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Ukraine and Endless War for Profit It looks like more idiocy for America is coming in order to benefit war profiteers (meaning a good part of the Deep State). But for people to understand what is happening, rather than post articles and so on, here is a super-short basic fundaments version. When the Soviet Union dismantled, instead of state-owned companies going to the people (as was propagandized), they went to former KGB people who are now called oligarchs. And how did the process happen, the nuts and bolts? Easy--and it all comes down to one word: Ukraine. All the monkey-business went on in Ukraine. That's why in all the political corruption happening nowadays, the word Ukraine keeps coming up. Lots of people went there to get rich with embezzled monies, including Biden & Co. (But let's not forget about Manafort & Co., and the Clinton folks, and a whole bunch of others. ) Now Biden is tanking in the polls and his butt is owned by oligarchs and others in Ukraine (especially from his son's corrupt ventures). So what better way to solve it all than a sudden war for profit? To make it look good, they have been antagonizing Russia to try to goad Putin into overreacting. Then they can send in American troops and look justified. What an idea! The war-profiteers and the entire Deep State jumps with joy. The predator class swoons in ecstasy. Maybe a war turns Biden's poll numbers around. At least he can get operatives into Ukraine and "solve" inconvenient issues where he is vulnerable during the chaos of war. There are other benefits, too. Meanwhile, young Americans will come home in body bags and everybody will say what patriots they are--as the predator class reaches for another glass of 30 year old scotch. Yeah, right. But this time people are looking and they are not liking what they see. As example, the only source I want to use for this opening post is a tweet that prompts a question. It's not even in the weeds about Ukraine. In case the tweet goes down, this is a tweet by Jack Posobiec. Text repeated below: We're watching, assholes. It ain't gonna be easy this time. Hopefully, it ain't gonna happen at all. Michael

Here is one hell of a story about McCain and muh Russians. From Rush Limbaugh. John McCain’s 2008 Meetings with a Russian Oligarch Guess who was in the middle of it? Paul Manafort. Guess who McCain met with while he was running for president? Twice? A Russian businessman and Putin ally named Oleg Deripaska, the very same the fake news media now loves to holler about in attacking President Trump. Here's the deal and it's just one point of many. When President Trump discovered Manafort's lobbying ties to the Ukraine, he fired him. That was after three months. Rick Davis, Manafort's partner who set up the Deripaska meetings for McCain and other Russian stuff stayed around with McCain. Rush didn't mention it, but Rick Davis was the guy who just read McCain's final statement to the public after he died. The way the fake news media is now saying it, McCain dismissed Manafort over Russian ties (see here for instance) while downplaying the relationship between Davis and Manafort. McCain ended up on the opposite side of Deripaska, but one wonders what really went on. This story is a bit geeky for the layman, but the implications, which will eventually involve massive amounts of money, crony deals, arms running with Islamist militants, death and so on, will probably start making the news rounds soon. Like I mentioned, the fake news media is already trying to deflect. It seems like the more you dig, the more there is with McCain... The worst of it is, from what I can tell, in between bouts of evil backstate manipulations (like sending his own personal envoy to Europe to get the phoney Steele pissgate dossier on Trump), McCain probably believed his own bullshit. Michael

Since the Manafort indictment is diversion from the Hillary Clinton mess (it gives the toady media an issue to fill up time so they can try to ignore things like Uranium One, etc.), I suppose we have to talk about it. Manafort was indicted by Mueller on charges of money laundering and so on. For those interested in the details, The Daily Mail is generally accurate and keeps up a pretty good series of updates (see here). Now here's the kicker. If the Hillary Clinton mess keeps going and it comes out the fake pee-pee document was used to obtain the FISA warrants the FBI used to spy on Manafort, that means the FISA warrants were illegal. And that means any case against Manafort will be thrown out of court for evidence illegally obtained. There are some legal procedures that need to unfold for this to bloom, but Manafort is upbeat according to accounts. He doesn't seem to be worried at all. This may change, but so far, it's all a media storm as if the name Clinton never existed. Michael

Did I just hear the Deep State go, gulp? From The New York Post: Paul Manafort released early from prison over coronavirus fears At this point, Manafort will serve out the rest of his sentence at home. I wonder if he's pissed. I wonder if his family is pissed. I wonder if his friends are pissed... Michael

