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Kunstler: Twelve Ham Sandwiches with Russian Dressing

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So, former FBI lawyer Lisa Page declined to testify before a congressional committee because she didn’t feel like it. Apparently we’re now a rule-of-law-optional nation. Until recently, we were merely reality-optional. That was fun, but when officers of the country’s leading law enforcement agency go optional on standard legal procedure, like answering subpoenas, then we’re truly in the land where anything goes (and nothing matters).

After two years of Trump-inspired hysteria, it’s pretty obvious what went on in the bungled Obama-Hillary power handoff of 2016 and afterward: the indictable shenanigans of candidate Hillary and her captive DNC prompted a campaign of agit-prop by the US Intel “community” to gaslight the public with a Russian meddling story that morphed uncontrollably into a crusade to make it impossible for Mr. Trump to govern. And what’s followed for many months is an equally bungled effort to conceal, deceive, and confuse the issues in the case by Democratic Party partisans still in high places. It was very likely begun with the tacit knowledge of President Obama, though he remained protected by a shield of plausible deniability. And it was carried out by high-ranking officials who turned out to be shockingly unprofessional, and whose activities have been disclosed through an electronic data evidence trail.

Mr. Trump’s visit to confer with Russian President Putin in Helsinki seems to have provoked a kind of last-gasp effort to keep the increasingly idiotic Russian election meddling story alive — with Robert Mueller’s ballyhooed indictment of twelve “Russian intel agents” alleged to have “hacked” emails and computer files of the DNC and Hillary’s campaign chairman John Podesta. The gaping holes in that part of the tale have long been unearthed so I’ll summarize as briefly as possible:

1) the bandwidth required to transfer the files has been proven to be greater than an internet hack might have conceivably managed in the time allowed and points rather to a direct download into a flash drive device. 2) the DNC computer hard drives, said to be the source of the alleged hacking, disappeared while in the custody of the US Intel Community (including the FBI). 3) the authenticity of the purloined emails by Mr. Podesta and others has never been disputed, and they revealed a lot of potentially criminal behavior by them. 4) Mr. Mueller must know he will never get twelve Russian intel agents into a US courtroom, so the entire exercise is a joke and a fraud. In effect, he’s indicted twelve ham sandwiches with Russian dressing.

Tragically, the American public is led to take this ploy seriously by a morally compromised news media, especially CNN and the The New York Times. The latter outfit is so afflicted with a case of the Russian meddling vapors that it ran this laughable headline at the top of its front page yesterday: “Just Sitting Down With Trump, Putin Comes Out Ahead.” Gosh, what’s the message there? Don’t even bother talking to foreign heads of state, especially in the interest of improving relations?

The salient question that persons in authority might ask out-loud is how come so many officers of the Intel Community have not been hauled in front of grand juries to answer for their obviously incriminating behavior. Mr Mueller is perhaps too busy chasing Russian phantoms to draw up a bill of particulars against characters such as former CIA chief (now CNN shill) John Brennan, who apparently orchestrated the early chapters of the Russian meddling ruse, Bruce and Nellie Ohr, who ushered the DNC’s Steele Dossier into the FBI’s warrant machinery, fired FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, who managed the Steele Dossier and its spinoff mischief as an “insurance policy” against Mr. Trump, Peter Strzok, who executed the “insurance policy,” and, of course, Ms. Page, his paramour, who decided that testifying before Congress was beneath her dignity. These and probably many others.

Tragically, also, these matters can only be fully corrected by the very Department of Justice that includes under its management the rogue FBI. Who else can formally and legally bring these cases before grand juries? The DOJ appears intent on preventing that from ever happening. Congress has so far omitted enforcing its subpoenas or using its impeachment power to dislodge obdurate DOJ officials. Mr. Trump, for now apparently, has declined to use his inherent executive powers to clean out this rats nest, say by removing secrecy shields from many of the documents at issue in the DOJ’s possession — most likely because he can’t afford to be seen “meddling” in the tangled proceedings. The net result of all this subterfuge, inaction, and gaslighting, is the defeat of the rule-of-law generally in American life. This ought to be taken seriously. If it’s asking too much of the system, then the system itself will eventually not be taken seriously, and that will be the end of the republic as we knew it.

Postscript:  I’m advised that Lisa Page did finally testify in closed session while I was out of the country last week. However, it took an extraordinarily long time for her to comply with the request, as detailed in this Tweet from Rep. Mark Meadows.

