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"Fact Checker: Hillary Wears "Seizure Glasses" at Memorial Day Parade". Zeiss seizure glasses comments at Naked Capitalism. She could have been, and may yet be, both the first woman President and the first clinically dead person to be President! Where is her neurologist hiding in the parade?
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"Debunking myths about why people migrate across the Mediterranean". Not headed to Europe, but to the next safe place, but each successive way point turns out to be unsafe or unwelcoming until they reach Europe.
"Is the European Refugee Crisis being Driven by Drought and Climate Change?"
"Leaks and Militarized Policing: The NoDAPL Water Protectors Keep Getting Proven Right". "Leaked Documents Reveal Counterterrorism Tactics Used At Standing Rock To "Defeat Pipeline Insurgencies"". TigerSwan.
Paine 2017
"After More than a Half Century: The Historical Truth of the Assassination of John F. Kennedy" by Vincent Salandria (also here). Used to be at GlobalResearch, but disappeared. There's a documentary in the works. Ruth Paine is still alive, and spreading rather topical anti-Russian propaganda!
Clinton vibe
Gosh, I'm getting an overwhelming Clinton/Clinton campaign vibe from whatever it is that May thinks she is doing. The mainstream media is doing all it can to hide it while mindlessly attacking Corbyn - just as the American mainstream media did for Clinton/against Trump - but, just as in the States, the obvious media bias starts to become the issue (and people start to think about voting to spite the bias), and it is all over once you've become a figure of fun. "MSM trying damage control as May is mocked all over social media". "#TheresaMayGIFs".
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Stroking out
Tweet (Alex Emmons):
"Watch as Stuart Jones, a high-level acting official in the State Dept, is asked why they criticize Iranian elections but never Saudi Arabia:"
To be fair, he does remarkably well with his non-responsive answer considering that the question itself appears to have given him a stroke.
Comedy orange
"'IT IS A GREAT HONOR TO BE HERE WITH ALL OF MY FRIENDS — SO AMAZING & WILL NEVER FORGET!'"
One of the ignored keys to Trump is to see him as one of the greatest comedians of all time.
Provocative stunts
"Thursday marks the first test of Donald Trump's 'ultimate deal'" (Cook). And with Jared otherwise engaged.
Fo'evah
"Jeremy Corbyn's Surprising Gains". It is a typical stupid American perspective to see Corbyn as like Sanders. Corbyn is far, far, far to the left of Sanders economically, and as far as foreign policy goes, well, suffice it to say that no blood pours from Corbyn's fangs. The similarity is that both are holding their own despite a massive conspiratorial campaign by Pure Evil in their respective countries to ensure they cannot win.
Helping a lot is that May seems to have decided that running Killary's campaign over again would be a good idea. Of course, if either of them has any contact with a real human being in public, the race is lost, a considerable problem in pretending to campaign. May's big advantage over Killary is that she is not, as far as I can tell, clinically dead, but she seems unable to profit by it.
The conspiratorial attempt to permanently remove Corbyn from British politics (by BigJew/Bliar), as opposed to just the conventional attempt to win a majority, is backfiring big time, with an unstable minority Tory government more and more likely, and the subsequent prospect of Corbyn prevailing in the following election. Oy veh!
I can't help but be reminded of the Manning-Harper machinations to permanently remove the Liberals from the equation in Canadian politics. By any measure, a spectacular failure (though Harper did succeed in moving the goal posts of Canadian politics well to the right). Part of the big plan was to hide the most socially retrograde parts of the Conservative platform. After 13 (!) ballots, the Canadian Conservatives have just picked, as their new leader, an unabashed Christian holy-roller (picked over the libertarian and attempts at Trump-style comic populism). Unless the NDP can come up with something - unlikely - Trudeau is Canadian PM fo'evah.
There is no innocent explanation
"Manchester's dead: Victims of British regime-change operations in the Middle East" (a lot of the pieces described - is this mere 'blowback', or something much, much worse?):
"Further leaks were reported by the German magazine, Focus. Citing German intelligence sources, it said Abedi flew to Frankfurt from Britain in 2015. Focus said that Germany's intelligence agency BKA had been told by police in the UK that this visit took place before Abedi undertook paramilitary training in Syria. It reported that he had not been apprehended in Germany, as he was not on any watch list.
There is no innocent explanation for the fact that Abedi was able to travel to Libya, Syria, Turkey and the UK unhindered. It has nothing to do with the spurious claims about the UK having "leaky borders", or too few border guards. Abedi's ability to pass through customs without interference can only mean that he had been given the all clear.
For decades, successive British governments have worked with jihadi groups, prepared to use atrocities to achieve their objectives. This has meant that, behind the "war on terror" and the relentless assault on democratic rights that it has entailed, UK authorities have been harbouring Islamist extremist operatives and groups who can be set into motion at the required time, in line with British imperialist foreign policy objectives.
Groups such as Algeria's Armed Islamic Group (GIA), the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG), Egyptian Islamic Jihad and al-Qaeda all had bases in London. Al-Qaeda considered London the nerve centre of its operations in Europe, with the security services collaborating with some of these organisations and their leaders, the most well known being Abu Hamza and Abu Qatada.
Likewise, British imperialism worked closely with Libyan Islamists, supporting them in their opposition to then Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. As former MI5 agent David Shayler revealed, MI6 collaborated with one such organisation, the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, in the attempted assassination of Gaddafi in 1996.
For years, a group of LIFG members were active in the Whalley Range district of Manchester, close to Salman Abedi's home. Salman Abedi's father, Ramadan Abedi, an airport security officer, was an LIFG member. He and his wife, Samia Tabbal, a nuclear scientist, fled Tripoli in 1991 after he was arrested by the Gaddafi regime. He had been employed in the regime's internal security service and was reportedly suspected of tipping off members of anti-Gaddafi Islamist groups about pending police raids. The Daily Mail reported,
"It appears that Ramadan's life revolved at several points around toppling Gaddafi…"
After fleeing Libya, Ramadan and his wife lived in Saudi Arabia for a period. They both then went to the UK and applied for and were granted political asylum. They lived first in London and then moved to the south Manchester area, which had become a centre for many anti-Gaddafi elements with which British intelligence maintained the closest links.
Ramadan returned to Libya some time in 2011 in order to fight in the imperialist proxy war that resulted in the overthrow and murder of Gaddafi in October of that year by US/UK-backed "rebels". This took place after a NATO bombing campaign in which untold numbers were killed nationwide over the preceding eight months. Ramadan went on to become an administrative manager of the Central Security Force in Tripoli, one of the many militias vying for control of the country.
