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Editorial: Executive orders out of control no matter who occupies the White House
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The “Trump dream”

When Trump won the elections the spectrum of hopes about his actions was very wide. It ranged from “Trump will forever reshape the international system, end the Empire and bring peace and prosperity to the USA” to “he will never be as bad as Hillary no matter what he does”. On that spectrum, here is what I would list as the key elements of the “Trump dream”:

Draining the swamp: kicking the Neocons down to the basement they crawled out of 24 years ago, reforming the US intelligence community, possibly even dissolving the CIA or, at the very least, subordinating it, and the JCS, to the President.
Making peace with Russia and negotiate a “grand bargain” which would clearly spell out how the USA and Russia would act towards each other and jointly against common threats. At the very least, this would imply an agreement on the Ukraine and Syria.
Work with Russia to create a new European security system which would keep NATO as a political organization, but which would “dilute it” into a new security framework ranging from Portugal to the Ural mountains and which would include a 21st century version of the Conventional Forces Europe treaty.
Stop pouring billions of dollars into the Empire and redirect the immense resources currently wasted on war, aggression and subversion back into the United States and their decaying infrastructure, medical care, education, small business, etc. Until now, the main profitable sectors of the US economy were either the military-industrial complex or finance. The hope was that Trump would kick-start the “real” economy: the production of goods and services.
End what I would call the “dictatorship of the minorities” and replace it with a restoration of the sovereignty of the majority of the American people over their country. The “Rachel Maddows” who used to be the “ideological masters” of the AngloZionist regime would be gently ushered towards the doors and replaced by people most Americans could identify with.
Law and order would be restored to the USA and the uncontrolled flow of immigrants would finally be regulated at least to some degree.
Last, but most definitely not least, Trump would not act on this stupid, counter-productive and self-defeating Iran-bashing and China-bashing rhetoric. Remember – what I am listing here is not a realistic evaluation of what Trump might do once in power, but what I deliberately called the “Trump dream” with emphasis on the second word. Sure, there might be those who wanted Trump to deliver on his threats and possibly even start a war with Iran or China, but I have not met them. (Then again, these are not people I like to be around). Again, this is my, subjective and personal outline of what I think many (most?) Trump supporters were dreaming about, nothing more.

Following the past week, I would say that, for the most part, this dream is now over, especially points 1,2,3 and 5, points 6 and 7 are on life support and only 4 is having of chills and a runny nose but might still live.

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If the dream is over, that is hardly a reason to become despondent or to claim that supporting Trump was a mistake. Please always keep in mind what the alternative was: Hillary Clinton.

One of my favorite Russian commentators, Ruslan Ostashko, brilliantly put it when he said:

Not a single rational person was expecting Trump to display true friendship or love for Russia or an immediate recognition of Crimea (as part of Russia). Our joy at the election of Trump was linked to a single factor: with Clinton we would had no chances, none at all, to agree on anything. If Clinton was now sitting in the White House we would not be discussing the issue of the recognition of Crimea or the future of US sanctions. We would be trying to guess when the nuclear war would start, we would be studying our bomb shelter maps, how to use a Geiger counter, and how to count the correct dosage for iodine tablets.
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...posted this back a bit in Blipits...but an interesting read nonetheless...

Situational Assessment 2017: Trump Edition
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I guess some people would have rather had Hillary win due to the fact of so much negative speech against Trump as evidenced on this forum.

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"Just about two weeks into his presidency, Donald Trump has already surprised Democrats and Republicans alike by doing one simple thing: Following through on his campaign promises. It is enraging Democrats and shocking Republicans. The only group not surprised? The “silent majority” who voted for him."

Nicole Russell, The Federalist

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eddie wrote:"Just about two weeks into his presidency, Donald Trump has already surprised Democrats and Republicans alike by doing one simple thing: Following through on his campaign promises. It is enraging Democrats and shocking Republicans. The only group not surprised? The “silent majority” who voted for him."

