In other news, Americans are still drowning in debt and broke as fuck…
CNBC’s Jessica Dickler reports that while 78 precent of full time workers say they live paycheck to paycheck, 71 percent are in debt, and nearly 10 percent of those making $100,000 or more say they can’t make ends meet, according to CareerBuilder.
“Seventy-eight percent of full-time workers said they live paycheck to paycheck, up from 75 percent last year, according to a recent report from CareerBuilder.
Overall, 71 percent of all U.S. workers said they’re now in debt, up from 68 percent a year ago, CareerBuilder said.
While 46 percent said their debt is manageable, 56 percent said they were in over their heads. About 56 percent also save $100 or less each month, according to CareerBuilder. The job-hunting site polled over 2,000 hiring and human resource managers and more than 3,000 full-time employees between May and June.” -CNBC
Sorry, but if you’re making over $100,000 and you can’t make ends meet, you’re fucking up by the numbers. Move, downsize, commute further to work, cook more at home. Sure, a glorified closet in high-rent cities like San Francisco and New York start at $3K / month – but driving an extra 20 miles will cut that down enough to pay down debt and make your depression-era grandparents proud.
$1 million in the bank will conservatively net you $30 – $40k / year in passive income with enough left over for your kids to blow on cruises and cars they think they ‘earned’ by being your offspring. Social Security, if it’s still around, will provide another $20-$24k if you receive maximum benefits. If you can’t comfortably live on $100K now, much less save up for retirement, you’ll be in good company at the state-run retirement ghettos when it all runs out.
A DC Federal Judge has approved a reworked warrant seeking records from users and subscribers to anti-Trump website ‘disruptj20.org,’ which has been linked to organizers of an inauguration riot and other disruptive and illegal behavior.
The website connected users through mailing lists and planned meet-ups, and provided a calendar of anarchistic events as well as resources to help people prepare for the mayhem. The site also provides a ‘legal guide’ for those arrested.
The original warrant came under fire for its broad scope – which would have forced website host DreamHost to produce over 1.3 million IP addresses and other information on visitors to the site.
“In essence, the Search Warrant not only aims to identify the political dissidents of the current administration, but attempts to identify and understand what content each of these dissidents viewed on the website,” said DreamHost General Council Chris Ghazarian in a legal filing opposing the request.
DOJ narrows scope of request
In response, the Department of Justice said it had no idea how many records were involved, and amended the warrant to protect ‘innocent users’ from having their 1st and 4th amendment rights violated.
Chief Judge Robert Morin ruled that DreamHost, an LA-based web-hosting company, must turn over data about visitors to the website disruptj20.org, which is a home to political activists who organized protests at the time of Donald Trump’s inauguration as U.S. president in January, many of whom have since morphed into the controversial “antifa” movement.
Morin, who will oversee review of the data, also said the government must explain what protocols it will use to make sure the data of “innocent users” is not seized by prosecutors, according to Reuters. Bloomberg adds that prosecutors would have to tell the judge which data it intended to seize.
The DOJ is still getting IP addresses though…
After privacy concerns were raised over the original warrant casting a ‘digital dragnet’ to root out political dissidents, prosecutors narrowed the scope and agreed to set aside and seal any information that doesn’t involved rioters – however their request still includes the IP addresses of those suspected of committing crimes.
So far 19 people have pleaded guilty out of over 200 who were charged with various felonies linked to the inauguration riots, which organizers used ‘disruptj20’ to verify the identity of participants who logged into the site to confirm their participation.
During Tuesday night’s 76 minute rally in Phoenix, President Trump threatened to shut down the government if his proposed border wall doesn’t receive congressional funding.
“If we have to close down our government, we’re building that wall,” he said.
The next day, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders didn’t back down from this claim.
“Look, I think the President is committed to making sure it happens, and he’s also committed to working with Congress to make sure that we move forward,” said Sanders, adding “And as I think Speaker Ryan said, it’s not necessary, so maybe that means he’s on board with making sure it happens.”