Post-postscript: Cable TV turned into a madhouse Monday night with CNN’s Erin Burnett and MSNBC’s Chris Mathews beating the war drums like Comanches waiting on a wagon train. Putin, they screamed, is the criminal head of a hostile foreign power. If they say so, it must be true. John Brennan, ex-CIA chief, calls Mr. Trump’s behavior  “treasonous” for doubting the veracity of seventeen intelligence agencies. To me, that suggests that the US has got too many intelligence agencies and that they may be a bigger threat to liberty in America than anything that Russia has done or is doing to us.

Kunstler



197 Comments on "Kunstler: Twelve Ham Sandwiches with Russian Dressing"

  1. joe on Thu, 19th Jul 2018 8:21 am 

    Problem you guys on the left is that Trump is NOT the biggest liar in US history. He’s not even close. America is in trouble because so many city living liberals are finally waking up from the dreamland of identity based politics and realise nobody gives a fu*K not the whites (who want jobs and safe neighbourhoods) not the immigrants
    (who want jobs and for their cousins to join em) not the muslims (who want jobs and for the world to pray at the black stone in Mecca ). Nobody cares about crooked Hillary superpac moneybags. Or Obama who is ‘black’ only in the sense that his white mother raised him with white liberal culture cause his black daddy wasn’t there.

  2. Davy on Thu, 19th Jul 2018 8:23 am 

    Bs, 3rd world you love strife. You thrive on attacks direct and indirect. You dwell in the zone of hate and resentment. These emotion give you something to feel and companionship with other who also find enjoyment in this activity. Say something please

  3. TheNationalist on Thu, 19th Jul 2018 8:24 am 

    Hey Mastermind I am the self appointed Aussie spokesperson here. This is based on what I sense in my waters, my incredible intelect and my dashing good looks. (I’d post a pic but I have too many stalkers as it is.) This forum here is my waters and I use my sixth sense to reach out to all and sundry. Together we shall solve the energy crisis I can feel it!…. In my waters?….
    Anyway, If we all try real hard mad Makati and wavy Davy will be nice to each other and my work here will be done.

  4. TheNationalist on Thu, 19th Jul 2018 8:30 am 

    If Davy doesn’t like Canucks called Greg and Mastermind doesn’t like born again Phillipinos called Makati who is my arch ememy on here then?
    Does this forum have an administrator?
    What has this got to do with energy?
    Why was this world cup so awesome?
    Where are my chocolate McVities gone?

  5. TheNationalist on Thu, 19th Jul 2018 8:34 am 

    Hey GSR my old mate!, been burnin’ any sofas lately ya dirty pollutin’ old bastard?

    Yours Sincerely,
    T. Nationalist

    Dusty ole’. Shithole
    No1
    South Arsetralia

  6. Joe on Thu, 19th Jul 2018 9:56 am 

    You forgot the obligatory “I don’t like Trump but….” like you always put in.

  7. Sissyfuss on Thu, 19th Jul 2018 10:14 am 

    Nationalist, your incredible “intellect” needs two l’s, just saying.

  8. GregT on Thu, 19th Jul 2018 10:15 am 

    ” I am trying to be nice for today at least.”

    Then why do you continue to call your fellow American BillT, 3rd world, Davy? And are you still calling JuanP boney juan?

    Both are meant to belittle Davy, IOW, personal attacks.

  9. Dredd on Thu, 19th Jul 2018 10:20 am 

    Shape, shape, shape … shape, shape, shape … shape your booty (The Shapeshifters of Bullshitistan – 15).

  10. MASTERMIND on Thu, 19th Jul 2018 10:50 am 

    Black Male President

    Vs

    Blackmailed President

    https://imgur.com/a/S9KGcPg

    LMfao! Putin’s got the pee tape!

  11. GregT on Thu, 19th Jul 2018 11:30 am 

    “LMfao! Putin’s got the pee tape!”

    Humanity already has enough to be concerned about MM, without the threat of nuclear war looming in the background.

    Now would be a very good time to learn how to get along.

  12. MASTERMIND on Thu, 19th Jul 2018 11:53 am 

    Greg

    We have to take Russia’s oil and gas..And we have to kill the populist movement leader..We need that oil and gas for America and so we can control Europe and China..This is sink or swim time..All we need is another false flag..Maybe a plane gets shot down with some tourist flying in the middle east..Who knows..But then a few nukes hitting downtown Moscow and Putin will surrender..You don’t go to war with a country that has a GDP that is 20 times larger.

    LIVE FREE OR DIE!

  13. GregT on Thu, 19th Jul 2018 11:59 am 

    MM,

    If you for one second believe that ‘they’, give a rats ass about ‘you’, you would be very sadly mistaken.

    There is no ‘we’ about it. You are on your own dude. Nobody will be coming to your rescue.