Nicole Russell, The Federalist
And in a press conference he stated once again that he is going to live up to his promises, that too many previous presidents did not and he doesn't want that kind of record. Starting at the 9:20 mark. He also talks about the press and Hillary.

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President Trump Participates in a Congressional Listening Session

Oh, he's such a bad guy!
President Trump Signs H.J. Res. 38

Oh, he is so terrible!
President Trump Signs H.J. Res. 41

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Donald Trump’s Top 10 Accomplishments in His First Month in Office
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Donald Trump’s Top 10 Accomplishments in His First Month in Office



Despite all the hysteria your seeing from the left,, the mainstream media and from some Republicans who still at this late date can’t get over the fact that he won the primaries, Trump has actually had a dynamite first month in office. Trump may not fare so well if you judge him on his tweeting habits or his willingness to play nice with the media, but the agenda he’s pursued has been a conservative dream.

While I’m sure you’ve heard plenty of stories based on anonymous leaks and wild speculation, how many people have taken stock of what Trump’s actually been doing? Not what he’s tweeting, not what he might do some day, but what he’s actually done. There may be a lot more that needs doing, but if you’re a conservative, the proper reaction to his agenda is “so far, so good.”

10) Freezing all Federal Hiring Outside of the Military: Trump followed in Ronald Reagan’s footsteps by putting a federal hiring freeze in place almost immediately after he became president. That’s big, because the first step to shrinking government is to stop adding more people to it.

9) Pulling Support for the Obama Drive to Force Women to Allow Men in Their Bathrooms: This was a bit surprising, because Trump has generally been supportive of allowing transgender women to use women’s bathrooms, but he also said he believes the issue should be left to the states. Towards that end, he ordered the DOJ to “withdraw a motion filed by former President Barack Obama seeking to allow transgender students in public schools to use the restroom with which they identify.” That will probably lead to the issue being left to the states, which is how it should be.

8) Reinstating The Mexico City Policy: Barring U.S. government funding to international non-governmental agencies that promote or perform abortions is a big deal for pro-lifers. Because of Trump, your tax dollars are no longer going to be used to murder children overseas.

7) Ordered Federal Agencies To Cut Two Regulations For Every New One They Propose: Not only will this lead to fewer regulations, Trump has also decreed that the net cost of any new regulation that is added after cutting the old regulations should be zero. In other words, the regulatory burden on the American people can only go in one direction: down. If you want to help the economy, one of the best ways to do it is to stop strangling American businesses with red tape. Trump understands that.

6) Putting Out An Executive Order Asking The DOJ And Homeland Security to Withhold “Federal Funds, Except As Mandated By Law” From Sanctuary Cities: Trump talked a lot about sanctuary cities on the campaign trail and it’s great to see him taking action against these lawless cities. The fewer sanctuary cities we have, the fewer Americans like Kate Steinle will be raped, robbed or murdered as a result. There is no such thing as the “rule of law” when a protected class of foreign trespassers don’t live under the same laws as the rest of us.


5) Approving The Dakota Access Pipeline And The Keystone Pipeline: Not only will both those pipelines produce jobs without harming the environment, over the long haul they’ll help reduce gas prices. Liberals may not care about Americans spending less on gas, but it’s great that Trump does.

4) Killing The Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Deal: As Jeff Sessions has noted, the TPP was a bad agreement that dangerously eroded America sovereignty,

"The TPP is about a goal of creating a new global regulatory structure, what I have called a Pacific union, transferring power from individual Americans and power from Congress once more. Eroding Congress to an unaccountable, unelected international bureaucratic committee. In other words, we are empowering the Trans-Pacific Partnership countries to create really a new Congress of sorts, a group with delegates that goes and meets and decides important issues that can impact everyday life of Americans. So the American representative in this commission, which will operate in many ways like the UN, will not be answerable to voters anywhere."


For liberals, transferring American sovereignty to an unelected international group is a feature. It’s great that Trump sees it as a bug.

