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Kunstler: Twelve Ham Sandwiches with Russian Dressing
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.
197 Comments on "Kunstler: Twelve Ham Sandwiches with Russian Dressing"
MASTERMIND on Wed, 18th Jul 2018 12:52 pm
There has been an explosion in economic inequality. A few dozen individuals control the same amount of wealth as the poorest half of humanity. That’s not an exaggeration, that’s a statistic. Think about that..
Barack Obama, 7/17/18
MASTERMIND on Wed, 18th Jul 2018 12:52 pm
The great filter is coming! Fermi’s paradox is alive and well!
MASTERMIND on Wed, 18th Jul 2018 12:57 pm
Davy
Your generation are so dumb and brainwashed they can barely operate a smart phone..Little children actually pick up technology better..
MASTERMIND on Wed, 18th Jul 2018 1:16 pm
Preventing Another ‘Armageddon’: Bernanke, Paulson, Geithner Warn On Deficits, Regulation Rollback, Populism
What we were trying to do was to prevent Armageddon. We were looking at a situation where if we felt we had one more big institution go down, it would have taken the whole system down. We were focused on staving off disaster.
https://heisenbergreport.com/2018/07/18/preventing-another-armageddon-bernanke-paulson-geithner-warn-on-deficits-regulation-rollback-populism/
MASTERMIND on Wed, 18th Jul 2018 1:28 pm
The US economy has been in Decline since 1999. The middle class is dying. It is becoming a powerless, impoverished underclass. Too-big-to-fail has failed us all.
efarmer on Wed, 18th Jul 2018 1:29 pm
The scribe of the apocalypse is shifting into a new schtick to write about. Should make a few buck for a couple years I suppose.
GregT on Wed, 18th Jul 2018 1:44 pm
“Grehggie, we can’t live without them now unless many people are left to die. You could give a shit because you feel you are safe up in Salmon run.”
There’s that royal “we” again. Hilarious! You just can’t make this shit up.
Many people ARE going to die Davy, it’s inevitable now, humanity has done far too much damage to the Earth already, and there’s no going back. It’s only a matter of time.
I don’t live in ‘Salmon run’. As a matter of fact, I doubt that Salmon run even exists outside of your sick, delusional, sad little excuse for a mind.
Davy on Wed, 18th Jul 2018 2:00 pm
Greggie, we don’t talk Canadian so whenever I can give you a “we” i do. You don’t give a shit about humanity. You think you are safe so as far as you are concern bring on the inevitable crash. You talk about your nonsense how we should quit modern life to save the earth then act like you care about people. You put on a big show especially when you are making a point about all the people killed by Americans. Then you are full of tears. You don’t care grehggie if you did then you would understand it is too late to end what we have. We can try to adapt and mitigate but we can’t end things without huge loss of life.
JuanP on Wed, 18th Jul 2018 2:05 pm
Go Trump! Go Putin! Go Russia! Fuck the FBI, CIA, DOJ, CNN, Mueller, MSNBC, and the NYT! Fuck them all!
The USA, already a police state, is fast becoming a failed state. You reap what you sow! It is all downhill for the USA from now!
JuanP on Wed, 18th Jul 2018 2:10 pm
Delusional Davy “we can’t live without them now unless many people are left to die.”
Many people die every day. The US government starves, tortures, and murders people every single day all over the world.
GregT on Wed, 18th Jul 2018 2:27 pm
“Greggie, we don’t talk Canadian”
What a nutcase. Canadian is not a language, and we are not impressed in the least by your stupidity.
“You don’t give a shit about humanity.”
I have no desire for a global mass extinction event Davy, which is the direction that humanity is heading in.
“You talk about your nonsense how we should quit modern life to save the earth then act like you care about people.”
The Earth doesn’t need to be saved Davy. The Earth will be just fine without humanity. Humanity will not survive without a healthy Earth.
“You put on a big show especially when you are making a point about all the people killed by Americans.”
You have already made you point perfectly clear on that matter Davy. You don’t have a problem with “your” country mass murdering other people, I do.