Samia, Abedi's mother, is a close friend of Umm Abdul Rahman, the widow of a former Al Qaeda commander, Abu Anas al-Libi. Accused of involvement in the 1998 US embassy bombings, the Daily Mail reported that al-Libi "spent five years in Manchester—having won political asylum in Britain in 1995." The Mail said that
"Abdul Rahman went to college in the Libyan capital with Abedi's mother, who was studying nuclear engineering. She [Rahman] said the two women also lived together in Manchester for a number of years."
Al-Libi was seized by US forces in Tripoli in October 2013 and died in 2015 of liver cancer before coming to trial. Following the Manchester bombing, Ramadan Abedi and his youngest son, Hashem, were arrested in Tripoli Tuesday night.
Salman Abedi was also known to have been a close associate of one of the main Islamic State recruiters in the UK, Raphael Hostey, who was killed in a drone strike in Syria in 2016. Hostey grew up in Moss Side, just a mile away from Abedi's home in the Fallowfield district of the city.
In a statement on the bombing, the government of Abdullah Thinni in Bayda, Libya said it had warned the British government it was harbouring terrorists. Thinni's government was driven out of Tripoli in 2013 by Islamic extremists, including UK-based Libyan exiles. It accused May's predecessor David Cameron of backing terrorist groups who
"have been destroying our cities and towns in an attempt to shape Libya into an exporter of terror to the whole planet.""
You know you are going to keep dying in horrible ways until you stop your governments from doing this, and you know, don't you?, that you are going to have to 'name the Jew' in order to have any chance to stop your crooked beshekeled politicians from taking the bribes that are wrecking your countries. The deep conspiracy in the current British elections revolves entirely around permanently removing a moral and decent man who would stop this cycle of beshekeling and Wars For The Jews, of which this current Libyan nonsense is just a small part. It is a stark truth - state the truth out loud, or live a miserable life, or even die, in an Orwellian dystopia. We no longer have the luxury of protecting Evil based on some manufactured notion of political correctness or befuddled feelings about possible past injustices.
Environmentalism by stupidity
"New Generation of Bombs Undetectable by Airport Scanners: What's the Solution?" Most of the comments are really stupid, but some are woke. The end of business (perhaps all) travel by air caused by promotion of Wars For The Jews by western beshekeled politicians would really help with climate change. Flying will be allowed, but naked, with no luggage or personal possessions.
With the connivance
"PETER OBORNE: Why MI6 must share the blame for the jihadis in our midst":
"Often with the connivance of MI6, during the early years of the Syrian War, hundreds of British citizens were allowed to travel abroad to join jihadist organisations.
The reason MI6 certainly approved such involvement was because spy chiefs had taken it upon themselves to meddle in the internal affairs of Middle East countries.
In the case of Syria, they wanted to get as much help as possible in their mission to topple the Syrian president Bashir al-Assad.
There was a similar policy towards Libya. British citizens — it has been reported this week that among them was the father of the Manchester suicide-bomber — were undoubtedly encouraged to travel to the north African country to fight in the civil war there to get rid of Gaddafi.
Indeed, research by the Middle East Eye website has revealed the extent to which the British authorities, I believe with the encouragement of MI6, released terror suspects in this country from control orders which had previously been imposed on them in order to restrain their movements and stop them from using the internet.
Duly, these people were free to join terror groups in the Middle East and North Africa — organisations with links to Al Qaeda and other terror outfits.
Of course, as well as being enemies of al-Assad and Gaddafi, these groups were also enemies of the West.
So, while MI5 officers were working day and night to prevent Islamist terrorists inflicting carnage on British streets, MI6 officers were complicit in creating a generation of British-born jihadis who are prepared to do anything, and kill anyone — even young children — in their efforts to destroy this country.
This brings us directly to the Manchester suicide-bomber.
Along with his father and brother, Salman Abedi fought as a 16-year-old in the Libyan civil war. There have been reports, too, that he received military training in Syria.
There is every reason to speculate that his evil handiwork at the Manchester Arena on Monday night was in part a direct consequence of MI6's meddling."
All the rejects of the political world
"Follow the data: does a legal document link Brexit campaigns to US billionaire?":
"What was not known, until February, was the relationship between all these figures and the Leave campaign. That was when Andy Wigmore, Leave.EU's communications director, revealed to this paper that Farage was a close friend of both Bannon and Mercer. He said that the Leave campaign was a "petri dish" for the Trump campaign. "We shared a lot of information because what they were trying to do and what we were trying to do had massive parallels."
Wigmore also said that Mercer had been "happy to help" and Cambridge Analytica had given its services to the campaign for free. It was the general secretary of Ukip, a British lawyer called Matthew Richardson, who effected Leave.eu's introduction to Cambridge Analytica, Wigmore said. "We had a guy called Matthew Richardson who'd known Nigel for a long time and he's always looked after the Mercers. The Mercers had said that here's this company that we think might be useful."
He said that Mercer, Farage and co had all met at a conference in Washington. "The best dinner we ever went to. Around that table were all the rejects of the political world. And the rejects of the political world are now effectively in the White House. It's extraordinary. Jeff Sessions. [Former national security adviser Michael] Flynn, the whole lot of them. They were all there.""
And Bannon is in charge of saving Kushner (and Trump) from neo-McCartyism.
Apparently a criticism
"When Intelligence Isn't - By Patrick Armstrong". Current standards of 'intelligence assessments'.
"Alleged suicide bomber's father arrested as he expresses doubts over son's involvement". In Libya.
"Was Egypt's Coptic bus attack a smoke screen?" Another 'retaliation' which seems to have nothing to do with the attack.
""Anatoly, you will not believe what the idiots proposed to me!" (Dramatization)". US government tells Putin his communications are insecure. Possibly. The comments raise a lot of other possibilities.
"Saudi Arabia And UAE Block Qatari Media Over Emir's Israel, Iran Comments". Tweet (Sam Tamiz):
"Saudi accuses Qatar's royal family of being unrelated to the founder of Wahhabism, which is apparently a criticism
english.alarabiya.net/en/News/gulf/2…"
"Travis Kalanick Loses His Mother in a Tragic Boating Accident". Hmm.
Khan't khount
"Manchester, Berlin, Paris, Nice, London, New York: Passports and IDs Mysteriously Discovered in the Wake of Terror Attacks". Remember the documents aren't actually there! The mythological documents are required to explain how the authorities so quickly identify the perps, in lieu of admitting that they knew who the perps were because they were IC assets who were sent there, or allowed to go.
"'Sorted' by MI5: How UK government sent British-Libyans to fight Gaddafi" and "Security services missed five opportunities to stop the Manchester bomber". Ha!
Trump at his most sublime: "Trump is making quite the impression in Europe. And 'Putin will be thrilled.'" "New Cold War clouds are dispersing" (Bhadrakumar). "Putin to get royal welcome from Macron at Versailles despite rift over Syria and cyberattacks".