3) Undermining Obamacare: While there’s still lots of talk about how the GOP should repeal and replace Obamacare, Trump has already stuck a shiv in the heart of the program by ordering the government to “exercise all authority and discretion available to them” to delay the law and grant exemptions. There are still legal questions to be answered about the long term impact of this executive order, but as a practical matter, it appears to have already done away with the IRS enforcing a penalty on people who don’t have healthcare. Technically, the law is still on the books, but if you no longer have to report to the IRS whether you have health insurance or not, that makes it nearly impossible for it to be enforced. Obamacare is already in a death spiral and this executive order will speed things along.


2) Ordering The Construction Of The Border Wall: If you had to pick a central promise of Trump’s campaign, it was building a border wall. He’s already ordered construction to begin and as an extra added bonus, he signed an executive order increasing the number of border patrol agents and staffers for deportations. Of course ultimately, Trump will be judged on getting the wall finished, but you have to start somewhere and it’s good to see him taking that big first step right out of the gate.

1) Selecting Neil Gorsuch For The Supreme Court: Gorsuch is an eminently qualified 49 year old originalist and if conservatives were fantasy league picking their top five selections for the court, he’d be on it. Trump did his job; now it’s up to Mitch McConnell to get Gorsuch confirmed via hook, crook or nuclear option.

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From Chuck Baldwin's Facebook page:
"Here's a plain, cold fact that most Christians and conservatives will NOT want to hear--and will probably ignore once they do hear it:
The notorious anti-freedom billionaire, George Soros, has financed fellow Zionists Jared and Joshua Kushner's new business venture, "Cadre," to the tune of $259 million. According to a Jewish business report, "Soros has had a long and productive relationship with the Kushner family." Of course, Jared Kushner is President Donald Trump's son-in-law, and worse, Trump's personal adviser.

Yes, the supposed "enemy" of Donald Trump, George Soros, is a major financial partner and backer of his son-in-law, Jared Kushner. Of course, Jared is a radical Zionist who comes from one of Israel and America's most influential and most corrupt Zionist families. Jared's father even served time in prison for corruption.

I have tried to warn people about the kind of influence that Kushner will exert over his daddy-in-law--and now President of The United States, Donald Trump. Now we know that Kushner and Soros are financially joined at the hip.

Supposedly, there is an internal battle going on within the U.S. intelligence communities between those loyal to the CIA and the Israeli Mossad (a LARGE portion of the SWAMP) and those loyal to President Trump. But if Trump is going to truly stand foursquare against these dark and evil forces, he will FIRST have to stand against Jared Kushner. And if that was going to be the case, why did Trump give Kushner such a powerful position in his government in the first place?

Along with many CFR globalists (22 so far) that Trump has placed in his administration, Jared Kushner might prove to be Trump's undoing. The enemy is ALWAYS most effective within the camp." (end quote)

Of course I mentioned over a month ago that, at best, what we are witnessing are the opening salvos between competing camps of elitists. So Baldwin is making an important point, but we we still need some time to understand if Trump is a puppet to larger forces or a willing participant in the deception to end American sovereignty.

For more info on the Soros connection:
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A battle between titans rarely hurts the participants, but there is usually extensive collateral damage among the peons. Prepare accordingly.

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From Chuck Baldwin's Facebook page:

If you want to understand why almost nothing changes in Washington, DC. no matter who is elected president, here's why:
CFR (individual and corporate affiliate) members in both Republican and Democrat presidential administrations:
Bill Clinton: 39
G.W. Bush: 27
Barack Obama: 21
Donald Trump (so far): 22
NOW YOU KNOW!
Update: Donald Trump just appointed Army Leutenant General Herbert Raymond "H. R." McMaster as National Security Advisor. McMaster is also CFR. So, now Trump's CFR picks exceed Obama's.

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"Donald Trump’s CIA chief, Michael Pompeo, wants no interference or prohibition upon the federal government’s collecting “metadata” information on the American people. He wants to ignore or eliminate the USA Freedom Act that limits such data collection and resume the government’s collection of personal data on the American citizenry unimpeded. In other words, Pompeo wants the federal government to have complete freedom to spy on every American citizen, no exceptions and no limitations. Does that sound pro-constitution and pro-freedom to you?

