pretty bumpy.

Squawker

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[turiya]

Bill Still Report #1642 - Newt Gingrich wants Special Counselor, Mueller to include the murder of Seth Rich in his proposed investigation...

Newt Calls for Seth Rich Investigation, 1642
(Published on May 21, 2017)

VIDEO

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Seth Rich Plot Thickens: "DC Insider" Speaks Of "Complete Panic" At Highest Levels Of DNC


"I know for certain that the Seth Rich case has scared the **** out of certain high ranking current and former Democratic Party officials. This is the reason why they have backed away from impeachment talk. They know the smoking gun is out there, and they’re terrified you will find it..."

• May 22, 2017 10:00 AM

[Helene West]

the above articles are all well and good but if they don't make Drudge and mainstream I don't think it matters. I just did a quick perusal of foxnews.com headlines, nothing but them perpetuating the 'trump in big trouble' meme.

You would think Newt Gingrich asking for an inquiry on Seth Rich would at least warrant 3 minutes of filler on the mainstream channels!

Re: my post above#2953 - where I noted that all 3 family members, 2 of 3 being trump voters, who I visited yesterday did not know who Seth Rich is!! I had to explain to them who the heck he is....

We alternative news followers are segregated. And personally I don't feel enough of these 'alt' hosts do enough to try to get breaking stuff to reporters in mainstream.

[turiya]

That's because 80% of MSM journalists are Deep State Fake News propagandists... and are brainwashed themselves, as well. If you're looking for this story to break on MSM news outlets then enjoyment in being distracted is just a hobby.

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'Complete panic' at highest levels of DNC
over internet hacker Kim Dotcom's claims
murdered Democratic aide Seth Rich
WAS the source of Wikileaks

By Dailymail.com Reporter
Published: 17:14 EDT, 22 May 2017 | Updated: 18:46 EDT, 22 May 2017

• Conspiracy theories surrounding the death of Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich were revived last week
• First, the D.C.-based Fox-affiliate ran a quickly-debunked story that said connections between Rich and Wikileaks had been found
• Over the weekend, those claims were repeated by hacker Kim Dotcom, who said he knew Rich and knew Rich was Wikileaks' source
• Now an anonymous source has come forward on controversial site 4Chan claiming that there was 'complete panic' at highest levels of DNC over the claims
• 'I know for certain that the Seth Rich case has scared the s**t out of certain high ranking current and former Democratic Party officials,' he claimed
• He provided no evidence on 4Chan to the claims, or those he worked in DC
• D.C. officials and the Rich family have pushed back against conspiracy claims saying there is 'no Wikileaks connection' in the homicide investigation

An anonymous 4 Chan poster claims that internet hacker Kim Dotcom's allegations that murdered Democratic aide Seth Rich was the source of Wikileaks has sparked 'complete panic' within the DNC.

The nameless individual, who claims to have spent 20 years working in DC, said the latest conspiracy theory, that Rich was killed because he was the source of the DNC leaks, had terrified high ranking officials.

Conservative TV host Sean Hannity has since repeated the claims that 'panic has set in at the highest levels of the Democratic Party.'

'I know for certain that the Seth Rich case has scared the s**t out of certain high ranking current and former Democratic Party officials,' the 'insider', who has provided not information to back up his claims or that he works in DC, wrote on the controversial discussion site 4 Chan.

An anonymous 4 Chan poster says that internet hacker Kim Dotcom's allegations that murdered Democratic aide Seth Rich was the source of Wikileaks has sparked 'complete panic' within the DNC

The nameless individual, who claims to have spent 20 years working in DC, wrote that he had never seen 'such a panicked reaction'

They added that this was why DNC executives had 'backed away from impeachment talk.'

'They know the smoking gun is out there, and they're terrified you will find it, because when you do it will bring the entire DNC, along with a couple of very big name politicians,' he added.

Conspiracy theories surrounding the death of Rich, who was gunned down in D.C. last July, are again swirling thanks to Dotcom's bold, and unsubstantiated claims, and a debunked news report from local station Fox5.

Seth Rich was shot in the back last July in D.C. Conspiracy theories have swirled around about his death, as some try to make a connection between Rich and Wikileaks' release of Democratic National Committee emails, which most believe were hacked by the Russians

Conservative TV host, and Trump supporter Sean Hannity, repeated the claim that 'complete panic' had set in at the DNC

Last Monday, Fox5 ran a piece in which an individual, Fox New legal commentator, Rod Wheeler, said it was 'confirmed' that Rich had ties to Wikileaks.

