Headlines

Top fugitive in Rwanda’s genocide arrested outside of Paris

Trump may restore some WHO funding after widespread criticism, but no final decision made yet

CDC: 100,000 dead by June ...

Clapper: I don’t recall what prompted unmasking request

Trump praises rapid coronavirus test despite FDA warning

Coronavirus live updates: Grocery shopping is evolving, NY race tracks reopening

Navajo Nation residents to be under strictest lockdown yet ...

Report: Amb. Marie Yovanovich had more extensive contact with Burisma than she admitted to impeachment inquiry

Trump names team to develop coronavirus vaccine at ‘Warp Speed’

House Democrats pass $3 trillion coronavirus relief package

Fed: Financial system under severe strain ...

Hollywood sees mass carnage as unemployment hits entertainment industry

Missing Puzzle Piece (Updated)

There is a missing piece to this General Michael Flynn legal puzzle ... and that is why did President Obama have such animosity toward what had been his director of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) for roughly two years (2012-2014) ... until he apparently crossed swords with James Clapper?

During the transition of their presidencies, Obama warned Trump about two people ... Kim Jong Un and General Flynn ... a strange juxtaposition. Nevertheless, Trump selected Flynn as his National Security Advisor where he served briefly until he was fired for lying to Vice President Pence. Coincidently the full weight of the Justice Department and the FBI fell on this man in what we are now discovering was a gigantic set-up to destroy his reputation and send him to jail.

This blog post will not go over this Obama railroading effort. Unfamiliar readers can discover these details for themselves at: Out Like Flynn and the embedded hyperlinks.

The purpose of this post is to try to decipher why these extremely punitive actions were undertaken by Obama and the Obama administration ... against General Flynn? There are a number of theories I have heard of late ... trying to fill  in this important puzzle piece:

- Flynn was in the process of revamping and streamlining the DIA in his term there ... and this upset the Pentagon and the other intelligence agencies. Why this would be reason to cut off his legs three years later is suspicious to me.

- The Comey/McCabe/Brennen/Clapper cabal knew that they could not have pulled off their Russian hoax if Flynn continued as National Security Adviser ... so they needed to dispose of him ... so that the Trump team stayed in the dark.

- Being a member of the armed forces, Flynn was incensed at what went on during the Benghazi attack when the higher-ups gave stand down orders ... and didn’t attempt to save the special forces there ... resulting in three killed including our Libyan ambassador.

And I would not be surprised if even more sinister reasons surface. But, at the moment, I think it was a combination of the second and third reasons. Stay tuned ...

Afterward: See also Breitbart Article.

Headlines

Trump: I hope sexual assault allegation against Biden is ‘false’

Coronavirus live updates: Antibody ‘cocktail’ in the works but full vaccines could be limited

Record 103,405,000 not in labor force ...

Transcript: Clapper admitted no direct evidence of Russian Collusion

Murphy deploys 120 National Guard troops to New Jersey’s long-term care facilities

Melinda Gates says US coronavirus response is ‘chaos,’ gives White House D-minus

20.5 million jobs vanish in April ...

Yale scientist: Reopening America is ‘awfully close to genocide’

Democrat senators propose $2,000 monthly payments to most American

Moderna CEO says supply of coronavirus vaccine will be limited, US will decide who gets it first

Unemployment rate 14.7% ...

Arrests made in shooting death of Ahmaud Arbery

American Gulag

It seems clear to me, kind reader, that the United States had, during the last four or five years, moved dangerously close to creating the old Soviet Union gulags... in that it was trying to (and did) imprison people solely for their political opinions. By that I mean prison time was obviously being handed out for no legal reason other than whether this person is a Trump supporter. George Papadopoulos, Rick Gates, Michael Flynn, and Roger Stone have been mousetrapped by dirty FBI cops and a sympathetic legal system as a way of punishing them for their support of the Orangeman.