"Al-Qaeda's Godfather Is Dead - Good Riddance". "The Joke & The Punchline". It must have seemed tremendously clever at the time to employ the Khazar trick of pitting your enemies off against one another. Of course, radical Islam only later became a serious enemy ironically as the Jews needed somebody to replace the Soviet Union as the strategic reason for the United States to support the Jewish colonial project. I'll leave this here: "Russia Blog #5: Afghanistan Syndrome" (Ames). Also: "Will Trump agree to the Pentagon's permanent war in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria?" (Porter).
Khazars khan't khount: "The War Over Syria's War Dead".
"Operation "Grand Dawn" Post 1".
Much as I'd like to see slumlord, illegal Khazar settlement promoter, and guy-with-a-most-punchable-face Kushner go down, he did nothing wrong in attempting to circumvent the IC in sanely dealing with Russia, and the treasonous leaking and coup-like actions of the IC since the inauguration have actually conclusively proven the necessity of back channels to avoid the IC. "The Trump/Russia Story Just Got A Lot Darker". "The Activities Around Trump's Foreign Policy Are Scandalous - But The Media Won't Tell You Why." There is something deeply strange about this, as the first rule of American politics is the Khazar is always bulletproof.
"OANN Releases Report On Seth Rich Murder, Raises Questions About Chinese Corruption". John Ashe and Seth Rich are in the Killery pattern.
To be fair, they can't very well investigate as the bottom line is that they can't, under any circumstances, even suggest that the Americans didn't have a rationale for the airport attack!: "Russia fumes as OPCW investigators fail to inspect Khan Sheikhoun or Al-Shayrat air base".
"Exclusive: Tillerson declines to host Ramadan event at State Department". Extremely odd, as this bad-faith pandering is the very stuff of American politics.
"Guardian mourns Corbyn's Polling Surge" (Cook). This kind of thing is no longer 'out of character'. The Guardian is firmly in the Conservative-UKIP-Bliar-Khazar conspiracy. The snap election isn't about who forms the government, it is entirely about removing Corbyn as Labour Party leader, solely because the Evil Ones are terrified of his policy positions.
"Beranton Whisenant: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know". Although this is DWS country, no evidence yet that she did it: "His name was Beranton J Whisenant Jr and he was murdered to cover up DNC criminal activity."
Nutjobistan / Barryopticon
The Seth Rich assassination continues to generate considerable push-back from the bad guys, including a bizarre attack on Kim Dotcom: "Open Letter from Kim Dotcom".
"The life and death of the Seth Rich conspiracy theory". Note how convoluted the conspiracy theories constructed to defeat the Rich conspiracy theory have become. As usual, it not a question of believing the conspiracy, it is a question of choosing which conspiracy to believe. Do you think Kim Dotcom would have left his digital fingerprints over a clumsy attempt to inject himself into the story?
"How the murder of a DNC staffer turned into a right-wing conspiracy". Ad hominem attack. Rich is still very dead, with bullets in the back, a 'robbery' in which nothing was taken, and the people who would know have as much as said the leaker was Rich, and we now know that a possible motive for the leak was his anger at the illegal and immoral treatment by the DNC of Sanders' campaign. This isn't complicated.
Hilarious that this is in the Guardian!: "Manchester conspiracy theories reflect the price we pay for social media". The standard procedure is to make a straw man out of the wackiest conspiracy found on the internet, and use that to stifle any deep consideration of root causes and obvious solutions. Clearly, the constant use of Sunni nutjobs as western proxy soldiers in the innumerable Wars For The Jews is going to cause this very problem, of necessity, and all the traitor bureaucrats involved are fully aware of that, and are happy about it, but it makes no sense for May to have set up this particular attack for political gain. I'm certain she would murder a million children in cold blood for one extra vote, but Corbyn's sensible position on the Wars For The Jews - of course he can't call them that! - means this attack wasn't a winner for her. False flag is when you specifically order and arrange the 'terrorist' attack, and we've seen lots of that (it is the trademark Jewish move), but this is a step less than full false flag, the case of the statistical certainty that these Sunni nutjobs will return from the battlefields to which they have been sent by western governments even angrier and crazier than before, and will continue their jihad domestically, but unpredictably.
Tweet (Dr. Brian May):
"How interesting that this tweet was deleted. One wonders what pressure was brought to bear. To avoid the stench of blame ? Bri"
The latest theory about Mensch is that she is a covert supporter of Trump, creating such awful and incompetent stories against him that people will turn to him in sympathy.
McMaster on the outs?
Treason corner: "Don't Fear President Pence, Liberals. Welcome Him." and "The Case For President Pence". Trump was very unenthusiastic about Pence, and I'm sure was sold only on the theory that Pence would be impeachment/assassination insurance, a prospective President so disastrous that even the treasonous Democrats wouldn't want him. He underestimated the treason of the Clintonistas.
"Joe Lieberman Withdraws Name From FBI Nomination". BigJew has tried to push so many incompetent Zionists into Trump's cabinet by floating them in their Jew-controlled media as front-runners that their stunts should be obvious to everybody.
"Trump: dancing with wolves on the Titanic". There is still some room for optimism due to Bannon's benign influence and Trump's innate caution. Both the attack on the Syrian airport and the recent attack on militias in Syria were muted signals sent for show, the first with warnings and very little damage, and the second avoiding the Syrian Arab Army or its foreign allies. It is as if he is throwing pieces of raw steak into the cages of the rabid dogs - the Traditional Enemies Of Peace - and their constant whining for war. The Jewish concept of Sunni-stan is failing due to the natural opposition of Jordan and Iraq, neither of whom want Nutjobistan as a next-door neighbor.
"A Palestinian's first-class seat next to Naftali Bennett". Nobody in the Jew-controlled media dares mention it, but the big thing not said in Trump's visit to Bibi is moving the embassy.
"The Fix Is In; Nato Is Out". Now that slumlord Jared - he's a walking 'anti-Semitic' cliché - is being investigated, will Bannon rise in stature? This utterly superb Trump positioning feels Bannonesque.
Did you notice the sudden drying up of concern trolling over the deaths of Syrian civilians in the Jew-controlled media?: "US On Track To Kill More Syrian Civilians Than Russia For 5th Straight Month".
George seems to have purchased some PR on the claims he tried to influence the Canadian election using a charitable front, and we all know he'd never do such a thing.
"American Guns Drive the Migrant Crisis That Trump Wants to Fix With a Wall".
The big Barryopticon story broke, the big American story of the year so far, and essentially invisible in the mainstream media, as it doesn't fit The Narrative about the sainted Barry, now taunting Trump in Europe.
Monkeys riding bicycles
"Suit over billionaire's underage sex abuse settles". I always wonder who actually pays the damages - Les Wexner or the State of Israel?