Wheeler was identified as the Rich family's investigator.

In reality, Wheeler's investigation has been funded by a third-party, and the Rich family sent him a cease and desist.

'As we've seen through the past year of unsubstantiated claims, we see no facts. We have seen no evidence. We have been approached with no emails and only learned about this when contacted by the press,' Rich's family said in a statement. 'We are a family who is committed to facts, not fake evidence that surfaces every few months to fill the void and distract law enforcement and the general public from finding Seth's murderers.'

People on the right have been trying to connect the dots between Rich and Wikileaks, as it would provide an explanation for why Rich was killed, and also taint the storyline that Russia was behind the Democratic National Committee hack.
Since the Fox5 story came out, not only did Rich's family refute the claims, but D.C. officials pushed back.

Internet hacker Kim Dotcom took to Twitter over the weekend and said he was involved in releasing the Democratic National Committee's emails to Wikileaks, along with murdered staffer Seth Rich

Online mogul Kim Dotcom said over the weekend that he knew Seth Rich and knew that the staffer was Wikileaks' source, of which there is zero evidence

Big name conservatives including Sean Hannity have been fanning the flames of the Seth Rich conspiracy theory. The Fox News personality later invited Kim Dotcom on a future show

'This is a robbery that ended tragically,' Deputy Mayor Kevin Donahue told the local NBC affiliate News4. 'That's bad enough for our city, and I think it is irresponsible to conflate this into something that doesn't connect to anything that the detectives have found.'

'No Wikileaks connection,' he enunciated.

But just as NBC, along with CNN and the Washington Post – including a deep dive by the Post's Dave Weigel on how the Rich story really is 'fake news' – tried to drown the conspiracy theories, Dotcom and several figures on the right brought it back.

Dotcom, a German-Finnish internet entrepreneur known for founding Megaupload, jumped into the conversation Friday, four days after the Fox5 story ran.

He said he knew murdered Democratic National Committee staffer Rich who 'gave the political party's trove of emails to Wikileaks.'

'I knew Seth Rich. I know he was the Wikileaks source. I was involved,' Dotcom cryptically tweeted on Saturday.

'If Congress includes #SethRich case into their Russia probe I'll give written testimony with evidence that Seth Rich was Wikileaks source,' Dotcom tweeted.

It was then a back-and forth on Twitter with Fox News host, and prominent President Trump supporter Sean Hannity, that got Dotcom to articulate a second time, that Rich was Wikileaks' source.

Shortly thereafter, Hannity called on Dotcom to be a guest on his television and radio shows and demanded that Congress look into the young staffer's murder.

'Is it possible that one [of the] greatest lies ever told is soon exposed?' Hannity mused, previewing an 'announcement' that Dotcom planned to give.

The anonymous DC insider has since added that the DNC was 'near open panic' about such claims.

'To even mention this name in D.C. Circles [sic] will bring you under automatic scrutiny. To even admit that you have knowledge of this story puts you in immediate danger. If there was no smoke there would be no fire. I have never, in my 20 years of working in D.C. Seen [sic] such a panicked reaction from anyone.'

He added that both Podesta and Hillary Clinton had received anonymous calls and emails from people who shared their belief in the conspiracy theory.

According to an account from Radar Online, Dotcom will release more information on the matter Tuesday, once he talks to his lawyers.

Hannity also suggested that, 'Complete panic has set in at the highest levels of the Democratic Party,' though offered no proof.

On Sunday, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich chimed in.

'We have this very strange story here of this young man who worked for the DNC who was apparently assassinated at four in the morning having given Wikileaks something like 23,000 – I'm sorry, 53,000 – emails and 17,000 attachments,' Gingrich said on Fox News Sunday.

'Nobody's investigating that, and what does that tell you about what was going on, because it turns out it wasn't the Russians, it was this young guy who, I suspect, who was disgusted by the corruption of the Democratic National Committee,' the former House speaker continued.

'He's been killed, and apparently nothing serious has been done to investigate his murder. So, I'd like to see how [former FBI director Robert] Mueller is going to define what his assignment is, and if it's only narrowly Trump, the country will not learn what it needs to learn about foreign involvement in American politics,' Gingrich added.

Daily Mail

Possible Link:

Jennifer Palmieri:
Director of Communications for
Hillary Clinton's 2016
presidential campaign.

[norman]

A quick question.

Was Seth Rich killed before any of the leaked material reached the public ? ( was it rough justice or an attempt to stop the leak reaching the public )