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New York Post: Trump was framed by the FBI
That is the theme of Russiagate special counsel John Durham’s prosecution of Danchenko, heading into its third day of trial in Alexandria, Va., federal court.
Danchenko is charged with five counts of lying to the FBI about two of his sources for what became the infamous “Steele dossier” — a compilation of faux intelligence reports, mainly authored by former British spy Christopher Steele, that portrayed the GOP’s then-presidential candidate, Donald Trump, as a clandestine agent of Russia.
Danchenko was Steele’s principal source. In essence, Durham accuses him of (a) concealing from the FBI that he was getting some information about the Trump campaign from Clinton political ally Charles Dolan and (b) falsely claiming he received explosive information from Sergei Millian, a Belarusian American tangentially associated with Trump, alleging the GOP candidate was in a “conspiracy of cooperation” with the Kremlin.
It remains to be seen whether Durham can prove these charges: The allegation related to Dolan is not crystal clear (because Danchenko did make a vague reference to discussions with him), and Millian, who is overseas and beyond US subpoena power, has refused to testify.
Sunday, July 11, 2021
The Thirty Tyrants
The example Machiavelli gives of the last is the friendly government Sparta established in Athens upon defeating it after 27 years of war in 404 BCE. For the upper caste of an Athenian elite already contemptuous of democracy, the city’s defeat in the Peloponnesian War confirmed that Sparta’s system was preferable. It was a high-spirited military aristocracy ruling over a permanent servant class, the helots, who were periodically slaughtered to condition them to accept their subhuman status. Athenian democracy by contrast gave too much power to the low-born. The pro-Sparta oligarchy used their patrons’ victory to undo the rights of citizens, and settle scores with their domestic rivals, exiling and executing them and confiscating their wealth.
The Athenian government disloyal to Athens’ laws and contemptuous of its traditions was known as the Thirty Tyrants, and understanding its role and function helps explain what is happening in America today.
For my last column I spoke with The New York Times’ Thomas Friedman about an article he wrote more than a decade ago, during the first year of Barack Obama’s presidency. His important piece documents the exact moment when the American elite decided that democracy wasn’t working for them. Blaming the Republican Party for preventing them from running roughshod over the American public, they migrated to the Democratic Party in the hopes of strengthening the relationships that were making them rich.
A trade consultant told Friedman: “The need to compete in a globalized world has forced the meritocracy, the multinational corporate manager, the Eastern financier and the technology entrepreneur to reconsider what the Republican Party has to offer. In principle, they have left the party, leaving behind not a pragmatic coalition but a group of ideological naysayers.”
In the more than 10 years since Friedman’s column was published, the disenchanted elite that the Times columnist identified has further impoverished American workers while enriching themselves. The one-word motto they came to live by was globalism—that is, the freedom to structure commercial relationships and social enterprises without reference to the well-being of the particular society in which they happened to make their livings and raise their children.
Undergirding the globalist enterprise was China’s accession to the World Trade Organization in 2001. For decades, American policymakers and the corporate class said they saw China as a rival, but the elite that Friedman described saw enlightened Chinese autocracy as a friend and even as a model—which was not surprising, given that the Chinese Communist Party became their source of power, wealth, and prestige. Why did they trade with an authoritarian regime and send millions of American manufacturing jobs off to China thereby impoverish working Americans? Because it made them rich. They salved their consciences by telling themselves they had no choice but to deal with China: It was big, productive, and efficient and its rise was inevitable. And besides, the American workers hurt by the deal deserved to be punished—who could defend a class of reactionary and racist ideological naysayers standing in the way of what was best for progress?
Returning those jobs to America, along with ending foreign wars and illegal immigration, was the core policy promise of Donald Trump’s presidency, and the source of his surprise victory in 2016. Trump was hardly the first to make the case that the corporate and political establishment’s trade relationship with China had sold out ordinary Americans. Former Democratic congressman and 1988 presidential candidate Richard Gephardt was the leading voice in an important but finally not very influential group of elected Democratic Party officials and policy experts who warned that trading with a state that employed slave labor would cost American jobs and sacrifice American honor. The only people who took Trump seriously were the more than 60 million American voters who believed him when he said he’d fight the elites to get those jobs back.