“You don’t care grehggie if you did then you would understand it is too late to end what we have.”
There’s that royal “we” again. Hilarious! What you have, what I have, and what billions of other people have, are not the same things Davy. Not even remotely close.
“We can try to adapt and mitigate but we can’t end things without huge loss of life.”
Neither you nor I have any control over how things end. There is no “we” about it. If humanity does not change it’s ways, humanity faces extinction, and will take most of the rest of the life on the planet with it.
Davy on Wed, 18th Jul 2018 2:28 pm
Boney juan is another piece of shit that has no problem seeing mass death in the name of lower populations. He got a vasectomy so he thinks he can flip the finger to those suffering overpopulation. Boney Juan is in love with boney Juan.
GregT on Wed, 18th Jul 2018 2:32 pm
There is nobody on this forum with the username boney juan, Davy. That would be yet another one of your delusions. You really should seek psychological help buddy.
Davy on Wed, 18th Jul 2018 2:34 pm
Greggie, doing his backtracking and stuttering again. The simple reality is grehggie is safe up in salmon arm, BC . He has a doomstead. He would be safer if a die down occurred saving his salmon runs and BC forest. He likes the idea of ending modernism to try to save the
Earth and he hopes his own hide. This is why he constantly call for an end to those things that keep us alive but kill the planet.
GregT on Wed, 18th Jul 2018 2:41 pm
“The simple reality is grehggie is safe up in salmon arm, BC . He has a doomstead.”
I don’t live in Salmon Arm Davy, for about the hundredth time, and I don’t have a ‘doomstead’.
“He would be safer if a die down occurred saving his salmon runs and BC forest.”
There are already some 50 million hectares of dead standing forests in BC, and growing. Many of the salmon runs are already gone, and many more are on the endangered list.
” This is why he constantly call for an end to those things that keep us alive but kill the planet.”
It is the planet Earth that keeps humanity alive Davy. No planet Earth, no humanity.
MASTERMIND on Wed, 18th Jul 2018 2:42 pm
Davy is scared of me..He won’t even respond anymore..He knows he can’t win against me..My sources are to solid..And I challenge him on his bullshit lies..
Davy on Wed, 18th Jul 2018 3:17 pm
Mm, you are like a whining bitch complaining because they boy she wants won’t talk to her. Until you start talking intelligently you are most of the time not worth the effort. There are too many assholes here besides you. Greggie Juan and 3rd world being the chief assholes.
GregT on Wed, 18th Jul 2018 3:27 pm
“There are too many assholes here besides you. Greggie Juan and 3rd world being the chief assholes.”
There is only one ‘asshole’ on this forum Davy, and that ‘asshole’ would be you.
Davy on Wed, 18th Jul 2018 3:37 pm
Sure greggie, don’t you have anything better to do than be an asshole all day?
Cloggie on Wed, 18th Jul 2018 3:38 pm
Davy is a Putin bootlicker..unfortunately this site is infested with alt right neckbeards..And you can’t reason with white trash like Davy..He is dumber than yeast..
Uproar in Holland! 20:00 news opened with item about our foreign minister Stef Blok.
Poor Stef Blok had thought he was holding his speech in closed company, but that no longer exists in the age of the Internet:
https://www.geenstijl.nl/5142990/stef-woke/
What had Mr. Blok (“Bloksnor”/block mustache after Dutch #1 right-wing blog Geenstijl, with reference to a well-known Austrian statesman in the first half of the last century) said then?
This:
– he was not aware of any model of a multi-ethnic society that is peaceful
– and then he immediately added and called the former Dutch colony Suriname a “failed state”.
Of course Mr. Blok is right about everything, but that doesn’t mean he can say all this frankly.
Today in the 20:00 Journal, the topic will was discussed in detail and obviously condemned, according to the standards of the American Empire we are all privileged to live in since 1945.