Paul stalls on the wall
Paul Ryan said earlier in the day that he doesn’t think a government shutdown will be necessary, does doesn’t think “most people want to see a government shutdown, ourselves included.” Ryan noted that the House had already passed funding for the wall, but that the narrowly divided Senate would need more time to act.
“The fact is though, given the time of year it is and the rest of the appropriations we have to do, we are going to need more time to complete appropriations process particularly in the Senate,” said Ryan, who added that a short-term government funding bill would probably be necessary to keep the government functioning past September.
Democrats reject
Democrat leadership shit bricks, as Nancy Pelosi said “President Trump’s multi-billion dollar border wall boondoggle is strongly opposed by Democrats and many Republicans, adding “Democrats will stand fast against the immoral, ineffective border wall and the rest of Republicans’ unacceptable poison pill riders.”
Meanwhile Chuck Schumer “If the President pursues this path, against the wishes of both Republicans and Democrats, as well as the majority of the American people, he will be heading towards a government shutdown which nobody will like and which won’t accomplish anything.”
Enter Maggie
The New York Times’ Maggie Haberman hinted in a tweet early Wednesday that “Trump is setting up a major clash with his border wall/govt shutdown threat, where WH aides say privately they’re drawing line for base.”
Trump is setting up a major clash with his border wall/govt shutdown threat, where WH aides say privately they're drawing line for base
What exactly will this showdown look like? Moreover, Trump never said the shutdown was contingent upon the wall being built – rather, the he would pull the trigger on the wall if the government shuts down. Big difference.
Hmm, I guess since that whole civil war thing isn’t exactly panning out and CNN panels are backing the President’s remarks on Charlottesville, we’re back to Muh Russia with a BRAND NEW tale of malfeasance and treason!
Except that this is truly the mother of all McNothing Burgers… which, of course, means it’s a CNN EXCLUSIVE!
Anonymous sources tell CNN that Trump’s deputy chief of staff, Rick Dearborn, received an email in June of 2016 from some guy ‘seeking to connect top Trump officials with Vladimir Putin,’ which Dearborn forwarded to campaign officials.
As an aside – I guess this means there was no preexisting back-channel, right?
The person was only identified in the email as being from “WV,” which one source said was a reference to West Virginia. It’s unclear who the individual is, what he or she was seeking, or whether Dearborn even acted on the request. One source said that the individual was believed to have had political connections in West Virginia, but details about the request and who initiated it remain vague.
The same source said Dearborn in the email appeared skeptical of the requested meeting.
CNN then points out that June of 2016 is the same month as the Trump Jr. Trump Tower meeting with a Russian attorney – which was set up and attended by associates of ‘Trump Dossier’ firm Fusion GPS. DUN DUN DUN!
The Fake News Network then goes on to loop the Russians into Trump’s election win – stating “While many details around the Dearborn email are unclear, its existence suggests the Russians may have been looking for another entry point into the Trump campaign to see if there were any willing partners as part of their effort to discredit — and ultimately defeat — Hillary Clinton.”
Mayflower Hotel
While Dearborn’s name hasn’t been mentioned in conjunction with the Russia probe, CNN is also tying him to an April 2016 event at the Mayflower Hotel in D.C. which Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak attended a speech by President Trump on foreign policy.
“Dearborn was involved in helping to arrange an April 2016 event at the Mayflower Hotel where Trump delivered a major foreign policy address, sources said. Kislyak attended the event and a reception beforehand, but it’s unclear whether he interacted with Sessions there.” -CNN.
Could CNN be talking about the same Sergey Kislyak who was sitting with Democrats during Trump’s March address to congress?
Wow, all these Russia ties are making my head spin.
Buried Truth
Of course, in another ‘anonymously sourced’ March 2016 email between Trump campaign advisor George Papadopoulos and top campaign officials with the reported subject line “Meeting with Russian Leadership — Including Putin.”
Of course, CNN buries this tidbit: “Sources told CNN that senior campaign officials dismissed that proposal.”
Papadopoulos apparently kept peppering the administration with emails about meeting with Russians – reportedly emailing former campaign manager Corey Lewandowsky “Putin wants to host the Trump team when the time is right.”