  14. JuanP on Thu, 19th Jul 2018 12:16 pm 

    Delusional Davy “You dwell in the zone of hate and resentment.”
    Projecting again, Exceptionalist? LOL!

  15. Cloggie on Thu, 19th Jul 2018 12:16 pm 

    EU openly warns for realistic possibility of hard Brexit and tells authorities and companies to prepare for that eventuality.

    Consequences could be dramatic, including a possible blockade and air traffic coming to a stand-still.

    My guess would be that a no-deal Brexit is more than 50% likely, but that when reality sinks in, compromises will be made after a couple of months.

    An agreement is still possible as 80% of the treaty has been negotiated and there is still time for the remaining 20%.

    http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/brexit-eu-kommission-warnt-vor-no-deal-szenario-a-1219242.html

  16. JuanP on Thu, 19th Jul 2018 12:20 pm 

    MM “We have to take Russia’s oil and gas..And we have to kill the populist movement leader..We need that oil and gas for America and so we can control Europe and China..This is sink or swim time..All we need is another false flag.”
    Your obsession with Russia and your delusion that the USA can defeat it is nothing short of insane, Attomind.

  17. JuanP on Thu, 19th Jul 2018 12:22 pm 

    Cloggie, I have been of the opinion that a no deal Brexit is the most likely Brexit since the original vote. I just don’t see the retards in charge as being capable of negotiating a deal. I hope I am wrong since a no deal Brexit would be a real mess, IMO.

  18. JuanP on Thu, 19th Jul 2018 12:26 pm 

    MM “But then a few nukes hitting downtown Moscow and Putin will surrender.”

    More insane delusions on you part, Attomind. Moscow is the best defended city in the planet and even if it wasn’t any country attacking Russia faces the end of its existence in a matter of minutes. The fastest and easiest way for the USA to cease to exist would be to nuke Russia. You are an absolute moron!

  19. MASTERMIND on Thu, 19th Jul 2018 12:37 pm 

    Clogg

    Are you a Nazi because you are lonely and just wanted some friends and a group to be a part of? Is that why you blindly obey authoritarian leaders like Putin and Trump?

    Just because you are an ugly person on the outside doesn’t mean you have to become one on the inside as well..

  20. Cloggie on Thu, 19th Jul 2018 12:45 pm 

    “I can’t get enough of your love”

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9J7O5BGqPDk

    Yay! Trump wants to meet Putin soon again. Finally there is someone who likes the Donald for what he is.lol!

    http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/donald-trump-will-wladimir-putin-erneut-treffen-a-1219272.html

    “Helsinki has been a great success”, DJT twittered. “Only the true enemies of the people, the fake news Media” refuse to acknowledge this.

    Hitler could have said this and they/were are both right.

    https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/1.5152427

  21. GregT on Thu, 19th Jul 2018 12:46 pm 

    “Is that why you blindly obey authoritarian leaders like Putin and Trump?”

    Are you saying that you don’t obey the democratically elected government of the USA, MM? Do you not agree with the democratic process?

    If you don’t there are plenty of other more ‘desirable’ countries for you to choose from.

  22. MASTERMIND on Thu, 19th Jul 2018 1:25 pm 

    You don’t have to remove all the oil for global civilization to collapse..All that needs to happen is the oil supply runs short, as it will in a few years. That’s the end of economic growth based on energy expansion. That’s also the end of the banking system, fiat currencies, and governments..

    https://imgur.com/a/rBtIrfg

  23. Cloggie on Thu, 19th Jul 2018 4:08 pm 

    Busted! Dutch FM caught saying in a private gathering that he doesn’t believe in a peaceful multi-ethnic society:

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2018/07/18/the-dutch-foreign-minister-says-multicultural-societies-breed-violence/?utm_term=.b1039a3f1402

    This of course een waarheid als een koe (“truth like a cow”), but in the US empire, the Walhalla of the lefties, you are not supposed to say these kind of things.

    https://www.geenstijl.nl/5142994/heel-holland-deugt-wil-hoofd-blok-op-blok/

  24. MASTERMIND on Thu, 19th Jul 2018 4:22 pm 

    Clogg

    Blaming others for your regions economic woes isn’t going to solve anything..Even if you could waive a wand and get rid of all minorities..Your region would still be in a depression and headed for total collapse soon..

  25. GetAVasectomyAndLetTheHumanRaceDieFGracefully on Thu, 19th Jul 2018 4:28 pm 

    The minority the planet is now the white and Japanese. We need to get rid of African and Arab first that are the majority.

    I say bombs their water station, hospital, electrical generation station.

  26. Antius on Thu, 19th Jul 2018 4:51 pm 

    “I say bombs their water station, hospital, electrical generation station.”