Entire virute-signlaing Holland wants to the head opf mr Blok, well, on the block:
https://www.geenstijl.nl/5142994/heel-holland-deugt-wil-hoofd-blok-op-blok/
Of course, the poor man immediately rowed back, he had not meant all this, an it had been an unfortunate choice of words, etc. and he will probably survive it politically. But he shouldn’t do that again, or he’s finished.
Cloggie on Wed, 18th Jul 2018 3:46 pm
When did America lose its liberty? Was it when upon freeing itself from Britian it kept the institution of slavery? Was it when it stole the lands of the Philippines from from Spain, then Mexico and Cuba? Was it when it wiped out the redman? Was it during Jim crow or Vietnam or any of the other crazy things that only seem to happen in the US?
Actually, America turned for the worse by the end of the 19th century. The original population was of western European descent, but then a new wave of immigrants from Eastern Europe arrived in America and most notorious was a certain group from the stetls of the Ukraine, who in a matter of a few decades took over society and replaced the old WASP-establishment, by taking over the media, banking and academia. By 1912 they had America’s finances, by 1933 they controlled the US government, until 2016.
MASTERMIND on Wed, 18th Jul 2018 3:55 pm
Davy
You are just jealous of me because I am a self made man..And you are not..And you never will be..And good luck defending your farm from invaders..
MASTERMIND on Wed, 18th Jul 2018 4:00 pm
Davy
The blue wave is coming! And we can have intellectuals running the country again..Not uneducated brainwashed religious extremist running the country..
GregT on Wed, 18th Jul 2018 4:00 pm
“And good luck defending your farm from invaders..”
Davy has already told everyone here that it is his grandpa’s farm MM.
JuanP on Wed, 18th Jul 2018 4:04 pm
Of all the US politicians I know (which are not many) the one I would like the most to become the next US President is Tulsi Gabbard. I think she would make a very good US President.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsi_Gabbard
JuanP on Wed, 18th Jul 2018 4:06 pm
But they are “his” goats, though! LOL!
Davy on Wed, 18th Jul 2018 4:18 pm
Greggie, grandpa has been dead for 20 years. For the record grehggie it is a family farm. Got it liar.
MASTERMIND on Wed, 18th Jul 2018 4:23 pm
Greg
I know Davy is not a self made man and has lived a very sheltered life..
Davy on Wed, 18th Jul 2018 4:30 pm
Boney Juan, it is not your country so who gives a shit
Who you think would make a good president. Go home anti-American. Make your failed South America proud somehow.
Davy on Wed, 18th Jul 2018 4:32 pm
Mm, we know one thing about you and that is you are a phony PHD. I laugh thinking about that one liner.
MASTERMIND on Wed, 18th Jul 2018 4:49 pm
Davy
You have to get a PhD to be a scientist..maybe if you laid off the hedge and started reading science papers, instead of calling them empty links you would know this.
Davy on Wed, 18th Jul 2018 4:51 pm
Mm, you need to grow up to be respected. You are a loud mouth kid that has trashed this place.
MASTERMIND on Wed, 18th Jul 2018 4:52 pm
Davy
Did you Grandpa even know how to read? Did he keep it in the family with his sister..
LMFAO!
MASTERMIND on Wed, 18th Jul 2018 4:55 pm
Davy
I post peer reviewed science papers, reliable mainstream media articles, and quotes from academic books..
You post insults and zero-hedge articles..
You are an unsophisticated moron..A rabid religious nut job extremest..And your post prove that beyond any doubts.
GregT on Wed, 18th Jul 2018 5:29 pm
“Greggie, grandpa has been dead for 20 years. For the record grehggie it is a family farm. Got it liar.”
I wasn’t the one who told everyone that it was your grandpa’s farm Davy. That would have been you, and if that isn’t true, that makes you the liar.
GregT on Wed, 18th Jul 2018 5:32 pm
“You are a loud mouth kid that has trashed this place.”
You started trashing this place years before MM showed up Davy.
MASTERMIND on Wed, 18th Jul 2018 5:34 pm
Non-religious countries experience greater economic growth, study finds
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/religion-economic-development-wealth-gdp-bristol-university-a8453386.html
Christianity, along with all other theistic belief systems, is the fraud of the age. It serves to detach the species from the natural world and likewise, from each other. It supports blind submission to authority. It reduces human responsibility to the effect that God controls everything..