William, There has always been bad blood between Roger and Steve. Roger started with Trump. Later, Steve took over and even got rid of Roger's friend Paul Manafort. Both have virtues and both have flaws. Roger's flaws are bigger than Steve's. (Hell, Roger even used to be a swinger. I don't know if he still is. ) Also, I think the possibility of jail scared the shit out of Roger. He even converted to Christianity for real during that scare. I still love them both. Michael

Here's a thought off the top of my head about the mainstream fake news media--and the deep state for that matter. The big news of the day is that Manafort met (no I mean allegedly met, no I mean supposedly met, no I mean according to sources met, no I mean, er... well... uhm...) with Assange to get Podesta's emails or something or other. Then Wikileaks put a million dollar bounty--a bet, actually--on the head of the Guardian's editor Katharine Viner to prove that Manafort met with Assange and the story went bye-bye. But from the surge it caused in the press, along with the news that Manafort had lied (no I mean allegedly lied, no I mean supposedly lied, no I mean according to sources lied, no I mean, er... well... uhm...) to Meuller so Mueller was cancelling his agreement, this time they were really going to get Trump. Now that story is dead in the mainstream, also. Now, Corsi is in the news again and all over the headlines. He is claiming that his story and Roger Stone's story are slightly different re Podesta's emails, but that they were both lying at the time to play dirty tricks on the Clinton side during the presidential campaign, which is kinda what they do (sort of like Clinton and the deep state hiring intellectual goons for millions of dollars to fabricate a fake document, a dossier that rivals the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, for fakery and lack of plain old common sense, claiming Trump hired hookers to piss in front of him on a bed the Obamas slept in). Underneath it all, we have two propagandists telling slightly different versions of the misinformation campaign they did. Just this time, their misinformation ended up being real because Podesta used "password" as his email password and got fished. But the news is all over this as if it is going to take down Trump like piranhas in a river going nuts over a side of beef. Now here's my thought. This nonstop crap has me irritated in a manner I couldn't put my finger on. Then it hit me. Remember when Carter was President Carter and hostages (mostly Americans) were being held at gun point in the embassy in Iran? That thing dragged on for 444 days. It seemed like it would never end. The daily fake propaganda campaigns against President Trump--one after another--of the Mainstream Fake News Media and the Deep State are giving me that same sense of irritation. It's stupid what they are doing, hell their stories are blowing up in the same goddam day they go out, but they keep doing it. This is starting to wear away any and all patience I have with them. I believe I'm not the only one feeling this. They (meaning the Mainstream Fake News Media and the Deep State) are actually fooling some people with their nonstop bullshit, but they are not fooling everybody. In fact, I contend they are not fooling the majority, but irritating them instead. I would not want to be them when the real boom hits. There is going to be more than justice dealt. There is going to be widely approved revenge. They are pissing people off for real and letting the pressure build over months. Michael

Ellen, I fully agree. What's more, I believe President Trump fully agrees. And I believe he knows who among his inner circle is swamp. So I think, for reasons of his own, he was snookering the swamp close to him. I'm not sure what the powers and functions of a White House Special Council are, but for some reason, I doubt they include the power to subpoena and prosecute. Now, a DOJ Special Council, or as Patrick Byrne said, its synonym, DOJ Special Prosecutor, now these can have SWAT teams show up in the middle of the night and bust doors down like they did with Paul Manafort and Roger Stone. I strongly suspect this--DOJ Special Prosecutor--is what is in store for Sidney Powell, not White House Special Council. I think on the White House Special Council issue, President Trump is going to let the swamp win and crow, just like they are doing now. Then soon, if Sidney is going to be DOJ Special Prosecutor (which I believe will happen), it will be a surprise to the swamp just like the blood Trump said was flowing from Megyn Kelly's nose. Let's see what happens, but I am pretty confident of this. Michael

The Swamp War against President Trump After oodles of rhetoric, investigations and legal games, The Swamp just fired its first cannonball. They jailed Paul Manafort before the trial. Alan Dershowitz is fit to be tied. (If you want to see the video, go to the link below.) Dershowitz Explodes On MSNBC: Locking Up Manafort Before A Trial Is ‘so Obnoxious To Our Constitution’ I mentioned on another post here on OL: I'm pretty damn sure I'm going to enjoy how this plays out. Michael