Their actual ‘process crimes’ (primarily inconsequential lying under oath) feel very much like set-ups wherein they and their families were crushed financially by the sheer power and perfidy of a corrupt and politicized Obama FBI and Justice Department ... organizations that Attorney General Barr is doing his best to restore to dignity and fairness. (Notice I have not included in this list Trump’s old lawyer, Michael Cohen, or his former brief campaign manager, Paul Manafort ... bot of whom were convicted of serious felonies: money laundering, tax evasion and corruption ... unconnected to the Trump campaign.)

And an even more disturbing aspect of this politicalization of crimes in the Washington, DC swamp is that known perjurers such as Comey, McCabe, Clapper, Brennan, Sally Yates, Susan Rice and maybe higher-ups ... are still walking free ... and under no legal jeopardy (that we know of currently). And, if they are being investigated and found guilty, is this political persecution too?

Nah!

Perhaps, it’s a good thing that we have no Siberia equivalent?

2020 Predictions

- Republicans retake House, expand Senate lead
- Trump re-elected, winning popular vote too
- 10%+ stock market correction in early Spring
- Clapper turns states-evidence in Durham probe
- Durham grand jury indicts 8 from Obama admin.
- Phase 2 China trade deal done in Summer
- GDP growth for year 3%+
- Pelosi never submits Impeachment to Senate
- North Korea doesn’t resume nuke testing
- Democrat ticket: Bloomberg and Yang
- Baltimore wins Super Bowl, Tom Brady retires
- RIP: Jimmy Carter, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Ted Turner


Yes, I know a lot of these are obvious, but I can’t help myself ...

Spooks

Governments need to have spooks ... spies, counter spies, espionage agents and counter espionage  agents. That’s the nature of national security. And because of what these agents are charged to do ... unsavory stuff ... they are generally not Boy Scouts. If they are not nefarious when they are hired, they become nefarious in order to advance their careers.

So we should not be surprised when we find unsavory individuals like Comey, Brennan, Clapper, Strzok, Page, McCabe, etc. inside our intelligence operations. It comes with the territory ... like frogs in a frog pond.

Which is all the more reason why, if these intelligence officials turn rogue and use their powerful wiles and ways against their political adversaries, they should be severely punished. If they are given a pass, because they are spooks, then they effectively become like antibodies attacking their own tissue, they create a very dangerous precedent ... a precedent that might eventually kill their host ... i.e., bring down their country.

All the more reason that the FBI Inspector General Horowitz and Attorney General Barr should not pull their punches in their investigations into the alleged attempted coup by our intelligence community against a sitting president, Donald J. Trump. If our president cannot trust his spooks, it is very spooky!

Canary

Prediction: In the Barr/Durham investigation into the origins of the Russian collusion probe ... which has now turned criminal ... the first person to be flipped and turn states evidence to reveal all the dirty secrets of the cabal against Trump will be ... [drum roll] ... Clapper!

And he will sing like a canary ... unless he is first taken down into that Arkansas coal mine full of dangerous gases.

Headlines

ISIS leader killed in daring U.S. raid in Syria, Trump says

Trump confirms ISIS Baghdadi is dead after US raid in Syria — ‘He died like a coward’

No U.S. troops killed ... Pelosi, Congress not told over leak fears ...

Trump: [Baghdadi] ‘Died whimpering, crying, screaming’

Brussels fears accidental Brexit crash-out

Trump wants to make a deal with Exxon and others to tap Syrian oil: ‘We should be able to take some’

New York magazine: Biden — least formidable front-runner ever ...

Media Meltdown ... Clapper: Region now *more* dangerous ...

Ousted Republicans plot rematches with Trump back on the ballot

Trump told Mattis to screw Amazon out of $10 billion cloud contract

41% of the world’s people are under 24. And they’re angry ...

British police foil 24 terror plots since 2017

Smoking Gun

James Clapper, Obama’s Director of National Intelligence (a misnomer if there was ever was one), has admitted on national TV that his then Commander in Chief, the Chosen One, personally directed Peter Strzok to open operation Crossfire Hurricane, the Russian collusion investigation against Trump BEFORE HE WAS ELECTED! See: Real Clear Politics.

If this is not a smoking gun, I don’t know what is ...

