Joseph Biden Is ACTUALLY Guilty Of What Adam "Shifty" Schiff Accuses Trump Of

The Democratic Party has lost its collective mind.

Again.

First it was the Russiagate hoax they put us all through. Now it's a phone call Trump made asking the Ukrainian president's help in investigating what should be a scandal around the Democratic Party establishment's and corporate media's favorite candidate for president in 2020, the segregationist Joseph R. Biden.

Democratic Party Congressman and chair of the House "Intelligence" Committee Adam Schiff says that Trump is the same as a Mafia boss and he extorted the Ukrainian president, even though the transcript of Trump's phone call to that president shows no such thing. Schiff says it doesn't have to be explicit to be extortion. In fact, there isn't even a veiled threat in the call, as described in notes prepared by the various apparatchiks who monitored it. Trump wanted Ukraine's help in getting to the bottom of how then-vice president Joseph Biden's smarmy son, Hunter, got a plum position on the board of Ukrainian gas company Burisma and a cool $3 million payday.


Trump delayed delivering military equipment to Ukraine for a few days. This is something the Dems call "impeachable."

You know how many times U.S. presidents have held up Congressional appropriations?

LOTS.

Or misdirected the monies, as Trump is doing to build his border wall.

Or "abused" presidential power for personal ends, as the current agit-propaganda is screeching is grounds for impeachment. No other president has ever done THAT, RIGHT?

What a crock.

Bill Clinton bombed other countries to distract attention from the Monica Lewinsky scandal! He actually KILLED people!


I'll bet EVERY U.S. president has used his powers for personal ends!

And at least some vice presidents.

In 2014, when Joseph Biden was vice president under president Barack "The Drone Assassin" Obama, Biden ACTUALLY threatened the Ukrainian government with cutting off U.S. aid unless that country's chief prosecutor was fired. That prosecutor was looking into the strange case of Hunter Biden's extraordinary good fortune.

The prosecutor was duly given the axe. Biden says it was because he was corrupt. But EVERYONE in the Ukrainian government was and is corrupt. Including the former prime minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, who was hand-picked by State Department apparatchik Victoria Nuland and installed following the coup the Obama regime instigated.

Schiff is a completely unethical and dishonest mountebank who distinguished himself during the years-long Russiagate hoax as one of the worst liars and fake conspiracy mongers in the Democratic Party. A stream of false assertions and slanderous innuendoes poured forth from his mouth. Actually facts bounce off his bulletproof exterior. This political cyborg does a poor imitation of a human being.

 

The eminently trustworthy The Honorable Adam Schiff. 

This is the same scam the Democrats pulled when their damning emails were revealed by WikiLeaks in 2016. With the crucial help of their corporate media and Deep State secret police allies, the Democrats suppressed the content of the emails and made the "issue" one of "RUSSIA ATTACKED OUR DEMOCRACY!" (Russia actually wasn't the source of the emails, but never mind.) True information was ignored and replaced by an ongoing hoax claiming Trump was a Russian puppet.

This time, the important facts- that the son of vice president Biden got an incredible favor he could not have possibly gotten on his own merits, which demands an explanation- are once again being ignored in favor of a ginned up fake scandal.

I see nothing wrong with asking a foreign government to investigate such a matter. Foreign governments are enlisted in U.S. investigations all the time. And why is getting information on a candidate from outside U.S. borders an impermissible "interference" in a U.S. election? It makes no difference where facts come from as long as they are true!

Another thing that is being treated as a grave violation of "normal procedures" and impeachable is that the notes of the phone call were stored in a highly classified system. 

So fucking what?

Every year, millions of documents are "classified" just to keep the public from knowing what the government is up to!

Nancy Pelosi, the Democrats leader in the House of Representatives, had the nerve to say that Trump did that to hide something.

Unlike Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State setting up a private email server to HIDE ALL HER MESSAGES!

The hypocrisy and double-standards of this latest absurd campaign to oust Trump is mind-bending. And it's being done instead of attacking Trump for the actual horrible things he does.

But the Democrats actually agree with almost all of those things. If not all of them. Backing Saudi Arabia and Israel to the hilt, trying to overthrow the Venezuelan government (both Pelosi and Charles "Upchuck" Schumer, the Senate Democrats leader, have publicly cheerleaded for that subversion), giant tax cuts for the rich and big corporations, and more.

The Democrats haven't even defended abortion rights or Planned Parenthood. Trump cut off their Federal funds without a peep from the Democrats.

Despite the fact that most of the propaganda system and the secret police Deep State is arrayed against him, Trump is going to win this one. So if he gets reelected, as seems more probable than ever, the blame should go to the Democrats and their enablers.

Trump Not Bombing Iran Is Like Nixon Going To China

After the U.S. establishment has pretty much blamed Iran for a drone and cruise missile attack on a Saudi Arabian petroleum processing facility last weekend, and Trump blustered that the U.S. was "locked and loaded," (a firearms term meaning ready to fire), and the always belligerent Secretary of State Michael "Spawn of the Koch Brothers" Pompeo spent every day furiously spewing invective against Iran, the military response ordered by Trump is pretty restrained. More U.S. forces are being rushed to the area, but in an explicitly defensive role- to try and intercept any future aerial attacks on Saudi Arabia.

We should not attribute this to any pacifism on Trump's part. It is strictly his own personal self-interest that guides his decisions here, as in all matters. The truth is, outside of the lairs of the ruling elite in the capital city of the empire, Washington, D.C., and the digs of the Council on Foreign Relations in New York City, and places like the arch-reactionary Hoover Institute at Stanford University in California, pretty much everyone else in the U.S. is against more U.S. wars. Even Trump's nationalistic base is opposed. Why? The Iraq war is the answer. The American public was duped (most of them) by a gigantic propaganda campaign by the regime of Bush the Younger and the corporate media that was a pack of putrid lies from start to finish. That illegal aggression fractured Iraq and produced a chaotic situation, eventually leading to a near-takeover of the country by ISIS, an Islamofascist entity more fanatical, ruthless, and murderous than Al-Qaeda.


In a sense it was a repeat of history, but not as farce, but a repetition of tragedy.  Woodrow Wilson lured the public into World War I on false pretenses, and after that war the U.S. public was revolted by the idea of ever fighting another war in Europe- so strong was the revulsion that until the Japanese Empire bombed Pearl Harbor and Adolf Hitler declared war on the U.S., very few in the U.S. saw a reason to get involved against the Axis Powers that were running wild. There were even Congressional hearings targeting war profiteers.

The same thing happened after the Iraq invasion and occupation fiasco. Plus there is a seemingly endless war in Afghanistan. The U.S. has been at war for the 18 years since the arranged "attack" of 9/11/01.

If Trump's base thirsted for Iranian blood, you can bet Trump would feed them some. But fortunately they don't. So no aggressive military response (which would be the "normal" U.S. reaction to such a "challenge") coupled with tightening the economic noose around Iran's neck.

So how is that like Nixon going to China? Simple. Because the Democratics always have to prove they're "tough," whereas it is taken for granted that the Republicans are, the Democrats cannot be "soft on communism" (or "terrorism" or whatever), as Republicans habitually accuse them of being. The Democrats have the political albatross of "Liberalism" hung around their necks, an epithet that connotes softness, weakness, appeasement. (Including appeasing poor people with crumbs, which the GOP- Gang Of  Plunderers- would cut off entirely.)

Thus it required a Republican, and one with a long record of being "tough on communism" going back to 1949 (Nixon was so "tough" that he painted his Democratic opponents for House of Representatives and later for U.S. Senate as "pink" and "red," and won) to "open" to China, that is, to stop refusing to recognize the fact that the party of Mao ruled the country, not the fascist Nationalist Party of Chiang Kai-Shek, the general/warlord exiled with his gang to the island of Formosa (Taiwan). In other words, only the Republican Party felt politically able to behave rationally.



 It is the same with Trump and Iran. He is able to resist the pressure from the pro-war bloc, including inside the Party. A Democrat would at least have a much harder time doing so.

So Trump is avoiding a ruinous war. He saw how the Iraq war harmed the Bush presidency. Although since the invasion was in 2003 and Bush ran for reelection in 2004, the shit hadn't really hit the fan yet. As it was, the GOP stole the 2004 election by stealing Ohio, without whose Electoral College votes Bush would have lost to fellow Skull and Bonesman John Kerry. (Skull and Bones is a secret society for rich Yale University students who were born into the ruling class of the U.S.) Trump needs, above all else, to win reelection next year, so he can run out the clock of the statute of limitations on various criminal charges he is vulnerable to.