For those interested (from The Gateway Pundit): CRIMINAL IN A ROBE=> Here’s the Rundown on the Corrupt Obama-Appointed Judge Who Tossed Manafort in Jail I imagine the talking points in this article will be some of the banners of activism for the MidTerms. Paul Manafort contributed a little to help elect President Trump, and, in a painful manner, he will help elect a larger Republican Congress to help enact President Trump's programs. Just watch. Michael

William, More blah blah blah. Tony Podesta, was in cahoots with Manafort back at the time for which Mueller dug up stuff. If they put him in jail with Manafort, I would not be as upset. (Although it would still be a travesty to put Podesta in jail before a trial, but at least it would be an error of justice, not a corrupt witch hunt.) This is political bullshit to lessen the publicity impact of the IG report. And despite any rationalization, there will be repercussions. Count on it. And when they come, I can't wait to read you cry foul. Michael

Steve, Trump is calling out, facing off with, and beating the most corrupt infrastructure of political people who have infiltrated the US government up to now. After all the scandals of the past US history, that's saying a lot. These people do not intend to give up their power. They can get quite nasty about it. And they are all masters of dirty tricks. Trump was able to go on sheer balls and brawling up to a point because these nasty people did not take him seriously until it was too late, but now he needs warriors who know how to fight them and the sheer size of them. Make no mistake. They did not go away just because they lost the primary. A good deal of them on the Republican side are even gravitating toward Clinton. So Manafort is a perfect pick. Here's the difference between Manafort and, say, Jeff Roe, Ted Cruz's dirty tricks dude. Manafort screws the most corrupt people in power to help Trump advance. Roe screwed the good guys (like Ben Carson) in the name of Ted Cruz, so much so that the only people Cruz has left are his witch doctors (certain evangelicals, Glenn Beck and The National Review pseudo-intellectuals). What's more, Roe didn't screw them because there was nothing worth screwing. Not one of them had any sliver of political power he could snarf for Cruz. All they've got are opinions. Michael

A note on the documentary. There are a few things in it that are controversial in a quirky way. One is that Patrick Bergy talked about Roger Stone, along with Paul Manafort, as one of the people involved setting up a competitor to Shadownet back in the day. Man, this put a bug up Alex Jone's ass. When I first saw the documentary, the part talking about Roger Stone was a clunk-thud sound in the symphony. But, propaganda-wise, I think it's good to be there. These kinds of inconsistencies create cognitive dissonance and this causes controversy, which causes the message to get spread. In fact, since Bergy has designed disinformation campaigns in the past, I would not put it past him to have done this on purpose. In fact, it's odd how he showed up in Alex's studio right after Millie got arrested and got interviewed before Alex was aware of this Stone business in the film, then how he immediately hit the road on his bike, stopping to crap on Alex on his smartphone. Man, does that sound like it was done on purpose. Propaganda-wise, whether it was or not, whether Roger Stone was an early mastermind of the surveillance state or not, etc. etc. etc., the truth does not matter. So, in this case, I'm not even interested in it all that much. What matters is that people are talking about this issue and fighting over it. And we know Alex will dig into this thing like a dog with a bone and will keep at it for days if not weeks. Roger Stone is one of his stamps of credible influence with President Trump. (Obviously, fact-wise, this stuff does matter. But facts have little to do with propaganda, so from a propaganda lens, facts don't matter. Whether a story spreads does.) There are a few other things in the film of that are incongruent, but when you look at them, they are all inessential to the main message and they all prompt points for people to disagree over. Ultimately, I think the main value of the documentary is how Millie (and Tore and even Patrick) described the way the pieces fit together and framed it all in a way that sidestepped the engineered narratives in place in our culture. They made all this look like something new while pegging it to quite famous people in a manner the public is not used to. And the plain language and simple explanations used make it easy to understand. Without realizing the power of this, I think Millie is torpedoing a lot of bad-guy ships that she didn't even aim at. Did Patrick and Tore use her like this for this? Maybe... But one thing is for sure. People are going to look up a lot of stuff on their own as if all this were new. And that will be a great thing, something those who engineered the narratives in place in our culture never imagined would happen. Why? Because what people are going to see will not be pretty and will create new narrative in the culture, ones the bad guys did not engineer. I love watching this play out in real time. Michael