Burning Bridges

The growing revelations surrounding our intelligence agencies’ apparent conspiring with foreign spooks to spy on the Trump campaign and then trying to bring down his presidency ... very likely will cast a pall over future cooperation involving legitimate security threats. It looks like those agencies in Great Britain, Australia and Italy ... at least ... will end up with egg on their faces after this chicanery is fully revealed in AG Barr’s investigation of the investigation.

These governments seem to have been up to their eyeballs ... involved into US political intrigue ... and Italy is already cleaning house ... calling for resignations from the involved parties ... see: Citizens Free Press Story. These countries may now be reluctant to cooperate again under actual intrusion threats. Have Obama’s bumbling Keystone Kops, Brennan, Comey and Clapper, burned down our bridges with foreign intelligence agencies?

Quite likely ... at least for the nonce.

Headlines

Inside Trump’s year-long attempt to stymie the Russia investigation

Amazon is shutting down its China marketplace business. Here’s why it has struggled

President cracks term limit joke after big win ...

Deep State Clapper: ‘Passive collusion’ with Russia swung election for Trump

Mueller paints damning picture of dysfunctional Trump White House

Judge upholds New York City’s mandatory measles vaccination order

White House lawyer refuses order to fire Special Counsel ...

U.S. Coast Guard seizes 8 tons of drugs in international waters

The obstruction case against Trump that Barr tried to hide

Donald Trump on Mueller’s appointment: ‘This is the end of my presidency. I’m f—d’

Poll: 68% say paid same or MORE in taxes ...

Appeals court upholds California ‘sanctuary state’ bill

Headlines

‘Liz [Warren] was a diehard conservative’

China’s March trade surplus surges past expectations, Beijing data show

Jobless claims lowest in 50 years ...

Donald Trump: William Barr’s spying claim ‘absolutely true’

To get Trump’s tax returns, Democrats must show they have a good reason

SpaceX launches Falcon Heavy and lands all three rocket boosters for the first time

White House proposed releasing immigrant detainees in sanctuary cities, targeting political foes ...

Candice Owens: ‘Democrats don’t care about black people’

Grand jury indicts former Obama White House Counsel Gregory Craig

Tesla starts offering leases for Model 3

Millions of [Chinese] youth sent to villages in ‘Cultural Revolution’ echo

James Clapper: Barr’s spying comment ‘stunning and scary’

Investigation Fatigue

The Mueller investigation is over. It appears to this observer to have been nothing more than an exercise in gorilla dust to keep the country distracted with bluster so that we would not focus on the many real serious scandals committed by Obama, Hillary Clinton, Brennan, Comey, Clapper, Lynch, et alia during The One’s regime. This obfuscating strategy continues into the foreseeable future with the intent to tire us out from bogus investigations so that these real Obama scandals will be swept away.

So, the fact that Mueller seems to have come up empty with his two-year investigation may not be a total loss for the Democrats. Hillary is still sipping Chardonnay in Chappaqua, Obama is ensconced with Michelle O. and Valery Jarrett in his DC manse, most of the crooked CIA, FBI and DOJ bad actors are still cashing their checks from book publishers, MSNBC, CNN and other media moguls ... and spittle-flecked Democrats are plotting new ways to negate the results of the last election ... instead of helping Trump to Make America Great Again.

“The investigation continues ...” So sad!

Headlines

Farmers are losing money thanks to Trump -- but they still support him

Gold buying by central banks hits its highest level in almost three years

October jobs: +250K ... Wage gains strongest since 09 ...

Clapper: Trump 'seemingly condones' radical anti-Semitism

Bolton praises Brazil's Bolsonaro as a 'like-minded' friend

Young Americans signal record turnout for midterm elections, reject Trump, GOP: Poll

NYT: Nationalism is breaking point for some suburban voters ...

Macron lashes out as popularity tumbles to all-time low

Trump: Trade talks with China 'moving along nicely'

Apple now has $237.1 billion in cash on hand

Cook: Dems gain 30-40 [House] seats ...