The Crafty Emperor Alienates Not His Base

 

Saudis Slaughtering Yemenis for 5 Years? Big YAWN. Yemenis retaliate against Saudi oil field? TIME TO FREAK OUT!!!

The political elites of the "Western world" (the U.S.-bossed capitalist bloc) and their propagandists have hit one of their disgusting low points of moral depravity and dishonesty in the aftermath of a successful attack on the main Saudi petroleum processing facility by Houthi tribe militia in Yemen, who claimed responsibility for the attack by drones. This has temporarily knocked out half of Saudi Arabia's crude oil processing capacity. The Saudis currently sell 5.7 million barrels of oil a day (although they have capacity to sell considerably more) in a world market whose daily oil consumption is 100 million barrels. Currently the U.S. and Russia are the top two exporters.

According to the propaganda campaign launched in the immediate aftermath of the attack by the Western media, politicians, and government officials, the attack wasn't an attack on Saudi Arabia, retaliation for five years of war crimes against the people of Yemen. No, it's "an attack on the world's energy supply." That's even more hyperbolic and hysterical than the other phrase the world's capitalist propagandists are ALL using, "the world's oil supply." You'd think the whole world was a communist society and we all own the oil in Saudi Arabia. Last time I checked, it's the Saudi "royal" family that owns it. (They call themselves a "government" of course.) All the world's capitalist media immediately fell into line behind Trump's Secretary of State Michael Pompeo, parroting this line. [1]

The effect of this terminology is to paint the Houthis, who are at a huge military disadvantage to the U.S.-backed Saudis attacking Yemen for the past five years, as the enemies of all humanity. It's "our" energy supply viciously attacked by "Iranian-backed" Houthis, Iran being a Demon Nation ever since 1979, when the U.S.-installed dictator of Iran, the so-called "Shah" ("King") was overthrown. Overthrowing a U.S. dictator is like spitting in the eye of America. How DARE you!

Far from an attack on "the world," on all of us, the Houthis unintentionally did the world, did all humanity, a FAVOR. Burning fossil fuels is causing a disaster by raising the temperature of our home planet! And if there's fear of an oil "shortage," TRUMP could alleviate that by the stroke of a pen by allowing two of the world's largest oil-producing countries, IRAN and VENEZUELA, to SELL THEIR OIL! (Venezuela has the world's largest oil reserves, NOT Saudi Arabia.) So this "crisis" is totally BOGUS. (The excited elite chattering about it died down in only 2 days. And all they cared about was money.)


Pompeo, a loathsome political creature created by the political machine of the malign billionaire Koch brothers of Kansas; a neo-fascist slug who has publicly called for the execution of Edward Snowden; immediately blamed the attack on Iran. This was predictable. If someone threw a brick through Pompeo's window, he'd blame Iran.

Pompeo is the guy who, after the vile Saudi tyrant, "Crown Prince" Mohammed bin Salman, ordered the murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, who was butchered inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, dismembered like an animal in an abattoir, and his body parts smuggled out, immediately ran to Riyadh to conspire with Salman about how to get Salman out of the jam he'd created for himself. (The Trump regime didn't even make Salman come to then!) Ever since, Trump and Pompeo have done their best to obfuscate Salman's obvious guilt.


Here they are, just after the shit hit the fan from the Khashoggi murder:

Pompeo and Salman. Salman and Pompeo. I love you Bro! -I love you too!

The attack on the petroleum facility occurred over the weekend, when the markets on which parasitic speculators set the price of oil by their trading of futures and options contracts are closed. But 24 hours a day, bid and ask prices are still posted. Before markets opened on Monday, futures indicated a 20% rise in the two benchmark oil prices, the Brent crude oil price and the West Texas Intermediary oil price. (Typically Brent trades higher than Texas.) But when trading actually began, the prices were up only 8%. Later in the day they hovered 10% higher. But that is still LOWER than the price was in late 2018. Finally oil closed up 15% on the day. And in any event, oil has languished between $50 and $60 a barrel for several years, after its crash from about $120, a crash deliberately engineered by Saudi Arabia, ostensibly aimed at putting U.S. shale oil producers out of business (which it didn't do) but really aimed at inflicting severe economic damage on Russia and Venezuela (which it DID do, especially Venezuela). Both those nations are heavily dependent on oil exports, and both have been targets of ongoing attack by the U.S. for years now. [2]

Needless to say, the U.S. and the Saudi "royal' family frequently engage in nefarious conspiracies together, one of the most notorious being the destruction of the World Trade Center twin towers on September 11, 2001, under the guise of an Al-Qaeda aerial attack with hijacked planes. [3]

Pompeo, Trump, the Democratic and Republican members of Congress, and U.S. corporate media propagandists are not exactly the most reliable folks in matters involving Iran. Remember the last time the U.S., Pompeo, Trump, the "leaders" of both parties and any political hack who could get on TV, and the entire U.S. corporate propaganda system asserted as fact that Iran committed an "attack"? It was the damage inflicted on a Japanese and a Norwegian tanker. Even though that was definitely refuted, they still pretend it's true. [4]

These are people who are totally untrustworthy, with zero credibility. But probably Iran at least supplied the weapons. And who knows? Maybe even launched the attack themselves. But Pompeo had no proof of that in the immediate aftermath- or the U.S. military would have surely provided it.

The true context for this, the 5 year long war against the people of Yemen by Saudi Arabia, which would not be possible without U.S. support, from both the Obama and Trump regimes, is totally ignored. That is what is fundamentally dishonest about the media "coverage," which thus must be seen as propaganda, not news.

The numerous atrocities of the Saudis, using their U.S. weaponry, have been virtually ignored by Western, and especially U.S. media. (Britain, that awful relic of an evil empire, is also a major arms supplier to the Saudis.) Without U.S. weaponry, and U.S. targeting information, and even U.S. refueling craft for Saudi jets, which Obama provided, the Saudi war on Yemen would not be possible. The Saudis have slaughtered tens of thousands of Yemenis directly. They have created famine conditions for millions of Yemenis. (The UN's aid organizations have repeatedly avowed this.) They have blockaded Yemen, starving the populace, making medicines unavailable. (Bombing hospitals and clinics doesn't help either.) The world's largest cholera epidemic has been created in Yemen by the Saudis. (And their Western imperialist enablers.) (For more on the background of the current situation in Yemen, see footnote [5] below.)

None of this is to endorse the Houthis. But clearly the Yemenis should have to sort out their rivalries amongst themselves. As for Iran being the instigator, in fact it was the former longtime dictator, Ali Abdullah Saleh, who formed a temporary alliance with the Houthis and egged them on to rebel. Iran saw an opportunity, or wanted to stop the Saudis installing the ruler the Houthis had just overthrown back in power as a Saudi client/puppet.

 

 A picture is worth a thousand words, especially words citing statistics. "Six milion Jews died in the Holocaust has nowhere near the emotional impact of a photo of skeletal concentration camp inmates, standing behind barbed wire, or a pile of their desiccated corpses. So here are three photos from Yemen in place of 3,000 words:

This Yemeni child was starved to death by the U.S. and Saudi Arabia. 

 

 

 Here's another of the countless thousands of children murdered by the 

U.S. and Saudi Arabia. Reminiscent of Nazi concentration camp victims.

 

Sometimes it's more satisfying to kill children quickly, instead of having to wait for them to die slow, agonizing deaths that take months. This school bus was bombed by the Saudis, flying the jets the U.S. happily sold them (Obama and Trump both), dropping those fabulously accurate U.S. precision bombs. 51 died, 40 of them schoolchildren. That was in August, 2018. Still waiting for some war crime indictments.

It is an illustration of the utterly cynical and callous nature of "global politics" or "international relations" or "statesmanship" (the preferred term of the mass murderer Henry Kissinger) that causing so much human suffering isn't given a second thought in the pursuit of greater power by those who rule.

The U.S. (and other) media have spent the past five years of Saudi atrocities barely mentioning any of it. They've also done a bang-up job keeping the American public ignorant of the U.S. role in providing the essential tools of mass murder. But the U.S. is constantly victimizing poor people all over the planet. This fits the pattern of U.S. global class warfare. The U.S. has also directly killed civilians in Yemen, both by aerial bombings and in raids by "special" forces.