To sum up…
Two Trump aides forwarded emails they received regarding potential meetings between Trump and various Russians, including Putin – which senior campaign officials dismissed.
Meanwhile, Russia’s largest state-owned bank paid the Podesta group $170,000 to lobby for the removal of sanctions when Hillary was expected to win. Anyone want to look into that?
Six CNN panelists brought in to discuss Trump’s Charlottesville comments absolutely destroyed host Alysin Camerota’s plan to showcase Trump supporters turning on their commander-in-chief.
Unfortunately for CNN, the panel wasn’t having that shit – starting with nobody raising their hands when Camerota asked who was “troubled” by the President’s response to the violence at the rally.
In fact, one panelist BTFO of CNN’s narrative right after:
“I didn’t see anything wrong with it. I mean he addressed the problem. Let’s face reality, there are problems on both sides.”
“I think it’s ridiculous to have me choose between Hitler and Stalin which is what I consider both groups are.”
“The Antifa group to me is totally a very Stalin-ish kind of group. If you’re willing to set fires and burn places to the ground, that doesn’t seem like a very peaceful group to me.”
When asked about whether there were “very fine people” protesting in Charlottesville – referring again to the President’s comments, Camerota’s attempts to smear Trump once again failed. Panelist Daphne Goggins replied:
“It hasn’t been investigated so we don’t really know who was out there. But I’m telling you, I’ve seen videos of other people who were out there who were not neo-Nazis.”
Wew!
Last but not least, panelist Robert McCarthy melted the MSM’s face off when he commented on the fact that the media refuses to cover violent Antifa counter-protesters who showed up in “helmets, body armor and clubs… ready to do battle.”
“That’s the night before the clash happened. The Antifa people didn’t show up Friday night, they showed up Saturday. They came there to do battle. They showed up with helmets, body armor, clubs… They showed up with ballons filled with urine.”
“The media is not covering it. They’re only focused on making neo-Nazis and white supremacists out to be Trump supporters.”
“He said there was trouble on both sides. Was there not trouble on both sides? I saw bats on both sides.”
Teachers in the Belgian town of Ronse are sounding the alarm over ‘radicalized’ Islamic toddlers who call their classmates “unbelieving pigs” and make throat-slashing gestures with their thumbs, according to a document titled “Indoctrination in Kindergartens,” which leaked on Monday.
“Teachers sound the alarm because even children seem to be under the influence of extremist flow within Islam,” reports Belgian newspaper The Last News.
“This is a moment of fear,” said Belgian politician Matthias Diependaele who is a member of the Commission to combat violent radicalization. According to Diependaele, it is not a case of radicalized toddlers because “toddlers do not radicalize.” According to him, there are toddlers who pick up the hate speech at home. “Parents in the Muslim community should feel responsible for this.”
The director of the school in Ronse, Dirk Moulart, does not deny the contents of the internal document, but the affair calls a storm in a glass of water. According to him, the testimonies of four childhood juveniles about their experience with six children from three problem families known to the police.
Radicalizing the Youth
Following coordinated suicide bombings in March 2016 by Islamic terrorists all under the age of 30, Belgium has stepped up its fight against radicalization. As such, the town of Ronse has unveiled the ‘Network Islamexperts,’ for teachers to be able to report radicalized students.
So far, 481 reports have been filed in total – however school director Dirk Moulart notes that the radicalized toddlers are about one percent of the total number of children at school.
“I hope he’s right,” said Diependaele. “But it is worrying that this is now happening in Ronse, a small rural municipality in the Flemish Ardennes. I hold my heart for the situation at schools in major cities like Antwerp or Brussels. But Diependaele is pleased that Belgium’s deradicalization policy is finally taken seriously,” adding “It is staggering that we must signal these problems in this early kindergarten stage. But doing that is a good thing.”
That’s cute and all
The case of the Belgian toddlers is not an isolated incident. Radical Islamists have been using children as young as four to wage war.