Blago is out. President Trump commuted his sentence. Yay! (But don't get me wrong. We all know Blago was no saint.) From Breitbart: Donald Trump Commutes Democrat Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s Jail Sentence There are so many reasons for President Trump to do this, it's not funny. Here are just a few off the top of my head. 1. All Blago did--essentially--was mouth off on the phone. 2. Blago was really punished, not for mouthing off, but for potentially embarrassing the newly elected President Obama since it was Obama's Senate seat he was crowing about and negotiating. Blago was a sacrificial lamb to show the country that President Obama would be impartial since Blago was a Democrat. 3. It's just plain fun to turn the rationale in Number 3 around and say President Trump is commuting Blago's sentence to prove that he is impartial, given that Blago is a Democrat. 4. Blago has already served 7 years of the 14 year sentence. In any rational universe, that is more than enough for what he was convicted for. In fact, in weighing the context of what other politicians did and do, etc., etc., etc., Blago's conviction was more persecution than justice, so commuting his sentence was simply the right thing to do. This is realigning justice from abuse to reality--in this case, to the spirit of the law rather than the letter of the law. 5. The same people who tried to take President Trump down in the Deep State are the same people who took Blago down (see the article). So this is a warning shot to them and the rest of the Deep State that war is now declared by the Trump side. And it's real. 6. By President Trump doing this for Blago, just as he did something similar for Scooter Libby, both from opposing camps, Trump eases with way in public perception into pardoning Paul Manafort, Roger Stone and others in his camp. 7. Most of all, commuting Blago's sentence is a thumb in the eye of former President Obama. One that hurts. There are more reasons, including one more fake news press shitstorm that President Trump likes to cause so he can redirect the attention elsewhere, but that should do it for now. btw - This event is in the Deep State Unraveling thread because it is a clear demonstration of the Deep State's waning power. Michael

For anyone worried about impeachment, we are going to see the Wile E. Coyote effect kick in again. Think about this pattern. ESTABLISHMENT MEDIA, POLITICIANS AND PUNDITS: Now we've got Trump We've got him good this time. The walls are closing in (etc. etc. etc.). ANTI-TRUMP SHEEPLE: Ooooohhhh... Damn that feels good. Fuck Drumf. Lock him up. (etc. etc. etc.) ESTABLISHMENT MEDIA, POLITICIANS AND PUNDITS: Now watch this as we show you the take down. ANTI-TRUMP SHEEPLE: Get him! Get him! Get him! (fizzle) ANTI-TRUMP SHEEPLE (long faces): Wha... What happened? He's still there. Then the cycle repeats with a different attempt. How many times has this happened since the primaries? Let's look at some (not in order since a timeline would take too much effort for this one post). Mexican rapists McCain not hero Megyn Kelly double feature: 1. Debate fiasco, and 2. Bleeding out of her wherever. Grab 'em by the pussy Trump University Small hands Stormy Daniels Not releasing tax returns Michael Flynn takedown Charlottesville demonstration fine people comment Russian Collusion--"muh Russians!" (three years running the pattern at least twice a week) Steele Dossier (a branch of "muh Russians!" that has been used over and over) Meeting at Trump Tower (a branch of "muh Russians!" that has been used over and over) Mueller Report, including Mueller testimony before Congress (a branch of "muh Russians!" that has been used over and over) Manafort takedown Caravans of illegals going to border Children in cages at border A long press and media project floating a 25th Amendment removal of the president Michael Cohen (former lawyer for Trump) testimonies and disgrace Books: Fire and Fury (Wolff), Fear: Trump in the White House (Woodward), A Higher Loyalty (Comey), Unhinged (Omarosa), A Warning (Anonymous), The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 37 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President (Lee), and many others used by the press in the above pattern Meeting with Kim Jong Il of North Korea Shit-hole countries comment Blackmailing Ukraine Verbal war with NFL (team members taking knee during National Anthem) Deep State coup (since the primaries) and too many leaks and events to list A massive number of tweets by President Trump causing furious outrage of his enemies Mid-term election wins by Democrats and Republican loss of House majority This list is small by comparison with what actually happened. And in each case--in each and every case--there was a blanket of news coverage that followed the same pattern: (1) This time we got Trump, (2) Here we go so just watch, and (3) Fizzle. And each time the anti-Trump public went delirious anticipating Trump's demise, then stupefied when nothing happened and he was still there. The psychological effect of this has been to increase the frustration of the anti-Trump true believers until they can't see straight and increase the cognitive dissonance of the fellow travelers. Over time, many fellow travelers are drifting away, or think all this is silly, or even become Trump supporters at a distance. Or, they become outright enemies of the Democrat establishment like the hard left is right now. Meanwhile, with each attempt, Road Runner Donald keeps going, "Bleep bleep." whooosh... That is the case even for this impeachment. Michael