Speaking of Pompeo and the CIA, Trump’s CIA chief just awarded Saudi Arabia Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef the George Tenet award for his work in “fighting terrorism.” I kid you not."

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The entire article can be found at the link above.

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Trump is NOT a CFR (Council on Foreign Relations) member.

CFR Membership Roster

CFR is for America being enjoined with a One World Government.
Comments related to the upper video
Ron Paul explains the Council on Foreign Relations and the New World Order

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Of course Trump has betrayed those who trusted him. He has surrounded himself with neocons and elite bankers and CFR members.

It's not that hard to put 2 and 2 together. If these generals in Trump's administration didn't get fired by Obama, what could it mean? (Remember Obama? He was that president born in Kenya and dead set on destroying America.) One method for destroying America was for this: Those who pulled the strings from which Obama hung worked hard to gut the military of patriots. McMaster has got history with the NWO. How many more CFR members does Trump have to nominate for you to realize that he's a traitor?

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In a statement to reporters at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida on February 20, President Trump named Lieutenant General H.R. McMaster as his national security adviser (NSA). In his statement, Trump described McMaster as “a man of tremendous talent and tremendous experience.”

The post (officially called the assistant to the president for national security affairs — APNSA) is filled by appointment by the president and does not require confirmation by the Senate.

McMaster will replace Michael Flynn, who was asked to resign after allegedly misleading Vice President Mike Pence and the FBI about conversations he had with the Russian ambassador to the United States about U.S. sanctions against Russian over Russian activity in Crimea. Flynn held the post for less than a month before resigning on February 13.

Retired Lieutenant General Keith Kellogg served as acting NSA during the interim vacancy, and he will remain on the National Security Council (NSC) as chief of staff.

McMaster will remain on active duty in the Army.

During his statement to reporters, Trump sat with McMaster and Kellogg and said the two would be “working together.” “That combination is very, very special,” the president added.

McMaster thanked Trump for the opportunity to serve as NSA and Kellogg said that he was honored to serve with McMaster, who he called “a great statesman, a great soldier.”

“This is a great team,” Trump said. “Our country is lucky to have two people like this.”

McMaster is a veteran of the 1991 Gulf War, during which he served as captain commanding Eagle Troop of the 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment at the Battle of 73 Easting. During that battle, the nine tanks of Eagle Troop destroyed over 80 Iraqi Republican Guard tanks. McMaster was awarded the Silver Star as a result of his performance. Following that service, his military career showed impressive accomplishments:

• From 1999 to 2002, McMaster commanded 1st Squadron, 4th Cavalry Regiment, and then took a series of staff positions at U.S. Central Command (USCENTCOM).

• McMaster rose though the ranks to colonel working on the staff of USCENTCOM as executive officer to Deputy Commander Lieutenant General John Abizaid.

• In 2003 he completed an Army War College research fellowship at Stanford University's Hoover Institution.

• In 2004, McMaster was assigned to command the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment (3rd ACR), which soon deployed for its second tour in Iraq and was assigned the mission of securing the city of Tal Afar. That mission culminated with Operation Restoring Rights and the defeat of the city’s insurgent strongholds. This successful operation was praised by then-President George W. Bush.

• From August 2007 to August 2008 McMaster was part of what was described as an “elite team of officers advising U.S. commander” General David Petraeus on counterinsurgency operations while Petraeus directed a revision of the Army’s Counterinsurgency Field Manual during his command of the Army’s Combined Arms Center.

• McMaster was promoted to brigadier general in 2008. Army Chief of Staff General Martin Dempsey remarked in 2011 that McMaster was “probably our best Brigadier General.” He was nominated for the rank of major general in 2012 and selected to be the commander of the Army’s Maneuver Center of Excellence at Ft. Benning, Georgia. In February 2014, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel nominated McMaster to his present rank of lieutenant general. He subsequently became deputy commanding general of the Training and Doctrine Command and director of TRADOC’s Army Capabilities Integration Center.

