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December 25, 2025

Open Letter to Pres. Trump, 12/25/25

Filed under: Political Commentary — Tags: , , , , , , , — justplainbill @ 10:32 pm

Suggested Solutions

printed: September 3, 2025

Illegal Aliens:

By definition, an illegal alien is a criminal, all other crimes are add-ons to the original crime of breaching the immigration laws, thus, various categories should be addressed in order to provide for a reasonable solution. Many categories are compounded by the over-matching of the different enforcement agencies, for example, the tax violations with the social security violations with the actual criminal violations, &c.

Two major categories are the economic violations coupled with the tax violations. As such, we may separate those who have not committed criminal misconduct, such as murder +/or trespass, phrased simply as felonies and misdemeanors. Thus, we can separate these two groups of criminals by using current definitions and apply the appropriate, political, judicial, and social, remedies, that should satisfy all reasonable people, although triggering the ideologues.

Keeping in mind, that all solutions to this problem are legislative with the only power of The Executive being to implement Law.  See Article I and Article II of The Constitution of the United States 1788 as amended.

Simple illegals who have crossed and have been model citizens, with jobs, no criminal record other than false or stolen social security numbers +/or other simple identity frauds, excepting those of actual identity theft, and with the intent to assimilate, should be paroled.

All others should be prosecuted and either imprisoned or executed as appropriate to their crimes and the pertinent statutes. There should be NO exceptions, as this violates the current interpretations of the various discrimination decisions, especially those based on place of birth, race, national origin, and gender. To allow these criminals to remain without punishment discriminates against both legal residents and citizens of These United States. This policy eliminates the problem of deportations, as all of the crimes are inherently within the jurisdiction of the United States and its member States, and as such, imprisonment in local facilities is appropriate, not deportation until such time as the court ordered sentence is complete, and even then, the deportation should be immediate, as in within 24 hours. Although requiring an increase in prison facilities, overall, it should reduce the cost of this problem.

In order to be paroled, the illegal alien must admit to having committed the breach of the immigration laws, thus allowing for the court ordering a parole for the individual, much as a criminal consent decree. This required admission of guilt allows for the constitutionality of all of the following. Apparent conflicts between guidelines to be modified at the discretion of the Executive in the event that the legislation is ambiguous, but definitely not to be adjudicated by any Article I nor Article III nor any State’s court

  1. The parolee waives all rights to Due Process for a deportation if he commits any crime, felony +/or misdemeanor, subsequent to the parole. Any breach acts as an act of law, thereby not allowing for disputation of any kind;
  2. The parolee agrees to voluntarily leaving the country if within three years he has not learned English and can pass the then current citizenship test,
    1. A mandatory savings account may be required to cover the cost of this, assets to be returned at the passing of the test;
  3. The parolee agrees to never request citizenship, nor agree to sue on any grounds, other than performing three years of honorable military service, for such citizenship;
  4. The parolee agrees that no minor children of his are ever eligible for citizenship, but that grand-children with no criminal record may do so by satisfying the then current conditions for naturalized citizenship and specifically noted to be excluded from the rights and privileges of the native-born citizen;
  5. The parolee agrees to relinquishing, within (X) months, all forged documents, documents gotten for driving or for otherwise certifying skills of any or all kinds, and registering to retake all such certifications, including especially State issued documents which may be used to falsify citizenship or any or all skill sets regulated by any and all competent authorities, in English, especially those involving matters of trust or medical and legal expertise;
  6. The parolee presents evidence which must meet the requirements of the Federal Rules of Evidence, showing the date of entry into the country, or providing FRE evidence of date of birth, from which his taxes, Income, SSA, HCFA, &c, will be dated back to for payment and penalty, said dating to be established at the parolee’s  eighteenth birthdate.
    1. Said penalty may be waived at the discretion of the Executive, for purposes of establishing penalties, if any;
  7. The parolee pays an amount monthly, not to exceed 10% of his Adjusted Gross Income, nor for the total to exceed the amount to be estimated as his income tax liability dated from established date of entry, or 18th birthdate, and same to be penalty free at the discretion of the executive;
  8. No SSA or HCFA contributions made prior to the date of the parole shall accrue to the parolee’s accounts, but that from the date of the parole, same shall accrue and be treated in the same manner and form as all other accounts;
  9. The parolee agrees and consents that by accepting this parole, nothing herein is eligible for judicial review except to/+ through the office of The Secretary of State, and only with The Secretary’s consent and The Secretary’s approved administrative office and procedure or as otherwise provided for in the enabling legislation; &,
  10. Legislation for the purposes of Foreign Work Visas, Green Cards, Student Visas, &c., shall be separate from this parole legislation.

Criminals: all crimes committed within the Jurisdiction of These United States shall be adjudicated within the U.S., applying all pertinent statues and rules with the exception that no bail or bond shall be applied, but only incarceration up to the penalty hearing shall apply.

At no time shall an Illegal Alien have the citizen’s Right to Bail, as the risk of flight +/or repeat offenses is historically at or near 99.9999% as can be humanly determined. The history of allowing Bail is that the accused is not a risk for flight or repeat offenses, whereas the Illegal Alien is already a criminal, and by definition a flight risk to flee to foreign lands and by definition has no community ties to the U.S., as he is, by legal definition as established by The Supreme Court of the United States, an alien. For whom is covered by the U.S. Constitution, one may go back to the Dred Scott Decision; Scott vs Davis, according to Shepard’s, still a good ruling, although modified.

The Camp LeJeune Justice Act

How to screw Veterans while pretending tort restitution

Several years ago, The Congress, passed The Camp LeJeune Justice Act. It is based on the fact that from the late 1950’s through the late 1980’s, the water in the aquifer and Base water system was contaminated with dry cleaning fluids and aviation fuel from deteriorating WW II fuel tanks. Troops, dependents, and contractors have all suffered cancers, neurological diseases, death, and the typical tort damage of pain and suffering. The generals and responsible congressional committees having full knowledge of same. In The Act, Congress admits to total liability for these and other damages, waiving sovereign immunity.

Among congress’s errors and exacerbated by the federal judiciary and the Department of the Navy and the Department of Justice, is their failure to apply the Federal Torts Claims Act’s limitation on contingency fees. The FTCA limits fees to 10%. Currently, the thousands of claimants, are required to pay a range of 33% to 60% depending upon the locale of the law firm “handling” the case. Thus, the injured party will not receive an amount commensurate with the damages. To further add injury to the petitioner, is the fact that the local court has consolidated the filings into the hands of a small number of law firms, if information is correct, Wallace & Graham, of North Carolina, thus, most of these plaintiff’s lawyers will be unjustly enriched at the expense of the injured parties as their only legal activity will be to have filed the original petition, yet W&G will be doing almost all of the actual legal work and not getting paid.

Another problem is that the local judge decided to violate the VIIth Amendment by denying petitioners a jury trial in a Civil Case. The judge has decided that all on his own, he can determine all damages including the pain and suffering of everyone, including family members of those damaged, without the input of a jury nor of the victims. Bench trials being notorious for ignoring pain and suffering, as a matter of course.

Next is that both the DOJ and DON haven’t hired enough lawyers to handle these cases. Rumor has it that the Biden Administration simply ignored all budget requests for this matter. However, considering how many lawyers are in the JAG Reserves, these people could handle the bulk of the paper work on their weekends of ‘service’ and two weeks of ‘active’ duty.

Both the DOJ and DON, rumor again has it, have stalled to the point that the judge has threatened sanctions and censure over the course of the case. Hasn’t done so yet, of course.

In order to ease their own burden at the expense of the victims, DON has put out a schedule of payments for those who will drop their participation in exchange for immediate cash. A review of this schedule shows how DON is ignoring most rules of a tort claim by simply saying if you fall into this category, regardless of how injured you are or the complexity of the claim, we’ll pay you, right now, this six figure amount. DON hereby ignores how a victim may have multiple cancers, neurological diseases, injuries, loss of wages, pain & suffering, &c, but, hey, the judge is ok with all of this. By stalling, they’ve gotten away with avoiding numerous claims. Further, how many settled just to get it over with, and still had to pay 33 – 60% in contingency fees to those who have done nothing to earn it?

With the contingency fee rates as they are, in order for a veteran to receive reasonable compensation, the minimum claim should be settled for no less than $3,000,000.

Victims are dying daily, claims are being lost, and where is the justice for veterans? Somebody at DOD, DON, or Justice needs to get on this ASAP.

Education

The Not Department Thereof

The Bureaucratic Process at both the State and Federal levels are, except for the degree of corruption, in the moral sense, the same. A Legislature enacts block payments to the various educational districts, generally based on student attendance. Did you never wonder why attendance is taken at the beginning of every single class, every single day,  wasting the first ten to fifteen minutes of each fifty minute ‘teaching/learning period’? Payment is for attendance and not learning goals. Much of the bureaucracy is simply supervision over the paperwork of attendance. Notwithstanding Teachers’ Unions claims as to a building’s fitness, school supplies, &c., monies paid are all determined by attendance.

This is a carryover from the 18th Century, one room brick school-house where the one teacher was paid per student and the local community taxed, or in many cases, the parents were required to pay for this service, based on the number of children sent to school, then upon residential land values. Note that Judeo-Christian Parochial schools, still charge the parent per child, or the parent gets a scholarship from the local parish or community support groups, as these schools do not discriminate. Madrassas do the same, but unlike the others, only accept Muslim children. They are not open to the general public.

If implied, the parochial schools also assist in getting Public Assistance for the family. Yet, in addition to these costs, the parents are still required to pay taxes to support public schools to which they have no contact and from whom they receive no benefit and from which, according to recent audits, have failed miserably to teach reading, ‘riting, and ‘rithmetic, concentrating on the Green Hoax, DEI and CRT. Note how Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” is required viewing in California Public Schools as science.

Experience suggests that school boards are merely steppingstones for the politically ambitious and are simply a testing ground for political correctness, thus having nothing to do with educating the children, but as a way for directing tax dollars to the appropriate entities. An example in Platte County MO is how in the Park Hill School District, Park Hill South High School was designed by a board member’s bubba, an architect who mostly designs prisons, and thus, how PHS looks and feels like a prison rather than an institute of learning.

A scam created by citizen indifference to history.

Further, it has been estimated that like hospital beds, over 30% of students are in private schools, and thus, tax funded schools are not carrying their ‘fair share’ of the educational burden, while in fact gaining 100% of the proceeds for duties and obligations for which they are not fulfilling. Many of these private schools are failing for lack of adequate funding, Kew-Forest among them.

Oddly enough, before LBJ’s Great Society, New York City and New York State had a system that was admired and followed by many other districts. They had a standardized City-wide testing program, and NYS a Regents Program, the corpses of each are still in existence, which ignored all discriminating factors thereby laying a very level playing field for all. Such field was demolished by the racist Affirmative Action programs, implying that the ‘under-classes’ are incapable of learning at the same level as the ‘privileged’. As proven by the likes of Charles Payne, Jason Riley, Thomas Sowell, PhD, Rev M. L. King, jr., ThD, and many others, not only was/is this position false, but it gave rise to a privileged underclass of superior beings and have passed fortunes onto race-baiters like Al Sharpton.

 See Ludwig von Mises, Fredrick Hayek, James Q. Wilson, Ralph Raico, Leonard Read, &c for actual, reasoned research and analysis of the negative aspects of raising one group above all others and how it diminishes and punishes the diminished groups. Hayek’s Economics in One Lesson, and Read’s Freedom in One Lesson are available at www.mises.org .

Currently, NYS has three levels of ‘acceptable’ secondary school achievement. First is the General Education Diploma (G.E.D.), then the General High School Diploma (where the student actually attended the physical building but whose level of achievement is the same as the G.E.D.) and the Regents’ Diploma, where students actually take the very watered down tests of the NYS Department of Education. Through the NYS legislature, NYS Supreme Court of Appeals, and SCOTUS, all three are to be treated as equal.

Thus, the cure involves two very distinct approaches. First, education, second, the bureaucracy itself. The Bureaucratic solution is applicable to most; non-police power bureaucracies.

The Federal Department of Education should do just that. It should set a world-wide standard, using standardized blind testing, for K-12, with a sub-bureaucracy for both higher education and skill sets. The testing should be voluntary & open, but any employer, trade, regulated skill, or other activity requiring a minimum standard, such as a driver’s license, barbering, massage, electrician, plumber, school teacher, attorney, &c., may require the certification of such a Federal Standard, be a basic employment requirement or for use of public roads or facilities without having to worry about lawsuits from various, mostly racist, special interest groups. A current example is the requirement for lawyers to take the Multi-State exam as well as the State bar exam.

Note how SCOTUS forced States to enforce the 55mph speed limit or not get Federal funds, reasoning still applicable and used today to limit Federalism.

Testing could be given on a quarterly basis using the military reserves to administer them on their weekend/two week active duty dates. Using the Reserves should eliminate any bias or cheating that bureaucratic administrators will be prone to do.

By keeping all of this grant money, the bureaucracy will be reduced, costs will be reduced, and student proficiency increased. The works of Thomas Sowell and Jason Riley show this to be so.

The Judiciary

The Injustice thereof

In direct violation of the VIIth Amendment, The Congress passed the Federal Arbitration Act. Businesses of all sorts, most notably Wall Street Firms, have clauses in their contracts of adhesion requiring the customer to agree to arbitration rather than their constitutional right to a civil jury trial. The automotive industry used these until The States started enacting consumer protection and various Lemon Laws.

The wonderful federal judiciary has ruled that the un-bargained for relinquishment of our right to a jury trial is quite acceptable because the customer can always not accept the contract. Of course, since the only way to access these services is through these businesses, this is a legal falsehood and quite contrary to the debates on the constitution in 1787 wherein such arbitrariness and injustice are referred to as The Spanish Trial, a reference to the Spanish Inquisition. For reference, see The Debate On the Constitution, Bernard Bailyn, editor, © 1993, Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., ISBN978-0-940450-42-4, Vols I + II.

 In the financial industry, access is necessary for one to manage one’s 401(k), or other retirement plan, or any self-directed account, thus the ‘clauses freely entered into’ is a blatant lie and legal fiction designed to save the judiciary from actually having to know something beyond the basic Federal Rules of Evidence and the Federal Rules of Procedure (mostly criminal with some judges actually being familiar with civil procedure) and to favor, especially in State Courts, donors to/of political campaigns and issues.

Arbitrators being mostly failed judge ‘wannabees,’ not only know little law, less procedure, and with the knowledge that arbitration awards are un-appealable to a real court or jury, generally practice either the ‘split the baby’,  a la King Solomon, or ignore everything except to grant the big money’s position. Trump Industries experiences with labor and contract arbitrations bear this out.

Eliminating, or threatening to eliminate, FINRA, &c., grants the administration several political advantages.

Firstly, all of these cases will be shifted to the Federal Courts. This will reduce the cost of these cases, for although more Federal Judges will need to be appointed, the overall administrative costs will be reduced, with only a small addition to the FedCrt administrative staff.

Secondly, this will allow the administration to suggest that, unlike ‘court packing’, the increase in the workload will require two or four additional associate justices to be added to the Supreme Court of the United States. Jonathon Turley, Mark Levin, Pamela Bondi, and Jeanine Pirro will make exceptional additions to the court.

In order to prevent such nonsense as the recent J-6 prosecutions, jury selection could be:

  1. The jury pool shall consist of all taxpayers;
  2. Jurors shall be compensated at the hourly rate computed by their IRSEZ 1040 AGI,
    1. Employers will be required to grant unpaid leave for jurors;
    1. US Treasury will cover all other benefits costs including 401(k) matching, healthcare will be commensurate to MEDICARE + Part B advantage care;
    1. Meals and appropriate accommodation shall be provided as necessary; &,
    1. Appropriate privacy and security will be provided;
  3. Although judicial candidates are normally suggested by the Senator(s) of the States with a vacancy, ALL appointments will be made to a non-contiguous state, thus reducing any and all forms of collusion, patronage and favoritism;
  4. All case allocations must be through random draw, with the only exceptions being for case overload or illness, in which case the overloaded/ill judge will be removed from the draw until such time as caseloads are evened out or gotten well;
  5. The position of U.S. Magistrate shall be eliminated and replaced by actual, Senate approved, U.S. Judges; &
  6. The constitutional right to a jury trial in both civil and criminal cases shall be absolute, legislatures and jurists notwithstanding.

There are a few other points to make, but they should be addressed in a private, secure conference.

Elections

Un-Democracy

Although Gerrymandering is a current talking point, the actual problems are more complex and evil. Originally, The Founders gave the Federal Franchise only to certain property owners and men, thereby giving only approximately ten percent of the citizenry, not residents, the franchise. The Roman Senate refused to give the vote to the plebes stating, “give the plebes the right to vote, they will vote for bread and circuses, to the detriment of the Republic, every time.” A lesson they learned from the defeat of Athens in the Peloponnesian Wars.

The evil of the current system manifests in the Single Issue policy vote as well as in the over-representation of various groups and the under-representation of others, mostly on racial lines. The fact that both the politicians and bureaucrats are helping themselves to the treasury, Fauci and Pelosi are fair examples, although evil in and of itself, an inherent characteristic of all such institutions, is actually less harmful than the social and cultural damage done to a civilization than the moves toward the tyrannical control of the people and the destruction of the national character. See Prof. Dr. Victor D. Hanson’s recent op-ed in the NY Post.

Examples throughout history are extant. Just in the last one hundred and fifty years, we have the various bureaucracies creating the Boer War, U.S. colonial expansion, WW I, the creation and extinction of the Weimar Republic, the Soviet Union, Hitler, Mussolini, WW II, &c. All, as noted by historians like Murray Rothbard, Ralph Raico, Shelby Foote, and Joseph Schumpeter, from the causes of narcissistic selfishness to the detriment of individual advancement. The bureaucracies creating war and chaos for personal gain, while producers pay the price in death and lost wealth.

With Gerrymandering, whomever can get out specific activists in a district, will win the election. Frequently, using mostly fear tactics, the exalted single view washes out the necessary general policies that would benefit all citizens, such as lower taxes or standardizing educational goals.

 Two such single issues are how Colorado and Missouri came to be marijuana protectorates, and how almost 40% of Gen Z and Millennials have been murdered in the womb. If 1/3 of a generation had died in war or by disease, the Media furor would overwhelm this country, if not the world. However, the votes approving the psychoses and cancers, caused by this plant, and the murders of babies, have been approved mostly by making them single issues, thereby overcoming the common sense of the majority. Note how when such single issues are placed on the ballot, intermittent voters come out to vote and vote the straight party line, regardless of whatever other issues are at stake.

There are several issues with Voting Rights which need to be addressed, and not all are commented on anywhere, not even on Joe Rogan, even though they’ve been around for centuries and advanced by such groups as the Academicians and the Levelers.

All voting districts start with an approved and verified voter registration roll. Judicial Watch has litigated this matter, and all that need be said here is that States, for example Colorado, where corrupted rolls have been proven, have generally ignored the Court’s order to clean things up, by pointing to the legislature saying that they need funding to do this, and the Legislature will not provide it. Thus, corrupted voting continues and the courts will not sanction or hold in contempt, these officials.

Dishonest “loose ballots,” although extant, is a problem easily dismissed.

When the Poll-Sitters arrive at their precincts, ballots, already counted and accounted for by the pertinent Election Commission, are re-counted for accuracy and accountability. The Registration Rolls, printed in some places, now mostly electronic, are tested for use. During the day, audits are made as to how many have voted and how many ballots are on hand and how many are registered in the ballot box.

At the end of day, ALL sitters gather around the ballot box as it is emptied, and the cast ballots are placed in a medium sized cardboard box and the box is SEALED AND ALL OF THE SITTERS SIGN THE SEAL! Thus, in order to get a loose ballot, the box and seal must be broken into. Election Laws are such that two sitters, one from each party, must take these boxes of cast votes directly to the Commission Offices, no deviation from the less than 15 minute predetermined route, and delivered and audited again at the commission office.

Exceptions, such as early voting, until COVID, required the voter to go to the commission’s office, show proof of identity, and early vote there before the administrators. Those with mobility issues can request that an official take a ballot to their residence for early voting or arrive at the polling place and a sitter go out to the parking lot and prove the voter’s identity and then allow them to vote while sitting in their car.

Mail-in, identity questionable, voting has allowed for the security video of the woman taking in two suitcases of unverified “loose ballots” to be counted there in Georgia. An obvious and flagrant breach of law, dismissed by a biased and corrupted court, with no accountability for the corrupt official either for voting fraud or for perjury of their oath of office.

During my 25 years as a poll-sitter, I have had numerous incidents of attempted voter fraud.

Much of these and other voting issues may be corrected by implementing two inter-dependent reforms.

First, equality in district.

Place a hexagonal grid over the globe with its start point at the real North Pole. The size of the hex may be determined by taking any standard Metropolitan Demographic Area that includes approximately 400,000 people, such as around Columbia SC. Each hexagon now becomes one congressional district. Borders will of necessity cross state and county lines, thereby reducing geographic and local biases. This is a good thing. This will force all within the hexagon to view everyone else within the hex to view ALL national issues as one which each and every one of them must consider, and more importantly, as each relates to each of them. Race, gender, wealth, education, &c all become reduced in the face of the overall, National Interest.

The hexagons, in and of themselves, are, obviously, insufficient, even though completely fair and honest.

Second, weighted voting.

In order to make this work, once sitting in The Congress, each representative’s vote must be weighted, as the Senate was originally designed to be.

Each Representative’s vote shall only count as to how many votes he received in his election. Let’s be honest, I live in Colorado and not one of my congressional delegation has in all the years that I have lived here, not once that I can remember, voted for my best interest, (Hickenlooper, Bennett, and Crow). Yet, not only does each claim to be working for me, that each claims to “represent me”,  each has worked to raise my taxes and reduce my government services all of the time increasing their own personal hoards without earning it.

This policy means that if the representative in the Rhode Island district receives 100 votes and his district contains only 110 eligible voters, yet the Denver district representative receives 90  votes even though there are 500 eligible voters in Denver, the RI Representative and his constituents, because they are united, will have a greater input to national issues and to impact national policies. By being united, the benefit to the national interest  is obvious. The tyranny of the single-issue voter is substantially reduced if not eliminated completely. This will force ALL to take an interest in the National Interest.

For those who would object to this direct weighting, a mitigating formula leveling weights out could be created.

As old as these two policies are, dating farther back than Rome and Athens, and more efficacious and realistic & honest than any current democracy or tyranny, as other than talking points or bargaining chips they have almost no current practical value to a politician. However, as to that, these are big chips against the false claims of ‘fair share,’ ‘social justice’, and ‘wealth gap equity.’

Under Federalism and the hex/weight system, we can leave the States’ and Local Governments alone to find their own levels.

Also, the financial situation will change drastically. These changes would force the States to finance themselves or join in regional compacts with their neighbors, as many do in sharing forensic labs and police/fire services. It would stop the current situation of 40% or more each of these states’ budget being based on receiving Federal tax dollars. Just look at how much Federal money is going to California and Puerto Rico. One with no water to fight fires and a multi-billion fast rail boondoggle, and the other a bureaucracy so corrupt that the FBI is unable to operate to find out who is doing what to whom and where any of this federal tax money is actually going.

The only process currently acceptable to the general population for curing this problem is Voter I.D. coupled to paper ballots. Sad, but true, as the Hex/Weight actually gets to the issue of issues, but such a plan will always be opposed by professional politicians and their owners.

The Right to Bear Arms

2nd Amendment Reality

Earlier, reference was made to the Debates on the Constitution wherein much of this issue lies. Under no circumstances, including those of magazine limitations and extra taxation, may any government limit the possession of a rifle or pistol, if the reasoning of The Founders is to be followed. Here, in Colorado, there is a 6.5% extra tax on firearms and ammunition. There is a magazine capacity limit. There are attempts to put additional unconstitutional limits and burdens on honest citizens to Bear Arms.

The Debates are quite clear: the purposes of the Militia, the military arms of the various States, are twofold. One, to protect the citizens of each state from the depredations of the other States & the Natives, and two, to protect the States from the depredations of THE NATIONAL GOVERNMENT, which at the time of the Founding, was expressly forbidden a Standing Army. When President Washington went to put down The Whiskey Rebellion, he had to ask the States to call up their various Militias so that he’d have an Army.

These two purposes have not changed.

However, The Congress, in 5 U.S. Code, has a legal definition of who is in the “unorganized” Militia. Makes for interesting reading as it, last I looked, states that as a matter of law, all able-bodied males between the ages of 16 and 48, elected officials and other government personnel excepted, are the National Militia! The interesting part of this is that in order to be the Militia, one MUST HAVE basic rifle skills, know the Landing Party Manual, and have basic infantry skills. To see what these are, one need only look to the Swiss Army where one must show up once a year with his rifle and demonstrate that it is in good working condition. Basic training is in their late teens.

These standards would require a functioning rifle in the possession of every able-bodied male in the country under penalty of charge of felonious neglect to duty, and the standard six months of active-duty service to acquire the other necessary skills. Bluntly, these skills are met at the time a boy/girl scout reaches the second-class level. Completion must be at the ‘honorable and satisfactory’ standard.

A further point in here is, should this universality be extended, because of Equal Rights and its gender discrimination, be it required that women be included in the un-organized Militia?

Foreign Affairs and Entanglements

Well, dang, other than keeping in mind that Xi, Putin, Modi, the Ayatollahs, Maduro, the Castros, the cartels, Kim, &c hate us and want to destroy us, y’all doin’ a damn fine job!

Finance

Fiat Money & Policies

The real danger in doing away with cash and going to Crypto or “plastic” lies in the facts that crypto relies on electricity and has no real value other than a bookkeeping entry on a server. Plastic is bookkeeping purporting to have a real relationship with wealth. Value is subject to government interference and financier greed. Still, it is controlled by electricity and serviced by humans who, in some cases, are corrupt and will “hack” the system to their own perceived benefit. Review how the PRC and its CCP control the population by having this master system. Tick-off a CCP bureaucrat, and he’ll close your bank account. No food or rent money for you. No travel papers or permits for you. No clothes, &c.  A hidden point here is that those Illegal Alien Gottaways from China? Does any thinking person really believe that they got out of China w/o the CCP’s approval? Where one needs travel papers to go across the street, get on a bus, a taxi, &c?

Doing away with pennies or otherwise continuing along the debasing currency path is, historically, a bad thing. Too many books have been written about this; an easy currently available read is Rothbard’s What has Government done to our Money? ISBN 978-1-61016-770-3. Bad money always chases out good money. And, doing away with pennies means that all prices will go up 4¢, a modest increase, but still inflationary.

One of several solutions includes the elimination of Federal Reserve Notes. It is possible to replace them with precious metals notes. The PMNotes would not be for cash, but for exact troy weights. The lesser amounts could be made in the same fashion as goldbacks and the larger weights be redeemable, at a premium, through normal banking procedures. Goldbacks, silverbacks, copperbacks, would become currency, and the others act as notes of transfer. Goldbacks as a National Currency would be maintained in a similar fashion as Crypto, plus having serial numbers the same as Federal Reserve Notes.

Five States have already made goldbacks legal currency: Nevada, New Hampshire, Wyoming, South Dakota, and Utah.

As to the specious claims of scarcity, NASA has reported a gold nugget out around Mars, consisting of more gold than there is of minable iron located and found on the surface of the Earth. If NASA doesn’t get there first, China or India will and the global economy will collapse. Musk, Bezos, et al, should be encouraged, and maybe contracted to start mining space. BTW, operations for this would be on the Moon, and shipped economically to Earth via the gravity differential. Put a silk farm in a hydroponics cave for parachutes thus not needing polyester, mine lunar iron, put in a small steel mill, and a magnetic gun, and shipping all of the finished products from the moon now becomes both feasible and economical.

First one there will win.

Coinage, that which is generally referred to as loose change, is another method of debasing the currency and forcing the general population into the electronic prison of a tyrannical bureaucracy. In your lifetime, you have seen and noticed how silver has been removed and replaced by copper, iron, or lead. It has been pointed out how expensive the manufacturing of coins is. This is being used as an excuse when it would be less costly to change the manufacturing process.

Another unacceptable Federal Policy has been to stop requiring banks to take coins as money. The Fed has allowed the banks to eliminate coin counting machines. The Banks now require anyone trying to deposit or convert coin to paper to bring in the coins pre-rolled. It has created an industry of usury. In order to convert coin to paper, one must go to a vending machine which charges 99¢ to access, then keeps 12.5% (1/8!) of the total as its fee!

Debasing the currency always leads to the Weimar Republic and its subsequent tyranny.

Debasing the currency and doing away with cash is a surefire way of eliminating Freedom.

Well, I suppose that this is enough for now, if y’all want to visit or contact me, there are at least two confidential items of interest to you, and not just maybe, contact and I.D. was included in the FEDEX package sent to Ms Wiles, Mr Miller and yourself back in October.

Respectfully,

www.justplainbill.wordpress.com

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March 30, 2024

Inflation … , by Douglas French

Filed under: Political Commentary — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , — justplainbill @ 2:44 pm

Mises Wire

Price Inflation Comes from Government, not from “Excuseflation” or “Greedflation”

money printing

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Followers of the Austrian school of economics know that the term inflation refers to increasing the quantity of money or money substitutes. The result being a rise in the price of goods and services or a fall in the value of money. But, in the modern era, this rise in prices is called inflation and as Ludwig von Mises wrote, “This semantic innovation is by no means harmless.” The semantic change has people looking everywhere but where they should to blame for higher prices.

Bloomberg’s Enda Curran writes, “A prolonged period of elevated inflation has left consumers cranky and eager to cast blame.” With the term inflation evidently getting tiresome, Curren lists some new price increase buzzwords and phrases.

“Shrinkflation” This is the President’s favorite. He even mentioned it in his State of the Union speech. The White House posted on X, “President Biden is calling on companies to put a stop to shrinkflation.” In other words, put more cookies back in the bag or make Snickers bars the same size they used to be. Even Sesame Street’s Cookie Monster has complained his cookies were getting smaller.

“Drip Pricing” These are fees which are added for your luggage when you fly or resort fees added on to your hotel bill. Processing and service fees were called junk fees by President Biden in last year’s State of the Union speech and he vowed to fight “those hidden surcharges too many companies use to make you pay more.” As if the hotel clerk puts a gun to your head at checkout time.

“Greedflation” Ms. Curren says “It’s a modern take on profiteering — “‘making an unreasonable profit on the sale of essential goods especially during times of emergency.’” Of course, price is how goods are distributed during a shortage or any other time as opposed to, as the Economist magazine wrote,” something worse, such as rationing or queues.” 

“Excuseflation” This one sounds a lot like the above-mentioned “greedflation.” Curren cites a paper by UBS AG chief global economist Paul Donovan, who claims developed economies are in a period “when some companies spin a story that convinces customers that price increases are ‘fair,’ when in fact they disguise profit margin expansion.” A baker in Chicago said on an Bloomberg Odd Lots podcast that global news events allow him to raise prices “without getting a whole bunch of complaining from the customers.”

“Sellers’ Inflation” This term is credited to Isabella Weber, an assistant professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts who claims large corporations have market power and “have used supply problems as an opportunity to increase prices and scoop windfall profits.” Her solution is price controls, which would lead to long lines and rationing. 

“Disinflation” Prices are rising but at a lower rate of change.

Immaculate disinflation. Curren says this is the “optimistic notion” that Jerome Powell and the economists at the Eccles Building can bring prices under control without putting a bunch of people out of work. The Federal Reserve can either create money fast or create money slow. That’s all it has. Jerome Powell is not the economy’s Geppetto.

Murray Rothbard explained where inflation comes from everywhere and always:

The fault of inflation is not in business “monopoly,” or in union agitation, or in the hunches of speculators, or in the “greediness” of consumers; the fault is in the legalized counterfeiting operations of the government itself. For the government is the only institution in society with the power to counterfeit — to create new money. So long as it continues to use that power, we will continue to suffer from inflation, even unto a runaway inflation that will utterly destroy the currency.

Inflation, or whatever you want to call it, is nothing more than government taxation in stealth form. Only the government can conjure up new money from nothing, using it to bid away resources from private individuals.

[Note from me: available as pamphlets from mises.org/store are: Rothbard Ten Great Economic Myths; Salerno The Progressive Road to Socialism; Hoppe What Must Be Done; Paul The Dollar Dilemma; Rothbard Economic Depressions; Deist The Imposers and the Imposed Upon; Hoppe Social Democracy; Hulsmann How Inflation Destroys Civilizations; and Hoppe Hoppe Unplugged. All are short, insightful essays printed as pamphlets. For the really big stuff, get the Mises’ books, listed elsewhere, and for you Founders’ Fans, Rothbard’s Conceived in Liberty.]

October 2, 2021

It ain’t just Milley & Austin, from 10/2 TWSJ

Filed under: Political Commentary — Tags: , — justplainbill @ 4:43 pm

The Man at the Center of a Shocking U.S. Navy Scandal

Procurer, protector, supplier for all needs: Leonard Francis claims that he made himself indispensable to the U.S. Navy. Then he became the star witness in a sweeping corruption probe.

Leonard Francis surrounded by Gurkha soldiers aboard his ship, the BraveheartPHOTO: LEONARD FRANCIS

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On May 22, 2008, six U.S. Navy officers allegedly piled into the presidential suite of the Shangri-La hotel in a posh suburb of the Philippine capital of Manila. The men, among the most powerful military officers in the Pacific, were on shore leave from the U.S.S. Blue Ridge, the flagship of the Seventh Fleet, based in Japan. They were there to indulge in 36 straight hours of drinking, accompanied by a “carousel” of sex workers, according to U.S. federal court documents.

The organizer of this bacchanal was Leonard Glenn Francis, a Malaysian contractor for the Navy who would come to occupy the center of a sweeping criminal probe. The “Fat Leonard” scandal—known by the 350-pound Mr. Francis’s nickname—would lead to the investigation of hundreds of Navy personnel and the indictment of dozens on charges related to corruption and the endangerment of national security.

Mr. Francis, now in his mid-50s, has spent eight years in prison and home detention in San Diego. Having pleaded guilty to charges of bribery and conspiracy, he has yet to be sentenced and is now the star witness in the cases of seven Navy officers, some of whom allegedly attended the party in Manila. Their trials for bribery and obstruction of justice, among other charges, are set to begin in February in federal court in San Diego.

In recent months, in contravention of his plea deal, Mr. Francis has been talking to me for a podcast, disclosing new details of the events behind the scandal. He told me just how deeply he was embedded with the Navy, helping to protect the fleet after the attacks of Sept. 11 and going on secret missions to fight al Qaeda affiliates. He also claimed that he videotaped orgies involving Navy officers and was courted by Russian and Chinese spies—a serious national security risk.

“I played professional. I played sexual. Whatever you needed, anything,” Mr. Francis said.

During our 20 hours of recorded conversation, Mr. Francis indicated that he was eager to tell his story because he was sick with kidney cancer and furious with the Navy for what he saw as a coverup. He claimed that the Navy targeted only junior officers and failed to prosecute Navy admirals who he says took prostitutes and other gifts from him. “They didn’t want to charge any of their senior leadership,” Mr. Francis insisted. “That’s how the military is.”

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The Navy and Justice Department declined to comment for the story, citing ongoing investigations. But former Navy Secretary Ray Mabus said in 2019 that the Navy had taken the probe seriously: “It took in a huge percentage of flag officers, and it really hamstrung the Navy in terms of promotions, in terms of positions,” he said.

Born into a commercial shipping family in Malaysia, Mr. Francis is a superficially charming man who speaks English with an American accent and punctuates his conversation with an uproarious laugh. He told me that he grew up with an abusive father who hit his mother and brought other women home, a likely precursor to Mr. Francis’s own extremely troubling treatment of women.

Leonard Francis, right, with Commander David Morales, left, at the Navy Ball in Singapore, Sept. 1, 2011. In 2018, Morales was cleared of three charges but found guilty of conduct unbecoming an officer and failure to report foreign contacts on his security clearance renewal.PHOTO: NAVY TIMES

His Singapore-based company, Glenn Defense Marine Asia, or GDMA, was a trusted partner of the Navy for three decades, providing fuel, food and security for Navy ships in the Pacific and Indian Oceans starting in the 1990s. For nearly a century, the U.S. had operated a Navy base at Subic Bay in the Philippines, but the base closed in 1992, creating logistics and security needs that Mr. Francis’s operation deftly filled. The bombing of the USS Cole in 2000 in Yemen, and the Sept. 11 attacks the following year, led to a surge in U.S. military spending that opened still more opportunities. Mr. Francis offered to protect warships, anchoring steel barges as a cordon around them, and he started to make hundreds of millions of dollars in annual revenues. By the late 2000s he had a near monopoly on supplying the Navy in the Pacific.

He also became a pimp for Navy officers. In return, they overlooked inflated bills and helped him win multimillion-dollar contracts, ensuring that U.S. ships docked at ports that Mr. Francis controlled, according to Justice Department indictments. In our conversations, he boasted of the power he came to wield over the Navy. “I’m nonmilitary, I’m just a civilian, I’m not a U.S. citizen, and all these senior naval officers would just snap on my command: ‘Do this,’ and they’ll move the ships for me,” Mr. Francis said.

The sex that Mr. Francis procured—and the constant flow of Michelin-starred dinners, paid vacations, Cohiba cigars and Dom Pérignon—became perks of the job for scores of Navy officers, according to 34 federal indictments, of which 26 led to guilty pleas. “Everybody has their needs,” Mr. Francis noted shrewdly, and he was there to provide for them: “And it was safe, and they could trust me, and I never let them down. I played professional. I played sexual. Whatever you needed, anything,” he said.

In fact, however, he wasn’t to be trusted. Mr. Francis told me that he regularly videotaped sex involving Navy officers. He said that he hid cameras in karaoke machines, including that night in the Shangri-La hotel in Manila, and that he still has the tapes under lock and key. He claimed that he took the videos for fun and never handed over compromising material to U.S. adversaries. But he was a prized target for foreign intelligence services and said that the Chinese and Russian military attachés courted him as an informant.

Whether or not Mr. Francis ultimately used the kompromat he says he collected on these officers, he had made himself a powerful man—a foreign national who possessed both classified information about U.S. military movements and material that could be used to blackmail senior officers.

The U.S.S. Blue Ridge arrives in Manila Bay, Mar. 13, 2019.PHOTO: NOEL CELIS/AFP/GETTY IMAGES

He had also made himself rich. He rented a mansion in Singapore valued at $130 million and owned a fleet of 20 luxury cars, paid for almost entirely by the U.S. taxpayer, he said. “I mean, if you’ve got a defense contract, you’re good for life,” Mr. Francis explained, because the military “doesn’t do due diligence, because it’s not their money. It’s Uncle Sam’s money.”

In fact, over the years, Navy whistleblowers did periodically complain about Mr. Francis’s high costs and fake invoices. But they were ignored. Reporting for my podcast has revealed that finally, in 2012, the estranged wife of a Navy commander made a complaint to the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, or NCIS, about her husband’s connection to Mr. Francis. NCIS agents pored through the commander’s personal emails, which revealed that he had been passing classified ship schedules to Mr. Francis and enjoying parties full of sex workers, court documents show. They lured Mr. Francis to San Diego and arrested him there in 2013.

Mr. Francis pleaded guilty and began to cooperate, providing the names of hundreds of people with whom he was involved over the years. The Justice Department has indicted more than 30 Navy officers, enlisted men, contracting specialists and employees of Mr. Francis’s firm, many of whom are in prison or have already served terms. Eight holdouts, including some of the attendees at the Shangri-La hotel, continue to plead not guilty. Their lawyers haven’t responded to requests for comment.The Navy has also investigated more than 400 other people, disciplining a handful of admirals, pushing some into early retirement and issuing written reprimands. One admiral, Robert Gilbeau, was sentenced to 18 months in prison for lying to investigators, the first serving admiral in U.S. Navy history to be incarcerated.

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But Mr. Francis wasn’t satisfied. His relationship with the military ran deep, he insisted to me. He had his own fleet of more than 180 boats, including a warship, the “Braveheart,” which he deployed to keep the Navy safe. One former Navy officer I talked to corroborated Mr. Francis’s claim that he used his fleet to refuel Navy SEAL Mark V boats during missions to help fight al Qaeda affiliates in the Philippines. According to both Mr. Francis and former officers I spoke with, when the U.S.S. Nimitz, one of the world’s largest nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, wanted to dock in India, signaling U.S. supremacy in the region to China, the Navy relied on Mr. Francis for logistics.

“So we were a part of the auxiliary,” as Mr. Francis recalled the relationship: “I come under the flag of the United States.”

—Mr. Wright is the co-founder of Project Brazen, a journalism-focused content studio. “Fat Leonard,” a weekly nine-part podcast, debuts Oct. 5.

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August 27, 2017

The Fate of Empires, by Sir John Glubb, thanks to Butch [c]