One more unravel--all prim and proper through the courts. NY State Judge Dismisses Manafort Case, Paving Way For Pardon A team of heavy equipment and steam rollers are on the way to the swamp and those delusional Deep State fools don't even see it. Michael

Mark, I half agree with you and half disagree. It's not on principle. It's on what I call process thinking, which is very typical of those who build projects. I think you are coming from an ideological mindset, which is good. But that view--in practice--is always looking at the horizon, not at a specific destination. And the characteristic of a horizon is that you can only move toward it or away from it, you never reach it, nor do you ever escape it. Why? Because it is a context, a background, fundamentally a standard for guidance. But that's not a work plan. In a journey, an itinerary is a work plan. The vision for the future in an ideology is like a horizon. It is always based on some kind of perfection, or some kind of utopia or other. And it includes a set of principles for moving toward that horizon (or perfection or utopia). A work plan for a project is waaaay different. To start with, the vision for the future is concrete. You can touch it. It's a drawing of a skyscraper, the finish line for a relevant athlete, an outline of a symphony, pictures of and info on specific targets to destroy (for whatever purpose), a law project, etc. A vision for a project is wholly tangible. A vision for an ideology can have tangible elements, but intangibility is its fundamental characteristic. For Trump, he's mostly about tangible. And here is how a sequential work plan plays out for a project (like, say, for Trump's election). There's a lot more to it, but I'm doing this off the top of my head as illustration. PROJECT VISION (or Goal): Win the election for the presidency of the United States. STAGE 1: Generate buzz (get name in the mainstream as a candidate), formally announce and do the legalities. STAGE 2: Compete in and win the primaries with the voters. STAGE 3: Win delegate election at convention and accept the nomination. STAGE 4: Compete in and win the general election, both with voters and with the Electoral College. You can set up a work plan in different ways with lots of different details and approaches, but this sequence demands to be followed by the reality and nature of the project's vision. So any variations will have to include these stages in one form or another. Now here's the thing. Often there will be things you do in Stage 1--while you are in it--to get that Stage done correctly, but it would be poison to do the same thing in Stage 4. Making super-controversial comments is a good example. It's great for generating buzz (Stage 1), but the closer you get to November 8 in Stage 4, the less time there is to let a controversy burn out. So you essentially have two arcs for strategy and tactics in a work plan: (1) the general arc for the overall vision, and (2) a series of smaller arcs based on the specific steps that must be done in the correct sequence. When a man like Trump executes a project, he always keeps his overall vision in mind, but he is well aware of fundamental needs of each Stage. That's why he has gone through campaign managers the way he has done. Lewandowsky was great to get him through the buzz and the primaries (Stages 1 and 2), but a technical problem arose along the way with delegates. So he got a specialized man do fix the delegate situation (Manafort). Note, Trump still loves Corey Lewandowsky and there will probably be a place at the table for Corey in a Trump administration, but tension between him and Manafort was distracting from Stage 3 goals. So Trump got rid of Corey. Does that mean Corey is out of the overall vision? No. It does mean he was removed after he had successfully helped achieve the first two Stages, but was not effective in the following one. I believe Corey will be part of the destination, but is no longer part of the journey. That can work with more sinister elements, too, and with a slightly different outcome. They can be on board for part of the journey due to specific needs of specific Stages, but (barring sinecures or pats on the head or things like that), they will not be part of the working structure at the destination. For a kinda lame analogy, what does a construction contractor have to do with running a luxury hotel? His part is over once the hotel is built. I cannot talk intelligently about Woolsey until I learn more about him, but based on what little I do know, I bet he's on board for tactical reasons arising from a specific Stage or Stages where certain establishment Republicans could torch the process, but will most likely not be on board for running the country. From an ideological view, Woolsey does not share Trump's ideology (or that of his followers), so he cannot be on board. From what I have seen so far, I can fully agree with this, but this is also where I said I half-agree with you. When we change perspective and go from a project view, the lack of Woolsey (or the lack of someone who does what he does) might be fundamental to a specific Stage and result in it not being completed correctly. Trump knows the details of that and I don't (yet). In that case Woolsey's history and principles would become a matter of blah blah blah only. Why? Because by losing a Stage, Trump will lose the election. This does not mean that, for a man like Trump, he has no ideology. I've said it before and I'll say it again. I believe he is one of the most moral men to ever run for the presidency, despite not using correct ideological jargon. But in a project plan, ideology can present (and it is better when it is), but it is a horizon. It is a general guide (go East or go West, etc.). It is not an itinerary or instruction manual for getting specific jobs done. Trump knows his destination lies to the West (so to speak), but the specific place where it lies is projected by his vision and a map, not by just looking at the horizon and following it as the crow flies, i.e., never going East or North or South to get around a mountain or canyon. To move a bit into your wheelhouse (btw - I always hear this used, but what the hell is a wheelhouse? ), one of my main beefs with ortho-Objectivists is that they do not understand this difference in perspectives. At least, I never see them write about it. Or if they do, they treat business plans as a form of selling out when a tactic needs to be used that does not point squarely toward their ideological horizon. Their way of going through a forest is by running over a straight line of trees with a bulldozer, not finding the pathways between the trees. They kinda get in trouble when they come across a forest of giant sequoias, too. Their bulldozer stops dead in its tracks. To overextend the metaphor, they try to build tunnels through all mountains to make sure the horizon line stays straight even when it makes no sense to do that, and that's one of the reasons they hardly ever arrive at a destination other than right beside Rand's works. Then there's the part you always like to point out, that their horizon and Rand's horizon often point to different directions, but that's beyond the scope of this post. Michael