When I say that U.S. elites are immoral and despicable, that is something they themselves prove to be true every day.


"The" media is already pushing the Saudis' line that the drone strike came from Iraq or Iran, not Yemen. And maybe it was missiles, they're saying. Oh, and the drone parts are Iranian. (Probably are, as Iran has been helping the Houthis.)

Trump immediately expectorated some tough-guy bluster, declaring the U.S. "locked and loaded," and only waiting word from Saudi Arabia to confirm Iran did it to presumably pull the trigger. The same Saudi Arabia that has been trying for years (along with Israel) to goad the U.S. into starting a war on Iran. Gee. I wonder what the Saudis are gonna determine happened!

Thank heavens he fired John Bolton!

 The "Crown Prince" that swallowed the Superpower.

1] A day later, The Invisible Man, the nitwit former Texas Governor whom Trump picked to be Secretary of Energy, belatedly got in on the act, putting in his two cents which immediately sank to the bottom of the media pool without a trace. Said Rick Perry: "Make no mistake about it. This was a deliberate attack on the global economy, and the energy market." This is the same guy who campaigned for the presidency on a platform promising to abolish the cabinet Department he now heads. 

Actually, Tex, I think it was an attack on the Saudi Arabian regime.

2] Stocks on Monday, the first trading day after the attack, declined modestly.  The  S & P 500 index (500 major public companies) declined 0.3%, the Nasdaq (several thousand companies) declined about a quarter of one percent, and the Dow Industrial Average (a mere 30 stocks) fell about one-half percent. The following day, Tuesday, September 17, oil actually FELL $3. Wholesale gasoline is up 20 cents, 1-3 cents at the pump. Word is the Saudis will have the bombed site back up and running in two weeks.

3]  It would take too long to go into all that here. To start to educate yourself, watch some of the videos put out by Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth, an organization of over 3,000 architects and engineers who have debunked the nonsense that the towers fell because airplanes crashed into them. Oh, and Number 7 WTC fell straight down in the afternoon. All were the result of controlled demolitions, as you will learn.

4]  In brief, the U.S. claimed Iran planted mines on the sides of the ships. The crew of the Japanese tanker said there WERE no mines, but that flying objects hit their ship. The Japanese Foreign Minister was IN TEHRAN at the time of the attack, meeting with the Ayatollah, trying to help Iran. The U.S. government and the global bourgeois propaganda system would have us believe that Iran was determined to sabotage its OWN DIPLOMACY designed to try and relieve the garrote around Iran's neck that is strangling its economy.All the details, with news videos substantiating the facts, are at "Dishonest U.S. Media Lying U.S. Into Another War of Aggression," June 20, 2019. 

5]  Yemen is the poorest country in the Arab world. A country without a real government, it was ruled for 33 years by a dictator/warlord with the title of "president," Ali Abdullah Saleh. Saleh was happy to play footsie with the Bush and Obama regimes in their "war on terror," pretending that U.S. drone missile assassinations were the work of his military. He also took the opportunity to have political rivals eliminated by U.S. drone strike by telling the U.S. they were "terrorists" and giving them location information. One such attack even made the front page of the Wall Street Journal, which is how I know about this practice of Saleh's. But that changed nothing.

But Saleh came under increasing domestic pressure- which in Yemen means armed resistance, the only thing that counts in Yemen- and the U.S. thought it was time to replace him before he was overthrown. Saleh resisted, but was eventually squeezed out. In November 2011, Saleh signed an agreement to leave power- then reneged on it. Eventually he was forced out in 2012. His successor as "president," Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi, one of Saleh's erstwhile cronies,  took over the various rackets that take the place of an actual government in Yemen. In January 2015 the Houthi tribe rebelled, forcing Hadi to flee by shelling his palace. The Saudis decided they wanted Hadi to rule Yemen as their puppet or client, and commenced a war against the Houthis, heavily targeting civilian targets such as apartment buildings, hospitals, mosques, wedding parties, and so on. As of a couple of years ago, retired U.S. army colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, the top aide to then-Secretary of State Colin Powell in the Bush II regime, asserted that 5,000 of 15,000 Saudi aerial bombings were of civilian targets.  Meanwhile Hadi sits in Riyadh, content to watch "his" people being slaughtered, the country destroyed, waiting to be reinstalled as "president" of Yemen by his Saudi puppet masters.

U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman Waits 3 Weeks To Stop Prosecuting Dead Man Jeffrey Epstein

Apparently the chief Federal prosecutor for the Southern District of New York could hardly bring himself to drop the charges against the corpse of Jeffrey Epstein, currently the World's Most Notorious Sex Offender. ("The" media turned him into that. He wasn't a serial rapist/murderer, for example, which would be a far more worthy object of universal opprobrium, theatrical revulsion, and nonstop vilification.) Berman's office is based in lower Manhattan, along with the largest FBI secret police field office. Berman appeared with the local FBI chief when the two of them announced the new indictment of Epstein in July.

Berman belatedly moved in Federal court for the dismissal of the charges last week, formally submitting the motion for the pro forma approval of a Federal judge, nearly three weeks after Epstein was assassinated in the Federal jail in Manhattan in a fake "suicide." The main reason we know it was murder is from hard physical fact. Epstein's neck was broken, which would have been impossible to occur according to the New York City Medical Examiner's account of his death. According to the M.E., relying in part on the claims of Epstein's jailers, Epstein allegedly tied a bedsheet around his neck and around the post of the upper bunk in his cell, then "knelt forward." You could choke or strangle yourself like that. You couldn't break your neck bone unless you were 90 years old with advanced osteoporosis. Epstein was 66 and apparently in good health. He wasn't frail, and there's no assertion that he had unusually weak bones. The M.E. nevertheless went along with the coverup as one would expect and deemed the death a "suicide."

It's well established that Epstein's "pedophile trafficking" operation was also a blackmail operation being run by an "intelligence service." The U.S. Attorney who prosecuted him in Florida over a decade ago- or rather, who protected him- Alexander Acosta, told the Trump transition team when they were vetting him for the post of Labor Secretary in the Trump regime that he was told to lay off Epstein because Epstein "belonged to intelligence," a nice and ambiguous way of laying a protective cloak over him. Was he an asset? A target? An actual employee or agent of a secret police agency? Part of an ongoing operation? Who knows? it's deliberately vague.

So Acosta crafted a non-prosecution agreement with Epstein's lawyers, lawyers who are heavyweights in the U.S. power structure, including Alan Dershowitz andd Kenneth Starr, the man assigned by the Republican Party to bring down president Bill Clinton. (Ironically, Clinton spent a lot of time with Epstein and his stable of available young females, and Dershowitz admits to getting a "massage" but denies raping a girl under Epstein's control, as the now adult woman claims.) Epstein pled to a minor state charge and had to sleep in a special suite set up for him in the county jail while going to his office during the day, for 13 months. (A discount off the sentence of 18 months. For "good behavior" I suppose.) Acosta broke Federal law by keeping the agreement secret from Epstein's victims instead of notifying them as required. A U.S. Attorney breaking the law- that's another sign that he was acting under secret police direction and assumed he would be protected.



There's good reason to believe, as a number of knowledgeable former secret policemen and attorneys believe, that Epstein was running a blackmail operation, surreptitiously recording his prominent "friends" in their trysts with underage females. The other explanation for Acosta's inexplicable action in bending over backwards to protect Epstein, that Acosta was intimidated by Epstein's "powerful" lawyers, is a crock. The Department of Justice isn't a pushover. And if Acosta was doing this without some kind of authorization or direction, he would be putting himself at serious reputation and career risk, and possible sanction by DOJ an/or the courts. There was overwhelming evidence of multiple crimes by Epstein- the testimonies of multiple girls, and written records seized from Epstein documenting encounters and contacts with numerous minors. Perry Mason couldn't have gotten this guy off the hook.

But "the" media is determined to protect the secret police and their smarmy covert operation. Presumably it was either a CIA operation or a joint CIA-Mossad one. Mossad because Epstein's "procurer," Ghislaine Maxwell, was the daughter of known Mossad asset Robert Maxwell, the late British media baron who also "committed suicide" by jumping off his yacht. (His company was bankrupt, and I guess Israel didn't want to cough up the money to bail him out, so who knows? Maybe he really did commit suicide. At least that "suicide" is physically possible, unlike Epstein's with the broken neck bone.)