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THE FATE OF EMPIRES
and
SEARCH FOR SURVIVAL
Sir John Glubb
John Bagot Glubb was born in 1897, his father being a regular officer in the Royal Engineers.
At the age of four he left England for Mauritius, where his father was posted for a three-year
tour of duty. At the age of ten he was sent to school for a year in Switzerland. These youthful
travels may have opened his mind to the outside world at an early age.
He entered the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich in September 1914, and was
commissioned in the Royal Engineers in April 1915. He served throughout the first World War
in France and Belgium, being wounded three times and awarded the Military Cross. In 1920 he
volunteered for service in Iraq, as a regular officer, but in 1926 resigned his commission and
accepted an administrative post under the Iraq Government.
In 1930, however, he signed a contract to serve the Transjordan Government (now Jordan).
From 1939 to 1956 he commanded the famous Jordan Arab Legion, which was in reality the
Jordan Army. Since his retirement he has published seventeen books, chiefly on the Middle
East, and has lectured widely in Britain, the United States and Europe.
William Blackwood & Sons Ltd
32 Thistle Street
Edinburgh EH1 1HA
Scotland
© J. B. G. Ltd, 1976, 1977
ISBN 0 85158 127 7
Printed at the Press of the Publisher
Introduction
As we pass through life, we learn by
experience. We look back on our behaviour
when we were young and think how foolish
we were. In the same way our family, our
community and our town endeavour to avoid
the mistakes made by our predecessors.
The experiences of the human race have
been recorded, in more or less detail, for
some four thousand years. If we attempt to
study such a period of time in as many
countries as possible, we seem to discover
the same patterns constantly repeated under
widely differing conditions of climate,
culture and religion. Surely, we ask
ourselves, if we studied calmly and
impartially the history of human institutions
and development over these four thousand
years, should we not reach conclusions
which would assist to solve our problems
today? For everything that is occurring
around us has happened again and again
before.
No such conception ever appears to have
entered into the minds of our historians. In
general, historical teaching in schools is
limited to this small island. We endlessly
mull over the Tudors and the Stewarts, the
Battle of Crecy, and Guy Fawkes. Perhaps
this narrowness is due to our examination
system, which necessitates the careful
definition of a syllabus which all children
must observe.
I remember once visiting a school for
mentally handicapped children. “Our
children do not have to take examinations,”
the headmaster told me,” and so we are able
to teach them things which will be really
useful to them in life.”
However this may be, the thesis which I
wish to propound is that priceless lessons
could be learned if the history of the past
four thousand years could be thoroughly and
impartially studied. In these two articles,
which first appeared in Blackwood’s
Magazine, I have attempted briefly to sketch
some of the kinds of lessons which I believe
we could learn. My plea is that history
should be the history of the human race, not
of one small country or period.
The Fate of Empires
I Learning from history
‘The only thing we learn from history,’ it
has been said, ‘is that men never learn from
history’, a sweeping generalisation perhaps,
but one which the chaos in the world today
goes far to confirm. What then can be the
reason why, in a society which claims to
probe every problem, the bases of history are
still so completely unknown?
Several reasons for the futility of our
historical studies may be suggested.
First, our historical work is limited to short
periods—the history of our own country, or
that of some past age which, for some
reason, we hold in respect.
Second, even within these short periods,
the slant we give to our narrative is governed
by our own vanity rather than by objectivity.
If we are considering the history of our own
country, we write at length of the periods
when our ancestors were prosperous and
victorious, but we pass quickly over their
shortcomings or their defeats. Our people
are represented as patriotic heroes, their
enemies as grasping imperialists, or
subversive rebels. In other words, our
national histories are propaganda, not wellbalanced
investigations.
Third, in the sphere of world history, we
study certain short, usually unconnected,
periods, which fashion at certain epochs has
made popular. Greece 500 years before
Christ, and the Roman Republic and early
Roman Empire are cases in point. The
intervals between the ‘great periods’ are
neglected. Recently Greece and Rome have
become largely discredited, and history tends
to become increasingly the parochial history
of our own countries.
To derive any useful instruction from
history, it seems to me essential first of all to
grasp the principle that history, to be
meaningful, must be the history of the
human race. For history is a continuous
process, gradually developing, changing and
turning back, but in general moving forward
in a single mighty stream. Any useful lessons
to be derived must be learned by the study of
the whole flow of human development, not
by the selection of short periods here and
there in one country or another.
Every age and culture is derived from its
predecessors, adds some contribution of its
own, and passes it on to its successors. If we
boycott various periods of history, the
origins of the new cultures which succeeded
them cannot be explained.
_______________________________
Sir John Glubb, better known as Glubb
Pasha, was born in 1897, and served in
France in the First World War from 1915 to
1918. In 1926 he left the regular army to
serve the Iraq Government. From 1939 to
1956, he commanded the famous Jordan
Arab Legion. Since retirement, he has
published sixteen books, chiefly on the
Middle East, and has lectured widely.
The Fate of Empires
2
Physical science has expanded its knowledge
by building on the work of its predecessors,
and by making millions of careful experiments,
the results of which are meticulously
recorded. Such methods have not yet been
employed in the study of world history. Our
piecemeal historical work is still mainly
dominated by emotion and prejudice.
II The lives of empires
If we desire to ascertain the laws which
govern the rise and fall of empires, the
obvious course is to investigate the imperial
experiments recorded in history, and to
endeavour to deduce from them any lessons
which seem to be applicable to them all.
The word ‘empire’, by association with the
British Empire, is visualised by some people
as an organisation consisting of a homecountry
in Europe and ‘colonies’ in other
continents. In this essay, the term ‘empire’ is
used to signify a great power, often called
today a superpower. Most of the empires in
history have been large landblocks, almost
without overseas possessions.
We possess a considerable amount of
information on many empires recorded in
history, and of their vicissitudes and the
lengths of their lives, for example:
The nation Dates of rise and fall Duration in years
Assyria 859-612 B.C. 247
Persia 538-330 B.C. 208
(Cyrus and his descendants)
Greece 331-100 B.C. 231
(Alexander and his successors)
Roman Republic 260-27 B.C. 233
Roman Empire 27 B.C.-A.D. 180 207
Arab Empire A.D. 634-880 246
Mameluke Empire 1250-1517 267
Ottoman Empire 1320-1570 250
Spain 1500-1750 250
Romanov Russia 1682-1916 234
Britain 1700-1950 250
This list calls for certain comments.
(1) The present writer is exploring the facts,
not trying to prove anything. The dates given
are largely arbitrary. Empires do not usually
begin or end on a certain date. There is
normally a gradual period of expansion and
then a period of decline. The resemblance in
the duration of these great powers may be
queried. Human affairs are subject to many
chances, and it is not to be expected that they
The Fate of Empires
3
could be calculated with mathematical
accuracy.
(2) Nevertheless, it is suggested that there is
sufficient resemblance between the life
periods of these different empires to justify
further study.
(3) The division of Rome into two periods
may be thought unwarranted. The first, or
republican, period dates from the time when
Rome became the mistress of Italy, and ends
with the accession of Augustus. The imperial
period extends from the accession of
Augustus to the death of Marcus Aurelius. It
is true that the empire survived nominally
for more than a century after this date, but it
did so in constant confusion, rebellions, civil
wars and barbarian invasions.
(4) Not all empires endured for their full lifespan.
The Babylonian Empire of Nebuchadnezzar,
for example, was overthrown by
Cyrus, after a life duration of only some
seventy-four years.
(5) An interesting deduction from the figures
seems to be that the duration of empires
does not depend on the speed of travel or the
nature of weapons. The Assyrians marched
on foot and fought with spears and bow and
arrows. The British used artillery, railways
and ocean-going ships. Yet the two empires
lasted for approximately the same periods.
There is a tendency nowadays to say that
this is the jet-age, and consequently there is
nothing for us to learn from past empires.
Such an attitude seems to be erroneous.
(6) It is tempting to compare the lives of
empires with those of human beings. We
may choose a figure and say that the average
life of a human being is seventy years. Not all
human beings live exactly seventy years.
Some die in infancy, others are killed in
accidents in middle life, some survive to the
age of eighty or ninety. Nevertheless, in spite
of such exceptions, we are justified in saying
that seventy years is a fair estimate of the
average person’s expectation of life.
(7) We may perhaps at this stage be allowed
to draw certain conclusions:
(a) In spite of the accidents of fortune, and
the apparent circumstances of the human
race at different epochs, the periods of
duration of different empires at varied
epochs show a remarkable similarity.
(b) Immense changes in the technology of
transport or in methods of warfare do not
seem to affect the life-expectation of an
empire.
(c) The changes in the technology of transport
and of war have, however, affected the
shape of empires. The Assyrians, marching
on foot, could only conquer their neighbours,
who were accessible by land—the
Medes, the Babylonians, the Persians and
the Egyptians.
The British, making use of ocean-going
ships, conquered many countries and subcontinents,
which were accessible to them
by water—North America, India, South
Africa, Australia and New Zealand—but
they never succeeded in conquering their
neighbours, France, Germany and Spain.
But, although the shapes of the Assyrian
and the British Empires were entirely
different, both lasted about the same
length of time.
III The human yardstick
What then, we may ask, can have been the
factor which caused such an extraordinary
similarity in the duration of empires, under
such diverse conditions, and such utterly
different technological achievements?
The Fate of Empires
4
One of the very few units of measurement
which have not seriously changed since the
Assyrians is the human ‘generation’, a period
of about twenty-five years. Thus a period of
250 years would represent about ten generations
of people. A closer examination of the
characteristics of the rise and fall of great
nations may emphasise the possible significance
of the sequence of generations.
Let us then attempt to examine the stages
in the lives of such powerful nations.
IV Stage one. The outburst
Again and again in history we find a small
nation, treated as insignificant by its
contemporaries, suddenly emerging from its
homeland and overrunning large areas of the
world. Prior to Philip (359-336 B.C.), Macedon
had been an insignificant state to the
north of Greece. Persia was the great power
of the time, completely dominating the area
from Eastern Europe to India. Yet by 323
B.C., thirty-six years after the accession of
Philip, the Persian Empire had ceased to
exist, and the Macedonian Empire extended
from the Danube to India, including Egypt.
This amazing expansion may perhaps he
attributed to the genius of Alexander the
Great, but this cannot have been the sole
reason; for although after his death everything
went wrong—the Macedonian generals
fought one another and established rival
empires—Macedonian pre-eminence survived
for 231 years.
In the year A.D. 600, the world was divided
between two superpower groups as it has
been for the past fifty years between Soviet
Russia and the West. The two powers were
the eastern Roman Empire and the Persian
Empire. The Arabs were then the despised
and backward inhabitants of the Arabian
Peninsula. They consisted chiefly of wandering
tribes, and had no government, no
constitution and no army. Syria, Palestine,
Egypt and North Africa were Roman
provinces, Iraq was part of Persia.
The Prophet Mohammed preached in
Arabia from A.D. 613 to 632, when he died.
In 633, the Arabs burst out of their desert
peninsula, and simultaneously attacked the
two super-powers. Within twenty years, the
Persian Empire had ceased to exist. Seventy
years after the death of the Prophet, the
Arabs had established an empire extending
from the Atlantic to the plains of Northern
India and the frontiers of China.
At the beginning of the thirteenth century,
the Mongols were a group of savage tribes in
the steppes of Mongolia. In 1211, Genghis
Khan invaded China. By 1253, the Mongols
had established an empire extending from
Asia Minor to the China Sea, one of the
largest empires the world has ever known.
The Arabs ruled the greater part of Spain
for 780 years, from 712 A.D. to 1492. (780
years back in British history would take us to
1196 and King Richard Coeur de Lion.)
During these eight centuries, there had been
no Spanish nation, the petty kings of Aragon
and Castile alone holding on in the
mountains.
The agreement between Ferdinand and
Isabella and Christopher Columbus was
signed immediately after the fall of Granada,
the last Arab kingdom in Spain, in 1492.
Within fifty years, Cortez had conquered
Mexico, and Spain was the world’s greatest
empire.
Examples of the sudden outbursts by
which empires are born could be multiplied
indefinitely. These random illustrations must
suffice.
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5
V Characteristics of the outburst
These sudden outbursts are usually
characterised by an extraordinary display of
energy and courage. The new conquerors are
normally poor, hardy and enterprising and
above all aggressive. The decaying empires
which they overthrow are wealthy but
defensive-minded. In the time of Roman
greatness, the legions used to dig a ditch
round their camps at night to avoid surprise.
But the ditches were mere earthworks, and
between them wide spaces were left through
which the Romans could counter-attack. But
as Rome grew older, the earthworks became
high walls, through which access was given
only by narrow gates. Counterattacks were
no longer possible. The legions were now
passive defenders.
But the new nation is not only distinguished
by victory in battle, but by unresting
enterprise in every field. Men hack their way
through jungles, climb mountains, or brave
the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans in tiny
cockle-shells. The Arabs crossed the Straits
of Gibraltar in A.D. 711 with 12,000 men,
defeated a Gothic army of more than twice
their strength, marched straight over 250
miles of unknown enemy territory and seized
the Gothic capital of Toledo. At the same
stage in British history, Captain Cook discovered
Australia. Fearless initiative characterises
such periods.
Other peculiarities of the period of the
conquering pioneers are their readiness to
improvise and experiment. Untrammelled by
traditions, they will turn anything available
to their purpose. If one method fails, they try
something else. Uninhibited by textbooks or
book learning, action is their solution to
every problem.
Poor, hardy, often half-starved and ill-clad,
they abound in courage, energy and
initiative, overcome every obstacle and
always seem to be in control of the situation.
VI The causes of race outbursts
The modern instinct is to seek a reason for
everything, and to doubt the veracity of a
statement for which a reason cannot be
found. So many examples can be given of the
sudden eruption of an obscure race into a
nation of conquerors that the truth of the
phenomenon cannot be held to be doubtful.
To assign a cause is more difficult. Perhaps
the easiest explanation is to assume that the
poor and obscure race is tempted by the
wealth of the ancient civilisation, and there
would undoubtedly appear to be an element
of greed for loot in barbarian invasions.
Such a motivation may be divided into two
classes. The first is mere loot, plunder and
rape, as, for example, in the case of Attila
and the Huns, who ravaged a great part of
Europe from A.D. 450 to 453. However, when
Attila died in the latter year, his empire fell
apart and his tribes returned to Eastern
Europe.
Many of the barbarians who founded
dynasties in Western Europe on the ruins of
the Roman Empire, however, did so out of
admiration for Roman civilisation, and
themselves aspired to become Romans.
VII A providential turnover?
Whatever causes may be given for the
overthrow of great civilisations by
barbarians, we can sense certain resulting
benefits. Every race on earth has distinctive
characteristics. Some have been distinguished
in philosophy, some in administration,
some in romance, poetry or religion, some in
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their legal system. During the pre-eminence
of each culture, its distinctive characteristics
are carried by it far and wide across the
world.
If the same nation were to retain its
domination indefinitely, its peculiar qualities
would permanently characterise the whole
human race. Under the system of empires
each lasting for 250 years, the sovereign race
has time to spread its particular virtues far
and wide. Then, however, another people,
with entirely different peculiarities, takes its
place, and its virtues and accomplishments
are likewise disseminated. By this system,
each of the innumerable races of the world
enjoys a period of greatness, during which its
peculiar qualities are placed at the service of
mankind.
To those who believe in the existence of
God, as the Ruler and Director of human
affairs, such a system may appear as a
manifestation of divine wisdom, tending
towards the slow and ultimate perfection of
humanity.
VIII The course of empire
The first stage of the life of a great nation,
therefore, after its outburst, is a period of
amazing initiative, and almost incredible
enterprise, courage and hardihood. These
qualities, often in a very short time, produce
a new and formidable nation. These early
victories, however, are won chiefly by
reckless bravery and daring initiative.
The ancient civilisation thus attacked will
have defended itself by its sophisticated
weapons, and by its military organisation
and discipline. The barbarians quickly
appreciate the advantages of these military
methods and adopt them. As a result, the
second stage of expansion of the new empire
consists of more organised, disciplined and
professional campaigns.
In other fields, the daring initiative of the
original conquerors is maintained—in
geographical exploration, for example:
pioneering new countries, penetrating new
forests, climbing unexplored mountains, and
sailing uncharted seas. The new nation is
confident, optimistic and perhaps contemptuous
of the ‘decadent’ races which it has
subjugated.
The methods employed tend to be practical
and experimental, both in government and
in warfare, for they are not tied by centuries
of tradition, as happens in ancient empires.
Moreover, the leaders are free to use their
own improvisations, not having studied
politics or tactics in schools or in textbooks.
IX U.S.A. in the stage of the pioneers
In the case of the United States of America,
the pioneering period did not consist of a
barbarian conquest of an effete civilisation,
but of the conquest of barbarian peoples.
Thus, viewed from the outside, every
example seems to be different. But viewed
from the standpoint of the great nation,
every example seems to be similar.
The United States arose suddenly as a new
nation, and its period of pioneering was
spent in the conquest of a vast continent, not
an ancient empire. Yet the subsequent life
history of the United States has followed the
standard pattern which we shall attempt to
trace—the periods of the pioneers, of
commerce, of affluence, of intellectualism
and of decadence.
X Commercial expansion
The conquest of vast areas of land and
their subjection to one government
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automatically acts as a stimulant to commerce.
Both merchants and goods can be
exchanged over considerable distances.
Moreover, if the empire be an extensive one,
it will include a great variety of climates,
producing extremely varied products, which
the different areas will wish to exchange with
one another.
The speed of modern methods of transportation
tends to create in us the impresssion
that far-flung commerce is a modern
development, but this is not the case. Objects
made in Ireland, Scandinavia and China
have been found in the graves or the ruins of
the Middle East, dating from 1,000 years
before Christ. The means of transport were
slower, but, when a great empire was in
control, commerce was freed from the
innumerable shackles imposed upon it today
by passports, import permits, customs,
boycotts and political interference.
The Roman Empire extended from Britain
to Syria and Egypt, a distance, in a direct
line, of perhaps 2,700 miles. A Roman
official, transferred from Britain to Syria,
might spend six months on the journey. Yet,
throughout the whole distance, he would be
travelling in the same country, with the same
official language, the same laws, the same
currency and the same administrative
system. Today, some twenty independent
countries separate Britain from Syria, each
with its own government, its own laws,
politics, customs fees, passports and
currencies, making commercial co-operation
almost impossible. And this process of
disintegration is still continuing. Even within
the small areas of the modern European
nations, provincial movements demanding
secession or devolution tend further to
splinter the continent.
The present fashion for ‘independence’ has
produced great numbers of tiny states in the
world, some of them consisting of only one
city or of a small island. This system is an
insuperable obstacle to trade and cooperation.
The present European Economic
Community is an attempt to secure commercial
cooperation among small independent
states over a large area, but the plan meets
with many difficulties, due to the mutual
jealousies of so many nations.
Even savage and militaristic empires
promoted commerce, whether or not they
intended to do so. The Mongols were some of
the most brutal military conquerors in
history, massacring the entire populations of
cities. Yet, in the thirteenth century, when
their empire extended from Peking to
Hungary, the caravan trade between China
and Europe achieved a remarkable degree of
prosperity—the whole journey was in the
territory of one government.
In the eighth and ninth centuries, the
caliphs of Baghdad achieved fabulous wealth
owing to the immense extent of their
territories, which constituted a single trade
bloc. The empire of the caliphs is now
divided into some twenty-five separate
‘nations’.
XI The pros and cons of empires
In discussing the life-story of the typical
empire, we have digressed into a discussion
of whether empires are useful or injurious to
mankind. We seem to have discovered that
empires have certain advantages, particularly
in the field of commerce, and in the
establishment of peace and security in vast
areas of the globe. Perhaps we should also
include the spread of varied cultures to many
races. The present infatuation for indepenThe
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dence for ever smaller and smaller units will
eventually doubtless be succeeded by new
international empires.
The present attempts to create a European
community may be regarded as a practical
endeavour to constitute a new super-power,
in spite of the fragmentation resulting from
the craze for independence. If it succeeds,
some of the local independencies will have to
be sacrificed. If it fails, the same result may
be attained by military conquest, or by the
partition of Europe between rival superpowers.
The inescapable conclusion seems,
however, to be that larger territorial units are
a benefit to commerce and to public stability,
whether the broader territory be achieved by
voluntary association or by military action.
XII Sea power
One of the more benevolent ways in which
a super-power can promote both peace and
commerce is by its command of the sea.
From Waterloo to 1914, the British Navy
commanded the seas of the world. Britain
grew rich, but she also made the Seas safe for
the commerce of all nations, and prevented
major wars for 100 years.
Curiously enough, the question of sea
power was never clearly distinguished, in
British politics during the last fifty years,
from the question of imperial rule over other
countries. In fact, the two subjects are
entirely distinct. Sea power does not offend
small countries, as does military occupation.
If Britain had maintained her navy, with a
few naval bases overseas in isolated islands,
and had given independence to colonies
which asked for it, the world might well be a
more stable place today. In fact, however, the
navy was swept away in the popular outcry
against imperialism.
XIII The Age of Commerce
Let us now, however, return to the lifestory
of our typical empire. We have already
considered the age of outburst, when a littleregarded
people suddenly bursts on to the
world stage with a wild courage and energy.
Let us call it the Age of the Pioneers.
Then we saw that these new conquerors
acquired the sophisticated weapons of the
old empires, and adopted their regular
systems of military organisation and
training. A great period of military expansion
ensued, which we may call the Age of
Conquests. The conquests resulted in the
acquisition of vast territories under one
government, thereby automatically giving
rise to commercial prosperity. We may call
this the Age of Commerce.
The Age of Conquests, of course, overlaps
the Age of Commerce. The proud military
traditions still hold sway and the great
armies guard the frontiers, but gradually the
desire to make money seems to gain hold of
the public. During the military period, glory
and honour were the principal objects of
ambition. To the merchant, such ideas are
but empty words, which add nothing to the
bank balance.
XIV Art and luxury
The wealth which seems, almost without
effort, to pour into the country enables the
commercial classes to grow immensely rich.
How to spend all this money becomes a
problem to the wealthy business community.
Art, architecture and luxury find rich
patrons. Splendid municipal buildings and
wide streets lend dignity and beauty to the
wealthy areas of great cities. The rich
merchants build themselves palaces, and
money is invested in communications,
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highways, bridges, railways or hotels,
according to the varied patterns of the ages.
The first half of the Age of Commerce
appears to be peculiarly splendid. The
ancient virtues of courage, patriotism and
devotion to duty are still in evidence. The
nation is proud, united and full of selfconfidence.
Boys are still required, first of all,
to be manly—to ride, to shoot straight and to
tell the truth. (It is remarkable what
emphasis is placed, at this stage, on the
manly virtue of truthfulness, for lying is
cowardice—the fear of facing up to the
situation.)
Boys’ schools are intentionally rough. Frugal
eating, hard living, breaking the ice to
have a bath and similar customs are aimed at
producing a strong, hardy and fearless breed
of men. Duty is the word constantly drummed
into the heads of young people.
The Age of Commerce is also marked by
great enterprise in the exploration for new
forms of wealth. Daring initiative is shown in
the search for profitable enterprises in far
corners of the earth, perpetuating to some
degree the adventurous courage of the Age of
Conquests.
XV The Age of Affluence
There does not appear to be any doubt that
money is the agent which causes the decline
of this strong, brave and self-confident
people. The decline in courage, enterprise
and a sense of duty is, however, gradual.
The first direction in which wealth injures
the nation is a moral one. Money replaces
honour and adventure as the objective of the
best young men. Moreover, men do not
normally seek to make money for their
country or their community, but for themselves.
Gradually, and almost imperceptibly,
the Age of Affluence silences the voice of
duty. The object of the young and the
ambitious is no longer fame, honour or
service, but cash.
Education undergoes the same gradual
transformation. No longer do schools aim at
producing brave patriots ready to serve their
country. Parents and students alike seek the
educational qualifications which will
command the highest salaries. The Arab
moralist, Ghazali (1058-1111), complains in
these very same words of the lowering of
objectives in the declining Arab world of his
time. Students, he says, no longer attend
college to acquire learning and virtue, but to
obtain those qualifications which will enable
them to grow rich. The same situation is
everywhere evident among us in the West
today.
XVI High Noon
That which we may call the High Noon of
the nation covers the period of transition
from the Age of Conquests to the Age of
Affluence: the age of Augustus in Rome, that
of Harun al-Rashid in Baghdad, of Sulaiman
the Magnificent in the Ottoman Empire, or
of Queen Victoria in Britain. Perhaps we
might add the age of Woodrow Wilson in the
United States.
All these periods reveal the same
characteristics. The immense wealth accumulated
in the nation dazzles the onlookers.
Enough of the ancient virtues of courage,
energy and patriotism survive to enable the
state successfully to defend its frontiers. But,
beneath the surface, greed for money is
gradually replacing duty and public service.
Indeed the change might be summarised as
being from service to selfishness.
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XVII Defensiveness
Another outward change which invariably
marks the transition from the Age of
Conquests to the Age of Affluence is the
spread of defensiveness. The nation, immensely
rich, is no longer interested in glory or
duty, but is only anxious to retain its wealth
and its luxury. It is a period of defensiveness,
from the Great Wall of China, to Hadrian’s
Wall on the Scottish Border, to the Maginot
Line in France in 1939.
Money being in better supply than courage,
subsidies instead of weapons are employed
to buy off enemies. To justify this departure
from ancient tradition, the human mind
easily devises its own justification. Military
readiness, or aggressiveness, is denounced as
primitive and immoral. Civilised peoples are
too proud to fight. The conquest of one
nation by another is declared to be immoral.
Empires are wicked. This intellectual device
enables us to suppress our feeling of
inferiority, when we read of the heroism of
our ancestors, and then ruefully contemplate
our position today. ‘It is not that we are
afraid to fight,’ we say, ‘but we should
consider it immoral.’ This even enables us to
assume an attitude of moral superiority.
The weakness of pacifism is that there are
still many peoples in the world who are
aggressive. Nations who proclaim themselves
unwilling to fight are liable to be conquered
by peoples in the stage of militarism—
perhaps even to see themselves incorporated
into some new empire, with the status of
mere provinces or colonies.
When to be prepared to use force and when
to give way is a perpetual human problem,
which can only be solved, as best we can, in
each successive situation as it arises. In fact,
however, history seems to indicate that great
nations do not normally disarm from
motives of conscience, but owing to the
weakening of a sense of duty in the citizens,
and the increase in selfishness and the desire
for wealth and ease.
XVIII The Age of Intellect
We have now, perhaps arbitrarily, divided
the life-story of our great nation into four
ages. The Age of the Pioneers (or the
Outburst), the Age of Conquests, the Age of
Commerce, and the Age of Affluence. The
great wealth of the nation is no longer
needed to supply the mere necessities, or
even the luxuries of life. Ample funds are
available also for the pursuit of knowledge.
The merchant princes of the Age of
Commerce seek fame and praise, not only by
endowing works of art or patronising music
and literature. They also found and endow
colleges and universities. It is remarkable
with what regularity this phase follows on
that of wealth, in empire after empire,
divided by many centuries.
In the eleventh century, the former Arab
Empire, then in complete political decline,
was ruled by the Seljuk sultan, Malik Shah.
The Arabs, no longer soldiers, were still the
intellectual leaders of the world. During the
reign of Malik Shah, the building of
universities and colleges became a passion.
Whereas a small number of universities in
the great cities had sufficed the years of Arab
glory, now a university sprang up in every
town.
In our own lifetime, we have witnessed the
same phenomenon in the U.S.A. and Britain.
When these nations were at the height of
their glory, Harvard, Yale, Oxford and
Cambridge seemed to meet their needs. Now
almost every city has its university.
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The ambition of the young, once engaged
in the pursuit of adventure and military
glory, and then in the desire for the
accumulation of wealth, now turns to the
acquisition of academic honours.
It is useful here to take note that almost all
the pursuits followed with such passion
throughout the ages were in themselves
good. The manly cult of hardihood, frankness
and truthfulness, which characterised
the Age of Conquests, produced many really
splendid heroes.
The opening up of natural resources, and
the peaceful accumulation of wealth, which
marked the age of commercialism, appeared
to introduce new triumphs in civilisation, in
culture and in the arts. In the same way, the
vast expansion of the field of knowledge
achieved by the Age of Intellect seemed to
mark a new high-water mark of human
progress. We cannot say that any of these
changes were ‘good’ or ‘bad’.
The striking features in the pageant of
empire are:
(a) the extraordinary exactitude with which
these stages have followed one another, in
empire after empire, over centuries or even
millennia; and
(b) the fact that the successive changes
seem to represent mere changes in popular
fashion—new fads and fancies which sweep
away public opinion without logical reason.
At first, popular enthusiasm is devoted to
military glory, then to the accumulation of
wealth and later to the acquisition of
academic fame.
Why could not all these legitimate, and
indeed beneficent, activities be carried on
simultaneously, each of them in due moderation?
Yet this never seemed to happen.
XIX The effects of intellectualism
There are so many things in human life
which are not dreamt of in our popular
philosophy. The spread of knowledge seems
to be the most beneficial of human activities,
and yet every period of decline is characterrised
by this expansion of intellectual
activity. ‘All the Athenians and strangers
which were there spent their time in nothing
else, but either to tell or to hear some new
thing’ is the description given in the Acts of
the Apostles of the decline of Greek
intellectualism.
The Age of Intellect is accompanied by
surprising advances in natural science. In the
ninth century, for example, in the age of
Mamun, the Arabs measured the circumference
of the earth with remarkable
accuracy. Seven centuries were to pass
before Western Europe discovered that the
world was not flat. Less than fifty years after
the amazing scientific discoveries under
Mamun, the Arab Empire collapsed. Wonderful
and beneficent as was the progress of
science, it did not save the empire from
chaos.
The full flowering of Arab and Persian
intellectualism did not occur until after their
imperial and political collapse. Thereafter
the intellectuals attained fresh triumphs in
the academic field, but politically they
became the abject servants of the often
illiterate rulers. When the Mongols conquered
Persia in the thirteenth century, they
were themselves entirely uneducated and
were obliged to depend wholly on native
Persian officials to administer the country
and to collect the revenue. They retained as
wazeer, or Prime Minister, one Rashid al-
Din, a historian of international repute. Yet
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the Prime Minister, when speaking to the
Mongol II Khan, was obliged to remain
throughout the interview on his knees. At
state banquets, the Prime Minister stood
behind the Khan’s seat to wait upon him. If
the Khan were in a good mood, he
occasionally passed his wazeer a piece of
food over his shoulder.
As in the case of the Athenians,
intellectualism leads to discussion, debate
and argument, such as is typical of the
Western nations today. Debates in elected
assemblies or local committees, in articles in
the Press or in interviews on television—
endless and incessant talking.
Men are interminably different, and
intellectual arguments rarely lead to
agreement. Thus public affairs drift from bad
to worse, amid an unceasing cacophony of
argument. But this constant dedication to
discussion seems to destroy the power of
action. Amid a Babel of talk, the ship drifts
on to the rocks.
XX The inadequacy of intellect
Perhaps the most dangerous by-product of
the Age of Intellect is the unconscious
growth of the idea that the human brain can
solve the problems of the world. Even on the
low level of practical affairs this is patently
untrue. Any small human activity, the local
bowls club or the ladies’ luncheon club,
requires for its survival a measure of selfsacrifice
and service on the part of the
members. In a wider national sphere, the
survival of the nation depends basically on
the loyalty and self-sacrifice of the citizens.
The impression that the situation can be
saved by mental cleverness, without unselfishness
or human self-dedication, can only
lead to collapse.
Thus we see that the cultivation of the
human intellect seems to be a magnificent
ideal, but only on condition that it does not
weaken unselfishness and human dedication
to service. Yet this, judging by historical
precedent, seems to be exactly what it does
do. Perhaps it is not the intellectualism
which destroys the spirit of self-sacrifice—the
least we can say is that the two,
intellectualism and the loss of a sense of
duty, appear simultaneously in the life-story
of the nation.
Indeed it often appears in individuals, that
the head and the heart are natural rivals. The
brilliant but cynical intellectual appears at
the opposite end of the spectrum from the
emotional self-sacrifice of the hero or the
martyr. Yet there are times when the perhaps
unsophisticated self-dedication of the hero is
more essential than the sarcasms of the
clever.
XXI Civil dissensions
Another remarkable and unexpected
symptom of national decline is the intensification
of internal political hatreds. One
would have expected that, when the survival
of the nation became precarious, political
factions would drop their rivalry and stand
shoulder-to-shoulder to save their country.
In the fourteenth century, the weakening
empire of Byzantium was threatened, and
indeed dominated, by the Ottoman Turks.
The situation was so serious that one would
have expected every subject of Byzantium to
abandon his personal interests and to stand
with his compatriots in a last desperate
attempt to save the country. The reverse
occurred. The Byzantines spent the last fifty
years of their history in fighting one another
in repeated civil wars, until the Ottomans
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moved in and administered the coup de
grâce.
Britain has been governed by an elected
parliament for many centuries. In former
years, however, the rival parties observed
many unwritten laws. Neither party wished
to eliminate the other. All the members
referred to one another as honourable
gentlemen. But such courtesies have now
lapsed. Booing, shouting and loud noises
have undermined the dignity of the House,
and angry exchanges are more frequent. We
are fortunate if these rivalries are fought out
in Parliament, but sometimes such hatreds
are carried into the streets, or into industry
in the form of strikes, demonstrations,
boycotts and similar activities. True to the
normal course followed by nations in
decline, internal differences are not
reconciled in an attempt to save the nation.
On the contrary, internal rivalries become
more acute, as the nation becomes weaker.
XXII The influx of foreigners
One of the oft-repeated phenomena of
great empires is the influx of foreigners to
the capital city. Roman historians often
complain of the number of Asians and
Africans in Rome. Baghdad, in its prime in
the ninth century, was international in its
population—Persians, Turks, Arabs, Armenians,
Egyptians, Africans and Greeks
mingled in its streets.
In London today, Cypriots, Greeks,
Italians, Russians, Africans, Germans and
Indians jostle one another on the buses and
in the underground, so that it sometimes
seems difficult to find any British. The same
applies to New York, perhaps even more so.
This problem does not consist in any
inferiority of one race as compared with
another, but simply in the differences
between them.
In the age of the first outburst and the
subsequent Age of Conquests, the race is
normally ethnically more or less
homogeneous. This state of affairs facilitates
a feeling of solidarity and comradeship. But
in the Ages of Commerce and Affluence,
every type of foreigner floods into the great
city, the streets of which are reputed to be
paved with gold. As, in most cases, this great
city is also the capital of the empire, the
cosmopolitan crowd at the seat of empire
exercises a political influence greatly in
excess of its relative numbers.
Second- or third-generation foreign
immigrants may appear outwardly to be
entirely assimilated, but they often constitute
a weakness in two directions. First, their
basic human nature often differs from that of
the original imperial stock. If the earlier
imperial race was stubborn and slowmoving,
the immigrants might come from
more emotional races, thereby introducing
cracks and schisms into the national policies,
even if all were equally loyal.
Second, while the nation is still affluent, all
the diverse races may appear equally loyal.
But in an acute emergency, the immigrants
will often be less willing to sacrifice their
lives and their property than will be the
original descendants of the founder race.
Third, the immigrants are liable to form
communities of their own, protecting
primarily their own interests, and only in the
second degree that of the nation as a whole.
Fourth, many of the foreign immigrants
will probably belong to races originally
conquered by and absorbed into the empire.
While the empire is enjoying its High Noon
of prosperity, all these people are proud and
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glad to be imperial citizens. But when decline
sets in, it is extraordinary how the memory
of ancient wars, perhaps centuries before, is
suddenly revived, and local or provincial
movements appear demanding secession or
independence. Some day this phenomenon
will doubtless appear in the now apparently
monolithic and authoritarian Soviet empire.
It is amazing for how long such provincial
sentiments can survive.
Historical examples of this phenomenon
are scarcely needed. The idle and captious
Roman mob, with its endless appetite for
free distributions of food—bread and
games—is notorious, and utterly different
from that stern Roman spirit which we
associate with the wars of the early republic.
In Baghdad, in the golden days of Harun
al-Rashid, Arabs were a minority in the
imperial capital. Istanbul, in the great days
of Ottoman rule, was peopled by inhabitants
remarkably few of whom were descendants
of Turkish conquerors. In New York,
descendants of the Pilgrim Fathers are few
and far between.
This interesting phenomenon is largely
limited to great cities. The original conquering
race is often to be found in relative
purity in rural districts and on far frontiers.
It is the wealth of the great cities which
draws the immigrants. As, with the growth of
industry, cities nowadays achieve an ever
greater preponderance over the countryside,
so will the influence of foreigners increasingly
dominate old empires.
Once more it may be emphasised that I do
not wish to convey the impression that
immigrants are inferior to older stocks. They
are just different, and they thus tend to
introduce cracks and divisions.
XXIII Frivolity
As the nation declines in power and
wealth, a universal pessimism gradually
pervades the people, and itself hastens the
decline. There is nothing succeeds like
success, and, in the Ages of Conquest and
Commerce, the nation was carried
triumphantly onwards on the wave of its own
self-confidence. Republican Rome was
repeatedly on the verge of extinction—in 390
B.C. when the Gauls sacked the city and in
216 B.C. after the Battle of Cannae. But no
disasters could shake the resolution of the
early Romans. Yet, in the later stages of
Roman decline, the whole empire was deeply
pessimistic, thereby sapping its own
resolution.
Frivolity is the frequent companion of
pessimism. Let us eat, drink and be merry,
for tomorrow we die. The resemblance
between various declining nations in this
respect is truly surprising. The Roman mob,
we have seen, demanded free meals and
public games. Gladiatorial shows, chariot
races and athletic events were their passion.
In the Byzantine Empire the rivalries of the
Greens and the Blues in the hippodrome
attained the importance of a major crisis.
Judging by the time and space allotted to
them in the Press and television, football and
baseball are the activities which today chiefly
interest the public in Britain and the United
States respectively.
The heroes of declining nations are always
the same—the athlete, the singer or the
actor. The word ‘celebrity’ today is used to
designate a comedian or a football player,
not a statesman, a general, or a literary
genius.
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XXIV The Arab decline
In the first half of the ninth century,
Baghdad enjoyed its High Noon as the
greatest and the richest city in the world. In
861, however, the reigning Khalif (caliph),
Mutawakkil, was murdered by his Turkish
mercenaries, who set up a military dictatorship,
which lasted for some thirty years.
During this period the empire fell apart, the
various dominions and provinces each
assuming virtual independence and seeking
its own interests. Baghdad, lately the capital
of a vast empire, found its authority limited
to Iraq alone.
The works of the contemporary historians
of Baghdad in the early tenth century are still
available. They deeply deplored the
degeneracy of the times in which they lived,
emphasising particularly the indifference to
religion, the increasing materialism and the
laxity of sexual morals. They lamented also
the corruption of the officials of the
government and the fact that politicians
always seemed to amass large fortunes while
they were in office.
The historians commented bitterly on the
extraordinary influence acquired by popular
singers over young people, resulting in a
decline in sexual morality. The ‘pop’ singers
of Baghdad accompanied their erotic songs
on the lute, an instrument resembling the
modern guitar. In the second half of the
tenth century, as a result, much obscene
sexual language came increasingly into use,
such as would not have been tolerated in an
earlier age. Several khalifs issued orders
banning ‘pop’ singers from the capital, but
within a few years they always returned.
An increase in the influence of women in
public life has often been associated with national
decline. The later Romans complained
that, although Rome ruled the world, women
ruled Rome. In the tenth century, a similar
tendency was observable in the Arab Empire,
the women demanding admission to the
professions hitherto monopolised by men.
‘What,’ wrote the contemporary historian,
Ibn Bessam, ‘have the professions of clerk,
tax-collector or preacher to do with women?
These occupations have always been limited
to men alone.’ Many women practised law,
while others obtained posts as university
professors. There was an agitation for the
appointment of female judges, which,
however, does not appear to have succeeded.
Soon after this period, government and
public order collapsed, and foreign invaders
overran the country. The resulting increase
in confusion and violence made it unsafe for
women to move unescorted in the streets,
with the result that this feminist movement
collapsed.
The disorders following the military takeover
in 861, and the loss of the empire, had
played havoc with the economy. At such a
moment, it might have been expected that
everyone would redouble their efforts to save
the country from bankruptcy, but nothing of
the kind occurred. Instead, at this moment of
declining trade and financial stringency, the
people of Baghdad introduced a five-day
week.
When I first read these contemporary
descriptions of tenth-century Baghdad, I
could scarcely believe my eyes. I told myself
that this must be a joke! The descriptions
might have been taken out of The Times
today. The resemblance of all the details was
especially breathtaking—the break-up of the
empire, the abandonment of sexual morality,
the ‘pop’ singers with their guitars, the entry
of women into the professions, the five-day
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week. I would not venture to attempt an
explanation! There are so many mysteries
about human life which are far beyond our
comprehension.
XXV Political ideology
Today we attach immense importance to
the ideology of our internal politics. The
Press and public media in the U.S.A. and
Britain pour incessant scorn on any country
the political institutions of which differ in
any manner from our own idea of
democracy. It is, therefore, interesting to
note that the life-expectation of a great
nation does not appear to be in any way
affected by the nature of its institutions.
Past empires show almost every possible
variation of political system, but all go
through the same procedure from the Age of
Pioneers through Conquest, Commerce,
Affluence to decline and collapse.
XXVI The Mameluke Empire
The empire of the Mamelukes of Egypt
provides a case in point, for it was one of the
most exotic ever to be recorded in history. It
is also exceptional in that it began on one
fixed day and ended on another, leaving no
doubt of its precise duration, which was 267
years.
In the first part of the thirteenth century,
Egypt and Syria were ruled by the Ayoubid
sultans, the descendants of the family of
Saladin. Their army consisted of Mamelukes,
slaves imported as boys from the Steppes
and trained as professional soldiers. On 1st
May 1250, the Mamelukes mutinied,
murdered Turan Shah, the Ayoubid sultan,
and became the rulers of his empire.
The first fifty years of the Mameluke
Empire were marked by desperate fighting
with the hitherto invincible Mongols, the
descendants of Genghis Khan, who invaded
Syria. By defeating the Mongols and driving
them out of Syria, the Mamelukes saved the
Mediterranean from the terrible fate which
had overtaken Persia. In 1291, the Mamelukes
captured Acre, and put an end to the
Crusades.
From 1309 to 1341, the Mameluke Empire
was everywhere victorious and possessed the
finest army in the world. For the ensuing
hundred years the wealth of the Mameluke
Empire was fabulous, slowly leading to
luxury, the relaxation of discipline and to
decline, with ever more bitter internal
political rivalries. Finally the empire collapsed
in 1517, as the result of military defeat
by the Ottomans.
The Mameluke government appears to us
utterly illogical and fantastic. The ruling
class was entirely recruited from young boys,
born in what is now Southern Russia. Every
one of them was enlisted as a private soldier.
Even the sultans had begun life as private
soldiers and had risen from the ranks. Yet
this extraordinary political system resulted
in an empire which passed through all the
normal stages of conquest, commercialism,
affluence and decline and which lasted
approximately the usual period of time.
XXVII The master race
The people of the great nations of the past
seem normally to have imagined that their
pre-eminence would last for ever. Rome
appeared to its citizens to be destined to be
for all time the mistress of the world. The
Abbasid Khalifs of Baghdad declared that
God had appointed them to rule mankind
until the day of judgement. Seventy years
ago, many people in Britain believed that the
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empire would endure for ever. Although
Hitler failed to achieve his objective, he
declared that Germany would rule the world
for a thousand years. That sentiments like
these could be publicly expressed without
evoking derision shows that, in all ages, the
regular rise and fall of great nations has
passed unperceived. The simplest statistics
prove the steady rotation of one nation after
another at regular intervals.
The belief that their nation would rule the
world forever, naturally encouraged the
citizens of the leading nation of any period to
attribute their pre-eminence to hereditary
virtues. They carried in their blood, they
believed, qualities which constituted them a
race of supermen, an illusion which inclined
them to the employment of cheap foreign
labour (or slaves) to perform menial tasks
and to engage foreign mercenaries to fight
their battles or to sail their ships.
These poorer peoples were only too happy
to migrate to the wealthy cities of the empire,
and thereby, as we have seen, to adulterate
the close-knit, homogeneous character of the
conquering race. The latter unconsciously
assumed that they would always be the
leaders of mankind, relaxed their energies,
and spent an increasing part of their time in
leisure, amusement or sport.
In recent years, the idea has spread widely
in the West that ‘progress’ will be automatic
without effort, that everyone will continue to
grow richer and richer and that every year
will show a ‘rise in the standard of living’. We
have not drawn from history the obvious
conclusion that material success is the result
of courage, endurance and hard work—a
conclusion nevertheless obvious from the
history of the meteoric rise of our own
ancestors. This self-assurance of its own
superiority seems to go hand-in-hand with
the luxury resulting from wealth, in
undermining the character of the dominant
race.
XXVIII The welfare state
When the welfare state was first introduced
in Britain, it was hailed as a new high-water
mark in the history of human development.
History, however, seems to suggest that the
age of decline of a great nation is often a
period which shows a tendency to
philanthropy and to sympathy for other
races. This phase may not be contradictory
to the feeling described in the previous
paragraph, that the dominant race has the
right to rule the world. For the citizens of the
great nation enjoy the role of Lady Bountiful.
As long as it retains its status of leadership,
the imperial people are glad to be generous,
even if slightly condescending. The rights of
citizenship are generously bestowed on every
race, even those formerly subject, and the
equality of mankind is proclaimed. The
Roman Empire passed through this phase,
when equal citizenship was thrown open to
all peoples, such provincials even becoming
senators and emperors.
The Arab Empire of Baghdad was equally,
perhaps even more, generous. During the
Age of Conquests, pure-bred Arabs had
constituted a ruling class, but in the ninth
century the empire was completely
cosmopolitan.
State assistance to the young and the poor
was equally generous. University students
received government grants to cover their
expenses while they were receiving higher
education. The State likewise offered free
medical treatment to the poor. The first free
public hospital was opened in Baghdad in
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the reign of Harun al-Rashid (786-809), and
under his son, Mamun, free public hospitals
sprang up all over the Arab world from Spain
to what is now Pakistan.
The impression that it will always be
automatically rich causes the declining
empire to spend lavishly on its own
benevolence, until such time as the economy
collapses, the universities are closed and the
hospitals fall into ruin.
It may perhaps be incorrect to picture the
welfare state as the high-water mark of
human attainment. It may merely prove to
be one more regular milestone in the lifestory
of an ageing and decrepit empire.
XXIX Religion
Historians of periods of decadence often
refer to a decline in religion, but, if we
extend our investigation over a period
covering the Assyrians (859-612 B.C.) to our
own times, we have to interpret religion in a
very broad sense. Some such definition as
‘the human feeling that there is something,
some invisible Power, apart from material
objects, which controls human life and the
natural world’.
We are probably too narrow and
contemptuous in our interpretation of idol
worship. The people of ancient civilisations
were as sensible as we are, and would
scarcely have been so foolish as to worship
sticks and stones fashioned by their own
hands. The idol was for them merely a
symbol, and represented an unknown,
spiritual reality, which controlled the lives of
men and demanded human obedience to its
moral precepts.
We all know only too well that minor
differences in the human visualisation of this
Spirit frequently became the ostensible
reason for human wars, in which both sides
claimed to be fighting for the true God, but
the absurd narrowness of human
conceptions should not blind us to the fact
that, very often, both sides believed their
campaigns to have a moral background.
Genghis Khan, one of the most brutal of all
conquerors, claimed that God had delegated
him the duty to exterminate the decadent
races of the civilised world. Thus the Age of
Conquests often had some kind of religious
atmosphere, which implied heroic selfsacrifice
for the cause.
But this spirit of dedication was slowly
eroded in the Age of Commerce by the action
of money. People make money for
themselves, not for their country. Thus
periods of affluence gradually dissolved the
spirit of service, which had caused the rise of
the imperial races.
In due course, selfishness permeated the
community, the coherence of which was
weakened until disintegration was
threatened. Then, as we have seen, came the
period of pessimism with the accompanying
spirit of frivolity and sensual indulgence, byproducts
of despair. It was inevitable at such
times that men should look back yearningly
to the days of ‘religion’, when the spirit of
self-sacrifice was still strong enough to make
men ready to give and to serve, rather than
to snatch.
But while despair might permeate the
greater part of the nation, others achieved a
new realisation of the fact that only readiness
for self-sacrifice could enable a community
to survive. Some of the greatest saints in
history lived in times of national decadence,
raising the banner of duty and service
against the flood of depravity and despair.
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In this manner, at the height of vice and
frivolity the seeds of religious revival are
quietly sown. After, perhaps, several
generations (or even centuries) of suffering,
the impoverished nation has been purged of
its selfishness and its love of money, religion
regains its sway and a new era sets in. ‘It is
good for me that I have been afflicted,’ said
the psalmist, ‘that I might learn Thy
Statutes.’
XXX New combinations
We have traced the rise of an obscure race
to fame, through the stages of conquest,
commercialism, affluence, and intellectualism,
to disintegration, decadence and
despair. We suggested that the dominant
race at any given time imparts its leading
characteristics to the world around, being in
due course succeeded by another empire. By
this means, we speculated, many successive
races succeeded one another as superpowers,
and in turn bequeathed their
peculiar qualities to mankind at large.
But the objection may here be raised that
some day the time will come when all the
races of the world will in turn have enjoyed
their period of domination and have
collapsed again in decadence. When the
whole human race has reached the stage of
decadence, where will new energetic conquering
races be found?
The answer is at first partially obscured by
our modern habit of dividing the human race
into nations, which we seem to regard as
water-tight compartments, an error responsible
for innumerable misunderstandings.
In earlier times, warlike nomadic nations
invaded the territories of decadent peoples
and settled there. In due course, they
intermarried with the local population and a
new race resulted, though it sometimes
retained an old name. The barbarian
invasions of the Roman Empire probably
provide the example best known today in the
West. Others were the Arab conquests of
Spain, North Africa and Persia, the Turkish
conquests of the Ottoman Empire, or even
the Norman Conquest of England.
In all such cases, the conquered countries
were originally fully inhabited and the invaders
were armies, which ultimately settled
down and married, and produced new races.
In our times, there are few nomadic
conquerors left in the world, who could
invade more settled countries bringing their
tents and flocks with them. But ease of travel
has resulted in an equal, or probably an even
greater, intermixture of populations. The
extreme bitterness of modern internal political
struggles produces a constant flow of
migrants from their native countries to
others, where the social institutions suit
them better.
The vicissitudes of trade and business
similarly result in many persons moving to
other countries, at first intending to return,
but ultimately settling down in their new
countries.
The population of Britain has been
constantly changing, particularly in the last
sixty years, owing to the influx of immigrants
from Europe, Asia and Africa, and the exit of
British citizens to the Dominions and the
United States. The latter is, of course, the
most obvious example of the constant rise of
new nations, and of the transformation of
the ethnic content of old nations through this
modern nomadism.
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XXXI Decadence of a system
It is of interest to note that decadence is
the disintegration of a system, not of its
individual members. The habits of the
members of the community have been
corrupted by the enjoyment of too much
money and too much power for too long a
period. The result has been, in the
framework of their national life, to make
them selfish and idle. A community of selfish
and idle people declines, internal quarrels
develop in the division of its dwindling
wealth, and pessimism follows, which some
of them endeavour to drown in sensuality or
frivolity. In their own surroundings, they are
unable to redirect their thoughts and their
energies into new channels.
But when individual members of such a
society emigrate into entirely new surroundings,
they do not remain conspicuously
decadent, pessimistic or immoral among the
inhabitants of their new homeland. Once
enabled to break away from their old
channels of thought, and after a short period
of readjustment, they become normal
citizens of their adopted countries. Some of
them, in the second and third generations,
may attain pre-eminence and leadership in
their new communities.
This seems to prove that the decline of any
nation does not undermine the energies or
the basic character of its members. Nor does
the decadence of a number of such nations
permanently impoverish the human race.
Decadence is both mental and moral
deterioration, produced by the slow decline
of the community from which its members
cannot escape, as long as they remain in
their old surroundings. But, transported
elsewhere, they soon discard their decadent
ways of thought, and prove themselves equal
to the other citizens of their adopted country.
XXXII Decadence is not physical
Neither is decadence physical. The citizens
of nations in decline are sometimes
described as too physically emasculated to be
able to bear hardship or make great efforts.
This does not seem to be a true picture.
Citizens of great nations in decadence are
normally physically larger and stronger than
those of their barbarian invaders.
Moreover, as was proved in Britain in the
first World War, young men brought up in
luxury and wealth found little difficulty in
accustoming themselves to life in the frontline
trenches. The history of exploration
proves the same point. Men accustomed to
comfortable living in homes in Europe or
America were able to show as much
endurance as the natives in riding camels
across the desert or in hacking their way
through tropical forests.
Decadence is a moral and spiritual disease,
resulting from too long a period of wealth
and power, producing cynicism, decline of
religion, pessimism and frivolity. The
citizens of such a nation will no longer make
an effort to save themselves, because they
are not convinced that anything in life is
worth saving.
XXXII Human diversity
Generalisations are always dangerous.
Human beings are all different. The variety
in human life is endless. If this be the case
with individuals, it is much more so with
nations and cultures. No two societies, no
two peoples, no two cultures are exactly the
same. In these circumstances, it will be easy
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for critics to find many objections to what
has been said, and to point out exceptions to
the generalisations.
There is some value in comparing the lives
of nations to those of individuals. No two
persons in the world are identical. Moreover
their lives are often affected by accidents or
by illness, making the divergences even more
obvious. Yet, in fact, we can generalise about
human life from many different aspects. The
characteristics of childhood, adolescence,
youth, middle and old age are well known.
Some adolescents, it is true, are prematurely
wise and serious. Some persons in middle
age still seem to he young. But such
exceptions do not invalidate the general
character of human life from the cradle to
the grave.
I venture to submit that the lives of nations
follow a similar pattern. Superficially, all
seem to be completely different. Some years
ago, a suggestion was submitted to a certain
television corporation that a series of talks
on Arab history would form an interesting
sequence. The proposal was immediately
vetoed by the director of programmes with
the remark, “What earthly interest could the
history of medieval Arabs have for the
general public today?”
Yet, in fact, the history of the Arab imperial
age—from conquest through commercialism,
to affluence, intellectualism, science and
decadence—is an exact precursor of British
imperial history and lasted almost exactly
the same time.
If British historians, a century ago, had
devoted serious study to the Arab Empire,
they could have foreseen almost everything
that has happened in Britain down to 1976.
XXXIV A variety of falls
It has been shown that, normally, the rise
and fall of great nations are due to internal
reasons alone. Ten generations of human
beings suffice to transform the hardy and
enterprising pioneer into the captious citizen
of the welfare state. But whereas the life
histories of great nations show an unexpected
uniformity, the nature of their falls
depends largely on outside circumstances
and thus shows a high degree of diversity.
The Roman Republic, as we have seen, was
followed by the empire, which became a
super-state, in which all the natives of the
Mediterranean basin, regardless of race,
possessed equal rights. The name of Rome,
originally a city-state, passed from it to an
equalitarian international empire.
This empire broke in half, the western half
being overrun by northern barbarians, the
eastern half forming the East Roman or
Byzantine Empire.
The vast Arab Empire broke up in the
ninth century into many fragments, of which
one former colony, Moslem Spain, ran its
own 250-year course as an independent
empire. The homelands of Syria and Iraq,
however, were conquered by successive
waves of Turks to whom they remained
subject for 1,000 years.
The Mameluke Empire of Egypt and Syria,
on the other hand, was conquered in one
campaign by the Ottomans, the native
population merely suffering a change of
masters.
The Spanish Empire (1500-1750) endured
for the conventional 250 years, terminated
only by the loss of its colonies. The homeland
of Spain fell, indeed, from its high estate of a
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super-power, but remained as an independent
nation until today.
Romanov Russia (1682-1916) ran the
normal course, but was succeeded by the
Soviet Union.
It is unnecessary to labour the point, which
we may attempt to summarise briefly. Any
regime which attains great wealth and power
seems with remarkable regularity to decay
and fall apart in some ten generations. The
ultimate fate of its component parts,
however, does not depend on its internal
nature, but on the other organisations which
appear at the time of its collapse and succeed
in devouring its heritage. Thus the lives of
great powers are surprisingly uniform, but
the results of their falls are completely
diverse.
XXXV Inadequacy of our historical
studies
In fact, the modern nations of the West
have derived only limited value from their
historical studies, because they have never
made them big enough. For history to have
meaning, as we have already stated, it must
be the history of the human race.
Far from achieving such an ideal, our
historical studies are largely limited to the
history of our own country during the
lifetime of the present nation. Thus the timefactor
is too short to allow the longer
rhythms of the rise and fall of nations even to
be noticed. As the television director
indicated, it never even crosses our minds
that longer periods could be of any interest.
When we read the history of our own
nation, we find the actions of our ancestors
described as glorious, while those of other
peoples are depicted as mean, tyrannical or
cowardly. Thus our history is (intentionally)
not based on facts. We are emotionally
unwilling to accept that our forbears might
have been mean or cowardly.
Alternatively, there are ‘political’ schools of
history, slanted to discredit the actions of
our past leaders, in order to support modern
political movements. In all these cases,
history is not an attempt to ascertain the
truth, but a system of propaganda, devoted
to the furtherance of modern projects, or the
gratification of national vanity.
Men can scarcely be blamed for not
learning from the history they are taught.
There is nothing to learn from it, because it
is not true.
XXXVI Small nations
The word ‘empires’ has been used in this
essay to signify nations which achieve the
status of great powers, or super-powers, in
the jargon of today—nations which have
dominated the international scene for two or
three centuries. At any given time, however,
there are also smaller states which are more
or less self-contained. Do these live the same
‘lives’ as the great nations, and pass through
the same phases?
It seems impossible to generalise on this
issue. In general, decadence is the outcome
of too long a period of wealth and power. If
the small country has not shared in the
wealth and power, it will not share in the
decadence.
XXXVII The emerging pattern
In spite of the endless variety and the
infinite complications of human life, a
general pattern does seem to emerge from
these considerations. It reveals many
successive empires covering some 3,000
years, as having followed similar stages of
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development and decline, and as having, to a
surprising degree, ‘lived’ lives of very similar
length.
The life-expectation of a great nation, it
appears, commences with a violent, and
usually unforeseen, outburst of energy, and
ends in a lowering of moral standards,
cynicism, pessimism and frivolity.
If the present writer were a millionaire, he
would try to establish in some university or
other a department dedicated solely to the
study of the rhythm of the rise and fall of
powerful nations throughout the world.
History goes back only some 3,000 years,
because before that period writing was not
sufficiently widespread to allow of the
survival of detailed records. But within that
period, the number of empires available for
study is very great.
At the commencement of this essay, the
names of eleven such empires were listed,
but these included only the Middle East and
the modern nations of the West. India, China
and Southern America were not included,
because the writer knows nothing about
them. A school founded to study the rise and
fall of empires would probably find at least
twenty-four great powers available for
dissection and analysis.
The task would not be an easy one, if
indeed the net were cast so wide as to cover
virtually all the world’s great nations in 3,000
years. The knowledge of language alone, to
enable detailed investigations to be pursued,
would present a formidable obstacle.
XXXVIII Would it help?
It is pleasing to imagine that, from such
studies, a regular life-pattern of nations
would emerge, including an analysis of the
various changes which ultimately lead to
decline, decadence and collapse. It is
tempting to assume that measures could be
adopted to forestall the disastrous effects of
excessive wealth and power, and thence of
subsequent decadence. Perhaps some means
could be devised to prevent the activist Age
of Conquests and Commerce deteriorating
into the Age of Intellect, producing endless
talking but no action.
It is tempting to think so. Perhaps if the
pattern of the rise and fall of nations were
regularly taught in schools, the general
public would come to realise the truth, and
would support policies to maintain the spirit
of duty and self-sacrifice, and to forestall the
accumulation of excessive wealth by one
nation, leading to the demoralisation of that
nation.
Could not the sense of duty and the
initiative needed to give rise to action be
retained parallel with intellectual development
and the discoveries of natural science?
The answer is doubtful, though we could
but try. The weaknesses of human nature,
however, are so obvious, that we cannot be
too confident of success. Men bursting with
courage, energy and self-confidence cannot
easily be restrained from subduing their
neighbours, and men who see the prospect of
wealth open to them will not readily be
prevented from pursuing it.
Perhaps it is not in the real interest of
humanity that they should be so prevented,
for it is in periods of wealth that art,
architecture, music, science and literature
make the greatest progress.
Moreover, as we have seen where great
empires are concerned, their establishment
may give rise to wars and tragedies, but their
periods of power often bring peace, security
and prosperity to vast areas of territory. Our
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knowledge and our experience (perhaps our
basic human intellects) are inadequate to
pronounce whether or not the rise and fall of
great nations is the best system for the best
of all possible worlds.
These doubts, however, need not prevent
us from attempting to acquire more
knowledge on the rise and fall of great
powers, or from endeavouring, in the light of
such knowledge, to improve the moral
quality of human life.
Perhaps, in fact, we may reach the
conclusion that the successive rise and fall of
great nations is inevitable and, indeed, a
system divinely ordained. But even this
would be an immense gain. For we should
know where we stand in relation to our
human brothers and sisters. In our present
state of mental chaos on the subject, we
divide ourselves into nations, parties or
communities and fight, hate and vilify one
another over developments which may
perhaps be divinely ordained and which
seem to us, if we take a broader view,
completely uncontrollable and inevitable. If
we could accept these great movements as
beyond our control, there would be no
excuse for our hating one another because of
them.
However varied, confusing and contradictory
the religious history of the world may
appear, the noblest and most spiritual of the
devotees of all religions seem to reach the
conclusion that love is the key to human life.
Any expansion of our knowledge which may
lead to a reduction in our unjustified hates is
therefore surely well worth while.
XXXIX Summary
As numerous points of interest have arisen
in the course of this essay, I close with a brief
summary, to refresh the reader’s mind.
(a) We do not learn from history because
our studies are brief and prejudiced.
(b) In a surprising manner, 250 years
emerges as the average length of national
greatness.
(c) This average has not varied for 3,000
years. Does it represent ten generations?
(d) The stages of the rise and fall of great
nations seem to be:
The Age of Pioneers (outburst)
The Age of Conquests
The Age of Commerce
The Age of Affluence
The Age of Intellect
The Age of Decadence.
(e) Decadence is marked by:
Defensiveness
Pessimism
Materialism
Frivolity
An influx of foreigners
The Welfare State
A weakening of religion.
(f) Decadence is due to:
Too long a period of wealth and power
Selfishness
Love of money
The loss of a sense of duty.
(g) The life histories of great states are
amazingly similar, and are due to internal
factors.
(h) Their falls are diverse, because they are
largely the result of external causes.
(i) History should be taught as the history
of the human race, though of course with
emphasis on the history of the student’s own
country.

[The Heartland Plan and the same section in The Albany Plan Re-Visited offer solution to some of these problems. Ex. the article creating a federal university from which the federal government must get its statistics and facts solves some of the problems listed above as does the Article on federal citizenship. Another example is the section that requires the death penalty for official corruption.

Along with this essay, should be read Chittum’s Civil War Two and Sowell’s The Vision of the Anointed.]

June 5, 2017

A Response to Butch re Fed Court Abuse 5 Jun 17

Filed under: Education, Elections, Political Commentary, US Constitution — Tags: , , , , , , — justplainbill @ 4:00 pm

Butch got upset with a recent segment of Tucker Carlson that showed a blatantly legislating federal judge. My immediate response didn’t completely satisfy him. Below are Article III and part of Article II plus the reasoning behind them which are in

The Heartland Plan

, which may be found as a section in The Albany Plan Re-Visited available at http://www.bn.com/ebooks for $10.

Article III
The Judiciary

§3.01 The Judicial Power of these United States, shall be in a Federal System of trial and appellate courts with District Courts, Circuit Courts of Appeals, and one Supreme Court of Appeals, with jurisdictions as follows:
§3.01.01 District Courts shall be trial courts
§3.01.01a District Courts shall be apportioned among the states regardless of state boundaries
§3.01.01b Their jurisdictional borders shall be identical to the geographic borders of the contiguous congressional districts assigned to them by The Congress
§3.01.01b(i) No District Court may have fewer than one congressional district nor more than seven (7) congressional districts within its purview
§3.01.01c In criminal cases, the jury shall consist of no fewer than eleven (11) voting members and no more than twenty-one (21) voting members
§3.01.01c(i) a guilty verdict may be brought in by eighty percent (80%) of the voting members rounded down
§3.01.01c(ii) a death penalty verdict may be brought in by ninety percent (90%) of the voting members rounded down
§3.01.01d In civil cases, the jury shall consist of no fewer than seven (7) voting members and no more than fifteen (15) voting members
§3.01.01d(i) a liability verdict may be brought in by sixty-five percent (65%) of the voting members rounded down
§3.01.01d(ii) a punitive damages award may be brought in by eighty percent (80%) of the voting members rounded down
§3.01.01e There shall be no more than three times (3X) the number of voting members of alternates, and no less than two (2) alternates on every jury
§3.01.01f In the event of a deadlocked or tied jury, or the minimum number of jurors be passed, the judge shall seal the record and the Circuit Court of Appeals for his district shall immediately certify the record for appeal and decision
§3.01.01f(i) In addition to reviewing the record for legal errors, this Circuit Court of Appeal shall also render the verdict including all damages, real, compensatory, and punitive or in a criminal case, set the penalty including death
§3.01.02 There shall be several Circuit Courts of Appeals placed over the District Courts by The Congress
§3.01.02a Upon appropriate appeal made, the Circuit Court shall review the record for all errors of law and fact
§3.01.02b There shall be a separate Federal Court of Distinctive Appeal, which shall be responsible for all appeals from administrative and military courts
§3.01.02b(i) The Federal Court of Distinctive Appeal shall be located at the capitol but may create and order special magistrates to any locale for fact finding, but never decision making
§3.01.03 There shall be one Supreme Court of Appeal over all the Circuit Courts of Appeal
§3.01.03a Upon appropriate appeal made, the Supreme Court shall review the records and decisions of the lower courts for errors of law and fact
§3.01.03b The Supreme Court shall be responsible for resolving disputes between the circuits
§3.01.03b(i) It shall resolve disputes between the circuits as soon as they occur and certify the records no later than sixty (60) days from the rendering of the contrary decision
§3.01.03b(ii) All circuit disputes shall be resolved during the term in which they are certified, the court staying in session until its work is completed
§3.02 The Judicial Power shall extend to all cases, in law and equity, arising under this constitution, the laws of the United States, and treaties made, or which shall be made under their authority; to all cases affecting ambassadors, other public ministers, consuls and civil servants when performing within the scope of their employment; to all cases of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction; to controversies to which the United States shall be a party; and to appellate controversies between two or more states, and between a state, or citizens thereto, and foreign states, citizens or subjects
§3.02.01 All Supreme Court decisions interpreting statutes or this Constitution of these United States, shall be, on the day rendered, forwarded to the Congress for complete acceptance, partial acceptance and remand, rejection and remand, or rejection and direction pursuant to §1.08.01a
§3.03 Eligibility requirements for the Federal Bar
§3.03.01 All Judges, Justices and U.S. Attorneys must meet the same eligibility requirements as those for president
§3.03.02 All private counselors and advisors, appearing in that capacity in Federal Court, must meet the same eligibility requirements as those for members of congress
§3.04 Representation of parties
§3.04.01 Only U.S. Attorneys shall be members of the Federal Bar
§3.04.02 All causes, criminal, civil, administrative, or other, will be assigned to a U.S. Attorney for prosecution, and to a second U.S. Attorney for defense
§3.04.03 Any and all parties to a Federal Action may, at his own non-reimbursable expense, hire a licensed member of any bar as a counselor to assist the U.S. Attorney assigned to represent him
§3.04.03a The Court, at its discretion or upon motion of a party, may, but is not required to, and it shall be reviewable on appeal, order more than one U.S. Attorney to represent a party in a Federal Action
§3.05 Everyone protected by this constitution has access to this court provided this court has subject matter jurisdiction
§3.05.01 Every petitioner shall submit his claim to the district court in which he lives
§3.05.01a the petition shall be reviewed by two U.S. Attorneys and one judge for appropriateness
§3.05.01a(i) Appropriateness shall include a decision on jurisdiction, both subject matter and personal
§3.05.01a(ii) Appropriateness shall include a decision on frivolity
§3.05.01a(iii) If the suit be found inappropriate, it will be returned with instructions on where and how to properly file it
§3.05.01a(iv) If the suit be found inappropriate for frivolity, the petitioner shall be charged the full expense of filing and assessment
§3.05.02 If the claim be appropriate, the court will prepare the petition for filing in accordance with the Rules of Procedure and assign it to the appropriate District Court wherever that shall be
§3.05.02a The appropriate District Court shall take charge of the suit, file it, assign a court, a plaintiff’s attorney and a defense attorney from its available pool of U.S. Attorneys, and perform all other necessary functions for the just and expeditious resolution of the claim
§3.06 Juries
§3.06.01 Every Bona Fide Corporeal Federal Citizen is subject to jury duty without recourse, except:
§3.06.01a Those actually in hospital
§3.06.01b Those adjudged mentally or physically incompetent by both a doctor of competent jurisdiction and a sitting Federal Court or under the age of eighteen (18) years
§3.06.01c Military or Civil Servants serving overseas or whose duties are of such paramount necessity to the public defense or health that to require their attendance endangers the public welfare
§3.06.01c(i) In such cases jury duty is postponed, not exempted
§3.06.01d Those scheduled to have life saving surgery during the time estimated for trial
§3.06.01d(i) In such cases jury duty is postponed, not exempted
§3.06.01e The President of the United States; The Speaker of The House; and, The Counter-Speaker of The House
§3.06.02 Jurors shall be compensated for their service by bringing the prior year’s 1040-IRA form and an hourly compensation will then be ascertained; compensation will then be at the hourly rate for the first forty (40) hours per week with the next twenty (20) hours at one hundred and fifty percent (150%) for the next twenty hours in that week and at two hundred and twenty five percent (225%) for each weekly hour past sixty (60)
§3.06.02a The court shall provide the second meal for any day where the juror’s time exceeds eight (8) hours
§3.06.02b Jurors shall supply the court with a statement of benefits from their employer or other provider of same and the court shall directly reimburse the provider the cost of such benefits for the duration of jury duty
§3.06.03 There shall be no peremptory challenges
§3.06.04 No potential juror shall be dismissed for any reason other than cause shown and cause shown is reviewable by the appellate court
§3.06.05 Avoidance of jury duty, or the filing of false information to avoid jury duty, is a felony
§3.07 Treason against the United States shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, or giving them aid and comfort, or in supporting them financially or materially
§3.07.01 No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court
§3.07.02 The penalty for treason is death without stay or pardon
§3.07.03 No attainder of treason shall work corruption of blood, or forfeiture, except during the life of the person attainted
§3.08 No Federal Court at any time nor in any manner may grant a criminal greater rights or privileges than has a bona fide corporeal citizen of these United States of America
§3.09 Federal Judges and Attorneys shall have, once appointed, tenure for life or voluntary retirement, excepting that:
§3.09.01 §1.03.05 applies
§3.09.02 The President or the House may remove any judge or attorney for medical or psychological reasons, proven in a court of competent jurisdiction, including but not limited to, a finding of drug or alcohol dependence or abuse
§3.09.03 A judge or attorney once dismissed, may never be reinstated

§3.01 & §3.02

What appear to be overwhelming changes from the 1787 Constitution are actually what was originally intended in the 1787 Constitution, by both the Hamiltonians and Jeffersonians, were reiterated in the Constitution of the Confederate States of America, and from time to time by various presidents and governmental watchdog groups, each having recommended one or all of these things. Each time that one or more of these have been suggested, the United States Supreme Court has made its next decision on whatever subject raised everyone’s ire, a slightly retrograde decision which never recovers a tenth of the ground lost but which placates all of the court watchers but has continually moved us into the realm of socialism and of judicial legislation. The quick proof is to look at almost any controversial opinion made by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals and where the U.S. Supreme Court has ultimately ended up. Another quick proof is to look at how easily the avowed socialist Ruth Bader-Ginsberg and Sotomayer were confirmed and to how impossible it has been to get Moderate Republicans confirmed, never mind actually getting a Republican or a Conservative confirmed. The best quick proof has been the death penalty.
When the founders put in the clause regarding cruel and unusual punishment, they were specifically talking about stocks, branding, maiming, dunking, drawing & quartering, castration, forced bankruptcy then moving the debtor and his whole family into debtors prison where he and they became day-laborers-slaves and died still in debt, as it was structured to be impossible to work the debt off, the debt being then inherited by his heirs.
Jefferson knew about this personally as he was debt free until he married. When his father-in-law died and they inherited her proportional share of his estate, Jefferson found himself so in debt that he never recovered. He himself died selling family/slave members west and a bankrupt. The state of Virginia allowed a lottery for the purpose of relieving his debt around 1823 but still couldn’t raise enough money to satisfy his creditors. (Jefferson, 3rd President of the United States, died on July 4th, 1826 coincidentally within hours of John Adams, 2nd President of the United States, who died debt free.)
So, here we have a structure that places justice back into the hands of the citizenry. Currently, you do not have the absolute right to a jury trial in a civil case. You now have to ask and the court may deny your request. Also, the structure of the courts is codified. The Federal Circuit Court is now the Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. It just so happened to evolve this way because when you sue the federal government, you must file in D.C., hence, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals just so happened to get the bulk of the administrative cases. This hasn’t affected how the individual circuits have interpreted the Code of Federal Regulations, the C.F.R.’s which are the regulations formulated by the various government agencies for the implementation of their powers. One need only check on what the 9th Circuit has allowed or what the EPA and NLRB have gotten away with.
A quick proof is the judicial extension of the Social Security Act by the 9th Circuit back in the 1970’s.
The SSA was for people who put into the funds. If you didn’t contribute to the funds or be the widow or minor child of someone who had contributed into the SSA trust funds, you weren’t eligible to receive any Social Security checks of any kind. With the influx of Vietnamese refugees, some claiming post-traumatic stress from watching their villages, farms, relatives or jungles being bombed into the stone age by the United States Air Force, all on their own testimony without corroboration, and Administrative Law Judges (ALJ’s) denying these claims, when appealed through the District Courts to the Circuit Court, the 9th Circuit decided to extend to these poor people one hundred percent (100%) vesting in the Social Security Plan. You should research this yourself to make certain that this is the correct order of things. It just may be that Congress violated the constitution and the original SSA and the 9th Circuit was merely following the will of the people as placed into law by the elected representatives of the people. Regardless … .
Another quick proof is the death penalty issue. In every poll and at every election, the citizenry are in favor of the death penalty with an affirmative vote of at least 70%. Yet the courts, both state and federal, keep saying that killing a murderer is cruel because it inflicts a certain amount of pain on him. Let us consider the absurdity of this position.
First, it’s not up to the courts to decide this issue, it’s strictly legislative. Second, even if you’re an atheist, what’s the real difference between death by lethal injection and death from old age? Personally, death by lethal injection is much more humane than requiring someone live in Leavenworth Prison for thirty, forty, fifty or more years.
Technically, the bulk of this section shouldn’t even be in a constitution. Most of this is statutory in nature. Because the courts have become havens for the personal agendas of the judges, it’s necessary to spell it out for them and remove so much of their discretionary powers.
§3.03 through §3.05