What he called “The Swamp” appeared at first just to be a random assortment of industries, institutions, and personalities that seemed to have nothing in common, outside of the fact they were excoriated by the newly elected president. But Trump’s incessant attacks on that elite gave them collective self-awareness as well as a powerful motive for solidarity. Together, they saw that they represented a nexus of public and private sector interests that shared not only the same prejudices and hatreds, cultural tastes and consumer habits but also the same center of gravity—the U.S.-China relationship. And so, the China Class was born.
Connections that might have once seemed tenuous or nonexistent now became lucid under the light of Trump’s scorn, and the reciprocal scorn of the elite that loathed him.
A decade ago, no one would’ve put NBA superstar LeBron James and Apple CEO Tim Cook in the same family album, but here they are now, linked by their fantastic wealth owing to cheap Chinese manufacturing (Nike sneakers, iPhones, etc.) and a growing Chinese consumer market. The NBA’s $1.5 billion contract with digital service provider Tencent made the Chinese firm the league’s biggest partner outside America. In gratitude, these two-way ambassadors shared the wisdom of the Chinese Communist Party with their ignorant countrymen. After an an NBA executive tweeted in defense of Hong Kong dissidents, social justice activist King LeBron told Americans to watch their tongues. “Even though yes, we do have freedom of speech,” said James, “it can be a lot of negative that comes with it.”
Because of Trump’s pressure on the Americans who benefited extravagantly from the U.S. - China relationship, these strange bedfellows acquired what Marxists call class consciousness—and joined together to fight back, further cementing their relationships with their Chinese patrons. United now, these disparate American institutions lost any sense of circumspection or shame about cashing checks from the Chinese Communist Party, no matter what horrors the CCP visited on the prisoners of its slave labor camps and no matter what threat China’s spy services and the People’s Liberation Army might pose to national security. Think tanks and research institutions like the Atlantic Council, the Center for American Progress, the EastWest Institute, the Carter Center, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and others gorged themselves on Chinese money. The world-famous Brookings Institution had no scruples about publishing a report funded by Chinese telecom company Huawei that praised Huawei technology.
The billions that China gave to major American research universities, like $58 million to Stanford, alarmed U.S. law enforcement, which warned of Chinese counterintelligence efforts to steal sensitive research. But the schools and their name faculty were in fact in the business of selling that research, much of it paid for directly by the U.S. government—which is why Harvard and Yale among other big-name schools appear to have systematically underreported the large amounts that China had gifted them.
Indeed, many of academia’s pay-for-play deals with the CCP were not particularly subtle. In June 2020, a Harvard professor who received a research grant of $15 million in taxpayer money was indicted for lying about his $50,000 per month work on behalf of a CCP institution to “recruit, and cultivate high-level scientific talent in furtherance of China’s scientific development, economic prosperity and national security.”
But if Donald Trump saw decoupling the United States from China as a way to dismantle the oligarchy that hated him and sent American jobs abroad, he couldn’t follow through on the vision. After correctly identifying the sources of corruption in our elite, the reasons for the impoverishment of the middle classes, and the threats foreign and domestic to our peace, he failed to staff and prepare to win the war he asked Americans to elect him to fight.
And because it was true that China was the source of the China Class’ power, the novel coronavirus coming out of Wuhan became the platform for its coup de grace. So Americans became prey to an anti-democratic elite that used the coronavirus to demoralize them; lay waste to small businesses; leave them vulnerable to rioters who are free to steal, burn, and kill; keep their children from school and the dying from the last embrace of their loved ones; and desecrate American history, culture, and society; and defame the country as systemically racist in order to furnish the predicate for why ordinary Americans in fact deserved the hell that the elite’s private and public sector proxies had already prepared for them.
