Guest Post by Paul Craig Roberts
Green Party presidential Candidate Jill Stein is being investigated by the Senate Intelligence (sic) Committee for “Russian connections.”
What has brought Russiagate to Jill Stein? The answer is that she attended the 10th Anniversary RT dinner in Moscow as did the notorious “Russian collaborator” US General Michael Flynn. RT is a news organization, a far better one than exists in the West, but if you were one of the many accomplished people who attended the anniversary dinner, you are regarded by Republican Senator Richard Burr from North Carolina as a possible Kremlin agent. http://russia-insider.com/en/anti-russian-witch-hunt-comes-jill-stein-because-she-once-sat-next-putin-and-flynn/ri21998
What is going on here? Stein sums it up: “we must guard against the potential for these investigations to be used to intimidate and silence principled opposition to the political establishment.”
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Here I sit considering two interesting invitations. One is to speak at the main Plenary Session of the Moscow Economic Forum in April. The other is to speak at the Summit for Global Challenges in the former Soviet Republic of Kazakhstan in May. The very minute I accept, the NSA will notify its mouthpieces, the New York Times, PropOrNot’s promoter the Washington Post, Senator Burr, and Special Russiagate Prosecutor Robert Mueller. Would I be renditioned to Israel or Eqypt or Saudi Arabia and tortured until I confessed that I was a member of the Trump-Flynn-Jill Stein Kremlin spy network?
As the United States is no longer a free country governed by a Constitution that protects civil liberty, that possibility cannot be discounted. What is for sure is that if I accept these invitations, the US Establishment will discredit my voice when I write about US/Russia relations. Indeed, that was the intention of the PropOrNot Washington Post story that attacked 200 truth-tellers as “Russian agents/dupes.” Many of those so attacked have experienced slower growth in their readership. After all, Americans and Europeans are insouciant. They are actually sufficiently stupid to believe what governments and print and TV media tell them.
I, too, was invited to RT’s 10th Anniversary celebration in Moscow. Imagining the celebration would be grand balls in palaces and myself, decked out in white tie with my French Legion of Honor dancing with those beautiful RT women, I almost accepted. But I learned in time that the event was conferences and speeches and decided to forego a Moscow winter.
Otherwise I would be in the dock with Trump, Flynn, and Jill Stein and whomever the Washington Gestapo settles on next.
Russiagate is an orchestrated hoax. That has now become so aparent that even insouciant Americans are catching on, even those low IQ ones who sit in front of TV news. I often disparage Congress, but here is a member who is admirable, Republican Representative Jim Jordan from Ohio. http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017/12/boom-rep-jim-jordan-goes-nuclear-rod-rosenstein-trump-hating-fbi-agent-peter-strzok-video/
Watch the short video and delight in the power and force with which Rep. Jordan goes after the piece of crap US deputy attorney general the Twitter President has in office. When the President of the United States has to rely on a congressman to call out the Justice Department and the FBI for its criminal actions and for its treason to overthrow both democracy and the elected government of the United States, you know we have elected a president who is too scared to defend himself. Roger Stone is correct, if Trump were a real man, Mueller, Comey, Hillary, Obama, and the rest of the criminal scum would be arrested, prosecuted and sentenced for their vast crimes, crimes that exceed those of anyone in prison today.
But Trump is nothing but talk. No action.
How much longer can I give interviews to Russian and Iranian media before the Washington Gestapo gives me a midnight knock on my door.
Whatever America is, it is not a free country.
If Trump wants to make America great again, he must shatter the CIA, FBI, NSA, and media into a thousand pieces. The concentrated power that President Eisenhower warned Americans about in 1961 is far too great for liberty to survive.
Instead, the weakest president in American history actually read the speech handed to him by the ruling neocon military/security complex and declared Russia and China inimical to Washington’s interests.
Americans are too insouciant to understand it, but this was a declaration of war against two countries, which when combined are more than a match for Washington.
Neither Russia nor China, much less an alliance between them, will accept Washington’s hegemony.
If the hubris-crazed fools in Washington persist, we are all going to die.
This article made sense until it posited that Trump should fire Mueller, etc. Impeachment has nothing whatsoever to do with crimes or evidence. If Dems could muster 218 House votes to impeach and 67 senate votes to remove, we’d have President Churchlady Pence and we’d be getting ready to “liberate” Syria. The fact that Richard Burr is after Jill Stein shows that there are plenty of stupid or perfidious Republicans who would oust Trump. Trump’s letting Mueller and the other coup plotters hoist themselves by their own petard – whatever a petard is.
“…whatever a petard is…”
In Mueller’s case it’s retard with a ‘p’ instead of an ‘r.
Steve C.
Spring, Texas
Similar to the expression ‘le salio el tiro por la culata’ – a person hoisted by their own bomb is somebody who intended harm to another.
EC
Yes we are all going to die. Just not today.
Shear profundity from the movie Battleship.
Greetings,
An attack on the deep state isn’t as easy as Roberts wishes. I still see this as a chess match and I still believe that things are going pretty much exactly as Trump wishes. Like in chess, you’ve got to take out all the pieces and pawns that protect the king. Lets review.
Hollywood: 2017 was not a good year for Hollywood. The Summer Blockbuster Season was the worst attended in 25 years. Attendance was down almost 14% and while that may not seem like much, it is the difference between making a profit and not making a profit as the Blockbusters fund the 95% of movies that don’t make a penny or, in other words, any movie with Meryl Streep. Hollywood leadership has been absolutely neutered and has been removed from the game.
News Media: The Fake News meme started by the media elites has backfired spectacularly. Even Facebook had to back away from its Fake News Flag as they had to admit that it only made the problem worse. On top of that, many of the leading news figures have now found themselves to be outed as sexual predators and rapists.
Sports & other protests: The NFL & ESPN are dead men walking as 15k people a day cancel their subscriptions and stadiums sit half empty. Using sports figures to attack the president is literally going to cost these guys billions. Whether Buzzfeed or ESPN, the layoffs keep coming and coming.
BLM & ANTIFA: The worst performing of the bunch must be these clowns. Antifa are now considered to be Domestic Terrorists by the Department of Homeland Security so that means its leadership can expect the same wonderful treatment as, say, the Taliban. Other than some flash mob activity, these guys are keeping it low key. BLM, on the other hand, is just a sad joke and without Hollywood and the media to push their meme, are becoming irreverent.
Russiagate: Russia, Russia, Russia! With the propaganda arm of the left destroyed, there is no one left to pound out the Russian Collusion meme that the left so desperately bet the farm on. With its fake news no longer being taken seriously, only the facts remain and the facts do not look all that good. Frankly, it would be impossible to put this to rest without first taking out the propaganda arm of the left. With its ability to create fake rage emasculated, it is becoming clear for all to see that the only people working with the Russians to affect elections were the Democrats.
Up Next: The FBI has had its credibility destroyed. It is going to be rather hard for it to defend itself in the harsh light of day especially given the idiotic paper trail it has left behind. The “insurance policy” of wife cheating never Trumpers is about to take that piece off of the board too.
Great comment, Nickel
Fleas can be taught nearly anything that a Congressman can.
– What Is Man?
…the smallest minds and the selfishest souls and the cowardliest hearts that God makes.
– Letter fragment, 1891
Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
– Mark Twain, a Biography
Congressman is the trivialist distinction for a full grown man.
– Notebook #14, Nov. 1877 – July 1878
All Congresses and Parliaments have a kindly feeling for idiots, and a compassion for them, on account of personal experience and heredity.
– Mark Twain’s Autobiography; also in Mark Twain in Eruption
“To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.”
― Voltaire