These are huge changes from the way that we currently operate, but, again, they’re actually what was intended by the founders, and the last 220 years have shown that they are necessary for justice.
The first purpose here is to screen potential legislators from gaining the bench. The second is to screen self-servers. The third is to actually remove pecuniary interest from the litigation process. Overall, the purpose is to fulfill the social contract of government.
With the development of civilization came property. With ownership came thieves. With thieves came the realization that you couldn’t stay awake 24/7 to protect your property so the law, and police, and the courts, were invented. Brief and superficial, but sufficient for our needs herein with the exception that until very recently, we have retained the rights of self-defense, defense of others, and defense of property, by the use of deadly force, to ourselves.
In order to keep the peace, we allowed for the expansion of courts and police and, for most of us, the un-intentional relinquishing of our rights of self-defense. Our hired police would both prevent crime and capture criminals for trial in our wonderful jury system, which, if they were proven guilty, they would be removed from our society and punished. Again, this is an oversimplification, but it states the obvious and places the foundation for the changes in the judiciary. In the XXth Century, with all of its psycho-babble, liberalism interpreted as self above all, and dumbing down while insisting upon unearned self-esteem as the standard for maturity, the criminal has been exalted above the citizen and been given rights and privileges far beyond those of the citizen.
Several quick-proofs are readily apparent. The 1787 Constitution provides for a jury trial. Now, a citizen does not have the right to a jury trial, but must instead ask for one and the court believes, erroneously, that it can deny this request.
A criminal has the right to a speedy trial, usually meaning within nine (9) months of the indictment. Civil trials, especially with the federal government as defendant, can go on for years without resolution. Further, in the Federal Code of Civil Procedure, the federal government has several privileges not permitted to others. An extended time to answer a complaint and special rules regarding judgments are just two such examples.
Health care is a third area where the criminal benefits more than the citizen. Thanks to the legislating 9th Circuit, if a serial killer, in jail for nine hundred and ninety-nine years (999), needs an organ transplant, he goes to the top of the waiting list and WILL be the next to receive a liver, or lung, or heart, whereas the taxpaying citizen must first be assessed to determine how helpful a transplant will be and then he’ll go on a waiting list behind everyone else who is already on the list. Criminals, thanks to the courts, have better health care, nutrition, leisure activities, educational opportunities, libraries and social services than families of four with a gross annual income of fifty thousand dollars ($50,000). Facilities, services and punishments for criminals, solely the legislature’s responsibility, have been usurped and standards set, by people rarely if ever subjected to victimization by anyone.
Another area where the courts have imposed not only their own standards, but their arrogant ignorance, is the area of social justice. Here, quick-proofs abound to the point of absurdity, and the Obamacrats keep adding more.
First, some historical asides to set the stage. According to historians, slavery is an economic circumstance and one not particularly related to race. Prior to 1750, race wasn’t much considered as a factor of slavery in the United States, but one of circumstance. As late as 1860, substantiated by an analysis of the 1860 United States Census by the Kennedy Brothers, Ronald and Donald, 42% of slaves were Amerindian, Chinese and white; 32% of slave owners were black, among them were some who’d escaped their fates on the Amistad. According to the November 2006 issue of Reader’s Digest, slavery is common enough in New York City. As a matter of religion, twenty percent (20%) of this world’s population believe slavery is appropriate and it is not only their right, but their duty to enslave the infidel.
According to Hugh Thomas, The Slave Trade [Simon & Schuster, © 1997, ISBN 0-684-81063-8] over eighty percent (80%) of the eleven million plus (11,000,000) Africans taken into slavery and shipped to the New World, were enslaved by fellow Africans who bartered them away to, in descending order, the Portuguese (Brazilians, who ended their slavery in the 1880’s while Yankee clippers from Boston still profited from the trade), the English (who in fact forced slavery onto Virginia – the early colonists allowed indenture but not slavery but since the king got a percentage of every slave’s sale, the Crown Colony was required to admit slaves), the Spaniards, the Dutch, and the North Americans.
Fewer than half of American slave owners owned more than five slaves, and those with fewer than five slaves generally, they all lived in the same house and attended the same church, all as one family. Less than sixty percent (60%) of the blacks living in the United States are descended from slaves and fewer than twenty-five percent (25%) of the non-black population are descended from people who were here in 1850. Of even more interest, less than five percent (5%) of today’s American population are descended from anybody who’s ever owned slaves and thirty-two percent (32%) of that five percent, are black The richest slave owner in Charleston SC in 1860 was a black man named Jackson who owned seven plantations and over 680 slaves. When Lincoln was elected, he sold all of his property for gold and moved north to Chicago. When Farragut and Butcher Butler took New Orleans in 1862, the second richest slave owner was a black widow who had all of her cotton stolen and sold to Butler’s British cotton factors for way below market.
Women, until the birth control pill, were subject to a lesser status than men for various reasons.
Species continuity requires that women conceive and bear healthy children. Until penicillin, in the 1940’s, infant and child mortality was high. Married women, who accounted for approximately two thirds of the female population, were frequently pregnant and forced to labor at home, not necessarily because her husband wanted it, but because of the circumstance of child rearing combined with child bearing. They simply were unable to be out in the work force overseeing or participating in manufacture. Property laws and tra-ditional behavioral standards kept them there.
Of the other third, most were spinsters living in somebody else’s house and surviving on, usually a relative’s, generosity. Read your Jane Austen for some insight.
Judicial legislation in the way of desegregation decisions based on “disparate impact,” or quotas for employment or school acceptance are based on both false historical “facts” and improper application of statistics.
When an area has 70% of its criminals being black, it might behoove the court to see what the community is made up of. If the community is 70% black, then the police force is not targeting the black community. If 70% of the criminals are Latino and 70% of the community is Latino, then the police force is not targeting Latinos. It’s an odd thing, disparate impact.
First, the disparate impact shall be looked at and then the others.
“Disparate Impact” means that if a plaintiff can show the judge that his group has a lesser standing or greater handicap than the white male, that is automatically discrimination. No other factors need be taken into account, nor how this disparity evolved. In Kansas City, we have recently gone through a twenty year forced desegregation program, costing the state of Missouri over two billion dollars ($2,000,000,000) in tax revenue because a Federal Judge was shown that kids in the Kansas City Missouri School District performed much lower on the standardized tests than those “similarly situated.” No interest was shown in the children’s backgrounds, environment &c. The court was shown that over seventy percent (70%) of the student population was black and Hispanic, and, therefore, it was the segregated school district that had caused this failure rate. Therefore the school district must be desegregated, regardless of the cost. Never mind that the district was 70% black and Hispanic, and the results were, according to the sociologists, because of the broken homes and poverty &c in their environment, which means that spending more money on the schools will have zero impact on the root causes of these kids’ academic failures , the Federal Court ruled that the district must desegregate. It also ruled on how the state of Missouri must spend its tax dollars – something strictly forbidden it by the 1787 Constitution. One absurd result of this ruling was that a child in Odessa MO, over fifty miles away, was “bussed” in by private cab at a taxpayer cost of over $150/day. So the school that needed more whites could have more whites; and the real result as of today, March 23, 2012, is that the Kansas City School District has become dis-accredited and many of the schools closed, but administrative staff and costs about what they were or higher than, in 2000.
In New York City, for many years Hispanics failed the written driving test at a much higher rate than whites. The test was given in English, so those who were not fluent in English, failed at a higher rate, thus, “disparate impact” on a racial group. Automatically, this was decided to be discrimination, and the test then had to be given in whatever language the candidate was comfortable with. Never mind that driving is a privilege, and, therefore, not covered by the 1787 Constitution, and never mind that driving licenses are strictly a state’s right where the feds are forbidden to meddle, and, never mind the extra cost for these additional changes or the hiring of translators for languages not common enough to warrant printed exams, and never mind that the reason that some of these people couldn’t pass was because of the educational system from whence they came, but, more importantly, never mind that by requiring the candidate to learn some English, he was forced to become American! Forced to integrate himself into the American Culture, imagine that!
And, don’t let’s get started on Medicaid!
Colleges with higher standards than average for admittance have been forced to accept under-qualified minorities, but not white females, and provide them with remedial classes, at double taxpayer expense as these skills have already been paid for in high school. These minorities then had a higher than normal drop out rate, because they were unfit for the curricula of study, which feeds the Catch-22 of “disparate impact.” Now these schools are discriminating because there’s a higher percentage of minority dropouts than whites, so, some are passed through without actually earning a degree but getting one anyway or programs are dummy-downed.
Community Standards are another way in which the courts legislate their personal agendas. When it comes to zoning, community standards require all sorts of restrictions including building size, occupancy, and location based on use, &c. However, pornography, or where a halfway house, or drug rehabilitation/ testing office is located, is purely at the whim of the judge. Quick-proof is when a half-way house was going to be located in a judge’s neighborhood in Westchester County, NYS, it wasn’t allowed because it would overburden the utilities, but it wouldn’t overburden the utilities in The Bronx, which if you’ve ever driven on the Cross-Bronx-Expressway, you’ll know looks like Dresden Germany the day after the fire bombing in World War II. Judges apply different standards for themselves than they do the people who have no control over them.
§3.06

Juries. Part of the problem with the lack of justice is the ability of the court to disallow citizens to participate on a jury on a whim, and that potential jurors can escape jury duty for any reason or no reason and without good cause shown. Actually, this, as certain other sections, shouldn’t be in a constitution. This should be a statute. However, the phrase, “why would you want a jury of people too stupid to get out of jury duty,” is all too true.
Judges and attorneys do not want anyone educated to sit on a jury, nor do they want anyone who may view the facts dispassionately. They all want an easy resolution by either overwhelming the jury with so much crap that they take the easy way out or they appeal to their emotions to get huge jury awards. Quick proof: there is no substantial evidence as to what causes cerebral palsy. The Plaintiff’s bar has made themselves billions of dollars by appealing to the emotions of jurors. The widow of a man who used Vioxx for less than nine months and then died of heart failure, is certainly not entitled to $50,000,000 for the loss of his life’s earnings and consortium, much less a punitive award of $250,000,000 when the evidence so clearly shows that the patient must take Vioxx for over 24 months to have any serious side effects. A jury made up of people from the community, college graduates as well as high school drop-outs, men and women, probably would not have come to that decision.
When one looks to Europe, we see that in these kinds of cases, an economic assessment is made for the bereaved family and that’s what they receive, and, if the manufacturer is found to have been negligent, the corporate leaders are charged with manslaughter and do time if convicted. Here, we try to keep things on the economic plane, keeping in mind fair play, equity and justice, which the courts disallow.
By having juries defined and the community protected by these rules, and the pecuniary interests of the judges and attorneys completely removed from the litigation process, justice will become the norm and injustice an aberration.

§3.07 through 3.09

These are self explanatory. The section on not allowing criminals more rights that citizens is fairly well covered above. The penalties’ section simply removes the undesirables from staying on the bench.
More Reasoning
Another quick proof of the malignant intentional negligence of the court system, and one which is about to cost the taxpayer trillions of dollars, is the allowance into the court system of a suit for reparations by people alleging to be descended from slaves, here in the United States. This gross injustice is so rife with illegal and non-judicial forms that it must be commented on.
A quick historical background on slavery in the western hemisphere has been pointed out above. In addition, it’s necessary to point out that the people who profited from slavery include all those northern states who provided the ships and ports, and agents in Africa who bought the slaves originally and those that took Federal Dollars to improve roads and canals, those Federal Dollars being tax revenue from primarily southern states. However, just to point out the legalistic nonsense involved and allowed in this suit, read on:
First, in order to file the suit, you must be the one injured. No one in this country can claim to have had his labor stolen by the government. The United States Government has never owned slaves and, in fact, when Lincoln tried to avert the War of 1861 by asking congress to buy the slaves, he was told that the federal government wasn’t allowed to own slaves, even for the limited purpose of manumission. When Lincoln proposed to buy the slaves from the slave states that had stayed loyal, Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland, & Delaware, his purpose to prove that the war was being fought to preserve the Union, not to free the slaves, which was an unconstitutional purpose, he was told that the necessary and proper clause wasn’t broad enough to allow congress to spend the money that way and that the spending clause also prohibited this purchase. His decision to free the slaves through The Emancipation Proclamation was allowed only because it didn’t apply to the United States but to a foreign nation with which the United States was at war and because it was not a government action, but an action by the military applying only to an enemy state! So, nowhere in the 220 year history of the United States has the United States owned slaves. Plaintiff’s lack standing for this reason alone.
Second, you must be the damaged one. Reparations suits have been allowed by the courts where the plaintiffs have been Japanese-Americans wrongfully incarcerated during WW II and for Jews and others against Germany and Swiss Banks for the theft of goods and labor. There is also a suit being considered against Japan by WW II veterans who were used as forced labor to build roads, bridges and work in factories, where, again, only those living have been allowed in as parties, none of their descendants. In this suit, no one originally a slave is a plaintiff.
Third is the all-necessary parties rule. In order to provide justice, you must make all those liable parties to the suit. Generally, this is considered a class action suit. Now, let’s look at those actually liable in the reparations issue: First, those who took the original peoples into slavery, according to the actual facts and records, were 80% African Tribesmen who took other tribesmen into slavery, a practice that still goes on today. Not one African tribe or country is included as a defendant. Secondly, there were those who transported the slaves, primarily Boston and Providence shippers, none who’ve been made defendants.
In such a suit, all the plaintiffs must be included or given the chance to be included. Everyone has seen the ads in Reader’s Digest and TV Guide, where you need to file as a plaintiff in one of the asbestos suits, or breast implants, or Vioxx. The same joining of parties is necessary in this suit. Since this is a suit for reparations for some ancestor having been a slave, then just about everyone should be a plaintiff because somewhere in your history, and mine someone was a slave to somebody. Being Polish, several generations of my ancestors were enslaved as serfs by the Russians; a serf being worse off than a slave because a slave has value and a serf is only part of the land, like a tree or a rock. If this reparations suit were reasonable, then we’d all be plaintiffs and every institution, business and government would be a defendant. Simply as a matter of law, it’s a necessity to include all necessary parties. Not done here.
Further, in order to be just, only those who originally owned slaves can be assessed damages. My grandparents came to this country to get away from the war. I’m second generation. To the best of my knowledge, no one in my family has ever owned slaves, but in fact, have been Russian Serfs. I should be a plaintiff. On the side of defendants, in order to be just, a study would have to be made as to who was here before 1866 when slavery was abolished by the 13th Amendment, as well as who is actually descended from an actual American slave owner. And, someone had better include those blacks descended from that 32% of slave owners who were black.
Next is the issue of Statute of Limitations. If these people who were not damaged by slavery are entitled to bring suit over one hundred and fifty years after the last occurrence, then everyone can bring suit against anyone and everyone for any reason at any time regardless of law or reason. The Statute of Limitation for a suit of stolen labor is less than ten years in Missouri. This means that any suit filed after 1876 should be dismissed for un-timeliness.
Next is the issue of Cause of Action. Is this really a suit for damages for discrimination or for forced labor? Forced labor is really a States’ issue and should not be in Federal Court for that reason alone. If this is a discrimination issue, then where are the Amer-Indians, Chinese and Caucasian descendants necessary for adjudication?
Damages must be for a sum certain or there must be some method of determining damages. In this suit there is no reasonable formula for computation of damages. In fact, there is no formulation for who should receive those damages if it becomes possible to ascertain them. Less than 60% of the blacks living in the United States today are descended from American slaves. How is the court supposed to determine who collects what.
Along with the issue of damages is mitigation of damages. How is the court going to count the monies spent by congress on welfare, affirmative action, EEO &c., or the monies given to charities or The National Negro College Fund, &c, by whites and others, against any spurious damages? Impossible.
Best yet, whom can they collect against? All the slave owners and their property are long gone. Under the 1787 Constitution, the court does not have the authority to order the Government to pay damages caused by private individuals, only congress can do that and only for a legitimate reason. Any order by the court to pay from tax revenue is unconstitutional on its face. The suit should have been dismissed as not in the jurisdiction of the court, but in fact a legislative issue. And Congress is forbidden to pass Bills of Attainder and Ex Post Facto laws. Meaning, you can’t post date a law back one minute, much less 160 years or more, just because you want to. And, the court has no jurisdiction in this matter.
Instead the people of the United States, over 95% who have no involvement in the issue, are staring at a lawsuit, or not because the mainstream media hasn’t reported this suit, are going to be out trillions of dollars.
One thing not mentioned above, is that the lawyers involved will make a fortune on this bogus suit. The court will award attorney’s fees to the lawyers. Article II removes the litigating federal attorneys from all temptation of financial gain through misapplication of law or procedure. Even in a case where the court feels that the suit needs more lawyers, in Kansas City alone, there are over 200 lawyers available for temporary work at $23.00 per hour, no benefits other than overtime, so additional lawyers, not U.S. Attorneys, are readily available at reasonable rates, as temps.
These changes are necessary for justice and to stop the millionaire jury lottery that our courts have become. Make a group of people not smart enough to get out of jury duty sympathetic, and regardless of law and fact, become an instant multi-millionaire with the lawyers getting up to 60% as their fee. (State of Missouri allows 60% to attorneys in contingent fee cases.)
Nope, these changes are not only necessary, they are righteous.

[From Article II, The Legislature:]

§1.08.01 The House shall have the following Standing Committees with the responsibilities as delineated therein, plus those others to be delegated and revocable to them by The People, and in The Senate revocable by The States:
§1.08.01a Judiciary
§1.08.01a(i) Within thirty (30) days of a decision by The Supreme Court on any Constitutional Issue, or Interpretation of a law passed by congress, this committee will recommend either the acceptance of the court’s interpretation in its entirety, acceptance of a part of the interpretation remanding the remainder for the court to reconsider, for which it will have no more than ten (10) days to submit a re-interpretation for this committee to reconsider, or reject the court’s interpretation in its entirety in which case the court will have ten (10) days to resubmit its decision; this committee shall have the privilege, not right, of suggesting to The Court a more appropriate decision
§1.08.01a(ii) When the committee has decided to accept the court’s interpretation in its entirety, it will then submit to The Congress the Court’s decision for its approval
§1.08.01a(iii) The Congress will then, as a committee of the whole, decide to accept or reject the Judiciary Committee’s Report. In the event of a rejection, The Congress shall have thirty (30) days to write and pass by a 60% majority of the Quorum of the entire Congress, a decision that will then be the final decision as to the interpretation of this Constitution or of the Federal law in question
§1.08.01a(iv) The Judiciary Committees shall recommend the appointment of all Federal Judges and Attorneys from the appropriate lists provided to them by The President to The Congress
§1.08.01a(iv)A Appointments must be made within thirty (30) days of a position becoming vacant
§1.08.01a(iv)B Appointments must be made from and only from the pre-existing list of candidates provided by The President, said lists further defined in Article II, The Executive
§1.08.01a(v) The Judiciary Committees will be responsible for recommending to The Congress for its approval all Rules of Civil Procedure, Rules of Criminal Procedure, and Rules of Evidence, keeping in mind the recommendations of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and also that of The Executive as submitted by The Attorney General of the United States, but neither shall they be bound by such recommendations
§1.08.01a(vi) The Judiciary Committees shall be responsible for the recommendation of Impeachment of Federal Judges and U.S. Attorneys, when called for by a Writ of Impeachment from either the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court or by The Executive or by themselves, or by the Legislature of the State in which the Judge or Attorney is assigned
§1.08.01a(vi)A Said Writ shall clearly state the breach of this Constitution alleged, the evidence supporting the Writ, or, present the Conviction of Felony requiring said judge’s or attorney’s dismissal as required in Article III of this Constitution
§1.08.01a(vi)B If said Writ is presented by a state’s legislature, the Writ must have been voted approved by 75% of both houses of that legislature, 75% of the full legislature, not 75% of the quorum
§1.08.01a(vii) At the direction of The Congress shall provide all other oversight necessary to prevent the court from legislating

1.08 Required Committees and their responsibilities

Specific Committees designed to do certain things. The Founding Fathers, as noted in the preceding comment, had limitations on the franchise. They believed that certain issues, even those that were unpopular or messy, would be properly handled because congress would be made up of responsible people. Two Hundred and Twenty years have shown us otherwise. Just look at the number who routinely bounce checks. Look at the pork. Look at the current spitefulness & partisanship wrangling, over 9/11 and the Iraq Vote. Look to Obamacare and all of the waivers; and, if that’s not enough, go read Throw Them All Out, for the insider trading, legal for congress, illegal for you and me.
Look at the National Debt, or don’t. Whether you do or don’t, YOU owe over $100,000, as does each man, woman, and child who’s a citizen in this country. We’ve got this debt because members of the congress created by the 1787 constitution, are irresponsible and represent only special interest groups and most particularly not the middle-class taxpayer. (The current National Debt is over 16.75 Trillion Dollars – $16,750,000,000,000.00 now divide by 300,000,000 and that’s how much each individual owes, and really, who’s going to pay that money off? )
In recent history various congressional responsibilities have been ignored and the executive and judicial branches have stepped into the vacuum. Roe v Wade is only one public example of such. The Dred Scott Decision, for those who are actually familiar with it, is another. Almost every decision of John Marshall’s, starting with Marbury v Madison, has been a lurid and successful attempt at taking power away from the people. Reading from The Federalist it seems that the Founding Fathers would have approved. Reading from the works represented in The Anti-Federalist, The Massachusetts Plan, and those speeches in Congress from about 1820 through 1860, as well as the constitutional debates themselves (1787), it’s shown that the 1787 constitution became terminally ill with Marbury.
In both sets of essays and such works as Calhoun’s A Disquisition on Government and Geo Washington Letters to Bushrod Washington and the various letters of such note-worthies as Senator/President Jefferson Davis, Senator Stephen Douglas, President Abraham Lincoln, President John Adams, President Thomas Jefferson, et al, congress is MEANT to supersede the Supreme Court and the Executive. Instead, for fear of offending some special interest group back home, much power has left the people by the ineptitude and cowardice of the national legislators.
By having specific duties and responsibilities spelt out, The Congress cannot but do its duty and fulfill its obligations to the nation. The questions of constitutionality of abortion would’ve been answered within six months; Spiro Agnew would’ve gone to jail a lot sooner; the National Debt would be a lot less; a $500,000,000 bridge to nowhere in Alaska wouldn’t exist; Cindy Sheehan and now Sandra Fluke, wouldn’t be in the news ad nauseum.
An historical aside is that before the Marshalistas got control of the Supreme Court, constitutional issues were put to the jury, not to a judge or appellate court with its own agenda.

March 28, 2017

UN Amb Haley Statement, by Joseph John, Capt USN [nc]

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Joseph R. John
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Today at 8:55 AM

UN Ambassador Nikki Haley’s Statement At The UN And A major Change That Must Take Place

By Capt Joseph R. John, March 28, 2017: Op Ed # 342

If you click on the below listed link, you will be able to view President Donald J. Trump’s UN Ambassador, Niki Haley make a short statement at the UN. Israel recently entered into a defensive alliance with Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Egypt, Turkey, Oman, Bahrain, and the United Arab Emirates.

The defensive alliance was prompted by the Obama administrations very dangerous Nuclear Weapons Agreement with Iran, which is allowing Iran to develop an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) that will be able to strike the US, with a nuclear weapon, the Obama administration allowed them to develop.

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After 8 years, the United States has a frank & responsible UN Ambassador who will ensure that Israel is treated in the same manner as every other member nation!

The US Congress should terminate all funding for the UN Middle East and African “Muslin Only” Refugee & Resettlement Program, controlled by representatives from 43 majority Muslim member nations and members of the Muslim Brotherhood in leadership positions in the UN. The UN Refugee & Resettlement Program has been discriminating against 300,000 Middle East Syrian and Assyrian Christian Refugees being housed by the Greek Catholic Relief Agency for the last 8 years. That UN Program, funded by the Obama administration, has been involved in an ongoing violation of the US Constitutions’ “Freedom of Religion” and US Federal Laws.

For the last 8 years, hundreds of thousands of Middle East Christians have been murdered by ISIS, Al Q’ieda, and the Muslim Brotherhood genocide. They have been crucified, burned alive, beheaded, drowned in cages, shot in the back of the head, throw to their deaths from the roofs of tall buildings, buried alive, their children have been cut in half, their female children &women of all ages have been raped, and they have been sold into slavery.

Yet the Muslim UN Administrators of UN Refugee Relief & Resettlement Program refused to allow any of the 300,000 Middle East Christians refugees being housed by the Greek Catholic Relief Agency from entering the US thru the UN’s corrupt program, which has been funded for 8 years, to the tune of billions of US taxpayer dollars, by the Obama administration.

At the same time, Obama accepted over 900,000 Middle East Muslim Refugees thru the corrupt UN Refugee Relief & Resettlement Program. Then they were resettled in 187 cities across the nation, while refusing to allow the FBI to interview them, to determine if they have terrorist ties, while at the same time, preventing local, county, state, and Federal Law Enforcement Agencies from knowing where those un-vetted Muslim refugees were resettled.

Despite a petitions by 56 US Congressmen from both sides of the aisle, who pleaded with the Obama administration to provide Syrian and Assyrian Christians suffering genocide, with self-defensive small arms weapons, so they could protect their families from the on-going genocide, Obama refused to authorize the delivery of small arms weapons for self-defense.

The net result of the corrupt UN Refugee & Relief Resettlement Program is that there have been 82 terrorist incidents and attacks on Americans in the US over the last 8 years, killing hundreds of Americans citizens, listed in the attachment. Those attacks, for the last 8 years, were covered up by the left of center liberal media establishment, and members of the Muslim Brotherhood who were in senior appointive positions in The White House, the Justice Department, the State Department, and in DHS. That corrupt UN Refugee Resettlement Program, which violated the US Constitution and US Federal Laws, must be defunded by Congress.

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Joseph R. John, USNA ‘62

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Then I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for Us?” Then I said, “Here am I. Send me!”
-Isaiah 6:8

Itemized below are 82 of the 192 Radical Islamic Terrorists attacks on US soil perpetrated since 9/11, by Jihadist, by Muslim refugees, by descendants of Muslim refugees, by Islamists who were radicalized thru the Internet, or Radical Islamic Terrorists who traveled to train with ISIS in Syria. The Radical Islamic Terrorist’s countries of origins were primarily the countries of Somalia, Iraq, Sudan, Yemen, Syria, Iran, and Libya; except for Iran, those countries had little control over the identity of terrorists operating and training within their countries.

The terrorist attacks on US soil, occurred in Sacramento (CA), Houston (TX), Morganton (NC), Philadelphia (PA), San Bernardino (CA), Times Square (NYC), Moore (OK), Detroit (MI), Boise (ID), Orlando (FL), West Orange (NJ), Fort Hood (TX), Portland (ME), Chattanooga (TN), Garland (TX), Boston (MA), Portland (OR), Minneapolis (MN), Buffalo (NY), Jonesboro (GA), Ashtabula (OH), Bingham (NY), Glendale (AZ), Phoenix (AZ), Little Rock (AR), Merced (CA), Marquette Park (IL), Seattle (WA), Skyway (WA), Denver (CO), Aspen Hill (MD), Baltimore (MD), Oakland (CA), Arlington (VA), Fredricksburg (VA), Montgomery County (MO), St Louis (MO), Bowling Green (KY), Scottsville,(NY), Richmond (CA), Washington (DC), Irving (TX), Port Bolivar (TX), Warren (MI), Waltham (MA), Manassas (VA), Buena Vista (NJ), Baton Rouge (LA), Montgomery (AL), Aberdeen, (SD), Hamden, (CT), Colorado Springs (CO), Denver (CO), Niskayuna (NY), Twin Falls (ID). and many other cities too numerous to be listed here.

After each Radical Islamic Terrorist instigated attack, the identity of the attackers were covered up by the Obama administration for 8 years, working in concert with the Muslim Brotherhood, and the left of center liberal media establishment to mislead Americans of the 192 terrorist attacks. They used politically correct language to cover up the identity of the Radical Islamic Terrorists who repeatedly murdered Americans. It was a continuing conspiracy that resulted in the injury and murder of hundreds of American citizens and the cover up undermined the National Security of the United States!

The foreign nationals listed below executed 80 Radical Islamic Terrorists attacks against American citizens in the above listed US cities during the 8 years of the Obama administration, and is a partial list of the 192 Radical Islamic Terrorist attacks perpetrated in US cities by Radical Islamic Terrorists since 9/11:

Bilal Abood was a translator who came here on an Special Immigration Visa for Iraqi nationals who provided services for American Forces. He even briefly joined the US Army. On the surface he was exactly the sort of Iraqi Refugee that the media likes to depict as the ideal immigrant, but Abood was also a member of ISIS. When he was arrested, he insisted “America was the enemy of Allah”.
Jasim Mohammed Hasin Ramadon and Ali Mohammed Hasan Al Juboori came to this country with Special Immigration Visas. Then Ramadon, Juboori and three other Iraqi refugees brutally assaulted a 53-year-old Colorado Springs woman. When the police arrived at the scene of the Iraqi Refugee sexual assault, they found blood splattered on the walls. The Iraqi Refugee rapists lured in their victim by complaining about how hard it was living in America and being called terrorists. The victim, a night nurse, took pity on them because they reminded her of her son. By the time the Iraqi Refugees were done, she had been violated and left near death.
Abdullatif Ali Aldosary an Iraqi Refugee who entered the US thru the UN Refugee Program set off a bomb outside a Social Security office in Phoenix, Arizona. The authorities found plenty of bomb making materials in his home. He was also accused of a murder that had taken place a few days before the bombing and had previously been sent to jail for harassment. His case had been put on hold for “terrorism-related grounds of inadmissibility”, but he still couldn’t be deported.
On March 3, 2017 Omar Faraj Saeed Al Hardan came here from Iraq as a refugee thru the UN Refugee Program. When the FBI searched his Houston apartment, agents found an ISIS flag. Hardan had been planning to leave bombs in the trash cans of two Houston malls. He had contemplated an attack on the Grand Prairie military base in Texas.
On February 14, 2017, 35 year old Adam Nauveed Hyat of Pakistani descent and a former Marine wrote “Explosives” on a closet door mirror in a Denver, CO Sheraton Downtown Hotel, leading police to find pipe bombs after running up a bill of $10,000 at the hotel; guests were removed from the hotel while the pipe bombs were defused. After flying to Los Angeles on February 17th, Hyat was tracked down and arrested, armed with knives, near the Los Angeles Airport. Adam’s father, Sultan Hyat, said his son has mental problems.
On January 31, 2017, 29 year old Ahmad Bahjat of New Haven, an Iraqi Refugee who entered the US thru the UN Refugee Program, posing as Uber Driver, was arrested for raping a woman. The woman had left a New Haven bar and walked to a parking area designated for Uber and taxi drivers, according to Hamden Police who arrested him. Bahjat pretended to be an Uber driver and the woman got into his car, believing he was the Uber driver.
On November 28, 2016, Abdul Razak Ali Artan, a 18 year old Somali refugee who entered the US thru the UN Refugee Program drove his car into a crowd students on the campus of Ohio State University, then got out of his car and attacked students with a butcher knife injuring 11.
On September 19, 2016 Ahmed Khan Rahimi, a 28 year old Afghani refugee, who entered the US thru the UN Refugee Program. He traveled to Afghanistan and Pakistan to train as a Radical Islamic Terrorist and set off a bomb in the Chelsea District of Manhattan, NY. The explosion injured 29 people; he was arrested after a shootout with Police Officers in Linden, New Jersey, where he wounded two police officers. Ahmed was charged with 5 counts of murder. Earlier in the day, he set off a pipe bomb in Seaside Park, New Jersey; five other bombs were found at his residence.
On September 17, 2016 Dar Ahmed Adnan, a Somali refugee who entered the US thru the UN Refugee Program perpetrated a knife attack on 9 shoppers at the St Cloud Crossroads Mall in Minnesota, and was shot to death by an off duty St Cloud police Officer.
In July 8, 2016, Abdirhman Ahmed Noor, a 24 year4 old refugee from Somalia, who entered the US thru the UN Refugee Program, jumped bail and remains at large after being charged with 2 counts of attempted murder in Aberdeen, South Dakota. Noor chased two men down, firing at them. One man, Dar’na Tansmore, was hit and laid wounded on the ground when Noor allegedly walked up, stood over his victim and shot him again. Lutheran Social Services South Dakota has been paid by the federal government to resettle 947 Somali refugees in South Dakota since 2002.
On June 12, 2016, Omar Saddiqul Mateen, the son of Afghan refugees, massacred 49 gentle & innocent Americans, and wounded 53 others, in the Orlando night club, Pulse, in the deadliest mass shooting in US history.
On June 2, 2016, one Sudanese refugee boy 14, and two Iraqi refugee boys, aged 7 and 10, stripped a 5 year old special needs girl naked and savagely raped her under knife point in the laundry room of the Fawnbrook Apartments in Twin Falls, Idaho. An alert 89 year old retired nurse, Jaylene Payne, interrupted the attack when she saw all three of the refugees boys with their clothes off.
On March 24, 2016 seven Iranians working on behalf of the Iranian Government were indicted for a series of cyber-crimes that cost US financial institutions tens of millions of dollars and compromised critical controls of a New York Dam.
On February 16, 2016, a court magistrate ruled, after hearing the FBI testimony, that Khalil Abu-Rayyan, a 21 year old Iraqi man from Dearborn, MI, who is a son of an Iraqi Refugee. He was considered too much of a threat to public safety and was ordered held without bail. He got excited by thoughts of beheading Americans, burning people alive, and throwing homosexuals off of tall buildings. In conversations with an undercover FBI agent, he actually made plans to shoot 6,000 member of a Christian Church in Detroit. (If I) can’t go do Jihad at the Middle East, I would do my Jihad over here.” He also told the agent that “shooting and death make me excited. I love to hear people begging and screaming. … I wish I had my gun.” The FBI claims that since 2014, Abu-Rayyan used Twitter for “retweeting, liking and commenting” on Islamic State propaganda.
On February 12, 2016 a machete wielding assailant known to the FBI, identified as Mohammad Barry, a Somali refugee who entered the US on the UN Refugee Program, living in Ohio attacked Jewish and Christian patrons at a restaurant in Columbus, Ohio, wounding four people. Witnesses said it was carnage. Some of the patrons fought back by throwing chairs. Police later shot and killed Barry after a short chase. Investigators are trying to determine if Barry attacked the Nazareth Mediterranean Restaurant because he thought the owner was Jewish. In actuality, the restaurant is owned by an Israeli Christian.
In Philadelphia, PA, Edward Archer, a 30 year old Jihadi, who pledged allegiance to the Islamic State, opened fire in the name of Islam, on Philadelphia Police Officer Jessie Hartnett, who was ambushed sitting in his car on January 8, 2016. Archer fired 11 shots and hit the Officer Hartnett three times, grievously wounding the officer; the officer returned fire and hit Archer three times.
In an unrelated case, also on January 7, 2016, Omar Faraj Saeed al Hardan, an Iraqi Refugee, was arrested in Houston, TX on charges of providing material support to ISIS and going thru terrorist training.
On January 7, 2016, Aws Mohammad Younis Al-Jayab, a Palestine born Iraqi, was arrested in Sacramento, CA on charges of assisting Jihadi organizations.
In December 2015, a Somali-American was arrested after encouraging several friends to leave the United States and join ISIS, and giving one individual over $200 for their passport application.
The son of an Pakistani immigrant Syed Rizwan Farouk, and Tashfeen Malik, who entered the United States on a fiancé visa thru Canada as Syed’s bride, and subsequently became a Lawful Permanent Resident, along with her husband, Syed Rizwan Farook, who pledged allegiance to ISIS, killed 14 people at a Christmas Party in San Bernardino, CA on December 2, 2015 , and wounded 22 others, in the deadliest terrorist attack on American soil since September 11, 2001. They were recruited to their jihad by a Muslim Somali refugee who has now moved to Syria, but continues to recruit Jihadist in America using social media.
Five Bosnian Muslim refugees (in the same family) were arrested on November 18, 2015, two in Missouri, two in Illinois and one New York for sending arms and cash to ISIS.
In November 17, 2015 A Uzbek Muslim refugee in Boise, ID was convicted of plotting to bomb US military bases.
On November 4, 2015. 18 year old Faisal Mohammad who had a black ISIS flag in his possessions and a terrorist manifesto, stabbed 4 of his fellow student at U C Merced; police had to shoot him to stop his stabbing spree. He had pro-ISIS propaganda on his computer. The FBI said he was a self-radicalized Islamic Jihadist.
A second Immigrant from India, who is married to a US citizen, who was indicted on charges of conspiring to provide thousands of dollars to Al Q’ieda in the Arabian Peninsula, in order to assist them in their global Jihad, and on one count of conspiracy to commit bank fraud (November 2015)
On October 1, 2015, Chris Harper Mercer, a black Islamist terrorist who traveled to Syria in September 2015, to train with ISIS, and was identified as a Radical Islamic Terrorist by the Russian Security Service, executed a mass shooting on the campus of Umpqua Community College in Rosebud, Oregon killed 9 people and wounded 7 others. He was associated with Mahmoud Ali Ehsani, but the Obama administration refused to accept the referral from the Russian Security Service, and when he returned from Syria in September, he wasn’t arrested, so he perpetrated his mass shooting. He was shot to death by Police Officers
An immigrant from Egypt, who subsequently was granted U.S. citizenship, was charged with providing, and conspiring to provide, material support to ISIS, for aiding and abetting a New York college student in receiving terrorist training from ISIS, and conspiring to receive such training. (August 2015)
An immigrant from Albania, who applied for and received Lawful Permanent Resident status, was sentenced to 16 years in prison for giving over $1,000 to terrorist organizations in Afghanistan, and for attempting to join a radical jihadist insurgent group in Pakistan. (August 2015)
A refugee from Uzbekistan was convicted of providing material support and money to a designated foreign terrorist organization. According to the Department of Justice, he also procured bomb-making materials in the interest of perpetrating a terrorist attack on American soil. (August 2015)
On August 14, 2015 three Somali Muslims, Mohamud Mohamed, 36, and Osman Sheikh, 31, Abil Teshome, 23, brutally beat and murdered Freddy Akoa, 49 a Christian in Portland, ME. The attack allegedly took place over the span of several hours, in which Akoa suffered cuts and bruises all over his body, a lacerated liver and 22 rib fractures. However, according to the autopsy, Akoa died as a result of blows to his head.
On August 12, 2015, a 39 year old Muslim Somali refugee, Libyan Mohamed, was sentence to three years in prison for attempted sexual assault on a 31 year old severely mentally handicapped woman sitting outside at a group home for the disabled in Aberdeen, South Dakota
Mohammad Youssef Abdulazeez murdered five US Armed Forces (1 Navy and 4 Marines) in Chattanooga, TN in July 2015. Mohammad was an immigrant brought here by his family from Kuwait at a young age, and who was later approved for U.S. citizenship, who carried out the Islamist attack that killed the 5 military personnel in Chattanooga.
An Uzbek refugee living in Idaho was arrested and charged with providing support to a terrorist organization, in the form of teaching terror recruits how to build bombs. (July 2015)
An immigrant from Sudan, who applied and received US citizenship, tried to join ISIS and wage Jihad on its behalf after having been recruited on line(June 2015).
An immigrant from Ghana, who applied for and received US citizenship, pledged allegiance to ISIS and plotted a terrorist attack on the US soil (June 2015).
On May 3, 2015 an attack with gunfire was carried by two Radical Islamic Terrorists followers of ISIS at the entrance to the Curtis Culwell Center, in Garland, TX featuring cartoon images of Mohammad—both were shot and killed by a police officer. Just prior to the attack one of the gunmen posted “May Allah accept us as Mujahedeen”—he wrote both pledged allegiance to “Amirul Mu’mineen”, a likely reference to ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
An Iraqi immigrant, who later applied for and received US citizenship, was arrested for lying to federal agents about pledging allegiance to ISIS and his travel to Syria (May 2015)
The Somali refugee who recruited the San Bernardino killers also recruited the jihadist who attacked the Garland, TX “Draw Mohammad” contest in May 2015, fled the United States.
On April 20, 2015, Six Somalian Muslim refugees were arrested in Minneapolis, Minnesota for attempting to travel to Syria to join the Islamic State and fight for ISIS.
An immigrant from Saudi Arabia, who applied for and received U.S. citizenship, swore allegiance to ISIS and pledged to explode a propane tank bomb on U.S. soil. (April 2015).
An immigrant from Yemen, who applied for and received U.S. citizenship, along with six other men, was charged with conspiracy to travel to Syria and to provide material support to ISIS. (April 2015).
A Uzbek man in Brooklyn encouraged other Uzbeki nationals to wage Jihad on behalf of ISIS, and raised $1,600 for the terror organization. (April 2015)
An immigrant from Syria, who later applied for and received U.S. citizenship, was accused by federal prosecutors of planning to rob a gun store to “go to a military base in Texas and kill three or four American soldiers execution style.” (April 2015)
A Kazakhstani immigrant with lawful permanent resident status conspired to purchase a machine gun to shoot FBI and other law enforcement agents if they prevented him from traveling to Syria to join ISIS. (February 2015)
A Bosnian refugee, along with his wife and five others, donated money and supplies, and smuggled arms, to terrorist organizations in Syria and Iraq. (February 2015)
On December 18, 2014 an radicalized ISIS supporter in Morganton, NC shot a 74 year old man in the head multiple times.
On December 14, 2014, Ismaaiyl Brinsley, born to a Muslim African American family, executed two NYC police officers as they sat in their patrol car. Brinsley is reported to have approached the two officers as they were sitting in their patrol car in the notorious crime ridden Bedford-Stuyvesant area of Brooklyn, New York and began firing rounds into the vehicle before fleeing on foot to the closest subway station where he later committed suicide.
Two Bosnian Muslim refugee in Portland, Oregon was arrested in November 21, 2014 for trying to blow up a Christmas tree lighting ceremony.
In September 30, 2014, ex-con Alton Nolan, a Muslim convert, a proponent of Sharia Law, who was radicalized to Islam behind bars, wielding a knife, beheaded a female employee, Colleen Hufford, at the Vaughn Foods processing plant in Moor, OK, and was prevented from beheading a second female employee by the company COO, who shot Nolan to stop his rampage.
An immigrant from Afghanistan, who later applied for and received U.S. citizenship, and a legal permanent resident from the Philippines, were convicted for “join Al Q’ieda and the Taliban in order to kill Americans.” (September 2014)
Five Somali Muslim refugees were charged in July 2014 with fundraising for jihadi groups in Africa.
A Somali immigrant with lawful permanent resident status, along with four other Somali nationals, is charged with leading an al-Shabaab fundraising conspiracy in the United States, with monthly payments directed to the Somali terrorist organization. (July 2014)
An immigrant from Bangladesh, who applied for and received U.S. citizenship, tried to incite people to travel to Somalia and conduct violent jihad against the United States. (June 2014)
On June 25, 2014 Ali Muhammad Brown, age 29, a devout Muslim, gunned down Brendan Brown, age 19, in Livingston, NJ. Ali said it was an act of retribution for US Military actions against Muslims in Iraq, Syria, and Iran.
On June,1, 2014, Ali Muhammed Brown confessed to the murder of a 30 year old man on April 27th. in Skyway, WA.
A Moroccan national who came to the U.S. on a student visa was arrested for plotting to blow up a university and a federal court house. (April 2014).
On April 3, 2014, Salam Al Haideri a 24 year old Iraqi Refugee from Niskayuna, NY who entered the US thru the UN Refugee program. He raped a 19 year old 4’11 teenager behind a “I Love NY” pizza place dumpster while slamming her head into the ground. The Iraqi Refugee’s 96-pound teenage victim was left with broken ribs and a fractured nose. Al Haideri was the third refugee to be convicted of a sex crime in the area. He was found guilty of aggravated assault and rape and was sentenced to 22 years to life.
On March 6, 2014 a Muslim man shoots his lesbian daughter and her lover to death a leave a copy of the Quran open to a page condemning homosexuality.
A college student who immigrated from Somalia, who later applied for and received U.S. citizenship, attempted to blow up a Christmas tree lighting ceremony in Oregon. (Dec 2013)
On August 4, 2013 in Richmond, CA a radicalized Islamist convert “on a mission from Allah” stabbed a store clerk to death.
On April 19, 2013 in Boston, MA a Radical Islamic Terrorist, the Tsarnaev brothers (the Boston Marathon Bombers) gunned down a University police officer sitting in his car
The April 15, 2013 Boston Marathon bombing by Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev; those brothers and their family were Muslim refugees. -The Boston Bombers were granted political asylum and were thus deemed legitimate refugees. The younger brother applied for citizenship and was naturalized on September 11th, 2012. The older brother had a pending application for citizenship.
On March 24, 2013 in Ashtabula, OH a Muslim convert walks into a church service Quran, and guns down his Christian father while praising Allah
On February 7, 2013 in Buena Vista, NJ a Muslim man beheaded two Coptic Christians Immigrants.
On November 11, 2012 in Houston, TX a 28 year old American man is shot to death by a radical Muslim over an alleged role of converting a woman to Christianity.
In September 15, 2012, Amine El Khalifi, and al Q’ieda Radical Islamic Terrorist plotted to do a suicide bombing of the US Capital.
On February 18, 2012, two Radical Islamic Terrorists from Pakistan, who later applied for and received US Citizenship, were apprehended trying to detonate a bomb in New York City
On January 1, 2012 in Houston TX a 30 year old Muslim convert to Christianity is shot to death by a devout Muslim for converting his daughter to Christianity
On September 11, 2011 in Waltham, MA three Jewish men have their throats cut by Radical Islamic Terrorists.
Two Al Qaeda members from Iraq who had spent years in Iraq using IEDs and participated in attacks that killed American soldiers (their fingerprints were recovered from IEDs). Mohamed Hammadi age 25 and Walid Alwan age 31, were arrested in Bowling Green, KY on May 25, 2011 while living in public housing and were receiving public assistance; both entered the US thru the UN Refugee Program as Iraqi refugees! Hammadi was recorded in a telephone conversation plotting a terrorist attack in the US. They were both convicted of terrorism and sentenced to 40 years in prison.
On April 30, 2011 Mohammad Alfatlawi a proponent of Sharia Law was charged with the “Honor Killing” of his wife and daughter in Detroit, Michigan.
In May 4, 2010 Faisal Shahzad conducted a terrorist car bombing plot in Times Square that failed.
In December 25, 2009, the bombing terror plot to kill 290 innocent passengers on a flight from the Netherland to Detroit the Nigerian Radical Islamic Terrorist, Umar Farouk Abdulmutlallab (aka the Underwear Bomber) failed to detonate on Northwest Airlines Flight 253 because the explosives in his underwear malfunctioned, and passengers were able to subdue him until he was arrested.
On December 4, 2009 in Bingham, NY a non-Muslim Islamic Studies professor is stabbed to death by a Muslim graduate student in revenge for Muslims who have been persecuted.
On November 5, 2009, Maj Nidal Malik Hasan killed 13 US Army soldiers and wounded 32 others in Fort Hood while yelling “Allah Akbar” at the top of his lungs—Obama insisted it was simply “Work Place Violence” and not a Radical Islamic terrorist attack by a disciple of Anwar Al-Awlaki. Prior to the shooting, in his previous assignment as an intern and resident at Walter Reed Army Medical Center his colleagues and superiors were deeply concerned about his behavior and anti-American comments—but because they were cowered by the Obama’s administration’s warnings and perceived threats to their military standing, that they better be “politically correct’ and not disparage such anti-American comments—nothing was done to drum that Radical Islamic Terrorist out of the US Armed Forces.
On November 2, 2009 in Glendale, AZ a Muslim daughter dies from injuries suffered when her Muslim father runs her over with his car for being too “Westernized.”
On June 1, 2009, Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad, a convert to Islam, who had gone to Yemen in 2007 and stayed for about 16 months, open fire on a Little Rock, Arkansas US Armed Forces Recruiting Office in a drive by shooting with a rifle, against a group of US Army Soldiers standing in front of the Recruiting Office. He killed Private William Long and wounded Private Quinton Ezeagwula.
On April 12, 2009 in Phoenix, AZ a Muslim man shoots his Muslim brother-in-law and another man to death, after he finds out that they visited a strip club in contradiction to Islamic values.
On February12, 2009 in Buffalo, NY a Muslim founder of a Muslim TV Station beheads his wife in the hallway of the TV Station for seeking a divorce.
On July 6, 2008 in Jonesboro, GA a devout Muslim man strangles his 25 year old daughter in an honor killing.

March 14, 2017

Angry Reader 14 Mar 17, Victor Hanson [nc, cheers on the answer]

Filed under: Political Commentary, Politicians — Tags: , , , , , , , , — justplainbill @ 2:16 pm

From and Angry Reader:

Dear Professor Hanson,

Evidently you are a supporter of Donald Trump. If I read your essay on this subject correctly, you seem to be implying that, unlike the false elitism of the Washington Beltway, Hollywood, and Silicon Valley, we should look to the real basis of brilliance and repute in a “demonstrable record of moral and intellectual excellence.”

Do you seriously mean to say that Donald Trump’s life has such a “demonstrable record”? A man who cavalierly treats women as objects for his sexual pleasure and lies at the drop of a hat we are to believe is a man of high moral character? Or one who has trouble constructing a sentence using a vocabulary of more than 100 words (everything is just “fantastic”) demonstrates intellectual excellence?

The problem with Trump is not so much his policies, about which reasonable people may disagree, but his character flaws. As David Brook recently commented, Trump is “ripe to be played” by foreign leaders like Putin who are smarter and more wily than he is. But Trump has such a fragile ego that he is likely to react to being played in his typically childish, immature way by lashing out at everyone and anyone he thinks is disrespecting him. He never takes responsibility for anything, always blaming others for his own mistakes, and he does not know how to accept and deal with criticism in a rational way. He also suffers from what, as you classicists know, the Greeks called hubris. And you know what hubris leads to: tragedy.

Let’s just hope that the tragedy ends up being his personally and not ours collectively. With such a man having access to the nuclear trigger, we should all be hoping that we somehow manage to survive these next four years without a tragedy of monumental proportions.

Sincerely,
Sanford G. Thatcher’

P.S. I attach a short bio so that you know my background.
—
Sanford G. Thatcher
Frisco, TX 75034-5514
https://scholarsphere.psu.edu

“If a book is worth reading, it is worth buying.”-John Ruskin (1865)

“The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.”-Walter Bagehot (1853)

“Logic, n. The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.”-Ambrose Bierce (1906)
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Victor Davis Hanson’s Reply:

Dear Angry Reader Sanford Thatcher,

There is no need to attach your biography in our new age of populism; the persuasiveness of your argument should stand or fall by what you have written rather than the authority of your CV.

As you know, I certainly did not equate Trump with proof of non-elite moral excellence; rather I explained his election through the widespread anger at political and media elites that was aired through his populist candidacy.

I voted for Donald Trump when there was a binary between his agenda and that of Hillary Clinton.

There is some truth in what you have written about Trump’s rhetorical crudity and his past behavior, but, of course, the Clintons were a virtual crime syndicate—she using her office to leverage cash for the Foundation (a sinecure for unemployable Team Clinton politicos between campaigns) and Bill’s speaking career. Of course, when she lost and is now permanently out of federal office, she can do no connivers any good and so the money dried up and the Foundation is reeling—proof of sorts that the entire operation was a pay-for-play enterprise of the sort that earns most people an indictment.

Actually hubris is a result of Koros (instability and excess resulting from power and wealth) that leads to leads to Hubris (overweening arrogance) to Ate (madness and self-inflicted destruction) and ends in Nemesis (divine and fated retribution), which is all the stuff of tragedy, given that the sequence is usually associated initially with people of talent and good intentions.

All this may certainly apply to Trump’s earlier business implosions, and it fits Bill Clinton perfectly, and Obama may end up the same way.

My point is that in 2016 the choice was not between two characters as much as two agendas: I preferred a foreign policy of deterrence backed by military strength as a better way of preventing wars and interventions, an end to doubling the debt, zero interest rates, and record low GDP growth, a stop to illegal immigration and racial polarization, a restoration of the health care system, and efforts at tax and regulatory reform to restart the economy, as well as renewed energy production—all as a mechanism to help the so-called forgotten man, the middle classes who were the losers under globalization.

I saw far greater hope that Trump might enact such an agenda, and no hope that Hillary Clinton would.

As far as character flaws, pick your poison. His I thought were mostly rhetorical (as you note with your unease about his limited vocabulary) and in the private sphere; hers were concrete and at the public expense, from her cattle futures fraud, to her Wikileaks scandals to the Clinton foundation criminality to her callousness and lying about Benghazi. Hillary as you know is a serial liar, from the mundane (her landing in the Balkans under sniper fire) to the existential (lying to the families of the Benghazi dead).

You might have noted that we survived Bill Clinton committing sex acts in the Oval Office bathroom with a subordinate intern less than half his age (the sort of thing that gets a professor fired summarily), and then lying about it under oath, resulting in his disbarment—the sort of crudity I think you are implying disqualifies one for high office?

Obama, remember, tapped the communications of AP reporters, monitored the communications of James Rosen of Fox News, droned US citizens, bombed Libya without congressional approval, granted amnesties of the sort that he had once warned were unconstitutional, lied about the ACA, and simply chose not to enforce various federal laws he found at odds with his progressive agenda.

If you are arguing that Trump is a Frankenstein monster, then the Dr. Frankenstein creator is surely Barack Obama whose executive orders, partisan rhetoric, nullification of federal laws, and abject ruination of the Democratic Party at the state, congressional, and presidential level all empowered Trump.

So far job growth and the stock market are up; Trump’s appointments in the national security sphere are centrist and heralded. His selections from the business and military fields are a welcome change from the tired retreads from academia and government. And his illegal immigration initiatives and energy agendas are overdue.

As far as hubris, self-reflect: in the last 90 days liberal commentators and pundits have variously called for Trump’s murder, his immediate removal for health reasons, his impeachment, and his resignation.

His phone calls to foreign leaders and communications have been illegally tapped (and so note that the media is now backing away from their Russian collusion charges that proved so far groundless, as they worry more that intelligence agencies’ tapping and the leaking may be exposed as the felonious acts they were); his wife has been accused falsely of prostitution and immigration fraud. Trump himself has been falsely accused (in print) of urophilia and suffering from neurosyphilis.

One New York Times columnist has begged the IRS to commit a felony and send him the Trump tax returns; another compared his election to the mass deaths of Pearl Harbor and 9/11. Is not all that indicative of classical madness that will surely lead to an accounting? Trump, the supposed buffoon, polls higher in the public’s estimation of veracity than does the highbrow media).

On the larger topic of the “elite,” I think we could say that those in Bakersfield or Des Moines did not give us record debt, serial corruption in the IRS, VA, GSA, or EPA, and a world in free fall abroad. Here in California the best and brightest managed to deliver the highest basket of income, sales, and gas taxes in the nation resulting in infrastructure and schools rated near the very bottom in state-to-state comparisons. The Orville dam is a metaphor of elite indifference to existential problems while it pursued transgendered restrooms and bobcat health.

Sincerely,

Victor Davis Hanson

March 10, 2017

Hanson angry reader reply, 10 Mar 17 [nc]

Filed under: Anti-American Politicians, Education, Elections, Foreign Affairs, Humor, Obama Foreign Policy, Political Commentary, Politicians, Putin, Racism, Religion, Treason, Valerie Jarrett — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , — justplainbill @ 7:02 pm

03/10/17
From an Angry Reader:

Mr. Hansen –

In this commentary, you appear to be engaging in sophistry. In other words, you appear to be decisively imparting falsehoods. First you fabricate a definition of the “American elite” comprised exclusively of progressives. Then you fabricate a reality where the mainstream press disseminates lies, where college campuses lack diversity and muzzle free speech and where progressives have fallen down in addressing the problems of the inner cities. Finally you fabricate an argument that the so-called elite have “titles, brands and buzz” but no “demonstrable knowledge or proven character”. This is a perfect example of deflection and psychological projection. You have, wittingly or not, described your populist hero Donald Trump, a man with “brands and buzz”, who disseminates lies, impugns minorities, muzzles the press, cares little about the inner cities and clearly lacks knowledge or character.