For nearly a year, American officials have purposefully laid waste to our economy and society for the sole purpose of arrogating more power to themselves while the Chinese economy has gained on America’s. China’s lockdowns had nothing to do with the difference in outcomes. Lockdowns are not public health measures to reduce the spread of a virus. They are political instruments, which is why Democratic Party officials who put their constituents under repeated lengthy lockdowns, like New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, are signaling publicly that it is imperative they be allowed to reopen immediately now that Trump is safely gone.
That Democratic officials intentionally destroyed lives and ended thousands of them by sending the ill to infect the elderly in nursing homes is irrelevant to America’s version of the Thirty Tyrants. The job was to boost coronavirus casualties in order to defeat Trump and they succeeded. As with Athens’ anti-democratic faction, America’s best and brightest long ago lost its way. At the head of the Thirty Tyrants was Critias, one of Socrates’ best students, a poet and dramatist. He may have helped save Socrates from the regime’s wrath, and yet the philosopher appears to have regretted that his method, to question everything, fed Critias’ sweeping disdain for tradition. Once in power, Critias turned his nihilism on Athens and destroyed the city.
Tuesday, March 9, 2021
Update 2: Conversation with Thor about the Kim Goguen Video Notes
UPDATE 2: 3/9/2021 Inclusion of video that details who appointed Kim Goguen. A question that I have had for months! Thanks to a reader for finding this video. See bottom of article.
December 23, 2020
Transcript
Terran to Denice: Can you ask Thor or Stan if any of the above is true? [see notes below]
Thor: TERRAN. YES. SOME. RECALL THE “DOCUMENTS” OF “ORIJIONAL” (sic) JURISDICTION? THE PIPELINE WAS RECONFIGURED TO “KIM” FOR NOW BY THE ELDERS. THE “MACHINE” THAT HAS HOS IS SELF-CONFLAGURATING. THE INTENTION OF THE ELDER TO “BUY MORE TIME” IS FLAWED. WITHOUT SOURCE CODE. THAT CODE IS IN HOS. ALL IS PERFECT. THOR.
Terran note: Essentially a stall tactic by the Chinese Elders, "has HOS" refers to the imprisonment of HATJ, who is essentially a political prisoner.
Terran: Is ORIJIONAL spelling intentional? Or typo?
Denice: Intentional. I am looking for H’s docs to see if she had a typo. Or did the elders mirror the doc with a different spelling. In any case none of it will work. H has the keys. Lol!!!!!
Terran: That answers a lot about Kim and why she knows so much about high level banking!
Terran to Denice: I googled Orijion and am finding curious hits like it’s a clue to something hidden in plain sight...
Terran: Is Putin dead? Is Bill Clinton dead? And what is “priestess of the Word”?
Thor: TERRAN. PUTIN IS NO LONGER IN EARTHFORM. CLINTON WAS REMOVED PREVIOUSLY. THE SUBSTITUTE FORM WAS/IS DAMAGED BEYOND REPAIR. “PRIESTESS OF THE WORLD” IS A “SELF-FULFILLING”PROPHECY. NO PUN INTENDED. THOR.
Terran: So it’s “world” not “word” as in the notes...
Thor: TERRAN. INDEED. IN JOY. THOR.
Terran: Thor what became of the original Biden? This being who ran for President is not physically the same.
Thor: TERRAN. IT IS A BADLY DAMAGED “FIX” TO THE ORIGINAL FORM. SAME ESSENCE/DNA. THOR.
Update 1:
Thor: TERRAN. AS ALL FLOWS NOW RECALL THE PROBABILITIES AND POSSIBILITIES NARROW IN SCOPE. THESE ARE "CONFUSED" WITH TIMELINES SHIFTING/MERGING. ALL IS MERGED. YET NOT VISIBLE TO ALL. THESE EXPERIENCES NOW EXPAND THE SCOPE OF VISIBILITY. FREQUENCIES ARE RIPE FOR CREATION NOW. EACH THOUGHT. EACH WORD CARRIES GREAT IMPACT IN VIBRATION. THE TRAINING WHEELS ARE OFF. RIDE THOUGHTFULLY AND IN JOY. THOR.---
In a prior conversation with a friend...