I love the way President Trump thinks. NY has decided to enter the ring with him using the power of its prosecutors. And, as gravy, they throw in Manafort. What to do? Does President Trump invest in a ton of lawyers and play their game without any other actions? Nope. Hi kicks the ass of the NY politicians big time by saying how great Texas and Florida are to live. Let them try to govern while their best taxpaying citizens leave. Just this pair of tweets alone should throw their coffers into a mess. I wonder how belligerent the AG & Co. will stay once they have a crapload of heavies in the state and city governments breathing down their necks. Michael

Roger Stone today (Aug. 17) tells Bill Weld that he thinks the third party candidates should be on the presidential debate stage. I originally looked at this to see Roger's view of the addition of Stephen Bannon and Kellyanne Conway to the campaign management. The word in the mainstream is that this is a clipping of Paul Manafort's wings, but Roger says both he and Manafort are quite happy with it, seeing that this is a time requiring an expansion. He even said he advised on it. Michael

Paul Manafort speaks. I remember he had this same tone of voice when, a couple of months or so before the convention, he told some newscaster or other that Trump would win with about 1,500 delegates and the newscaster's jaw dropped open. Yet there he sat, nonchalantly licking the fur on his chest. Once again, Manafort looks like the goddam cat who ate the goldfish. Michael

William, You mean like deal maker? Like everything going back to that? Hell, I bet President Trump made his deal with Mexico and blew the stock market to a record high, and even walked away from his deal with North Korea for now, just to get people talking about his pathetic ass again instead of the hell the heroic Mueller has in store to rain down on him over Cohen hookers and Manafort taxes and, worse, to get people to stop talking about the even more heroic McCain. (You can't make this up. There are people who actually believe this shit. ) Michael