– Allan Cooper

Victor Davis Hanson’s Reply:

Dear Angry Reader Allan Cooper

One of the themes of the Angry Reader column is the predictable use by Leftists such as yourself of personal invective (“sophistry”, “falsehoods”, “fabricate”, etc.) along with intellectual laziness.

Take your allegation that I wrote that elites are “comprised exclusively of progressives”.

How does that assertion square with my allusion in the column on elites to “many in the Republican Party as well” or to the “Bush or Clinton families”. Are the Bushes and the Republican Party progressives?

So it is hard to take you seriously when the first allegation you make is demonstrably false.

And it sadly it is all downhill from there:

1) Are you arguing for intellectual diversity on campus? I think the recent Middlebury and Berkeley violence highlights my suggestion that there is little intellectual tolerance on campus.

2) Are you suggesting that the media is not progressive? JournoList, Wikileaks, and the epidemic of fake news from Rathergate and Brian Williams to the MLK bust allegation or Trump’s supposed romps in a Moscow hotel room substantiate the unreliability of the press, which by all polls and its own admission is overwhelming liberal.

3) You doubt the nature of life in the inner city or its governance? The inner cities are in crisis; most have had Democratic mayors and councils for the last thirty years and more; again are you contending that fact?

Donald Trump is not “my populist hero”; can you find any indication that I wrote that?

More to the point: what Trump says and what he actually does are two different things. I will find him guilty of “muzzling the press” when his Justice Department hounds journalists of the Associated Press or taps the communications of a reporter in the fashion of Obama’s treatment of James Rosen, or expands the reach of the NSA and the dissemination of its intelligence or depends on fawning press coverage to advance his agenda in the fashion of the “god”, “smartest president ever” and leg-tingling Barack Obama.

There are various ways of defining knowledge and character.

Trump is, of course, a flawed individual like many of us; but his failings are transparent, quite unlike those of Barack Obama, to take one example (Hillary Clinton is another).

With Trump, what you see is what you get. With Obama and his subordinates we were given constant utopian platitudes about hope and change, but experienced quite different dangerous deeds: expansions of NSA electronic surveillance, lying under oath by Eric Holder and James Clapper, the warping of the IRS, scandals in the VA, GSA, Secret Service, EPA, etc., nullifications of federal law by executive order non-enforcement, the jailing of a video maker on the false narrative of culpability for Benghazi (about which lies were promulgated by Susan Rice), the “echo chamber” manipulation of the “know nothing” press, assassinations abroad of US citizens, bombing Libya without congressional consent, the likely illegal monitoring and leaking of communications of the Trump campaign (as reported by the NY Times, Washington Post, and BBC), constant mellifluous untruth (you can keep your doctor and health plan, the president will not by fiat grant amnesties, the mythologies of the Cairo Speech), and often bizarre references to foreign leaders (from the open mic promise to be more flexible with Putin but only after the election to the gratuitous insults of Netanyahu [“coward”, “chickenshit”]). I learned in farming early on that the loud and uncouth are easier to deal with than the glib and shifty-eyed; the former may assault you senses, but the latter your person and livelihood.

So I think you need to redefine the boundaries of wisdom; they are not just calibrated by “57 states”- and “corps-men”-like Columbia and Harvard degrees.

Surviving the Manhattan real estate cauldron may take more savvy and cunning than the sorts of identity-politics navigation in colleges and liberal circles as outlined in Dreams From My Father. I have spent most of my adult life in two pursuits: academia, often in the circle of those with impressive graduate degrees, and farming with those sometimes without high school diplomas.

I saw little difference among the two groups in terms of ethics, saw the less articulate often more direct and transparent, and could never quite tell which group was the smarter, although what I heard in the faculty lounge and academic senate was a few rings down on the intelligence scale from what I heard and saw when talking to well drillers, pump installers, and tractor mechanics.

Sincerely,

Victor Davis HansOn (Swedish not Danish)

January 11, 2017

His (Obama’s) Legacy: Ignoring The Genocide Of Christians Over An 8 Year Period, By Capt Joseph R. John, January 9, 2017 [nc]

Filed under: Anti-American Politicians, Foreign Affairs, Global Intel, gun control, Historical context, Islam, Law Enforcement, Media Check, Muslim Brotherhood, Obama Foreign Policy, Political Commentary, Politicians, Racism, Religion, Treason, US Constitution — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , — justplainbill @ 4:02 pm

Joseph R. John
To
jrj@combatveteransforcongress.org
Jan 9 at 7:26 AM
His Legacy: Ignoring The Genocide Of Christians Over An 8 Year Period

By Capt Joseph R. John, January 9, 2017: 330

For 8 years Obama failed to condemn the genocide perpetrated by Al Q’ieda, ISIS, and members of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) who continued to butcher over 200,000 Syrian and Assyrian Christians. Current media reports state Obama is trying to salvage, what he calls, “His Legacy.” Obama will never be able to salvage “His Legacy”, because he turned a blind eye to the genocide that Al Q’ieda, ISIS Radical Islamic Terrorist, and members of the MB perpetrated against Syrian and Assyrian Christians. Obama repeatedly ignored pleas by 56 US Congressmen, on both sides of the isle, to provide Christians families with small arms weapons to protect themselves.

Al Q’ idea, ISIS, and the MB crucified Christians, beheaded them, burned them alive, drowned them in cages, buried them alive, cut small children’s bodies in two, forced men to kneel in order to shoot them behind the head, and threw Christians from high buildings to their deaths. In the last 2 years, ISIS has perpetrated 143 “Radical Islamic Terrorists” attacks in 29 countries, murdering 2043 people in “Hate Crimes” and “Crimes Against Humanity”; those murderous acts were executed to prevent Christians from exercising their “Freedom of Religion.”

While Obama was ignoring the genocide in the Middle East, he minimized the 93 “Radica Islamic Terrorist” attacks in the United States (2/3rd of those attacks occurred in the last 4 years). Yet for 8 years, Obama refused to allow personnel in the White House, the National Security Agency, the CIA, the FBI, Department of Defense, the Justice Department, 17 Intelligence Agencies, the US Armed Forces, and the State Department to properly identify terrorists killing Americans, as “Radical Islamic Terrorists” nor did he allow Government Agencies to associate ISIS, MB, MB Front Groups, or Al Q’ieda with Islam.

House Speaker Paul Ryan called President Obama’s failure to protect persecuted Christians “abysmal.” He said Obama has had a distinct disinterest in including “Religious Freedom” and the “Genocide of Christians”, among his foreign policy priorities. Obama even left the State Department’s Office of International Religious Freedom vacant for nearly two years.

On September 30th, the New York Times reported on a leaked recording of Secretary of State John Kerry conversing with leaders of the Syrian opposition fighting Syria’s President, Bashar Assad. It cast light on Obama’s “Laisez Faire” attitude toward ISIS, and his continued minimization of the strength of the ISIS, which he referred to as a “JV Team”.

In 2012, Kerry indicated that Obama believed that allowing ISIS to grow in strength and receive weapons delivered from Libya would serve his objective of helping oust Syria’s President, Bashar Assad, without the need to employ US Military combat personnel on the ground. WikiLeaks E-mails back up Turkish President Erdogen’s assertion that the US has given support to terror groups, including ISIS in Syria.

In 2008, Obama said the reason he ignored the Pentagon, the State Department, and the Intelligence community, and pulled all US Military forces out of Iraq, was because there wasn’t a Status of Forces Agreement with Iraq. Today there are nearly 5000 US Military combat personnel on the ground in Iraq, and hundreds of US Military combat personnel in Syria, and still there is no Status of Forces Agreement with Iraq (2 US Military combat personnel have been killed, and 14 were wounded in Syria in October).

According to the New York Times report on Kerry’s conversation with Assad’s Syrian opposition, Obama did not calculate that Assad would turn to Russia for military support, making ISIS’ opposition to his regime irrelevant. During the period when Obama was hoping ISIS would oppose Assad, ISIS genocide against Christians increased; Obama turned a blind eye to ISIS’ genocide and the rapid growth of ISIS from several thousand terrorists, to an multi-national trained force of over 50,000 “Radical Islamic Terrorists”.

Obama tried to minimize and ignore the growth in strength of what he called the ISIS “JV Team”. Obama’s continued minimization of ISIS resulted in 50 frustrated Central Command Intelligence Analyst co-signing a letter, protesting the fact that they were being pressured by Generals to produce intelligence reports that underestimate the true strength of ISIS and the danger ISIS’ Islamic State posed in the Middle East. Those Generals were, being pressured by their superiors in the Pentagon, to go along with Obama’s underestimated strength of ISIS.

In the last 8 years, while Obama occupied the Oval Office, ISIS easily grew rapidly because there were no longer a US Military force in Iraq, and it spread its tentacles into 29 countries, perpetrating over 8986 murders worldwide (1123/year), as well as the genocide of 200,000 Syrian and Assyrian Christians. In the previous 27 years Radical Islamic Terrorist murdered 4278 people worldwide (158/year).

In a 2013 Congressional hearings, evidence was presented from DIA intelligence reports that from 2011-2012, US Libyan Ambassador Christopher Stevens was shipping weapons from deposed Libyan Ruler, Muammar Gaddafi’s armory. Tons of weapons were being shipped from the port of Benghazi to Syria via Turkish ports, then on to the Muslim Brotherhood, Al Q’ieda, and ISIS Radical Islamic Terrorists, who were opposing Bashar Assad.

It was another of Obama’s “Gun Running Operations”, following the “Fast and Furious Gun Running Operation” to Mexican Drug Cartels, that resulted in the death of a US Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry.

An April 22, 2014 report entitled, “How America Changed Sides in the War On Terror”, identified Hakim Belhaj, as a key Al Q’ieda operative, was known Libyan terrorist who the European Union banned, and who was identified as the principal organizer of the Radical Islamic Terrorist attack on the US Mission in Benghazi on September 11, 2011, played a major role in moving Gaddafi’s weapons from US Ambassador Chris Stevens to the Muslim Brotherhood, Al Q’ieda, and ISIS in Syria.

The below listed comments and acts by Obama, reveals his state of mind, and why for 8 years, he refused to properly identify the terrorists killing Americans as “Radical Islamic Terrorists”, why he referred to ISIS as a “JV Team”, and why he refused to authorized the bombing of the Islamic State’s Capital of Raqqa (the Joint Chiefs recommended the strike, in order to decapitate the Islamic State’s leadership):

1) On ABC News Obama referenced—“My Muslim Faith.”

2) Obama wrote that in the event of a conflict—“I will stand with the Muslims.”

3) Obama refused to label the Ft Hood shooter who yelled “Allah Akbar” while he was killing 13 US soldiers as a “Terrorist.”

4) Obama provided $100 million of US Taxpayer dollars thru Hillary’s State Department to build “foreign” Mosques.

5) Obama exempted Muslims in the US from fines that Christians and Jews were forced to pay for, for not signing up for Obamacare.

6) Obama appointed members of the Muslim Brotherhood and its Front Groups to NSA, DHS, CIA, DOD, STATE, & Justice.

7) Obama refused to join world leaders in Paris after the Paris massacres, to show US solidarity against “Radical Islamic Terrorists”.

8) Obama ordered Georgetown and Notre Dame to cover up all vestiges of Christianity before he would agree to speak there.

9) Obama freed 195 of the 240 most dangerous detainees in GITMO; 30% returned to combat and are killing US Military personnel.

10) Obama terminated the military tribunals established to put captured “Radical Islamic Terrorists” on trial in GITMO.

11) Obama assured Egypt’s Foreign Minister that—“I am a Muslim.”

12) Obama was the first US President in 240 years who refused to send a Christmas greeting from the White House.

13) Obama had Dept. ED install mandatory Arabic language, and Muslim Religious studies in the nation’s grammar schools.

14) Obama said NASA’s “Foremost Mission” would be to develop an outreach to Muslim communities.

15) In an Islamic Dinner with Muslims, Obama said—“I am one of you.”

16) Obama followed the Muslim custom of not wearing any jewelry (rings/watches) for 8 years during Ramadan.

17) Obama said the Muslim call to worship is “The most beautiful sound on earth.”

18) For 8 years, in the Executive Office Building at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, DC, silence was enforced during the five times of
Islamic prayer each day (25 minutes/day, 7 days/week). Prayer rugs and crescent moon symbols were made available in several
areas of the Executive Office Building for Muslims visitors and Muslims working in The White House.

Millions of unprotected Assyrian Christians living in their ancient ancestral homeland of Mesopotamia, on the Plains of Nineveh, and Syrian Christians living in Syria who have practiced their religion since Christ walked the surface of the earth, were butchered by Al Q’ieda, ISIS, and members of the Muslim Brotherhood, while Obama ignored their repeated requests for small arms for the self-defense of their families.

Despite the repeated petitions by 56 US Congressmen from both sides of the isle, who pleaded with Obama to provide Syrian and Assyrian Christians with self-defensive small arms weapons, to protect their families from the on-going genocide by ISIS, Obama refused to authorize self-defensive aid. At the same time, Obama was accepting over 900,000 Middle East Muslim refugees, he refused to accept any of the over 300,000 Middle East Christians Refugees who fled from the genocide by “Radical Islamic Terrorist”.

The US Congress must terminate all funding for the UN Middle East and African “Muslin Only” Refugee Program, run by Muslims in the UN—it has been discriminating against Christian Refugees for the last 8 years, and is an ongoing violation of “Freedom of Religion” and US Law.

While the genocide of Christians in the Middle East continued, Obama brought in over 900,000 Middle East and African Muslin Refugees into the US, thru the UN Refugee Relief Program. They were settled in 187 cities throughout the US, at a cost of billions of US tax payer dollars, while Obama prevented the FBI from determining if they had terrorist ties. Obama refused to inform local and state elected government officials, and Federal, State, and Local Law Enforcement Officers where those Middle East and African Muslim Refugees were resettled.

For 8 years, the “Republican” and “Democratic” leaders in Congress, worked closely with Obama and the US Chamber of Commerce to ensure the wide open Southern Border remained open. For those 8 years “Radical Islamic Terrorists”. who have set up terrorist training camps just south of the US/Mexican border, were able to simply walk into the United States thru that wide open southern border.

The FBI has opened over 1000 “Radical Islamic Terrorist” cases in all 50 states, to apprehend and prosecute “Radical Islamic Terrorist” operating in the United States. To date the FBI has disrupted and prosecuted over 100 “Radical Islamic Terrorist” potential attacks within the United States, resulting in the arrests and prosecutions of 180 “Radical Islamic Terrorists.”

Despite the 180 arrests, there have been 93 ISIS Radical Islamic Terrorist attacks within the United States by Muslim Refugees from the Middle East and Africa and/or from their off springs; 2/3rd of those attacks occurred in the last 4 years. Those attacks and threats of attacks have been covered up by the left of center liberal media establishment working very closely with the Muslim Brotherhood, the Muslim Brotherhood Front Groups, and the Obama administration. The attachment details many, but not all of those “Radical Islamic Terrorist” attacks initiated in the United States, that resulted in the death of hundreds of Americans Citizens on US soil.

Please review the below listed article to fully understand the “Step by Step” procedure Obama and Hillary Clinton followed to incubate ISIS “Radical Islamic Terrorists”, that allowed ISIS to grow and gain in strength.

Copyright by Capt Joseph R. John. All Rights Reserved. The material can only posted on another Web site or distributed on the Internet by giving full credit to the author. It may not be published, broadcast, or rewritten without the permission from the author.

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Then I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for Us?” Then I said, “Here am I. Send me!”
-Isaiah 6:8

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WND EXCLUSIVE
STEP BY STEP: HOW HILLARY, OBAMA INCUBATED ISIS
Jerome R. Corsi
NEW YORK – By piecing together recently revealed WikiLeaks emails with evidence that has emerged over the past several years, it’s become increasingly clear that President Obama and his secretary of state at the time, Hillary Clinton in 2011, armed the Free Syrian Army rebels in an effort to topple the regime of Bashar al-Assad, mirroring a strategy already under way in Libya to help al-Qaida-affiliated militia overthrow Moammar Gadhafi. A consequence of the strategy was the emergence of ISIS out of the loosely coordinated Free Syrian Army coalition as well as the disastrous Benghazi attack in which a U.S. ambassador was murdered.

Various WikiLeaks emails examined by WND indicate the Free Syrian Army was among the first splinter rebel groups Clinton and Obama armed. The Obama administration apparently was hoping to replicate the regime-change strategy in which it armed al-Qaida-affiliated militia in Libya, including Ansar al-Sharia, the group responsible for the Sept. 11, 2012, attack at Benghazi.

The WikiLeaks email evidence shows a shift in policy in which Clinton and Obama appear to have decided in 2011 to topple the governments of Gadhafi in Libya and Assad in Syria, even if it meant arming “Radical Islamic Terrorist” groups that traced back to al-Qaida.

As WND reported last week, WikiLeaks emails back up Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan’s assertion that U.S.-led coalition forces have given support to terror groups, including ISIS in Syria.

The claim derived further support from a recording leaked to the New York Times of Secretary of State John Kerry admitting the Obama administration not only hoped ISIS would depose the Assad regime, it also gave arms to the jihadist army and its allies to carry out the task.

Blumenthal recommends Free Syria Army to Clinton

Hacked emails to Hillary Clinton from longtime adviser Sidney Blumenthal that were published in October by WikiLeaks tell the story.

On June 20, 2011, Blumenthal sent a confidential email to Clinton at the State Department that included an article by David W. Lesch, a professor of Middle Eastern history at Trinity University in San Antonio. Lesch argued a strategy of regime change could be effected in Syria if the U.S. could find opposition groups in Syria capable of establishing “a Benghazi-like refuge from which to launch a rebellion and to which aid can be sent.”

In a subsequent confidential email July 24, 2012, Blumenthal further advised Clinton that the “growing success of the rebel forces of the Free Syria Army” caused him to believe the Assad regime was increasingly vulnerable to being toppled.

In an email Feb. 24, 2012, Blumenthal characterized the FSA as “loosely organized and uncoordinated,” noting it was “for the most part, local militias, many of them civilian based, that are simply calling themselves the FSA to appear to be part of a whole.”

Blumenthal commented in the email that the armed resistance to Assad “is not well funded or well armed.”

On Feb. 28, 2012, Jacob Sullivan, a State Department senior policy adviser to Secretary Clinton, forwarded to Clinton an opinion piece published in the New York Times by foreign correspondent Roger Cohen suggesting the strategy Obama and Clinton had used to topple Gadhafi in Libya should be used to bring down Assad in Syria.

“As the Bosnian war showed, the basis for any settlement must be a rough equality of forces. So I say step up the efforts, already quietly ongoing, to get weapons to the Free Syrian Army. Train those forces, just as the rebels were trained in Libya,” Cohen wrote. “Payback time has come around: The United States warned Assad about allowing Al Qaeda fighters to transit Syria to Iraq. Now matériel and special forces with the ability to train a ragtag army can transit Iraq – and other neighboring states – into Syria.”

Then, on Sept. 18, 2012, one week after the Benghazi terror attack, Blumenthal, in a confidential memo, alerted Clinton to the possibility of the FSA military taking over Damascus.

The prospect caused Assad’s wife and close relatives to urge Assad to flee Syria to avoid “the fate of Assad’s former ally Muammar al Qaddafi of Libya, who was captured and killed by rebel forces while attempting to flee his home territory in Sirte.”

Clinton sought to arm Free Syrian Army

In an Aug. 17, 2014, email released by WikiLeaks, Clinton, after her service as secretary of state, suggested to adviser John Podesta: “At the same time, we should return to plans to provide the FSA [Free Syrian Army], with some group of moderate forces, with equipment that will allow them to deal with a weakened ISIL, and stepped up operations against the Syrian regime.”

Andrew C. McCarthy, a senior policy fellow at the National Review Institute, tied the statement to the Obama administration’s plan to equip Syrian fighters, either the Free Syrian Army or “other moderate forces,” to a U.S.-led operation in coordination with Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey to steer weapons to Syria, “ostensibly to fight both Assad and ISIS.”

McCarthy noted, however, that Clinton’s 2014 memo to Podesta asserted the Saudi and Qatari governments both supported ISIS and other “radical Sunni groups.”

In September 2013, WND reported Secretary of State John Kerry and Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., had relied on the work of Elizabeth O’Bagy, a 26-year-old graduate student, to argue in testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that the Obama administration should send weapons to arm the “moderate” Free Syrian Army to oppose the Assad government in Syria.

In that article, WND detailed the extensive lobbying efforts conducted in Washington to advance the FSA as a “moderate group,” despite clear evidence the al-Nusra Front – operating under the FSA umbrella – had been declared a terrorist organization by the State Department; had pledged allegiance to al-Qaida’s top leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri; and was the group of choice for foreign jihadi fighters pouring into Syria.

Clinton ‘changed sides in war on terror’

WND reported in 2015 the Obama White House and the State Department under the management of Hillary Clinton “changed sides in the war on terror” in 2011 by implementing a policy of facilitating the delivery of weapons to the al-Qaida-dominated rebel militias in Libya attempting to oust Gadhafi, the Citizens Commission on Benghazi concluded in its interim report.

The April 22, 2014, report, “How America Changed sides in the War on Terror,” alleges “the U.S. was fully aware of and facilitating the delivery of weapons to the Al Qaeda-dominated rebel militias throughout the 2011 rebellion.”

The report asserted the agenda of al-Qaida-affiliated jihadis in the region, including the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group and other Islamic terror groups represented among the rebel forces, was well known to U.S. officials responsible for Libya policy.

“The rebels made no secret of their Al Qaeda affiliation, openly flying and speaking in front of the black flag of Islamic jihad, according to author John Rosenthal and multiple media reports,” the interim report said. “And yet, the White House and senior Congressional members deliberately and knowingly pursued a policy that provided material support to terrorist organizations in order to topple a ruler who had been working closely with the West actively to suppress Al Qaeda.”

The report concluded: “The result in Libya, across much of North Africa, and beyond has been utter chaos, disruption of Libya’s oil industry, the spread of dangerous weapons (including surface-to-air missiles), and the empowerment of jihadist organizations like Al Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood.”

The report identified a key al-Qaida operative who played a major role moving U.S. arms into both Libya and Syria as Abdul Hakim Belhaj, (aka Abdallah al Sadeq). Belhaj was a veteran jihad fighter of Iraq and Afghanistan; commander of the al-Qaida franchise militia, Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG), aka Libyan Islamic Movement for Change; a post-revolution military commander of Tripoli; and the Libyan delegation leader to the Free Syrian Army in late 2011.

In September 2014, WND reported Elizabeth O’Bagy, who had been fired from her job with a Washington think-tank after her exposure by WND as a source for Kerry’s argument that the FSA is a “moderate” rebel force in Syria, had also arranged for McCain a trip to Syria in May 2013 in which senator met with Belhaj, who was then represented as a leader of the FSA.

In November 2013, WND reported trusted Libyan expatriates had claimed Belhaj was at large in Libya. The expatriates identified Belhaj as an al-Qaida operative, noting he was at the top of a list of Libyan terrorists banned by the European Union from obtaining entrance visas and was the principal organizer of the terrorist attack in Benghazi on Sept. 11, 2011, in which Ambassador Stevens was murdered.
McCarthy reported Aug. 2 Ambassador Stevens had “moved an enormous shipment of weapons from Benghazi to the Syrian ‘rebels’ in Turkey,” as the Obama administration was working in 2011 to determine which Syrian “rebel” forces should be armed.

McCarthy pointed to a New York Times article in 2012, some three months before the Benghazi massacre, that reported CIA operatives were secretly in Turkey helping the Obama administration to decide which Syrian opposition fighters would receive arms clandestinely from the United States to fight the Syrian government.

The Times further reported the weapons including automatic rifles, rocket-propelled grenades, ammunition and some antitank weapons were being funneled mostly across the Turkish border by way of a shadowy network of intermediaries, including Syria’s Muslim Brotherhood, and paid for by Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar.

McCarthy further noted that before becoming ambassador, Christopher Stevens was the Obama administration’s official liaison to Gadhafi’s Islamist opposition in Libya, including its al-Qaida-linked groups. Among them were the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, with Stevens working directly with Belhaj.

Below is a partial list of Refugees and Radical Islamic Terrorists who have perpetrated Terrorist Attacks against American citizens—the partial list is truly unbelievable, and the Obama administration and the left of center liberal media establishment have done their best to cover up every one of those terrorist attacks for 8 years—it is part of a continuing criminal conspiracy that is damaging the National Security Interest of the United States!!!

The United States is under attack from coast to coast in places like Sacramento (CA), Houston (TX), Morganton (NC), Philadelphia PA), San Bernardino (CA), Times Square (NY), Moore (OK), Detroit (MI), Boise, Orlando, West Orange (NJ), Fort Hood (TX), Portland (ME), Chattanooga, Garland, Boston (MA), Portland (OR), Minneapolis, Buffalo (NY), Jonesboro (GA), Ashtabula (OH), Bingham (NY), Glendale (AZ), Phoenix (AZ), Little Rock (AR), Merced (CA), Marquette Park (IL), Seattle, Skyway (WA), Denver (CO), Aspen Hill (MD), Baltimore (MD), Arlington (VA), Fredricksburg (VA), Missouri, Kentucky, Scottsville,(NY), Richmond (CA), Washington (DC), Irving (TX), Port Bolivar (TX), Warren (MI), Waltham (MA), Manassas (VA), Buena Vista (NJ), and many more cities too numerous to list here.

The left of center liberal media establishment is working hand in glove with Obama, to covering up the fact that there have been 93 Radical Islamic Terrorist attacks in the US since 9/11. To date, 100 ISIS Radical Islamic Terrorist plots have been foiled by the FBI, resulting in the arrests of over 180 ISIS Muslim Refugees and Radical Islamic Terrorists by the FBI across the United States, and there are 1000 FBI ISIS Radical Islamic Terrorist cases under investigation in all 50 states. We encourage all American citizens to put pressure on their Congress to pass the Terrorist Refugee Infiltration Act, and to get the Republican Leaders in Congress to finally do something after 8 years to protect American citizens and their children from Radical Islamic Terrorists.
The below “partial list” of the Muslim Refugees and Radical Islamic Terrorists who have participated in Jihad killings and attacks against the American citizens since Obama took office—are only listed, because the complete numbers of Radical Islamic Terrorist attacks are just too many, to all be listed here.
There are now over 900 open cases on potential ISIS Radical Islamic Terrorists in all 50 states being prosecuted by the FBI, those terrorist are a percentage of the 900,000+ Muslim Refugees Obama forced fed into 180 cities resettling them throughout the US thru the UN Muslim Refugee Resettlement Program while ignoring FBI warnings that they cannot vet them to determine if they have terrorist ties. Now we find out that Obama had his appointees at DHS scrub clean the data base of hundreds of Radical Islamic Terrorist suspects they maintained records on—that was a conspiracy that damaged the national Security of the United States:
• On January 7, 2016, Aws Mohammad Younis Al-Jayab, a Palestine born Iraqi, was arrested in Sacramento, CA on charges of assisting jihadi organizations.
• In an unrelated case, also on January 7, 2016, Omar Faraj Saeed al Hardan, an Iraqi Refugee, was arrested in Houston, TX on charges of providing material support to ISIS and going thru terrorist training.
• In Philadelphia, PA, a jihadi opened fire on a cop on January 8, 2016. He fired 13 shots and hit the police officer three times, grievously wounding the man.
• On January 11, 2016, Sens. Ted Cruz and Jeff Sessions said the number of people implicated in radical Islamic terrorist plots in the U.S. has jumped to 113.
• On January 16, 2016, Mohamed Elmi, 31, and Mohamed Salad, 29, both of Calgary,
Canada, were arrested after they invaded the doorway of a neighborhood bar and grievously wounded a 38-year old stranger.

• On February 16, 2016, a court magistrate ruled after hearing the FBI testimony that Khalil Abu-Rayyan, a 21 year old Dearborn, MI man was too much of a threat to public safety and ordered him held without bail. He gets excited by thoughts of beheading Americans, burning people alive and throwing homosexuals off of tall buildings. He’d actually made plans to shoot up a 6,000 member Christians in Detroit, in conversations with an undercover FBI agent.. (If I) can’t go do jihad at the Middle East, I would do my jihad over here.” He also told the agent that “shooting and death make me excited. I love to hear people begging and screaming. … I wish I had my gun.” The FBI claims Abu-Rayyan has since late 2014 used Twitter for “retweeting, liking and commenting” on Islamic State propaganda.
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On February 12, 2016 a machete wielding assailant known to the FBI, identified as Mohammad Barry, a Somali living in Ohio attacked Jewish and Christian patrons at a restaurant in Columbus, Ohio, wounding four people. Witnesses said it was carnage. Some of the patrons fought back by throwing chairs. Police later shot and killed Barry after a short chase. Investigators are trying to determine if Barry attacked the Nazareth Restaurant because he thought the owner was Jewish. In actuality, the restaurant is owned by an Israeli Christian.

• On January 7, 2016, Aws Mohammad Younis Al-Jayab, a Palestine born Iraqi, was arrested in Sacramento, CA on charges of assisting jihadi organizations.
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• On June 12, 21016, Omar Saddiqul Mateen, the son of Afghan refugees, massacred 49 gentle & innocent Americans, and wounded 53 others, in the Orlando night club, Pulse, in the deadliest mass shooting in US history

• In an unrelated case, also on January 7, 2016, Omar Faraj Saeed al Hardan, an Iraqi Refugee, was arrested in Houston, TX on charges of providing material support to ISIS and going thru terrorist training.
• In Philadelphia, PA, a jihadi opened fire on a cop on January 8, 2016. He fired 13 shots and hit the police officer three times, grievously wounding the man.
• On January 11, 2016, Sens. Ted Cruz and Jeff Sessions said the number of people implicated in radical Islamic terrorist plots in the U.S. has jumped to 113.
• On January 16, 2016, Mohamed Elmi, 31, and Mohamed Salad, 29, both of Calgary,
Canada, were arrested after they invaded the doorway of a neighborhood bar and grievously wounded a 38-year old stranger.
• On February 16, 2016, a court magistrate ruled after hearing the FBI testimony that Khalil Abu-Rayyan, a 21 year old Dearborn, MI man was too much of a threat to public safety and ordered him held without bail. He gets excited by thoughts of beheading Americans, burning people alive and throwing homosexuals off of tall buildings. He’d actually made plans to shoot up a 6,000 member Christians in Detroit, in conversations with an undercover FBI agent.. (If I) can’t go do jihad at the Middle East, I would do my jihad over here.” He also told the agent that “shooting and death make me excited. I love to hear people begging and screaming. … I wish I had my gun.” The FBI claims Abu-Rayyan has since late 2014 used Twitter for “retweeting, liking and commenting” on Islamic State propaganda.
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On February 12, 2016 a machete wielding assailant known to the FBI, identified as Mohammad Barry, a Somali living in Ohio attacked Jewish and Christian patrons at a restaurant in Columbus, Ohio, wounding four people. Witnesses said it was carnage. Some of the patrons fought back by throwing chairs. Police later shot and killed Barry after a short chase. Investigators are trying to determine if Barry attacked the Nazareth Restaurant because he thought the owner was Jewish. In actuality, the restaurant is owned by an Israeli Christian

• On May 3, 2015 an attack with gunfire was carried by two Radical Islamic Terrorists followers of ISIS at the entrance to the Curtis Culwell Center, in Garland, TX featuring cartoon images of Mohammad—both were shot and killed by a police officer. Just prior to the attack one of the gunmen posted “May Allah accept us as Mujahedeen”—he wrote both pledged allegiance to “Amirul Mu’mineen”, a likely reference to ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
• An immigrant from Ghana, who applied for and received US citizenship, pledged allegiance to ISIS and plotted a terrorist attack on the US soil (June 2015).
• An immigrant from Sudan, who applied and received US citizenship, tried to join ISIS and wage Jihad on its behalf after having been recruited on line(June 2015).
• In November 17, 2015 A Uzbek Muslim refugee in Boise, ID was convicted of plotting to bomb US military bases.
• On August 14, 2015 three Somali Muslims, Mohamud Mohamed, 36, and Osman Sheikh, 31, Abil Teshome, 23, brutally beat and murdered Freddy Akoa, 49 a Christian in Portland, ME. The attack allegedly took place over the span of several hours, in which Akoa suffered cuts and bruises all over his body, a lacerated liver and 22 rib fractures. However, according to the autopsy, Akoa died as a result of blows to his head.
• Mohammad Youssef Abdulazeez murdered five US Armed Forces (1 Navy and 4 Marines) in Chattanooga, TN in July 2015. Mohammad was an immigrant brought here by his family from Kuwait at a young age, and who was later approved for U.S. citizenship, who carried out the Islamist attack that killed the 5 military personnel in Chattanooga.
• The Somali refugee who recruited the San Bernardino killers also recruited the jihadist who attacked the Garland, TX “Draw Mohammad” contest in May 2015, fled the United States.
• An Iraqi immigrant, who later applied for and received US citizenship, was arrested for lying to federal agents about pledging allegiance to ISIS and his travel to Syria (May 2015)
• An immigrant from Syria, who later applied for and received U.S. citizenship, was accused by federal prosecutors of planning to rob a gun store to “go to a military base in Texas and kill three or four American soldiers execution style.” (April 2015)
• Six Somalian Muslim refugees were arrested in Minneapolis, Minnesota for attempting to travel to Syria to fight for ISIS.
• Five Muslim refugees (same family) were arrested in Missouri, Illinois and New York for sending arms and cash to ISIS.
• Five Somali Muslim refugees were charged in July 2014 with fundraising for jihadi groups in Africa.
• On December 14, 2014, Ismaaiyl Brinsley, born to a Muslim African American family, executed two NYC police officers as they sat in their patrol car. Brinsley is reported to have approached the two officers as they were sitting in their patrol car in the notorious crime ridden Bedford-Stuyvesant area of Brooklyn, New York and began firing rounds into the vehicle before fleeing on foot to the closest subway station where he later committed suicide.
• Two Bosnian Muslim refugee in Portland, Oregon was arrested in November 21, 2014 for trying to blow up a Christmas tree lighting ceremony.
• On November 4, 2015 18 year old Faisal Mohammad who had a black ISIS flag in his possessions and a terrorist manifesto, stabbed 4 of his fellow student at U C Merced; police had to shoot him to stop his stabbing spree. He had pro-ISIS propaganda on his computer. The FBI said he was self radicalized.
• In San Bernardino in December 2015 two Middle East Radical Islamic Terrorist, Syed Rizwan Farook and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, who said they were ISIS, attackers (immigrants) killed 14 civilians and wounded 21 others, were recruited to their jihad by a Muslim Somali refugee who has now moved to Syria, but continues to recruit Jihadist in America using social media.
• A refugee from Uzbekistan was convicted of providing material support and money to a designated foreign terrorist organization. According to the Department of Justice, he also procured bomb-making materials in the interest of perpetrating a terrorist attack on American soil. (August 2015)
• An immigrant from Albania, who applied for and received Lawful Permanent Resident status, was sentenced to 16 years in prison for giving over $1,000 to terrorist organizations in Afghanistan, and for attempting to join a radical jihadist insurgent group in Pakistan. (August 2015)
• An immigrant from Egypt, who subsequently was granted U.S. citizenship, was charged with providing, and conspiring to provide, material support to ISIS, for aiding and abetting a New York college student in receiving terrorist training from ISIS, and conspiring to receive such training. (August 2015)
• A second Immigrant from India, who is married to a US citizen, who was indicted on charges of conspiring to provide thousands of dollars to Al Q’ieda in the Arabian Peninsula, in order to assist them in their global Jihad, and on one count of conspiracy to commit bank fraud (November 2015)
• A Kazakhstani immigrant with lawful permanent resident status conspired to purchase a machine gun to shoot FBI and other law enforcement agents if they prevented him from traveling to Syria to join ISIS. (February 2015)
• An immigrant from Pakistan, who entered the United States on a fiancé visa thru Canada, and subsequently became a Lawful Permanent Resident, along with her husband, killed 14 people at a Christmas Party in San Bernardino, CA on December 2, 2015 , and wounded 22 others, in the deadliest terrorist attack on American soil since September 11, 2001.
• A Somali-American was arrested after encouraging several friends to leave the United States and join ISIS, and giving one individual over $200 for their passport application. (December 2015)
• The son of Pakistani immigrants, along with his Pakistan bride, murdered 14 coworkers, and wounded two dozen, in that same terrorist attack. His Pakistani-born father has since been placed on the no-fly list (December 2015).
• A Bosnian refugee, along with his wife and five others, donated money and supplies, and smuggled arms, to terrorist organizations in Syria and Iraq. (February 2015)
• An Uzbek refugee living in Idaho was arrested and charged with providing support to a terrorist organization, in the form of teaching terror recruits how to build bombs. (July 2015)
• An immigrant from Saudi Arabia, who applied for and received U.S. citizenship, swore allegiance to ISIS and pledged to explode a propane tank bomb on U.S. soil. (April 2015).
• An immigrant from Yemen, who applied for and received U.S. citizenship, along with six other men, was charged with conspiracy to travel to Syria and to provide material support to ISIS. (April 2015).
• A Uzbek man in Brooklyn encouraged other Uzbeki nationals to wage jihad on behalf of ISIS, and raised $1,600 for the terror organization. (April 2015)
• An immigrant from Bangladesh, who applied for and received U.S. citizenship, tried to incite people to travel to Somalia and conduct violent jihad against the United States. (June 2014)
• In September 30, 2014, Alton Nolan, a proponent of Sharia and suspect Radical Islamic Terrorist, beheaded an employee of Vaughan Foods, and was prevented from beheading a second employee in Moor, Oklahoma.
• An immigrant from Afghanistan, who later applied for and received U.S. citizenship, and a legal permanent resident from the Philippines, were convicted for “join Al Q’ieda and the Taliban in order to kill Americans.” (September 2014)
• A Somali immigrant with lawful permanent resident status, along with four other Somali nationals, is charged with leading an al-Shabaab fundraising conspiracy in the United States, with monthly payments directed to the Somali terrorist organization. (July 2014)
• A Moroccan national who came to the U.S. on a student visa was arrested for plotting to blow up a university and a federal court house. (April 2014)
• The 2013 Boston Marathon bombing by Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev; those brothers and their family were Muslim refugees. -The Boston Bombers were granted political asylum and were thus deemed legitimate refugees. The younger brother applied for citizenship and was naturalized on September 11th, 2012. The older brother had a pending application for citizenship. (April 2013)
• A college student who immigrated from Somalia, who later applied for and received U.S. citizenship, attempted to blow up a Christmas tree lighting ceremony in Oregon. (December 2013)
• On February 18, 2012, two Radical Islamic Terrorists from Pakistan, who later applied for and received US Citizenship, were apprehended trying to detonate a bomb in New York City
• In September 15, 2012, Amine El Khalifi, and al Q’ieda Radical Islamic Terrorist plotted to do a suicide bombing of the US Capital.
• In 2011 Mohammad Alfatlawi a proponent of Sharia Law was charged with the “Honor Killing” of his wife and daughter in Detroit, Michigan.
• In May 4, 2010 Faisal Shahzad conducted a terrorist car bombing plot in Times Square that failed.
• On June 1, 2009, Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad, a convert to Islam, who had gone to Yemen in 2007 and stayed for about 16 months, open fire on a Little Rock, Arkansas US Armed Forces Recruiting Office in a drive by shooting with a rifle, against a group of US Army Soldiers standing in front of the Recruiting Office. He killed Private William Long and wounded Private Quinton Ezeagwula.
• On November 5, 2009, Maj Nidal Malik Hasan killed 13 US Army soldiers and wounded 32 others in Fort Hood while yelling “Allah Akbar” at the top of his lungs—Obama insisted it was simply “Work Place Violence” and not a Radical Islamic terrorist attack by a disciple of Anwar Al-Awlaki. Prior to the shooting, in his previous assignment as an intern and resident at Walter Reed Army Medical Center his colleagues and superiors were deeply concerned about his behavior and anti-American comments—but because they were cowered by the Obama’s administration’s warnings and perceived threats to their military standing, that they better be “politically correct’ and not disparage such anti-American comments—nothing was done to drum that Radical Islamic Terrorist out of the US Armed Forces
• In December 2009, the bombing terror plot to kill 290 innocent passengers on a flight from the Netherland to Detroit the Nigerian Radical Islamic Terrorist, Umar Farouk Abdulmutlallab (aka the Underwear Bomber) failed to detonate on Northwest Airlines Flight 253 because the explosives in his underwear malfunctioned, and passengers were able to subdue him until he was arrested.
• Two Al Qaeda members who had killed American soldiers in Iraq were arrested in Kentucky in 2009 – and, both were refugees!

December 18, 2016

America as Animal Farm, Victor Hanson [nc]

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America as Animal Farm
December 14, 2016 10:01 am / Leave a Comment / Megan Ring
By Victor Davis Hanson// National Review

New commandments replace the old ones on the barn wall.

The socialist essayist and novelist George Orwell by 1944 grew depressed that as a cost for the defeat of the Axis Powers the Allies had empowered an equally nightmarish monster in the Soviet Union.

Since his days fighting for the loyalists during the Spanish Civil War, the left-wing Orwell had become an increasingly outspoken enemy of Communism. After the defeat of Nazi Germany, when Stalin renounced all his wartime assurances and steamrolled Eastern Europe, Orwell came to see state socialism under authoritarian auspices as the greatest threat to human freedom. It was not as if right-wing dictators were not equally lethal, but the inclusion of the words “socialist” and “republic” in a left-wing tyrant’s official lexicon tended to fool millions.

Indeed, it was precisely the leftist totalitarians’ habit of embroidering their murderous pursuit of power with professions of “equality,” “fairness,” and “egalitarianism” that so often allowed them to employ any means necessary to achieve their supposedly exalted ends. In sum, in Orwell’s eyes, the radical Left’s erasure of historical memory and its distortion of reality through the manipulation of language were the chief threat of the 20th century.

His 1945 novella Animal Farm — initially difficult for Orwell to publish and deeply hated by Western leftists — was an allegorical warning to liberals of the dangers of left-wing propaganda. Words and phrases changed their meanings — again and again — to serve a tyrannical agenda. The assorted creatures of Orwell’s fictional barnyard frequently wake up to new commandments posted on the barn wall by their Stalinesque pig leaders, with yesterday’s edicts crossed out or modified — and soon to be forgotten.

Given the political sympathies and self-interest of the present mainstream media and cultural elite, when the Obama administration came into power in 2009, we crossed out prior, out-of-power edicts and wrote new establishment versions in their place — as if no one would ever quite know the difference, or would soon forget if he did. Many of us at the time wrote about the nearly Orwellian change in liberal mentality required to accommodate Obama’s many contradictions.

Rich people were suddenly not all bad blue-stocking Republicans, but also hip, valuable Silicon Valley progressives in flip-flops who, with some reluctance, outsourced and off-shored.

In our past eight years of historical revisionism, huge political contributions — like the hundreds of millions of dollars in subsidies given by multi-billionaire financial speculator George Soros — were now helpful for democracy if only they were given to left-wing causes.

Once-liberal public campaign-financing laws and limits on fund-raising applied to all candidates except Barack Obama, who became the largest recipient of campaign cash in election history.

Drone assassinations were suddenly, in 2009, no longer proof of Bush’s efforts to kill the innocent abroad, but sophisticated tools in the Obama’s sober anti-terrorism tool kit. Radical Islamic terrorism simply vanished from our collective minds.

Terrorist killing was reinvented as vague “man-caused disasters” and “workplace violence” that occasionally called for American “overseas contingency operations.” If we did not have the phrase “radical Islamic terrorism,” then there would be no radical Islamic terrorism — apparently on the theory that if we ban “gravity” from our vocabulary, we will all instantly float upwards.

More recently, “fake news” did not mean promulgating the lie “Hands up, don’t shoot,” doctoring George Zimmerman’s 911 call, or insisting on national TV that the Benghazi attacks were spontaneous riots sparked by a right-wing American-based video maker, who, for his provocations, was perp-walked and jailed on trumped-up charges of parole violations.

Fake news certainly does not denote the decades-long myth that the hard-Communist and pro-Castro presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald was emblematic of the right-wing haters of Texas, or the fantasy mythography of Barack Obama’s Dreams from My Father passed off as an autobiographical memoir.

Instead, a supposed epidemic of “fake news” became a means to explain how Donald Trump, the supposedly incompetent buffoon, defeated the polished sure winner Hillary Clinton — who at one time in 2008 presented herself as a heroic stateswoman who had flown into Bosnia while under sniper fire. Executive orders are critical presidential prerogatives when Congress won’t act undermine the Constitution’s separation of powers.

In another classic Orwellian moment, the on-air fabulist and serial prevaricator, newsreader Brian Williams, jumped on the bandwagon to loudly editorialize about the dangers of not telling the truth and passing it off as news. Left unsaid was Williams’s subtext: Believe me about the dangers of fake news, because I was the biggest news faker in network anchor history. Or maybe he wasn’t, given Dan Rather’s “fake but accurate” memos about Bush’s supposedly having gone AWOL during the Vietnam War, a fabricated scandal that Rather peddled to harm the reelection chances of George W. Bush in 2004.

No sooner did the progressive media and bureaucracy establish new barn-wall rules than Obama got set to leave office, soon to be replaced by a President Trump. Now the leftist project must scramble to hit reverse and start all over from the beginning.

On the lighter side, after 2016, expect that the sight of a president golfing in sports attire and shades will be proof of his indolence and privilege, not necessary downtime as it was for an overworked and harried Obama.

If First Lady Melania Trump takes two jumbo jets full of aides and government junketeers to vacation on Spain’s Costa del Sol next year — as did Michelle Obama for her 2010 getaway — expect media outrage over her supposedly callous selfishness and indulgence.
Here are the more serious and latest samples of the corrected Animal Farm Commandments on the American Farm barn wall for the age of the Trump presidency.

1. The Senate filibuster is an archaic and disruptive obstacle to government an essential tool of legislative democracy.

2. The Senate’s “nuclear option” of approving nominees by majority votes is a legitimate tool to restore legislative balance crackpot idea to erode Senate traditions.

3. Pen-and-phone executive orders are critical presidential prerogatives when Congress won’t act undermine the Constitution’s separation of powers.

4. Past Supreme Court decisions are always fluid rulings and hold no real sway over present court prerogatives established judicial precedents that should not be tampered with by current politicized justices.

5. Pressuring private companies like Boeing or Chrysler for political purposes like Carrier to keep jobs in the U.S. is unwise presidential intrusion into the marketplace.

6. Edgy, out-of-the-box foreign-policy outreach to democracies like Taiwan dictatorships like Cuba and Iran is proof of presidential leadership and imagination.

7. Presidential informality like inviting rappers with rap sheets to the White House or doing interviews with GloZell like tweeting and videos are ominous signs of presidential frivolity and immaturity.

8. States-rights nullification of federal law has been traditionally racist, and subversive to the idea of the United States, leading to crisis or war is a legitimate expression of progressive cultural exceptionalism.

9. Running up huge deficits in Keynesian fashion primes the economy is a dangerous sign of presidential laxity.

10. Regular press conferences with vigorous cross-examinations of the president are noisy anachronisms from the bygone age of print journalism a must for a functioning democracy.

11. Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Ohio voting twice for Barack Obama over John McCain and Mitt Romney was at last proof that the white working class was tolerant and enlightened for Trump shows that these deplorable voters are still irredeemable white clingers and supremacists.

12. Worries that registration and voting can be rigged Rioting, demanding superfluous recounts, damning the legitimacy of the Electoral College, and threatening Electors are efforts to subvert American democracy.

13. Criticizing a former president allots proper blame where it belongs for current messes is bad sportsmanship, cheap, and unbecoming.

14. Former presidents making business deals and earning exorbitant speaking and consulting fees as they cash in and globe-trot demeans the office is an acceptable right and welcome duty of an ex-president.

15. Weighing in on contemporary news stories such as the Skip Gates psychodrama or the Trayvon Martin murder case a flag-burning incident is symptomatic of presidential puerility.

16. Vladimir Putin was unfairly alienated by George W. Bush, sophomorically hyped into an existential threat by Mitt Romney, and deserving of reset is dangerous, a Trump fan, and an inveterate enemy of the U.S.

All the above have a shelf-life of about four years and may be recalibrated according to the results of the 2020 election.

December 1, 2016

All Hands FYI Armed Islamic Groups training in the U.S.A.

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FYI:

I’ve looked, it is true and verified by Stuart Varney of Varn&y Co., the most watched business news show on cable.

http://www.fuqrafiles.com

Be advised of the Islamaburg NYS compound and remember what happened with Bill Clinton’s AG, Janet Reno, and Ruby Ridge in Waco TX.

November 7, 2016

Obama encourages illegals to vote, Joseph John , [c]

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Obama Encourages Illegal Aliens to Vote in Video – Promises No Repercussions

By Capt Joseph R. John, November 7, 2016

The nation has had a very serious Voter Fraud problem, going back to the Nixon Kennedy Presidential election of 1960, when Mayor Richard M. Daley of Chicago was accused of having his Democratic Machine perpetrate “Voter Fraud” in the city of Chicago. The Chicago voting total tipped the state of Illinois into John Kennedy’s win column, and threw the Presidential election to John Kennedy. The Democratic “machine” came up with 8,858 votes from Chicago graveyards and elsewhere to steal the election from Richard Nixon. Even though Richard Nixon was provided with evidence of massive “Voter Fraud” perpetrated by the Chicago Democratic Machine, he refused to contest the election because he didn’t want to create a Constitutional crisis in the United States.

In 1982, Voter Fraud rose its ugly head again un Chicago and resulted in one of the largest “Voter Fraud” prosecutions ever conducted by the U.S. Department of Justice. The telltale smoke arose out of one of the closest governor’s races in Illi­nois history; and as for the fire, the U.S. Attorney in Chicago at the time, Daniel Webb, estimated that at least 100,000 fraudulent votes (10 percent of all votes in the city) had been cast. Sixty-five individuals were indicted for federal election crimes, and all but two (one found incompetent to stand trial and another who died) were convicted. CBS’ Local Chicago affiliate reported that 119 dead people have voted 229 times in the last decade, with one dead man voting 11 times.

Obama met Madeleine Talbot, part of the Chicago branch of ACORN, he was asked to train the ACORN staff in Chicago after he graduated from Harvard and moved to Chicago. ACORN engage in bullying banks, forcing them to issue risky loans, and ACORN intimidation and disruption businesses. During the 2004 United States Presidential elections, Voter Fraud raised its ugly head again, and the American voters nationally first became acquainted with ACORN, which was funded by the Democratic party. ACORN perpetrated voter fraud in massive amounts that in the 2008 Presidential election of Obama. There were 11 major investigations across the nation involving thousands of potentially fraudulent actions by ACORN employees following the election.

In 2009, ACORN was charged and convicted in Wisconsin, Florida, Michigan, Indiana, Pennsylvania, Maryland, New York, and California of massive “Voter Registration Fraud.” ACORN simply kept the same people on its employment rolls, and changed the name of the organization in every state in the union, and continued to train its personnel to perpetrate “Voter Fraud.”

From 2008 to 2012, Obama’s Department of Health and Human Services funded those same former ACORN organizations, and enabled them to continue registration fraud of Illegal Aliens in many states. They have become very effective in states that issue drivers licenses to Illegal Aliens, so those Illegal Aliens can use their driver’s licenses to obtain Social Security numbers, and then use both the driver’s license and Social Security Cards to register to vote.

In the 2012 presidential election, many Illegal aliens voted, Those former ACORN organizations were funded by Obama’s Department of Health and Human Services from 2012 to 2016 which enabled them to continue the “Voter Registration Fraud.”

Hans Von Spakovsky, senior legal fellow and manager of the Election Law Reform Initiative at the Heritage Foundation, has maintained that there’s enough “Voter Fraud” to make a difference in a close election. His think tank has compiled 430 cases of “Voter Fraud” that resulted in a conviction or a judge ordering a new election.(WND.com 11/7/16)

Several cases have arisen in just the past week, along with the revelations by James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas, which captured on hidden camera a top Democratic operative engineering wide-scale “Vote Fraud.” (WND.com 11/7/16)

Last Thursday in Pennsylvania, a state the Trump campaign believes it can win, state police raided two offices of a voter registration group in Philadelphia after raiding another office in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, just days earlier. The Philadelphia Inquirer reported police used a warrant seeking forms that could be used to “construct fraudulent voter registration forms” and “completed voter registration forms containing same or similar identifying information of individuals on multiple forms.”

(WND.com 11/7/16)

State officials in Texas are investigating reports of a “vote harvesting” scheme in which as many as 20,000 ballots has been filled in and delivered for people in Tarrant County. (WND.com 11/7/16)

In San Pedro, California, on Saturday, FoxNews.com reported, Jerry Mosna found 83 unused election ballots – all addressed to different people – stacked on the mailbox of an elderly neighbor who lives in a two-bedroom apartment.. (WND.com 11/7/16)

This year Illegal Aliens have been flooding across the wide open southern border, they have been released upon entry in accordance with Obama’s instructions (they should have been quarantined for at least 30 days in accordance with US Federal Immigration Laws, before release). It has been reported that hundreds of thousands of those Illegal Aliens have been registered to vote illegally.

If you click on the below listed link you will be able to watch a video of Obama encouraging Illegal Aliens to vote, and he promises them, in the interview, that there will be no repercussions if they vote illegally—a violation of US Federal Voting Laws. Obama is the first occupant of the Oval Office in 240 years to encourage Illegal Aliens to vote, while assuring them that there will not be any repercussions for voting illegally.

Copyright by Capt Joseph R. John. All Rights Reserved. The material can only posted on another Web site or distributed on the Internet by giving full credit to the author. It may not be published, broadcast, or rewritten without the permission from the author.

Joseph R. John, USNA ‘62

Capt USN(Ret)/Former FBI

Chairman, Combat Veterans For Congress PAC

2307 Fenton Parkway, Suite 107-184

San Diego, CA 92108

http://www.CombatVeteransForCongress.org

https://www.facebook.com/combatveteransforcongress?ref=hl

Then I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for Us?” Then I said, “Here am I. Send me!”
-Isaiah 6:8

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Obama Encourages Illegal Aliens to Vote – Promises No Repercussions

When multiple supporters sent the below listed link to us we said, no way, even Obama would never say to vote illegally.

But we were wrong.

Barack Obama illegally and openly called on Illegal Aliens to vote in Tuesday’s election——just watch the below listed video when you click on the below listed link.

The Obama administration has proved to be lawless when it comes to US Federal Voting Laws by viewing the below listed link!

They Hillary and Obama have been lying at every turn.

The occupant in the Oval Office lied to get Obamacare passed when he said you can keep your doctor and your insurance.
The occupant of the Oval Office and Hillary lied about Benghazi when they said it was a spontaneous riot about a movie, not terrorism.
The occupant of the Oval Office lied when he said he didn’t know about Hillary’s private illegal server and emails.

The occupant in the Oval Office said I will bridge the gap between black and white Americas.

Click
here: Obama encourages illegal aliens to vote without fear of being deported. –
YouTube

[Gosh, all of this going on in THE BLUE STATES. Secession, secession, secession.]

October 26, 2016

wikileaks key to current leaks – Ya got a ? on how bad Hillary really is, the answer is here, look it up

Filed under: Anti-American Politicians — Tags: , , , , , , — justplainbill @ 8:01 pm

To ‘Chuck McDougald, PhD (Green Beret)’
Today at 11:07 AM

The below listed WikiLeaks E-mails should get very wide distribution thru your own extensive networks, There are so many E-mails that indict Hillary Clinton’s criminal actions, reveals Hillary’s intention to keep the southern border wide open which is a danger to the National Security of the United States, shows Hillary couldn’t handle the security for a 13 acre US Mission in Benghazi (turning the security of the US over to Hillary would be a disaster), shows Hillary putting America on the auction block for donations to the Clinton Foundation (pay to play), shows Hillary lied to the American people in public while saying what she would really do in private, shows Hillary was the architect & negotiator for the dangerous Iranian Nuclear Weapons Agreement that is giving Iran nuclear weapons, etc.