Friend: Kim, in her latest non-public video says that Putin is dead. As well as Bill Clinton. Heard Putin was having serious health problems.
Terran: What’s the url for that video?
Friend: Kim didn’t make the video public. No URL. I got notes from one of her members while watching the video.
Terran: Can you share the Kim notes?
The following notes about Kim's video to the Speak Project members were passed on to me....
Kim Video notes:
- Putin died two weeks ago
- Bill Clinton had an accident this weekend and died. Don’t know when it will be revealed.
- Kim has the names of 2,000,000 Chinese in US working against US
- Kim will be revealing those names
- Kim gave 5 billion to Trump for cleanup of DS. Was used for Ghost Squads. Focused on protecting Americans.
- Hillary was promoted to High Priestess of the Word [should be 'world']
- Biden knelt before her and she will be running the White House if he wins
- Kim phoned White House about martial law and insurrection act.
- Kim said if he does that NATO will take control. UN started threatening US military after that call. UN told military all its member nations will be against US
- Sound quality is poor so it’s hard to understand what they are saying. Dominion software issue is not Russia. She says we should actually count the ballots and will get the results needed.
- UN is trying to take control of our military. Military told UN no
- They trust the President
- The FED is trying to bail out the banks. They can’t figure out it is their fault. They have no money to buy back. They have no control or access to money now. Thanks to Kim.
- CIA is telling Trump he doesn’t have enough data about election.
- 700 “organizers souls” came in and replaced 700 souls. Therefore contradicting news.Not replacing clones with clones, but organic entities. She doesn’t clarify.
- Several white outs to day regarding alignment with central sun. This is good according to Kim, we are ready for martial law and insurrection. [I am presuming she means the insurrection act - but I haven't seen the video and don't know the note taker - Terran]
- Trump does not want her [Kim's] plan
END OF NOTES
Terran: He does not answer to Kim!
Freind: [Simon] Parkes seems to agree with you
Terran: What bothers me is the unclear origin of purported authority
Friend: Yep. Agree
UPDATE 2:
This video, from one of the members of Kim's Speak Project, gives details as to who gave Kim Goguen her purported position. And its none other than.... DRUM ROLL... MARDUK! How would you like "Marduk's choice!" on your CV/Resume?
Thursday, May 30, 2019
Pot Calls Kettle Black
From: TUCCI-JARRAF, HEATHER ANN
RE: Pot calls kettle black
May 30, 2019 at 8:52 PM
"the shit hits the fan"...when "some one" other than "china"/families determines "who merits"?...lol
hypocracy done on a whole new level...
ohhhhhhhhh myyyyyyyyyy! ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh the drama!....."stop it! stop it right now!" 😉
hugs and love ❤️
-----Terran on 5/30/2019 11:36 AM wrote:
> Is the "bad faith" a contractual reference to bribes paid? 😉
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Chinese shoppers look for items at a popular supermarket in Beijing that specializes in U.S. and European imported goods. File Photo by Stephen Shaver/UPI |
MAY 30, 2019 / 11:53 AM
Chinese officials: U.S. using 'economic terrorism' in trade conflict
By Clyde Hughes
May 30 (UPI) -- Chinese officials said Thursday the Trump administration's efforts in the two nations' ongoing trade dispute amounts to "economic terrorism."
Vice Foreign Minister Zhang Hanhui leveled the remarks at U.S. officials -- an assessment foreign ministry spokesman Lu Kang agreed with.
"I could not agree more with Vice Foreign Minister Zhang Hanhui and don't see anything hard to comprehend," Lu said.
"The U.S. unilateralism and bullying practices in the international arena, including in economic and trade relations with other countries, show clearly that it is undermining the existing international rules. ... It has indeed inflicted serious harm on other countries."
