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Communists Threaten South Korea From Within
By Cliff Kincaid If you want to see what it might take to save America from communism, look to South Korea, where a brave conservative president has just declared martial law and has ordered patriotic soldiers to identify and detain the enemies within. South Korea faces Communist North Korea, backed by Russia and China, and communist sympathizers in the National Assembly, or Congress. At this point it is not clear if the South Korean president can save his country from a communist takeover. He needs outside support – and fast. Reports indicate that Defense Minister Kim Yong-hyun advised President Yoon Suk Yeol to make the declaration of martial law. The question America is facing is whether the military top brass have sufficient integrity to confront the enemies within, if President Trump orders them to. In South Korea, President Yoon Suk Yeol declared emergency martial law for the first time in 44 years as the domestic dangers increased and the global situation deteriorated. “Any act that denies or attempts to overthrow the liberal democratic system is prohibited, and fake news, the manipulation of public opinion and false propaganda are banned,” his declaration declared. This courageous president is naming the enemy as “pro-North Korean anti-state forces” and attempting to put down an internal communist coup. He is a conservative pro-American president but the National Assembly is under the control of left-wing opposition forces under communist influence. Referring to actions taken by the National Assembly, the president said, “This is clearly an act of inciting internal rebellion by trampling the constitutional order of the free Republic of Korea and disrupting legitimate state institutions established by the Constitution and law.” He added that “our National Assembly has become a den of criminals, paralyzing the nation's judicial and administrative systems through legislative dictatorship and planning for the overthrow of our liberal democratic system. The National Assembly, which should be the foundation of liberal democracy, has become a monster trying to destroy it.” He declared martial law “to protect the Republic of Korea from the threats of North Korean communist forces, to immediately eradicate the unscrupulous pro-Pyongyang anti-state forces that pillage the freedom and happiness of our people and to protect free constitutional order.” He explained that, “Through this emergency martial law, I will rebuild and protect the free Republic of Korea, which is falling into ruin.” It appears to this observer that Trump should skip a scheduled tour of Notre Dame Cathedral in France this Saturday and exercise his presidential powers now, with “President” Biden in Africa making business deals on behalf of his pardoned son Hunter in Communist Angola. An AWOL president must be replaced now, with the “president-elect” who is already acting presidential and ready and able to assume power. Trump must act before the North unleashes a nuclear blitzkrieg and destroys another American ally. At the same time, Trump should give his nominee for Director of National Intelligence (DNI) the boot, for Tulsi Gabbard, as Trevor Loudon documents, has multiple North Korean connections that make her unfit for such a top post. As Trevor and I discuss in our Rumble broadcast, she has too many communist connections and should never have been considered, let alone nominated, for that position. This is a time for American leadership and peace through strength. It’s clear that Sleepy Joe is in no condition to function as president. The same South Korean president addressed our own Congress more than a year ago, noting that in 1950, the Korean Peninsula was on the front line. He said, “The Soviet Union helped to rearm North Korea. North Korea's surprise attack threatened the peace on the Korean Peninsula and Asia. Korea's freedom and democracy were on the brink. At that decisive moment, the U.S. did not look the other way. Korean and American soldiers stood shoulder to shoulder and fought bravely. Tales of our heroes were written. General [Douglas] MacArthur caught the enemy off guard with the landing of Incheon and turned the tide of the war. Operation Chromite was one of the greatest decisions ever made in the history of war. The U.S. 1st Marine Division miraculously broke through a wave of 120,000 Chinese troops at the Battle of Lake Changjin.” He noted that sons and daughters of America sacrificed their lives to “defend a country they never knew and a people they never met.” In the book, Revitalizing a Nation, featuring General Douglas MacArthur’s speeches and pronouncements, he talked about America’s problem, which is the same as South Korea’s, identifying the “insidious forces working from within” that are “allied with the scourge of imperialistic Communism.” This is now what is happening to South Korea and the United States. Unlike Sleepy Joe, the communists never sleep. If President Harry Truman had listened to General MacArthur, who wanted to take the fight to the mainland of Communist China, there would not be a Communist China or North Korea today. But Truman fired MacArthur. These hours and days are critical. President Trump badly mishandled North Korea during his first term, when he met with the Communist dictator Kim and got tricked. So-called “Chairman” Kim wanted American money in exchange for putting a few nuclear missiles on the shelf. Trump finally recognized it wasn’t a good deal. The problem has always been Kim’s backers in China and Russia. Communism is the problem. Communism is the enemy. Today, Trump should forthrightly declare his support for South Korea and its anti-communist president before it is too late. Once he is in power, he should court-martial former Joint Chiefs Chairman Army Gen. Mark Milley, who defended Marxist indoctrination of our soldiers and presided over a force that welcomed transgenders and presided over the debacle in Afghanistan. What is more, in actions that were clearly designed to subvert the first Trump presidency and undermine the chain of command, it was revealed Milley made secret calls to Communist Chinese officials during the final days of the Trump Administration, supposedly out of alleged concern that Trump would attack China. He also assured Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi that the military would resist certain orders from President Trump and “prevent” unwarranted Trump’s use of the military “domestically and/or internationally.” Daniel D. New wrote that General Milley should be court-martialed, reduced in rank, and sent to prison in Leavenworth. This sounds harsh, but if drastic actions like this are not taken by the new president, America could easily end up as South Korea is today, in danger of falling into the grip of the enemies within.