The below listed WikiLeaks E-mails demonstrates that Hillary Clinton and George Soros are a “clear and present danger” to:

1. The survival of the Free Enterprise System in the United States

2. The survival of the nation’s Judeo-Christian religious way of life that is under attack by progressives

3. The continued integrity US Constitution given to the American people by the Founding Fathers

4. The continued selection of members of the US Supreme Court who will not legislate from the bench

5. The right of every Americans to own and bear arms as guaranteed to them by the 2nd Amendment

6. The US Justice System that has been corrupted by the Attorney General of the United States, Hillary Clinton, and Director of the FBI

7. The US Armed Forces whose “Combat Effectiveness” and strength has been hallowed out over the last 8 years by Obama and inept Congress

8. America’s Health Care System, Socialized by the failed ObamaCare Program, had premiums spiked by 25%, 45%, 53 %, 69%,116% in various states

Kindly click on the below listed link to listen to Pat Condell, one of Europe’s most astute political commentators, he weighed in on the US Presidential race with only 2 weeks to go to the election—every American should listen to Pat Condell’s in depth and magnificent evaluation of the race

http://www.patcondell.net/americas-moment-of-truth/

Respectfully,

Joe

Joseph R. John, USNA ‘62

Capt USN(Ret)/Former FBI

Regional Chairman Veterans 4 Trump, Southern California (Orange County, Imperial County, and San Diego County)

2307 Fenton Parkway, Suite 107-184

San Diego, CA 92108

Then I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for Us?” Then I said, “Here am I. Send me!”
-Isaiah 6:8

Here’s a great spread sheet of all the wikileaks:

https://docs.google.com/ spreadsheets/d/ 1DgwLHAC5mk9Ghblc6O7AXzxX5dNLl Mg0hHUn-D_Ay7I/htmlview

Primary

· Wikileaks Index

· Important HRC Corruption Videos

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

1

WIKILEAK INDEX

Messages:

SI – Self incrim

CF – Clint Found

OVS – Offensive Voter Statemen

2

CTR

FP – Forgn Pol

DTC – Trump

3

ID#

EMAIL#

SUBJECT

LINK

WIKILEAK DUMP#

MC – media coll

BS – Bernie

OTR – Other

4

BS

Bernie Campaign Sabotage

5

BS1

1193

>Massive Clinton ‘hits’ file on Bernie & http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/10/10/wikileaks-podesta-email-release-reveals-massive-clinton-hits-file-on-sanders.html

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/1193

BS

20

6

BS2

2953

>Nothing more counter-productive than asking for Bernie’s medical records. Is David Brock a plant?

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/2953

MC

122

7

BS3

3023

Donna Brazile, now the current DNC chairwoman & replacement for Debbie Wasserman Shultz (who was forced to resign because of being anti-Bernie/Pro-Clinton), leaked insider Bernie Sander’s campaign information to Hillary’s staff:

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/3023#efmAMFAMSAM-ANBAOIAOhAOiAPV

SI

226

8

BS4

3188

Bernie supporters are bed wetters

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/3188

CTR

4

9

BS5

3609

Shitting on a Bernie super delegate, threaten to cut off funding

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/3609

DTC

7

10

BS6

3990

>Hillary should stop attacking Bernie, especially when she says things that are untrue, which candidly she often does.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/3990

CF

40

11

BS7

5423

>‘Bitching’ Bernie Voters. Dems planned to fool Sanders supporters at convention. ‘His people will think they’ve won something’ & http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/oct/12/dems-planned-fool-sanders-supporters-convention/ & http://www.infowars.com/wikileaks-clinton-surrogates-wanted-to-fool-bitching-bernie-voters-into-supporting-hillary/

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/5423

OVS

11

12

BS8

5423

Concessions given to Bernie Sanders & his supporters were a false illusion of a victory for Bernie’s “self righteous ideologies”. Clinton Advisor: “Bernie and his people have been bitching about super delegates” “Throw Bernie a bone…[…]….his people will think they’ve “won” something from the Party Establishment. It doesn’t make a difference. We don’t lose”:

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/5423#efmAMyAPDAoKAqBAshAs8AzAA2x

OTR

36

13

BS9

5616

7 months before Hillary earns nomination over Bernie Sanders, Donna Brazile pledges to John Podesta that “as soon as (Hillary’s) nomination is wrapped up. I will be your biggest surrogate” “Look forward to working with you to elect the first woman President of the United States” says Podesta:

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/5616#efmACTADd

FP

11

14

BS10

8248

Clinton staff discusses Hillary only supporting a carbon tax to knock Bernie Sanders out of the primaries: “To be clear: it’s lethal in the general, so I don’t want to support one. But don’t want to give bernie contrast right now.”:

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/8248#efmAAGAHu

15

BS11

10669

“We are going to need his voters to turn out in November for HRC, [Bernie] won’t be nominated.” {dated 2015-07-01; DNC was July 2016} & Strategy to run only positive ads to screw Bernie later

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/10669

16

BS12

11580

11580 Brent Budowsky writes to podesta 2016 February : “In the last 48 hours a) Hillary and her campaign have begun to question Bernie’s integrity and b) older feminists are beginning a civil war against younger women with idiot comments such as younger women support Bernie to get laid. What would be the reaction if Bill Clinton, George Bush or Harry Reid comments such as this? Or that younger women must support Hillary for the sole reason that she is a woman? Team Clinton has no idea the danger they are causing of creating such an intense antipathy towards Hillary that many Bernie supporters and younger women will not vote for her in November. I had coffee today with a female college senior who is an intern with the Obama administration—the daughter of a Democrat who has worked for senior Democrats who asked me to look after her while she is in Washington, who told me “I just hate her so much I might even vote for a Republican but I will never vote for her.” And she doesn’t even support Bernie.”

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/11580#efmAAGAPF

17

BS13

12278

– almost amusing and mouth frothing. “Senator Sanders has been pressed on this vote in every Democratic debate. And the truth is, even Hillary Clinton has cast votes she later said she regretted. So I’d understand if Senator Sanders would just stand up and say, “I got this one wrong. I made a mistake. I’m sorry.”….. And until he changes his position on immunity for gun sellers and gun makers, Senator Sanders is wrong on gun safety. And he’s the wrong candidate for President”

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/12278

18

BS14

15464

John Podesta calls Bernie a doofus.
“Thanks Neera. Can you believe that doofus Bernie attacked it? Ben happy?”

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/15464

19

BS15

15615

THE ENTIRE VP SHORTLIST (notice poor Bernie at the bottom of a very long list, he never had a shot) edit: apparently divided into “food groups” (Podesta’s words) by race and gender lmao. Fucking liberals.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/15616

20

BS16

21823

Their Books on Bernie Sanders (see attachments) – hundreds of pages

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/21823

21

BS17

21908

Robby Mook calls De Blasio a “terrorist” for saying nice things about Bernie.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/21908

22

BS18

22224

In this one, the campaign conspires to have a group of women senators privately confront Bernie about running a negative campaign so they can leak the meeting to the press to shape their preferred narrative that Bernie is a sexist who is running a negative campaign.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/22224

23

BS19

22262

Podesta Calls Bernie Supporters “paranoid internet dwellers”

Podesta wrote:
>This is good stuff for paranoid internet dwellers. Did Bernie ever say a word about this?

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/22262

24

BS20

22405

HRC campaign making fun of Bernie

>That’s because the billionaaaaaahhhs own the media

https://www.wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/22405

25

BS21

23508

Neera Tanden: “he’s really hung up on Obama not caring about black people”

-speaking to Podesta about Ben Jealous potentially endorsing Sanders – which he eventually did.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/23508

26

BS22

23991

EMAILD Judd Legum to John Podesta

“Not sure how it’s playing out on your end but having been seeing a lot of negative stuff online about the single payer hit on Bernie. See it being fit into the she’s dishonest/will say anything to win frame. So I just wanted you to make sure you were cognizant of that.”

John Podesta responds about Bernie’s healthcare proposal.

“Thx. His actual proposal sucks, but we live in a leftie alternative universe”

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/23991

27

BS23

25203

HRC CAMPAIGN MAJOR PLAYERS SAYING SOMETHING WILL BE “VERY ROUGH”

John Podesta wrote:

Thx Donna. Time to buckle up.

From: *Donna Brazile*
Date: Tuesday, February 2, 2016
Subject: Good luck tonight.
To: John Podesta

Shake things up.
It’s going to be rough. Very rough.

NON-WIKILEAKS ANALYSIS
That was a caucus day where Hillary only won by .5% against Bernie. So the delegates ended up being pretty much split down the middle.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/25203

28

BS24

25301

Seems like someone here made the mistake of defecting to the Bernie camp.

Subject: Re: Faiz advising Bernie

Podesta: Yes. Gave him a very hard time. I have to say this does not go down easy with me. Wish him well in life.

Tanden: He’s a fucker.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/25301

29

BS25

25301

EMAILID 25301 Neera Tanden (star of Podesta part 14 (https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/58ppna/podesta_emails_part_14_wikileaks_emailid_23605/ ) with her “Fuck those assholes” ( https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/58ppna/podesta_emails_part_14_wikileaks_emailid_23605/) comments said about the New York Times) writes about information she gained from Judd Legum

“Faiz advising Bernie. I think it’s just kind of informal for now but he’s like writing speeches and stuff or at least speech language.”

Neera adds directly addressing Podesta about Faiz’s conduct:

“you know about this? Jesus Makes sense since all these freaks after Hillary are like his spawn.”

Podesta responds to this betrayal (someone daring to give advice to Bernie Sanders): “Yes. Gave him a very hard time. I have to say this does not go down easy with me. Wish him well in life.”

Finally Neera just responds about Faiz :
“He’s a fucker”

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/25301

30

CF

Clinton Foundation

31

CF1

1127

Clinton Foundation tied to uranium deal

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/1127

32

CF2

1518

>Clinton Camp worried as Chelsea hosts “fundraiser” aka Cash payment for Radical Islamic Group that wants to end Israel & https://twitter.com/trump2016fan/status/786762646863224837

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/1518

33

CF3

2301

Bill Clinton is damaging for Hillary:

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/2301

34

CF4

2425

Connects him to Magnetar Capital of which, Ross Laser is a founder. It’s a hedge fund organization that might have contributed to the 2007-2010 housing market crash. Apparently, Ross is a donor but don’t know if there’s anything else there

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/2425

35

CF5

2485

Donor amounts including Soros

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/2485

36

CF6

3774

Intelligence Reports Show SA and Qatar provide ISIL Support

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/3774

37

CF7

4492

Clinton Foundation has no internal audits

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/4492

38

CF8

6009

Clinton foundation Exceeded its original authorization from the I.R.S

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/6009

39

CF9

6296

Connects him to Magnetar Capital of which, Ross Laser is a founder. It’s a hedge fund organization that might have contributed to the 2007-2010 housing market crash. Apparently, Ross is a donor but don’t know if there’s anything else there

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/6296

40

CF10

6775

Unless Sheikh Mo has sent us a $6 million check, this sounds crazy to do.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/6775#efmACoADwAIqAJzAOXASM

41

CF11

6866

Indian business man donating who owns hospitals in India, pay to play?

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/6866

42

CF12

6900

(older leak) Warning about visuals on Hati CF Donations and Mining contracts conflict of interest

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/6900

43

CF13

7250

CGI meeting with attachments

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/7250

44

CF14

7414

Foundation needs to be low key in 2016

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/7414

45

CF15

8160

Juicy Juicy foundation review(falsely labeled audit) of 2012 calls for ending conflicts of interest of staff look at attachement

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/8160

46

CF16

8396

>Bill Clinton receives a million dollar birthday check from Qatar & https://twitter.com/AmyMek/status/786774862371184640

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/8396

47

CF17

8396

$1million dollars from qatar to WJC for 5minute meeting. Also talk about rwanda attracting mining investors through the Clinton Global Initiative.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/8396

48

CF18

9088

Clinton Foundation”to me audit sounds bad, as if we started this with bad intentions”

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/9088

49

CF19

9200

Communication with WJC (Bill)

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/9200

50

CF20

9388

MORE PAY TO PLAY

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/9388#efmAWoAaB

51

CF21

9422

Saudi Donations

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/9442#efmAUJAXqAv0A1HBHPBJwBQTBUg

52

CF22

9570

c3 / c4 money involves Soros.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/9570

53

CF23

10227

Foundation donor stuff (handling donors 500,000 or greater)

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/10227

54

CF24

11480

Discussing Bill Clinton attending a summit in Panama. Concerns that he will be seen by the press

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/11480

55

CF25

12112

In attachments there are names and salaries of CF and other Clinton entities workers

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/12112

56

CF26

12251

CF/CHAI Investment fund and advisory board. “It would be hard to imagine a worse idea than ira magaziner running an > investment fund of any kind not to mention one under this scenario > > Good luck with this”

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/12251

57

CF27

12401

EMAILID 12401 This seems big. Chelsea Clinton provides a list of concerns to the staff including John Podesta. Apparently several cases of surveillance and spying was going on between the employees. All of the names of persons will need to be identified and followed up on. There is a lot of information in just this one email: “Ilya physically saw/caught Justin a couple of days ago reading his bberry and loading the same spyware onto his computer that he loaded onto Bari’s computer” “- my father was told today of explicit examples at CGI of Doug/ Teneo pushing for – and receiving – free memberships – and of multiple examples of Teneo ‘hustling’ business at CGI – and of people now having quit at CGI” “- Ilya believes Hannah and Justin have taken significant sums of money from my parents personally – some in expenses – cars, etc. – and others directly”

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/12401#efmAXHAZp

58

CF28

12401

Problems at Clinton Foundation in 2011:

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/12401

59

CF29

12401

EMAILID 12401 This seems big. Chelsea Clinton provides a list of concerns to the staff including John Podesta. Apparently several cases of surveillance and spying was going on between the employees. All of the names of persons will need to be identified and followed up on. There is a lot of information in just this one email: “Ilya physically saw/caught Justin a couple of days ago reading his bberry and loading the same spyware onto his computer that he loaded onto Bari’s computer” “- my father was told today of explicit examples at CGI of Doug/ Teneo pushing for – and receiving – free memberships – and of multiple examples of Teneo ‘hustling’ business at CGI – and of people now having quit at CGI” “- Ilya believes Hannah and Justin have taken significant sums of money from my parents personally – some in expenses – cars, etc. – and others directly”

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/12401#efmAXHAZp

60

CF30

12401

Some guy named “Justin” (Justin Cooper. He was the only Clinton IT guy who didn’t take the fifth in front of congress. Sonetear(Combetta) was there and fiffed, BPags skipped the hearing. ) is a mole in the Clinton Foundation who has been reading everyone’s emails and loading spyware on their computers

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/12401

61

CF31

12401

EMAILID 12401: Chelsea addressing the team about concerns re: Clinton Foundation

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/12401

62

CF32

12830

CF not spending money on what they said they use it for…
>I’m sensitive to that (which is why I’m asking) but those CHAI Stats are on nearly every public listing of CF accomplishment. I’m want to make people think twice about calls for dropping grants to CF or return the money and the HIV/AIDS work hits home in a way that other stats don’t. Plus it’s international work. I’m concerned about saying we used money to fund healthy schools (because we didn’t use the funding for that).

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/12830

63

CF33

15400

Chelsea Clinton says Doug Band and Justin Cooper support Bill “in his political work and not at all on his foundation work.” Even though Band was on the board of directors of the Clinton Foundation.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/15400

64

CF34

15416

Talking about calling Gowdy to get “a sense of where we are”??

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/15416

65

CF35

21670

From:JPalmieri@americanprogress.org To: john.podesta@gmail.com Date: 2008-07-31 18:24 Subject: FW: The person I most want to spend time with

seriously? this is the worst subject line ever in an email from Bill Clinton.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/21670

66

CF36

21888

Clinton Foundation: Swedish money islands, Pension fiasco details

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/21888

67

CF37

21978

From: Doug Band “Also I signed a conflict of interest policy as a board member of cgi On it, I wrote that my wife designs bags for cgi, and loses money doing so plus donating her time And that teneo represents 4 cgi sponsors, 3 of which teneo brought to cgi . Oddly, wjc does not have to sign such a document even though he is personally paid by 3 cgi sponsors, gets many expensive gifts from them, some that are at home etc I could add 500 different examples of things like this and while I removed lasry bc they are all on the offense, I get the sense that they are trying to put some sort of wrong doing on me after the audit as a crutch to change things and if I don’t mention things like lasry where they all have issues, I may regret it”

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/21978

68

CF38

21978

Doug Band, who was Clinton’s body man while he was in the WH and the guy who practically invented the Clinton Foundation, says this about Bill, who apparently did not have to sign a conflict of interest policy document like the rest of the Clinton Foundation board:

“he is personally paid by 3 cgi sponsors, gets many expensive gifts from them, some that are at home, etc.”

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/21978

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CF39

22030

HRC pay to play with King of Morocco & making a “mess” of foreign policy

From:huma@hrcoffice.com To: robbymook2015@gmail.com, john.podesta@gmail.com

Just to give you some context, the condition upon which the Moroccans agreed to host the meeting was her participation. If hrc was not part if it, meeting was a non-starter.
CGI also wasn’t pushing for a meeting in Morocco and it wasn’t their first choice.
This was HRC’s idea, our office approached the Moroccans and they 100 percent believe they are doing this at her request. The King has personally committed approx $12 million both for the endowment and to support the meeting.
It will break a lot of china to back out now when we had so many opportunities to do it in the past few months.
She created this mess and she knows it.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/22030#efmABAADKADLADiAEeAExAFbAH_AJwAKXAOWAO2

70

CF40

23539

Jennifer Palmieri writes about how Bill Clinton should refuse to answer the press on a few subjects

We recommend not engaging on specific questions related to 1) donors; 2) implementation of the MOU; or 3) HRC’s knowledge of donors to the Foundation. These are rabbit holes. Press want us to go deeper into these subjects to try to get us to introduce more facts which will lead to more questions and give the story more life.

It is very clear that Clinton staffers do not want the press or the voters to gain access to “more facts”

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/23539#efmAQJAVU

71

CF41

24440

CLINTON FOUNDATION SCHEMED WITH BIG PHARMA TO KEEP THE PRICE OF AIDS DRUGS HIGH IN AMERICA (https://archive.fo/G1q8s) (TLDR. http://imgur.com/a/Dcdmx)

When the Clintons are questioned about the obvious sketchiness of their foundation, they routinely cite AIDS work. But the AIDS work is carried out by CHAI (“Clinton Health Access Initiative”), a separate organization.

In one angry fax (https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/13278), Ira Magaziner, the head of CHAI, says the Clinton Foundation would have 40% overhead if they left out CHAI from the statistics (see pg.10 of attachment). The Clintons conflate these two organizations and they know it. Here (https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/10977)is an email from Podesta where he admits he, “mixed CHAI and CF together” on a television appearance defending the foundation. Tina Flournoy, an aide to Bill Clinton, worried (https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/12410) that the foundation was constantly “using CHAI stats.” Craig Minassian, an employee of the Clinton Foundation, dismissed (https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/12410) those concerns by noting “the HIV/AIDS work hits home in a way that other stats don’t.”

But now, with this new email ( https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/24440 ), reveals the true nature of CHAI’s work. CHAI contracted with Big Pharma companies for AIDS drugs to be distributed in developing countries. This contract specified that AIDS drugs would be provided for a significant discount to CHAI. Getting the drugs at a large discount acts like a direct donation to CHAI. The Clintons reap all of the PR benefits which they use to defend themselves. Otherwise the Clintons would have no defense when the issue of the Clinton Foundation corruption is raised.

But why is this arrangement beneficial for Big Pharma? They could easily distribute drugs to the developing world themselves. Many pharma companies already have programs where they tightly monitor and control the distribution of drugs (REMS) (http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cder/rems/) and programs that allow them to distribute to the less fortunate (Pfizer Rx Assistance Programs) (http://www.pfizer.com/health/financial_assistance_programs/patient_assistance_programs). Why then, do they need to go through the Clintons?

Corrupt Bargain

The answer, laid out for the first time in this email, is that the Pharma companies relied on the Clintons to resist efforts to lower the costs of AIDS drugs in the United States, the world’s most lucrative drug market. They enable CHAI to do and claim credit for running a massive AIDS drug program, in exchange they expect high drug prices in the United States.

• The Clintons get the positive press for running a large drug program with CHAI from the cheap drugs from the companies.
• The Pharma companies get a political machine to preserve their ability to fleece the American consumer.
• Since the insurance companies mostly pay for these drugs, the American consumer barely notices.
• And everyone else, even those without AIDS, just pay higher insurance premiums to offset this expense. The costs are distributed throughout the population via the insurance industry.

Smoking Gun Email
The email is a reaction to “comments President Clinton made on lowering domestic AIDS drugs prices at the World AIDS day event” that must have set off a firestorm within Clinton world. Ira notes that CHAI was “taken by surprise” and “wish[ed] that someone had consulted with us before he made these comments.” He explains:

“we think that publicly pressuring the US and European AIDS drug companies to lower prices and bringing pressure to allow generic AIDS drugs into the United States will have limited if any success and could seriously jeopardize our negotiations to continually lower prices in poor countries. …

We have always told the drug companies that we would not pressure them and create a slippery slope where prices they negotiate with us for poor countries would inevitably lead to similar prices in rich countries. If we were going to change our view on this, we should have informed the companies before President Clinton went public with his statement and attempted to negotiate a way for them to participate in and get credit for whatever steps we could have persuaded them to take to help the crisis in the states.

Since President Clinton’s comments were made, we have been contacted by a number of advocacy groups who are now intending to wage a public campaign to bring in generics and lower drug prices. We do not feel we can participate in this without jeopardizing our work around the world. We cannot oppose what they might do, but we also cannot be publicly supporting it either.This campaign will not get started until January, so we have some time to figure out and act upon our own strategy.”

Having laid out the damage, Ira turns to mitigation strategies:
“If we do try to do something in this area, we suggest that we approach the innovator companies that can currently sell products in the US with the idea of making donations to help clear the ADAP lists. For a variety of reasons, the companies will likely favor a donation approach rather than one that erodes prices across the board. …”

What reason(s) could there possibly be beyond simple profit maximization?
“… I would guess that they would also likely favor a solution that involved their drugs rather than an approach that allowed generic drugs from India to flood the US market at low prices or one that set a precedent of waiving patent laws on drugs. … We can go to war with the US drug companies if President Clinton would like to do so, but we would not suggest it.”
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/24440#efmAZwAcGAePAgkAizAj9

Summary
CHAI freely admits there is an implicit agreement with the drug companies not to pressure them to lower domestic prices. Bill Clinton made comments that added pressure. CHAI receives a great amount of positive publicity for their AIDS work abroad, and the comments jeopardize that program. Here, CHAI admits it is in their interests for US AIDS drug prices to remain high, so that they can continue getting credit for keeping them low abroad.

But CHAI is not content with simply fleecing American AIDS sufferers. Since CHAI doesn’t want pressure on Pharma companies to linger, they propose to torpedo other AIDS advocacy groups by creating a smaller, watered-down domestic program with the Pharma companies before those other advocacy groups begin their assault in January.

The Clintons are only out for themselves. In comments on World AIDS day in the subsequent years of 2012 (http://archive.is/mg2cp) and 2013 (http://archive.is/RRBBz), Bill says nothing whatsoever about domestic drug prices. If AIDS advocacy groups cannot trust the Clintons not to stab them in the back, how can the American people?

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/24440

72

CF42

25201

EMAILD A Clinton Global Initiative(CGI) executive asks a meeting from Podesta. Apparently he has to justify why he wants the meeting in a long email. He wants to discuss the future of CGI:

“it is imperative that we formulate an answer to the question whether CGI can and will exist beyond 2016 if Secretary Clinton becomes the next President.”

Apparently he is concerned that the end of CGI may be in sight. Maybe it will not be needed any more as a campaign asset? Or the conflict of interests will be too big to ignore?

“1) In its current form, CGI’s existence depends on President Clinton’s active and visible participation as the convener. 2) The economic viability of CGI depends on its ability to attract members and sponsors to support the enterprise.”

Bill Clinton must keep working on CGI to remain viable.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/25201#efmAPbAR3

73

CF43

25737

CLINTON FOUNDATION DR WAS HEAD OF EBOLA EFFORTS IN LIBERIA. CF STOOD TO MAKE A LOT OF MONEY BEING THE MIDDLE MAN, JUST LIKE THEY DID IN HAITI

From: “Walter T. Gwenigale”
Subject: Re: ebola plan
Date: September 13, 2014 at 5:45:14 AM EDT
To: “James Tomarken”

“Thanks, Jim, for getting to me yourself. If implemented, your proposal will be a great help to us. Dr. Moses Massaquoi, the head of the Clinton Foundation in the Ministry of Health & Social Welfare here in Liberia, is actively involved with the management of the Ebola incidence and heads the “case management (treatment)”team. I will pass your suggestions to him and Hon. Tolbert Nyenswah, the Chair of the “Ebola Incidence Management System” and get back to you very soon.
Walter”

TOTAL PLEDGED AND ACTUAL DONATIONS TO THE EBOLA EFFORTS
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/ebola/11179135/What-countries-have-pledged-to-fight-Ebola…-and-how-much-theyve-paid-into-the-fund.html

‘$18.8 million (£11.7 million) from Britain and more than $200 million (£124.5 million) from the US.”
GOOD CHARTS IN THIS ARTICLE

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/25737

74

CF44

25770

lawyers talking about not getting their money for their Clinton Foundation Haiti job.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/25770

75

CF45

25770

Clinton Foundation not paying for the services they received for more than a year. This is related to the “looting of Haiti” case where the “Friends of Bill” list was created in the State Department. Chelsea complains:

“My friend Eric was the partner who led the work McKinsey did pro bono + expenses for the CF/ CBHF and the IHRC in Haiti for more than a year and their expenses have not yet been paid.”

Eric, the friend wants to get paid but doesn’t dare to tell his bosses because the info might leak out and it would be embarrassing if the press found out about this.

“I think he’s a bit at wits end and also doesn’t want to run it up the flag pole at McKinsey to attract any undesired attention.”

Meme version ( https://i.sli.mg/hgJyj5.png)

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/25770#efmADXAFGAHrAJq

76

CF46

26101

Concerns that Hillary will be the presedent and that she will be “most unfriendly to Israel…. worse than Obama.”

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/26101

77

CF47

26121

HRC AND WJC TOLD TO DECLINE FOREIGN DONATIONS ASAP BY THEIR OWN CAMPAIGN!

“John, some free advice, good advice. Clinton Foundation should cut off foreign donations ASAP. Inevitably will happen anyway, they should get it off the table now. Not only because of the intrinsic issue, but it would be good for the Clintons to get in the habit of cutting off downside risks of any kind. You do not need me to tell you, before this campaign is done, it will not be pretty. I will not publicly call for this, but this is my advice to you and them……Brent”

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/26121

78

CF48

—-

Clinton Foundation Accepts tens of millions of dollars from SA and Qatar

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/21/us/politics/hillary-clinton-presidential-campaign-charity.html

79

CTR

Correct the Record

80

CTR1

7005

David Brock resignation but now runs Correct The Record

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/7005

81

CTR2

16024

EMAILID 16024 re47 and cbaker agree to put the former Governor of Michigan, Jennifer Granholm on the CTR paylist as an official CTR shill. This seems necessary because they want to start paying out money to her immediately. After a while they will move her to another “vehicle” (slush fund?), to draw salary from somewhere else. CTR is Correct The Record, a super PAC, most known for massive shill campaigns, using paid posters on social media like Reddit and Facebook, funded by millions of dollars. I explored with Marc what the limitations would be on HFA’s use of Governor Granholm if she were paid by Correct the Record. As a threshold matter we could not call her a spokesman for the campaign or schedule her directly. We would be able to refer groups or media to her if they are looking for a non-campaign, third part surrogate, the same way we might refer them to the DNC Chair or Stephanie Schriock. For example this weekend she spoke at the Ohio State Party dinner. If she were at Correct the Record we could at least make sure her speaking and media opportunities met our needs/requests. Finally, as a person paid by CTR she could not solicit donations for the campaign. She could be at CTR for a period and move to some other vehicle (New York – or Michigan- state party, DNC, HFA) at any point (i.e. there is no waiting period).

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/16024

82

CTR3

16024

I explored with Marc what the limitations would be on HFA’s use of Governor Granholm if she were paid by Correct the Record. As a threshold matter we could not call her a spokesman for the campaign or schedule her directly. We would be able to refer groups or media to her if they are looking for a non-campaign, third part surrogate, the same way we might refer them to the DNC Chair or Stephanie Schriock. For example this weekend she spoke at the Ohio State Party dinner. If she were at Correct the Record we could at least make sure her speaking and media opportunities met our needs/requests. Finally, as a person paid by CTR she could not solicit donations for the campaign. She could be at CTR for a period and move to some other vehicle (New York – or Michigan- state party, DNC, HFA) at any point (i.e. there is no waiting period).

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/16024

83

CTR4

20102

CTR talking points for January 2015. CTR is Correct the Record, a super PAC mostly known for hiring paid posters, shills to post pro-Hillary content on Reddit and Facebook. The goal of such an operation is to create an illusion of organic support for Hillary. This roundup will be possibly useful in the future to identify senior CTR accounts by comparing what they posted to the contents of this email, since most CTR employees only started posting much closer to the election than January 2015.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/20102

84

DTC

Donald Trump Campaign

85

DTC1

3599

Clinton strategist: We need to “produce an unaware and compliant citizenry” to defeat Trump:

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/3599#efmARKATm

86

DTC2

4518

Hillary campaign desperate to generate fake “USA!” chants, calls Trump supporters “angry white guys”:

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/4518

87

DTC3

4664

Clinton campaign and the New York Times coordinating attack strategy against Trump:

https://www.wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/4664

88

DTC4

5774

Call to undermine Trump by accusing him of big brother plans.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/5774

89

DTC5

7273

“…Trump is change of historic size…”

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/7273

90

DTC6

21792

David Brock (founded Correct the Record) ups the budget when The Donald is the apparent nominee

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/21792

91

DTC7

21792

Brock now thinks Hillary will likely face The Donald , and that he could give her a tough challenge. He’s leaning on his super PAC, American Bridge, to step up delivery of a Trump oppo research book, contemplating strategic and tactical changes to Bridge’s program, and upping the group’s budget, the source said. Bridge’s union allies are telling Brock that Trump could attract significant support from rank-and-file union members in key states.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/21792

92

DTC8

25449

“He’s [Trump] winning state after state in the primaries and his campaign doesn’t show any signs of slowing. He’s even funding his own campaign, so there’s no fear of running out of resources and losing steam.”

“Trump’s widespread, unwavering support among GOP voters is nothing short of terrifying.”

That’s because this train has no brakes!

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/25449#efmAh5AlD

93

FP

Foreign Policy

94

FP1

927

Considering Hillary has been in Putin’s “inner sanctum” and approved of 20% of our uranium to end up in his governmental pockets, it shows her cozy relationship between them. HYPOCRITE!

Page 61 of attachment:

“Hillary Clinton Said One Time She Visited Putin And Bonded With Him Over Protecting The Habitat Of Tigers. “One time, I was visiting with him in his dacha outside of Moscow, and he was going on and on, you know, just listing all of the problems that he thinks are caused by the United States. And I said, ‘Well, you know, Mr.’—at that time, he was still prime minister. I said, ‘You know, Mr. Prime Minister, we actually have some things in common. We both want to protect wildlife, and I know how committed you are to protecting the tiger.’ I mean, all of a sudden, he sat up straight and his eyes got big and he goes, ‘You care about the tiger? I said, ‘I care about the tiger, I care about the elephant, I care about the rhinoceros, I care about the whale. I mean, yeah, I think we have a duty. You know, it’s an obligation that we as human beings have to protect God’s creation.’ He goes, ‘Come with me.’ So we go down the stairs, we go down this long hall, we go into this private inner sanctum. All of his, you know, very beefy security guys are there, they all jump up at attention, you know, they punch a code, he goes through a heavily-armed door. And then we’re in an inner, inner sanctum with, you know, just this long, wooden table, and then further back, there’s a desk and the biggest map of Russia I ever saw. And he starts talking to me about, you know, the habitat of the tigers and the habitat of the seals and the whales. And it was quite something.” [Jewish United Fund Of Metropolitan Chicago Vanguard Luncheon, 10/28/13]

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/927

95

FP2

927

>Hillary Clinton Dreams of ‘Open Trade and Open Borders’ & http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/10/devastating-wikileaks-document-drop-hillary-clinton-dreams-open-trade-open-borders/

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/927#efmFhxFke

96

FP3

1488

Drone chemical warfare

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/1488

97

FP4

2016

Iran treaty discussion; Hillary wants sanctions and military threats

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/2016

98

FP5

2034

In depth email dictating to Hillary what her stance on Israel should be

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/2034

99

FP6

2038

>Hillary’s own advisor blamed Hillary for Benghazi & https://twitter.com/AmyMek/status/785568915254575104

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/2038

100

FP7

2557

Discussions about reforming laws regarding guantanamo bay (GTMO) and torture with reference from the “National Security Team”

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/2257

101

FP8

3774

Saudi Arabia & Qatar funding ISIS proof

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/3774#efmBA5BDe

102

FP9

6330

Trade deal explanation only for sophisticated audiences

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/6330

103

FP10

7452

Foreign donor endowement?

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/7452

104

FP11

9954

Today’s Cost of War Receipt to the American People Iraq war invoice pretty much

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/9954

105

FP12

18646

Muslim to Podesta: Trump Is Right “it really has little effect in the ISIL propaganda war if we’re hesitating to say “radical Islam”, they are already calling themselves the Islamic State after all”

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/18646

106

FP13

26101

HRC IS SEEN AS EXTREMEMLY UNFRIENDLY TO ISRAEL

From:meganrouse@gmail.com
To: john.podesta@gmail.com
Date: 2015-05-11 21:21
Subject: Israel

“I’ve heard a concern from some folks who care deeply about Israel that Hillary will be the president “most unfriendly to Israel in our history, worse than Obama.” Thoughts on how I might respond in conversation? Thanks”

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/26101

107

FP14

26661

Ron Klain acknowledges that Hillary is very vulnerable on ISIS and terrorism :

“That is, it is just a matter of time before the Republicans (certainly) and the media (likely) begin to try to use San Bernandino as a sign that things were broken while she was Sec State and that she did not do enough to fix them. And I don’t know if saying, “Hey, this really wasn’t a problem until after I left State” is going to cut it. That is, someone (a Democratic opponent now, a moderator, or a Republican opponent later) takes her line – “the first job of any President is to keep the American people safe” – and says, “Well, it’s also the first job of a Secretary of State too – and what did you do about it while you were Sec State?”

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/26661

108

MC

Media Collusion

109

MC1

844

Media collusion with Podesta getting drafts of NYT articles before they’re published

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/844

110

MC2

910

Vice news does what Soros tells them

https://www.wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/910

111

MC3

1106

More pre-published NYT articles being passed along for review
(a Rothschild is not exactly our best voice on income inequality)

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/1106

112

MC4

1216

More media collusion with Podesta being aware of media preparations before they break

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/1216

113

MC5

2105

GOP debate moderator had lunch with Hillary’s campaign chief 3 weeks before the debate. see 4303

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/2105

114

MC6

2301

Bill Clinton’s sex life liability

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/2301

115

MC7

2591

CNBC/NYT Journalist John Harwood (was a Republican Primary debate moderator) reached out to John Podesta on numerous occasions, writing “congrats”, “she looked so much comfortable today” and more:

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/2591

116

MC8

3023

>DNC Chief Donna Brazile Conspired with Hillary to Defeat Bernie; Media Assisted Hillary & >https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/785575401275944960/photo/1 & >https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/785573145700892673/photo/1

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/3023#efmAKjALL

117

MC9

3209

>The List of Reporters Were Taking Marching Orders from Hillary & (meta data) – https://www.fbcoverup.com/docs/library/2015-03-08-John-Podesta-Subject-Re-Press-and-Surrogate-Plan-Email-From-pir-at-hrcoffice-com-Cc-John-Podesta-EmailID-3209-WikiLeaks-Mar-08-2015.pdf & (meta data/better format) – https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3125944-Press-Surrogate-Plan-030815.html & >https://theintercept.com/2016/10/09/exclusive-new-email-leak-reveals-clinton-campaigns-cozy-press-relationship/ & >http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/10/wikileaks-outs-corrupt-media-list-reporters-taking-marching-orders-hillary/

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/3209 (meta data)

118

MC10

3782

>Hillary Campaign thanking Univision’s owner Haim Saban for its moderators handling of Hillary against Sanders.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/3782

119

MC11

3990

Hillary is a liability; becomes parasitic to Bernie’s cause

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/3990

120

MC12

4180

Boston Globe colludes with Clinton campaign to give Hillary a “big presence”:

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/4180#efmAJhALE

121

MC13

4213

>NYT Gave Hillary Veto Power On Quotes… & >http://www.lifezette.com/polizette/new-york-times-gave-hillary-veto/

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/4213

122

MC14

4271

Scripted MSNBC interview

https://www.wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/4274

123

MC15

4303

>CNBC John Harwood Abused GOP Candidates at Debate – Then Trashed Them in Email to Hillary Camp & GOP debate moderator privately emailing Podesta post-debate & >http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/10/video-cnbc-crank-john-harwood-abused-gop-candidates-debate-trashed-email-hillary-camp/

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/4303

124

MC16

4316

Vice news looking to help Podesta “In any way they can”

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/4316

125

MC17

4381

HRC being lobbied to not follow fbi request for encryption

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/4381

126

MC18

4543

4543 John Podesta hosts a dinner with reporters: I’m “Cooking for 30 of your reporter friends”

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/4543#efmAAGABu

127

MC19

4818

>CNN refers to Hillary as ‘Madre’ >https://twitter.com/hrtablaze/status/785983773124857856

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/4818

128

MC20

4836

Head of Yahoo news planning pro-Hillary pieces with Podesta

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/4836

129

MC21

5142

Media Collusion with NBC

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/5142

130

MC22

5205

>BRAZILE BUSTED: DNC Chief Shared CNN Town Hall Questions… & >http://dailycaller.com/2016/10/11/revealed-donna-brazile-shared-cnn-town-hall-questions-with-clinton-camp/

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/5205

131

MC23

5740

Ad for Hillary Clinton secretly pitched by ‘right-leaning’ Heat Street ‘journalist’ Louise Mensch:

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/5740#efmAMvAUe

132

MC24

5817

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio asking Clinton staff for approval/input about what he will say when asked about Hillary Clinton by interviewer:

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/5817#efmANjAcC

133

MC25

5953

Clinton Staff hosts private “off-the-record cocktail party” with 38 “influential” reporters, journalists, editors, and anchors (from 16 different mainstream media outlets including CNN, NBC, CBS, NYT, MSNBC, & more) with the stated goal of “framing the race”. (see attachment)

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/5953

134

MC26

5988

5988 Huffington Post contributor Frank Islam writes to John Podesta in email titled “My blogs in the Huffington Post”, says “I am committed to make sure she is elected the next president.” “Please let me know if I can be of any service to you”

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/5988#efmADmAE6AF-AG1

135

MC27

6453

Brent Budowsky (writer for The Hill and Huffington Post) warns John Podesta about possible Hillary attacks and that not talking to the press is killing her support: “I’m not going to raise this publicly, but..”

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/6453#efmARBAUVAVJAXBAfNAhWAkaAl4

136

MC28

7273

>Polls are untrustworthy, middle class will go from Dem to Trump, the rich hate Trump according to democrat advisor

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/7273

137

MC29

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7524 Clinton staff “Placing a story” with Politico / New York Times: “place a story with a friendly journalist” “we have a very good relationship with Maggie Haberman of Politico” “we should shape likely leaks in the best light for HRC”

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/7524#efmA14A2IA3AA36A9fA-kA-6BAICwpCx4

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MORE MEDIA COLLUSION: Progressive media & Clinton foundation

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/7570

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>Hillary staffers leaking reports to the NY Post to get them published

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/7699

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CNBC panelist colluding with John Podesta on what to ask Trump when he calls in for an interview:

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/7710#efmAakAd6AjgAlR

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Brent Budowsky (writer for The Hill and Huffington Post) acting as an advisor again: Warns Podesta: “Almost every message being projected outward from her campaign is negative, and a candidate with high distrust ratings should not be doing this. My phone has been ringing and my email box is full with democrats who like me who support her, but like me, are appalled and losing confidence” “This campaign is in very, very big trouble”

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/7742#efmAAGAE0AlqAnx

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The Hill media collusion with HRC

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/7899

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>CNN suspends reporters for having private political views, also talks about using the “liberal media” as an entity

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/7966

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>Debate prep book 1

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/8009

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>Debate prep book 2

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails//fileid/8009/2407

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Just Clinton staff conspiring to fake Wallstreet speeches

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/8086

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Ben Sherwood is a writer, a journalist, and a producer who currently serves as the Co-Chairman of Disney Media Networks, and the President of Disney-ABC Television Group. Sherwood is the former President of ABC News

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/8359

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It seems that they get to control the release times of Associated Press articles relevant possible to when Hillary was declared the frontrunner by AP just before the california primary after anonymous calls of the AP to superdelegates.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/8460

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>FOX News Mole Leaked Town Hall Question to Clinton Campaign. & >http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/10/wikileaks-fox-news-mole-leaked-town-hall-question-clinton-campaign/ & >http://vesselnews.io/wikileaks-fox-news-mole-leaked-late-term-abortion-debate-question-hillary-campaign/

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/8678

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Clinton staff colluding with New York Times and Wall Street Journal to paint Hillary’s economic policies in a “progressive” light:

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/9007#efmAcTAdS

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DipJar CEO confirmed for hillshill

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/9193

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Collusion with Washington Post

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/9268

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Numbers from Iowa are terrible

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/9302

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The Daily Show = source of news

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/9318

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More media collusion Campaign aware of a NYT article before its release

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/9416

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The story is moving more and more toward terrorism and it seems like by riffing on guns just now she looked a little behind the curve.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/9507

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>WASH POST burea chief protected Podesta… & >http://dailycaller.com/2016/10/11/washington-post-reporter-spiked-info-about-podesta-conflict-of-interest/

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/9530

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Univision’s Haim Saban colluding with HRC campaign

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/9547

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More media Collusion

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/9578

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HRC campaign collusion with NYT report Mark Leibovich

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/9586

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MORE MEDIA COLLUSION

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/9714

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I didnt expect to be fucked by NYT – John Podesta to NYT

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/9865

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BIG MEDIA COLLUSION

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/9922

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Dreamwrks Media Collusion >Let’s talk after Meet the Press tmrw. Want to discuss Potus and Biden.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/9992

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Jeffrey Katzenberg and Andy Spahn meeting with John podesta (Andy spahn being a huge democratic backer) >Andy Spahn (http://gonringspahn.com/andy_spahn.php) has been profiled in the Wall Street Journal, is recognized as one of the top Democratic fundraisers in the country, was named one of the “Biggest Political Players” by The Hollywood Reporter and one of POLITICO’s “50 People to Watch.” He frequently serves as a trusted source of information to the national press corps on politics and philanthropy

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/10021

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John Hardwood CNBC’s/NYT journalist again shown kissing the ass of Podesta & DNC

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/10119

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implicated

https://www.wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/10119#searchresult

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Collusion with the DNC and Univsion & Telemundo & Spanish radio

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/10160

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HRC and stagg got the questions and answers in advance of this forum with Bernie, Martin O’Malley & HRC http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/2016/01/12/brown-and-black-forum-mixes-blunt-questions-lighter-fare/78668732/

https://www.wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/10288

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Progressive Media Outreach & Strategy Plan – Echo Chamber

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/10547

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Forcing Progressive Agenda at every level of Govt for Years to Come

https://wikileaks.com/podesta-emails/emailid/10951

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From Liz bartolomeo “Neera — David Herszenhorn’s story in the Times is now online; Everyone in this email chain has an @americanprogress.org and some are
affiliated with news networks like Lindsay Hamilton being one of the
recipients, she works for TSN http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/02/06/us/politics/hillary-clinton-lobbied-on-health-care-as-secretary-of-state-emails-show.htm

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/11104

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Scheduling Call w/ Jeffrey Katzenberg

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/11106

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Hillary Campaign in bed with NYT, Mika (Joe’s gf), make fun of Cruz’s Canadian birther issue to distract the public from HRC email disaster.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/11150

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Clinton campaign tells “AP, Politico, WSJ, WaPo, etc…” exactly what to say and when to say it, from her medical records to speech income. Even dictates exact headlines.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/11277

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HRC “excellent health” statement being leaked to ‘press’

https://www.wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/11277

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EVERY SINGLE MSM OUTLET HAS SHILLS LISTED HERE &
https://twitter.com/PrisonPlanet/status/787650648535887872

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/11409

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placing “transparency” story with politico journalist Maggie Haberman

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/11699

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more co-coordinating with NYT and WSJ.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/11760#efmB52B7o

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List of media personalities who went to the “off the record” private party in the personal home of John Podesta. Includes many corrupt, in the tank-for-Hillary journalists like John Heillman, Mark Halperin, Maggie Haberman (colluding in other emails with the Hillary campaign) and many others. Largest amount of invitees who said yes to the private party are from the NYT, Bloomberg, MSNBC, CNN . Seems to nicely reflect the level of corruption and pro-Hillary bias. This is April 2015 so they were influencing and corrupting journalists for a long time and their investment clearly paid off.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/12063

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EMAIL 12110 From: Glenn Thrush, Chief Political Correspondent & Senior Staff Writer at POLITICO to John Podesta “I need u It’s an Obama WH story you are in the thing… in a good way but could really use your insights sorry to be a pain in the ass ” The only Obama related article by Glenn Thrush around this time is this one: http://archive.is/gMigP – archived so the evidence can’t get as easily deleted as Crooked Hillary Clinton’s 33 000 emails.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/12110

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Final nail in the coffin that Politico is an arm of the Clinton campaign

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/12189

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Glenn Thrush from POLITICO checking to make sure his article is okay to print. What a bitch!

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/12189

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More direct dealings with the press (Politico)

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/12191#efmAAGACyAGGAHk

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MEDIA COLLUSION: Jennifer Palmieri is complaining that in an interview with WJC about the Foundation, NBC asked CRITICAL questions since they had PREVIOUSLY agreed to paint the foundation in a good light, even though they are still promising to do so. So she makes a contingency plan for good press: “Craig has gotten in touch with NY mag this am to do a story about how grossly the media has handled the story on book/foundation and make this experience with NBC part of that story.”

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/12196

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Trouble with NBC? Call Chuck Todd, he’ll take care of it.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/12196

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– hillary given questions and answers for several TV appearances

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/12241

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Looking for someone outside the campaign to attribute to an article that they wrote for medium:
This is the article: https://medium.com/@clai.lasher/i-m-with-hillary-f8a0b943dcbc

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/12278

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Looking for someone outside the campaign to attribute to an article that they wrote for medium:
This is the article: https://medium.com/@clai.lasher/i-m-with-hillary-f8a0b943dcbc

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/12278

https://twitter.com/AlexandreHilt0n/status/786920423908868097

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EMAILID 12403 From the attachment section of the email. This pdf memo reveals extremely close coordination between Eric Schmidt (google) and the Clinton campaign as early as 2014. They are developing software tools to help out the Clinton campaign. “I have been kept apprised of the work being done by Eric Schmidt’s group and others working directly and indirectly with your team. .. In summary: We have selected a team of developers, unaffiliated with Eric, to build the front-end of your website… Eric’s team is also developing products that are not, strictly speaking, critical for launch, but would be extremely useful to have as early in the cycle as possible”

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/12403

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Hillary campaign coordinating with Executive Chairman of Google parent Alphabet, Inc Eric Schmidt in 2014 (FEC laws you fucks)

• We have selected a team of developers, unaffiliated with Eric, to build the front-end of your website — a relatively simple process that does not need to have begun yet. These are former employees of mine in whom I have the highest confidence. They are apprised of what Eric is building but not dependent on it, having identified commercially available products for all mission-critical functions in the event Eric’s group is delayed or otherwise derailed.

• We have instructed Eric’s team to build the most important products in their portfolio — specifically, the back-end of the website, the ability to accept donations (along with associated features, most importantly the ability to store credit card information), and the ability to acquire email addresses — first. Given how much time remains between now and launch — and, again, the availability of alternative solutions — I believe there is effectively no chance that these core functionalities will not be in place in time for launch.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/12403

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EMAILID 12427 Clinton campaign is getting questions in advance AGAIN for debates. Previously they got a debate question from Donna Brazile. This time it is John Podesta that gets the email from Jon Soltz who somehow learned of a question Cavuto will ask in an upcoming Republican debate. Podesta immediately blasts this out to the whole campaign so they prepare for the fallout. Soltz to Podesta: “We have gotten intel that Neil Cavuto plans to ask a veterans question of the GOP candidates tonight. As you can guess, the candidates are very likely to attack the Secretary in their answers. Your press team, therefore, may find it useful to get this to reporters”

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/12427

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Glenn Thrush, Politico Chief Political Correspondent: “No worries
> Because I have become a hack I will send u the whole section that pertains
> to u
> Please don’t share or tell anyone I did this
> Tell me if I fucked up anything”

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/12681#efmABjAEV

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EMAILID 12681 Glenn Thrush Politico’s “Chief Political Correspondent” , extremely corrupt, dishonest “journalist” writes to John Podesta: “Because I have become a hack I will send u the whole section that pertains to u Please don’t share or tell anyone I did this Tell me if I fucked up anything” then he sends a huge part of the article to John Podesta. Absolutely disgraceful. Podesta approves the section of course which showed him in a very positive light to begin with. Don’t worry Glenn Trush of the Politico. I’m sure Podesta won’t tell anyone you did this.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/12681#efmAByAEV

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EMAILID 12681 Glenn Thrush , extremely corrupt, dishonest “journalist” writes to John Podesta: “Because I have become a hack I will send u the whole section that pertains to u Please don’t share or tell anyone I did this Tell me if I fucked up anything” then he sends a huge part of the article to John Podesta. Absolutely disgraceful. Podesta approves the section of course which showed him in a very positive light to begin with. Don’t worry Glenn Trush of the Politico. I’m sure Podesta won’t tell anyone you did this.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/12681#efmAByAEV

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EMAILID 12831 Foreign press reaches out to the Clinton campaign : “I am writing to you on behalf of the Leading European Newspaper Alliance (LENA), which brings together Die Welt from Germany, El País from Spain, Belgium’s Le Soir, La Reppublica from Italy … an interview with Secretary Clinton. There is plenty for the Secretary to say to the people of Europe. We do not have a set timeframe, and we are perfectly aware of how tight her schedule is. We also know that interviews get arranged by strict policies and guidelines and only if they serve the communication agenda of the Secretary.”

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/12831#efmAS-AVL

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EMAILID 12831 Foreign press reaches out to the Clinton campaign : “I am writing to you on behalf of the Leading European Newspaper Alliance (LENA), which brings together Die Welt from Germany, El País from Spain, Belgium’s Le Soir, La Reppublica from Italy … an interview with Secretary Clinton. There is plenty for the Secretary to say to the people of Europe. We do not have a set timeframe, and we are perfectly aware of how tight her schedule is. We also know that interviews get arranged by strict policies and guidelines and only if they serve the communication agenda of the Secretary.”

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/12831#efmAS-AVL

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EMAILID 13817 Brent Budowsky again writing to Podesta… It seems Budowsky was an informal adviser of sorts to Podesta (while claiming to be a “journalist”). Budowsky wrote Podesta 70 emails according to the search engine, just in the leaks released so far. This time Budowsky appears to fish for a pat on the back, writing “You’ll enjoy how I handled Trump’s attack against Huma, among other things…Brent” and attaches his latest article, no doubt the fruit of the unhealthy relationship between him and Podesta. http://archive.is/3FStJ Budowsky is as clear a case of a Clinton campaign operative pretending to be a journalist as there ever was. I provided an archived version of the article because of the Clinton campaign’s known penchant for deleting incriminating evidence.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/13817

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EMAILID 13817 Brent Budowsky again writing to Podesta… It seems Budowsky was an informal adviser of sorts to Podesta (while claiming to be a “journalist”). Budowsky wrote Podesta 70 emails according to the search engine, just in the leaks released so far. This time Budowsky appears to fish for a pat on the back, writing “You’ll enjoy how I handled Trump’s attack against Huma, among other things…Brent” and attaches his latest article, no doubt the fruit of the unhealthy relationship between him and Podesta. http://archive.is/3FStJ Budowsky is as clear a case of a Clinton campaign operative pretending to be a journalist as there ever was. I provided an archived version of the article because of the Clinton campaign’s known penchant for deleting incriminating evidence.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/13817

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Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook) – ” He’s begun to think about whether/how he might want to shape advocacy efforts to support his philanthropic priorities and is particularly interested in meeting people who could help him understand how to move the needle on the specific public policy issues he cares most about. He wants to meet folks who can inform his understanding about effective political operations to advance public policy goals on social oriented objectives (like immigration, education or basic scientific research).”

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/15092#efmARfAUUAZoAd9AeeAf6

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EMAILID 15261 More from Mindy (the mole on Elizabeth Warren’s team) and Maggie (an NYT journalist, often colluding with the Clinton campaign). Mindy is giving up inside info as usual, Maggie is colluding as usual. ” The NYT (Jonathan Martin and Maggie Haberman) reached out this morning to tell us that they are aware of a meeting HRC had with Senator Warren at her house back in December. They plan to write imminently, so wanted everyone to be aware that this could pop soon.” Giving advance warning. “Just talked w Mindy. Good convo. She said she’s been getting really good feedback about Dan’s outreach–she said she knows we are talking to the people they suggested and they really like Dan…So good work, Schwerin! Also, she flagged that they’re going to push back hard against POTUS on trade.” handing out info. “And the NYT piece is fine — for both sides.” Of course it is good for you, one of your pawns Maggie Haberman co-wrote it. Phillipe Reines on the same NYT story : “They have to believe it came from us. Reads too perfectly for HRC. If we intended to do it it probably wouldn’t read so perfectly.” Once again a crooked journalist wrote it so it is no big surprise it reads “too perfectly for HRC”. Just remember that Maggie Haberman from the NYT is as Crooked as they come.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/15261

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EMAILID 15261 More from Mindy (the mole on Elizabeth Warren’s team) and Maggie (an NYT journalist, often colluding with the Clinton campaign). Mindy is giving up inside info as usual, Maggie is colluding as usual. ” The NYT (Jonathan Martin and Maggie Haberman) reached out this morning to tell us that they are aware of a meeting HRC had with Senator Warren at her house back in December. They plan to write imminently, so wanted everyone to be aware that this could pop soon.” Giving advance warning. “Just talked w Mindy. Good convo. She said she’s been getting really good feedback about Dan’s outreach–she said she knows we are talking to the people they suggested and they really like Dan…So good work, Schwerin! Also, she flagged that they’re going to push back hard against POTUS on trade.” handing out info. “And the NYT piece is fine — for both sides.” Of course it is good for you, one of your pawns Maggie Haberman co-wrote it. Phillipe Reines on the same NYT story : “They have to believe it came from us. Reads too perfectly for HRC. If we intended to do it it probably wouldn’t read so perfectly.” Once again a crooked journalist wrote it so it is no big surprise it reads “too perfectly for HRC”. Just remember that Maggie Haberman from the NYT is as Crooked as they come.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/15261

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Mark Penn says they will be supportive.He was at Microsoft but apparently the stagwell group is involved in polling

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/15398

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This email talks about a guy named Chip Smith wanting to help out with the campaign. He is the ceo/coo of Glover Park Group, a lobbying firm, and previously had worked on the Gore campaign. In 2013 the firm, full of ex Clinton staffers, donated to the CF according to this article: http://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/business-a-lobbying/193467-group-touted-clinton-access-for-250000.

More interestingly, in May of this year, Chippy became the chief lobbyist for good old Rupert Murdoch and 21st Century Fox. The Cuckening of Fox is real. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2016/05/05/chip-smith-democratic-strategist-and-gore-aide-to-take-top-lobbying-job-at-21st-century-fox/

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/15434

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EMAILID 15455 Email contains attachments with the agenda of a 2007 meeting in NY. Many issues are discussed, like the topic of creating a media “echo chamber” : Control the political discourse. So much effort over the past few years has been focused on better coordinating, strengthening, and developing progressive institutions and leaders. Now that this enhanced infrastructure is in place—grassroots organizing; multi-issue advocacy groups; think tanks; youth outreach; faith communities; micro-targeting outfits; the netroots and blogosphere—we need to better utilize these networks to drive the content of politics through a strong “echo chamber” and message delivery system.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/15455

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Laura Meckler from WSJ dinner with Podesta and kissing ass Podesta forwards to HRC campaign and asks: No good deed goes unpunished. Let me know how to handle. HRC campaign responds: Send her to us.

https://www.wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/15525#searchresult

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RIGGED POLLS! We are as interested in the “who” suburban, rural, we are polling as the issues. The plan includes a possible focus on women, might be something we want to do is over sample if we are worried about a certain group later in the summer.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/15442

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More media collusion + getting celebs to tweet pro Hillary video. It’s all organized folks.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/15563

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Clinton Camp received heads up on stories from Politico before they are published

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/15722

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The failing New York Times proves themselves as DNC lapdogs once again

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/15798

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Here’s Katie Couric sucking up to the campaign, guaranteeing “viral” potential if she’ll grant an interview.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/15819#efmAFaALTAN_AP5

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Apple’s “experts” working with the Clinton campaign after encryption issue

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/15856

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they were offered cybersecurity advice…

“Hey John, I know you’ve seen the article below. Huge issue out here as I am sure you know. If you ever want our tech experts to brief your folks, we’d be happy to do it.”

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/15856

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Observer writer colluding with Clinton campaign

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/16329

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MEDIA COLLUSION
WaPo ‘journalist’ trying to see how they can help with a story on WJC

https://www.wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/17311#searchresult

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More Media collusion, getting a story that will break next week a week in advance so they can prepare a statement

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/17435

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EMAILID 17451 Remember how tweets signed by -H supposedly come from Hillary personally?