""Outraged" UK Stops Sharing Attack Information With US Due To Media Leaks". "UK police stop passing Manchester bombing information to US over leaks". "Selected Articles: The Manchester Bombing: Unanswered Questions".
"Why Jeremy Corbyn has the best long-term plan for tackling terrorism on British soil". The main reason why BigJew, Bliar, the Conservatives and UKIP are united in a Corbyn-removing conspiracy. "BBC: Just Get Used to Terrorism". "FLASHBACK: Muslim Mayor Of London Tells Citizens To Get Used To Terrorism". Bonus part of the whole experience: "Manchester Terror Attack: "Pop Teaches Girls To Be Fearless In A Hostile World""!
"Hell, we've been training the damn Afghans for 16 years. You can train a monkey to ride a bicycle in three."
"Bomber's father fought against Gaddafi regime with 'terrorist' group". "Father of Manchester Arena suicide bomber 'was a member of al-Qaeda linked militant group'": "In a twist of fate, Britain found itself effectively allied with the group . . . ". Ha!
"Terrorism fears, terrorism hysteria, terrorism facts." 'Terrorism':
is the propaganda basis for fighting and starting Wars For The Jews;
is the excuse for wasting literally billions trillions of dollars enriching the 0.1%;
keeps innumerable people in the IC, MIC and 'security' boondoggles in cushy, vastly overpaid, jobs.
"Bar Manager: Cops Never Talked With Staff About Night Seth Rich Was Murdered". "GOP Lobbyist: Cops Hid Evidence, Halted Seth Rich Probe". "Twitter Suspends WND For Seth Rich Report". Curiously similar to this.
"Hannity: I'm dropping the Seth Rich matter — for now". "Sean Hannity Takes "Abrupt Vacation" Amid Advertiser Boycott".
I'll drop this here: "Health care or Russia? Democrats divided on 2018 focus". Russia, of course!
"D.C. surgeon who operated on Seth Rich: 'The DNC staffer was alive and well after surgery, before a group of LEOs showed up to the ICU'". Looks like a story created to undermine the credibility of Seth Rich truthers.
Demonic forces
"Why You Should Definitely Keep Talking About Seth Rich". The frenzy with which this is being pursued - blood is pouring from fangs - and the weirdness - like the strange and sudden complete Fox retraction without details - should lead everybody to question what is going on. The extreme overreaction is telling.
""Secret" Russian Document Influenced Comey's Probe Into Hillary Clinton: Report". The striking thing about this story is that it seems of vital importance to determine if the email in the document is legitimate, but the FBI, who could determine the issue easily, seems frozen, unable to act, just as they have relied on the ultra-hinky CrowdStrike and never examined the actual DNC servers. The irony appears to be lost on everybody that it is the FBI's incompetent handling of pilfered - Comey can't answer the questions about the origins of the document as it would reveal how the FBI stole Russian documents! - Russian intelligence that led to the problem. Just how brilliant would that sneaky Putin have to be to know just what kind of email to manufacture AND allow to fall into the hands of the FBI that would, unchallenged as it made so much sense (given the outrageous Lynch tarmac meeting with Bill, the email rings true), influence Comey to throw the election to Trump?
"Hillary Clinton's Syria Revenge" (Ford).
But it is hard to keep all the minions in place: ""Iraqi Government Confirms Cooperation With Syria, Iran And Russia ..." - South Front".
"There's Less than Meets the Eye in Trump's Saudi Arms Deal". Most of it from the sainted Barry.
"Brazil Mainstream Media Admits Spreading Fake News About Lula". "Shave the Billionaire".
"Israel Refuses to Extradite Jewish Criminal Who Terrorized Families of "Anti-Semites"".
"The Manchester Attack - A Blowback From Britain's Terror Support In Libya, Syria And Beyond". "Manchester Attacks: What Price Hypocrisy?". To me, 'blowback' is the concept that the waging of all the almost innumerable Wars For The Jews causes justified anger in the victims of these wars, and there is 'terrorist' retaliation in an attempt to alter the politics of the war waging Jewslaves. What is going on in Europe is several orders of magnitude worse than mere 'blowback'. Angry young men and women in Europe are being groomed and trained by Wahabbist preachers and their Western government IC allies to go and fight as soldiers in the proxy armies fighting civilization in the Middle East. When they return it is 100% predictable that a good number of them will continue the same fight at home. They don't distinguish 'infidels' based on where they live. Officials know this, but don't care as they can just use the 'terrorism' - really a war by European governments against their own civilians - to create propaganda for more Wars For The Jews. Do you ever wonder why authorities can so quickly identify the terrorist and his entire cell. It is because they created them!
I need hardly point out that innocents will continue to die until we start firmly and loudly naming the Gulf monsters, and of course, The Jew. "Demonic forces" won't cut it, and just provides cover for the real villains.
"Complaints of foreign influence on third-party advertising in 2015 federal campaign soar". In case you've misplaced your secret decoder ring, necessary for digesting the product of the lying media, 'Tides' is code for Soros.
"UK Government Harbored Terrorists Linked to Manchester Blast for Decades" (Cartalucci). All these guys are 'known' as they are sent off to fight in Western proxy armies in, um, Wars For The Jews. If you tire of terrorism you might consider electing politicians who promise to stop doing that. Like Corbyn.
"Qatari-Saudi feud out in the open". "Stupid Western media theories about the origins of the Saudi-Qatari rift". "Is there a power struggle in Qatar?"
Comment by Plenue at Naked Capitalism on the extreme irreligiosity of Iranians. This is why Iran is bound to prevail.
"Jewish Survival Strategies: An Interview with Gilad Atzmon". The identity politics crowd has trouble keeping their virulent homophobia in their pants: "A Brief Thought: Homophobic Humor & the American Liberal Crisis of Conscience".
"Leonard Cohen song is anthem of Jewish exclusivists". Of course it is.
The IC must have really applied the screws to Fox: "Statement on coverage of Seth Rich murder investigation". Is it a 'matter of national security'? "Seth Rich Conspiracy Theorists Claim Ariana Grande Attack Was A False Flag". "Washington Post Already Claiming Russiagate Is Still Valid Even If Seth Rich Was DNC Leaker". "Kim Dotcom Disappoints: Offers Full Seth Rich Testimony But Only To Special Counsel Mueller". "Seth Rich murder conspiracy theories re-emerge as Kim Dotcom weighs in". "We're Seth Rich's parents. Stop politicizing our son's murder." Hannity may be the last man standing: "Sean Hannity's Disgusting Smears Of Murdered DNC Staffer Seth Rich Fit A Pattern". By the way, how is this possibly a 'smear' of Rich, who the conspiracists treat as a national hero and a martyr?
"David Frum Uses Manchester To Attack Trump".