    Ethnospecific viruses. Release them into the water supply and then deny all knowledge. With a mystery disease there is plausible deniability. Not really possible to the same extent with neutron bombs.

  27. Antius on Thu, 19th Jul 2018 4:54 pm 

    Minorities. The Jew buzzword for imported colonists, whose interests can then be used against the native population.

  28. GetAVasectomyAndLetTheHumanSpecieDieGracefully on Thu, 19th Jul 2018 5:00 pm 

    Whatever method of extermination we used, we have to make sure that we can reuse African and Arab cadavers as fertilizer.

    We can also put African and Arab cadavers in the sea to help feedings fishes.

    Come within people we are intelligent, pretty sure we can kill the majority and make our lives better.

    Could we use Arab and African cadaver to to ethanol.

  29. MASTERMIND on Thu, 19th Jul 2018 5:01 pm 

    Antius

    Just wait till the oil starts to run out soon..And then its game over for whitey..

    Post collapse I will just tell the white man NO one time..And then watch him stroke out while I breed his daughters! I am going to have more kids than Stanford!

  30. Makati1 on Thu, 19th Jul 2018 6:23 pm 

    Davy: “Bs, 3rd world you love strife. You thrive on attacks direct and indirect. You dwell in the zone of hate and resentment. These emotion give you something to feel and companionship with other who also find enjoyment in this activity. Say something please”

    I have been posting intelligent comments for many years here. Most read and comment on them. They do not attack or stalk me like you do. They, unlike yourself, are mature, intelligent, open minded thinkers, willing to consider a view outside the Us MSM brainwashing cycle.

    When you stop attacking me, I will stop replying to your nine year old attacks. If you think you are achieving something, you are only proving your insanity. You are a rabid supporter of the baby killing, plundering, terrorist country you live in. One of those who deserve what is coming to the Us. it is long overdue. Pay-back is a bitch!

  31. Anonymouse1 on Thu, 19th Jul 2018 6:35 pm 

    The inmates have long been running the asylum, loosely referred to as, amerika. The difference? The mask of ‘normalcy’, painstakingly created by the far-reaching amerikan propaganda machine, over generations, has pretty much slipped completely off. All you need to do witness this, is listen to the latest from the so-called ‘white house’, or the shrill and hysterical, ‘reactions’, from the talking head idiots in the amerikan info-tainment sphere, CNN, Jew York Times, whatnot.

    Even more incredible, is that these ‘amerikans’, do not seem the least embarrassed by their words, deeds, or general behavior and demeanor.The exceptionalturd is a perfect example of this insanity, even though he exists near the very bottom of the amerikan pecking order, rather than the top. They seem completely oblivious to how they are being perceived and regarded by sane and normal human beings.

  32. Makati1 on Thu, 19th Jul 2018 7:00 pm 

    “…we are dangerously close to another Great Depression and the hyperinflation that will certainly follow. Nenner says the economy is about to go down, way down.”

    http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/geopolitical-expert-we-will-have-another-depression-and-hyperinflation_07192018

    “Some financial leaders are finally speaking out about the dire situation the United States economy has found itself in. If you watch the news, however, you’d have no idea you’re on board a sinking ship thanks to the government’s massive debt and unrealistic deficits…. (Propaganda)

    Peter Schiff, who accurately predicted the 2008 recession has come out and declared we will all live through another Great Depression, only this time, it’ll be much worse than before.”

    http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/financial-leaders-the-deficit-and-national-debt-will-usher-in-economic-crisis_07192018

    Slip slidin’…

  33. Duncan Idaho on Thu, 19th Jul 2018 7:03 pm 

    Rep. Nunes under fire for reportedly using $15k of PAC funds for Central Coast wine country trip

    https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/nunes-pac-spending-scandal-wine-trip-fake-news-13089475.php

    Well, he is a good Repug– just looting, rather than destroying.

  34. Makati1 on Thu, 19th Jul 2018 7:14 pm 

    Anon, you are correct. Americans have no idea how the rest of the world perceives them. Much of America make Alice’s Wonderland look sane by comparison. (Tweedledee and Tweedledum = Davy and MM)

    Americans also do not realize how much the rest of the world is beginning to hate them. I am not exaggerating when I say that the rest of the world will cheer its demise. I only hope it is before the Us can start WW3.

  35. White people are retards on Thu, 19th Jul 2018 10:53 pm 

    Was this site created to facilitate the need that retards have to make retarded comment?