Furthermore, Epstein, being Jewish, rich, and well-connected, would have been a tempting target for Mossad recruitment. Mossad recruits non-Israeli Jews all over the world to use in its operations, playing on Jewish solidarity to gain their cooperation. (Secondarily they use money and favors, and probably at times threats to recruit Jews, although the heavier stuff would be used much more to induce Arabs, Iranians, etc., to do Mossad's bidding.)

A less likely suspect for the unnamed "intelligence agency" would be the FBI. The FBI has a long history of blackmailing politicians and other prominent figures. This was one of longtime FBI chieftain J. Edgar Hoover's specialties. He even personally blackmailed President Kennedy, among others. (But in the "nicest" way. He's inform JFK, for example, of all the sexual affairs Kennedy had had, and assure him that his secrets were safe with him, Hoover. Of course JFK got the message. Those secrets would only stay secret if JFK never crossed Hoover.)

The FBI was involved with Acosta in the Florida whitewash of Epstein's crimes. On the other hand, now that Berman has gone after Epstein, the FBi office in New York City has been part of the Get Epstein attack team. However it must be kept in mind that the NYC FBI field office is at this point an independent fiefdom within the FBI. They in effect forced former FBI Director James Comey to torpedo Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign in October 2016, just a couple of weeks before the election, by dredging up once again her use of a private email server to circumvent government record keeping and future access to the record of her actions as Secretary of State under president Barack "The Drone Assassin" Obama. After Hoover's iron grip on the FBI was broken with his death, the FBI has become harder to control, with agents acting more independently. No FBI agent would have dared "leak" to the media under Hoover except under his direct instructions. Not anymore.

But if Epstein was protected last decade, why couldn't the CIA protect Epstein this time around? What changed? Well, society changed, social conditions changed. The Me Too Movement didn't exist ten years ago. This time a woman reporter at the Miami Herald was incensed by the matter, got her editors to let her run with the story, then other media organs picked it up and amplified it.

So why couldn't the CIA just go around to their media contacts and tell them to hush? After all, even-or rather, especially- the major media organs at the pinnacle of the U.S. corporate propaganda system- the TV networks, the New York Times, the Washington Post, are slavish in their obeisance to the secret police organs.

Slavish yes, but not slaves. Their slavishness is voluntary, not compulsory. The CIA would have been linking themselves to Epstein by asking their media contacts to quiet the story down. That would have raised a lot of uncomfortable questions. Why are you protecting this "predatory pedophile," CIA? What's your connection to him? The whole blackmail operation risked exposure.

Since they could no longer protect Epstein, the secret police had to kill him.
But not to worry, CIA. As long as you lay low, "the" media has no interest in putting the CIA in a bad light with a scandal. (I know, it's ironic. All the monstrous CIA crimes since its founding aren't scandalous, but this would be.)

Mostly "the" media has fallen in line behind the "suicide" story, ignoring the broken neck. Bits of dissonant facts peek out from under the media coverup, for example they reported (just on one day) that Epstein's lawyers don't buy the suicide story. And one of his accusers was on a CBS program saying she didn't think he was the type to kill himself. (For sure!) She thought the writing of the will two days before his untimely demise was an attempt to put his assets out of reach of people like her. (The lawyers for these women must have dollar signs in their eyes. They're in it for a cut of the loot, obviously. Another point being uncharacteristically ignored by "the" media.)

Perhaps Epstein was told by one of his handlers to write a will because they were going to fake his death and smuggle him out. Or perhaps he'd been threatened. It was reported back in July that he was "found unconscious with marks on his neck," and the circumstances of that event were never and have never been clarified.

And some of those who are calling it a murder are attributing it to the Clintons. I don't think the Clintons these days have the power to have someone in a Federal jail assassinated.

Nor does Trump have that ability. Too much of the Deep State is hostile to him for him to be able to pull it off. Anyway he's confident of his ability to lie his way out of anything. No woman used by Epstein has accused Trump of sexual misbehavior, as far as I've heard. And Trump broke off with Epstein about 15 years ago, reportedly because he made some kind of sexual advance on a girl inside a Trump property. (Guess Trump thinks it's only okay to grab the vaginas of adult females.)

By the way, guess what? It's just been reported that there's no "usable" video from the Federal jail where Epstein was killed. How about that. Took them long enough to decide how to handle THAT! Did a Nixon on the recordings.

The Epstein Affair actually is like an X-Ray into American society. it reveals much, and I don't mean just the machinations of the Deep State and its powers. I will have more to explain in future essays.

      "Hey, when you're a cog in the system and the Deep State gives you an order, you obey."

 Dead Men Tell No Tales.

New Details From Government Autopsy Make Jeffrey Epstein "Suicide" Story Even More Implausible

The New York City Medical Examiner has done an autopsy on the body of Jeffrey Epstein, who was locked up in the Federal Government dungeon in lower Manhattan called, in what sounds like a tribute to the "Newspeak" in George Orwell's dystopia political novel "1984," the "Metropolitan Correctional Center." All the elements of the power establishment, including of course "the" media, want us to believe that Epstein committed suicide.

Which I could have believed, if they'd only been more assiduous at hiding certain physical facts that causes the suicide story to strain credulity.

First there was the information that Epstein's neck bones were broken. If you blinked, and didn't scour media relentlessly to come across it, you would have missed this.

Now we're told that Epstein tied a bedsheet to the top bunk in his cell, and then "knelt" to hang himself. In other words, he was standing up, then crouched down, killing himself.

I can believe it is possible to choke or strangle oneself to death in this manner, although I think it would be difficult to control the automatic responses of one's own body, such as reaching with the hands, or rising with the legs. But breaking neckbones? And Epstein wasn't a slender guy. He didn't have an extremely thin neck, say.

This information slipped out in the fourth paragraph of a Wall Street Journal story. Here is the paragraph in its entirety:

"Early findings by authorities indicated Mr. Epstein hanged himself by using his bed sheet, according to people familiar with the investigation. [So-called investigation, actually a cover-up.] Authorities [whoever they are] believe he tied the bed sheet to the top bunk of his bunk bed, then knelt forward to the floor, one of the people said." [My emphases.] [1] 

They BELIEVE? Didn't they find his dead body? Wouldn't the bedsheet still be tied around his neck and to the bunk if he'd killed himself?

And he knelt forward to the floor. From a standing position, presumably. How would that have fractured his neck bones?

It wouldn't have.

The article didn't mention the broken neck bones. If you want to find out about reality from the U.S. power structure's media, you have to act like a detective and hunt around for clues in various disparate sources and then assemble the pieces like you're doing a jigsaw puzzle. Our rulers count on most people having neither the time nor the motivation to do that, especially for EVERY SINGLE EVENT. And the events they completely black out are another challenge, because you may have never heard of them.

The article also quotes the city's chief medical examiner, Barbara Sampson, as officially concluding "in a brief statement" that Epstein's demise was suicide, without any details, after in her words "careful review of all investigative information." I.e. taking at face value what the Federal prison told her. Which would be all the "investigative information" she had at this point. And calling it "investigative information" is just dishonest. It's really public relations spin.

And Sampson's "review" couldn't have been very thorough, as there wouldn't be much to review. The various Federal "investigations" (at least 3 have been announced!) have just begun, yet the ME has already reached a conclusion! Barely a week since Epstein's death. A rush to judgment, for sure.
By the way, bogus autopsies are routine in nations that commit political assassinations. They go with the territory. We had a lulu of a fraudulent military autopsy in the JFK murder by the CIA. That one was done by an officer who didn't even perform autopsies! And who somehow missed the giant exit wound in the back of JFK's skull that all the surgeons who examined him at Parkland Hospital in Dallas described on film.

There still has never been an explanation of what occurred in July, when Epstein was "found" in his cell, unconscious, with "marks" on his neck. The "authorities" never said it was a suicide attempt. It was all very murky. Sometimes "the" media described it as a suicide attempt, but government officials never said that.

So what was it? An attack by another inmate? By a guard? An incompetent assassin? What kind of "marks" were they? What did Epstein say about it?

Nothing. Just the sound of crickets from "the authorities" and "the" media.

He was briefly put on suicide watch after that, but almost immediately taken off it. So "the authorities" apparently DIDN'T think it was a suicide attempt! Or else they are grossly feckless, negligent, and incompetent. (A possibility that we cannot rule out, thus confusing matters further.) But in the highest-profile case such as this one, with daily saturation media coverage, how could it be that the Federal government could be so inept? They surely were paying very special attention to Epstein!