Netanyahu's face
"Watch Netanyahu's face while Trump says he never mentioned "Israel" to the Russians". Watch the video (Vox hopes you'll take its lying word for it). Bibi is not 'clearly horrified' - he is trying to keep from laughing. The Khazars rightly find their control over Americans, and the way they can so easily make the President of the United States squirm, hilarious.
"Seth Rich Plot Thickens: "DC Insider" Speaks Of "Complete Panic" At Highest Levels Of DNC". This probably is typical /pol/ nonsense, but the DNC should be worried. "Kim Dotcom Goes All In: 'I Knew Seth Rich... I Was Involved'".
"Environmentalists Are Ignoring the Elephant In the Room: U.S. Military Is the World's Largest Polluter". And WWIII would finish us off just with its climate change effects. But lets not notice as it doesn't fit the Khazar warmongering agenda.
Speaking of climate change, and its effects on health: "WHO spends more on travel than some major health initiatives, internal documents show".
""Democracy Now" Runs Interference for Imperialism in Syria". "Peace Activists Confront Amy Goodman on Biased Syria Coverage". Goodman should be commonly recognized for the monster she is.
From April, curiously under-reported: "Rabbi Mendel Deitsch, 64, Dies of Wounds After Attack in Ukraine" and "Chabad rabbi brutally beaten in Ukraine dies of wounds".
"At CNN, Imagining an Absurd Iranian/ISIS Alliance".
"Harvard Study Reveals Huge Extent of Anti-Trump Media Bias". "Journalists' brains operate at below average due to excessive booze and caffeine: study".
Further evidence of the sad, sad decline of WhoWhatWhy, with none of the discrepancies being morally or legally relevant in the least: "Exclusive: Weiner's "Underage" Sexting Girl Lied To Damage Clinton". "Where else do you see journalism of this quality and value?" ANYWHERE ELSE!
"Turkey Summons US Ambassador To Protest Brawl In Which Erdogan's Bodyguards Beat Up Protesters". The Turks seem to have learned PR from the Khazars!
"Willful Ignorance and the Legacy of the 'Comfort Women' (慰安婦) in Japan". Supremacists never feel shame as their victims are not regarded as human beings.
"Macron: An American Trojan horse in the Elysee Palace" (Madsen). "President Emmanuel Macron" (Petras). "All Power to the Banks! The Winners-Take-All Regime of Emmanuel Macron" (Johnstone) - a little too easy on Le Pen.
"Bannon, Priebus Return To Washington As Trump Trip Continues". Skipping Israel.
"Preparing for War on Hizbullah". All the Iran Talk is really about stealing land in Lebanon.
"Trump's Saudi visit wasn't about Islam or Iran. It's about America First." (Bhadrakumar). Noting that the Americans did the bare polite minimum of Iran bashing. Billions and billions and billions of dollars doesn't buy much these days.
"Here's why Saudi Arabia and Israel are allies in all but name".
"Syria's crematoriums echo the Holocaust — President Trump, bomb them now"! "New Holocaust Claims Against Assad Are Based On Old, Debunked Propaganda". Higginsesque peering at aerial photos of the tops of buildings from the internet and deriving elaborate conclusions is ridiculous on the face of it.
"Did China Hack The CIA In Massive Intelligence Breach From 2010 To 2012?" More big news that will go largely unnoticed.
"Do High-Level Leaks Suggest a Conspiracy?" (Giraldi) (like a counterintelligence operation where you try to determine the identity of the moles based on access to information):
"Trump's bombast puts everyone but his most tone-deaf supporters on edge, but there are two points that he has been making repeatedly that are essential to any understanding of what is going on. First, the investigation into Russia and the Trumpsters has been a high priority at FBI and also in Congress for nearly a year. Yet so far no one has produced evidence that anyone broke any law or even that someone did something wrong. Second, and more importantly, the vilification of Trump and Russia has been driven by a series of leaks that come from the very top of the national security apparatus, leaks that appear not to have been seriously investigated.
This involvement of FBI and CIA in the campaign, whether inadvertently or by design, was particularly evident in the various reports that surfaced and were leaked to the press during the campaign and right up to the inauguration. The leaks of that type of information, to include technical intelligence and Special Access Program "codeword" material, require top-level access as well as the ability to arrange clandestine contacts with major players in the media, something far beyond the reach of most employees at CIA or the FBI.
Similar leaks have been appearing since that time. I confess to finding Monday's detailed account of what President Trump discussed with Russian Ambassador Sergey Lavrov, which included corroborating material that likely did more damage than the information that was actually shared, highly suggestive of the possibility that something like a conspiracy is, in fact, functioning. Given the really tight-security control of that transcript after it was determined that it contained sensitive information, one might reasonably assume that the leaks to the media came directly out of Donald Trump's own National Security Council or from the highest levels of the office of the DNI, CIA, or FBI.
Yesterday, the anonymous sources struck again, revealing that "Michael Flynn and other advisers to Donald Trump's campaign were in contact with Russian officials and others with Kremlin ties in at least 18 calls and emails during the last seven months of the 2016 presidential race." That sort of information had to come from the top level of the FBI and would have been accessible to only a few, but even though the leaks of what constitutes highly-classified information have been recurring for many months, no one has been fired or arrested."
"The Gaping Holes of Russia-gate" (it is nothing short of amazing that the entire massive edifice of this 'scandal' rests on IC fronts as obviously hinky as CrowdStrike and the Atlantic Council):
"But what about the "Russian hacking," the centerpiece of the accusations about Kremlin "interference" to help Trump? Surely, we know that happened. Or do we?
On March 31, 2017, WikiLeaks released original CIA documents — almost completely ignored by the mainstream media — showing that the agency had created a program allowing it to break into computers and servers and make it look like others did it by leaving telltale signs (like Cyrillic markings, for example). The capabilities shown in what WikiLeaks calls the "Vault 7" trove of CIA documents required the creation of hundreds of millions of lines of source code. At $25 per line of code, that amounts to about $2.5 billion for each 100 million code lines. But the Deep State has that kind of money and would probably consider the expenditure a good return on investment for "proving" the Russians hacked into Democratic Party emails.
In other words, it is altogether possible that the hacking attributed to Russia was actually one of several "active measures" undertaken by a cabal consisting of the CIA, FBI, NSA and Clapper — the same agencies responsible for the lame, evidence-free report of Jan. 6.
Comey displayed considerable discomfort on March 20, explaining to the House Intelligence Committee why the FBI did not insist on getting physical access to the Democratic National Committee's computers in order to do its own proper forensics, but chose to rely on the examination done by the DNC's private contractor, Crowdstrike. The firm itself has conflicts of interests in its links to the pro-NATO and anti-Russia think tank, the Atlantic Council, through Dmitri Alperovitch, who is an Atlantic Council senior fellow and the co-founder of Crowdstrike.