Tweets like this one https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/612002144686874627 Archived version http://archive.is/u4Kwz (no sudden deletions through BleachBit here)

The discussion in this email determined that that was a lie. Teddy Goff, John Podesta, Lauren Peterson and others discuss and craft that tweet through several revisions. Earlier versions include

Real problems take real solutions. Thank you, @Pontifex https://twitter.com/Pontifex, for shining a light on the crisis of climate change. -H

.

There’s only one thing to say about @Pontifex https://twitter.com/Pontifex’s bold statements on climate change & renewable energy: Amen. -H

I believe these are the two we landed on as far as people’s favorites.

So there were even more versions before this…

Teddy Geoff:

Adding Podesta here too for his review. I vote #2, but defer to the non-Jews on this thread if anyone thinks “amen” might rub people the wrong way.

Lauren Peterson

How’s this? .@Pontifex https://twitter.com/Pontifex is right—climate change is a > moral crisis that disproportionately harms the neediest among us. We need > leadership, not denial. -H

John Podesta

I like it.

Notice how that last version is the same that was tweeted out. So tweets signed by -H actually came when John Podesta “liked it” and went through numerous revisions, reviews and product of teamwork beforehand. With 0% actual input from Hillary Clinton.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/17451#efmAB8AErAWOAYnAYyAbJ

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Podesta decides to stonewall the WSJ. This email has the subject:Confidential . The staff is very very worried about the WSJ finding out that Hillary is already having meetings and building the campaign team in early 2014. He milks info out of the journalist which he shares with the others so they can map out what the guy knows. For some reason they are very afraid of this one. Podesta writes about the meeting with the WSJ journalist.:

He was doing a story on who wanted her to run, who didn’t. Had you in the latter category Only thing I told him was there was a third category-people who thought it was her decision and would support her whatever she decided. He had you, me and Maggie meeting with her at Whitehaven. Didn’t mention Plouffe. I didn’t engage with him on the topic. Just let him talk and gave nothing back.

They made a complete fool out of this poor WSJ guy. He should come out and set the record straight regarding this issue.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/17556

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Glenn Thrush is at it again. In a previous email defined himself as a “hack journalist” and pleaded with Podesta “please don’t tell anyone I did this” when colluding with him. Now Glenn saw a bad tweet from Podesta and he immediately feels the need to grovel at his feet:

Saw your tweet I think u know I wasn’t fabricating you anything… No need for a response, but I hope u understand that I take this stuff seriously and try to be sensitive to the human impact of these shitty stories I take zero pleasure in them — whether u folks believe me or not Cheers and good luck today

Podesta’s response

..my tweet was accurate so 1) maybe you should question your sources or 2) maybe you are talking to people on the inside who the pressure is getting to.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/18744

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From:john.podesta@gmail.com To: gthrush@politico.com Date: 2016-02-09 18:52 Subject: Re: OTR

I have no doubt you had sources for your story and weren’t just making it up, but my tweet was accurate so 1) maybe you should question your sources or 2) maybe you are talking to people on the inside who the pressure is getting to.

On Tuesday, February 9, 2016, Glenn Thrush gthrush@politico.com wrote: > Saw your tweet > I think u know I wasn’t fabricating you anything… > No need for a response, but I hope u understand that I take this stuff > seriously and try to be sensitive to the human impact of these shitty > stories > I take zero pleasure in them — whether u folks believe me or not > Cheers and good luck today > > Sent from my iPhone

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/18744

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EMAILID 19070 Sheryl Sandberg, Chief Operating Officer of Facebook writes to John Podesta May 2015:

And I still want HRC to win badly. I am still here to help as I can. She came over and was magical with my kids.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/19070#efmACIAD6

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Gloria Borger, CNN Chief Political Correspondent casually chatting & sucking up to Podesta

From:Gloria.Borger@turner.com
To: john.podesta@gmail.com
Date: 2016-02-12 04:16
Subject: Re: U r a tv star!

She had a really good debate tonite

On Feb 12, 2016, at 1:14 AM, John Podesta <john.podesta@gmail.com> wrote:

Yup

On Thursday, February 11, 2016, Borger, Gloria <Gloria.Borger@turner.com> wrote:
I have been in gop hell. Will reach out soon! U good?

https://www.wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/19362#searchresult

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20133

Much of this was already covered in earlier batches. Jake Tapper was upset about a story by Faiz Shakir. He complained directly to Jenifer Palmieri and John Podesta though.

The new parts in this chain are both from Jake Tapper:

What’s the plan? To try to intimidate reporters who ever report on anything the White House disapproves of? Disgusting.

The report Thinkprogress filed about me is dead wrong. I made that clear to your reporter and he wrote it any way. If this is the quality of CAP’s work I will let ABC News know that your organization cannot be counted on for factually accurate information.

https://www.wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/20133

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Surrogate List! Names, dates, times, and what network they were on. Lot of surrogates here from Februrary. I have no idea whether all of them were known to be surrogates of Crooked Hillary at the time or they presented themselves as neutral commentators.

Also, all of the below have the memo – let me know if there are other messages we want them driving?

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/21454

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21526

Re: 315 pm prep for FOX Town Hall Prep

While prepping for a town hall once again they “hear” the topics in advance.
Must be nice. Before almost every debate. To “hear” topics. Questions.

Kristina Costas writes:

Flagging that Bob B. heard that they could ask about carbon tax and late-term abortion restrictions. Solow and I are pulling debate book materials & running abortion answer by Jen & Rachel ahead of 3pm.

Bob B. Hmmm. Could it be Bob Beckel using his contacts at FOX?

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/21526#efmAJiAOE

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An interesting thread trying to chase down the FOX MOLE who was just revealed in Podesta 12.5 (this thread)

https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/58bshg/fox_news_debate_a_sham_get_this_to_the_top/

The existence of moles are revealed by the documented instances where questions or topics were leaked before a debate directly to the Hillary Clinton Campaign and the Podesta Emails show undeniable proof of it. See some of the newly discovered evidence below about a person named Bob B.. He was leaking information from FOX to the Clinton campaign. Bob B. leaked two upcoming questions, one about “carbon tax” and “late term abortion restrictions” before a town hall debate. The following text was sent as part of an email between Clinton operatives just before a previous Fox debate

Flagging that Bob B. heard that they could ask about carbon tax and late-term abortion restrictions. Solow and I are pulling debate book materials & running abortion answer by Jen & Rachel ahead of 3pm.

This is extremely important since the third presidential debate will be on the same FOX, this new information just came to light about. With confirmed previous leaking at FOX, we can not be sure the presidential debate questions were not also leaked. In fact it is extremely likely that the exact same system that produced one leak in one debate would produce another leak in another debate

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/21526#efmAJiAOE

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Tapper, ABC, colluding with Podesta on a tweet

From:Jake.Tapper@abc.com To: john.podesta@gmail.com,

Some just tweeted something inaccurate about me, claiming I said something I didn’t. What am I supposed to do here?

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/21716

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Flournoy vetting Politico stories

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/21886

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HRC has no black support and collusion with media

From:kfinney@hillaryclinton.com To: jennifer.m.palmieri@gmail.com Date: 2015-08-18 19:30 Subject: Re: Hillary Clinton needs to sit down with black reporters fast. Her efforts in the black community are not resonating

April Ryan White House Correspondent Washington Bureau Chief American Urban Radio Networks
>I would love to be a part of this sit down hopefully in DC.

From:kfinney@hillaryclinton.com To: jennifer.m.palmieri@gmail.com
how about I circle back with her. It’s a good idea

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/21935

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HRC campaign dining with 25 reporters

Subject: RE: Press Dinners – Full Info

Here is the current RSVP list to the Thursday Night (4/9) dinner at Podesta’s.

As a reminder, this is with the 25 reporters more closely following HRC (aka the future bus).

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/22283

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MORE EVIDENCE OF MEDIA COLLUSION

Glenn Thrush, Politico Chief Political Correspondent to Podesta
>Saw your tweet I think u know I wasn’t fabricating you anything… No need for a response, but I hope u understand that I take this stuff seriously and try to be sensitive to the human impact of these shitty stories I take zero pleasure in them — whether u folks believe me or not Cheers and good luck today

Podesta Responds
>I have no doubt you had sources for your story and weren’t just making it up, but my tweet was accurate so 1) maybe you should question your sources or 2) maybe you are talking to people on the inside who the pressure is getting to.

Thrush Cowers
>1) I do 2) very fair point Again best of luck

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/22284

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23689

HRC USING MORE COLLUDING MEDIA ORGS TO DISCREDIT BERNIE & PROOF THEY LINE UP PAID FOR “VALIDATORS” TO BE THEIR MOUTH PIECE TO GIVE THE ILLUSION OF CREDIBILITY

Bradley Komar wrote:
“The only candidate to oppose fracking” “What does that mean? A complete 100% fracking ban. There is no elected dem and I believe no enviro group that takes this position. In fact, such an extreme position threatens the progress of common-sense safety measures like frack fluid disclosure and methane capture/air quality regulations.

I think the Denver Post Ed Board could smack Sanders if we want them to but that makes it a bigger fight.”
MORE MSM CONTROLLED BY HRC

*From:* Bradley Komar
*Sent:* Tuesday, February 23, 2016 6:57 PM
*To:* Lily Adams
*Subject:* Re: NEW AD: Bernie Sanders – “Frack”
“I agree 100% would love to whistle passed the graveyard. but they are airing the ad for a reason, I expect they will draw us into a comment, and validators knocking Bernie for being irresponsible and in doing so, threatening real progress, makes a lot of sense to me. This is yet another promise he can’t keep.

I can quietly line up the validators now or wait until he fires. Nothing public until we a drawn out.”
HRC CAMPAIGN LINING UP BOUGHT AND PAID FOR “VALIDATORS” THAT WILL SAY WHATEVER THEY ARE TOLD TO DISCREDIT BERNIE’S POSITION

https://www.wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/23689

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24675

EMAILD Much of this email appeared in earlier leaks, just the last response from Philippe Reines is new. That result seems like Reines wanted to play a larger part in the campaign but he was not trusted enough.

This email chain shows there were multiple leaks from the Hillary campaign and someone was leaking information that Andrea Mitchell was going to get an interview with Hillary. There were also possible leaks to Andrea Mitchell herself. Just recently Brian Fallon was writing something stealthily providing that information to Andrea Mitchell in the middle of a press conference. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMU_2V-bl-4 Andrea Mitchell got to ask a question soon after.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/24675

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25106

MEDIA COLLUSION

Dan Feiffer of CNN is a “Hillary supporter”

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/25106#efmAH-AIx

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25264

HRC CAMPAIGN GIVEN HEADS UP ON AN ARTICLE BEING WRITTEN BEFORE ITS PUBLISHED

Dems trying to brainstorm how to counter such a negative article, given my a media insider before it comes out.

“Roy-Don’t be surprised if I write a column soon that Hillary is going to blow it, and is repeating her mistakes of 2008, with stories about her “shadow campaign” of consultants milking her for a lot of money, while she gives paid speeches to banks, while she acts like an incumbent, and says virtually nothing important about what Democrats stand for, while the most admired person in the world is the pope for saying the kind of things she should be saying but isn’t about economic fairness. This has got to be the worst pre-campaign in my memory. Imagine running as the candidate for the Democratic nomination as the candidate of banks, consultants and insiders. Unbelievable.”

https://www.wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/25264

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25264

Brent Budowsky BTFO. He is the guy who wrote to Podesta a huge number of emails. No other journalist wrote to Podesta so much as Brent. And yet this is how Podesta viewed his own personal lapdog :

“To you only: Brent Budowsky. Leftie with no following, but clearly Roy sort of agrees with concerns .”

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/25264#efmABnADO

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25540

Louise Mensch (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Mensch. She was the Conservative MP for Corby from 2010 to 2012.[2] She is currently the head of the news website Heat Street.) writes:

“As you will know from Arnold I am a committed Republican (or would be if I had the vote this year). But I worry no end about Donald Trump becoming our President… much rather have your girl Hillary.

Anyway, the politician in me thinks Lena Dunham and Gloria Steinem are nails on a chalkboard to the average American woman…

Her [HRC] competence and intelligence are beyond doubt, her problem is warmth.”

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/25540

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25651

MORE COLLUSION BETWEEN BUDOWSKY (JOURNALIST) AND PODESTA/HRC CAMPAIGN

Brent Budowsky <brentbbi@webtv.net> wrote:

“Walk back and escape from her statement that “finally we are where we need to be” against ISIS. We are not where we need to be, we are far from it, most voters do not believe it, and when the next terror attack comes in America— which it certainly will—-she will be branded in hot iron with that statement.”

“She can praise Obama without such extravagant overstatement and such direct endorsement of his policy by falsely stating we are where we need to be.”
THE PUBLIC DOES NOT BELIEVE WE ARE WHERE WE NEED TO BE WITH ISIS. SHE CLEARLY WAS GRANDSTANDING

“I suspect her negative trust ratings are locked in through election day. If there is a Trump ISIS video the campaign release it. If not, her untrustworthy numbers will remain further locked at high levels. These trust problems are self-induced and keep occurring.”
HRC IS EXTREMELY UNTRUSTWORTHY AND HER CAMPAIGN KNOWS IT

“p.s. On the UN last week, support it yes, but be careful. I love Kerry like a bro’ and support him always as HRC should and does.”
IS THIS IN REFERENCE TO THE 7TH FLOOR MENTIONED IN OTHER LEAKED EMAILS?

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/25651#efmAlaAlhAliAluAnAAntA2SA3ZA4dA5gA5jA6cBC7BD0BFiBG-

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26121

More from Brent Budowsky “journalist” to John Podesta February 2015 :

“John, some free advice, good advice. Clinton Foundation should cut off foreign donations ASAP. Inevitably will happen anyway, they should get it off the table now.. You do not need me to tell you, before this campaign is done, it will not be pretty. I will not publicly call for this, but this is my advice to you and them”

So this is what he believes, about the foreign donations but won’t mention it as an alleged journalist only as the personal email bro of John Podesta.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/26121

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26336

REUTERS REPORTER GIVING PODESTA HEADS UP ON BENGHAZI INVESTIGATION DOCUMENTATION & GIVES INFO THAT MIGHT DERAIL IT

Mark Hosenball (thomson reuters) to Podesta wrote:

“I have run across a rather interesting document which outlines in detail the principal current objectives of the House Benghazi Committee, and was wondering if you might have a minute or two to discuss this. If you are anywhere near 1333 H in next day or two I might even show the document to you (I’m out on Thursday, however) though I am reluctant to hand out copies at this stage. It is a document which raises some questions about the bona fides of the committee’s investigation, rather than about anything specific a certain former SecState might have done. If this is something that you would not want to get involved in, if you had any alternative ideas as to who I ought to speak to I would welcome them. Hope all is well etc. All best & regards mh”

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/26336

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26404

MORE MEDIA COLLUSION WITH THE WSJ

EMAILID 26404 Corrupt WSJ reporter thanks Podesta for the extravagant dinner party in his home. Fantastic food and great opportunities “to connect”. They don’t even have to bribe these journalists with money, they are presstituting themselves for free diners, better connections and “scoops” from the Clinton Campaign.

“Hi John – I just wanted to thank you again for your hospitality last night. You were so kind to open your home to us, and the food was as fantastic as promised (everyone at the White House raves about your dinners). I really appreciated the opportunity to connect with a number of folks from Team Clinton. The evening was a great way to kick off this crazy adventure. Thank you, and I hope we’ll cross paths again soon. Best,
Colleen
Colleen McCain Nelson
The Wall Street Journal

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/26404

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N/A

Content Subject: Initial investigative report confirms HRC/meda/third part collusion

Immediate Implications: This initial report confirms numerous reporters and HRC staffers were aware, encouraging, and utilizing media collusion to better frame and prepare HRC for her presidential campaign.

Full Report:

With the conclusion of the Third Presidential Debate, media sources began attacking Donald Trump for his “conspiratorial language” regarding collusion and vote rigging. These attacks occurred well before the Third Debate. Numerous high level individuals stated point blankly that there was no collusion or rigging of events.

Initial investigations by Task Force 58 have determined that statements claiming that there is no collusion are false. Numerous emails have been identified that confirm collusion at a number of levels with large media outlets. These include but are not limited to the following:

ABC
NBC
MSNBC
Politico
Huffington Post
The New York Times

Reporters of note involved directly include:

Jake Tapper
Chuck Todd

Reporters will try to hide themselves in their emails either by reporting to an HRC campaign handler that then forwards their articles to the campaign for review and approval, or they will use gmail accounts to hide their identity. We are working hard to try and match mails with names.

In the meantime, we have prepared a PDF that of our initial results. Ordinarily, we would not release such a small document. However, we felt it prudent to provide you all with this information given recent events. The PDF can be downloaded here .

Task Force 58 will continue to research and categorize evidence of collusion and provide a more full report in the future.

Addendum

Enterprising members of the community have identified additional pieces of evidence linked to collusion. See below for a list.

https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/58i06d/holeeshet_clinton_staffer_shows_reporter_what_she/ , thank you /u/skyparavoz for being its OP, and to u/fastmandan and u/REEB for bringing it to attention.

https://www.facebook.com/mary.walker.73307/videos/o.978104268920212/10206353006137164/?type=2&theater , thank you u/sandman441

https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/58i06d/holeeshet_clinton_staffer_shows_reporter_what_she/

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Other Miscellaneous Emails

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2010

Silberstein Foundation: the truth finally comes out. & MAJOR Soros connections

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/2010

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2091

General campaign strategy along with discussion of expanding intelligence agencies

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/2091

246

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2874

Top Clinton Aid Doug Band calls Chelsea Clinton a “spoiled brat”:

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/2874#efmANUAObAb9AgY

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4190

Eric McFadden, who was Hillary’s Catholic liaison in the primaries, was arrested yesterday forrunning a prostitution ring.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/4190

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4607

>THIS JUDGE IS AN OLD FRIEND OF PODESTAS, THE CIA ASKED PODESTA TO CALL HIM

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/4607

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5953

>Event Memo – Benensons OTR. >Event Memo – Benensons OTR (attachment) – http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3479690/posts

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/5953

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6008

Mention of wetwork at the Vineyard days before Scalia’s death. Possible Supreme Court Justice Murder ((Antonin Scalia))

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/6008

251

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7252

Extend Illinois Voting

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/7252

252

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7278

>Hillary’s Podesta and Soros are working together & https://twitter.com/WDFx2EU7/status/786570301039534082

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/7278

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7572

Hillarys campaign moving IL primary at gusto

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/7252?2

254

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7922

>Podesta talking to the Rockerfellers

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/7922

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8158

Big business saw Jeb Bush and Hillary Clinton interchangeable! they are moving quickly to fill the dinner speaker spot and are talking about trying to get Jeb Bush if HRC can’t do it!

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/8158

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10217

MEGA DUMP on McCain in case he ran

https://www.wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/10217

257

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10252

ROH – Global Giving Campaign (Roots of Health) & Includes Google Doc w Marketing Material

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/10252

258

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10515

“That’s great news.” that the benghazi emails won’t be released “Monday”

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/10515

259

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10667

Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently: johnpodestatemp@outlook.com

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/10667

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10731

You are trying to poach from the WH, need to stop. One toke over the > line. Wally is fair game.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/10731

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11116

Podesta: “Back to the future. I managed this issue for President Clinton after we got ourselves all tangled in knots over the Clipper Chip.”

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/11116

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11508

Jake Siewert (Goldman Sachs) to Podesta: Might be time for Denny [Dennis Hastert] to vanish to an undisclosed Japanese island.” regarding politico article on tax evasion

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/11508

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11897

EMAILID 11897 Democats are campaigning with the prospects of owning the Supreme Court for decades to come. Written by Augie Ribeiro, but John Podesta loves it and finds it great. “Be a Voice to Decide The Future of the Supreme Court The next President of the United States will change the future of the Supreme Court for generations. By the middle of the next President’s term, there will be four Supreme Court justices in their 80s. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg born March 15, 1933. Justice Antonin Scalia born March 11, 1936 Justice Anthony Kennedy born July 23, 1936 Justice Stephen Breyer born August 15, 1938 If Hillary Clinton is elected President in 2016, and is able to replace Ginsberg, Breyer, and either Kennedy or Scalia, she will lock in a very young liberal court for many decades to come. ”

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/11897#efmAGLAQD

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11939

More UFO stuffs

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/11939

265

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12194

Bonner group donor list

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/12194

266

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12226

HRC Campain discussing new slogan/tag line for marketing

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/12226

267

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12245

setting up the campaign structure in 2014

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/12245

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12254

– staff orientation early 2015, what member heads what. shane.hable@gmail.com runs cyber security for the campaign

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/12254

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12262

Re: just another day at the ofc…

Subject: Re: just another day at the ofc…

Doubled Robby’s time.

On Oct 15, 2015 8:47 PM, “Sara Latham” slatham@hillaryclinton.com wrote:

keg stand competition at HFA – JDP, wins !!

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/12262

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12270

Outline for a strategic consulting company that does all sorts of shilling for HRC and includes business and academic minds for legitamacy. “A damn good memo, I must say. It was written early 2003. The date on the memo is weird.”

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/12270

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12280

“Draft Media Prep Plan”. We are preparing clips of her best interviews to show her. Also compiling her worst and analyzing for triggers and her reactions. [so many to choose from]

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/12280

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15201

Huma Abedin checking with Robby Mook and AG Loretta Lynch about HRC attending a dinner hosted by George Soros and America Votes. Mook says ” I would only do this for political reasons (ie to make Soros happy)”

https://www.wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/15201

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15319

EMAILID 15319 John Podesta gets an email signed as “Barack Obama”. Podesta being someone pretty important, probably expected something better but this is essentially a spam begging for donations with parts such as “Today, if you’re ready to make these choices and meet the challenges that face us, pitch in $3 or whatever you can to become an official State of the Union Donor.” Even the leaders of the campaign are not exempt from getting Democrat Spam.

https://www.wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/15319

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15319

EMAILID 15319 John Podesta gets an email signed as “Barack Obama”. Podesta being someone pretty important, probably expected something better but this is essentially a spam begging for donations with parts such as “Today, if you’re ready to make these choices and meet the challenges that face us, pitch in $3 or whatever you can to become an official State of the Union Donor.” Even the leaders of the campaign are not exempt from getting Democrat Spam.

https://www.wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/15319

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15464

>I am very happy because this is the best realistic result to come out of Paris. Now we can truly say that the Republicans are the only thing standing in the way of literally saving civilization. If they don’t
cooperate then it is no longer hyperbole to say that they are truly enemies
of the state, enemies of the world. I am so happy I can say to my kids, yeah, people have finally gotten around to doing the right thing. It’s not all corrupt. There is a chance. I’m not naive enough to think that this is the solution, but just a new beginning. Too late? Yes, should have happened years ago. But finally, a plan for real action. I’m totally one hundred percent for Hillary because if any one of these bozos makes it to the White House, then we’ll have a revolution on our hands.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/15464#efmAGSAIN

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15589

virtual currency donations

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/15589

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15616

Tim Cook was listed as a possible VP pick!!

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/15616#efmAV_AWH

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15824

Michelle Kwan is in on it

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/15824

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23586

HRC gets jokes written for her

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/23586

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24257

HRC Campaign thinks her laugh is weird

“Laughing too hard is her authentic weirdness.”

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/24257

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25823

MORE INFO ABOUT 527 ORGANIZATION STRUCTURE & SOMEONE NAMED HAMBURGER

“I am scheduled to speak with him tomoorow….doesn’t sound like there is much else to cover. (I want to keep the distinction between DA and FFA clear for him.) I know he wants to discuss fundraising and budgets. I think we are best served by steering people away from the $200 million number. MV- for future reference you can send 527 media requests to Amy Dacey. Hamburger called my home recently. I will call him back and give him > nothing of substance on background just so he feels like I’m not > evading him. > > Media vs field isn’t what is drawing attention. “527” is a tarnished > brand smartly attacked by the Right Wing since they use c4’s, LLC’s > and c6’s as their vehicles which operate almost invisibly. > > The Republicans are trying to sniff out what is going on and frame > their attackers before the attacks start. (Like Obama is right now.) > > We are still staying silent on the work. There is no advantage to > discussing strategy one way or another in the media. However we should > fill the vacuum once the primaries subside. I think Hamburger has > enough to write on for now.”

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/25823

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26295

Re: DRAFT: Opening Statement

Long discussion chain to come up with opening statement for Benghazi committee

https://www.wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/26295

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DISCUSSING SHARING OFFICE SPACE AND GOLDMAN SACHS AS LESSOR AND WHAT HRC WILL DO AFTER STATE DEPT

From:Huma@clintonemail.com
To: lgraham@clintonfoundation.org, cheryl.mills@gmail.com
Date: 2011-11-14 22:59
Subject: RE: Office Space

“As you and I discussed Friday, we are still identifying activities hrc could be involved in once she leaves the State Department.”

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/26511

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Subject: REVISED Strategy Memo

3rd Debate strategy attached

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/26765

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EMAILID 27006 Huma Abedin writes that they have to send Katy Perry to do an Arkansas event because Hillary is unwilling to ask her daughter to go. Katy Perry is such a puppet for them that they can use her as a replacement for Chelsea when needed.

“She said no to asking Chelsea. Would go herself before asking her daughter. So we are at plan B: Katy Perry it is.”

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/27006

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Glen S. Fukushima seems to be a person working with Center for American Progress (CAP) and Neera Tanden who is one of the most prolific emailers in these leaks. Glen is planning a trip for Neera to Japan and as a part of that trip there will be an opportunity to collect campaign contributions. Glen wants to arrange donations from some “high net worth American business executives” to Hillary Clinton, but he has one big concern:

“How do I ensure that I am given “credit” for having gotten these individuals to contribute to HRC’s campaign? Is there a manual or set of guidelines you can send me on the do’s and don’ts of being a bundler for HRC?”

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/27076

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27293

TALKING ABOUT DENNIS BLAIR, DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE

From:Robert.Gibbs@ptt.gov
To: Rahm.Emanuel@ptt.gov, axelrodfam@aol.com, ‘john.podesta@gmail.com’
Date: 2008-11-26 02:21
Subject: For Monday

“Shouldn’t we also roll out Blair as DNI?”

TALKING ABOUT DENNIS BLAIR, DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/27293

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Fundraising in Japan RE: Do you honestly want me to do a fundraiser in Japan?

Between Neera Tandeen and John Podesta
“Do you honestly want me to do a fundraiser in Japan? If it comes to pass, do we connect with Dennis? or some minion in finance?”

Other names mentioned: Dennis and Glenn

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/28839

289

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Offensive Voter Statements

290

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141

CTR Nerd Virgins

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/141

291

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927

>Hillary Clinton: “I’m Kind of Far Removed from Struggles of Middle Class” & http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/10/wikileaks-bombshell-hillary-clinton-im-kind-far-removed-struggles-middle-class/

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/927#efmAIuAMKAViAXv

292

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>Racist Hillary Camp Trashes African Americans – Calls Them Losers & http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/10/wikileaks-bombshell-racist-hillary-trashes-african-americans-calls-losers/

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/1637

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$15 min wage an hour will kill jobs – liberal economists

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/2893

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3154

Planning to make jokes regarding the server scandle

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/3154

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HRC CAMPAIGN CALLING BERNIE SUPPORTERS “BEDWETTERS”

Steve Elmendorf
wrote:

> We won. Raising money today, talking the bedwetters off the ledge

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/3188

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4433

>Hillary Advisors Admit She “HATES EVERYDAY AMERICANS” & http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/10/wikileaks-bombshell-hillary-advisors-admit-hates-everyday-americans/

https://www.wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/4433

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10090

Deploy National Guard to streets

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/10090

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The way to sure up the “black vote” is not to address the needs of the community but to hire a black person for a senior position. lol, this will communicate that she does appreciate the “black vote”.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/11152#efmAKuAN5

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her efforts in the black community are not resonating

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/13776

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The big debate in the Democratic Party is what’s the best way to do this? Just take it from people who have it and give it to the government and let them give it to everybody else, or start the whole new round of innovations while growing small business, growing the economy, raising incomes? It’s a legitimate debate.

Talking about how you raise the incomes of poor people.

Hillary’s the only person who’s come up with a plan to see where it’s migrated, because even in small towns in rural America now you’ve got prescription drug problems. And now that we’ve cracked down on the abuses, heroin is cheaper than prescription drugs. Why? Because it’s now being grown in Mexico and harvested by preteens and it can be distributed. And if you go into all these small towns in rural America, where there’s no economic activity, you see it running rampant.

Admitting Mexican drug running is a problem.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/15360

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16492 Just an email showing how the campaign thinks of police brutality and the deaths of black people: political fodder

Date: 2016-02-27 16:45

Subject: Re: Police brutality – you tube video

On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 1:39 PM Neera Tanden ntanden@gmail.com wrote:

Do you guys have the Video of Hillary challenging Rudy Giuliani on the

death of Patrick dorismond at hands of police. She did it in a black church

in Harlem in March of 2000. Pretty strong as I recall. It helped turn the

race. It would be good to answer where she was before.

Maybe it was too political. I might have the actual speech in the attic

but it got fair amount of NYC coverage

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/16492

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24148

HRC IMPLYING MILLENIALS ARE SWAYED BY CELEBRITIES LIKE MINDLESS DRONES

From: *Vincent Roberti*
Date: Monday, February 1, 2016
Subject: Exceeding expectation is always a good thing!
To: John Podesta

“You are in better place going in to new Hampshire than you were in eight years ago. Take the gloves off and figure out recapturing the 18 to 35 year vote later. Set up a separate recapture program tomorrow. We can help with a parallel program with a celebrity out reach tomorrow.”

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/24148

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25735

Damage control after Hillary pissed off the entire LGBTQ community by her remarks at Nancy Reagan’s funeral. Her staff wrote and edited her entire speech to “clarify” her position. They openly discuss how they need to go back and smooth over relations with that group, where and how to message, etc.

http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2016/03/11/hillary-clinton-lauds-reagans-on-aids-a-backlash-erupts/

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/25735

304

SI

Self-Incrimination/Public Image Destruction

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Hillary team concerned about discussions of her Russian Uranium deal

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/225

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“We got a few stories placed today debunking claims in the book ahead of the NYT story” & ” But I have asked Jeremy Bash and Tommy Vietor to go on cable tomorrow for us to respond to the book. I think they will both be good at dismissing the charges as ridiculous. ” Tldr. lying about Uranium 1 book and placing false stories with the media

https://www.wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/370

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SI3

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>Hillary bragged about being invited to Russia’s Putin’s ‘Inner Sanctum’ & http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2016/10/11/wikileaks-clinton-bragged-putin-taking-private-inner-sanctum/ & (attachment) – https://ia801509.us.archive.org/19/items/HRCPaidSpeechesFlags/HRC%20Paid%20Speeches%20Flags.pdf

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/927

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The campaign was incredibly, incredibly worried about the film ‘Clinton Cash’. This is a list of the coverage it got (one of many e-mails pertaining to the film).

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/1210

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>Robby Mook: “it’s a little troubling” that meeting of Clinton Foundation was held at Goldman Sachs HQ & https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/784783850799001601

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/1381

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New theory: https://vault.fbi.gov/hillary-r.-clinton/hillary-r.-clinton-part-04-of-04/view Go to page 56. TL;DR: Some people make up a shadow goverment comprised of some high ranking people like John Kerry, Jonathan Finer and others who meet up on this “7th floor” where they discuss clinton and the congress

Cool, right? Now go to:

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/10094

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/1702

They mention a 7th floor in Washington which seems to be the meet up place
SUMMER 2010 BIDDING OPPORTUNITIES IN THE BUREAU OF LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS
H offers career-enhancing, Seventh Floor positions in which you can have a direct, substantive impact in achieving our foreign policy goals.

Literally right at the start of the document

SEEKING BIDDERS

They are selling positions of power.

New FBI leaks confirm the existence of the “shadow government”.

“There was a powerful group of very high-ranking STATE officials that some referred to as ‘The 7th Floor Group’ or ‘The Shadow Government.’ This group met every Wednesday afternoon to discuss the FOIA process, Congressional records, and everything CLINTON-related to FOIA/Congressional inquiries,” the FBI’s interview summary said.”

http://www.trunews.com/article/the-shadow-government-is-real-according-to-the-fbi

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/1702 & https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/09STATE89125_a.html

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Hijacking here with the leaked BIRD DOGGING EMAILS mentioned by Mr. O’Keefe:
“Bird dogging” is Democrat code for using plants to incite mayhem at events of political opponents

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/2175

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>Bill Clinton sex “allegations are hurting both Clintons”

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/2301

313

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HRC & WJC against gay marriage

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/2631

314

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>Hillary accepting foreign money

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/2783

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Worried about Hillary’s health getting attention: “Hard to think of anything more counter productive than demanding Bernie’s medical records.”:

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/2953#efmAAvACJ

316

SI12

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Hillary Clinton decided on Tim Kaine as VP in July 2015. “A little unseemly.” (She didn’t officially announce Tim Kaine as her VP publicly until July 2016) & http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/10/wikileaks-email-hillary-clinton-decided-tim-kaine-vp-july-2015/

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/2986#efmABHAB3AB6ACN

317

SI13

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>Hillary’s team doesn’t know what’s in her emails and is nervous about it

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/3154

318

SI14

3332

Working for the Clintons drives staff to suicide attempts

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/3332#efmAdAAmB

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SI15

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>”we’ve all been quite content to demean government, drop civics and in general conspire to produce an unaware and compliant citizenry. The unawareness remains strong but compliance is obviously fading rapidly.”

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/3599

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SI16

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>Top Clinton donor paid $250 million for tax evasion / https://twitter.com/AmericanMex067/status/786020856749096960

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/3718

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SI17

3774

>Hillary Admits Saudi Arabia and Qatar Fund ISIS – But Took Their Money Anyway & http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/10/wikileaks-hillary-admits-saudi-arabia-qatar-fund-isis-took-money-anyway/

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/3774

322

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3833

Hijacking here with the leaked BIRD DOGGING EMAILS mentioned by Mr. O’Keefe:
“Bird dogging” is Democrat code for using plants to incite mayhem at events of political opponents

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/3833

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SI19

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Lying about turning over thumb drives

https://www.wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/3855#efmBemBnB

324

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This is how you create a fake grassroots movement.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/4036

325

SI21

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Hillary deleted some emails herself

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/4099

326

SI22

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>Hillary reads script during interview. & >https://twitter.com/PrisonPlanet/status/786141677106765826

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/4274

327

SI23

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>Hillary’s Communications Director Jennifer Palmieri TRASHES CATHOLICS. Clinton Staff mocking conservative catholics. Advisor to Podesta: “severely backwards gender relations” “they think it is the most socially acceptable politically conservative religion.”: … & http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/10/wikileaks-emails-hillarys-communications-director-jennifer-palmieri-trashes-catholics/

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/4364

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Obama requesting that people’s profiles be scrubbed from a website

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/4632

329

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>CROOKS: Clinton Campaign Chief Owned 75,000 Shares of Putin-Connected Energy Company & https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/786691843811577856 & http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/10/crooks-clinton-campaign-chief-owned-75000-shares-putin-connected-energy-company/ & http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/10/13/wikileaks-bombshell-john-podesta-owned-75000-shares-putin-connected-energy-company/

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/4635

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4697

Why doesnt Hillary turn the server over to a third party? (Staffers believe the FBI will leak the emails)

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/4697

331

SI27

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Elmendorf and Podesta discussing removal of emails after 3-6 months

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/4990

332

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Top Secret Emails Include Drone Talk

https://www.wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/5194

333

SI29

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>Hillary’s people worried Chelsea Clinton sharing information with Bush daughter about Clinton’s corruption & https://twitter.com/mtracey/status/786530411820101632

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/5213

334

SI30

5332

HRC campaign collaborating and picking board members for a super PAC
(illegal as hell) DIRECT COLLUSION!!

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/5332

335

SI31

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>Hillary trying to get in front of email issue / https://twitter.com/PrisonPlanet/status/785835370013425664

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/5344

336

SI32

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>Huma admits Foreign Interests own HRC & https://twitter.com/WDFx2EU7/status/786200896279486464

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/5469#efmCAtCDf

337

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John Podesta receives Hillary’s “personal” tweets for approval a few days in advance of the tweets going online. Staff writes them:

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/5479

338

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HUGE, INTENT AND EXPRESSION OF GUILT

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/5486

339

SI35

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>Biden Aide Sabotaged His Presidential Aspirations? & http://dailycaller.com/2016/10/12/email-suggests-biden-aide-sabotaged-his-presidential-aspirations-to-help-hillary/

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/5690

340

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Ron Klaine (Joe Biden chief of staff) betrays Joe Biden and acts as a mole for Clinton camp. (Note: Ron Klaine was former Chief of staff for Al Gore in 1999 and was let go because of his conflict of interest/ loyalty to the Clintons) Joe Biden was rumored to replace Hillary Clinton as the nominee. “I am definitely dead to them but I’m glad to be on team HRC”:

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/5690#efmACsAE4

341

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>But I should say that I would do whatever Hillary needs always. I owe her a lot. And I’m a loyal soldier

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/5705

342

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6008

>Podesta Documents Suggest Scalia Assassination & http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/10/wikileaks-uncover-murder-plot-podesta-documents-suggest-scalia-assassination/

https://www.wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/6008

343

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State Department tipping off Hillary’s staff about upcoming investigation details regarding her case:

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/6185#efmAH_AJdANKAPC

344

SI40

6293

>Podesta and Left-Wing Activist Plot ‘Catholic Spring’ & http://www.lifezette.com/polizette/wikileaks-podesta-left-wing-activist-plot-catholic-spring/

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/6293

345

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Worrying about Hillary’s low turnout at events:

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/6370#efmAU2AWj

346

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>Hillary team discussed deleting emails knowing it was against the law / >Hillary Campaign Was in Touch with Obama DOJ on Email Investigation / https://twitter.com/mtracey/status/786217317881507841/photo/1 / http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/10/wikileaks-bomb-clinton-camp-discussed-deleting-emails-despite-knowing-law/

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/6391

347

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>Clinton Staffers Discussed Which Emails To Release and delete / http://dailycaller.com/2016/10/12/podesta-hacks-shows-clinton-staffers-discussing-which-emails-to-release/ / https://twitter.com/mtracey/status/786217317881507841/photo/1 / http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/10/wikileaks-bomb-clinton-camp-discussed-deleting-emails-despite-knowing-law/

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/6391

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UNIONS I think that John is going to be meeting with Trumka on Friday in DC and we’ll know more after that. I agree that a vote should only be called if we know we’ll get it. Otherwise, its not worth it. I’m also surprised that Bernie hasn’t peeled more unions off. I think that’s significant. If unions like ATU, CWA or APWU are going to raise a big stink it would be easier to do if they officially endorsed. But they haven’t

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/6668

349

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6777

John Podesta tells Hillary Clinton she needs to reach out to “needy Latinos”:

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/6777

350

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6971

INTENT: I know this email thing isn’t on the level. I’m fully aware of that.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/6971

351

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>Hillary’s own campaign doesn’t understand why she deleted 33,000 emails & https://twitter.com/latinaafortrump/status/786656783666323456

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/7011

352

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7011

H doesnt recall why deleted the emails

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/7011

353

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7136

>Chelsea Clinton (CVC) Busted Stealing from Clinton Foundation!!! & https://twitter.com/HalleyBorderCol/status/786678797986828288

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/7136

354

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>Hillary sends intel to Podesta on unsecured server & https://twitter.com/SandraTXAS/status/786779688744185856

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/7243

355

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INTENT: Our position is that no such material exists, else it could be said she mishandled classified info

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/7460

356

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7460

>Hillary’s staffers discuss how there exists classified emails but how they should deny they ever existed

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/7460#content

357

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7655

>Benghazi opening statement (see attachments)

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/7655

358

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7660

>Hillary’s script for the emails discussion. Note the bit where she talks about all her security prep that her state department does in this leaked (and possibly hacked) email.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/7660

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/8396

359

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DWS/Hillary broker out convention CEO march 2015

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/7741

360

SI56

7796

Hillary’s campaign manager Robby Mook, to other staff, calls New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio a “terrorist” after Bill de Blasio stalls on his endorsement for Hillary Clinton during an interview:

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/7796#efmABDACG

361

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>Hillary’s attorney David Kendall did not turn over thumb drive and server / https://twitter.com/BinsackSb/status/785714200609824768

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/7881

362

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7976

>”The sooner Hillary gets that life is not fair, the better off she will be. I thought she understood this before this race, but apparently I was wrong.”

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/7976

363

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Citigroup chose Obama’s 2008 cabinet

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/8190

364

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8396

Qatar give WJC 1 million dollars for his birthday

365

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8396

Bill got a $1million birthday present from Qutar

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/8396#efmAAGABSAEOAETAEaAGWAGaAHZAJBAJd

366

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>Clinton Campaign Fudged Climate Change Data – Inflated Emission Numbers & http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/10/wikileaks-clinton-campaign-fudged-climate-change-data-inflated-emission-numbers/

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/8440

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8452 Hillary Clinton flipped her public position on TPP after her team discussed how she would be “eaten alive” by Labor

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/8452#efmAH1APRA0NA5c

368

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From: Glenn Hutchins

the capacity of labor to demand a greater share of profits from productivity gains have been overwhelmed by several factors: 1) globalized wage competition as incomes have slowly equilibrated around the world

From:ntanden@americanprogress.org To: glenn.hutchins@gmail.com

>Isn’t stagnant wage (for the bottom 90%) part of the reason we have rising inequality?

Translation: Globalization is causing poverty and destruction of the middle class in the US and the HRC campaign KNOWS AND SUPPORTS IT!

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/8567

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United States Deputy Secretary of Labor (Chris Lu) sends Education Policy Promises draft in an email cc:’ed with bankers and firms. (Large corporations & banks providing input in US law?):

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/8762

370

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>Hillary didn’t like ‘bitch’ in the interview & https://twitter.com/karey_donna/status/786773742450044928

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/8961

371

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9101

Comparing Benghazi deaths to cigarette smoker deaths

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/9101

372

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9127

Possible collusion with AG loretta. Richard J. Leon, works at Georgetown with Podesta, HRC.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/9127

373

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9161

HRC ILLEGAL ACTIVITY WITH SUPERPAC

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/9161

374

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Email regarding Scalia the same day he died

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/9174

375

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9181

That she says no backdoor, but then says we need a way in, and then the bad line about not understanding technology

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/9181

376

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Hillary’s team trying to draft an official statement to congress “has it leaked yet?”

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/9252

377

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EVIDENCE HILLARY DID NOT SUBMIT ALL EMAILS— INTENT PROVEN – PRESS COLLUSION WITH INTENT TO CONFUSE CONGRESS PROVEN

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/9272

378

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Trying to hide wallstreet Associations

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/9290

379

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9368

Hiding 1 Billion campaign chest information

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/9368

380

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WJC and HRC disagree on TPP. internal strife in campaign on “having it both ways”

https://www.wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/9399#searchresult

381

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terrorism is bad for HRC gun grab

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/9507

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Proof Obama knew about HRC server. Withholding Obama’s emails same day as subpoena issued.

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HRC suboptimal instincts & Obama cocaine ring

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/9572

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/9545

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We likely already have a contract but given that he’s a friend of Hillary’s and a former congressman, we should probably give him a phone call.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/9769

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BIG: Pay for play for ambassadors

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/9961

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>tennis me to discuss use of email

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/9997

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New theory: https://vault.fbi.gov/hillary-r.-clinton/hillary-r.-clinton-part-04-of-04/view Go to page 56. TL;DR: Some people make up a shadow goverment comprised of some high ranking people like John Kerry, Jonathan Finer and others who meet up on this “7th floor” where they discuss clinton and the congress

Cool, right? Now go to:

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/10094

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/1702

They mention a 7th floor in Washington which seems to be the meet up place
SUMMER 2010 BIDDING OPPORTUNITIES IN THE BUREAU OF LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS
H offers career-enhancing, Seventh Floor positions in which you can have a direct, substantive impact in achieving our foreign policy goals.

Literally right at the start of the document

SEEKING BIDDERS

They are selling positions of power.

New FBI leaks confirm the existence of the “shadow government”.

“There was a powerful group of very high-ranking STATE officials that some referred to as ‘The 7th Floor Group’ or ‘The Shadow Government.’ This group met every Wednesday afternoon to discuss the FOIA process, Congressional records, and everything CLINTON-related to FOIA/Congressional inquiries,” the FBI’s interview summary said.”

http://www.trunews.com/article/the-shadow-government-is-real-according-to-the-fbi

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/10094 & https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/09STATE89125_a.html

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>Subject: History of Juanita Broaddrick Allegations

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/10275

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Cheryl Mills admits that no one likes HRC!!!!!!

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/10289

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>We have a problem. HRC overstayed her case this morning in a pretty big way. Marcia, Judy and I have been figuring out what we could say that doesn’t contradict their 2001 statement. But my other idea is to have women Senators who all voted for it to put out statement.

>What did she say that was wrong?

>She said women groups were all pressuring her to vote for it. Evidence does not support that statement.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/10359

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INSIDER TRADING? From: *Tiernan Sittenfeld*
Date: Monday, March 14, 2016
Subject: Atlantic/Arctic tomorrow
To: John Podesta “Totally confidential but in case you haven’t heard they are announcing 5 year drilling plan tomorrow late morning”

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/10451.html

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UNIONS This is deeper than that, our union “endorsed” HRC without speaking to the members and when confronted we were told it was a done deal. One of the few unions to endorse Bernie was Verizon…. and they got shafted in contract negotiations. It was a clear message to the other unions that if you didn’t bow you were on your own. Looks like the longshorement don’t like their struggle being used to push HRC’s “civil rights” agenda.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/10735

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>Goldman Sachs paid speeches (see attachments for 1-3)

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/11011

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HRC/DNC Joint bank account. HIGHLY ILLEGAL!

From:re47@hillaryclinton.com
To: hdr29@hrcoffice.com
Madame Secretary,

…I wanted to get your blessing to move forward with the DNC joint account. We didn’t get a chance to cover that on our call. I’m obviously happy to have a conversation about it if you want–or move forward. I’m happy with the arrangement and believe it’s important to our money and operational strategies.

Thanks, Robby

https://www.wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/11131

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Neera Tanden

I know this email thing isn’t on the level. I’m fully aware of that. But her inability to just do a national interview and communicate genuine feelings of remorse and regret is now, I fear, becoming a character problem (more so than honesty).

John Podesta

Jen and I are in the same place. Trying to figure out how to get her there and best way to execute.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/11136

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11136 Neera Tanden admits: “I know this email thing isn’t on the level. I’m fully aware of that. But her inability to just do a national interview and communicate genuine feelings of remorse and regret is now, I fear, becoming a character problem (more so than honesty). People hate her arrogant, like her down. It’s a sexist context, but I think it’s the truth.”

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/11136#efmAC0AGw

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Self-Research — spoke to HRC. As we discussed, her definition of what she sees remaining with personal lawyers and HFS is the narrow areas we discussed (e.g., taxes, health, finances/speeches, family) though she added BZ. I shared that HFS can continue to manage in partnership with outside personal counsel (including DEK, HT, me) but that self-research as a whole (and explained the larger paradigm) should be in NY and run by someone sitting in NYC,with which she agreed. We discussed HFS; she wants her doing these areas, vetting, and personnel from a perch in the Legal Counsel operation or the COO operation — RM let’s discuss so it is consistent with your vision, organizational paradigm and goals.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/11138

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EMAILID 11152 from someone named fwj to Podesta Re: black vote ” The black is obvious super critical. Im hearing the same complaint in political circles that i continue to hear while fundraising. “The campaign doesnt value black folks and takes us for granted”.”

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/11152

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Podesta staffer sends email from Podesta’s email. Podesta has Top Secret clearance and staffer doesn’t.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/11164

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My only concern is stating the article inflicted damage on our campaign. Certainly true but I worry that if we leak the letter, it could be misinterpreted as us admitting the email controversy in general is hurting us. Maybe we could soften it a bit by saying “…creating a firestorm that had a deep impact and cannot be unwound.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/11305

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Clinton staffers admitting they have a thumb drive that they did not turn over to the State dept. But they plan on crafting her public statement to imply they did.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/11393#efmBD1BFy

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EMAIL 11446 Someone named Scott Wallace, likely the guy in this article http://archive.is/9NsDI writes to John Podesta, apparently he wants to become US Ambassador to South Africa. : “I know you must have a million things on your plate, but as I mentioned to you, Elizabeth and Smith Bagley were encouraging me to reach out to you sooner rather than later about a possible appointment in an Obama administration… I am passionate about helping South Africa achieve its full promise, and see its upcoming elections and the next couple of years as critical to the health of its democracy. It has become my second country, and I would be deeply honored to be considered to represent President Obama as ambassador there.” He also has a plan B: “Of course, if it is determined that there are other areas where my background may be better put to use, I am happy to discuss them as well. .. My full CV is attached.”

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/11446#efmAVuAWxAZAAac

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Clinton foundation discussing sharing office space with Goldman Sachs in 2011.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/11457

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“I joined a phone bank last night calling Virginia voters – nearly all of > my electronic call sheets were for people over 60, with many in their late > 80s and 90s. It caused me to have another sleepless night, anxious about > the campaign.”

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/11464

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Chelsea Clinton is a bitch. “As they say, the apple doesn’t fall far A kiss on the cheek while she is sticking a knife in the back, and front ” & “Diane Reynolds” is Chelsea Clinton’s nom de corruption.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/11472

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Clinton foundation discussing sharing office space with Goldman Sachs in 2011.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/11497

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EMAILID 11500 Podesta is concerned about a murderer’s politically unfortunate name : “NBC News now reporting a US citizen named Sayeed Farouk believed to be one of the people involved in the shooting.” Podesta responds: “Better if a guy named Sayeed Farouk was reporting that a guy named Christopher Hayes was the shooter.”

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/11500

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11525 Hillary campaign talking about manipulating Reddit and discusses possible ways to exploit Reddit for their benefit : “Our other option is Reddit, which has an extremely vocal core of LGBT members, but I would prioritize this Facebook group, which is the largest LGBT community of Hillary’s supporters I know. These are friendlies, they are already carrying water for us making sure the apology is out there, and they firmly sit in groups 1 and 2 that Dom identified. Whatever we did to send our LGBT talking points to folks has really worked, they are popping up everywhere on the supporter Facebook groups.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/11525#efmJEMJMC

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Maybe she could do Funny or Die w/ Meyl Streep w/ the Galyfinakis (can’t spell his name for he life of me) w it her. That would be Hilarious! And I still think she should do Season Opening of SNL. She hates this shit, but at the end of the day, nothing will move her personal numbers more.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/11539

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Covering up the hiring of Robby Mook. “Yes. We need to kill that baby in the cradle.”

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/11563

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EMAILID 11563 #HillarysHealth might be really bad : “Have you talked with her at all about taxes and health? I’m know both are hyper sensitive but I wonder if both are better dealt with very early so we control them”

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/11563

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HRC campaign distorting HRC true health. “Have you talked with her at all about taxes and health? I’m know both are hyper sensitive but I wonder if both are better dealt with very early so we control them–rather than responding to calls for transparency.”

https://www.wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/11563

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In the last 48 hours a) Hillary and her campaign have begun to question Bernie’s integrity and b) older feminists are beginning a civil war against younger women with idiot comments such as younger women support Bernie to get laid. What would be the reaction if Bill Clinton, George Bush or Harry Reid comments such as this? Or that younger women must support Hillary for the sole reason that she is a woman?

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/11580

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The idea of the campaign for the candidate who could become the first woman president initiating a civil war between older women and younger women over her candidacy is political malpractice that leaves me speechless.

My phone is ringing off the hook with establishment Democrats who she thinks support her, who are appalled and alarmed by the kind of campaign she is running….more than one of them has said I could quote them by name, that’s how appalled and alarmed they are, and I told them to calm down and tell the Clintons directly what they think, but not go public right now….

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/11580

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11915 Big discussion inside the Hillary campaign whether to take money from people who are registered as “foreign agents” according to the FARA, the Foreign Agents Registration Act. The final decision? taking the money from foreign agents: “Hi all – we do need to make a decision on this ASAP as our friends who happen to be registered with FARA are already donating and raising.” Robby Mook-“I’m ok just taking the money and dealing with any attacks. Are you guys ok with that?” Palmieri “Take the money!!”

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/11915#efmAvrAx1

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HILLARY CLINTON CAMPAIGN FOUND TAKING BRIBES FROM FOREIGN POWERS TO FUND HER ELECTION. THIS IS TREASON AND DISQUALIFIES HER FROM BEING ELECTED TO OFFICE BY UNITED STATES FEDERAL LAW.

FBI IS IN ABSOLUTE SHITFACED TURMOIL OVER THE FACT THAT THE FBI DIRECTOR COMEY ACTUALLY LET HILLARY GO WHEN THE ACTUAL AGENTS WORKING ON THE CASE HAD MASSES OF RESEARCH AND EVIDENCE AGAINST HER. THE ENTIRE ORGANIZATION FEELS SO BETRAYED THEY’RE SEEKING TO REMOVE THE DIRECTOR FROM HIS POSITION.

http://spectator.org/former-u-s-attorney-agents-see-fbi-chief-comey-as-a-dirty-cop/
AND LAST BUT CERTAINLY NOT LEAST. CATHY O’BRIEN, RECORDED IN 1996 WITH CLAIMS THAT SHE WAS TIED UP AND BOUND AS A 9 YEAR OLD GIRL, AND FORCED TO PERFORM ORAL SEXUAL ACTS UPON HILLARY CLINTON. SHE EVEN WROTE A FUCKING BOOK ABOUT FULL OF COURT RECORDS TO BACK UP EVERY STATEMENT SHE’S MADE.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SSa9tTa0-k [Embed] [Embed]
https://www.amazon.com/Access-Denied-Reasons-National-Security/dp/096601653X

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/11915

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One of the foreign donors mentioned in the mail (only 23 listed of the 300+ donors):

“The Following Up and Recovering of the Libyan Looted and Disguised Funds of the Transitional Government of Libya, through Washington African Consulting Group, Inc (12/3/14 – Current)”

Washington African Consulting Group was appointed by the Libyan transitional government (installed by the USA probably) to recover all Gadaffi’s gold and money.

This money is now finding it’s way back into Hillary’s pocket.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/11915

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HRC Campaign & DNC breaking law regarding coordination with Super PACs

Rigging the Election Part I 10:59-11:04 Zulema Rodriguez says “I just had a call with the campaign and the DNC. Everyday at one o’clock.” https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5IuJGHuIkzY

“…Everyday at one o’clock.”

Wikileaks email id 12012 RE: Reminder — Trump Rapid Response/Bracketing Call — Today – Tues – May17 – 1PM Eastern (Thread was started by Bob Creamer and look at the others copied on it) https://wikileaks.org/dnc-emails/emailid/12012

‘1PM Eastern’

So much for the double blind.

https://m.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/58f9kx/i_just_discovered_more_proof_verifying_statements/?sort=confidence&utm_source=mweb_redirect&compact=true

https://wikileaks.org/dnc-emails/emailid/12012

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12105 Memo revealing they were discussing the testimony of Cheryl Mills in meetings It must have been highly important to keep all of their stories straight, properly vetted and discussed. : “Please see below for today’s 8am meeting agenda. Also, please note that this meeting should last a full hour” Lists items to talk about “Timing of Focus Groups re Debate Prep” “8/31 Email Release” “Jake/Cheryl Testimony”.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/12105#efmAC4ADoAHvAIE

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BONNER GROUP: Contributions from Linda Pritzer show up as $700,000 in the attached Excel sheet, but the FEC data shows no contributions in 2015 or 2016. Are they laundering money through the Bonner group?? This email is dated from 2008, thats why it doesn’t show up in 2015 or 2016.

Anything you’ve seen about The Bonner Group outside of wikileaks originated from me. I’ve been researching them and David Brock’s groups since July, and opened up a site to house my findings in September.

Relevant Bonner Articles:

They aren’t properly registered to solicit funds ANYWHERE: http://www.thecitizensaudit.com/2016/09/17/correct-the-record-unregistered-solicitation/

(remember how Trump Foundation was barred from raising funds in New York because they weren’t properly registered? That’s what’s happening with the Bonner Group, but in every state.)