But you're just a loony conspiracy theorist if you don't swallow the official guff from government officials being shoveled at you daily and around the clock by "the" media. I guess that makes Epstein's lawyers crackpots, since according to the same WSJ article, they don't accept the ME's "findings," and want to obtain video from the Federal dungeon. Good luck with THAT. The longer the Government stalls releasing that footage, the more certain you can be that it was tampered with, altered, or completely fabricated. And digital video is very easy to alter undetectably. They can even put a false time stamp on the footage of empty hallways they'll be showing to "prove" there was no foul play.

One major function of dishonest propagandists (who nowadays call themselves "journalists") is to obfuscate reality. Another major function is replacing reality with a fake reality, a story, a myth, a legend, that the targets of the propaganda are tricked into believing is true and real.

The U.S. government has murdered so many people, and lied so often, and "the" media has perpetrated so many hoaxes, that neither should have a smidgen of credibility at this point in history. They should have to prove, with overwhelming genuine (not fabricated) evidence, every assertion they make.

1]  "Epstein Killed Self, Autopsy Concludes," Wall Street Journal, August 17-18, 2019, page A4, fourth paragraph. Interesting how the WSJ downplayed this article. Not just putting it on page A4, but running it as a narrow sidebar on the left side of the page (in English we start reading on the right) in a long narrow column 1 and 3/4ths inch wide, with the text a mere 1 and 5/8ths inch wide.

Dow Jones Company owns the WSJ and another rightwing financial rag, Barron's. Rupert Murdoch bought the Dow Jones Company from the plutocrat Bancroft family and promptly locked up the websites of the publications behind firewalls. So here's the top portion of the page with the paragraphs I cited.

Evidence Jeffrey Epsein Was Murdered: His Broken Neckbones

We are to believe that Epstein, the reviled "pedophile" (he had sex with teenagers, NOT children, so that is NOT pedophilia, that is sex with legal minors who are sexually mature physically) hung himself with his bedsheet in his cell in the gothically horrible Federal jail in Manhattan, the "Metropolitan Correctional Center." [1] (The U.S., being a cruel and barbaric empire, commonly runs its prisons and jails in sadistic ways.) If that is so, it is passing strange that his neck bones were broken, as has been reported that the official autopsy found. He would have been strangled or choked to death.

When a person is hung on the gallows, a trap door under their feet is rapidly sprung open and they plunge down until the rope suddenly stops their fall. The weight of their body causes the neck to snap, which if done properly results in instant death. A thick knot of rope at the back of the neck facilitates the breaking of the vertebrae and severing of the spinal cord.

Someone tying a bedsheet to cell bars and dropping down a short distance would not necessarily have that effect. I suppose it is not impossible. That's why I say this is evidence, not proof.

We DO know that callous indifference is about the best treatment prisoners at the MCC get. Read the article or watch the video in the footnote below.

One fact is indisputable: Jeffrey Epstein's death sure is convenient for other sex criminals like the known rapists Bill Clinton and Donald Trump, Alan Dershowitz, and a British "royal." The fact that the Empire elevates rapists to its top power position is a symptom of the moral degeneracy of this empire.


1] See "Horror at MCC: “Gulag” Conditions at NYC Jail Were Known for Decades Before Jeffrey Epstein’s Death," Democracy Now!, August 15, 2019.

Even DEATH Is Too Good For Jeffrey Epstein!

Amazingly, that's the attitude being transmitted by the establishment propaganda system (which calls itself "the media," as if it's the one and only media in the universe and not a particular group of organs representing corporate oligarchy and U.S. imperialism) in the wake of the death of Jeffrey Epstein. Here in America, we're being treated to a deluge of teeth gnashing that although Epstein in effect got the death penalty for paying teenagers to indulge his sexual proclivities, he "escaped justice." What would "justice" have been? Drawing and quartering? Burning alive at the stake? Crucifixion?

Of course he was being crucified, by the media, and by an incredibly vengeful, opportunistic U.S. Attorney in New York City. The crimes he was all but convicted in advance of date to the early 2000's. I haven't heard a whisper about statute of limitations. For most Federal crimes, it's seven years.

And still "the" media, and the prosecutors, are protecting the various eminences who partook of the pleasures of the flesh provided by their host, Epstein. These include two U.S. presidents (Trump and Clinton) and a British "prince." And the loathsome Zionist attack dog Alan Dershowitz. Instead all the focus now is on getting Elaine Maxwell, Epstein's erstwhile "girlfriend" and alleged "procurer" of teenagers. (Whom the media attack dogs insist on calling "children," thus infantilizing sexual beings, and falsely pasting the "pedophile" label on Epstein.
Epstein was charged with "trafficking." To whom did he traffic? Himself? Yet the U.S. Attorney running the inquisition, Geoffrey Berman, didn't so much as name the members of the protected elite who partook of forbidden sex as unindicted co-conspirators. Media yakkers finger Maxwell as the next target, along with "pilots and whoever." Nary a mention of those being protected.

And already the propagandists are sneering at the "conspiracy theories" that Epstein was silenced to protect the highly privileged "pedophiles."

Now Trump's handpicked U.S. Attorney General, William "Cover Up Pro" Barr, is reported to have "asked" the Department he's the boss of, the Department of "Justice," and an agency that is under the nominal purview of that Department, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (the notorious political secret police, the FBI), to "investigate" the Epstein death. We can always rest assured when the government investigates itself. (Specifically he wants the DOJ Inspector General to investigate, as well as the FBI. The Federal Bureau of Prisons, whose prisoner Epstein was, is part of the DOJ also. The DOJ is a many-armed octopus of repression.)

Barr has an "interesting" history which "the" media helpfully hides. As a key cog in the regime of George Herbert Walker Bush, Bush the Elder (the slaughterer of 4,000 poor Panamanians and countless hapless Iraqi conscripts running for their lives), Barr is the one who got Bush to issue preemptive pardons to Iran-Contra criminals like Caspar Weinberger before they could be brought to book by the special counsel, who was much outraged by the move. By doing so, Bush protected himself. He did exactly what Democrats and their media allies have been screaming that Trump better NOT do- issue pardons that protect himself. Bush did exactly that- and he was given a two-week apotheosis was the old murderer died.



As for how Epstein ended up dead: There are plenty of solid reasons to be skeptical of the "suicide" conclusion. For one thing, the New York City Medical Examiner has completed an autopsy but so far  refuses to release the results. It's only a "suicide" because the propaganda system says it is.

Then there was the previous "suicide" attempt. Or was it? The government has never actually said that it was. All that has officially been announced by "the authorities" was that Epstein "was found unconscious" with "marks on his neck." Anything else has been media (propagandist) speculation and surmise.

Epstein may well have killed himself. He looked extremely depressed in the photo released of him in captivity, a release that was part of the humiliation ritual imposed on him. At a minimum, he was allowed to kill himself. What the establishment propaganda outlets have reported is that he was on a suicide watch after the first incident, then he was taken OFF suicide watch, but protocol called for him to have a cellmate to prevent self-harm. But he was left alone, locked up with his despair, and unwatched.

Various excuses have been defensively floated out by the guards. They are overworked. They are working overtime. (Apparently they don't "work" overtime but NAP overtime.) The prison is overcrowded. (Yet there was room to give Epstein a cell to himself alone.)

It's all a crock, of course. Obviously they wanted him dead. This prisoner was extremely high profile, subject of daily, lurid "coverage." Yet if we are to believe his captors, they were completely indifferent and feckless and inattentive to their highest profile prisoner in the Manhattan Federal Jail, the absurdly misnamed "Metropolitan Correctional Center." (Like they want to rehabilitate people!)

Usually in cases where a target of a political inquisition has damning evidence against the establishment itself, he is simply prevented from speaking at trial, and then consigned to a U.S. black hole, like the "Supermax" prison in Florence, Colorado, where prisoners are locked in tiny, windowless concrete cells for life, deprived of all human contact. Apparently it would be too kind to have a small porthole in the cell so the prisoner consigned to this living hell could at least look outside at the mountains, at the sky, at clouds. Since these prisoners are "monsters," they must be made to suffer as much as possible.