Given the stakes involved in the Russia-gate investigation – now including a possible impeachment battle over removing the President of the United States – wouldn't it seem logical for the FBI to insist on its own forensics for this fundamental predicate of the case? Or could Comey's hesitancy to demand access to the DNC's computers be explained by a fear that FBI technicians not fully briefed on CIA/NSA/FBI Deep State programs might uncover a lot more than he wanted?"
"CIA's Windows XP to Windows 10 malware: WikiLeaks reveals Athena".
The Swedes
"Getting Assange: the Untold Story" (Pilger).
"Assange: The Amazing Adventures of Captain Neo in Blonde Land…".
"Bonnier family". In case you were wondering if the you-know-whos were involved, well yes, yes they were!
"Sture Bergwall" aka Thomas Quick.
Claes Borgström, who was pivotal in setting up the CIA operation against Assange through his friend Ny (an operation which had already died on the vine in the hands of honest Swedish officials who correctly concluded there was no legal case to be made), is officially the world's worst defense attorney!: "Quick's defence lawyer in most of the trials, Claes Borgström, never challenged the veracity of the prosecution evidence, happy enough to go along with the general opinion of Quick, and, we imagine, with his client's instructions.". He let the whole railroading slide through despite the fact that the forensics wasn't a match for his client, who also had cast-iron alibis for some of the crimes! That sort of conduct would get you disbarred in many functioning places.
Claes had a law partner named Thomas Bodström, who oddly headed for the US for substance abuse rehab (it does seem a little too much fun for him to have taken that 'rehab' in Langley!):
"Not only Petersson, but also Minister of Justice Thomas Bodström and then Foreign Minister Anna Lindh knew about the renditions.[vii] Thomas Bodström spent a year in the US between 2010 – 2011, purportedly for rehabilitation in connection with alcohol and substance abuse, while he was a partner in the legal firm Borgström & Bodström. It would be lax not to point out to readers that Claes Borgström is the lawyer who was called upon to prosecute Julian Assange over allegations that had previously been dismissed. Further, Borgström is known to be friendly with Irmeli Krans, the police interrogator who took SW's original statement against Assange. Irmeli Krans, in turn, is friendly with the other complainant, AA, who, it is said, illegally sat in on Irmeli Krans' interview of SW."
From 2009, for the CIA connection: "Bodström reported over CIA terror deportations".
"Assange legal shakeup: Prosecutor walks, Supreme Court judge to speak out on case": "Ardin charged that Borgstrom was more interested in being in the media spotlight than providing her legal counsel, and has often referred her inquiries to his secretary or assistant."
"Revealed: Assange 'rape' accuser linked to notorious CIA operative".
"Accuser of WikiLeaks' Assange is linked to Cuban dissidents".
"Sex accusers boasted about their 'conquest' of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange".
Murderous history
"A Murderous History of Korea" (read the whole thing; my emphasis in red):
"North Korea celebrated the 85th anniversary of the foundation of the Korean People's Army on 25 April, amid round-the-clock television coverage of parades in Pyongyang and enormous global tension. No journalist seemed interested in asking why it was the 85th anniversary when the Democratic People's Republic of Korea was only founded in 1948. What was really being celebrated was the beginning of the Korean guerrilla struggle against the Japanese in north-east China, officially dated to 25 April 1932. After Japan annexed Korea in 1910, many Koreans fled across the border, among them the parents of Kim Il-sung, but it wasn't until Japan established its puppet state of Manchukuo in March 1932 that the independence movement turned to armed resistance. Kim and his comrades launched a campaign that lasted 13 difficult years, until Japan finally relinquished control of Korea as part of the 1945 terms of surrender. This is the source of the North Korean leadership's legitimacy in the eyes of its people: they are revolutionary nationalists who resisted their country's coloniser; they resisted again when a massive onslaught by the US air force during the Korean War razed all their cities, driving the population to live, work and study in subterranean shelters; they have continued to resist the US ever since; and they even resisted the collapse of Western communism – as of this September, the DPRK will have been in existence for as long as the Soviet Union. But it is less a communist country than a garrison state, unlike any the world has seen. Drawn from a population of just 25 million, the North Korean army is the fourth largest in the world, with 1.3 million soldiers – just behind the third largest army, with 1.4 million soldiers, which happens to be the American one. Most of the adult Korean population, men and women, have spent many years in this army: its reserves are limited only by the size of the population.
The story of Kim Il-sung's resistance against the Japanese is surrounded by legend and exaggeration in the North, and general denial in the South. But he was recognisably a hero: he fought for a decade in the harshest winter environment imaginable, with temperatures sometimes falling to 50° below zero. Recent scholarship has shown that Koreans made up the vast majority of guerrillas in Manchukuo, even though many of them were commanded by Chinese officers (Kim was a member of the Chinese Communist Party). Other Korean guerrillas led detachments too – among them Choe Yong-gon, Kim Chaek and Choe Hyon – and when they returned to Pyongyang in 1945 they formed the core of the new regime. Their offspring now constitute a multitudinous elite – the number two man in the government today, Choe Ryong-hae, is Choe Hyon's son.
Kim's reputation was inadvertently enhanced by the Japanese, whose newspapers made a splash of the battle between him and the Korean quislings whom the Japanese employed to track down and kill him, all operating under the command of General Nozoe Shotoku, who ran the Imperial Army's 'Special Kim Division'. In April 1940 Nozoe's forces captured Kim Hye-sun, thought to be Kim's first wife; the Japanese tried in vain to use her to lure Kim out of hiding, and then murdered her. Maeda Takashi headed another Japanese Special Police unit, with many Koreans in it; in March 1940 his forces came under attack from Kim's guerrillas, with both sides suffering heavy casualties. Maeda pursued Kim for nearly two weeks, before stumbling into a trap. Kim threw 250 guerrillas at 150 soldiers in Maeda's unit, killing Maeda, 58 Japanese, 17 others attached to the force, and taking 13 prisoners and large quantities of weapons and ammunition.
In September 1939, when Hitler was invading Poland, the Japanese mobilised what the scholar Dae-Sook Suh has described as a 'massive punitive expedition' consisting of six battalions of the Japanese Kwantung Army and twenty thousand men of the Manchurian Army and police force in a six-month suppression campaign against the guerrillas led by Kim and Ch'oe Hyon. In September 1940 an even larger force embarked on a counterinsurgency campaign against Chinese and Korean guerrillas: 'The punitive operation was conducted for one year and eight months until the end of March 1941,' Suh writes, 'and the bandits, excluding those led by Kim Il-sung, were completely annihilated. The bandit leaders were shot to death or forced to submit.' A vital figure in the long Japanese counterinsurgency effort was Kishi Nobusuke, who made a name for himself running munitions factories. Labelled a Class A war criminal during the US occupation, Kishi avoided incarceration and became one of the founding fathers of postwar Japan and its longtime ruling organ, the Liberal Democratic Party; he was prime minister twice between 1957 and 1960. The current Japanese prime minister, Abe Shinzo, is Kishi's grandson and reveres him above all other Japanese leaders. Trump was having dinner at Mar-a-Lago with Abe on 11 February when a pointed message arrived mid-meal, courtesy of Pyongyang: it had just successfully tested a new, solid-fuel missile, fired from a mobile launcher. Kim Il-sung and Kishi are meeting again through their grandsons. Eight decades have passed, and the baleful, irreconcilable hostility between North Korea and Japan still hangs in the air."