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 Tulsi Gabbard-gate Now a Full-Blown Scandal By Cliff Kincaid President Trump called former intelligence analyst Edward Snowden a “traitor” and a “spy” who should be executed. Lt. General Michael T. Flynn, his former national security adviser, had declared in congressional testimony that Snowden’s disclosures did “grave damage to the Department of Defense and go far beyond the act of a so-called whistle blower.” He added, “I have no doubt that he has placed the men and women of our armed services at risk and that his disclosures will cost lives on our future battlefields.” Senator Marco Rubio, Trump’s nominee for Secretary of State, said about Snowden, “I think he’s a traitor worthy of federal prison.” Lt. Gen Ion Mihai Pacepa, the highest-ranking Soviet bloc intelligence official ever to defect to the West, called the Snowden affair “a well-prepared Russian intelligence operation” against the United States and said Snowden “is an agent of the Russian foreign intelligence service.” Yet, Trump is now under pressure from his own nominee for Director of National Intelligence (DNI), Tulsi Gabbard, to pardon the former intelligence analyst. Jon Levine of the New York Post reports that former left-wing congresswoman Gabbard, a former Bernie Sanders supporter and now Trump’s DNI nominee, regards Snowden as “important to her” and that “she would likely push for” a pardon or clemency to the former CIA and NSA employee in Trump’s second term. The strange development threatens to expose Gabbard and perhaps other members of Trump’s inner circle as covert sympathizers with Vladimir Putin’s Russia, at a time when Putin is threatening to involve NATO in a nuclear war and the Russian-backed Syrian dictatorship is under siege by opposition forces. Gabbard staged a friendly visit with Syrian dictator Assad in 2017, when she was a full-fledged peacenik Democrat whose career was nurtured by communists. She is today fully backed by Jackson Hinkle, an executive board member of the “new” American Communist Party, which supports anti-American regimes around the world, including Putin’s Russia. Hinkle is a former supporter of socialist Bernie Sanders who now associates with one of Russian President Putin's key advisers, Alexander Dugin, who says there is a “strategic alliance” between Iran and Russia and China. However, Dugin also has influence on the MAGA movement, as documented in our report, The Big Lie Driving Russian Influence in the Conservative Movement and the Destruction of Ukraine. If confirmed, Gabbard would be given jurisdiction as DNI over 18 intelligence agencies and would edit intelligence information for President Trump. But her support for Snowden, now a Russian citizen, puts that confirmation in serious doubt. Indeed, it raises questions about who in Trump’s inner circle pushed her nomination. The president-elect has made it clear in several statements over the years that Snowden betrayed the United States as he sought refuge in Russia, after disclosing more than one million classified documents. Snowden was charged with espionage, a crime that could get him the death penalty. Trump had recommended that Snowden, if caught and convicted, be executed. Hence, Trump is in a very difficult situation if he stands by Gabbard, as he apparently wasn’t aware when he made the Gabbard nomination that she had, as a member of Congress, introduced a resolution to grant Snowden a pardon for his crimes. Her position directly contradicted what Trump had been saying about Snowden for several years. His former aide, Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, then-director of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), had expanded on his own comments about the damage done by Snowden, declaring, that “the greatest cost” associated with Snowden’s betrayal “is unknown today, but we will likely face is the cost in human lives on tomorrow’s battlefield or in some, someplace where we will put our military forces – you know, when we ask them to go in to harm’s way. That’s’ the greatest cost that we face with the disclosures that have been presented so far. And like I said, the strongest word that I can use is this has caused grave damage to our national security.” Flynn’s comments were made in congressional testimony in 2014, after Snowden had turned the documents over to a left-wing journalist, Glenn Greenwald, in Chinese Hong Kong, on his way to Russia, where he was given Russian citizenship. My group, America’s Survival, called Greenwald’s “journalism” a form of espionage and objected to Pulitzer Prizes for “journalists” who facilitated Snowden’s disclosures. My book, Blood on His Hands: The True Story of Edward Snowden, documents how his disclosures didn’t hurt the “Deep State” but rather benefitted Russia, China, and Islamic terrorists like those in ISIS. The Gabbard nomination was apparently urged on the president by advisers who didn’t know or didn’t care that Trump had taken a position in favor of capital punishment for the former NSA and CIA analyst. What the evidence suggests, contends anti-communist author Trevor Loudon, is that Trump has several advisers who are in the “Russian camp” and want to reward Putin for giving refuge to the American defector. If this is in fact the case, another Russia-gate scandal is in the making which threatens the second Trump presidency even before it begins. Trump will not be able to blame this scandal on Hillary or Obama, since his own advisers made it all possible. In an interview on my fast-growing Rumble channel, Trevor Loudon suggested that she try to save face by withdrawing her nomination, citing health concerns or some other pretext. Otherwise, he indicated, the Gabbard nomination will develop into a full-blown scandal that even Republicans will have to investigate, leading to uncomfortable questions about the Trump advisers behind the controversial nomination and their possible ties to Russia.
 Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn on the damage done by the Edward Snowden disclosures: FACTSHEET | Feb. 11, 2014 DIA Director Lt. Gen Michael Flynn on Current and Future Worldwide Threats Testimony Before the Senate Armed Services Committee Opening Statement as Delivered Before the Senate Armed Services Committee Excerpt: In my professional military judgment Mr. Snowden’s disclosures have done grave damage to the Department of Defense and go far beyond the act of a so-called whistle blower. I have no doubt that he has placed the men and women of our armed services at risk and that his disclosures will cost lives on our future battlefields. Source: https://www.dia.mil/Articles/Speeches-and-Testimonies/Article/567081/dia-director-lt-gen-michael-flynn-on-current-and-future-worldwide-threats-testi/ FACTSHEET | Jan. 29, 2014 DIA Director Flynn: Unauthorized Disclosures Have "Caused Grave Damage to Our National Security" DIA Director Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn was asked by Sen. Susan Collins about the impact of recent unauthorized disclosures during today's Worldwide Threat Assessment Hearing before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. SEN SUSAN COLLINS, R-MAINE: Chairman. General Flynn. Thus far in the discussion today and in general, there has been very little focus on the damage that Edward Snowden has done to our military. I’ve read the DIA assessment and it is evident to me that most of the documents stolen by Mr.Snowden have nothing to do with the privacy rights and civil liberties of American citizens or even the NSA collection programs. Indeed these documents, and we’ve heard the number 1.7 million documents, are in many cases multi-pages. If you printed them all and stacked them they would be more than 3 miles high. I say that to give the public more information about how extraordinarily extensive the documents that he’s stole were. And they don’t just pertain to the NSA; they pertain to the entire intelligence community. And include information about military intelligence, our defense capabilities, the defense industry. Now you are the leader of military intelligence. You have also been deployed for extensive periods in Iraq. You know what the impact is on the Military. Can you share with the committee your assessment of the impact of the damage that Edward Snowden has done to our military, and in particular has he placed our men and women in uniform at greater risk? LT GEN FLYNN: Senator Collins - thanks for that question. On the report that you’re indicating or highlighting, we do have I believe a session in about a week for this committee