Manuel Noriega could have told a damning story about CIA drug dealing, and his work for them, but wasn't allowed to. "El Chapo" could have told about the millions in bribes he's paid to Mexican officials, including presidents, and U.S. complicity in Mexican corruption, but wasn't allowed to. Now he's to be buried alive in the "Supermax."

The next chapters in the Epstein saga are the substitution of Elaine Maxwell to be burned at the stake, and "justice" for the "victims" by their looting Epstein's estate. This has already been announced by "the" media as a form of "justice." A couple of the former teens and their lawyers are complaining they were deprived of "closure" by Epstein's death. Maybe they should stop traumatizing themselves by insisting they were so horribly victimized by getting paid a few hundred dollars for what was mostly mild sex (not counting one woman who serviced Epstein numerous times for money, and then claims he raped her, and maybe he did) that they can never get over it.

The man is DEAD. Can you let it go?

The establishment doesn't want to, for various reasons. That will have to await another essay.

Jeffrey Epstein died in jail, age 66. Was in good health so had many years to live. 

                                         "He got away with it!" screech The Morally Outraged. (Oh really?)

This Is The Only Objective Thing You Will Read Today About The Mueller Testimony , Probably

Robert S. Mueller III, a career prosecutor and secret police boss, belatedly and unwillingly appeared before two committees in the Democratic Party-controlled House of Representatives on July 24; the Judiciary Committee in the morning and the "Intelligence" Committee in the afternoon. He stubbornly refused to answer maybe 40% of the questions put to him. (I'll have to analyze a transcript for a more exact figure.)

It should be noted that Mueller showed clear signs of senility. He frequently asked for questions to be repeated, spoke in a shaky voice, and had obvious memory trouble. (I was surprised since he's 74, not so old.)

The two committees are chaired by Democratic Party partisan fanatics, both dishonest apparatchiks of that machine: Jerrold Nadler of New York City chairs Judiciary, and Adam Schiff of California chairs Intelligence. Schiff is one of the most dishonest poltiical mountebanks in the U.S., a topic worthy of an essay in its own right. Nadler insists the Russian "attack on the election" is the same thing as the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor.

What is clear, again, is what is going on in this long-running political drama, is a fierce power struggle between factions inside the U.S. power structure. On one side is the Democratic Party, its corporate media allies, and portions of the Deep State (secret police agencies), and on the other side is the Republican Party, its corporate media allies, and also some in the secret police organs. This sharp conflict began even more the November 2016 election, when elements of the FBI and other secretive state organs began conspiring against Donald Trump and organized various operations against him.

Mueller's behavior is best understood as that of a political weathervane. His actions and attitude are the result of the political pressures from these two opposing sides. Thus he failed to do his job and state in his long-awaited report whether Trump was criminally liable for obstruction of justice. His excuse was that under Department of Justice rules, a president cannot be indicted. (Who gave the DOJ, under the control of the president, the right to by edict declare this, is never explained. Nothing in the Constitution or actual U.S. LAW says a president cannot be criminally indicted.) As an excuse for not simply SAYING if Trump broke the law, it is disingenuous. Yet on the other hand, he seeded the report with all the breadcrumbs the Democrats need to say Trump DID commit obstruction of justice.

Another example. He resisted testifying to Congress, but acceded under a subpoena. Then he refused to answer numerous questions put to him, even ones simply asking him to affirm what is in his report. He also refused to read aloud from the report, depriving the Democrats of video clips that could run on Democratic Party-aligned tv channels like CNN and MSNBC, and in propaganda advertising. Yet he gave some damning (to Trump) answers.

He also gave and withheld from the Republican Representatives some of what they wanted.

A perfect political weathervane.

Both sides have some truth on their side, and also blatant dishonesty. Terribly, both sides agree on a Big Lie, namely that Russia "massively interfered in Our Election," "attacked the election and is going to do it again," "threatens Our Democracy." (The Russian "interference" was minimal to point of risibility, as explained in footnote [1] below.)

Their motives for agreement on this Big Lie differ. For the Democrats, it is a way to try and discredit Trump as a puppet of a foreign power, in classic McCarthy era fashion, instead of going after him for his actual destructive policies- deregulation, slashing taxes on the rich, endlessly-increasing  military spending, which they either are for or only tepidly bothered by. They also avoid the thorough self-examination of their own corruption and venality, which any honest analysis of what went wrong with Clinton's campaign would lead to, And they can bury the content of those damning emails by constantly shrieking about Russian wickedness for allegedly purloining the emails, the actual contents and significance of which are oddly irrelevant.

The Republicans for their part must be relieved and smugly delighted that no attention is paid to their election-stealing shenanigans, the massive voter disenfranchisement and ballot invalidation of many Democratic voters, the sneaky vote-shifting by software implants in the machines (all made by companies controlled by fanatically-partisan Republicans) and so on. It's a gift the Democrats, who are fundamentally gutless, insist on handing to the GOP (Gang Of Plunderers).

The reason I can be objective is that I am not in either camp. Whereas just about all media figures, including "alternative" ones, are partisans of one power faction or the other. And the majority of the U.S. population, sadly, is so brainwashed that they also identify strongly with one of the two oppressive imperialist corporate oligarchic parties of the political cartel. This makes fundamental reform in the U.S. impossible. Until the populace breaks out of its mental cage, there is no hope for the U.S, to improve. It will instead slowly decay, as all empires do over time.

The media alliances on the two sides break down thusly: the Democrats have most of the television networks to varying degrees (but especially NBC and its MSNBC unit, and CNN), and the "prestige" print media (including the Big Two, the New York Times and Washington Post). The Republicans have Murdoch's propaganda empire (including Fox "News,") and the vast network of "talk radio," the stations that blanket the entire nation with rightwing agitpropaganda 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

The Deep State, in this case primarily the FBI, with some CIA and NSA involvement, has been mostly operating against Trump. In cahoots with the Clinton campaign, they brought us the absurd Steele Dossier, which they weaponized politically, operationally, and legally. It was used as an excuse to obtain a FISA warrant against Carter Page, a Trump stooge they picked as a vulnerable target of entry. But since the cadres of the secret police are hard core reactionaries with natural Republican sympathies and many ties to GOP operatives, the secret police anti-Trump ops have prompted a bit of an ongoing food fight, parts of which have broken into public view. Trump's second Attorney General William Barr is now apparently going after the elements that concocted the anti-Trump conspiracies such as the Page FISA warrant. 

There was more skullduggery afoot by the Deep State which I will get into in a future essay. Some of the Republican Committee members brought up some of it, which was by far the most interesting parts of the day's proceedings. From the Democrats, we got their usual talking points, and the Slogan Of The Day, which most of them worked into their 5 minutes of "question" time: "No One Is Above The Law," intoned with all the faux moral seriousness of a well-trained apple-polishing teacher's pet or a dutiful choirboy, or a Boy Scout looking to move up the ranks.

The Democrats are right in that Trump tried to obstruct the investigation, which even though he failed, is criminal under repressive U.S. law. The Republicans deny that. The Republicans are right that their has been a massive anti-Trump conspiracy by elements of the secret police apparatus and "Justice" Department working hand-in-glove with the Democratic Party and aided and abetted by large swaths of the media.  The Democrats of course pretend this is an absurd conspiracy theory, if they even acknowledge it at all.

Both camps, as I pointed out, are united in one of the Biggest Lies of all time, that Russia "massive interfered" in the 2016 election and even know if plotting to do it again in 2020. Russian involvement was extremely minimal, unless you could the email revelations, and that had no effect on the outcome. WikiLeaks published the emails in July 2016, Clinton was ahead by 14% in October, and it was the late October revelation by then-FBI boss James Comey that more Clinton emails from her private server scandal were discovered on a device owned by disgraced laughingstock and former Congressman Anthony Wiener (just more copies of already discovered emails, it turned out) which caused her plunge in the polls. Trump ultimately "won" with 2.9 FEWER votes than Clinton, thanks to that archaic relic, the Electoral College, something the Democrats never mention, instead blaming everything on RUSSIA! THEY ATTACKED US! THIS MUST NOT BE TOLERATED!

Oh shut the fuck up already.