Bonner Group Laundering Money through CTR and Brock’s organizations: http://www.thecitizensaudit.com/2016/09/19/money-laundering-david-brock/

Bonus Article

An explainer on Super PACs and what Coordination means. Don’t just repeat a talking point – become educated on WHY something is illegal. http://www.thecitizensaudit.com/2016/10/16/super-pac-coordination-an-explainer/

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/12194

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Current commitment sheet from Bonner Group, sent to Podesta and Brock

$1.7c4 and $400K c3 so far with about 60 people left to decide

edit: attached is a spreadsheet of names, numbers, and amounts of money to PA, MMFA, and CAP.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/12194

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UNIONS Big Labor Update. HUGE Update on Union efforts by HRC campaign.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/12223

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Seems clear that Clinton’s campaign was gearing up big-time as early as December 2014. Is this a massive breach of FEC rules? “From: Robert Mook robbymook@gmail.com Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2014 8:01:13 PM To: Huma Abedin Cc: John Podesta; Cheryl Mills Subject: Re: Update We had a good meeting today to ratify the research plan and discuss staffing structure and talent. Few things to report out:”

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/12245

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– George Soros team purchasing things for Podesta like tickets, etc. in attachment

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/12247

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– initial polling on what positions they should publicly take

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/12256

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Nomi Prins: The Clintons and Their Banker Friends

No matter what spin is used for campaigning purposes, the idea that a critical distance can be maintained between the White House and Wall Street is naïve given the multiple channels of money and favors that flow between the two. It is even more improbable, given the history of connections that Hillary Clinton has established through her associations with key bank leaders in the early 1990s, during her time as a senator from New York, and given their contributions to the Clinton foundation while she was secretary of state. At some level, the situation couldn’t be less complicated: her path aligns with that of the country’s most powerful bankers. If she becomes president, that will remain the case

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/12297

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EMAILID 12342 Tina Flournoy alerts John Podesta to a document that’s being released. There is some concern that Bill Clinton said something that could hurt the campaign. She sends it over as a PDF. It’s an old meeting between Blair and Clinton. Clinton talks about pretty much hating the refugees saying “on another level I don’t want any”: “Bill Clinton: I understand the problem. On the other hand, we have to take enough pressure of Macedonia and Albania so they don’t close the borders to keep their countries from coming apart. Talk to your folks. On one level, I’d like to take 100 thousand and put them in America tomorrow and run the risk of saying people don’t want to go home.** On another level, I don’t want any. They might like it here and not want to leave.**

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/12342

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EMAILID 12393 Neera Tanden and John Podesta. They realize the email deletion will hurt them but they have no idea how much. They think it will quickly pass “I mean, they will go after the deleting of the private emails…but at some point, this just will have to run out of steam, especially as they see minimal electoral consequence. ” Podesta said “They will go after the server but that takes us back to Benghazi which is good for us”

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/12393

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EMAILID 12393 Neera Tanden and John Podesta. They realize the email deletion will hurt them but they have no idea how much. They think it will quickly pass “I mean, they will go after the deleting of the private emails…but at some point, this just will have to run out of steam, especially as they see minimal electoral consequence. ” Podesta said “They will go after the server but that takes us back to Benghazi which is good for us”

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/12393

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EMAILID 12393 They hope the emails will distract from Benghazi: They will go after the server but that takes us back to Benghazi which is good for us.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/12393

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EMAILID 12393 Neera Tanden and John Podesta. They realize the email deletion will hurt them but they have no idea how much. They think it will quickly pass “I mean, they will go after the deleting of the private emails…but at some point, this just will have to run out of steam, especially as they see minimal electoral consequence. ” Podesta said “They will go after the server but that takes us back to Benghazi which is good for us”

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/12393

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EMAILID 12401 This seems big. Chelsea Clinton provides a list of concerns to the staff including John Podesta. Apparently several cases of surveillance and spying was going on between the employees. All of the names of persons will need to be identified and followed up on. There is a lot of information in just this one email: “Ilya physically saw/caught Justin a couple of days ago reading his bberry and loading the same spyware onto his computer that he loaded onto Bari’s computer” “- my father was told today of explicit examples at CGI of Doug/ Teneo pushing for – and receiving – free memberships – and of multiple examples of Teneo ‘hustling’ business at CGI – and of people now having quit at CGI” “- Ilya believes Hannah and Justin have taken significant sums of money from my parents personally – some in expenses – cars, etc. – and others directly”

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/12401#efmAXHAZp

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HRC Sick????????? “Two benefits of this revised plan – we have a better sense of press reactions before having her sit down and it is more time for her to be in right head space. Given where she is now, I don’t think it is realistic to expect that an interview on Monday would go well. Do also think there is a value in having staff take first round of questions on this.”

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/12414

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More evidence that Clinton staffers kept the most nefarious stuff they were doing off the written email record. “Subject: Sharpton Very good straightforward meeting. Rather download on a call.”

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/12510

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EMAILID 12539 Philippe Reines admits to the following about Hillary Clinton’s emails March 2015 : “To be clear, there are and will likely remain only two parties who can release the full 55k: State and us. Nobody else will have them. Gowdy will only end up with what’s relevant to his committee, which won’t grow that much beyond what he has. Probably not get anywhere close to 500.”

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/12539

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EMAILID 12539 Philippe Reines admits to the following about Hillary Clinton’s emails Marhc 2015 : “To be clear, there are and will likely remain only two parties who can release the full 55k: State and us. Nobody else will have them. Gowdy will only end up with what’s relevant to his committee, which won’t grow that much beyond what he has. Probably not get anywhere close to 500.”

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/12539

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State Dept. DOES have all of Hillary’s emails!!

To be clear, there are and will likely remain only two parties who can release the full 55k: State and us. Nobody else will have them. Gowdy will only end up with what’s relevant to his committee, which won’t grow that much beyond what he has. Probably not get anywhere close to 500.

If State had all her emails as of “Date: 2015-03-17 16:26” then either they still have them OR the *State Department Erased Hillary’s Emails As Well

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/12539

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EMAILID 12539 Philippe Reines admmits to the following about Hillary Clinton’s emails March 2015 : “To be clear, there are and will likely remain only two parties who can release the full 55k: State and us. Nobody else will have them. Gowdy will only end up with what’s relevant to his committee, which won’t grow that much beyond what he has. Probably not get anywhere close to 500.”

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/12539

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Can’t send it securely? fuck it, change the header.

https://wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/emailid/12605

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Pay4play letters

https://wikileaks.org/dnc-emails/emailid/12803

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fake craigslist post created by HRC team for “Trump Jobs” & “grope under the table ”

https://wikileaks.org/dnc-emails/emailid/12803

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EMAILID 12811 Cheryl Mills sends out an article to Podesta and several others “Aide who accused Bill Clinton of groping her in White House claims ‘Hillary Clinton IS the war on women … she enabled his behavior’ Kathleen Willey claims President Clinton forced himself on her in a study near the Oval Office in 1993, insists that Hillary ‘enabled his behavior’ and then conducted a campaign to discredit her.” Tina Flournoy responds “Saw it last night and ignored it” Doesn’t seem like they were willing to believe the accounts from Bill Clinton’s victims. They simply ignored them.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/12811#efmAAGAAm

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EMAILID 12811 Cheryl Mills sends out an article to Podesta and several others “Aide who accused Bill Clinton of groping her in White House claims ‘Hillary Clinton IS the war on women … she enabled his behavior’ Kathleen Willey claims President Clinton forced himself on her in a study near the Oval Office in 1993, insists that Hillary ‘enabled his behavior’ and then conducted a campaign to discredit her.” Tina Flournoy responds “Saw it last night and ignored it” Doesn’t seem like they were willing to believe the accounts from Bill Clinton’s victims. They simply ignored them.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/12811#efmAAGAAm

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UNIONS These are from Nikki Budzinski HRC’s labor outreach coordinator. I agree we should push to keep those other unions neutral. Any word on their boards and if we can lobby members individually to block a vote?

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/13257

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Haim was on his way to Israel today, he and Alex will be on the call tomorrow Laura suggested this call be a check-in, rather than about super-delegates as suggested, I’ll explain offline in the morning.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/13355

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Clinton’s support of TPP, and and more evidence of public duplicity vs. private corporatism. On Mar 1, 2015, at 4:51 PM, Robby Mook robbymook2015@gmail.com wrote: I can’t recall where we landed exactly on trade. Is she going to say she supports it? Regardless of her position, signing a letter feels like poking the bear with labor to me.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/13423

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EMAILID 13999 More possible violations of campaign finance rules. Email to Podesta from Minh Nguyen :”I’m swinging way above my weight class here. And I’m 100% sure this out of protocol.I’m trying to land the campaign a big fat whale that can give between $100,000 to maybe $1 million if their ego can be reassured that they won’t be just treated “just like any other donor.With your permission, can I CC you in an email to these guys.I’m work with Haim Saban’s political director on these same guys. If it’s 100% inappropriate I understand.”

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/13999#efmAClADMADOAEwAIPAI3

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EMAILID 13999 More possible violations of campaign finance rules. Email to Podesta from Minh Nguyen :”I’m swinging way above my weight class here. And I’m 100% sure this out of protocol.I’m trying to land the campaign a big fat whale that can give between $100,000 to maybe $1 million if their ego can be reassured that they won’t be just treated “just like any other donor.With your permission, can I CC you in an email to these guys.I’m work with Haim Saban’s political director on these same guys. If it’s 100% inappropriate I understand.”

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/13999#efmAClADMADOAEwAIPAI3

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DAY OF Scalia’s death Podesta is talking with Soros’ guy about his replacement

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/14273

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Gowdy is focused on how her Benghazi emails are self-selected by her and therefore paint on an incomplete picture. He is not focused on the classified email, which is great.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/14294#efmAHHAJ6

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Did Clinton’s campaign have a mole on the Benghazi committee? Susanne Grooms is/was the Democratic legal counsel to the committee. There are other emails where the Clinton campaign is in contact with her getting info and dates. Here it seems like there is language that might indicate her contact with HRC’s campaign is illicit. “I just spoke with Susanne Grooms, who is resisting the idea of a telephone call. John, I am not sure David is available right now to discuss — is there a number where I can reach you? You can reach me at 202.434.5487. Thanks.”

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/14503

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Evidence of Clinton Campaign lack of ethics in fundraising. Denigrates Obama people of being “prissy” [read: ethical]. Subject: Re: F.E.C. Can’t Curb 2016 Election Abuse, Commission Chief Says There is a stalemate among the agency’s six commissioners, who are perpetually locked in 3-to-3 ties along party lines because of a fundamental disagreement over the commission’s mandate. Adding Elias. I agree with you, John. I think we focus hard on raising as much as we can and then throw the kitchen sink at everyone who we believe steps over the line, understanding that has limited impact. On May 3, 2015, at 5:55 PM, John Podesta wrote: I have no magic solutions other than execution. Elias may have some legal ideas to slow them down. We have 3 things we have to do. Raise the primary $ by expanding the bundler network. Get Priorities functional. Use this to scare our people into giving bigger sums. We may need to get WJC into the mix sooner. We should also ask BHO to do more in light of this, although they are kind of prissy about how they approach this.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/14580

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Podesta discussing how to skirt campaign finance law and the FEC. Option proposed: ‘there is one legal tool we could use that might slow them down. The law has a little noticed or used provision that says that if a complaint has been filed and it is either dismissed or not acted upon within 120 days the entity that filed the complaint can sue the FEC to force it to proceed with enforcement. If the FEC fails to move forward, then the complainant is permitted to bring their own lawsuit to enforce the law directly. IF it were announced that this was the path we intended to take, it would both make news and perhaps give pause to the groups.” FURTHER PROOF OF COORDINATION BETWEEN HRC CAMPAIGN AND DNC: “Is this something we want to push forward? If so, would we want the DNC to do it? The campaign? Or would we prefer it be done externally?”

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EMAILID 15000 Glenn Ivey and Cheryl Mills discuss their dreams of abolishing the Benghazi Committee, which uncovered much of the information that lead to the Clinton email scandal.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/15000

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There’s a lot of work on this on both sides of the Capitol” TO ABOLISH THE BENGHAZI COMMITTEE

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EMAILID 15000 Glenn Ivey and Cheryl Mills discuss their dreams of abolishing the Benghazi Committee, which uncovered much of the information that lead to the Clinton email scandal.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/15000

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And here’s more evidence of the “non-existence” of the Clinton campaign prior to her announcement. Notice the “we haven’t been ‘hired'” instead of truthfully “we haven’t been hired.” (no quotes) “The other thing we’d need to be very careful about from a compliance perspective is that we are volunteering to help her make a final decision. We haven’t been “hired” and she hasn’t decided to run. It’s very important we make that clear.”

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/15014

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EMAILID 15202 Robby Mook the campaign manager Mentioning the Priorities super PAC (just busted for illegal coordination by the latest O’Keefe video)

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/15202

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EMAILID 15202 Robby Mook the campaign manager Mentioning the Priorities super PAC (just busted for illegal coordination by the latest O’Keefe video)

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/15202

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EMAILID 15202 Robby Mook the campaign manager Mentioning the Priorities super PAC (just busted for illegal coordination by the latest O’Keefe video)

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/15202

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…The other is that the press as a whole doesn’t like Clinton very much (and the feeling is mutual), so there’s a bias toward believing that the public feels the same way. So somehow her campaign is struggling even when it’s winning, and polls that show her winning are reported as showing her losing

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/15387

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Quinnipac poll showing HRC winning. Ample evidence is now available that polling orgs are shilling for HRC and are outright oversampling groups to get favorable results (See: https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/15442). …The other is that the press as a whole doesn’t like Clinton very much (and the feeling is mutual)…

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/15387

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Dinner @ Soros home
Look at the attachments… New America… controlling narrative

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/15455

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John Podesta’s real opinion on Senator Bernard Sanders: ” that doofus Bernie” This email also contains some thoughts of Democrat Edwards Tanden about Republicans. He seems like a truly sick individual, completely consumed by hatred in his heart. Tanden about all Rebuplicans: ” If they don’t cooperate then it is no longer hyperbole to say that they are truly enemies of the state, enemies of the world.” Edwards also states: “I’m totally one hundred percent for Hillary because if any one of these bozos makes it to the White House, then we’ll have a revolution on our hands.” NOTE: Note that Edwards Tanden definitely includes Bernie in the “bozos”, because he is directly replying here to a question about Bernie. Neera Tanden wasn’t actually bothered by any of the above because she proudly forwarded the hate speech about Republicans and the insult to Bernie to John Podesta.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/15464#efmAWQAW-

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Asking someone to intervene when Ben Jealous wants to endorse Bernie

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/15465

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Have her keep her cool. These incompetent bastards are baiting her , embarressing and disrepectful.”

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/15518

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Hillary herself acknowledges they shouldn’t “be seen” meddling in Convention CEO hire even tho Debbie hired one without consulting them.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/15531

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Flipping out over DWS not consulting them for her Convention CEO appointment. And then saying how she needs to understand how to play ball with them

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/15531

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Hillary has nothing good to say about LGBT- So they have to script everything she says to them

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/15536

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This eerily sounds similar to what Trump just proposed just yesterday. Too bad she’s done the full opposite on these ‘rules’.

Subject: Corruption agenda A government not for the rich and powerful but accountable to you is the best frame from our research.

1 no one from Wall Street will serve in her admin

End the legalized bribery today. If you take a campaign contribution and change a law because of that, go to jail. She has never done that. No one else should either.

End practice of revolving door of members or anyone in admin. 5 yr bans maybe. I don’t know what it is now. If you regulate an industry, can’t go in to it later if you work for her. All will sign a pledge.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/15577

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Podesta being asked to meet with Soros.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/15585

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Podesta being asked to meet with Soros.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/15922

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Diversity is a tactic, not a value
Can you call Larry and see what minorities he would put in top tier? Could be an asian. I know this isn’t Larry’s taste, but better if a woman

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/16031

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More from Hillary herself: in a discussion of the Obamacare Cadillac Tax she says “we have to be careful the R version passes which begins the unraveling of he ACA”.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/16070

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Apparently Hillary said something on Rachel (Maddow?) about a pressing amendment to DOMA that (according to team) was incorrect, ie not factual. The team know she won’t go back on it, say she’s wrong. Hillary’s incorrect statement has upset LGBT supporters, the team is getting blowback. They’re trying to work out how to spin it. Since THEY know she won’t go back on THIS and they say she’s WRONG:- It’d be a good thing for Trump to ask her in the debate!?

Someone who knows some history around DOMA needs to look at this. Also – sounds like LGBT peeps should know that Hillary HASN’T walked back her wrong statement, and won’t, just her team spinning it.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/16088

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From:bdwanger@gmail.com To: john.podesta@gmail.com Date: 2015-08-10 21:00 Subject: Wanger/unsolicited comment

Hi, John,

Unsolicited advice from a pr person.

Hillary needs to learn to memorize the first 60 to 90 seconds of prepared remarks.

Just saw her on the news talking about Trump and his remarks denigrating women.

She had great things to say but was reading from a script which made her looked programmed.

If there’s any topic she can talk about passionately without a script this was it. A missed opp.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/16237

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I would like to loop Dan and Jake into drafting of likely policy initiatives for testing–they have already provided me some input, but I’d like to get them on calls with the team to drill down on this in more detail, since it’s so important. I know that policy is still a nascent process and will be highly iterative, but I don’t think it makes sense to do the polling in isolation from the policy work itself (since the research should be supporting and informing the policy development)

Clinton team trying to determine what Hillary’s policy positions should be based on polling.

My one thought from the conversation I participated in with Wendy is that her strength is in branding and marketing, using the evidence base in determining how to generate the behaviors sought in the target audience. So I think she has the capacity and creativity to drive the brand development and strategy from inception to execution. I imagine she would rely on the data that is being collected through the polling and focus groups you outline but equally as important, would likely have questions she might suggest specifically be included in the process.

It’s like they’re developing an advertisement campaign for a product, only the product is Hillary Clinton.

I would still assume our budget will be in the $2+ million range per my earlier memo

They spent $2 Million on polling and focus groups to craft Hillary’s public persona

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/16357

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Is Podesta the one forming US policies?

> Dear Mr Poddsta,
> Many congratulations on the U.S.-China climate accord. I realise it must have been very hard given the political climate but you got it thru.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/16477

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EMAILID 16668 Mae Podesta writing to John Podesta and advising him how to best recommend a person to the CFR the Council of Foreign Relations for a position. The person who needs to have this opportunity according to Mae Podesta is Mea Podesta. Mae writes : I am writing to second the nomination of Mae Podesta to join the Council on Foreign Relations as a Term Member. I’ve known Mae since she was a child, having the pleasure to both watch her grow up and navigate her career, as well as seeing her work first hand when she spent a summer at Walmart with my Sustainability team…. The Council will be lucky to have her as a term member.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/16668#efmALXASR

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Podesta being asked to meet with Soros

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/17133

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Podesta being asked to meet with Soros.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/17133

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When talking about asking for donations. but your more-than 20 pleas for even more additional >> contributions in the space of less than 72 hours is absurd, annoying, and >> unworthy of you. Please moderate it.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/17234

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while we have record poverty rates and HRC campaign fraudulently over charges small donors they “This year, our party will be taco themed-with fresh, handmade tortillas flown in from Mexico the previous day”. http://observer.com/2016/09/exclusive-hillary-clinton-campaign-systematically-overcharging-poorest-donors/

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/17313

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Final q & a script of HRC for email investigation. States ” CORE LANGUAGE FOR ALL ANSWERS” which implies STICK TO THIS SCRIPT! We now know this whole statement is a fabricated lie and the emails were not turned over and were in fact deleted by her campaign and HRC herself! Additionally, HRC states she gave orders to have her “personal” emails deleted: “I didn’t see a reason to keep them so I asked that they be deleted”

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/17338

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> [SECOND IDEA] Strengthen bribery laws to ensure that politicians don’ change legislation for political donations.
>The second idea is a favorite of mine, as you know, but REALLY dicey territory for HRC, right?

Tldr
They acknowledge how corrupt she is!

https://www.wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/17343#searchresult

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EMAILID 17343

Re: memo on govt reform/pulbic corruption Mar 1, 2016 at 4:49 PM, Jake Sullivan wrote about several ideas and their public support:

Increase government’s public reporting so voters know what goverment is doing …66..

Strengthen bribery laws to ensure that politicians don’ change legislation for political donations. 62%

The second idea is a favorite of mine, as you know, but REALLY dicey territory for HRC, right?

Wouldn’t want those bribery laws strengthened now, would we?

Neera Tanden’s response:

This is a jump ball. She may be so tainted she’s really vulnerable = if so, maybe a message of I’ve seen how this sausage is made,

Crooked Hillary Clinton is “really vulnerable” on corruption, folks. According to her own staff who know her really well.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/17343#efmAFHAHJARzATdAeFAfj

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Jake Sullivan no less, suggests that HRC takes bribes for crafting laws.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/17343#efmARzATdAeFAfj

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EMAILID 17375 Brent Budowsky and Podesta emailing each other, again. (they had almost 100 emails to each other in the 19 000 that came out so far). Budowsky writes:

And at a major university in Washington, D.C., where many of the kids come here because of an interest in politics and are already working as interns, there was not one student who gave enough of a damn for Hillary to open a booth, or even wear a Hillary button—-I didn’t see one and I was looking.

This pretty much explains why CTR’s paid posting campaigns were needed for Reddit and Facebook. She does not have enough real supporters who “give enough of a damn” to actively cheer and support her. This is why they need masses of paid shills here on Reddit, to create the illusion of enthusiastic support.

If there are secret Clinton talking points to surrogates to attack Bernie—and I now believe the story is true—–she is going to create ill-will that neither she nor her staff can even imagine. ..

What will happen if this continues is Bernie will get pissed off and lash back and I can write the words he will say if Clinton tactics anger him—-FBI investigation and aides taking the Fifth will be among them—and it will not be pretty.

Podesta responds :

We already discussed Castro. Beyond that, why do you think that story is not just a bunch of hyped up BS intended to have exactly the kind of reaction you are exhibiting?

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/17375#efmAAGACw

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If you donate to Democrats they will get you experimental life saving drugs.

Please please call them. I need tthem to ask people on the board why fred can’t have this drug. This drug has been tested with freds tumor in a testube and is efficaous. The drug is in the hospital that fred is in AND this drug is being used in clinical trials on myloma (but fred doesn’t qualify). It’s bullshit. If I am unable to get drug I will take out full pg add in boston globe to ceo and board members. Fred is running out of time. He’s so sick and needs this drug. Thanks so much

.

I’ve worked the dutko, foley hoag and partners angles. Don’t know that it will mean anything given the pressure he’s already resisted, but hope it helps

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/17368

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LITERALLY NO VOTER SUPPORT
>And at a major university in Washington, D.C…. there was not one student who gave enough of a damn for Hillary to open a booth, or even wear a Hillary button—-I didn’t see one and I was looking.

SECRET ATTACK SCRIPT ON BERNIE
>If there are secret Clinton talking points to surrogates to attack Bernie—and I now believe the story is true—–she is going to create ill-will that neither she nor her staff can even imagine.
Like is currently happening?

BERNIE WILL FALL IN LINE
>Moreover, Bernie is a pro, and his inclination will be to play ball if Hillary is nominated and urge his supporters to come around.

HOW TO HANDLE BERNIE
>The way to handle Bernie is to do what I have done in my columns—give high praise to Hillary, emphasize the historic moment for women and her vast qualifications, counter-attack against the Republican inquisitions, make love to Bernie and his idealistic supporters, and co-opt as many of his > progressive issues as possible, such as increasing social security benefits and paying for it through a transaction tax on Wall Street.
She has no policies of her own!

NOONE LIKES HRC ENOUGH TO WORK FOR FREE
>Read the Sunday NY Times story about all the tech wizards doing for Bernie for free what Hillary has to pay for

PROOF HRC LIES ABOUT WHY SHE WANTS TO BECOME PRESIDENT
>what the Hillary campaign should be doing… not negative politics that can’t be put in writing and have to be hidden like grand jury testimony because her well-paid consultants do not want anyone to know why they think she should become president…..

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/17375

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Here’s Hillary’s Brain Trust preparing ONE tweet “from” Hillary on something the Pope said about Climate Change. She really doesn’t have one original thought, all her tweets, interviews, speeches, debate answers are prepared by Podesta and the other minions.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/17451

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HRC campaign are very worried a WSJ reporter knows she is working with John on a campaign in 2014 while collecting fees and CF $$$. They lied to him.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/17556

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They have to decide whether her explanation on why she stayed married to Bill was sufficient. Apparently Hillary is such a blank slate that they even have to choose what words she says about her marriage?

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/17700

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EMAILID 17724 Dan Schwerin

Here is a draft statement opposing TPP. It’s long, but covers a lot of ground. The goal here was to minimize our vulnerability to the authenticity attack and not piss off the WH any more than necessary.

Staff creates a statement about Hillary opposing TPP. Which is interesting because while staff creates this statement they admit she pushed and advocated for TPP.

Joel Benenson writes:

But the reality is HRC is more pro trade than anti and trying to turn her into something she is not could reinforce our negative around authenticity. This is an agreement that she pushed for and largely advocated for.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/17724#efmAAGAD6

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Debbie Dignell (D) Want’s nothing to do w/ Hillary

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/17747

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She was also championing TPP according to Jake Sullivan:

She has concerns about where TPP will end up. But denying potus negotiating authority to finish a deal she has championed?

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/17992

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HRC Meeting With Elizabeth Warren

Huma Abedin wrote:

HRC Health Issues back in Nov 2014
>Like all of you, the questions we get asked 20 times a day is a. where is she and what is she doing?

>Our answer is as honest as possible. We are giving her the time and space to think through the things she needs to think through.

Honest as possible implies hiding something…

>On John and CDM, we say you have been her closest advisors for a hundred years and that hasnt changed. Since we have never discussed this as a group or agreed on what to say, sharing with everyone.

Coordinating stories in case anyone asks

>We should be thoughtful about any group that wants to rent Friend of Hillary list now because there is interest. This is also probably best discussed off email.
Proof there is Collusion among her biggest donors

From: Robert Mook
>And then there’s the press question–not sure how high the chance of a leak is, but it would be good to have a joint plan with Mindy in the event it gets out to shape coverage. Or to proactively leak if that’s what EW wants. Not a bad thing to put out there that they had a constructive mtg.

Info “leaked” to the media without the media corroborating. More proof of MSM working for HRC

From:robbymook@gmail.com
>Will definitely get leaked!

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/17955

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opposition research director Tony Carrk sends a hurried email to Podesta and many other high ranking staffers:

subject: If we get to talk to her on break

Have her mention climate change J

Now just what this could be? Seems very important to mention climate change, IF the staff can talk to her on break. If they update her talking points during the break they have to include climate change in there, writes Carrk. Now what situation could allow for such a break? Perhaps a debate against Bernie Sanders? Can someone look into whether there were any debates against Bernie during this time. This email strongly implies that they used the breaks in some type of event to update her talking points with the latest information produced by the team. This email was sent on 2016-01-18 0:47 (just barely, seems more like the evening of 01-17 in a different timezone)

UPDATE from a poster in the thread:” “View source” shows that email was received by Podesta’s ISP on Sun, 17 Jan 2016 18:47:14 (PST) which is actually during the Democrat debate on January 17 in which Crooked Hillary competed against Senator Bernie Sanders and other Dems.”

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/18329

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Trying to dig up dirt on Gowdy

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/18346

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HRC MENTAL HEALTH “It worries me more that she doesn’t seem to know what planet we are all living
in at the moment.”

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/18353#efmACXAD2AFIAGYAGaAGl

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EMAILID 18353

2015-09-15 Neera Tanden and John Podesta tackle the issue of Hillary in the primary. Is she a progressive or a moderate?

Neera writes:

Why did she call herself a moderate?

Podesta replies:

I pushed her on this on Sunday night. She claims she didn’t remember saying it. Not sure I believe her. We were speculating, that it may be a Don Baer intervention.

John Podesta, the chairman of the Hillary Clinton campaign, thinks that Hillary may be lying to him here. To even think this Podesta MUST believe that Hillary is a pathological liar who just can’t stop lying. Podesta simply does not believe or trust her. You know your “trustworthy” numbers must be bad when you read “Not sure I believe her” from your own goddamn campaign chairman.

Neera Tanden angrily responds

I mean it makes my life more difficult after telling every reporter I know she’s actually progressive but that is really the smallest of issues. It worries me more that she doesn’t seem to know what planet we are all living in at the moment.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/18353#efmAFIAGxAJCAJm

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HRC PHYSICAL HEALTH. “Well I definitely was able to breathe again when it was over.” why? afraid of her passing out on stage?

https://www.wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/18918#searchresult

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HRC HEALTH ISSUES! John Podesta writes on 2016-01-17. Great answer to Trump, but hard to cram more into her head in terms of quotes to memorize tonight. Still we should come back to it.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/20000#efmAAGACJ

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Some unflattering points,that we better be aware of,just in case Trump(or whoever) gets a hold of this and uses it in states like Florida where it would be very damaging. In any event need to be ready to answer the below if it pops up in adds or during debates. Not good! Attachment: article about HRC true position and feelings on Israel. She is highly critical of them

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/20949

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Brent Budowsky :

It is 9:13. Hillary just attacked Bernie. I just turned the debate off. I cannot watch any more. She is a slow learner.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/21074#efmAAGACB

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From: Sara Solow
>She wants to be able to say: “No, I don’t accept donations from private prisons or from ppl who run private prisons.” But for her to say that, it has to be true.

TRANSLATION, HRC TAKES MONEY FROM PRIVATE PRISONS THAT LOCK UP MORE BLACKS/ HISPANICS THAN WHITES. -> THEY MAKE MORE MONEY THE MORE PEOPLE ARE IMPRISONED.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michaela-pommells/study-more-people-of-colo_b_4826086.html
>More than 60 percent of prison inmates in the U.S. identify as African American or Latino despite making up only 30 percent of the population.
>private prisons seek the least expensive prisoner to generate the highest possible profit.
>Private prisons receive carte blanche, picking and choosing the most desirable prisoner. In this case, they are more likely to chose African American and Latino prisoners; the prisoners of plenty.

HRC needs to be able to say “that she only accepts money from bundlers who lobby for private prisons — as well as other groups. Or that there is some disconnect between the lobbyists/bundlers for her, and actual private prison companies.”

Instead of shutting the prisons down or changing the industry, she just removes the direct link.

TLDR, HRC makes more money the more people suffer…

https://www.wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/21213#searchresult

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Looks like Palmieri was worried about how it looks submitting the same statement twice.

Know I missed discussions today – but this seems dangerous.If I understand this correctly – we are literally submitting her testimony from two years ago?

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/21704#efmAAGAAaAGSAHNAHyAIxASyAVX

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Their staff confirms Obama knew about Hillary’s email server. Confirmation Obama and Hillary emailed. Email is them planning to cover it up:

Suggest Philippe talk to Josh or Eric. They know POTUS and HRC emailed. Josh has been asked about that. Standard practice is not to confirm anything about his email, so his answer to press was that he would not comment/confirm. I recollect that Josh was also asked if POTUS ever noticed her personal email account and he said something like POTUS likely had better things to do than focus on his Cabinet’s email addresses.

https://www.wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/21779

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More on Obama’s email use. Staff is getting concerned about a NYT story, http://archive.is/noszL titled “Obama Says He Didn’t Know Hillary Clinton Was Using Private Email Address”:

Phillipe Reines:

One of us should connect with the WH just so they know that the email will show his statement to not make sense.

Jennifer Palmieri :

Suggest Philippe talk to Josh or Eric. They know POTUS and HRC emailed.

Both Palmieri and Reines are fully aware that not only Obama but lower level staff in the White House knew about the private server and the emails exchanged through it.

Phillipe Reines

Ok. Sounds like people are putting words into his mouth.

This is from March 2015, when Hillary has no official title or position. Yet her underlings are talking about how they will contact the White House to get them to change their story.

https://www.wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/21779#efmAAGAA-ADkAEEALeAM4AM5APx

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TANDEN SUSPECTS DOUG BAND IS A LEAK BUT IT’S ACTUALLY Eric Braverman.

Morning Joe Twitter: A source close to the Clintons tell @ron_fournier to “follow the money” and find the real HRC scandal.

Neera Tanden: I’m hoping someone is keeping tabs on Doug Band. Quote in here is from someone who worked in Clinton Foundation.

john.podesta@gmail.com wrote:
Eric Braverman

SEPARATE EMAIL TIES THIS TOGETHER
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/21802

From: Ken Vogel, Politico
“Hey guys: Sorry for the delay on these. The story is about the management challenges and leadership changes at the foundation – and what if anything they portend for 2016. Deadline is Wednesday afternoon.”

“11 – What changed between December 2014 – when the board renewed Eric Braverman’s board term for another three years, and gave him a raise and a bonus – and early January when he resigned?
12 – Was Eric Braverman asked to resign and, if so, why?”

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/25357

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/21802

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Not Actually respective to any religion

Teddy Goff” wrote: > >> Adding Podesta here too for his review. I vote #2, but defer to the >> non-Jews on this thread if anyone thinks “amen” might rub people the wrong >> way.

There’s only one thing to say about @Pontifex >>> ‘s bold statements on climate change & >>> renewable energy: Amen. -H

https://www.wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/21814#searchresult

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Prepared Q&A in 2015 , they were already concerned about her health but there is a lot more:

Personal

When will you release your medical records?

• I’m in great health, and I am going to do as other candidates have traditionally done when it came to health records. The voters will know from my doctors how healthy I am!

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/21848

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Talk about skirting campaign finance laws

>One clarification question: In your second option in the document, is the idea that RFH would transfer the list to another super pac, which would in turn to sell it to the campaign?

>You probably saw the press stories last weekend about the fact that there is already a complaint filed nearly a year ago about RFH’s rental of the Friends of Hillary list. It won’t be the last. [See https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/17955%5D

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/21915#efmAqfAthAxpA0f

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HILLARY CANT SHOW EMOTIONS OR COMMUNICATE PROPER FEELINGS / REMORSE, THEY ADMIT THIS IS NOW A BIGGER ISSUE THAN HER DISHONESTY:

Neera Tanden wrote:

I know this email thing isn’t on the level. I’m fully aware of that. But her inability to just do a national interview and communicate genuine feelings of remorse and regret is now, I fear, becoming a character problem (more so than honesty).

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/22039

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Brent hoping they can get Gowdy off the committee
I would not suggest HRC or the campaign raise this directly unless the strategy is total war, but I would suggest that some of her better surrogates might call on Trey Gowdy to resign from the Ethics C’tee….

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/22078

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George Soros’ Open Societies Foundation crafting Police Reform policy

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/22097

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HRC campaign collusion with State Department

From:jennifer.m.palmieri@gmail.com
To: jbenenson@bsgco.com, Jim.Margolis@gmmb.com, gruncom@aol.com, teddy@precisionstrategies.com
Date: 2015-03-04 22:25
Subject: Emails development

Team – wanted to let you know that Cheryl is working with State to get agreement on release of the 55k pages of emails she have to State. The hope would be that we are able to say tonight to the press that we are working with State to get emails released soon. Not sure where those discussions will land, but hope is either State agrees to release on timely basis or we pledge to release them ourselves in ten days/week. Assume you all would agree this is right move?

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/22105

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Podesta speed dating email…. he’s married

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/22197

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Podesta having dinner with George Soros

https://www.wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/22202

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From:ntanden@gmail.com To: john.podesta@gmail.com
Subject: speaking at the banks

dont shoot me but if we lose badly maybe she should just return the money Say she gets the anger and moves on. Feels a little like an open wound One of the canvassers told me it came up at 3 undecideds houses. http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-10-20/clinton-aide-asks-if-hillary-should-return-money-banks-if-she-loses-badly

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/22242

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Tip? That doesn’t seem right.

Someone here just got a tip that the State Department may be planning to release her Benghazi emails tomorrow or Monday. Not sure the source is reliable. Has anyone heard anything about this?

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/22247

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Another juicy Chelsea/Doug Band email. This one accuses Doug of calling Bill on the day Hillary’s mother died and “yelled and screamed at my dad about how could he do this to [Doug] and Justin.”

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/22275

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Still trying to decide what position she should take on TPP/Glass Steagall

“She has to be for TPP*. She called it the “gold standard” of trade agreements. I think opposing that would be a huge flip flop.”

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/22392

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Ron Klain writes about how Hillary called TPP the “gold standard”. This is what she lied about in the first debate. The staffers knew in 2015 October this would look so bad, but they went along with it anyway.

I had to get off that call before it ended, and I also didn’t want to intrude in that group. But FWIW, my view would be: 1. * She has to be for TPP*. She called it the “gold standard” of trade agreements. I think opposing that would be a huge flip flop. She can say that as President she would work to change it. She can say that it can be better. But I think she should support it.

Jake Sullivan

I agree with you on TPP but others (including on this email!) feel strongly to the contrary.

So two senior officials in the Hillary campaign admitted that it would be a “huge flip flop” and they did it anyway because it was popular at the time. Now Hillary’s only attempted defense is to claim that she did not call TPP the gold standard (she did). Weak.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/22392#efmAHjANp

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Possible another bimbo being dicked by Johnny boy? Their other correspondence seems more personal than professional. She’s concerned about whether her son is going to get to the shelter in 90 seconds before the bombs drop on Tel Aviv. Too bad he doesn’t have 4 minutes

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/22485

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Here they are trying to weazel out of TPP support, it’s not even her changing position, it’s her staff trying to find a good excuse to get votes:

“you have no easy task here but I do feel like there are too many competing interests in the statement. On one hand you praise Obama while opposing his efforts and actions. Then you dissect the agreement in praise and criticism. And you take a swipe at Republicans for creating the environment that drives part of her opposition which feels forced and a way to lesson the blow to opposing the president. And the arguments against are so policy driven that I feel the American worker gets left out as the real reason to oppose it. But them again, beggars can’t be choosers. If this is what it takes to get an opposition position so be it. But I feel this type of approach, while sensitive to the Obama Administration, may get its own share of criticism for trying to balance her opposition and having it both ways. I would favor more of the paradigm of how we approached the Keystone opposition. More black and white”

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/22898

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Senator Diane Feinstein admits to “offer to help” and “be a surrogate” for Clinton in Benghazi hearings. Feinstein is the chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee

VERY CLEAR INDICATION OF THIS BEING RIGGED AND THIS

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-09-06/we-wired-it-new-emails-show-hillary-tried-rig-benghazi-hearings-january-2013. https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/58j7jn/gentlement_i_believe_we_found_it_diane_feinstein/

https://www.wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/23199

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Senator Diane Feinstein admits to “offer to help” and “be a surrogate” for Clinton in Benghazi hearings. Feinstein is the chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee

VERY CLEAR INDICATION OF THIS BEING RIGGED AND THIS

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-09-06/we-wired-it-new-emails-show-hillary-tried-rig-benghazi-hearings-january-2013

https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/58j7jn/gentlement_i_believe_we_found_it_diane_feinstein/

https://www.wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/23199

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From:faiz.shakir@gmail.com To: john.podesta@gmail.com Date: 2015-11-19 19:38 Subject: Re: What did you think of the speech?

yeah, my favorite part is how he connects IS [ISIS] to “billionaire families” in the Arab world. Always goes back to the billionaires. Hilarious. It sounds a bit too much like “our war in syria and iraq is ultimately a battle to reshape islam”. We’d lose that one. But I like the direction he’s going. Maybe you could one-up him with: “ISIS is trying to behead Islam” (kidding, don’t do that)

Faiz Shakir” wrote:
“Really appreciated the Saudi hit on feeding radical ideology.”
Saudi Arabia won’t be too happy since they ate huge donors

“We tend to be overly >> focused on the violent strains of the radicalism. But even if there weren’t violence, the fact that too many who are for subjugation of women, against gays, against Jews and Christians, etc – is a serious problem for our future.

THEY ADMIT ISLAM HAS HORRIFIC IDEALS YET THEY DO NOTHING BUT PROMOTE IT AMD WANT TO BRING IT INTO OUR COUNTRY!

https://www.wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/23240

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HRC KNOWS HER SERVER WAS HACKED!

John Podesta <john.podesta@gmail.com<mailto:john.podesta@gmail.com wrote:
Reluctant to go there. Makes it seem like she consciously went to the home server for security reasons which would fall apart under scrutiny.

Roy Spence <Roy.Spence@gsdm.com> wrote:
IRS was hacked. I think the State Department was hacked. Sony hacked. Banks hacked. As we try and close the Benghazi Chapter and the email drip drip. Is there ever a moment in TiMe not to Defend the decision but layout the fact….HRC servers were not hacked. Know this is s naive thought but just thinking.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/23327#efmACtAE7AIzALQ

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subject:Re: Hey bro quick question.

The topic is the security of the private sever. Maybe they should claim it was really secure and maybe even better protected then some governmental systems. Podesta shoots the idea down:

Reluctant to go there. Makes it seem like she consciously went to the home server for security reasons which would fall apart under scrutiny.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/23327#efmACtAE6

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From: John Podesta
Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2015 7:43:07 AM
To: H
Subject: Re: Thanks for helping steer the ship thru our first choppy waters.
“I think you have a funky server.”

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/23344

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Seems they were knowingly already prepping for a campaign in JAN 14? FEC violation given she had paid speeches after?

” … it will get reported if someone talks as a political meeting rather than one designed to preserve her options”

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/23363#efmAMtAOaAZJAcG

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“We recommend not engaging on specific questions related to 1) donors; 2) implementation of the MOU; or 3) HRC’s knowledge of donors to the foundation. These are rabbit holes.” The Clinton Foundation Memorandum of Understanding. When Clinton becamse Sec of State Obama made her sign the attached document. She agreed that there wouldn’t even be the appearance of a conflict of interest between her job at State and the donor’s to the foundation.

https://www.judicialwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Clinton-Inc-December-3-2013-production-pg-2-6.pdf

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/23539

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EMAILD The Bonner Group has a question for Podesta

Subject: Is there someone in your shop

Who totally understands “executive orders”. It is to answer a very big donors questions

Podesta responds within 2 hours “of course” to put the “very big donors” mind at ease.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/23845

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HRC CAMPAIGN ACKNOWLEDGES SHE DELETED HER EMAILS

From:bfallon@hillaryclinton.com
To: hsamuelson@cdmillsgroup.com
Date: 2015-06-25 00:40 Subject:
Re: Proposed response to upcoming State Dept disclosure on Sid emails

*ON-THE-RECORD RESPONSE FROM SPOKESMAN NICK MERRILL:*
“Hillary Clinton has turned over 55,000 pages of materials to the State Department, including all emails in her possession from Mr. Blumenthal.”

*OFF RECORD, if pressed on whether we are essentially admitting the possibility that she deleted some emails:*
Look, we do not know what these materials are, or where they came from. Just take a look at them: many of the documents are not even formatted as emails.

Why would the HRC campaign have a plan for responding to allegations she deleted emails if they know she didn’t delete them?????

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/23891#efmASbAUJ

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HRC CAMP USES PLANTED QUESTIONS TO MANIPULATE PUBLIC OPINION
EMAILD Brian Fallon – in the news today as a suspected question planter at a Hillary press conference – lays out a plan. How to effectively hide the fact that Hillary Clinton deleted emails even in the face of upcoming evidence.

https://twitter.com/DRUDGE_REPORT/status/789447550575063040

“OFF RECORD, if pressed on whether we are essentially admitting the possibility that she deleted some emails:Look, we do not know what these materials are, or where they came from. Just take a look at them: many of the documents are not even formatted as emails.”

THE GOAL WAS TO CREATE THE ILLUSION THAT HILLARY CLINTON DID NOT DELETE ANY EMAILS (SHE DID).

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/23891#efmASbAUJ

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HRC CAMPAIGN CONCERNED ABOUT LEAK AND EMAILS

From:cheryl.mills@gmail.com
To: john.podesta@gmail.com
Date: 2014-11-14 13:26 Subject:
Re: remind me to discus with you

http://abc11.com/news/secret-emails-of-potential-clinton-campaign-managers-revealed/394929/

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/23957

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EMAILD Neera Tanden about the New York Times journalists and editors:

“Fuck these assholes.”

Neera Tanden is the President of the Center for American Progress (CAP), and one of the most prominent email partners of Podesta as shown by the Podesta leaks.

This is what the powerful Clinton people thought about the servile media such as the New York Times as soon as they wrote anything but sycophantic praises of Hillary Clinton. In this case the NYT dared to report about Hillary Clinton’s email abuses. Their reaction: “Fuck these assholes”. And they did. They planned retaliation against the NYT journalists. And by now it is clear they got them to fall in line. They never dare to reveal even slightly negative information about the Clintons.

Jennifer Palmieri’s reacton to “Fuck these assholes”

“Love it. Thanks, Neera!”

Neera Tanden
“this is probably very unhealthy for me, but I’m going to war on this on twitter.”

This is the key folks, this is how we even know they were talking about the New York Times. The date of the email is Thu, 30 Jul 2015 20:56:39 -0700 (PDT) . Neera Tanden posted the following to twitter during this time : tweet 1 http://archive.is/PcBAy document from tweet 1 http://archive.is/XLFS1 tweet 2 http://archive.is/tmfib tweet 3. http://archive.is/ItFbj

This is Neera’s response:
“@ron_fournier @HillaryClinton @nytimes Did you read the letter? Is that kind of journalism you practice Ron? I would never have thought that”

But what did she respond to? This tweet from Ron Fournier http://archive.is/UPl2U

Who convinced @HillaryClinton to pick a fight with @nytimes (and by extension all of us)? PR malpractice.

The evidence is conclusive. The only possible target of the “Fuck these assholes” is the servile New York Times, now working overtime for the Hillary Clinton campaign. This is the retaliation and anger, both internally and publicly when the lapdog media steps out of line. They dared to write about the emails. This was the cause for “war on twitter” for Neera Tanden. Two days later Tanden is still angrily tweeting about the NYT http://archive.is/ejqID http://archive.is/gG8gw . There is no other “letter”, just the one written to the NYT. There is no other “twitter war” in this period, just against the New York Times.

Neera Tanden’s message to the New York Times journalists and editors for all to see : “fuck these assholes” . Will the New York Times report this, examine this story? Will they ask Neera whether she stands by her comments that the NYT are assholes who should be fucked? Or will the New York Times cover up the story even though it directly involves them and their coverage?

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/24057#efmAAGABWAFQAFk

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HRC Campaign Position on Trump Exposing HRC/Obama ISIS Connection

“While on one level Trump’s assertion is somewhat silly and superficial, on another its potentially clever because it could possibly lead to a new spate of articles on how ISIS came to be and the US role in it. Frankly, it also may resonate somewhat as well (especially with respect to Obama) because of the widely shared perception, rightly or wrongly, that the Obama Administration was slow to address ISIS and that its resulting strategy is limited in nature and ineffectual (witness terrorist incidents in Europe and the United States).

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/24222

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HRC CAMP DOESNT OUTRIGHT SAY THEY DIDNT CREATE ISIS, INSTEAD THEY DISCUSS DEFLECTIONS!

From:Jeff.Bialos@sutherland.com
To: john.podesta@gmail.com, johnpodesta@hillaryclinton.com, lrosenberger@hillaryclinton.com

Subject: A Few Thoughts on Trump’s ISIS Comment – For What They Are Worth

While I’m sure you are all on top of this, I thought to mention a few points for what they are worth. While on one level Trump’s assertion is somewhat silly and superficial, on another its potentially clever because it could possibly lead to a new spate of articles on how ISIS came to be and the US role in it. Frankly, it also may resonate somewhat as well (especially with respect to Obama) because of the widely shared perception, rightly or wrongly, that the Obama Administration was slow to address ISIS and that its resulting strategy is limited in nature and ineffectual (witness terrorist incidents in Europe and the United States).

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/24222

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H Clinton to Podesta
Huge email possibly classified, definitely sensitive information Note: Sources include Western intelligence, US intelligence and sources in the region.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/24353

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WALL ST BANKS LOVE HRC AND HER POLICIES FOR THEM

WILLIAM DAVID COHAN >> wrote:

“i assume with HRC looking better these days, wall street is pretty happy with that and with Trump, wall street must be in despair”

From:rwolf@32advisors.com To: jpalmieri@hillaryclinton.com, aelrod@hillaryclinton.com

“You can see Bill’s questions to me. I have become friends with him and can get insights but recall in general he is not a fan of most banks especially Goldman so don’t know his angle yet.”

If Bill is truly not a fan of the banks, then why did he sign into law the repeal (the Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act) of Glass Steagall which gave the banks unprecedented ability to gamble with deposits? Bill signing this into law directly resulted in the 2008 Great Financial Crisis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass%E2%80%93Steagall_legislation

The only explanation is they own him as a result of #PayToPlay. Wall St. banks have given $30 million to the Clintons through speaking fees and donations to the Clinton Foundation.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/24887

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HRC Running for Emperor & Her own Campaign has doubts about her

From:brentbbi@webtv.net
To: john.podesta@gmail.com

“one of HRC’s opponents will soon charge that she is running an “imperial campaign.” If it is the right opponent, Democrat or Republican, the charge will resonate. Probably 90% of the total media coverage of HRC has a negative slant, from her paid speeches to foundation donations to not answering questions from the press.”

“If we look at a long curve of her numbers, there is reason for serious concern if trends continue and I see nothing today that will change them.”

“There is a missing element in her campaign and it is troubling. The “imperial campaign” charge will resonate when the right candidate figures it out….”

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/24584

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THE WHOLE JOBS RECOVER HAS BEEN A COMPLETE FARCE AND THEY KNOW IT!

From:donna@brazileassociates.com
To: john.podesta@gmail.com

“I think people are more in despair about how things are—yes new jobs but they are low wage jobs. HOUSING is a huge issue. Most people pay half of what they make to rent…”

THEY LIE EVERY TIME THEY ARE IN PUBLIC ABOUT HOW WELL THE ECONOMY IS DOING. THEY KNOW IT SUCKS!

https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/789482865360764928

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-10-21/head-democratic-party-makes-stunning-admission-people-are-despair-about-how-things-a

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/24797

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PODESTA DISCUSSES POSITION TITLE SEMANTICS TO SKIRT COMPENSATION LAW

John Podesta
wrote: “Just member of advisory board if that’s what others are called.”

“Debbie Fine” wrote:
“they are members of the steering committee. i was looking for a title since an office and asst may be considered forms of compensation, but there is nothing that says a steering committee member can’t be compensated for his work as such so we could go with that if you prefer. (a CAP board member cannot be compensated for his work as such per by laws)”

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/25228

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MORE COLLUSION BETWEEN MEDIA AND HRC CAMPAIGN & HRC CAMPAIGN PLANTING QUESTIONS WITH THE PRESS

John Podesta wrote:

Haim [Saiban, media conglomerate head, including Univision] thinks we are under reacting to Trump/Hispanics. Thinks we can get something by standing up for Latinos or attacking R’s for not condemning

Huma Abedin wrote:
“I told him [Haim Saiban] she [HRC] had said something but he says he’s only heard her talk about immigration. And if Haim is raising it, it means he’s hearing it from his Univision colleagues. I told him I’d send what we had said so Kristina if you have that, would be great. Also told him about la raza but he thought that was too late. Do you think we would get it as a question at the press avail tomorrow? Cause it would be perfect opportunity.
HRC CAMPAIGN PLANTING QUESTIONS WITH THE PRESS

Lorella Praeli wrote:
Alex, who works for Haim, called a few minutes ago. Same message- Haim thinks HRC needs to be on the forefront of this… He asked to call him and share our plan and get input from them.

Robby Mook wrote:
Call to action to the groups, ask CHC members to write op eds, Univision interview, etc. then we need to make more news at La Raza.
HRC CAMPAIGN GIVING ORDERS FOR PEOPLE TO WRITE OP EDS AND THEN THE MEDIA TO PUBLISH THEM!

*Friday, July 10th / Saturday, July 11th * HRC Tweet/Facebook post saying she’s looking forward to speaking at NCLR tomorrow
HRC NOT GENERATING HER OWN POSITIONS AND OUTREACH

From:xhinojosa@hillaryclinton.com
To: arenteria@hillaryclinton.com
Date: 2015-07-04 00:49
Subject: Re: Hi
I’ve included a draft plan on how we can go after Trump’s comments over the next week leading up to NCLR.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/25255

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Hillary donors think there is not enough Play for their Pay

big donors usually have ideas/advice and want to feel like they are being heard

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/25320#efmAFmAHCATBAUQ

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Steven Bakalar to Podesta about fundraisers and big donors. He says Hillary must tweak her policy to be more in line with the donors (this is in May 2015) Who is Bakalar? “Just to remind, I’m the guy who raised $600K for Obama re-elect”. Bakalar writes :

“Raisers are effectively salespeople selling the candidate on the donor marketplace, so their feedback is valuable to HQ in terms of tweaking policy, messaging, tone, etc …
big donors usually have ideas/advice and want to feel like they are being heard”

They give the money so their ideas must be taken seriously. It seems Bakalar was worried that in 2015 the donors weren’t assured enough that there will be enough play of their ideas. We haven’t seen any later complaints about this so it must have been fixed quite efficiently.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/25320#efmAFmAHCATBAUQ

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HRC TURNED OVER SERVER TO THIRD PARTY

Neera Tanden writes email subject: Why doesn’t she just turn the server over to a third party at this point? : isn’t it going to leak out of the FBI anyway?

Podesta replies: Done so think about something else

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/25341

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Sitting with Soros to see if he approves of messaging in ads funded by Soros, since he is a “right wing punching bag.”

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/25342

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TANDEN SUSPECTS DOUG BAND IS A LEAK BUT IT’S ACTUALLY Eric Braverman.

Morning Joe Twitter: A source close to the Clintons tell @ron_fournier to “follow the money” and find the real HRC scandal.

Neera Tanden: I’m hoping someone is keeping tabs on Doug Band. Quote in here is from someone who worked in Clinton Foundation.

john.podesta@gmail.com wrote:
Eric Braverman

SEPARATE EMAIL TIES THIS TOGETHER
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/21802

From: Ken Vogel, Politico
“Hey guys: Sorry for the delay on these. The story is about the management challenges and leadership changes at the foundation – and what if anything they portend for 2016. Deadline is Wednesday afternoon.”

“11 – What changed between December 2014 – when the board renewed Eric Braverman’s board term for another three years, and gave him a raise and a bonus – and early January when he resigned?
12 – Was Eric Braverman asked to resign and, if so, why?”

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/25357

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Neera writes:
@JoeNBC: A source close to the Clintons tell @ron_fournier to “follow the money” and find the real HRC scandal. http://t.co/lPTQY0L0o4 I’m hoping someone is keeping tabs on Doug Band. Quote in here is from someone who worked in Clinton Foundation.

Doug Band just became a lot more interesting. Doug is one of the founders of TENEO http://archive.is/ykcQo We have to keep tabs on him from now on.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/25357#efmAFAAJC

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Information suggesting that Tim Kaine lied and lied and lied. About when he learned about being VP. Eric Mullen says Kaine knew in July 2015 he is going to be the nominee for Vice President:

“Won’t stop assuring Sens Brown and Heitkamp (at dinner now) that HRC has personally told Tim Kaine he’s the veep.”

Kaine said that he knew only 48 hours before the announcement.

article about this wikileak http://www.lifezette.com/polizette/wikileaks-kaine-clinton-lied-vp-selection/

https://www.wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/25445#efmALMAM-

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MAJOR TENSION BETWEEN PODESTA AND TANDEN

Neera Tanden wrote:
“I’m not the diversity police but there is grumbling on the 4 white boys running next presidential cycle. So I recommend rolling out some people who look like the rest of America soon!”

John Podesta wrote:
“Really, don’t you think I know that?”

Neera Tanden wrote:
“Yeah I know you know it. But in case people feel intimidated in making direct comments to Hillaryland, I thought I’d let you know of grumbling I’m hearing directly. But maybe that was my mistake.”

John Podesta wrote:
“Since you failed to convince Danielle, got other top tier suggestions?”

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/25489

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Paul Begala to Podesta during the 2008 campaign. Apparently Obama pushed for investigation into “Clinton’s sex life”:

“My hatred for the Clinton-bashing, hand-wringing, sanctimonious commentariat outweighs all other considerations. It’s okay for Barack’s campaign to push reporters to pry into Clinton’s sex life, but if Clinton says Barack is fudging his story about the war, he’s a racist? Give me a break.’

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/25573

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I’ve got a great idea! Let’s put all our presidential administration transition data on the Google cloud!

“I’ve set up a data room on google sites to help you all share information with each other. Please take time and upload files that you want to share.”

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/25611

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HRC STRATEGY TO DISCREDIT & BEAT TRUMP BY CHANGING AND DEFRAUDING VOTER LAWS

Brent Budowsky: “Best approach is to slaughter Donald for his bromance with Putin”

“The best single move to elect her would be a massive voter registration and organization drive. Expand the electorate so more voters will vote so her low trust ratings generally will have less pro rated impact, and the number of higher trust voters will be newly registered…

…It is no coincidence that this year Trump runs no ads, while Jeb and Hillary run the most ads with little effect. Voter registration by contrast creates real voters and changes—and improves—the playing field itself. There is no ad on earth that will increase her trust ratings or the enthusiasm of her voters the way a mega-registration project will increase her support on election day.” – end of quote

Well, we all know what´s included in the phrase “massive voter and organization drive”.

SEE PROJECT VERITAS VIDEOS:

Project Veritas, Rigging the Election – Part I: Clinton Campaign and DNC Incite Violence at Trump Rallies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IuJGHuIkzY

Project Veritas, Mass Voter Fraud, Part 2: Bussing in illegal immigrants with fake IDs to vote in numerous states
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDc8PVCvfKs

Project Veritas, DNC Schemes to Bully Women at Trump Rally
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b24Yq1Ndnjo&feature=youtu.be

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/25651

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“SOME KIND OF ILLEGAL ALLEGATIONS BROUGHT AGAINST WJC THAT CHELSEA AND PODESTA NEED TO ADDRESS “”QUICKLY””

“”A former MF Global employee accused former president William J. Clinton of collecting $50,000 per month through his Teneo advisory firm in the months before the brokerage careened towards its Halloween filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

Teneo was hired by MF Global’s former CEO Jon S. Corzine to improve his image and to enhance his connections with Clinton’s political family, said the employee, who asked that his name be withheld because he feared retribution.””

aj66@nyu.edu [Chelsea Clinton] wrote:

“”I was in London Sunday and did a Foundation event Sunday evening and two people separately voiced concerns directly to me about Teneo, neither of whom I know well…””

“”Ilya has called Members of the House and Members of Parliament, “”on behalf of President Clinton,”” for Teneo clients (eg for Andrew Liveris and Dow who’s coming this month to London), without my father’s knowledge and inelegantly and ineffectually at best and at worse has now precipitating people in London making comparisons between my father and Tony Blair’s profit motivations. Which would horrify my father. “”

“”Sara also told Bari she started working for Teneo, as Teneo, more than a year ago and then recently stopped because she was so upset, partly because of what Doug and Declan asked her to do/ pretend was happening for their clients at Davos- that’s all I know.””
SOUNDS SKETCHY

From:john.podesta@gmail.com
To: aj66@nyu.edu

“”We need to move to a resolution of this quickly.”””