to go through the entire report. The strongest word that I can use to describe you know, how bad this is, this has caused grave damage to our national security. I think another way to address your question, what are the costs that we are going to incur because of the scale and the scope of what has been taken by Snowden. And I won’t put a dollar figure but I know that the scale or the cost to our nation obviously in treasure, in capabilities that are going to have to be examined, reexamined, and potentially adjusted, but I think that the greatest cost that is unknown today, but we will likely face is the cost in human lives on tomorrow’s battlefield or in some, someplace where we will put our military forces – you know, when we ask them to go in to harm’s way. That’s’ the greatest cost that we face with the disclosures that have been presented so far. And like I said, the strongest word that I can use is this has caused grave damage to our national security. COLLINS: So it has caused grave damage to our national security, and you would agree that it puts at risk potentially the lives of our troops. Is that accurate? FLYNN: Yes, Ma’am. Source: https://www.dia.mil/Articles/Speeches-and-Testimonies/Article/567078/dia-director-flynn-unauthorized-disclosures-have-caused-grave-damage-to-our-nat/  Another Russia-gate Scandal for Trump By Cliff Kincaid After my group, America’s Survival, Inc. (ASI) published Blood on His Hands: The True Story of Edward Snowden, President Trump weighed in, declaring that the former NSA and CIA contractor should be executed if caught. He said, “I think Snowden is a terrible threat, I think he’s a terrible traitor and you know what we used to do in the good old days when we were a strong country, you know what we used to do to traitors right?” He was referring to the execution of atom spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. Snowden stole thousands of documents, turned them over to our enemies, and moved to Russia, after he received a Russian passport and Russian citizenship and swore an oath of allegiance to Putin’s Russia. Yet, President-elect Trump has now nominated a disciple of Edward Snowden to the post of Director of National Intelligence (DNI). Her name is Tulsi Gabbard, a protege of MAGA who had been promoted by Trump’s own son, Donald J. Trump, Jr., Stephen K. Bannon, and Tucker Carlson. After Hillary Clinton accused Gabbard of being a Russian asset, based largely on Gabbard’s secret trip to Syria and friendly meeting with the Russian-backed Syrian dictator Assad, Gabbard filed suit for defamation, only to drop the suit on the pretext that she had to devote more time to “defeating Donald Trump in 2020, rather than righting the wrongs here.” The first Hindu member of Congress, she was allegedly associated with a branch of a New Age eastern religious organization that some describe as a cult. Like Kamala Harris, Gabbard supported Obamacare and wanted it expanded. In fact, she demanded “a mandatory single payer system,” saying it “would be even better.” That was the Bernie Sanders or socialist approach once embraced by Kamala. As a member of Congress and former co-chair of the Democratic National Committee, she backed Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden, before suddenly becoming pro-MAGA and endorsing Trump during the 2024 campaign. In the case of Snowden, and his illegal disclosures, former CIA officer Bob Baer had said, “ISIS has been reading Snowden,” a process that enabled the terrorist group to evade NSA monitoring, capture and behead Americans, rapidly expand, and then take over large areas of territory in the Middle East. A study of terrorist communications found changes after the Snowden disclosures. The innocent Americans killed by ISIS were James Foley, Steven Sotloff, Peter Kassig, and Kayla Mueller. Trump, during his first term, had to deploy American military forces to destroy ISIS. On October 27, 2019, Trump announced the death of ISIS Leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, saying, “He died after running into a dead-end tunnel, whimpering and crying and screaming all the way.” Trump called al-Baghdadi “a sick and depraved man, and now he’s gone. Baghdadi was vicious and violent, and he died in a vicious and violent way, as a coward, running and crying.” Nevertheless, Gabbard sponsored a congressional resolution in 2020 “expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the Federal Government should drop all the espionage charges against Edward Snowden.” In a major speech several years ago, former Republican Senator Jon Kyl called Snowden “this generation’s Alger Hiss,” a reference to the State Department official who was convicted of perjury in 1950 for denying he was a Soviet spy and served 44 months in prison. Kyl said, “As with Hiss, many in the public seem to be confused about whether Snowden is a ‘hero’ or a ‘traitor,’ with many, especially young people, more worried about the National Security Agency than Edward Snowden. Much of this confusion is the fault of the same media that is reaping large financial windfalls from publishing highly damaging news articles and stories.” Rejecting claims by some conservatives and libertarians that Snowden is a whistleblower for stealing and releasing classified information, Kyl, who retired from the Senate after the 2012 election, said, “Heroes and whistleblowers don’t admittedly steal thousands of classified documents about some of NSA’s most sensitive collection activities, give copies of them to the media, flee to that bastion of personal and political freedom, the People’s Republic of China, and, in an irony to end all ironies, seek political asylum in Russia.” As Senator Kyl indicated, Snowden has been embraced by some on the right because he poses as an enemy of the same “Deep State” targeting Trump but he is today living in Russia, after having traveled through Chinese Hong Kong. He did so with the assistance of his enabler, Glenn Greenwald, a former gay pornographer who poses as a libertarian and is now close to Tucker Carlson, Laura Ingraham of Fox News, and the MAGA crowd. What is developing right before our eyes in the case of Tulsi Gabbard’s nomination is another scandal for Trump’s new administration, on top of the nomination of a George Soros hedge fund operative, Scott Bessent, as Secretary of the Treasury. On my new America’s Survival Rumble TV program, Trevor Loudon and I discuss why Tulsi Gabbard is a security risk and why her nomination as Director of National Intelligence will backfire on President Trump, leading to another Russia-gate scandal, this time for real. Gabbard is backed by people who note that she is an Army National Guard officer with security clearances giving her access to highly sensitive and classified information. But Trevor Loudon is not impressed, asking, “Wasn’t Benedict Arnold a high-ranking military officer?” Loudon notes that standards for access to top-secret information in the military are notoriously low, as evidenced by the case of Bradley/Chelsea Manning, a homosexual Army analyst turned transgender who provided stolen documents to WikiLeaks. Obama commuted his 35-year prison sentence. What is happening in Mar-a-Lago to explain this disastrous nomination? The answer, according to Trevor Loudon, is that a communist-inspired “influence operation” has targeted Trump’s inner circle, making another Russia-gate scandal entirely possible, even probable. Loudon devotes one chapter of his book, White House Reds, to Gabbard, who was then running for the Democratic presidential nomination, and has been studying her career for many years. His KeyWiki page documents how her career was nurtured by communists and how she has a pattern of defending anti-American regimes from Venezuela to Syria. Trevor says he knows many of the people in MAGA who are pushing Gabbard and is now publicly warning them about the nomination, posting on X that Gabbard is a national security risk. He explains, “Friends, I am generally very pleased with President Trump's nominees for his administration. However, I have significant concerns regarding Tulsi Gabbard, the proposed Director of National Intelligence, one of the most sensitive posts in the U.S. Government. Considering Tulsi Gabbard's history and current affiliations, she would fail even the most basic security clearance screening.” He promises more installments of what he calls the “Tulsi Files” in the days and weeks ahead. It looks like another Russia-gate is in the making. This scandal is real, it is of MAGA’s own making, and could seriously damage the next Trump presidency.