The other thing both sides did was heap boilerplate praise on Mueller for his "lifetime of service" to the power structure. Some explicitly mentioned his "service" in the Vietnam war as a Marine officer, killing Vietnamese. After that he pursued a career in domestic repression as a prosecutor and for more than a decade, secret police chief of the FBI. (9/4/01- 9/4/13.) In that role he oversaw the post 9/11/01 increase in secret police state powers, the increased persecution of dissidents (Green Party members put on no-fly list, FBI raiding homes of socialist peace activists and stealing their personal mementos and photos, assassinating activists like the Puerto Rican independista Filiberto Ojeda Rios in his home, vacuuming up the data on political targets with "National Security Letters," 50,000 bank, medical, telephone, credit card, library, you name it, records a year secretly taken under the PATRIOT ACT, which require no court order or review and are kept secret from the victims, with criminal penalties for anyone who tells the victims or anyone else, and on and on.)

As FBI director, Mueller participated in the disinformation propaganda campaign "justifying" the invasion of Iraq, falsely testifying to Congress about Iraqi WMD and Al-Qaeda ties. 

The result of that was somewhere between 500,000 and one million Iraqi deaths. The exact number, as in the Vietnam War, will never be known.

In other words, this creature was feted and honored for his life of crime against humanity.

Such is the moral degeneracy, the inversion of normal human morality, by the members of the U.S. power structure.

Now we watch fiercely competing factions battle to impose their conflicting narratives on the public mind: Trump as criminal obstructor of justice (now that the Russian collaborator story is dead in the water) vs. Trump as victim of political witchhunt and Democratic Party hoax.

It's a show that allows the Trump regime to commit its real crimes, murdering more people from cancer under the cover of "deregulation," selling arms to the murderous Saudi regime, trying to overthrow the Venezuelan government (a project enthusiastically supported by the Democratic Party). 

And torturing migrant children and adults, and killing some of them.

Don't let them distract you with their intra-ruling class power struggle from their real crimes.

The secret policeman in winter.

1] Facebook traced $40,000 in campaign-related spending too Russia. This number is commonly inflated to $100,000 by including money spent AFTER the election (!). Google determined Russians spent $4,700 "on all Google platforms" (which includes youtube) during the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Google's CEO testified directly to Jerrold Nadler himself, chair of the House Judiciary Committee, about this. You can watch it on video. Didn't make a dent in Nadler's position. Nadler insists Russia's "attack on Our Democracy" was the equivalent of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. You know someone is a fanatic (or cynic) spewing propaganda when facts that explode their myths have no apparent effect.

Finally there's the Democratic Party emails released by WikiLeaks, falsely attributed to Russia. That myth was debunked by retired NSA veterans William Binney and Kurt Wiebe. But let's say Russia did it. The exposure of those emails was a PUBLIC SERVICE! It made the electorate BETTER INFORMED! It revealed pertinent, significant information about candidate Hillary Clinton and the dishonesty of the campaign being run on her behalf by the Democratic National Committee. Far from being an "attack on democracy," it was a BOON to democracy.

But notice, the Democrats and their media parrots never say "attack on democracy." They always say "attack on our democracy." Like Cosa Nostra, Our Thing, "Our Democracy" is code for their system of bourgeois class rule with its fraudulent electoral trappings. (And how rotten their elections are. They put the Green Party presidential candidate, Jill Stein, in handcuffs for 8 hours to prevent her from trying to participate in one of their Democrat-Republican "debates.")

The "threat" to the two-party political cartel is a wised up populace. They well understand that. That is also why they demonize RT and other alternative media that exposes their lies and propaganda. Of course, RT et al have their own biases. But for progressive/left American dissidents, there is no space allowed in "official" media of the corporate oligarchy.

Violent Rapist Sits on U.S. Supreme Court- But Jeffrey Epstein Is The Devil!

[Helpful Hint for the Reading Comprehension Impaired: This is NOT a defense of Jeffrey Epstein.]

Brett Kavanaugh. Remember him? He violently assaulted and attempted to rape a 15-year-old girl, Christine Ford. Now an adult, she gave a very credible, detailed account of what Kavanaugh and a crony did to her. Didn't stop the U.S. Senate from making Kavanaugh, already a Federal Appeals Court judge, a Justice for life on the U.S. supreme Court, the highest court in the land and one that increasingly wields extreme power.

That's all down the memory hole. The BIG OUTRAGE is some rich guy, Jeffrey Epstein, between 15 and 17 years ago, paid a stream of teenage girls to massage him and watch him masturbate or give him hand jobs and let him fondle them in their underwear. (One now accuses him of raping her on one occasion.) He did have to serve jail time for that and register for the rest of his life as a sex offender.

But now it is Establishment Consensus that he got away with it and that nothing less than life in prison is "justice." To prove he's unrepentant, much is being made of "thousands" of photos of naked females seized from his mansion by FBI raiders. (No charge, just inference, that they are photos of teenagers.)

So the Federal government is reneging on the plea arrangement it entered into years ago and bringing "new" charges for crimes alleged to have occurred between 2002-2005. (What's that, you say? What about statute of limitations? I really don't know. Most Federal crimes have a 7 year time limit for bringing charges. But I haven't heard or read ONE WORD in "the" media, or "alternative" media for that matter, about statute of limitations in this case.)

A Federal judge just denied Epstein bail on grounds that he is a flight risk (as if being under house arrest with an electronic monitoring bracelet. and media and cops camped outside, and guards inside, somehow would allow him to escape) and a danger to society. (No assertion that he's had illegal sexual contact with minors since 2005, and of course with the massive publicity and scrutiny he's under, impossible he could now.)

But a known rapist on the supreme Court? Not a problem!

America's demented contradictions can make anyone lose their mind.

When you strip rights away from one person, you strip them from all. There are no longer rights, just privileges. And privileges are very weak and leave everyone vulnerable. Power systems always strip rights from unpopular people first, those regarded as loathsome. It's the first step down the slippery slope.

Who's the bigger menace to society? Who has the power that affects over 300 million people? It ain't Jeffrey Epstein!

Newest U.S. Hypocritical Double Standard: "We Shoot Down Your Drones, You Can't Shoot Down Ours"

A few weeks ago, Iran shot down a U.S. spy drone that Iran claims was over its territorial waters, and the U.S. claims wasn't. Either way, U.S. military spying on Iran is a dagger aimed straight at that country's ability to defend itself. The purpose of U.S. spying, by drones and every other means imaginable, is to thoroughly map Iran's military assets and capabilities, including the various transmission frequencies of Iran's military communications and radars, which allows the U.S. to plan jamming and spoofing those systems as part of bombing and missile attacks on them and on other targets. So Iran, by shooting down that U.S. drone, was committing an act of self-defense, NOT "aggression," as Western propagandists uniformly styled it.

Trump was then maneuvered by the extreme imperialists he's unwisely surrounded himself with (top culprits being Michael Pompeo and John Bolton) into ordering a military strike on Iran, but cancelled it before munitions were released. For this, he was attacked by various U.S. politicians (especially those of the Democratic Party) and career imperialist "experts" and polemicists. (One of Murdoch's Minions, Tucker Carlson , who has his very own television show on Fox "News," was oneof those credited with talking Trump out of the attack on the grounds that a war with Iran would damage Trump's re-election chances. So it wasn't that Trump suddenly turned into a hippie peacenik.)

Now the U.S. Navy has brought down an Iranian surveillance drone, with Trump himself spewing the standard self-righteous U.S. blather about self-defense, freedom of navigation, and what are intended as scary threats to Iran to Not Mess With The U.S.

The Navy warship U.S.S. Boxer was escorting commercial ships in the Strait of Hormuz. It downed an Iranian surveillance drone by electronic means. The drone was 1000 yards away, according to the BBC.  That's 3,000 feet, almost 3/5ths of a mile, or about a kilometer. [Propagandists reading their script on WCBS radio "news" stations called it "very close" without stating the actual distance.] The Boxer also threatened an Iranian patrol ship that was 500 years away (1,500 feet or about 500 meters). Apparently the U.S. doesn't like others observing its military assets too closely. It knows well from its own practice how the information can be used to plan attacks.

So what we are left with is this: U.S. is free to spy in ways that endanger nations it has already repeatedly attacked and threatened. The U.S. has been hankering to overthrow the Iranian government since 1979. Any interference with this U.S. "intelligence gathering" for purposes of future aggression is "aggression" and "illegal." The U.S. also insisted its drone that Iran downed was over international waters and thus legal.

But being in international airspace didn't give the Iranian drone any right to exist, so the U.S. took it down, in "self-defense."

No nation on earth compulsively creates more double-standards, which it imposes on the rest of the world, than the U.S.