McMaster authored a book in 1997 entitled Dereliction of Duty: Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, The Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies that Led to Vietnam that was critical of the high ranking U.S. military leadership conducting the Vietnam War. In that book, which was written as part of his Ph.D. dissertation at UNC, McMaster criticized the military leadership for insufficiently challenging Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and President Lyndon Johnson over their war strategy. He charged that these leaders did not develop a plan of action that would defeat the communist Viet Cong insurgency or the regular North Vietnamese Army.

In the conclusion to that work, McMasters stated, “The war in Vietnam was not lost in the field, nor was it lost on the front pages of the New York Times or the college campuses. It was lost in Washington, D.C.”

Interestingly, McMaster’s prime target in his exposé, former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, was a longtime member of the same elite internationalist organization of which McMaster is himself a member — the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). We wrote in detail about the CFR in an article last March about then-presidential candidate Senator Ted Cruz’s (R-Texas) proposed “high-profile national security coalition” that would have advised Cruz on foreign-policy issues had he been elected president.

In that article, we noted that one of Cruz’s picks for his proposed security coalition was former Assistant Secretary of State Elliott Abrams. Abrams, we observed, is the very personification of the “Washington establishment” that Cruz had frequently condemned. Trump also ran for the presidency on an anti-Washington establishment platform that used “drain the swamp” as its catch-all rallying cry.

Abrams was an assistant secretary of state in the Reagan administration and a deputy national security advisor in the George W. Bush administration; he is also a senior fellow for Middle Eastern Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, making him what many would call an “establishment insider.”

Two other members of the proposed Cruz team are also CFR members: Stewart Baker, who served as assistant secretary for policy at DHS, as general counsel of the National Security Agency, and as general counsel of the bipartisan commission that investigated intelligence failures involving WMD and Iraq; and Michael Pillsbury, who was a Reagan campaign advisor in 1980, served as assistant undersecretary of defense for policy planning under President Reagan, and is the author of three books on China.

We observed in that article:

Apparently, the Cruz campaign believes (perhaps justifiably so) that so few conservatives know anything about the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) that it is no longer considered to be politically risky for a conservative, self-proclaimed “anti-establishment” candidate to openly place a man who is not merely a CFR member — but a CFR senior fellow — in a prominent slot.

We continued by observing that perhaps Christian economist Gary North was correct about the relative obscurity of the CFR when he wrote in a column for LewRockwell.com four years ago:

The story of the CFR is well known to those of us who have been in the conservative wing of the party for over 50 years. It has been over half a century since Dan Smoot wrote The Invisible Government (1960). In late 1964, Robert Welch of the John Birch Society shifted his entire life’s work from anti-Communism to anti-conspiracy, and forced the restructuring of the Birch Society’s magazine, American Opinion. The story of the CFR/Federal Reserve alliance has been known to the hard-core Right for a generation. But it is still not known to the standard conservative, who came into the movement in 1980 or later.

Since Trump owes his election to the presidency primarily to those “standard conservatives,” what we applied to Cruz (i.e., that it is no longer considered to be politically risky for a conservative, self-proclaimed “anti-establishment” candidate to openly place a man who is a CFR member in a prominent slot) also applies to Trump. For the “standard conservative,” the fact that McMaster is a CFR member is largely irrelevant.

When considering how relevant McMaster’s CFR membership may be in his strategic position in the Trump administration, we should examine how closely he adheres to the CFR’s record for advancing internationalism, eradicating national borders, and entangling the United States and other nations into a number of supranational organizations of which the UN is the outstanding, but not the only, example.

In 2006, McMaster joined the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) in London as a senior research associate with a mandate to “conduct research to identify opportunities for improved multi-national cooperation and political-military integration in the areas of counterinsurgency, counter-terrorism, and state building," and to devise "better tactics to battle terrorism.”