 Soros-Funded Agent Installed at Treasury Department By Cliff Kincaid After telling us for years that Soros-funded prosecutors were a threat to our system of justice in America, Fox News is now touting the nomination of a Soros-funded financial operative, Scott Bessent, as Secretary of the Treasury, where he can do enormous damage by destabilizing the U.S. financial system. With the debt and deficits high, a possible economic downturn brought on by hedge fund short sellers like Soros and Bessent must be taken seriously. Businessman Howard Lutnick, the co-chair of Trump’s transition team, was the other and much better selection for the job. His firm Cantor Fitzgerald lost more than 650 employees in the 9/11 terrorist attacks on New York City’s World Trade Center and he declared at Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally that, “We must elect Donald J. Trump president because we must crush jihad.” Charles Gasparino of Fox Business claimed that Lutnick had reportedly warned Trump against picking Bessent, and for that reason he got installed as Commerce Secretary instead. If true, this suggests major Soros influence in Trump’s inner circle. Gasparino and other so-called “conservatives” in the media were eagerly defending Bessent, despite his career history as a long-time Soros operative and “former” supporter of Democrats like Hillary Clinton and Barack Hussein Obama. On Fox News, on Friday night, Laura Ingraham’s Fox News program featured a series of talking heads, including Gasparino and Breitbart's Alex Marlow, boosting the nomination of Bessent. While noting how Bessent worked for Soros (for almost ten years), Ingraham and her panel dismissed its significance and basically told their conservative audience to forget everything they have been saying about the dangers posed by the hedge fund billionaire and the liberal causes he has been funding. In the post of Treasury Secretary, Bessent can do what Soros has specialized in – subverting the currencies of nations, causing economic disruptions and even a financial crash, as they did in 2007-2008, paving the way for Barack Hussein Obama to assume power. The 2007-09 economic crisis became known as “the Great Recession.” It was regarded as the largest economic downturn since the Great Depression, instigated by a housing crisis exploited by hedge fund short sellers. Hedge Funds Target Western Countries Defenders of Bessent like Charles Gasparino claim that he left the Soros empire before Soros spent money on Marxist causes like defund the police, but that outlook ignores how Soros and Bessent were involved in destabilizing the currencies of nations like Britain, an ally. In the case of Bessent, the opportunity is clear and the dangers are legion. Soros wants to phase out the U.S. dollar as the international reserve currency and bring the U.S. into a system of international socialism, with new and more powerful global agencies deciding our economic and financial fate. The rise of crypto currency can be manipulated to undermine the United States economy, even while Bessent claims to be a believer. A former supporter of Trump’s arch enemy Hillary Clinton, Bessent suddenly emerged during the campaign as a Trump supporter and has now managed to get Trump’s blessing and nomination as Treasury Secretary. Bessent's miraculous rise to power has many worried about the direction of the second Trump term, after he threw Matt Gaetz under the bus for the post of Attorney General, replacing him with the lightweight former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi. At the same time, Trump has suddenly gotten friendly with MSNBC hosts from the “Morning Joe” and Al Sharpton programs. The channel’s personalities treated Trump like a Hitlerian fascist. In addition to supporting Hillary and before that Al Gore for president, Bessent had emerged as a major gay “power player” with a home in the Hamptons, where he had an estate valued at $22.5 million, and rubbed elbows with the rich and famous. He is hardly a member of the working class that elected Trump. “Once a reliable donor to Democratic campaigns,” Newsweek reported, “Bessent's contributions shifted rightward after he left Soros’s firm.” Now, with his ascendance into the Trump cabinet, partly because of former Trump adviser Stephen K. Bannon promoting him for the job of Treasury Secretary, Fox personalities want viewers to forget that Bessent was associated with a billionaire who funds everything at odds with traditional conservatism. Bessent’s own hedge fund, Key Square Group, was funded by Soros and he served as chief investment officer for the billionaire's family office. “In 2015, he raised capital, including $2 billion from Soros, to start his own hedge fund,” noted an AFP story. Bessent is Soros-Funded So Bessent, like the anti-police and pro-criminal prosecutors, is Soros-funded. There is no reason for Laura Ingraham and her “conservative” guests to play down this fact. It is very troubling to those who backed Trump from the start, unlike Bessent. Hedge funds, open only to the rich and famous, are notorious for short selling, in which Wall Street bets are made that the currencies of countries, even friendly to the United States, will decline in value. As noted by Newsweek, Bessent “played a pivotal role in the ‘Black Wednesday’ trade of 1992, when Soros famously ‘broke the Bank of England’ by betting against the British pound. This trade earned Soros's team over $1 billion and solidified Soros's reputation as a formidable figure in global finance.” The “Black Wednesday” financial attack on Britain “caused economic turmoil and social unrest in Britain, as interest rates remained high, inflation rose, unemployment increased, and public spending was cut,” noted the Investopedia web site. “It also damaged the reputation of British Prime Minister John Major and the Conservative Party for ineffective fiscal management.” Bessent is also known for teaming up with Soros to bet against the value of the Japanese yen, causing it to plummet against every major global currency, making more than $1 billion in the process. These results are obtained through committing foreign exchange (FX) market manipulation. Such is the power of these largely unregulated hedge funds, which operate through a lobby known as the Managed Funds Association (MFA). During this election cycle, 31.60 percent of MFA PAC donations went to Democrats, while 68.40 percent went to Republicans. It sounds on the surface that these money managers want the Republicans to win, but their main interest is financial and they will not hesitate to undermine the Trump Administration if they see an opportunity for financial gain. Bessent could be their agent of influence. The rise of crypto currency, an alternative to the U.S. dollar, provides such an opportunity. The hedge fund-dominated MFA convened an “Investing 2023” conference to draw in money managers and others “who are considering or in the process of adding digital assets to their investment portfolios alongside those who have current digital asset allocations.” The Coming Crypto Crash Like Trump, Bessent has been sounding pro-crypto, and Soros has been friendly to it in recent years, investing in a crypto mining firm, Marathon Digital Holdings. But crypto is largely out of reach to ordinary Americans with limited financial resources. With the recent rise in Bitcoin, however, many have been trying to invest through an ETF or Exchange Traded Fund. For crypto to be more accessible to ordinary people, a crypto regulatory framework with a market structure and stablecoin legislation must be passed and implemented by Congress. New leadership at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) must also be sought. Biden SEC chair Gary Gensler has announced that he will step down but no replacement has been announced. But the relatively new nature of the alternative money makes it susceptible to cryptocurrency crashes, providing a new opportunity for the hedge funds to make money at the expense of ordinary investors. So-called “corrections” in the price of Bitcoin have already included a negative 99 percent in 2011, negative 56 percent in 2012, and negative 83 percent in 2013. But with the debt crisis affecting the value of the dollar, crypto looks like a good “bet” at the current time. However, a subsequent crisis or correction could cause the price to dramatically decline, making some big hedge fund short sellers rich in the process.