The Overlooked Misogyny Embedded in Trump's Xenophobic and Racist Attack On 4 Female Congresswomen

 The U.S. has a president who doesn't bother masking his quite virulent, deeply felt, lifelong racism.

Trump "won" election by campaigning  on two main themes: "lock up" Hillary Clinton, and Hispanic immigrants are a mass of criminal invaders. He has just launched his reelection campaign with a savage, racist attack on four female, non-"white," Democratic members of Congress, demanding in vitriolic language that they "go back where they came from." (Three "came from" the U.S., and one, Ilhan Omar, came to the U.S. at the age of 12 from Somalia, and is a naturalized U.S. citizen.)

Trump began his vicious, racist assault on the four Congresswomen on Sunday, July 14th. [1] We should note, although no public commentator or politician has to my knowledge done so, that Trump could have included male non-"white" Congresspeople considered progressive, such as Ro Khanna, in his vulgar attack, but did not. Another Democratic male antagonist Trump has ignored: Congressman Al Green, who introduced articles of impeachment against Trump in the House of Representatives. (It was voted on by the House and lost.) Trump singled out four women only.

This should be understood in the context of Trump's lifelong misogyny and sexism, such as his vulgar verbal assaults on Rosie O'Donnell ("fat pig") and Megyn Kelly ("bleeding out of her, whatever") and others. So his attack on the four Congresswomen wasn't just racist. 

Trump's "base" of white racists (aka "nationalists"), bigots, and xenophobes were "energized" (excited) by his assault, as polling showed. Nine out of ten Republicans approve of his demagogic, racist attack. 

Republican politicians, for their part, are either silent or supportive of Trump in this.

When will "respectable" bourgeois commentators and the corporate media finally admit what has been apparent since Nixon's "Southern strategy;" that the Republican Party is the party of white racism?

It could only get more obvious if the Republicans and Trump stop lying about it and denying they're racist. Their denials are tissue-thin, transparent lies. Just another example of their utter dishonesty.

But like Hitler, another notorious liar, they are sincere to the depths of their souls about some things. Namely their racism and xenophobia. And can we say proto-fascism? Trump has expressed his deep solidarity with the murderous Filipino autocrat Rodrigo Duterte and the fascist death squad loving president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro.

Trump's xenophobia, and his racist supporters enthusiasm for him, is mind-exploding in its hypocrisy. Trump, the man who is crazed with hostility for immigrants, has more than a few immigrants in his family- his current wife, one of his former wives (Ivana), his father-in-law. mother-in-law, his grandparents, and his own mother.

Can anyone be a bigger piece of hypocritical, cynical, demagogic piece of shit than Donald J. "Jackass" Trump?

1] The four victims of Trump's demagogic vitriol are Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI). Talib's parents are Palestinian, Ocasio-Cortez' are Puerto Rican, and thus U.S. citizens to begin with, Pressley is African-American, and Omar came from Somalia at age 12. Three are native-born American citizens, Omar is a naturalized citizen.

Trump is not faking the hate just to get reelected. His hatred is genuine.

An Unkillable Zombie Myth: "17 U.S. Intelligence Agencies Found That Russia Hacked the DNC Server!"

There are many Count Dracula-type myths in the U.S., Big Lies that no matter how definitely refuted, keep rising from the dead.

In the wake of the Democrats' blowing the 2016 presidential election, a new myth was created by that party and its allies, in this case the overwhelming bulk of the American propaganda system (aka "the media"). Namely, that "all 17 intelligence agencies have concluded that Russia hacked into the computer server of the Democratic National Committee and stole emails which they gave to WikiLeaks."

Joseph "Joe" Biden, the self-styled Everyman Politician (but he couldn't do it without the connivance of the corporate media propaganda system), just repeated this "17 intelligence agencies all say" falsehood. [1] Even though it was definitively REFUTED TWO YEARS AGO by no other than the Obama regime's Director of National Intelligence James Clapper. That position, on the government organizational chart, has jurisdiction over all Federal "intelligence" agencies (including the FBI, which is officially a "law enforcement" agency).

 Not even Clapper, the man who arranged for the false report "finding" that Russia hacked the Democratic National Committee computer, could kill the media-Democratic Party myth that "all 17 Federal intelligence agencies found that Russia hacked the DNC server."

In July of 2017, Clapper testified before the U.S. Senate about the report that he personally had commissioned and overseen, which claimed, without presenting evidence (since none exists) that Russia hacked into the DNC computer and downloaded documents from it. [2] Here's the key sentence from his opening statement:

"As you know, the IC was a coordinated product from three agencies: CIA, NSA, and the FBI, not all 17 components of the intelligence community. Those three." [Clapper's emphases.]

Then we cut to then-Senator Al Franken of Minnesota completely ignoring Clapper's statement. Note that Clapper had said "as you know," indicating the Senators already were informed prior to this hearing that it wasn't "all 17 intelligence agencies" that "concluded" Russia Did It. [In fact it wasn't even three agencies, but rather 3 "analysts" hand-picked by Clapper to write the report he wanted.] But Franken tries to "correct" Clapper!

Al Franken: "The intelligence communities [sic] have concluded all seventeen of them, that, Russia interfered with this, an election. And we all know how- that's right." ["We all know," in other words, this is now official dogma that all must believe or pretend to believe.]

Clapper has to awkwardly remind Franken that he just told him it was three agencies: "Uh Senator, as I pointed out in my statement, uh, Senator Franken, there were only three, agencies, that directly involved in this assessment plus my office."

But Franken stubbornly tries to preserve the Myth of Seventeen: "But all seventeen signed on to that."


Clapper then finds a tactful way to say No, that's not true, to save Franken's idiot face:  "Well, we didn't go through that process. This was a special situation because of the time limits, and, my, what I need to be who could really contribute to this and the sensitivity of the information, we decided it was a conscious judgment to restrict it to those three." [In other words: "I had to make sure to fix the result."]

Here is the video. There is also a link to it on youtube

https://youtu.be/bPkj2kKO1As

There are some ironclad facts that need to be mentioned, but virtually never are in bourgeois media. First, if there had been an intrusion and download to an external computer, the NSA would have the evidence, since it sweeps up and stores most of the world's Internet traffic. The fact that the NSA's contribution to the Clapper report was equivocal in going along with the party line, and no evidence was presented, is damning proof that the story of Russian hacking is a lie. On top of that, the DNC refused to allow the FBI to examine its server! Various politicians have clamored that this imaginary hack was "an act of war" (John McCain) equivalent to the bombing of Pearl Harbor (Jerrold Nadler), and other extreme rhetoric. So how can the DNC refuse to allow the FBI to even examine its computer? (Contrast this indifference to the Democrats' lack of cooperation with the FBI in what is claimed to be an act of war aimed at destroying "our democracy," with the ginned-up outrage that Donald Trump Jr. didn't report it to the FBI when flaky clown music promoter Rob Goldstone lured him into a meeting with a Russian lawyer on the false pretext of getting derogatory information on his Dad's opponent Hillary Clinton. Or just recently when Trump Sr. said on television that he's look at information on an opponent offered by a foreign power- he used "Norway" as an example- and maybe not report it to the FBI. A firestorm of attacks prompted him to then backtrack and say he WOULD go to the FBI, and Democrats called for yet another repressive law to hand even more power to the already dominant secret police state by requiring candidates to report such contacts to the FBI. The same Democrats who claimed the Russians hacked their computer but REFUSED to let the FBI examine it! Double standard, anyone?)


1]  Biden apparently plans to lie his way into the White House. 

The bourgeois media started excitedly promoting him as the "leading" candidate even before he was officially a candidate, and haven't stopped since. No surprise there, since the propaganda system of the corporate oligarchy that holds power in the U.S. always wants the most reactionary candidate they can successfully foist on the citizenry to win. That is why, for instance, Iowa and New Hampshire, two small, lily white, very reactionary states, are deemed the first "hurdles" to the presidency that a candidate must pass muster in. This immediately disadvantages anyone who is at all progressive, as the propaganda system then pastes the label "hopeless loser with no chance" on them.. 

2]  Not only has no actual evidence ever been presented that this alleged cyber-intrusion ever occurred, since the fake Clapper report was issued it has been proven by technical analysis that the data could not have been downloaded over the Internet because of the speed of the data transfer, but rather was copied onto a flash drive. This analysis was carried out by two career NSA technical experts (retired), William Binney and Kurt Wiebe.