  36. Makati1 on Thu, 19th Jul 2018 11:59 pm 

    White …,o you mean comments like:

    “Post collapse I will just tell the white man NO one time..And then watch him stroke out while I breed his daughters!” (MM)

    “Bs, 3rd world you love strife. You thrive on attacks direct and indirect. You dwell in the zone of hate and resentment. These emotion give you something to feel and companionship with other who also find enjoyment in this activity. Say something please” (Davy)

    If you do, most of us here would agree with you.

  37. DerHundistLos on Fri, 20th Jul 2018 12:30 am 

    Joe:

    I realize in advance that I’m casting pearls before Trumptardian swine, but here goes.

    “Problem you guys on the left is that Trump is NOT the biggest liar in US history. He’s not even close.”

    Are you making this comment as a statement of fact or is this what you think and feel? If by some remote chance, it’s the former, do you have facts/evidence to support your claim? Of course not, which explains why you will not respond.

  38. Makati1 on Fri, 20th Jul 2018 1:16 am 

    “‘Like a busy emergency room’: Calls to suicide crisis centers double since 2014”

    “The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline saw calls double from 2014 to 2017, an increase that coincides with rising suicide rates in the USA.

    The lifeline answered more than 2 million calls in 2017, up from 1 million calls in 2014, according to its latest figures. More than 1.5 million calls reached the prevention network in 2015 and again in 2016.”

    https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2018/07/18/suicide-hotlines-uptick-calls-suicide-rates-rise/698556002/?utm_source=feedblitz&utm_medium=FeedBlitzRss&utm_campaign=usatoday-newstopstories

    Slip slidin’…

  39. Makati1 on Fri, 20th Jul 2018 1:30 am 

    Go Trump! “Tariffs Already Hurting Many Americans”

    “As more tariffs continue to be implemented, this will perhaps be the biggest disruption to the global economic system that we have seen in decades….

    U.S. consumers will soon discover that common electronics such as phones and computers cost a lot more….

    Tariffs on lumber coming from the evil Canadians are adding about $9,000 to the cost of a new house,…

    We are about to see major price hikes in just about every sector of the economy….

    The longer it lasts, the worse things will get, and ultimately it could tip the U.S. economy into the worst recession that any of us have ever experienced.”

    https://www.theburningplatform.com/2018/07/18/tariffs-already-hurting-many-americans/#more-179973

    Slip slidin’…

  40. Davy on Fri, 20th Jul 2018 2:04 am 

    “Bs, 3rd world you love strife. You thrive on attacks direct and indirect. You dwell in the zone of hate and resentment. These emotion give you something to feel and companionship with other who also find enjoyment in this activity. Say something please” (Davy)”

    Just as true today as yesterday 3rd world. You preach hate and resentment. You are stuck on yourself. You want attacks and like attacking. You are lonely and need the attention. You need help but at your age and stuck in the small town of Infant, P’s there is no help for you.

  41. Davy on Fri, 20th Jul 2018 2:13 am 

    “Here Are The Countries With The Worst Suicide Rates”
    https://tinyurl.com/lh7eqlc

    “Suicides are most prominent in Asia and Eastern Europe. Lithuania has the highest suicide rate among the countries for which we have data, with 28.6 suicide deaths per 100,000 people, followed closely by South Korea with 26.3 deaths per 100,000 people.Apr 21, 2014”

  42. Davy on Fri, 20th Jul 2018 2:19 am 

    “As more tariffs continue to be implemented, this will perhaps be the biggest disruption to the global economic system that we have seen in decades….”

    Probably a good thing. We (royal “we”) need to ask ourselves where global trade is going especially with what China is doing. There is a limit to the effectiveness of trade wars but these develop for a reason. 3rd world preaches anything bad he can find so his bias comment is understandable.

  43. pointer on Fri, 20th Jul 2018 9:14 am 

    Greg: “democratically-elected government of the USA”? You’re kidding, right?

  44. Cloggie on Fri, 20th Jul 2018 2:51 pm 

    EU rejects Brexit plan UK PM May. Hard Brexit closer. Core EU message: no gifts. You want to be a member of the EU Common Market? Fine. But then all rules apply. No cherry picking.

    http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/weissbuch-eu-weist-brexit-plan-von-theresa-may-zurueck-a-1219464.html

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5973585/Mays-Brexit-battle-escalates-condemns-EU-Irish-border-plan.html

  45. MASTERMIND on Fri, 20th Jul 2018 3:16 pm 

    Clogg

    The blue wave is coming!

  46. Cloggie on Fri, 20th Jul 2018 3:31 pm 

    Yes and we are all going to die. But first we are going to eat our children.

    Sad!

  47. MASTERMIND on Fri, 20th Jul 2018 3:34 pm 

    Clogg

    I know you are afraid of whats coming..And you should be..

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