Oprah involves lynching, opression in campaign speech

Headlines

Trump promised them better, cheaper health care. It's not happening.

Commerce Secretaty Wilbur Ross: We've seen 'positive developments' in trade talks with Mexico

White House struggling to contain political outcry ...

Donald Trump: No confidence in Intelligence led by Brennan, Clapper, Comey

Trump: Dems have 'death wish' in push to abolish ICE

New York governor 'opens the door' to a criminal case against the Trump
Foundation

Iran claims it rejected Trump meeting requests 8 times ...

Trudeau appoints border minister because of wave of asylum seekers

Trump plays semantics on Russian meddling

Former Trump advisor Steve Bannon: 'We're at war with China'

Could Putin have bugged soccer ball he gave Trump?

Barack Obama: 'Men gave been getting on my nerves lately'

The Legacy

Comey, Clapper, Brennan

Cringe-worthy

Headlines

Trump calls off historic meeting with Kim Jong Un

Trump signs the biggest rollback of bank rules since the financial crisis

8 women accuse Morgan Freeman ... inappropriate behavior, harassment ...

Obamacare premiums to spike by 15% in 2019

Second top official resigns from Bernie Sander's group

Russia quietly conducts the longest range surface-to-air missile test

Home values rising at fastest rate in 12 years ...

James Clapper admits to 'spying' from inside Trump campaign

Democrats muscle into FBI informant meeting

Trump pardons late [black] boxer Jack Johnson

Newfoundland buried in foot of snow ...

Netflix [now] more valuable than Disney, Comcast

National Security?

From Mostly Cajun blog

Pickle Nose

Headline: THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION PUT A MOLE IN THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN, TRUMP DEMANDS THAT DOJ INVESTIGATE

The cat is out of the bag. Apparently multiple wire taps and other surveillance was not enough for Obama's CiA/FBI/DOJ cabal. They also needed an "insurance policy, against Trump getting elected ... and then after the impossible happened, this insurance became a slow-motion coup. This is a scandal of shocking proportions and frightening implications. Although I might be a little ahead of the facts, what is emerging from the Obama swamp miasma is so profoundly unsettling that a few corners need to be rounded over to paint this grotesque picture. I actually suspect that the eventual truth will be far more damaging.

Now we know that am American citizen, Stefan Halper of Cambridge University (Howie Carr calls him "pickle nose"), was hired by Brennan of the CIA to infiltrate the Trump campaign to set a predicate for the Trump-Russia collusion charges. He approached Carter Page and George Pappadopolus with suggestions of dirt on the Clinton campaign. Basically Pickle Nose  entrapped these two naive low-level Trump operatives to set the stage for the later FISA court wire tap approvals.

This conspiracy even had a  deep-state name -- Operation Crossfire Hurricane. It was a classic Human Intelligence Operative. It was conducted against an opposition political party and, after the election, against a sitting president, Trump ... a cabal now led led  by Robert Mueller. The fact that Mueller has not, with his broad prosecutable mandate, veered into all this deep-state corruption , leads me up believe that Mueller s also dirty.

Wow! And I am certain that there is a lot more to come.

Afterward; For his efforts on behalf of Hiillary's campaign and the deep state, pickle nose goot between $400K and $1M of taxpayer monies.

A Few Observations

- Obama's spooks, Brennam, Comey and Clapper, were so focused on undermining Trump's bid for the White House; I wonder how many real intelligence jobs went undone or underdone?

- Back in the day when salt was as valuable as gold, a bag of potato chips might have cost as much as $100

- If the Clinton Foundation and Global Initiative were not money laundering operations, how come they have gone quiescent after Hillary is no longer a shoe-in for the presidency.

- How does the DOJ's Rod Rosenstein still have a job since it has been revealed that he illegally back-dated by weeks the authorization to break down Manafort's  door at 3 AM to search his home and arrest him?

- Why is Turkey still in MATO?

- When the Federal Reserve Bank's primary missions of full employment and a 2% inflation rate are met, as they are now, it would seem that the Fed could swing to helping our balance of payments strategies and lowering the cost of financing our national debt.