"To shore up their occupation, the Americans employed every last hireling of the Japanese they could find, including former officers in the Japanese military like Park Chung Hee and Kim Chae-gyu, both of whom graduated from the American military academy in Seoul in 1946. (After a military takeover in 1961 Park became president of South Korea, lasting a decade and a half until his ex-classmate Kim, by then head of the Korean Central Intelligence Agency, shot him dead over dinner one night.) After the Americans left in 1948 the border area around the 38th parallel was under the command of Kim Sok-won, another ex-officer of the Imperial Army, and it was no surprise that after a series of South Korean incursions into the North, full-scale civil war broke out on 25 June 1950. Inside the South itself – whose leaders felt insecure and conscious of the threat from what they called 'the north wind' – there was an orgy of state violence against anyone who might somehow be associated with the left or with communism. The historian Hun Joon Kim found that at least 300,000 people were detained and executed or simply disappeared by the South Korean government in the first few months after conventional war began. My own work and that of John Merrill indicates that somewhere between 100,000 and 200,000 people died as a result of political violence before June 1950, at the hands either of the South Korean government or the US occupation forces. In her recent book Korea's Grievous War, which combines archival research, records of mass graves and interviews with relatives of the dead and escapees who fled to Osaka, Su-kyoung Hwang documents the mass killings in villages around the southern coast.[*] In short, the Republic of Korea was one of the bloodiest dictatorships of the early Cold War period; many of the perpetrators of the massacres had served the Japanese in their dirty work – and were then put back into power by the Americans."
By design / subtle move
"Someone Just Edited Seth Rich's Reddit Posts". Tasty, but needs more . . . Yinon.
"There Are No Rape Charges Against Julian Assange in Sweden. There Are Espionage Charges Against Julian Assange in the USA." (Murray). "Sweden's investigation into Julian Assange was a political frame-up from the outset".
People are noticing that Comey can't seem to keep the big obstruction of justice claim straight: "Has James Comey Committed Perjury? by Publius Tacitus". I'm hoping some Republican has Trump's back on this, and asks about the discrepancies.
"Trumped-up claims against Trump" (McGovern).
"The Kushner-Comey Connection" (my emphasis in red):
"When Trump fired Comey, he claimed that Comey had thrice told him "he" wasn't under investigation. Even assuming Comey did, consider how Trump would understand that and how normal people would. To us, "he" would include just Trump. But to someone like Trump whose only real loyalty is to family, "he" would include his family. Including Kushner.
Trump may well think Flynn is a nice man that deserves his loyalty. More likely, though, Trump knows that Flynn could sink his son-in-law. I believe that's why Trump had to fire Comey in an effort to undercut the Flynn investigation.
And Rod Rosenstein, the survivor, just picked a partner from the firm of Kushner and Ivanka's lawyer Jamie Gorelick, Robert Mueller, to take over the investigation into Flynn.
Update: Sure enough, Reuters is reporting that Mueller, by design, may not be able to investigate Kushner or Paul Manafort.
Within hours of Mueller's appointment on Wednesday, the White House began reviewing the Code of Federal Regulations, which restricts newly hired government lawyers from investigating their prior law firm's clients for one year after their hiring, the sources said.
An executive order signed by Trump in January extended that period to two years.
Mueller's former law firm, WilmerHale, represents Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner, who met with a Russian bank executive in December, and the president's former campaign manager Paul Manafort, who is a subject of a federal investigation.
Legal experts said the ethics rule can be waived by the Justice Department, which appointed Mueller. He did not represent Kushner or Manafort directly at his former law firm.
If the department did not grant a waiver, Mueller would be barred from investigating Kushner or Manafort, and this could greatly diminish the scope of the probe, experts said."
Wut?: "Kushner called Lockheed CEO to get a better arms deal for Saudi Arabia". MSAGA!
The revelations of the v-e-r-y close connections between Israel and ISIS are making some people nervous, hence: "Intel Trump gave Russians came from Jordan, not Israel – report". This re-storying would work better had Israel and its apologists not already freaked out about the irreparable damage to the 'special' intelligence relationship.
Sickening but useful presentation: "Thousands of years of history wiped out by ISIS: Shocking new pictures show how the terror group has obliterated Syria's ancient treasures". Amerika, these are your allies, the monsters you prop up for Yinon!
"Can an Accused Sexual Predator Defend Women in the Workplace?" Ha!:
""Somewhere along the way I went from being a hugger to being a posterchild for 'rape culture.' It was a very subtle move.""
Funny, but I wouldn't have guessed Gosztola and Shadowproof would end up on rape-y side of this issue!
"The Off Ramps Never Used". Corbyn is a shockingly wonderful candidate with shockingly good-across-the-board policies, and a wonderful, good human being who has devoted his entire life to consistent hard work for the people, and not voting for him is literally insane for 99% of the population (not to mention falling under the Khazar-Bliar-Conservative conspiracy to remove the man from British politics):
"Corbyn has been right in his life about almost everything: he was against every bad war, he was against cutting welfare, he was against privatizations, he was against bad trade deals and bailouts and so on.
More than this, he acted on that: he voted against them, spoke against, marched against them. He has not taken bribes, he has not charged the taxpayer for fancy hotels or booze. He is a man of integrity who can reasonably be expected to do what he says.
Like all men of integrity that means he won't always tell you want to hear, but that's the price you pay if you want an actual honest person in charge.
So, of course, Brits are going to elect May, a truly horrid woman complicit in taking away wheelchairs from the poor, and a thousand other things you can read about if you have the curiosity of a turnip and access to a search engine."
Americans were screwed out of Bernie - who isn't a tenth the man that Corbyn is but still clearly superior to anybody else on offer - by backroom DNC machinations and crimes, and the French were screwed into Macron by deft manipulation of the system (and the egos of a divided left), but the Brits have no excuse if they commit national suicide. This is a complete no-brainer.
Some nut from years ago on the internets: "The ontology of Osama bin Laden".