There are several disturbing phrases (e.g., “multi-national cooperation,” “political-military integration”) found in that description of McMaster’s mandate — along with his association with the IISS, which has a decidedly internationalist bent. For example, a newsletter posted by the Royal Institute of International Affairs (commonly known as Chatham House), which has long been a type of “sister” counterpart to the CFR in Britain, announced a conference at the Ritz Carlton in Berlin on October 17-19, 2014 entitled “Europe’s Strategic Choices: Building Prosperity and Security.” Listed on the program as one of the conference’s keynote speakers at a plenary session, “Defining Europe’s Global Role and Agenda,” was François Heisbourg, chairman, International Institute for Strategic Studies.

It seems incredible that Chatham House would invite the chairman of the IISS to co-chair a plenary session if both organizations’ objectives were not compatible. As for cooperation between Chatham House and the CFR, the two groups have a long history together, ever since both were founded after World War I. Chatham House started as the Royal Institute of International Affairs in London in 1920 and the CFR was founded in New York in 1921. The internationalists who founded both organizations received a setback of their objective to establish a worldwide “parliament of man” when the U.S. Senate rejected the treaty that would have allowed the United States to join the League of Nations. They responded by cooperating throughout World War II to cement the U.S.-British alliance and to try again to form a worldwide parliament of nations by founding the UN in 1945. Their important influence is discussed in the book Think Tanks and Power in Foreign Policy: A Comparative Study of the Role and Influence of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1939-1945, by I. Parmar.

A 2014 article posted by The New American, “Internet Control: CFR/Chatham House Globalists Conclude Secret Summit, Issue Study,” discusses the threatened control of the Internet by the internationalists of the Global Commission on Internet Governance (GCIG). But it also highlights the interconnection between American CFR members and Chatham House. It states:

As we reported earlier this year, the high-powered GCIG was appointed by the Royal Institute of International Affairs, the British globalist group more commonly known as Chatham House (see here and here). The commission membership includes such establishment one-worlders and prominent members of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) as Nobel Prize-winning economist Michael Spence, author of The Next Convergence; and Professor Joseph Nye, former dean of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and current North American chairman of the Trilateral Commission. Former Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff is also a GCIG member.

McMaster’s long military career and successes are impressive and worthy of much recognition. And his exposure of the failures of our nation’s conduct of the no-win war in Vietnam indicates that he is well aware of the pitfalls of an interventionist foreign policy gone wrong. Yet, his membership in the CFR and his association with the IISS are a disturbing indication that he is very much at home among internationalists. One would have expected an interventionist, neoconservative CFR member such as John McCain to have appointed a man such as McMaster to his inner circle. McCain, in fact, did express hearty approval of Trump’s pick, saying, “I have had the honor of knowing [McMaster] for many years, and he is a man of genuine intellect, character, and ability.” McCain tweeted: “Lt Gen HR McMaster is outstanding choice for nat'l security advisor — man of genuine intellect, character & ability.”

Considering how critical of Trump’s performance McCain has been thus far, such approval should raise suspicions.

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Nothing more than left hysteria, dire predictions etc.

Most of what's said concerning President Trump is nothing more than the liberal left HYSTERIA. they are always in crisis mode. More often than not,the crisis is exaggerated or simply false.

" Trump is a traitor," " He betrayed those who trusted him." ( Wow, he just barely took office #-o) So many names and words without saying much. @-)

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eddie wrote:Nothing more than left hysteria, dire predictions etc.

Most of what's said concerning President Trump is nothing more than the liberal left HYSTERIA. they are always in crisis mode. More often than not,the crisis is exaggerated or simply false.

" Trump is a traitor," " He betrayed those who trusted him." ( Wow, he just barely took office #-o) So many names and words without saying much. @-)
Funny, I've never seen the press castigate Trump for having too many CFR members in his administration. Have you?

This is more typical:
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Are there any Mormon leftists on board?