Deep State Wins First Victory Over Trump
By Cliff Kincaid With the character assassination of Matt Gaetz and his replacement by lightweight candidate Pam Bondi, MAGA’s only hope is that President Trump will himself take control of the Justice Department and order charges against former President Barack Hussein Obama and former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton for their roles in the Russia-gate scam. Otherwise, Trump’s second term will end up like his first, in controversy and conflict as the Deep State runs amuck. One day after Trump said a defiant “No” to a question about withdrawing the Gaetz nomination, Gaetz withdrew, in the wake of a hacker, likely from the NSA, obtaining confidential files from the investigation into debunked sex charges against the former congressman. At this point, Trump could have called for an investigation into Deep State blackmail tactics against his Attorney General nominee. Instead, he buckled and folded under the pressure, throwing Gaetz under the bus. The hacking of the Gaetz files, highlighted first by the New York Times and then in AP stories carried around the country, referred to “someone” behind the hacking. That someone was likely in the NSA, a main target of Gaetz’s ire and anger over its embrace of Marxist hiring practices. Remember during Trump’s first term when Democrat Senator Chuck Schumer, the Senate Democratic leader, questioned why Trump would fight the intelligence agencies, saying “they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you.” That is what happened to Gaetz, a critic of the NSA, FBI, and DOJ in general. There was nothing to the charges but the NSA’s likely involvement in the hacking sent Trump a message and he folded under pressure. We are back to business as usual. Before the hacker stole those files, coverage of which was designed to prolong the nomination controversy, Elon Musk had summarized the Gaetz controversy this way:
Well, the case wasn’t closed, as far as the Deep State was concerned. These alphabet agencies demonstrated their power over Trump even before he was officially sworn in. In Pam Bondi, they got a nice woman completely unfamiliar with the ways of Washington and unequipped to take on the Deep State. As the former Attorney General of Florida, she mainly dealt with state issues of no consequence to the Deep State, which is based in Washington, D.C., Virginia, and Maryland. Although she has been recently based in Washington, D.C., it’s been as a lobbyist with Ballard Partners, the same firm which employed Susie Wiles, Trump’s new Chief of Staff. The fear, now gripping MAGA, is that with Gaetz gone, the dominoes will start falling, as the Deep State and various corporate interests, including Big Pharma, pick off other Trump nominees, including RFK Jr. Gaetz, a congressman from Florida, was a quick learner, winning plaudits for grilling Deep State operatives over their anti-Trump resistance activities and the illegal surveillance techniques against Christians and conservatives. Those techniques were turned on him, even though the DOJ had already investigated and cleared him, concluding the sex charges were based on false testimony from a criminal. It took Trump one day to reverse his promise to stick with Gaetz. Now, if Kash Patel doesn’t get the post of FBI director, MAGA will know that Trump has completely sold them out, even before he takes office. Patel was a top Trump Administration official who served as the former Chief of Staff to Acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller and wrote Government Gangsters: The Deep State, the Truth, and the Battle for Our Democracy. The Deep State hates him. “His potential appointment to top intelligence agencies set off alarm bells in the intelligence community,” reports a fearful NBC News. He is a former aide to Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), who led the effort to expose Russia-gate as a ploy by the intelligence community to destroy Trump. But President Trump said about his book, “A brilliant roadmap highlighting every corrupt actor, to ultimately return our agencies and departments to work for the American People…we will use this blueprint to help us take back the White House and remove these Gangsters from all of Government!” Will Trump follow through on this roadmap or will he bow once again before the power of the Deep State? Once the hacking became public, Trump could have held a news conference to denounce the tactics of the Deep State. Conservatives had already rallied behind the Gaetz nomination, noting his extensive knowledge of Deep State activities and willingness to fight the DOJ, FBI, CIA, NSA, and the Pentagon. But he is now a casualty of the Deep State, as Senate RINOs led by Mitch McConnell celebrate their victory over Trump. It appears the next Trump Administration is crippled even before it takes power. To make matters worse, MAGA representatives like Stephen K. Bannon, a former investment banker and Trump strategist, are backing a George Soros operative, Scott Bessent, as Treasury Secretary. He is the former Soros Fund Management chief investment officer (1991-2000) who started his own hedge-fund firm, with a $2 billion investment from Soros Fund Management. In 2013, he gave $25,000 to Ready for Hillary, a pro-Clinton super-PAC and hosted a gay and lesbian fund-raiser for Al Gore at his Hamptons home. Among other things, Soros is considered the Godfather of illegal immigration, having invested $500 million of his fortune in “immigrant rights,” setting the stage for the open borders crisis we are now facing. Hedge funds like those operated by Soros and Bessent can cause economic downturns and disruptions by targeting companies, countries, and currencies with short selling strategies. Zubi Diamond’s book, Wizards of Wall Street, had urged the reinstatement of regulations that prevent the hedge fund short sellers from manipulating the market. Hedge Funds are also major forces of Cultural Marxism, having pushed the Republican Party to embrace gay rights and gay marriage. Bessent is himself “an openly gay American investor” who embraced Trump during the campaign, with Bannon’s blessing and a platform on Bannon’s Real America’s Voice television network.
 Why the Deep State is Afraid of Matt Gaetz By Cliff Kincaid I have examined the reports about the sex charges against President Trump’s nominee for Attorney General, Matt Gaetz, and can find no proof. In fact, Biden’s DOJ and FBI never charged him with a sex crime. Senator Tommy Tuberville says, “Prove he’s a criminal,” otherwise confirm him to the job. There is no proof. So we are left to conclude that the charges are a smokescreen to derail his nomination because he has been such a vociferous critic of the DOJ and the FBI. I urge everyone to watch the video of Gaetz grilling the FBI director. Then watch the video of Gaetz grilling Attorney General Garland. Gaetz understands the problem and the solution. He can get the job done. The transcript of the exchange with Christopher Wray can be found here and is worth reading, especially the part about the FBI cover-up of the Hunter Biden laptop. “Are you protecting the Bidens?” Gaetz asked. A group of conservatives issued a letter endorsing Gaetz and noted that “Rep. Gaetz has been the most active member of the House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, appearing at more depositions and transcribed interviews, and in more hearings, than any other member. His work on that critical committee has helped shine a light on the political retaliation and abuses by our nation’s law enforcement agencies and helped prepare him to address many of these issues at DOJ.” Part of the diversionary smokescreen has been the claim by Democrats that he needs to be “vetted,” even though he was already investigated and cleared by the DOJ. They didn’t see any need to vet the terrorists, criminal gang members, and Chinese military-age men already in the U.S. Now, however, Democrats are suddenly concerned about security in presidential appointments. Consider the bill introduced by Democrats to ensure an FBI role in vetting White House security clearances. Former FBI agent Max Noel told me the Bureau used to investigate candidates for federal employment -- but not federal office -- by analyzing Character, Associates, Reputation, and Loyalty to the United States. The first letters in those words make up the acronym CARL. Noel said Barack Hussein Obama could not have been elected president if he had been subjected to the CARL test. But members of Congress also evade the security clearance process. On the Senate floor, Senator Tuberville showed a graphic identifying the number of Senate Democrats who voted against a Biden/Harris cabinet nominee. The number was a big fat zero. But the problem also involves Republicans. “Last time around, the Republican Senate took months to confirm President Trump’s appointments -- if not years,” he noted. “As a result, President Trump had to govern with one hand tied behind his back because some of his cabinet members were