The Communist Party-run People's Daily said in a commentary Thursday U.S. "greed" and its failing to honor past trade agreements hurts Washington's reputation among the international community.
"The credibility of the U.S. is being gnawed away by the bad faith of some Washington politicians, which has been broadly perceived by people around the world," it said. "If these politicians continue acting this way, it won't be long before the U.S. is trapped in grave peril."
The trade conflict has been going for a year and has heightened tensions recently with new tariffs on both sides. Trade negotiations have also broken down.
Iranian foreign minister Javad Zarif used similar "economic terrorism" language when describing U.S. sanctions this week.
Saturday, January 26, 2019
Trump Short Term Bill to End Shutdown,
HATJ Comments
Message to "Gentry Smith"
From: TUCCI-JARRAF, HEATHER ANN
Subject RE: 3 week extension
Date: Jan 26, 2019 at 9:07 PM
lol
last night/this morning..."dropped in" to upgrade/activate tech to i-tech for a big showdown "someone else" planned/prepped/created...in/re "asia"...upgrade/activation was to end it before it began...got up went to the bathroom shaking my head at the ridiculousness that is playing out, albeit in dwindling dribbles, lol.
p.s.:..."Gentry Smith"...hugs and loves from HOS...you know "where" to find me ;)
lol
hugs, love, and espresso!!!!! ❤️
-----Terran on 1/26/2019 2:21 AM wrote:
Trump restoring govt for 3 weeks... until the Lantern Festival (15th) which is the end of Chinese New Year celebrations... Feb 5-15.
Hmmm....
Trump Signs Short-Term Bill To End Government Shutdown, But Border Fight Still Looms
Jessica Taylor January 25, 2019
Updated at 9:45 p.m. ET
The longest government shutdown in history ended after President Trump signed a bipartisan three-week stopgap funding measure late Friday.
Several agencies had been partially shuttered for 35 days.
"I am very proud to announce today that we have reached a deal to end the shutdown and reopen the federal government," Trump said earlier Friday in the White House Rose Garden, announcing the long-awaited bipartisan breakthrough.
By Friday evening, the House and Senate had unanimously passed the bill to fund the government through Feb. 15.
Lawmakers also authorized moving forward on a longer-term Department of Homeland Security funding bill for the rest of the fiscal year, where border security funds can be negotiated on a bipartisan basis.
The question remains, however, what exactly Trump accomplished with his firm stance against any deal without funding for a border wall, which he eventually capitulated to.
The stopgap measure does not include funding for the wall along the U.S.-Mexico border that Trump has pushed for. The Homeland Security bill does not include money earmarked for a wall, either, but a bipartisan group of lawmakers will hammer out the details over the next few weeks.
Ultimately, as the president's approval ratings tumbled and polls showed the public largely blamed Republicans for the increasingly dire situation punctuated on Friday by massive delays at major airports and recent warnings about a threat to national security Trump finally seemed to back down from his demands. At least for now.
Another shutdown looming in three weeks?
Trump seemed to revive earlier deal-breakers as he ended his speech, warning that if negotiations over the next three weeks don't result in funding for the "powerful wall or steel barrier" he has demanded, "the government would either shut down again" or he would declare a national emergency to build the wall.
"I have a very powerful alternative, but I didn't want to use it at this time. Hopefully it will be unnecessary," Trump teased at the beginning of his remarks about the extreme measures which would very likely face legal challenges in court.
"We do not need 2,000 miles of concrete wall from sea to shiny sea," the president added, showing an openness to some technology efforts that some Democrats have signaled they could back. Still, he reiterated proposals to build barriers in specific areas identified by the Border Patrol, strengthen security at legal ports of entry and provide humanitarian assistance to those who have crossed the border.
"Walls or barriers or whatever you want to call it will be an important part of the solution," said Trump, who has regularly contradicted himself on how he describes the promised wall.