“Armies historically have used children as drummer boys and standard-bearers. The militant groups Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in the Gaza Strip teach children to hate Israelis and look forward to killing them. And like the Sri Lanka rebels, Tamil Tigers and various African and Colombian militias, groups fighting in Syria use children for spying, smuggling and combat.
The Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL, goes even further in developing a system to recruit, indoctrinate and deploy children, Horgan said.
“To desensitize them to violence, they’re shown videos of beheadings, attend a live beheading,” Bloom said.
Then the children participate in beheadings, by handing out knives or leading prisoners to their deaths, she said. The gradual process is similar to that used by a pedophile who lures a child into sex, “slowly breaking down the boundaries, making something unnatural seem normal,” she said.
After selection, children are taken from school to military training, with uniforms, marching, drills, weapons training and continued indoctrination. This period usually lasts one to two months, but if there’s a battle nearby, youngsters might be fast-tracked, Horgan said.”
The Department of Justice (DOJ) has dropped part of its demand for IP addresses from visitors to a site used by Antifa to plot illegal activities during the inauguration. The ensuing riot resulted in over 200 felony indictments and 19 individuals pleading guilty to various charges.
Of note, organizers Luke ‘pedo-author’ Kuhn and Colin Dunn were caught on hidden camera at the infamous Comet Ping Pong Pizza restaurant in Washington DC, where they divulged plans to release butyric acid at the “Deploraball” Inauguration party, as well as “a series of clusterf*ck blockades, blockades of all the major ingress points in the city, shutting down major bridges and highway access points, as well as shutting down metro rail.” (video 1, video 2)
As previously reported, the DOJ originally demanded a wide scope of information from web hosting firm ‘DreamHost’ in relation to the website ‘disruptj20.org,’ including the IP addresses of anyone who has ever visited the site – which amounted to over 1.3 million records. DreamHost filed a reply to the court to challenge the request, stating that it was too broad, and set a dangerous precedent.
“In essence, the Search Warrant not only aims to identify the political dissidents of the current administration, but attempts to identify and understand what content each of these dissidents viewed on the website,” said DreamHost General Council Chris Ghazarian in a legal filing opposing the request.
In response, the DOJ has re-filed an amended warrant, dropping the request for the IP addresses, and stating that the government isn’t on a witch hunt for ‘political dissidents’ of the current administration.
“The Warrant – like the criminal investigation – is singularly focused on criminal activity,” the government said in response. “It will not be used for any other purpose.” The DOJ also pointed out that it had no idea there were 1.3 million IP addresses involved, stating “What the government did not know when it obtained the Warrant – what it could not have reasonably known 0 was the extent of visitor data maintained by DreamHost that extends beyond the government’s singular focus in this case of investigating the planning, organization, and participation in the January 20, 2017 riot.”
Narrower scope doesn’t mean backing down
While the original request has been updated to protect the privacy of the innocent, the DOJ isn’t backing down whatsoever – and the IP addresses of individuals suspected of crimes are still on the table.
Here’s the meat of the request:
Not like the rioting children made it very hard to find out who they are in the first place…
Dr. Steve Pieczenik went on an expletive-filled 20 minute rant today on Infowars – blasting everyone from Trump to McMaster to ‘Mad Dog’ Mattis over the decision to send more troops into Afghanistan.
I don’t need to flash Dr. Pie’s full list of credentials again – for the unaware, just know that he’s an expert in all types of warfare and counterintelligence, ran PsyOps for the CIA, and served under 5 previous administrations. Tom Clancy based the “Jack Ryan” character on Dr. Pie… enough said.
While Alex Jones is currently supporting President Trump’s troop surge, Dr. Pie is in a fire-spitting rage over what he considers a massive lie to the American public, telling the President he’s on notice.
“We’re gonna have a bloodbath that we’ve never seen before. This is not about terrorism, that’s bullshit. This is not about 9/11, that’s bullshit.” –Dr. Pie
Highlights from the interview (video below):
Lies, Cowardice and Disaster
“Not only has the president lied to the American public, but more importantly the generals Mattis, McMaster, the people we helped to put in have lied to themselves and to the American public. These are generals who know better…”
Trump again repeats that we were attacked on 9/11. This is always about 9/11. I told you from day one, when I came on this show it was about guys like me and others who said; these generals are cowards. They’re moral intellectual cowards. I’ve known that about McMaster because we paid him. I knew that about Mattis.