never confirmed.” He added, “I remember when 20 -- that’s right, 20 -- Senate Republicans voted to confirm Merrick Garland for the top law enforcement spot four years ago for the Biden administration. That’s their prerogative. As Attorney General, Merrick Garland turned the DOJ into a weapon—a weapon—against President Donald Trump, Republicans, and law-abiding U.S. citizens. The perversion of law that Merrick Garland embraced at the DOJ makes third-world banana republics blush.” He noted that Secretary of State Antony Blinken, “who was in large part responsible for the blatant lies pushed in a letter written by 51 former intelligence officials right before the 2020 election,” received 28 Republican votes in the Senate. Tuberville was referring to the claim by those officials that the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian propaganda. If the charges against Gaetz are true, why did DOJ close the case against him? Were the charges tough to prove? That never stopped the DOJ from going after Trump himself. They used made-up and phony charges against him. Perhaps Gaetz’s personal life has been controversial. Yet, consider some of the Biden/Harris nominees. Two Republicans on the Senate voted with the Democrats to confirm “Rachel” Levine as the Assistant Secretary for Health at the Department of Health and Human Services. Levine is a man who wears lipstick and a dress. As noted by Tuberville, other Biden/Harris appointments included Tracy Stone-Manning, the Director at the Bureau of Land Management, “who was literally a member of an eco-terrorist organization that spiked trees with metal rods to harm [lumberjacks] when they cut into trees with a chainsaw.” Or Sam Brinton, a former Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Office of Nuclear Energy, “who repeatedly stole women’s luggage at airports while traveling on the taxpayers’ dime.” The basic point is that Gaetz is not afraid of the Deep State using their tactics of blackmail to get their way. That’s why they hate him. He stood up to them. He understands how corrupt they are. Some conservatives gripe about his positions on other issues, like marijuana or green energy. That will not be his focus at DOJ. Those conservatives who try to sabotage this nomination are helping the Democrats stymie and stop the Trump agenda. After taking office, Gaetz should go back in history and investigate not only how Barack Hussein Obama’s background was ignored, but how CIA director John Brennan received a security clearance. As CIA director, Brennan told a congressional forum that even voting communist, as he once did, was not a bar to employment at the agency. Brennan had voted for a Moscow-line Communist Party presidential candidate in college. Gaetz or some other officials must also examine security problems at the National Security Agency (NSA). The Daily Wire had revealed the NSA has created a glossary of terms that push Critical Race Theory and radical gender ideology which blamed “white Europeans” for “settler colonialism,” promotes the gender-neutral pronouns “ze” and “zir,” and warns of “transmisogyny.” Reps. Mike Waltz (R-FL) and new Indiana Senator Jim Banks (R-IN) said in a letter to NSA Director General Paul M. Nakasone that they want an explanation for the NSA glossary of Marxist terms and its implications for the intelligence agency’s hiring procedures. Following up, it was then-Rep. Matt Gaetz who warned about these Marxist ideologies being “latched to the most exquisite spying and surveillance tools that have ever existed on the planet.” We can’t waste any more time debating sex charges which were dismissed when the issue of treason in the Deep State has to be investigated and exposed.
 Civil War in the Republican Party By Cliff Kincaid When Republican Larry Hogan lost his Senate race against Democrat Angela Alsobrooks in Maryland, the conservatives in the Republican Party came out as the big winners. Hogan was a Never-Trump RINO, a Republican in Name Only, and he would have been a thorn in the side of President Donald Trump. He was a favorite of the ageing Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, who is stepping down from his post. His successor will be chosen on November 13. The contenders are Minority Whip John Thune of South Dakota, John Cornyn of Texas, and Rick Scott of Florida. Scott is the more conservative candidate and is campaigning for the post as the voice of MAGA. Former Trump adviser David N. Bossie, President of Citizens United and a Maryland resident, is backing Scott. He was the deputy campaign manager to the Donald Trump presidential campaign in 2016. The results of this race, conducted by secret ballot, will help determine whether Trump’s agenda moves forward in a Republican Senate. To understand current divisions in the Republican Party, consider the big money behind the pro-Hogan PAC called Maryland’s Future. To help Hogan, it spent tens of millions telling Marylanders that Alsobrooks was a crook. Nevertheless, she won, in part because conservatives in the Free State wouldn’t vote for Hogan. The “popular” former governor got only 45 percent of the vote to Alsobrooks’ 52.6 percent. The Maryland Republican Party claimed it was “building the conservative base” but endorsed Hogan’s pro-abortion extremism. There is a lesson for Republicans as they contemplate how and why a dark money PAC called Maryland’s Future spent more than $20 million in a futile effort to elect Hogan. This is money that could have been spent on other Republicans in more important and winnable races. The Open Secrets web site names the treasurer as Craig Mareno, an Alabama-based accountant, although the address of the PAC is said to be in Maryland. Axios reported one of its major contributors was billionaire financier Ken Griffin, founder and CEO of Citadel, a hedge fund. Pamela Wood of the Baltimore Banner reported that the pro-Hogan super PAC also took in significant contributions from: James S. Davis, chairman of New Balance ($1 million), Stephen A. Wynn of Wynn Resorts ($1 million), Manzanita Action Fund in California ($1 million), Stephen A. Schwarzman, chairman of the Blackstone Group investment management company ($1.5 million), Thomas P. Peterffy, chairman of Interactive Brokers brokerage firm ($1.5 million) and the Senate Leadership Fund ($2 million). The Senate Leadership Fund describes itself as “an independent Super PAC” with “one goal: to build a Republican Senate majority that will defend America from Chuck Schumer and Senate Democrats’ destructive far-left agenda.” It was established in 2015 by supporters of Senator Mitch McConnell. In the case of Maryland, it was financing an anti-Trump RINO destined to lose. Axios quoted an Alsobrooks adviser as saying that “Mitch McConnell is obsessed with flipping Maryland red and taking back the Senate majority for Republicans.” This makes some sense, since McConnell has been behaving like an anti-Trump RINO as well. Hogan would have been an anti-Trump vote, like McConnell. For his part, Griffin has some conservative instincts, as he runs a foundation dedicated to “Strengthening American freedoms and promoting civic engagement,” with some of the funds going to protecting free speech on campus, a worthy goal. In the case of Larry Hogan, however, free speech suffered when he was Governor of Maryland. He was known as Lockdown Larry during COVID when he shut down churches and kept pot stores and liquor businesses open. Conservative Republican Dan Cox, then a State Delegate, had filed impeachment charges against Hogan over the governor’s handling of COVID and related matters. When Trump seemed to reluctantly endorse Hogan in the Senate race against Alsobrooks, Hogan’s team responded with contempt, saying, “Governor Hogan has been clear he is not supporting President Trump, just as he didn’t in 2016 and 2020.” Conservatives in Maryland didn’t have a choice. Alsobrooks was an ideological extremist, while Hogan was exposed as a politician with no principles who sounded like a Democrat to get votes. If he had by chance been elected, there was nothing to stop Hogan from changing party affiliations once he was elected, from Republican to Democrat or Independent. But he lost so the GOP was spared this embarrassment. A PAC associated with Democrat Governor Wes Moore was attacking Hogan as “the first governor in Maryland history to make millions of dollars while in office.” Described as the “Next Obama” and a future Democratic Party candidate for president, Moore favors sex-changes for children and made millions by serving on the board of a marijuana company. What is more, he was exposed as a fraud by the New York Times, which noted that his previous claims to receiving the Bronze Star for military service and a Maryland College Football Hall of Fame Award were false. This is the sad state of politics in Maryland today. Conservatives believe the “Free State” of Maryland must be liberated. They are trying to do so through groups like the Frederick County Conservative Club, not through the local and state Republican Party.