Articles about this:

Leaked Emails Show Tension Inside Clinton Inner Circle
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/leaked-emails-show-tension-inside-clinton-circle-42708277

Report: Bill Clinton Reaped Big Bucks from Corzine Firm Before Collapse
http://nation.foxnews.com/mf-global/2011/12/05/report-bill-clinton-reaped-big-bucks-corzine-firm-collapse

Claim: Clinton Collected $50K Per Month From MF Global
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2816382/posts

Claim: Clinton Collected $50K Per Month From MF Global
http://humanevents.com/2011/12/05/claim-clinton-collected-50k-per-month-from-mf-global/

Tldr:
Basically, they knew they were going to go bankrupt. So, they decided to pay Bill $50,000 each month to show him some love. That way all the money didn’t go to waste when they filed for Bankruptcy. Also, shows they have less money on hand and more of a reason to file for bankruptcy. Pretty fuckin’ shady.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/25657

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CITI GROUP EMPLOYEE EMAILING PODESTA ABOUT TREASURY SECRETARY POSITION. COLLUDING WITH WALL ST TO PICK TREASURER

From:fromanm@citi.com
To: john.podesta@gmail.com
Date: 2008-10-07 11:06
Subject:

“So, just to review from our conversation Sunday, with regard to the private vet, should we assume we start with the following? Tim Geithner Larry Summers Jim Jones Jim Steinberg Jack Reed Janet Napolitano John Kerry Susan Rice Chuck Hagel”

TIM GEITHNER BECAME SEC TREASURE (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Geithner)

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/25756

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PODESTA CALLS OUT THE HRC MARKETING TEAM FOR BEING WORTHLESS

Neera Tanden wrote:
“this video is awesome. Did the campaign do it? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8KbyIlruso&#8221;

From:john.podesta@gmail.com
To: ntanden@gmail.com
Date: 2016-02-14 04:25
Subject: Re:

“You have to be kidding. When have our people ever ever done anything this interesting?”

REGARDING YOUTUBE VIDEO THAT WAS TAKEN DOWN:
Way Back Machine shows it was “Hillary: Rebel Girl” : https://web.archive.org/web/20160216222153/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8KbyIlruso
“Pretty sure this is the same one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0vT2TOMhVI&#8221;

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/25773

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Congratulations to Podesta from the Carlyle Group

Carlyle Group owns Booz Allen Hamilton. A big Defense Contractor. But we already knew BAH was sucking up to Clinton. Although Carlyle Group recently started dumping them (made like 2 billion off of them since they went public – IPO). I believe it has to do with their relations to Snowden and the other recent NSA insider threat. The thing with BAH is that they really should be held accountable for their own problems. Security culture in the firm is lax and they have poor management in that respect.

there was a strong connection to W and HW Bush IIRC

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/25819

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PODESTA LIKES SHARK FIN SOUP, WHICH SHOULD UPSET PETA

From:progden@gmail.com
To: john.podesta@gmail.com
Date: 2014-11-09 03:40
Subject: Re: touching base

“Great, will do. You off to Beijing again or had enough shark fin soup for a while?”

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/25988

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Congratulations to Podesta from the Carlyle Group

Carlyle Group owns Booz Allen Hamilton. A big Defense Contractor. But we already knew BAH was sucking up to Clinton. Although Carlyle Group recently started dumping them (made like 2 billion off of them since they went public – IPO). I believe it has to do with their relations to Snowden and the other recent NSA insider threat. The thing with BAH is that they really should be held accountable for their own problems. Security culture in the firm is lax and they have poor management in that respect.

there was a strong connection to W and HW Bush IIRC

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/26033

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EMAILID 26098 John Podesta admits to threatening a person called “Tad” over an interview given by Bernie’s brother.

subject was: Re: Tapper just asked Bernie about his brothers interview!

“I think i reported I talked to Tad. Expressed our unhappiness in vaguely threatening terms.”

Tad could be Tad Devine a Bernie adviser. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tad_Devine#Bernie_Sanders.27_presidential_campaign)

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/26098#efmAAGABh

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Sermons scripted by the Hillary Clinton campaign: Sep 12, 2015 Dan Schwerin wrote:

“Hi all, wanted to share our draft of tomorrow’s sermon at the Foundry Methodist Church in Washington. HRC is working on this as well. Dan”

Campaign people writing sermons for churches? Is this normal practice? They also want to distribute their campaign sermons as widely as possible. Jim Margolis wants the “script” to get out particularly to African American and Latino ministers:

“Do we have any mechanism to move it to ministers, faith community , particularly AA and Latino ministers?”

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/26106#efmAQdASs

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Talking about the Benghazi hearings

“I talked to Brian. So long as we do not release the testimony ahead of the hearing – it is okay. If we released it ahead of time, the press would ding is for trolling the Committee and we would lose some of the moral high ground we have going into the hearing.”

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/26295

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HRC CAMPAIGN HOPING TO DISTRACT FROM BENGHAZI “PROTEST MELTDOWN”

“*From:* John Podesta
*To:* Jennifer Palmieri

*Subject:* Benghazi protest meltdown

He handled it well although a little long windedly lots of unpacking of oversight action and 83 Embassy bombings. Lamented the shouting and partisanship

From:creynolds@hillaryclinton.com
To: john.podesta@gmail.com

Will hopefully be overshadowed by her protest—in which a white guy protested her on super predators and according to the reporters was rejected by the African American crowd.”

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/26333

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HRC IS RUNNING AGAINST HERSELF BECAUSE SHE IS CORRUPT AND CAN’T DROWN THAT FACT OUT & THE ELITE ARE HATED AND THE BOTTOM ARE IN REVOLT

From:brentbbi@webtv.net
To: john.podesta@gmail.com, roy.spence@gsdm.com
Date: 2015-09-07 13:12
Subject: Washington Post story

Hillary is not running against Bernie, she is running against herself, against the perception that she is calculating and lacks principles and causes and a higher purpose to be president and that she is too beholden to inside powers that give her money and an insider system that voters detest in this election, in both parties…..

Attacking Bernie doesn’t help her win this campaign against herself, it hurts her, stories about others doing “her dirty work” only dirty her and lower her level of trust, and the attacks against Bernie only help him, making him look like the fighter against a corrupt politics of which Hillary appears to part of…..

Bernie is fighting an asymmetrical political war from the bottom up, Hillary is fighting an old fashioned conventional war from the top down in a political year when the top is terribly disliked and the bottom is in revolt….

Hillary is almost universally seen as far too entrenched with Wall Street players who paid her money to speak and give money to her campaigns…

Hillary won’t win one vote by attacking “robber barons” unless she backs it up with substance which doesn’t mean talking class warfare, but does mean taking some policy positions that do not require approval from Wall Street donors….

I was at a university day with thousands of students on Saturday where Bernie had a booth with a long line of people signing up to support him, and Hillary did not have any booth and I did not see even one Hillary button or t-shirt from even one student who cared to support the candidate who would be the first woman president—-not even one!!!

And on Bernie’s major issues, whether they are “left” or not, most of them are majority positions, and she would defeat Bernie by co-opting as many of these issues as possible and not using “surrogates” to do “dirty work” against him which helps him, and hurts her……Brent”

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/26449#efmAF6AMV

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PODESTA TALKING ABOUT BURYING A STORY PRESUMABLY IN NYT RELATED TO TENEO AND HRC EMAILS BEING INVESTIGATED/CONFIRMED CLASSIFIED

John Podesta wrote:
“Ok let’s save the ammunition for the day they confirm the story and put it on A 37 in the back of the local nyc section given that it involves a local resident.”

From:bfallon@hillaryclinton.com
To: jpalmieri@hillaryclinton.com
Date: 2015-11-07 16:43
Subject: Re: We haven’t had a good war with NYT in awhile

“Sorry. I am misremembering. One of our team heard that rumor from the state department. Think it was heather.

Heather talked to I believe Alex gerlach at State, who said they were hearing only one email had so far been ruled out as Top Secret.

Separately, two reporters who were trying to confirm Gerstein’s report with ODNI reported back to us that they were hearing the same.

The rumor was not that ODNI had completed the review and determined only one was not TS and the other was, but rather that they had only reached a definitive conclusion on the one (we think the North Korea email that supposedly relied on satellite imagery) and were still deciding on the other.

Separately, gerstein is still confident the review is indeed done, and the emails are no longer being handled as TS materials, and the statement was only issued last night because ODNI is trying to avoid embarrassing the IG by acting like they have overruled them.”

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/26545

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FURTHER PROOF HRC CAMPAIGN IS PRODUCING BIASED POLLS AND THE MEDIA ARE PROMOTING THEM

SEE ATTACHED FOR THEIR PLAN AND BREAKDOWN

Subject: Meet and polling design

“Hey, when can we meet? I also want to get your Atlas folks to
recommend oversamples for our polling before we start in February. By
market, regions, etc. I want to get this all compiled into one set of
recommendations so we can maximize what we get out of our media
polling.”

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/26551#efmANYARq

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HRC CAMPAIGN STAFF WRITING THE TALKING POINTS FOR HRC ON HER INITIAL SUPPORT FOR DOMA AND ANTI- GAY MARRIAGE AND HOW TO CHANGE PERCEPTION ON THAT

Richard Socarides wrote: “Attached expanded TPs which incorporate Qs like when did you actually change your mind on gay marriage.”

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/26769

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EMAILID 26817 Looks like a bunch of Podesta voicemails helpfully transcribed by an assistant.

“Claire McCaskill: Give me a call back at your convenient on my cell or at home. Got some info about the state department IG. You guys should digest and figure out what if anything we can do.”

The State Department IG (Inspector General) was investigating Hillary Clinton’s email use and disclosure of classified information, including TOP SECRET/SAP to unauthorized persons, without security clearances such as IT staff or a team of lawyers. Giving inside information about the State Department IG could allow the Hillary staff to get ahead of the investigation and run an efficient coverup.

“Andrew Cuomo: I have an idea that I want to do here in NY that I think could work nicely for Hillary. It’s time sensitive.”

This was around 6 Oct 2015 14:20:03 so maybe someone will be able to figure out what A. Cuomo wanted to do to help out Hillary. It was time sensitive. Andrew Cuomo (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Cuomo) is the Democrat governor of the state of New York and the brother of lyin’ CNN’s anchor Chris Cuomo(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Cuomo) . No conflict of interest to see here.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/26817

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APPEARS George Soros IS directing the expenditure of campaign advertising funds?

“I think we have resolved the whole question. Soros is fine with Bing giving directly to c4’s and not the 527. Although, they do think that it provides a story that will be even more focused on him. Bing may split his money between media and field c4’s in order to show good faith that he is in it with all the other major funders jointly. If so he would probably give funds to WVWV who he likes and ACORN’s c4 to help with their match.”

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/26837

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HRC IS KNOWINGLY AND COMPLICITY “DISTORTING DEMOCRACY” BY TAKING BIG MONEY

From:john.podesta@gmail.com
To: dschwerin@hillaryclinton.com
Date: 2016-02-09 20:30
Subject: REVISED DRAFT: Primary Night Remarks

“Somehow we should get more punch out of the fact that she knows how big $ can distort democracy.”

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/26846

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*From:* Duvall, Amanda
*Statement from the Communications Director on Subpoena Issuance*

“The Select Committee on Benghazi today issued subpoenas for all >>> communications of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton related to >>> Libya and to the State Department for other individuals who have >>> information pertinent to the investigation. The Committee also has issued >>> preservation letters to internet firms informing them of their legal >>> obligation to protect all relevant documents.”

Philippe Reines wrote:
rather than going around and around on how to release the 55k, let’s just be for what’s happening and use this as the excuse.

Philippe Reines wrote:
We’re on with David. Yes they have everything, but they don’t believe they have everything. But no, they are not asking for all 55k. But nevertheless gives us an excuse.
HRC CAMPAIGN ACKNOWLEDGE THEY DIDN’T TURN OVER EVERY EMAIL

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/26907

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HRC INSIDERS ARE ALMOST CERTAIN HRC’S SERVER WAS HACKED AND THE EMAILS MIGHT BE RELEASED BEFORE THE ELECTION

EMAILID 26948

The email itself has no value but there is a pdf attachment titled: “Hillary Clinton’s emails and what to do about them”

“There is a very real risk that the system was broken into, possibly by Republican operatives (or China or some other country or organization). If this has happened and if there is anything that might appear problematic in those emails, whether or not it actually is, the relevant emails might be released to the press shortly before the election. Even if the system was not broken into, there is the threat that opp…

In addition, there are questions that any computer security expert will ask, such as was the system backed up regularly.”

The official line was always that nobody got into the server. So the private server arrangement was no big deal. No classified information was exposed (other than what Hillary exposed herself to a team of lawyers, IT specialists, aids and maybe a few janitors).

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/26948

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A health issue with Hillary Clinton’s head around 2015-09-26 . The date might allow to look for further information and try to track it down. John Podesta wrote this email to Jennifer Palmieri .

“subject:Any sense of whether and when she wants to talk?

How bad is her head?”

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/27111

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HRC CAMPAIGN TRYING TO GET THEIR STORIES STRAIGHT ON WHY THERE ARE GAPS IN THE EMAILS… THEY DELETED THEM!

“From: Mandy Grunwald
Subject: ‘Huge gaps’ in Clinton emails: Chairman of House Benghazi Committee | New York Post

Do we have an answer for why there are no emails from the Oct. 8 trip to Libya?

http://nypost.com/2015/03/08/huge-gaps-in-clinton-emails-chairman-of-house-benghazi-committee/

Mandy Grunwald
Grunwald Communications”

https://www.wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/27197

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PODESTA AND MOOK OF HRC CAMPAIGN CONSPIRING TO FIX THE DATE OF THE CA PRIMARY TO HELP HRC WIN

Robert Mook wrote:
“FYI–Lehane called me about CA primary and I told him that the operating strategy is to keep blue states late (i.e. don’t move CA). He said he was at dinner with you and was under the impression that you wanted to move it earlier. He’s wondering how to proceed and I said I’d try to get us on the same page and go back with an answer. Are you ok with me saying that we both want CA to stay where it is?”

John Podesta wrote:
“Yes. That’s great.”

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/27238

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2008 email discussion of Democrat Party operatives about the possibility of interfering with the 2008 Republican primary process. From Paul Begala :

CNN projects Sen. John McCain will win South Carolina primary – This is trouble.

Tom Matzzie responds:

Yes, we need to move with some tactics to try to stop him. Ideas? We should take another swing at the immigration angle. I think this is a crisis. We need to ring the alarm bell. But I’m not sure how we could affect the GOP primary? Earned media play on McCain and immigration. Robocalls to suppress his vote? Turnout evangelicals for Huck?

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/27648

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HRC CAMPAIGN DOESNT SELECT PEOPLE FOR POSITIONS BASED ON QUALIFICATIONS THEY SELECT BASED ON RACE. THESE ARE TOKEN APPOINTMENTS

“Cheryl Mills” wrote:
Here is Robby’s List of the top 10 or so positions:

Political Director – Hispanic Woman
12 positions:
4 POC (2 Black; 1 Asian; 1 Hispanic)
4 Women (assuming COO is a white woman)
6 White Men

33% diverse
33% women
50% white men”

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/28575

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HRC CAMPAIGN PICKS ADMINISTRATION AND HIGH LEVEL POSITIONS BASED ON RACE AND RELIGION. ALSO HIRING SPECIFICALLY MUSLIM JUDGES AND ATTORNEYS TO BETTER MIRROR MIDDLE EASTERN LAW!

From: Bansal, Preeta D (NYC)
Sent: Monday, September 29, 2008 11:01 PM
To: Froman, Michael B
Cc: ‘Onek, Matthew’
Subject: Asian American Candidates, Muslim American Candidates

“Here are the compiled lists of Asian American and Muslim American candidates for top Administration jobs, sub-cabinet jobs, and outside boards/agencies/policy committees.

1) In the candidates for top jobs, I excluded those with some Arab American background but who are not Muslim (e.g., George Mitchell). Many Lebanese Americans, for example, are Christian. In the last list (of outside boards/commissions), most who are listed appear to be Muslim American, except that a handful (where noted) may be Arab American but of uncertain religion (esp. Christian).

2) There is only one candidate I thought was a viable one for a Secretary-level job among the Muslim Americans.

3) High-profile Muslim Americans tend to be the subject of a fair amount of blogger criticism, and so the individuals on this list would need to be ESPECIALLY carefully vetted. I suspect some of the people I list would not survive such a vet…”

WHY WOULDN’T THEY SURVIVE A VETTING? ARE THEY KNOWINGLY PRESENTING PEOPLE WITH CRIMINAL TIES OR TERRORIST TIES?

“DOJ list will be coming in the next two days. Judges and USAttorneys will still take about 10 days. Let me know if the latter are needed sooner.”

WHY SPECIFICALLY MUSLIM JUDGES AND ATTORNEYS? THE LAW IS BLIND TO RELIGION, UNLESS THEY ARE TRYING TO SHAPE IT INTO LAW THAT REFLECTS MIDDLE EASTERN LAW

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/28660

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Robert Gates, the sitting Secretary of Defense emailing John Podesta’s gmail from his secret email address in 2008. Robert Gates (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Gates) who served as the 22nd United States Secretary of Defense from 2006 to 2011, wrote this to John Podesta’s gmail address:

“Several items.
1. I will interview Michele Flournoy, Bob Hale and Jeh Johnson tomorrow. I support all three and will e-mail you a presumed thumbs up by midday. ..

2. Scott Gratian called Robert Rangel and told him he was doing all the personnel for DoD and that we should work with him. I just need confirmation whether that is true since this is the first time he has come up on the net on personnel.

3. I really must communicate with the political appointees/schedule C folks here by this Friday about their future. I have told Clapper, Donley and Vickers that they are likely to be asked to stay for some period of time — maybe up to a year — and told them to keep mum. All others are in the dark. ..

4. Once Flournoy, Hale, Johnson, Soule, etc. are named, they will no longer be able to serve on the transition because of the presumption problem on the Hill. You will need to think about the composition of the team at that point.

5. Finally, Senator Levin called me this morning and pointedly asked that names for Deputy and other senior jobs be run by the Armed Services staff director (Rick DeBobes) and Levin’s chief of staff (David Lyles) before final decisions are made.

That’s “all” for now
Thanks for the help.
Bob”

I think the sitting Secretary of Defense and John Podesta are discussing yoga emails here in coded language. If this was some official business, Gates could not have used an address ending in @att.net meaning an address that was registered with AT&T and not the Department of Defense. Right?

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/28923

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PODESTA AND SOROS MEETING WITH ATTACHMENTS

John Podesta and George Soros were having a meeting. As part of the preparation Soros staff is sending Podesta memos to read. The first memo is on Malaysia it is a 14 page pdf, so check the attachment of this email.

“Subject: Soros meeting

Hi John, sorry it was so difficult for us to talk. I have attached a memo on TPP and Malaysia, as it may come up when you see George and Alex. .. In a separate email I will send you George’s latest thinking on the migration crisis, which he is spending a lot of time on. His other big preoccupation these days is Ukraine. Both the migration crisis and Ukraine are part of his view of Europe as falling apart”

The Malaysia memo, the pdf attachment to this email has some items at the end which look like demands that George Soros wanted to extract from the administration. Things such as:

“Dissociate from Najib…soon. The administration should consider a plan to distance itself from Mr Najib. The open scandal around Najib has spiraled out of control and his position is unsustainable.

Demand Anwar’s release At a closed door meeting with Mr. Najib in Kuala Lumpur in November 2015, the President firmly requested the release of Mr. Anwar, on health grounds, for medical treatment in Washington. Najib has not complied.”

Someone who knows more about Malaysia and George Soros’s interests there could look into this. Why did Soros want to influence the political situation in that country in such a direct way?

https://wikileaks.o

October 24, 2016

A Question on American History

Filed under: Anti-American Politicians, Education, Elections, Historical context, Political Commentary — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , — justplainbill @ 3:15 pm

Hillary Clinton keeps talking that all U.S. transfers of government have been peaceful.

Am I the only person who has ever heard of The American Civil War or aka The War of 1861 or did all of those teachers lie to me and Lincoln not assassinated????

I’m just sayin’.

October 7, 2016

Bill Whittle on Black Lives Matter [nc]

Filed under: Historical context, Law Enforcement, Media Check, Political Commentary, Racism — Tags: , , , , , , — justplainbill @ 4:01 pm

Bill Whittle’s Video On “Black Lives Matter”

By Capt Joseph R. John, October 6, 2016

Black Lives Matter (BLM) is an international movement that began in 2014, it has 30 local chapters in the US, and BLM campaigns to call attention to violence against black people. BLM regularly protests police brutality and police shootings of black people. Since 2014, BLM has organized 1000+ protest demonstrations, and it has now become a movement designed to instill fear, mainly in Police Officers.

FBI Director James Comey suggested that the BLM demonstrations are partly responsible for a national rise in crime, because Police Officers have held back from doing their duty, or have been afraid to leave their patrol cars to do thorough policing.

At the Minnesota State Fair BLM activists chanted “Pigs in a blanket! Fry E’m like bacon!” In New York after 2 Police Officers were assassinated demonstrators chanted “No justice, no peace!” In Phoenix BLM demonstrators chanted to Police “We should shoot you!” In Chicago BLM demonstrators chanted “No Racist police!” There are many more chants threatening Police Officers.

Every American voter should watch the below listed very short video by Bill Whittle, in order to learn why George Soros, and the Ford Foundation, with the strong support of Obama is raising $130 million for the Black Lives Movement Fund to promote and expand Black Lives Matter demonstrators.

Obama has been holding meetings in The White House with the leaders of Black Lives Matter.(there are photos of the leaders of Black Lives Matter meetings with Obama and Attorney General Loretta Lynch in The White House in the below listed video).

The real reason Obama is raising such a large amount of money in such a short period of time to fund the Black Lives Movement Fund with $130 million is to expand BLM activities and demonstrations throughout the nation, in order to motivate black youth to promote, and support the election of Hillary Clinton.

The Black Lives Matter program supported by Obama, Hillary Clinton, Soros, Loretta Lynch, and the Ford Foundation has been whipping up black youth to demonstrate against Police Officers, who they have been falsely blamed for intentionally targeting black youth for murder.

Since those demonstrations blaming Police Officers for intentionally killing black youth began, there have been 14 ambush-style police assassination throughout the nation, including the assassinations of 5 Police Officers in Dallas (after a BLM demonstration), 3 Police Officers in Baton Rouge (after a BLM demonstration), 2 Police Officers in Houston, 1 Police Officer in Milwaukee, 2 Police Officers in New York City, and 1 Police Officer in Kansas City.

https://youtu.be/fL9j_s_eLvU

Ever since Hillary Clinton graduated from college and went to work for the Black Panthers, she has never been supportive of law enforcement or the rule of law. Hillary met with BLM representatives in August 2015 and again in October 2015. Hillary Clinton has called for the retraining of Police Officers to get them to stop killing black youth.

Hillary does not oppose BLM demonstrations with their threatening chants, designed to instigate violence against Police Officers. Every time a black youth is killed in a confrontation with Police Officers, even when the black youth is armed with a gun and is threatening Police Officers, Hillary calls attention to another Police Officer shooting of a black, as if the Police were solely responsible for killing another black.

In 2016, Black Lives Matter demonstrations, throughout the nation, have contributed significantly to 20% of all Police Officers ambush-style shootings. Those ambush-style shootings are planned and executed to blind side and kill unsuspecting Police Officers, have not only resulted in 14 assassinations of Police Officers, but have also resulted in the wounding of many other Police Officers.

Copyright by Capt Joseph R. John. All Rights Reserved. The material can only posted on another Web site or distributed on the Internet by giving full credit to the author. It may not be published, broadcast, or rewritten without the permission from the author.

Joseph R. John, USNA ‘62

Capt USN(Ret)/Former FBI

Chairman, Combat Veterans For Congress PAC

2307 Fenton Parkway, Suite 107-184

San Diego, CA 92108

http://www.CombatVeteransForCongress.org

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Then I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for Us?” Then I said, “Here am I. Send me!”
-Isaiah 6:8

September 2, 2016

Trump’s Immigration Policy, Capt John, USN USNA [nc]

Filed under: Illegal Aliens, Political Commentary, Politicians, US Constitution — Tags: , , , , , , , , — justplainbill @ 5:04 pm

DONALD TRUMP’S IMMIGRATION POLICY AS STATED ON AUGUST 31, 2016

Number One: We will build a wall along the Southern Border.

Number Two: End Catch-And-Release

Number Three: Zero tolerance for criminal aliens.

Number Four: Block Funding For Sanctuary Cities

Number Five: Cancel Unconstitutional Executive Orders & Enforce All Immigration Laws

Number Six: We Are Going To Suspend The Issuance Of Visas To Any Place Where Adequate Screening Cannot Occur

Number Seven: We will ensure that other countries take their people back when we order them deported

Number Eight: We will finally complete the biometric entry-exit visa tracking system.

Number Nine: We will turn off the jobs and benefits magnet.

Number Ten: We will reform legal immigration to serve the best interests of America and its workers

The above listed 10 immigration policies are in support of US Federal Immigration Laws passed by Congress and signed into law by a US President.

Donald Trump is the first Republican Presidential candidate, since Governor Ronald Reagan ran for President, whose policies are aimed at putting 360 million American citizens first, especially the 94 million unemployed American; Mr Trump is not proposing immigration policies that are in the best interest of 20 million Illegal Aliens, and detrimental to 360 million American citizens.

Mr Trump is not in agreement with the Republican leadership in Congress, and the American Chamber of Commerce, who have been working very closely with the Democrat leadership in Congress for 8 years, betraying the best interest of American citizens by intentionally keeping the southern border wide open.

Congressional leaders, by their refusal to seal the wide open southern border, are responsible for permitting the entry of terrorists, drugs, white slavery traffickers, weapons smugglers, hundreds of thousands of Central American children with infectious diseases (TB, whooping cough. measles, mumps, scarlet fever, Zinke virus, etc.), millions of Illegal Aliens from Mexico, and hundreds of thousands of refugees from the Middle East who are simply walking into the US.

For 8 years, Obama has tied the hands of the US Border Patrol and ICE Agents, preventing them from enforcing the US Federal Immigration Laws they were sworn to uphold. Yet for 8 years, the Republican leaders in Congress have not charged Obama’s appointees at DHS with violating US Federal Immigration Laws, or tried to put pressure on them to cease, by employing the power of the purse to put pressure on them.

Mr Trump’s full speech is attached.

Joseph R. John, USNA ‘62

Capt USN(Ret)/Former FBI

Regional Chairman, Veterans 4 Trump Southern California (Orange County, Imperial County, and San Diego County)

2307 Fenton Parkway, Suite 107-184

San Diego, CA 92108

September 1, 2016

Diversity: History’s Pathway to Chaos, victor hanson [nc]

Filed under: crime control, Econonics, Education, Elections, Historical context — Tags: , , , , , — justplainbill @ 8:34 pm

Diversity: History’s Pathway to Chaos
September 1, 2016 12:02 pm / Leave a Comment / victorhanson

America’s successful melting pot should not be replaced with discredited salad-bowl separatism.
By Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online

Emphasizing diversity has been the pitfall, not the strength, of nations throughout history.

The Roman Empire worked as long as Iberians, Greeks, Jews, Gauls, and myriad other African, Asian, and European communities spoke Latin, cherished habeas corpus, and saw being Roman as preferable to identifying with their own particular tribe. By the fifth century, diversity had won out but would soon prove a fatal liability.

Rome disintegrated when it became unable to assimilate new influxes of northern European tribes. Newcomers had no intention of giving up their Gothic, Hunnish, or Vandal identities.

The propaganda of history’s multicultural empires — the Ottoman, the Russian, the Austro-Hungarian, the British, and the Soviet — was never the strength of their diversity. To avoid chaos, their governments bragged about the religious, ideological, or royal advantages of unity, not diversity.

Nor did more modern quagmires like Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, Rwanda, or Yugoslavia boast that they were “diverse.” Instead, their strongman leaders naturally claimed that they shared an all-encompassing commonality.

When such coerced harmony failed, these nations suffered the even worse consequences of diversity, as tribes and sects turned murderously upon each other.

For some reason, contemporary America believes that it can reject its uniquely successful melting pot to embrace a historically dangerous and discredited salad-bowl separatism.

Is there any evidence from the past that institutionalizing sects and ethnic grievances would ensure a nation’s security, prosperity, and freedom?

America’s melting pot is history’s sole exception of e pluribus unum inclusivity: a successful multiracial society bound by a common culture, language, and values. But this is a historic aberration with a future that is now in doubt.

Some students attending California’s Claremont College openly demand roommates of the same race. Racially segregated “safe spaces” are fixtures on college campuses.

We speak casually of bloc voting on the basis of skin color — as if a lockstep Asian, Latino, black, or white vote is a good thing.

We are reverting to the nihilism of the old Confederacy. The South’s “one-drop rule” has often been copied to assure employers or universities that one qualifies as a minority.

Some public figures have sought to play up or invent diversity advantages. Sometimes, as in the cases of Elizabeth Warren, Rachel Dolezal, and Ward Churchill, the result is farce.

Given our racial fixations, we may soon have to undergo computer scans of our skin colors to rank competing claims of grievance.

How does one mete out the relative reparations for various atrocities of the past, such as slavery, the Holocaust, the American Indian wars, the Asian or Catholic exclusion laws, indentured servitude, or the mid-18th-century belief that the Irish were not quite human?

Sanctuary cities, in the manner of 1850s Richmond or Charleston invoking nullification, now openly declare themselves immune from federal law. Does that defiance ensure every city the right to ignore whatever federal laws it finds inconvenient, from the filing of 1040s to voting laws?

The diversity industry hinges on U.S. citizens still envisioning a shrinking white population as the “majority.” Yet “white” is now not always easily definable, given intermarriage and constructed identities.

In California, those who check “white” on Orwellian racial boxes are now a minority. Will white Californians soon nightmarishly declare themselves aggrieved minorities and thus demand affirmative action, encourage Viking-like names such as Ragnar or Odin, insert umlauts and diereses into their names to hype their European bona fides, seek segregated European-American dorms, and set up “Caucasian Studies” programs at universities?

Women now graduate from college at a higher rate than men. Will there be a male effort to ensure affirmative action for college admissions and graduation rates?

If the white vote reaches 70 percent for a particular candidate, is that really such a good thing, as it was considered to be when President Obama was praised for capturing 95 percent of the black vote?

It is time to step back from the apartheid brink.

Even onetime diversity advocate Oprah Winfrey has had second thoughts about the lack of commonality in America. She recently vowed to quit using the word “diversity” and now prefers “inclusion.”

A Latino-American undergraduate who is a student of Shakespeare is not “culturally appropriating” anyone’s white-European legacy, but instead seeking transcendence of ideas and a common humanity.

Asian-Americans are not “overrepresented” at premier campuses. Their high-profile presence should be praised as a model, not punished as aberrant by number-crunching bureaucrats.

African-Americans who excel in physics and engineering are not “acting white” but finding the proper pathways for their natural talents.

Being one-half Southeast Asian or three-quarters white is not the touchstone to one’s essence and is irrelevant to one’s character and conduct.

No one is impinging on anyone’s culture when blacks dye their hair blond, or when blondes prefer to wear cornrow braids.

Campuses desperately need unity czars, not diversity czars.

Otherwise, we will end up as 50 separate and rival nations — just like other failed states in history whose diverse tribes and races destroyed themselves in a Hobbesian dog-eat-dog war with one another.

August 24, 2016

California and your right to self-defense

Filed under: Anti-American Politicians, gun control, US Constitution — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , — justplainbill @ 6:43 pm

Wherever you stand on the issue of gun control, it is important to be well informed. While it is difficult to say how many registered gun owners there are in Sonoma County we do know that recent sales of firearms to have gone up as more restrictive laws are set to go into effect. It is important to stay informed as to prevent law abiding gun owners from unknowingly breaking new laws. Here are some of the changes in the law.

It is important to mention that these laws are not set in stone 100% as VetoGunmageddon.org is working to obtain enough signatures to veto Gov. Browns new bills and put them on the ballot this November.
SB 880 and AB 1135

Together, these new laws reclassify the definition of “assault weapon” and “fixed magazine” as:

(1) A semiautomatic, centerfire rifle that does not have a fixed magazine but has any one of the following:

(A) A pistol grip that protrudes conspicuously beneath the action of the weapon.
(B) A thumbhole stock.
(C) A folding or telescoping stock.
(D) A grenade launcher or flare launcher.
(E) A flash suppressor.
(F) A forward pistol grip.

(2) A semiautomatic, centerfire rifle that has a fixed magazine with the capacity to accept more than 10 rounds.

(3) A semiautomatic, centerfire rifle that has an overall length of less than 30 inches.

(4) A semiautomatic pistol that does not have a fixed magazine but has any one of the following:

(A) A threaded barrel, capable of accepting a flash suppressor, forward handgrip, or silencer.
(B) A second handgrip.
(C) A shroud that is attached to, or partially or completely encircles, the barrel that allows the bearer to fire the weapon without burning the bearer’s hand, except a slide that encloses the barrel.
(D) The capacity to accept a detachable magazine at some location outside of the pistol grip.

(5) A semiautomatic pistol with a fixed magazine that has the capacity to accept more than 10 rounds.

(6) A semiautomatic shotgun that has both of the following:

(A) A folding or telescoping stock.
(B) A pistol grip that protrudes conspicuously beneath the action of the weapon, thumbhole stock, or vertical handgrip.

(7) A semiautomatic shotgun that has the ability to accept a detachable magazine.

(8) Any shotgun with a revolving cylinder.

(b) For purposes of this section, “fixed magazine” means an ammunition feeding device contained in, or permanently attached to, a firearm in such a manner that the device cannot be removed without disassembly of the firearm action.

Practical Impact:

Not much has changed other than the definition of the “Fixed Magazine”. New law defines fixed magazine as requiring the disassembly of the firearm action prior to removal of the magazine. This means that firearms with the features listed above combined with a ‘Bullet Button” is no longer legal for possession or transfer/sale. California has also allowed firearms that have been made illegal per the new bills to be registered as assault weapons and allows you to keep them if owned prior to January 1, 2017. However, once registered, you may not sell it or transfer it within California.

If you currently own one of these firearms or own them before January 1, 2017 than your options are as follows:

A. Register it as an assault weapon with the California Department of Justice. (Method of registration is still to be determined.)
B. Remove the firearm from the State of California.
C. Modify the firearm in a way that restricts removal of the magazine unless the firearm action is open.
D. Modify the firearm so that it does not have the features listed above.
E. Surrendered the firearm law enforcement for destruction.

Questions:

Can I buy the firearm out of state and bring it into California? No, unless the firearm cannot be classified as an assault weapon per the new laws.

Can I later sell my registered assault weapon? No, unless you modify the firearm in a way that it no longer meets the definition of an assault weapon per the new laws and notify the California Department of Justice that the firearm is no longer and assault weapon.

Can I bequest my registered assault weapon to my children when I die? No, once you die, the firearm must be turned in to law enforcement for destruction.

Can I sell my registered assault weapon out of state? Yes, however the legal methods of getting the firearm out of state varies and can potentially be a felony if done incorrectly.

Can I put the registered assault weapon into a trust and pass it down that way? No, California does not recognize Trusts as gun owners.

Date the law goes into effect: January 1, 2017

Latest Date to register as an assault weapon: January 1, 2018
AB 1511

New regulations around loaning firearms.

Practical Impact:

Bans loans of longer than 3 days and loans for other than lawful purposes.

Questions:

Can I still handle that gun at the gun shop? Yes

Can I still rent a gun at the range? Yes

Can I loan a gun while I’m personally still present? Yes

Exemptions: May loan to Parents, children, spouses, siblings, grandparents, or grand children so long as no longer than 30 days, and done so infrequently.

Date the law goes into effect: January 1, 2017
AB 1695

Created a 10-year firearm prohibition for someone convicted of falsely reporting a lost or stolen firearm.

Practical Impact:

Makes it a crime to falsely report lost or stolen firearms.

Date the law goes into effect: January 1, 2017
SB 1235

Places restrictions on the purchase / importation of ammunition in California and would require the attorney general to keep records of purchases and background checks to be conducted prior to purchasing ammunition. This legislation would further require any online ammunition sales to be conducted through a local licensed vendor.

Practical Impact:

You would not be able to purchase ammunition online and have it shipped directly to you. Instead, you would purchase the ammunition online, have it shipped to a licensed dealer in California whom can conduct a background check on you prior to releasing the ammunition to you. It has still not been determined what the process or fees will be nor how long it will take.

Questions:

Am I exempt if I have a C&R License with a COE? – Yes!

Can I buy ammo out of state and bring it in? – No, you are allowed a few small exemptions for hunting and shooting at matches, but can return with no more than 50 rounds .

Does it include reloading components? – Yes, “ammunition” includes, but is not limited to, any bullet, cartridge, magazine, clip, speed loader, autoloader, or projectile capable of being fired from a firearm with a deadly consequence. “Ammunition” does not include blanks.

Can I sell ammo to my friend? – No, private sales of ammo must go through a licensed dealer.

Date the law goes into effect: January 1, 2018
SB 1446

Banned the simple possession of ammunition feeding devices/magazines that are capable of holding more than 10 cartridges.

Practical Impact:

Prior magazine bans did not ban the possession and now it does. This means all magazines with the ability to hold more than 10 rounds, even magazines that were grandfathered in and owned before January 1, 2001, are now illegal.

Questions:

What are my options if I already legally own magazines that hold more than 10 cartridges? Your options include: 1) Turning in to Law Enforcement / exempt dealer, 2) Sell out of state or to an exempt person / dealer, 3) remove the magazines from California, or 4) modify the magazine permanently so that it may not accept more than 10 cartridges.

What if I am caught with a magazine that has the ability to hold more than 10 cartridges? The penalty is an infraction which will usually carry a fine. The law also authorizes confiscation of the magazine. You should also contact an attorney as there are usually other firearm based charges that may follow.

Is Law Enforcement exempt? Yes, active and retired law enforcement officers are exempt, even for their personal property.

Can I just take apart my magazines of greater than 10 rounds? The law is not clear on when parts become a magazine. However, you should contact an attorney before attempting to disassemble your magazines.

Are there any other exemptions? Yes, If you have a firearm for which you owned a magazine and no 10 round magazine is available, you may keep that high-capacity magazine. However you should contact an attorney to assist in compliance.

Are magazines that look like 30 round magazines but only hold 10 rounds also known as “10/30’s” banned? No, 10/30’s are not affected so long as they are permanently modified to only hold no more than 10 rounds.

Date the law goes into effect: January 1, 2017
AB 857

Requires unique identification for all firearms and uncompleted receiver blanks that are readily able to be converted to a functional firearm.

Practical Impact:

All firearms legally manufactured from 80% blanks as well as all other firearms legally manufactured by unlicensed individuals must have unique identification engraved into the firearm. This means that if you have ever built a firearm from an 80% receiver, it must be engraved with unique identifying information. If this information is not engraved into the firearm by January 1, 2018 than you must request a unique serial number from the California Department of Justice. In order to manufacture a new firearm after January 1, 2018 you must First request a serial number from the California Department of Justice prior to beginning manufacture. This applies to all firearms manufactured after 1968 and is not a handgun. “Firearm” now includes the unfinished frame or receiver of a weapon that can be readily converted to the functional condition of a finished frame or receiver more commonly known as an 80% receiver. Yu may no longer purchase an 80% receiver in California unless done through a Licensed firearms dealer who voluntarily manufactures it by engraving their manufacture information.

Questions:

Can I sell a firearm I manufactured after I have engraved the serial number and other information on it? No.

Do I have to put my name as the manufacturer? Yes, this is a federal requirement when serializing.

What Model is my firearm? You can choose this to be whatever you like!

What serial number can I choose if I serialize before January 1, 2018? You can choose any serial number you like, but it must be in English and must contain numbers.

So what are my options again?

If no serial number is engraved on the firearm prior to January 1, 2018, you must apply to the California Department of Justice for a unique serial number to be engraved. If manufacturing after January 1, 2018 you must request the unique serial number prior to manufacturing the firearm.

If you plan on serializing your own unique information prior to January 1, 2018 you must inconspicuously engrave your first and last name, the city and state in which you manufactured the firearm, the model designation of the firearm, the caliber, as well as a unique serial number.

These new laws are all highly technical and you may suffer severe consequences such as felony charges as well as losing firearm ownership rights for life if convicted. It is highly recommended that you consult an attorney prior to taking any firearm related action.

Categories: Criminal Defense, Murder and you can count on the little toes of your left foot how many criminals follow the law!

August 18, 2016

Mine Worker Pension Fund to be Bailed Out by YOU, [c]

Filed under: Anti-American Politicians, Bail-out, Business, Econonics, Elections, Political Commentary, Politicians, US Constitution — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , — justplainbill @ 1:59 am

[The following may be found in .pdf at: http://thf-reports.s3.amazonaws.com/2016/IB4600.pdf . In its original form, the charts are readable and the format is reader friendly. Now, as to why it is here:

As already explained in its proper place in the document, if the UMWA pension fund is bailed out, then more money that that spent on the entire defense budget will be spent bailing out underfunded union pension plans. This will lead to the bailing out of public sector pension plans, like the teachers in all of the states, especially California, Illinois, New York, and Massachusetts. Also the various police, fire, administrative staff, clerks, janitors, and any and all public employees. It means that those states who have voluntarily bankrupted themselves, will be bailed out.

Consider the following:

1. the deals made to fund these pensions was made by the properly elected union leaders, and the managers of the various industries;
2. As in the UMWA situation, consider how the interference of the various government entities, especially the EPA and FDA, have ruined so many businesses that those businesses cannot fund their pensions. Notice how the various regulations ruined the automotive industry and contributed to the failed UAW pension fund and how that contributed to the Clinton/sub-prime HUD meltdown in 2008;
3. consider how this violates constitution article IV ( might be VI, I don’t have a copy to hand ) prohibiting federal government messing with contracts; and,
4. did YOU have anything to do with these various contractual commitments? I did not. Under what legal or moral proposition should we be held to a contract that we were not party to? What is the difference between this and someone who buys a car and gets a lemon? Isn’t that person’s remedy to sue the dealer with whom he had that contract for sale? What legal or moral concept drags me into that problem?

Y’all need to contact your federal legislators and demand that they commit to NOT bailing these people, or any others similarly situated, out!]

ISSUE BRIEF
Why a Coal Miner Pension Bailout Could Open the Door to a
$600 Billion Pension Bailout for All Private Unions
Rachel Greszler
No. 4600 | August 15, 2016
Congress is looking to pass legislation that would
use taxpayer dollars to bail out the overpromised,
underfunded pension plan of the United Mine
Workers of America (UMWA). Such an unprecedented
move would send the message that Congress
will stand behind sending trillions of dollars in overpromised,
underfunded public and private pension
obligations across the country. The federal government
already provides a backstop for failed union
and other private pension plans by insuring them
through the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation
(PBGC). Congress should avoid bailing out select
pension plans at all costs and should instead reform
the PBGC so that it can meet its obligations without
a taxpayer bailout.
Coal Miner Bailout Just Tip of the
Iceberg
The UMWA pension plan is massively underfunded.
It has promised $5.6 billion more in pension
benefits than it will be able to pay.1 Although
the UMWA pension plan is among the worst-funded
pension plans, it represents only one of more than
1,300 multiemployer (union) pension plans across
the U.S. Almost all of these plans have made promises
they cannot keep.
According to the PBGC, a whopping 96 percent of
all multiemployer plans have funding ratios of less
than 60 percent—meaning they have less than 60
percent of the funds necessary to pay promised benefits.
2 In total, multiemployer plans have promised
over $600 billion more than they are estimated to be
able to pay.3
If Congress passes legislation to bail out the
UMWA pension plan with nearly a half a billion dollars
a year, what will stop it from passing legislation
to bail out the other 1,200 plans that have more than
$600 billion in unfunded promises? If Congress
forces taxpayers to bail out private union plans, why
not also private non-union plans that have $760 billion4
in unfunded liabilities, and public plans that
have as much as $4 trillion to $5 trillion5 in unfunded
liabilities?
UMWA Is Not Unique
Some policymakers argue that the UMWA is
unique—that the federal government was somehow
involved in the promises made to UMWA workers
and that the bailout would come from a coal-related
fund. The only thing unique about a UMWA bailout,
however, is that it would mark the first time in history
that Congress would force federal taxpayers to
bail out the unfunded pension promises of private
unions.
The notion that the government was somehow
involved in promises made to mine workers comes
from President Harry Truman’s intervention in
a 1946 coal-mining strike, including the government’s
involvement in an agreement that established
the UMWA health and welfare programs.
While the federal government helped to facilitate
This paper, in its entirety, can be found at
http://report.heritage.org/ib4600
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Nothing written here is to be construed as necessarily reflecting the views
of The Heritage Foundation or as an attempt to aid or hinder the passage
of any bill before Congress.
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August 15, 2016 
the establishment of the UMWA’s health and pension
plans, it was the union and its plan trustees—
not the federal government—that vigorously fought
to pay out benefits to retirees who did not earn
those benefits. And, it was the union and its plan
trustees—not the federal government—that consistently
promised pensions and health care benefits
as part of employees’ total compensation packages
and then failed to collect the funds necessary to pay
those benefits.
The Money Will Come from Taxpayers,
Not Just a Coal Fund
Neither policymakers nor the public should be
fooled by the claim that the $490 million per year
UMWA bailout would be paid by the existing Abandoned
Mine Land (AML) reclamation fund (AML).
The AML fund was established in 1977 exclusively
to cover the clean-up costs of damage caused by coal
mines prior to the federal government’s increased regulation.
6 The proposed UMWA pension bailout would
allow the UMWA to use interest from the AML fund
not only for its unfunded retiree health care costs (as
already allowed), but also for its unfunded pensions.
As Senator Mike Enzi (R–WY) pointed out in a recent
floor speech, this would be akin to allowing the massively
underfunded pension plan of the Central States
trucking union to access the highway trust fund.7
Regardless, it is unlikely that much, if any, of
the $490 million per year in pension bailout costs
would come from the AML fund. In recent years, the
entirety of interest earned on the AML fund, plus
hundreds of millions more in taxpayer dollars, has
gone to the UMWA for its unfunded, yet gold-plated,
retiree health care costs, leaving nothing for a
potential pension bailout. Moreover, the Administration’s
most recent budget included a request for
$363 million in taxpayer funds to “strengthen the
health care and pension funds” of UMWA retirees.8
Clearly, taxpayers—not a coal fund—would be on the
hook for the nearly half-billion dollars a year UMWA
pension bailout.
A Pension Backstop Already Exists
When a multiemployer pension plan runs out of
funds, it turns to the PBGC, which provides financial
assistance to the plan to cover insured benefits
as well as the plan’s expenses. Virtually all private
pension plans are required to purchase PBGC
insurance. The PBGC covers up to $12,870 per year
in pension benefits for a worker with 30 years of
service.9
In 2015, the PBGC paid $103 million to about
54,000 retirees of failed multiemployer pension
plans.10 This pales in comparison, however, to what
the PBGC’s liabilities will be over the coming decade
1. According to the UMWA’s form 5500 filing for the year ended December 2014, the plan has $5.6 billion in “current value” unfunded liabilities,
with assets of $4.165 billion and liabilities of $9.735 billion.
2. Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, “Data Book Listing,” Table M-13, Plans, Participants and Funding of PBGC-Insured Plans by
Funding Ratio (2013) Multiemployer Program, http://www.pbgc.gov/documents/2014-data-tables-final.pdf?source=govdelivery&utm_
medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery (accessed July 19, 2016).
3. Ibid., Table M-9, Funding of PBGC-Insured Plans (1980–2013) Multiemployer Program.
4. Ibid., Table S-44, Funding of PBGC-Insured Plans (1980-2013) Single-Employer Program.
5. Joe Luppino-Esposito, “Promises Made, Promises Broken 2014: Unfunded Liabilities Hit $4.7 trillion,” American Legislative Exchange Council,
November 12, 2014, https://www.alec.org/article/promises-made-promises-broken-2014-unfunded-liabilities-hit-4-7-trillion/
(accessed July 21, 2016).
6. Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement, “Reclaiming Abandoned Mine Lands: Title IV of the Surface Mining Control and
Reclamation Act,” May 21, 2015, http://www.osmre.gov/programs/AML.shtm (accessed July 25, 2016).
7. Mike Enzi, “Supporting Pensions with Taxpayer Dollars Is a Slippery Slope,” speech on the Senate floor, July 12, 2016,
http://www.enzi.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/news-releases?ContentRecord_id=9F7D8774-13DE-4869-B684-7786212FB111
(accessed July 21, 2016).
8. Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement, “The United States Department of the Interior Budget Justification and Performance
Information Fiscal Year 2016,” https://www.doi.gov/sites/doi.gov/files/migrated/budget/appropriations/2016/upload/FY2016_OSMRE_
Greenbook.pdf (accessed July 21, 2016).
9. The PBGC’s multiemployer program provides benefits based on a formula including earned benefits and years of service. This translates into
maximum benefits of: $4,290 per year for workers with 10 years of service; $8,580 for workers with 20 years of service; $12,870 for workers
with 30 years of service; and $17,160 for workers with 40 years of service. The levels are not indexed for inflation.
10. PBGC, 2015 Annual Report, http://www.pbgc.gov/documents/2015-annual-report.pdf (accessed July 21, 2016).
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August 15, 2016 
and beyond as an increasing number of multiemployer
pension plans—including some very large
ones—become insolvent.
Under ordinary circumstances, when the UMWA
plan becomes insolvent sometime within the next
decade, the PBGC would begin making payments to
the plan to cover its insured benefits and expenses.11
If Congress intervenes by bailing out the UMWA
pension plan, its beneficiaries would receive 100 percent
of promised benefits, instead of the lower PBGC
guarantee. And, the UMWA would get off scot-free—
with taxpayers and other coal-mining companies
footing the bill for their unfunded promises.
Meanwhile, other multiemployer plans that
become insolvent and do not receive special-interest
bailouts would first receive cuts down to the PBGC’s
11. The UMWA estimates it will be insolvent in 2025, but more reasonable assumptions project an earlier insolvency.
IB 4600 heritage.org
SOURCES: Author’s calculations based on the UMWA’s pension benefits for a 62-year-old worker who retires in 2016 with 30 years of work
history. Data on UMWA’s pension eligibility are from UMWA Health and Retirement Funds, Pension Eligibility Requirements,
http://www.umwafunds.org/Pension-Survivor-Health/Pages/Eligibility-Requirements.aspx (accessed March 9, 2016). Data on pension benefit
cuts are based on PBGC’s guaranteed level and U.S. Government Accountability O•ce, “Private Pensions: Multiemployer Plans and PBGC Face
Urgent Challenges,” testimony before the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor and Pensions, Committee on Education and the
Workforce, U.S. House of Representatives, March 5, 2013, http://www.gao.gov/assets/660/652687.pdf (accessed March 10, 2016).
Mine Worker Bailout Would Unfairly Preserve UMWA Pensions
While Other Pensions Face Massive Cuts
CHART 1
By bailing out the
insolvent UMWA
pension plan, the
full benefit would
remain intact at
$24,246 per year.
However, if another pension
plan that oers similar benefits
becomes insolvent, the PBGC
would take over payments and
benefits would be cut to a
maximum of $12,780 per year.
And if the PBGC itself becomes
insolvent, as is projected to occur
by 2025, pensions paid by the
PBGC would be cut by an
additional 90 percent or more,
leaving only $1,278 per year.
$1,278
$24,246 $24,246
$12,780
UMWA BAILOUT OTHER SIMILAR PENSION PLAN
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August 15, 2016 
guaranteed level, and then, when the PBGC becomes
insolvent at its estimated date of 2025, benefits
would be cut even further, down to mere pennies on
the dollar in promised benefits.
Congress’s Priority: Reforming the PBGC
Congress has no role in fulfilling the unfunded
promises of private pension plans. It does have a role,
however, in providing private pension insurance
through the PBGC. While the PBGC is a government
entity, it is not taxpayer-financed. It operates with
the premiums that it collects from participating
employers and unions. To prevent taxpayers from
bailing out private pension promises, it must remain
self-financed.
The PBGC is supposed to protect pensioners
from a total loss of promised benefits if their company
or pension plan becomes bankrupt, but its current
financial situation offers little insurance. For
a whole host of reasons, the PBGC’s multiemployer
program is massively underfunded and is projected
to run dry in 2025. Without significant reforms, or
a taxpayer bailout, of the PBGC, its multiemployer
beneficiaries would quickly see their benefits cut by
90 percent or more, leaving those retirees with less
than $100 per month in pension benefits.
Instead of protecting the promises of private
union pension plans, Congress should focus on protecting
the promises it has made through its own
entity, the PBGC. This can be done by ending the
preferential treatment (including funding rules
and assumptions) of multiemployer pension plans;
granting greater authority as well as liability to
plan trustees to encourage proper funding; structuring
the PBGC like a private insurance company,
allowing it to set its own premiums and to charge
variable-rate premiums; allowing the PBGC to take
over failed multiemployer plans as it does failed single-
employer plans; and subjecting multiemployer
pension plans to the same rules as single-employer
pensions.12
—Rachel Greszler is Senior Policy Analyst in
Economics and Entitlements in the Center for Data
Analysis, of the Institute for Economic Freedom and
Opportunity, at The Heritage Foundation.
12. Rachel Greszler, “Bankrupt Pensions and Insolvent Pension Insurance: The Case of Multiemployer Pensions and the PBGC’s Multiemployer
Program,” Heritage Foundation Backgrounder No. 3029, July 30, 2015, http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2015/07/bankruptpensions-
and-insolvent-pension-insurance-the-case-of-multiemployer-pensions-and-the-pbgcs-multiemployer-program.
$52 billion:
Deficit
in 2015
2000 2005 2010 2015
IB 4600 heritage.org
SOURCE: Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, Table M–1,
“Net Financial Positions of PBGC’s (1980–2015)
Multiemployer Program,” http://www.pbgc.gov/documents/
2014-data-tables-final.pdf (accessed August 3, 2016).
NET FINANCIAL POSITION OF PBGC’S
MULTIEMPLOYER PROGRAM
The PBGC’s multiemployer
program
provides insurance to
private union pension
plans, but it faces
massive deficits and
will be unable to pay
insured benefits
without significant
reforms.
PBGC’s Multiemployer Program:
Massive and Growing Deficits
CHART 2
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August 15, 2016

Hillary, the emails, and critical thinking

Filed under: Anti-American Politicians, Elections — Tags: , , , , , , , , , — justplainbill @ 9:25 pm

Hillary, the emails, and critical thinking

15 August 2016

Before leaving for work, I had Maria Bartiromo on, FOX Business News. There was a Hillary surrogate commenting on the “33,000” emails that the FBI had gone through and found only a dozen or so that were classified, and, according to him, what did it matter?

So, let’s review and see where both he and the media, mainstream and cable, have screwed up, yet once again.

Hillary sets up at least two servers that we know of, gets caught, her servers and their contents subpoenaed by congress, her lawyers search the servers using “search” protocols, at the very least 33,000 emails are deleted, and the mess is made public.

First thing that should be considered is that no emails were deleted before the subpoena was served. Destroying evidence after that is a felony. Hillary and her attorneys are all guilty at this point.

Second, in order to get that many emails, the search command must have included keywords such as, secret, top secret, confidential, &c. Thus, ALL of the deleted emails must have been classified. It’s called critical thinking.

Thirdly, everyone keeps talking about the 33,000 emails. There were over 65,000 emails because one MUST count the deleted emails. How is it that everyone in the news media, mainstream and cable, have missed this rather glaring fact. Yep, those kept and those deleted add to over 66,000 suspect emails. How is it all of these college educated news people have missed this? How is it that no one has pointed out that because of ‘search’, almost all of the classified emails were wiped? Especially since those classified emails found in the preserved 33,000 were NOT marked secret, confidential, &c. Wouldn’t critical thinking sort of require that ALL of the suspect emails were wiped, and therefore using the Federal Rules of Evidence, is an admission that they were classified?

Yah, that last bit, under the FRE if a party refuses to provide or destroys evidence, the jury is told by the judge that they may consider the missing evidence in the worst light; that the claims of the person as to what was contained in the missing evidence is as the claimant claims or worse. Sorta means that every one of those missing emails was classified as a matter of law, doesn’t it?

Where are the media and the F.B.I. on this, especially considering that the F.B.I. knows the rules of evidence, doesn’t it?

Y’all, y’all need to consider this before the election.

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