I had warned my men in G-2, you put these guys in and they act in a different way, I will turn against you and I will have every American turn against you, because this is a disaster. There is no strategy. McMaster is an idiot.
It’s bullshit. The real ISIS was created by the CIA. The real Al Qaeda was created by the CIA. We don’t have a war on terror. This is 16 years of insurgency in a place that’s not even a country/ McMaster knows that, Mattis knows that, I’ve been in Afghanistan.
Trump is now on notice that we will work against him.
Daddy issues?
Alex Jones: How did they get [Trump] to do this when he’s very pig headed and always does what he thinks is best?
Dr. Pie: Because you gotta remember, when his father wanted to get rid of him and put him into disciplinary action, he was sent to a military academy. He then refused to fight in Vietnam. So he basically looks to generals as if they’re mentors and fathers. These generals are what I call idiot savants. They know what they read but they don’t know how to create a war and win a war.
Does Trump deserve ANY credit?
Alex Jones: Does Trump not get any credit though that he controlled them so far, and didn’t let them expand the war in Syria?
Dr. Pie: No, he gets no credit whatsoever. This is not a question of a grade. This is a question of what we call the ‘existential moment.’ You want to go to war, it takes 6 seconds to go to war. You want to get out of war, it’s taken us 17 years to find out what the hell we’re doing there. We don’t belong there. Men are dying there every day – we have no strategy, and putting more men into this place is not principaled rationality.
Follow the money…
Alex Jones: Why are they doing it?
Dr. Pie: There’s six trillion dollars in that war, and whose going to make money: KBR. Who makes money in Africa, KBR. What are we doing in Djibouti, the same thing. I’ve got soldiers who come back and say what the hell was I doing in Africa? Why was I in Djibouti, Sudan, Somalia? The soldiers have no idea what they’re doing.
Trump has no understanding what war is about. He has no understanding what it is to begin a war, and to complete a war. Neither do these generals. None of these generals were involved in finishing a war. They’re not like Eisenhower.
“My original instinct was to pull out — and, historically, I like following my instincts. But all my life I’ve heard that decisions are much different when you sit behind the desk in the Oval Office; in other words, when you’re President of the United States. So I studied Afghanistan in great detail and from every conceivable angle. After many meetings, over many months, we held our final meeting last Friday at Camp David, with my Cabinet and generals, to complete our strategy.” –President Trump
Let’s be fair though – a lot can change in 7 months. For example, one might run for President on a non-interventionist, America 1st platform – railing against your globalist opponent and the ‘never ending wars’ they support.
THEN, after winning said presidency – two major players on your anti-war / America 1st platform who convinced a ton of like-minded Americans to vote – Flynn and Bannon – might get railroaded out of the West Wing, along with any other pesky patriots. In their stead, you’d find yourself flanked by Goldman Sachs, Patraeus protege H.R. McMaster, and the very liberal Jared and Ivanka.
Coincidentally – you might be convinced by those around you, despite your ‘original instinct,’ that sending 4,000 more kids to Afghanistan is a good idea.
Trump had three choices…
A full-scale pullout, similar to the one that created the vacuum in Iraq when Obama was at the helm, a troop increase – H.R. McMaster’s plan, or a scaling Afghanistan back to a smaller, leaner footprint – a move supported in July by Blackwater founder Erik Prince and reportedly Steve Bannon.
Via Breitbart
“Right now, the U.S. is spending more than when there were five times as many troops in country,” Prince pointed out. “We’re spending more than the entire U.S. infrastructure budget in Afghanistan. I think the president is looking for a more America First focus, and not what amounts to a large wealth transfer to Afghanistan.”
So the neocons love this idea. Who doesn’t?
Mike Flynn Jr., for starters.
I can think of better things to spend BILLIONS possibly TRILLIONS on besides more war…#BorderWall#Education for starters….