 (Photo: NATO Parliamentary Assembly, Rep. Mike Turner in the center). The Danger to Trump is Greater Than Ever By Cliff Kincaid President Trump isn’t the first president to promise peace. A June 1963 speech by President John F. Kennedy was titled “A Strategy of Peace.” About five months later he was dead. The assassin was identified as a former Marine trained in marksmanship who had lived in the Soviet Union and had been allowed to get too close to a president being inadequately protected by the Secret Service. Questions remain about the CIA connections of Lee Harvey Oswald. President Trump is promising peace as well and has already survived two assassination attempts. “I speak of peace because of the new face of war,” Kennedy said. “Total war makes no sense in an age when great powers can maintain large and relatively invulnerable nuclear forces and refuse to surrender without resort to those forces.” JFK was talking about the Soviet threat and negotiations to reduce the danger. The Russians inherited the Soviet nuclear weapons, have modernized them while the American nuclear arsenal has deteriorated, and are now threatening to use them over Ukraine. Foreign Affairs, the journal of the establishment’s Council on Foreign Relations, is out with a new article, ominously titled, “How Ukraine Became a World War: New Players Are Transforming the Conflict—and Complicating the Path to Ending It.” It's a reference to Russia, China, Iran, and now North Korea mobilizing their forces against America. Under these circumstances, the solution is clear from an America-First perspective: the war in Ukraine cannot be won and must be settled quickly, so that America can regroup and even rearm under another Trump presidency. In the Middle East, there is no nuclear threat to America – not yet. Israel has an undeclared nuclear arsenal for self-defense but was restrained by Biden/Harris from taking out the Iranian nuclear weapons complex, leaving this threat for the time being. This could change under Trump, leading to Israel’s elimination of the Iranian nuclear threat. But that would still leave Russia, the main backer of Iran, as a regional and global threat. Under these circumstances, a peace settlement in Ukraine, to buy precious time for a Trump presidency to consolidate power, makes sense. But there are powerful anti-Trump forces in the national security establishment, also known as the Deep State. War is Big Business for the Pentagon and the CIA. The Ukraine Connection One of the would-be assassins, Ryan Routh, was a self-described recruiter for the Ukraine military. He traveled to and from Ukraine under the watchful eye of the CIA and FBI. Now that Trump is president-elect, the danger increases. Trump’s safety and security are matters of deep concern as he tries to get Ukraine to settle with Russia. The Pentagon advocates more weapons for Ukraine on the grounds that weapons deals create jobs. This is one element of what Eisenhower called the military industrial complex. It was on full display when Ukraine President Zelensky made a campaign appearance for Kamala in Pennsylvania, alongside other Democrats, at a Pennsylvania arms factory. It was a tragic mistake, following previous mistakes made by Ukraine’s leaders when they disarmed and gave their nuclear weapons back to Moscow under an arrangement negotiated by Democrat President Bill Clinton. Now Ukraine will have to pay the price, in territorial concessions to Moscow. There is no alternative in the face of a possible nuclear conflict in Russia, Ukraine’s inability to win the war, and North Korean and possibly direct Chinese military intervention on the side of Moscow. At the same time, a Russian military jet has visited North Korea, in another indication of greater military cooperation. Clearly, Trump must be guarded against the threat posed by the Deep State, which wants the war in Ukraine to continue and must have known about Ukraine supporter and would-be assassin Ryan Routh’s activities – and failed to stop him. Like Lee Harvey Oswald, however, Routh’s contacts with American intelligence agencies are being carefully concealed. Trump’s people must investigate this immediately, for the sake of the life of the president-elect. In the short term, that means replacing or supplementing Secret Service protection for Trump with a private security force. The Hunter Biden Laptop The Deep State includes the current and former intelligence officials who signed the letter claiming that stories about the Hunter Biden laptop and the corruption of the Biden family that involved Ukraine were Russian propaganda. The FBI had the laptop and had carefully concealed its contents. One of the signers of that letter was Leon Panetta, the former left-wing Congressman and Defense Secretary and CIA Director under Barack Hussein Obama. His Panetta Institute is sponsoring a November event featuring an awards ceremony in honor of Republican Rep. Mike Turner, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee. Why would a Republican member of Congress associate with a former Obama official active in the cover-up of the Biden scandals? ` When the letter was exposed as bogus and itself based on disinformation, Panetta defended his signature on it, saying he had no regrets. We had warned about the shady connections of Leon Panetta when he joined the Obama Administration. Back in 2011, Trevor Loudon and I released documentary evidence of Panetta’s associations with identified communists such as Hugh DeLacy, who had himself served as a member of the U.S. Congress. DeLacy had ties to identified communist spies Solomon Adler and Frank Coe and accused spy John Stewart Service. Panetta, as a member of Congress, opposed President Ronald Reagan’s policy of supporting the Nicaraguan freedom fighters known as the Contras. He was closely associated with the Marxist Institute for Policy Studies. In his 2015 book, Worthy Fights, Panetta talked about his clandestine work for the Obama Administration, admitting an “occasionally candid relationship” he had developed with Mikhail Fradkov, the head of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service, the SVR. He writes that Fradkov wanted “to share information and collaborate on some common operational activities.” This kind of record helps explain why he was a perfectly suitable member of the Obama regime and why Russia invaded Ukraine under Obama and then under Biden (but not under Trump). Trump, the so-called Russian agent, kept Russia at bay. Rep. Turner is a Globalist Why GOP Rep. Mike Turner wants to accept an award from an organization associated with Leon Panetta doesn’t make sense from an America-First viewpoint. Panetta Institute events have featured Never-Trumpers Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, who both campaigned for Kamala Harris, and Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward, who specializes in books about the CIA and establishment intrigue over involvement in foreign wars. Woodward was a member of the Watergate team of Washington Post reporters who brought down Republican President Richard Nixon in what some regarded as another Deep State coup. These forces tried to bring Trump down during his first presidency and can be expected to try again. Rep. Turner is in some very bad company, from a pro-Trump perspective. Looking forward, he will be a forceful advocate for the Deep State. He is part of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly's 2025 Spring Session scheduled for Dayton, Ohio, in Spring 2025. The New World Order, as articulated by George Soros, envisions NATO serving as a global military force until the U.N. is strong enough to assume that role. Soros wrote, “Toward a New World Order: The Future of NATO.” Biden himself (when he was lucid) wrote “How I learned to Love the New World Order” for the Wall Street Journal. A strong advocate of NATO, which has been expanded to 32 countries, Rep. Turner favors more U.S. aid to Ukraine in the no-war war that accelerated under Biden/Harris. Two weeks ago, he sent a letter to Biden demanding “that the Biden-Harris Administration establish a red line about the use of North Korean forces against Ukraine.” A “red line” implies further escalation on the part of the United States, leading to more threats from Russia and a possible nuclear confrontation. Trump has many global enemies. Remember that Russian President Putin endorsed Kamala for president, knowing she would be easier to manipulate, and it has been reported by John Solomon of Just the News that Russia may have been among the foreign countries financing Kamala’s campaign through the Democratic Party fundraising platform ActBlue. Would-be Trump assassin Ryan Routh had contributed more than $140 to the Democrats through ActBlue. In addition, the Democratic Party is a member of the global Progressive Alliance together with the British Labor Party, which now governs Britain and sent “volunteers” to America to help Kamala win. Trump’s campaign filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission over this collusion, contending the Labor Party and the Harris for President campaign were making and accepting illegal foreign national contributions. Such an investigation could expose another foreign plot against Trump. Globally, with the U.S. on the edge of a direct confrontation with Russia, Trump’s proposed peace settlement in Ukraine becomes imperative. But he must act fast, as his own security situation still makes him a potential target.