Trump insisted later Friday evening on Twitter that the deal "was in no way a concession."
Democrats take a victory lap
Trump and Republicans had long maintained any deal to end the shutdown must include funding for the border wall the president wants, which was his key promise during the 2016 campaign. But Democrats said they should reopen the government and then resume talks, which is exactly what Friday's deal does.
Democratic leaders argued their conference's unity is what eventually caused Trump to cave.
"The American people do not like it when you throw a wrench into the lives of government workers over an unrelated political dispute," Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., told reporters. "Hopefully now the president has learned his lesson."
The first signs of a crack in Trump's resolve came earlier this week. After House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said he could not give the State of the Union address until after the shutdown, Trump threatened to hold the annual speech someplace else. But he backed down hours later and said he would defer to Pelosi.
It's unclear when the State of the Union, which had been slated for next Tuesday, will happen following Friday's deal to end the shutdown. Pelosi told reporters that it is "not planned now" and that she had told Trump "when the government is opened we will discuss a mutually agreeable date."
Pelosi, a veteran appropriator, said she was hopeful the three-week talks would produce a deal on border security, though she didn't answer a question about whether that may include any funding for even portions of a wall. She has repeatedly said she is opposed to a wall and has called it "immoral."
"I see every challenge or every crisis as an opportunity," Pelosi said.
Speaking on the Senate floor shortly after Trump endorsed the deal, McConnell said he too was optimistic, but with some caveats..
"Going forward, I hope Democrats will stay true to the commitment they have stated constantly over the past weeks that once government was reopened, they would be perfectly willing to negotiate in good faith on full-year government funding that would include a significant investment in urgently needed border security measures, including physical barriers," McConnell said.
Consequences of the prolonged shutdown
Federal employees who have been working without pay or are furloughed would also get back pay as part of the agreement, though it's unclear how long that might take.
The American Federation of Government Employees says workers could get back pay as soon as next Thursday, but the union says it is also possible they won't get paid until their next scheduled pay date during the week of Feb. 4.
A senior administration official says "the administration is taking steps to ensure that they receive pay as soon as possible."
Federal contractors also impacted by the shutdown would not get any back pay.
The breakthrough comes as federal workers missed their second paycheck in a row, now going without their salaries for more than a month. Trump thanked those workers, calling them "patriots" and said they have "suffered" far greater than anyone but they and their families can understand.
The prolonged stalemate pushed the nation's security and infrastructure to the brink, with significant flight delays at major airports due to Federal Aviation Administration and Transportation Security Administration absences escalating on Friday. The FBI also warned that critical crime-fighting measures have been curtailed with its agents limited and working without pay.
How it began
The shutdown began on Dec. 22, when Republicans still had control of a lame-duck Congress following their loss of 40 seats in the House in November 2018.
After two years of unified control, the GOP president was unable to push through Trump's signature campaign promise which he repeatedly said during the 2016 campaign that Mexico would pay for and there seemed to be an urgency to his last push.
Egged on by conservative media and pundits, Trump drew a line until he didn't.
Schumer said the lesson Trump should take away from the quagmire is that Pelosi, who reclaimed the speaker's gavel at the beginning of January, should not be taken lightly.
"No one should ever underestimate the speaker, as Donald Trump has learned," Schumer said.
NPR congressional correspondents Susan Davis and Kelsey Snell and NPR national security correspondent Greg Myre contributed to this report.
Sunday, April 8, 2018
Tucker Carlson Tweet
4/6/2018 Me to Heather: Stocks Tumble As China Urges Americans To Rise Up Against "Unscrupulous" President
4/7/2018 Heather: China was the MOST bankrupt "nation" prior to 2012-13 filings... let alone with the ledgerings that began 10-18-17, 9:01 a. m. , est...
Nothing is as it appears... "China" is very aware they could not survive any war, let alone start one... especially an "economic" one... i am grateful to "China" for chosing to "lose face" in order that all embrace and live heart.
❤️