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Following his first interview since being confirmed yesterday with the WSJ, US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin spoke to CNBC's Becky Quick and repeated some of the key points he made yesterday, among which his hope to get tax reform done by the August Congress recess, however he again confirmed that there are too many moving pieces at this point saying it is "too early to give details" of the Trump tax plan.

Treasury Secretary Mnuchin: We're committed to 'very significant' tax reform by August recess http://cnb.cx/2lO8VYh" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
6:07 AM - 23 Feb 2017

He also reiterated that "we're primarily focused on a middle-income tax cut and simplification for business"


Treasury Secretary Mnuchin to CNBC: "We're primarily focused on a middle-income tax cut and simplification for business"
6:16 AM - 23 Feb 2017

As a reminder, on February 9th stocks surged after President Trump promised a "phenomenal" tax plan to be unveiled in "two or three weeks." It appears that this will not happen, and instead in his State of the Union address, where the market expects more clarity on Trump's economic policies to be unveiled, Trump will be forced to speak in broad generalities as he juggles not only passage of his tax plan in Congress, but also the process of "repeal and replace" (and rename and repair) of Obamacare which similarly has gotten bogged down in negotiations in Congress. Overnight we laid out an extensive primer of how Trump's tax policies will likely be impacted by the stalled negotiations over Obamacare.

As a reminder, yesterday in his WSJ interview, Mnuchin said the administration was working with House and Senate Republicans to smooth over differences among them on tax policy, with the aim of passing major legislation before Congress leaves for its August recess. He added, “that’s an ambitious timeline. It could slip to later in the year.” He also said the administration is “looking seriously” at the House plan that includes border adjustment and was well aware of concerns raised by specific industries. The Treasury Department had its own concerns, he added, “about what the impact may be on the dollar” from a border-adjusted tax.

On another hot button topic, despite Trump previous vows to name China a currency manipulator, Mnuchin said "we're not making any judgments" at this time.

Despite Trump's campaign vow to name China a currency manipulator, Treasury Sec. Mnuchin says "we're not making any judgments" at this time.

Overall, Mnuchin avoided most "hot button" topics, and reiterated the same vague WSJ talking points to CNBC. In addition to the punchline, namely that it is "too early to give details of tax plans" here are some other notable mentions by Mnuchin in the interview:

"Most important thing for growth is the tax plan; tax reform is mostly focused on the middle class"
"Tax reform will be significant"
"High income tax cuts should be offset; the dollar and stocks are reflecting confidence in the US economy"
"Isn't focused on day to day market moves"
"Looking closely at border adjustment tax" although he added that there are some issues with it.
"3% growth is very achievable, could be late 2018 before we see 3% growth"
"Not making judgments on China currency policy; Treasury has a process for reviewing foreign-exchange policies"
"Trump admin's growth forecast is likely to be higher that Congress"
"Regulatory relief is also important to boost growth"
"We're looking at significant economic changes, we're reaching out to businesses"
Finally, while he denied to provide details on plans for a 50 year bonds, he conceded that the "idea of issuing 50-year or 100-year U.S. Treasuries worth a serious look."

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Voltaire once wrote: “To find out who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.” Who in American politics are people not allowed to criticize?

Reddit Caught Censoring Posts Using The Term “Rothschild”
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-02-2 ... d%E2%80%9D" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

It's the latest chapter of the long, documented saga of Reddit censorship against various forms of political speech over the past several years. In a humorous development, Reddit's admin team has been caught censoring posts using the term "Rothschild."

Users on pro-Trump subreddit r/the_donald began noticing the censorship several days ago after a humorous tweet from Lynn de Rothschild on February 21st, 2017 lampooned John Podesta for his work managing Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential election campaign. A test conducted by Disobedient Media on February 23rd has confirmed that Reddit is indeed censoring content referencing the name of the famous banking family.

It is not known at this time why Reddit is censoring posts referencing the Rothschild family name. (close quote)


Wilbur Ross, who saved Donald Trump's empire, worked for a Rothschild entity. But, nah, it's all on the up and up in the Trump administration.