 The CIA Loses Faith in Kamala By Cliff Kincaid As thousands of people lined up outside Madison Square Garden on Sunday morning, for a Trump rally that afternoon, the Washington Post published a story, “Voters prefer Harris’s agenda to Trump’s — they just don’t realize it.” This is desperation from an organ of the Democratic Party that refused to endorse Harris. The “journalists” at the paper have nothing but contempt for their readers and their current owner, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, who ought to pull the plug and put the paper out of its misery. But Bezos can’t do that. The Post is the leading mouthpiece for the CIA, and Amazon Web Services does a lot of business with the CIA. The Post motto, “Democracy Dies in Darkness,” has now been changed to “Beat them over the head until they come around to the Post’s way of thinking.” It hasn’t worked so far and it is a big problem for the CIA, which fears a Trump presidency. In the old days, I used to accompany Reed Irvine of Accuracy in Media (AIM) to Washington Post annual meetings, when the paper was owned by the Graham family. I was an editorial assistant to Reed and later became editor of the AIM Report. The Post was then a reliably liberal paper that endorsed Democrats. It was gradually transformed into an organ of the Deep State, most notably the CIA, in the Watergate affair. Author and attorney John O’Connor’s book, Postgate, looks at the roles played by a former top FBI official and the CIA in the scandal that brought down Nixon. The book probes the paper’s “strikingly deceptive partisan journalism,” while examining an alternative theory of why the Watergate break-in occurred. As a former editor at Accuracy in Media, I worked with AIM founder Reed Irvine on the same topic, focusing on a special role played by the CIA in Watergate. As Reed Irvine and I wrote at the time, Woodward once admitted that he uses sources, documents, and other means to “figure out” the truth. But his 1987 book, Veil, included an interview with William J. Casey, the CIA director, after Casey had brain surgery and could not speak intelligibly. His hospital room was guarded and Woodward was never admitted to it. Yet, Casey was supposed to have spoken 19 intelligible words in the interview. Woodward’s latest book concerns Trump and Russia, a topic that won the paper a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of a hoax. In Watergate, Woodward and his partner Carl Bernstein had an anonymous “Deep Throat” source, believed by some to be Mark Felt, who was second in command of the FBI at the time. John O’Connor represented Felt and his book Postgate looks at his role. Reed Irvine and I wrote a series of articles questioning whether Felt was in fact Deep Throat. We argued that Felt was not able to supply the information about Watergate that is attributed to Deep Throat in the Woodward/Bernstein book about the scandal. Our conclusion was that the key Watergate sources were somewhere else in the bureaucracy, probably the intelligence community, in particular the CIA. Watergate was a template for what then happened to Trump. Postgate author John O’Conner and others were featured in the film, “Plot Against the President,” about how the intelligence community targeted Trump in much the same way they brought down Nixon. Today, the preferred candidate of the Post newsroom is Kamala Harris. Before the latest story about why people really support her but don’t know it, the paper displayed its priorities when it ran a long story about Kristi Noem killing her dog and then turned around to complain about “longer wait times” for women seeking abortions in “clinics” on the East Coast. Incidentally, the paper is going broke. It lost $77 million last year. Before the story about how people really support Kamala and just don’t realize it, the paper ran a front-page story about how opposition to her candidacy is supposedly based on sexism. This is another way to brow beat the readers into line. But it doesn’t seem to be working. This is the same paper that published the story, “The new American Dream should be a townhouse.” There is nothing wrong with a townhouse or an apartment. But this was an order from the paper. It reflects the mindset of the elites who live in mansions but want the workers to settle for less. It appears that many workers want more, not less, from their government. I mean “more” in the sense of being honest and less corrupt. And that means the agency that is using the Post as a vehicle for destroying Republican presidents must be cut down to size and purged, perhaps even eliminated, and the “enemies within” arrested and prosecuted for treason. Kamala won’t do that, of course. But Trump can and should. The ridiculous stories appearing in this paper should not detract from its use as a mouthpiece for corruption in government. The fact that the paper did not endorse Harris means the CIA is losing faith in Kamala as a means by which to maintain the Intelligence Community as an instrument for subversion of presidents it opposes. Remember it was Senator Chuck Schumer, the Senate Democratic leader, who once questioned why Trump would fight the intelligence agencies, saying “they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you.” At this point, options are limited. One that remains is another assassination attempt on Trump. As O’Connor writes, “If it is repeated incessantly that Trump is the second coming of Hitler, those who take rhetoric literally may feel compelled to assassinate him.” The vehicle for that, well-known to the CIA, is MK-Ultra, devised as a means by which the government could understand communist techniques of mind control. In the first assassination attempt, as O’Connor notes, an impressionable young man was indoctrinated with the notion that Trump was a treasonous insurrectionist and that his mission in life (and death) was to eliminate this “threat to democracy.” In the second case, an American traveling back and forth to Ukraine, under the watchful eyes of the CIA, was allowed to wait outside a Trump golf course while planning the attack. It was foiled by an alert Secret Service agent. The CIA’s disappointment in Harris, as reflected in the Post’s coverage, indicates dangerous times have now gotten exceedingly more dangerous.
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