GregT on Wed, 18th Jul 2018 5:35 pm
“Mm, we know one thing about you and that is you are a phony PHD.”
There’s that Royal ‘we’ again. You really are quite the nutcase Davy.
LOL! 🙂
Davy on Wed, 18th Jul 2018 5:39 pm
Greggie, obviously you have little to do with yourself. You have been here all day and said nothing but your ususal attacks and lies. I think you made a mistake retiring. Your life ihas become one big failure.
Makati1 on Wed, 18th Jul 2018 5:49 pm
Davy, the delusional stalker is never going to get help, just go postal someday. He thinks he knows where everyone here lives or tries to. If that is not a stalker, what is?
I doubt anyone else here cares where others live. I don’t. I do remember the state or city where some live because it is mentioned often, but I do not try to narrow it down to a town or river.
Davy would be a homeless street beggar without family money. One of those who walk around talking to themselves and putting their hand out when someone passes by. There is a lot of that in the Us these days. Not so much here any more. The Ps is moving up the ladder, not down like the Us.
GregT on Wed, 18th Jul 2018 5:54 pm
My life is wonderful Davy, and I’m thoroughly enjoying doing what I want, when I want to.
Retirement is great!
MASTERMIND on Wed, 18th Jul 2018 6:00 pm
Leaked Netanyahu Tape: We Made Trump Cancel The Iran Deal
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-07-18/leaked-netanyahu-tape-we-made-trump-nix-iran-deal
Get down on your knees boy and suck the Jewish cock president Chump!
Makati1 on Wed, 18th Jul 2018 6:09 pm
“Retirement is great!” I second that, Greg.
My “First life” was the years before I married. Education, maturing and learning responsibility.
My Second life” was my marriage years. New experiences, home ownership, career and family.
Now, my Third life is retirement in a foreign country. Education, freedom, new experiences, little stress and the challenge of a new culture, climate, etc..
Each one has been different, but retirement is the most interesting and the most enjoyable. At 74, I am not afraid of dying or what the future brings. I am free of taxes, and responsibility. I can and do enjoy every day as it comes. I worked for almost 50 years and saved for this time and I plan to enjoy every minute. I hope you have a similar, enjpyable retirement.
MASTERMIND on Wed, 18th Jul 2018 6:13 pm
Madkat
Your family doesn’t want you to contact them anymore..You told us that already..You keep trying to push your prepper cult lifestyle on them..You are an angry incel ie involuntary celibate..
MASTERMIND on Wed, 18th Jul 2018 6:20 pm
American’s are surprisingly pro-immigration
https://imgur.com/a/HPHOkjv
DerHundistLos on Wed, 18th Jul 2018 6:23 pm
“us aussies don’t understand your strange lefty american language!”
Nationalist, since when were your holiness anointed official spokesperson for Australia? You are as bad as Davy’s self-anointment as “the” voice of the American people- always fair and balanced.
DerHundistLos on Wed, 18th Jul 2018 6:30 pm
MASTERMIND:
I appreciate most of your commentary and I thank you for the article attachments.
Keep up the good fight….
MASTERMIND on Wed, 18th Jul 2018 6:34 pm
DerHund
You’re welcome comrade!
DerHundistLos on Wed, 18th Jul 2018 6:34 pm
Poor Kunt keeps digging a hole deeper and deeper with ever-increasing levels of insanity and stupidity. This guy always has to learn things the hard way. He finally quit with the crystal ball forecasts after batting close to 0.00. Some people never learn when to shut-up already. His rationalization is that a man has to do what’s necessary to keep the checks rolling in.
MASTERMIND on Wed, 18th Jul 2018 6:44 pm
Derhund
Just wait til the oil shortage hits..Then you will see the youth and radical left uprising like no other..All these protest of Trump every weekend will turn to riots..And you will see the rich hanging from the trees!