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Surrounded by proponents of the NWO and warmongers as he is, did we expect anything other than a massive increase in spending on bombs for wedding parties?

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"SteveM says:
February 27, 2017 at 8:26 am
Re: “Trump likely would have seen his vision of a more restrained America overseas thrown out and replaced by the neoconservative, reflexively interventionist positions that he campaigned against so ferociously.”

That statement appears to be OBE with Mattis, Pompeo and McMaster whispering sweet Neocon nothings into Trump’s ear. Apparently, Trump is all ears. With that crew of Military Svengalis in place, who needs Bolton to continue the war-monger model?

Trump’s ostensible policy of a “more restrained America overseas” is already dead and buried. A burial wildly applauded by the sclerotic Congress saturated with Neocon war-mongers like the celebrated but atrocious Tom Cotton and the oily Marco Rubio. The played for chumps Breitbart Bots are also frothed up with anticipatory delight of more Trillion dollar War Machine high jinks.

With Nikki Haley playing the bellicose Neocon harridan at the UN fully showing Trump’s hand early on. And toss in Trump’s intent to not only not save the taxpayers some dollars by reining in the Global Cop shenanigans, he wants to throw even more money at the bloated Security State. With the cherry on top of Trump’s Neocon sundae being a new and very expensive nuclear arms race with Russia.

Yes, John Bolton may have to cheer from the sidelines, but he’ll be cheering nonetheless."

From: https://www.theamericanconservative.com ... istration/

Man, I wish I could write like that.

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Silver wrote: February 27th, 2017, 1:31 pm "SteveM says:
February 27, 2017 at 8:26 am
Re: “Trump likely would have seen his vision of a more restrained America overseas thrown out and replaced by the neoconservative, reflexively interventionist positions that he campaigned against so ferociously.”

That statement appears to be OBE with Mattis, Pompeo and McMaster whispering sweet Neocon nothings into Trump’s ear. Apparently, Trump is all ears. With that crew of Military Svengalis in place, who needs Bolton to continue the war-monger model?

Trump’s ostensible policy of a “more restrained America overseas” is already dead and buried. A burial wildly applauded by the sclerotic Congress saturated with Neocon war-mongers like the celebrated but atrocious Tom Cotton and the oily Marco Rubio. The played for chumps Breitbart Bots are also frothed up with anticipatory delight of more Trillion dollar War Machine high jinks.

With Nikki Haley playing the bellicose Neocon harridan at the UN fully showing Trump’s hand early on. And toss in Trump’s intent to not only not save the taxpayers some dollars by reining in the Global Cop shenanigans, he wants to throw even more money at the bloated Security State. With the cherry on top of Trump’s Neocon sundae being a new and very expensive nuclear arms race with Russia.

Yes, John Bolton may have to cheer from the sidelines, but he’ll be cheering nonetheless."

From: https://www.theamericanconservative.com ... istration/

Man, I wish I could write like that.
Me too!

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Re: Trump = Traitor, Part 2

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Perhaps there's still hope for the Rothschild nominee, Wilbur Ross.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-03-0 ... acrons-egg

Video included.

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Silver plies his lonely trade.

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Must get lonely in here. 👀

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"Yet ironically, it was none other than the Trump administration which just earlier this week announced it supports the renewal of spy law which incorporates the FISA court, without reforms: "the Trump administration does not want to reform an internet surveillance law to address privacy concerns, a White House official told Reuters on Wednesday, saying it is needed to protect national security. The announcement could put President Donald Trump on a collision course with Congress, where some Republicans and Democrats have advocated curtailing the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, parts of which are due to expire at the end of the year."

"We support the clean reauthorization and the administration believes it's necessary to protect the security of the nation," the official said on condition of anonymity.

The FISA law has been criticized by privacy and civil liberties advocates as allowing broad, intrusive spying. It gained renewed attention following the 2013 disclosures by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden that the agency carried out widespread monitoring of emails and other electronic communications." (close quote)

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-03-0 ... ave-last-l

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