For those who miss Alex Jones, I just saw a couple of his videos. The gist is this. The Senate, through public statements by top GOP Senators like Grassley and Graham, have signaled that it's OK by them for President Trump to fire Jeff Sessions. President Trump is also going to release--unredacted--a mountain of intelligence and DOJ documents (many of which have already been released with massive redactions), including things about Hillary Clinton's email scandal and other nasties. All this ties in with a concerted effort by the Deep State and establishment elitists to tank his presidency, or at least, cheat their way to Democratic Party and elitist establishment Republican victories in the midterms. They know this is the big one if they are to survive and they are pulling out all stops, but in a disciplined, orchestrated manner. This includes a recent meeting by the head honchos of the giant social media companies on how to deal with efforts at influencing the elections (meaning how to keep censoring pro-Trump voices without it looking like that), the increased negative propaganda onslaught by the fake news media (if that were possible, but it is and they are doing it), the Manafort and Cohen legal things hitting at the same time, Pecker of National Inquirer and Weisselberg of the Trump Organization being granted immunity in exchange for testimony, etc. With reference to this last, according to Alex, the straw that broke the camel's back was when they came to President Trump and told him to look at what they are doing and imagine his future. But it can get worse--much worse--since, if he doesn't start playing nice with the Deep State and roll over issues they want enacted or maintained, they are going to indict his son, Donald Trump, Jr., for anything and everything they can come up with. Apparently, President Trump said, "Fuck you," and set the wheels in motion for a massive house-cleaning. Alex thinks Jeff Sessions will be gone this week. Probably Rosenstein, too. Let's see what happens. Also, Brennan is out there on Bill Maher (and elsewhere) trying to drum up support for a coup against President Trump by his cabinet (hardee-har-har ). Let's really see what happens on that one, especially when we see Brennan going off in cuffs later down the line. Here are the videos I saw. And this: btw - A geeky note: I didn't first see these videos on the Real Video versions embedded here. So far, their search function sucks, so I don't use it for following trends. I first saw these videos on Twitter. But I don't know if Twitter is going to cancel Alex before too long. It probably will. So the Real Video versions will be around long after. The only inconvenience in embedding them from Real Video (besides finding them in the first place ), is you have to strip out the autoplay function in the source code to keep them from becoming annoying for users. (For anyone who wants to do this, get the embed code from the video, come to the OL post, switch to source mode, paste the embed code where you want it to go, delete the following from the embed code: allow="autoplay; ... and post it. For those who think like me, who like to look for themselves and come to their own conclusions--whether you agree or disagree, enjoy. For the others who have a Pavlovian response to the words "Alex Jones," keep mocking. The clock is ticking... So we'll see what we see when it happens... Michael

I love it that the press is all over Manafort, Cohen, and, never forget, muh Russians! I'm looking at something a little different that is not getting much real estate in the fake news space. Trump will spend 40 days campaigning for midterms Man, the anti-Trumpers should be hooting it up that Trump would waste his time now that they have him cornered with no way out and he is signed sealed and delivered and it's all over for him except the crying. I can't wait to read all the snark. Maybe they'll run with some repeats of their texts during the last presidential election that Hillary was to win as a sure bet regardless of how many rallies Trump did. Come on, people, say something. I'm interested... All ears... Michael

Still having doubts about the Deep State? The link goes here: Manafort’s Judge Is Under Federal Protection After Wave Of Threats From the article: They're not even hiding it anymore. Spooks are supposed to hide stuff like that. This is the desperation of a dying elitist power group in collusion with a dying fake news legacy media. Michael

Korben, President Trump is not the only one who denies collusion. So far, the people running the Mueller investigation have denied it, too. Anyway, the following is more for the reader since you are predisposed against President Trump. I say this because lots of people are absolutely sure the "correcting of typo" "misspoke" kind of retraction President Trump made is all the proof they need to condemn him to hell and prove once and for all he is the most evil human who ever walked the earth, and btw, impeach impeach impeach him! So this is for the reader. A comment from Rush Limbaugh yesterday: My father, who grew up in the coal mining mountains of southeastern Virginia, used to tell me about two big muscular bullies who went around asking a guy, when they could catch one alone: "Are you a Republican or a Democrat?" They would ask this in a menacing tone. The guy would gulp and ask them what they were. One would say, "Republican," and the other would say, "Democrat." In other words, the guy was going to be beat up no matter what he said. This is exactly how the fake news media treats President Trump. (Of course, they go into shit fits because they try to beat him up in every way possible and it never works. ) As to the probably headlines Rush mentioned, they are almost happening merely because President Trump corrected a blooper. So I think President Trump should not have even said he misspoke. Apropos of nothing relevant except tangentially, Mueller is now trying to get immunity for 5 witnesses in the Manafort investigation. I wonder if one of those is Tony Podesta... That would not surprise me at all. But if this happens, it sure would piss off a lot of the wrong people for the flawed investigation Mueller is running... So I almost hope it happens. Michael

(sigh) ABC News apologizes for false graphic saying Manafort pleaded guilty to manslaughter They only apologize after they get caught. Fake fake fake... Michael