Real Old School (from here). A short while in, you start to see a very early reference to the ongoing Israeli project of stealing American technology (and note that the Zionists posed as communists, the Hasbara method of the time). Later on, a reference to the requisite Parson's sex magick stuff (expressly referring to Crowley).
Khoup khure
Haim is steamed about Assange: "Julian Assange Rape Investigation Dropped by Swedish Prosecutors Over Technicality".
My plan involves getting a private plane to fly from London to Amsterdam, and a one way ticket from Amsterdam to Quito. Oh, and the expertise of a few female impersonators, a lot of padding and make-up, and Pam Anderson.
"New Holocaust Claims Against Assad Are Based On Old, Debunked Propaganda". This nonsense is supposed to give the head loppers and human organ eaters extra leverage in the negotiations. It is so palpably ridiculous everybody just laughs.
Tweet (Rania Khalek) (this is embarrassing even by the standards of Higgins, and demonstrates the necessity of preserving the mythology that the White Helmets are heroes and not just a PR division of the monsters):
"This is pure spin. They oversaw an execution and cheered it on with the mob."
"New Evidence Substantiates Seymour Hersh's Account of Bin Laden's Killing".
In all the piles of things going on, this might be the big story: "German Military to Leave Turkish Airbase: Split Inside NATO".
"Shaked vexed by White House map missing WB".
I was hoping it was him, especially given that the original leaking oddly left out the name: "Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner 'person of interest in Russia investigation'". This may be evidence of some push back by American patriots against the Khoup.
Do you get the idea that all the hard-hard-hard-core Khazar coup plotting would just disappear if Trump were to give them a big concession, perhaps Jerusalem, on his visit to Palestine?
Ny neigh no
Tweet (NickdMiller):
"Official: Sweden is no longer investigating a rape allegation against Julian Assange."
So now, having lost the cover of the phony Swedish investigation, the shenanigans will be all on the British. Or does Assange just walk out the door of the embassy today, unmolested?
The Khoup
"Fast and Furious: Now They're Really Gunning for Trump" (or here). Names the real perp! Again, going back to first principles, the basis of all of this is preserving the 'donor' funding model enjoyed by the Democrats while removing Russia as an impediment to Yinon and the building of Greater Israel. Behind the scenes, the Khazars are in a frenzy caused by the success of the Syrian government, both as a thwarting of their Yinon plans for Syria and aa a demonstration that positive winning steps can be taken by determined actors to defeat Zionism (the Astana zones are already working to free up the Syrian army for de-terrorization efforts, which are accelerating towards an end of the terrorist occupation of Syria).
"The Democratic game plan is evident."
Do Americans really want this? It seems to be a big decision - accept the Khazar Khoup arranged by the IC and thus live in what is really an IC dictatorship primed to start WWIII (literally for the sole benefit of actual traitors, careerists in the IC, bribed Democrat apparatchiks, and a tiny, tiny group of land thieves and murderers known as Khazars), or preserve the constitutional democratic republic. Never have the stakes and issues been as clear.
To fix this, Trump needs to go back to the people. He needs to stop breaking his clear campaign promises, and get the energy to do so by starting a big and ongoing series of huge rallies across the country. He needs to start talking, at least in coded words, about the real issues and real traitors involved here, and the repercussions if the traitors succeed, and ask the American people if that is what they really want.
Rich retraction
"Family Of Murdered DNC Staffer Demands Fox News Retract Discredited Story". "Family of slain DNC staffer demands retractions from Fox News, local TV station". Note that Fox claims to have another source besides Wheeler:
"A FoxNews.com story on the case also cited a "federal source" who said the FBI had conducted a forensic analysis of Rich's computer and discovered thousands of emails with Wikileaks. But a law enforcement official told CNN that the FBI never had possession of Rich's laptop and did not conduct a forensic analysis of its contents."
The mainstream media, which had no interest whatsoever in the original story, is suddenly very interested in the PR moves of the family organized by a Democrat spinner: "Brad Bauman: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know".
Wheeler doesn't seemed to have billed the mysterious benefactor. "DNC Murder Conspiracy Apparently Originated With a Dallas Money Manager". "Millionaire Reportedly Funding the Investigation into Seth Rich's Murder is Frequent Fox News Guest".
"Family's private investigator: There is evidence Seth Rich had contact with WikiLeaks prior to death":
"EDITOR'S NOTE (5/17/17): We want to update you on a story you first saw on FOX 5 DC. We want to make an important clarification on claims that were made by Rod Wheeler, the private investigator hired by Seth Rich's family, whose services are being paid for by a third party.
What he told FOX 5 DC on camera Monday regarding Seth Rich's murder investigation is in clear contrast to what he has said over the last 48 hours. Rod Wheeler has since backtracked.
In an interview Monday, Wheeler told FOX 5 DC he had sources at the FBI confirming there was evidence of communication between Seth Rich and WikiLeaks. This is the verbatim of that exchange:
FOX 5 DC: "You have sources at the FBI saying that there is information..."
WHEELER: "For sure..."
FOX 5 DC: "...that could link Seth Rich to WikiLeaks?"
WHEELER: "Absolutely. Yeah. That's confirmed."
In the past 48 hours, Rod Wheeler has told other media outlets he did not get his information from FBI sources, contradicting what he told us on Monday.
Since Rod Wheeler backtracked Tuesday, FOX 5 DC attempted incessantly to communicate with him, but he didn't return calls or emails.
On Wednesday, just before our newscast, Wheeler responded to our requests via a telephone conversation, where he now backtracks his position and Wheeler characterizes his on-the-record and on-camera statements as "miscommunication."
When asked if Wheeler is still working for Seth Rich's family, Wheeler told FOX 5 DC the contract still stands-- ties have not been severed.
We reached out once again to the Rich family, and through a spokesperson the Rich family tells FOX 5 DC, "The family has relayed their deep disappointment with Rod Wheeler's conduct over the last 48 hours, and is exploring legal avenues to the family.""
Wheeler's story that somehow Fox put words in his mouth doesn't make any sense. The WikiLeaks-Rich claim is the gist of the story. If Wheeler didn't have that to convey, just what was he talking to Fox about? I don't know if Wheeler's claim is true - though Assange as much as said that Rich was the leaker - but I am certain that somebody got to Wheeler.
"Murdered DNC Staffer Seth Rich Was In Contact With Wikileaks Says Former DC Homicide Detective". Lost in the claims and counter-claims is that Wheeler is also alleging a law enforcement cover-up. Also note another big IC conspiracy theory - that this was an American operation against a Clinton presidency, which would make Rich less of a whistle-blowing hero and more of an IC asset.
People will scoff about this, and the Cliontonistas appear to have succeeded in irreparably muddying the waters, but this incident is of vital importance in American history as the Rich leak appears to have been an effort to thwart the 'donor'-Clinton operation to start WWIII against Russia, an operation which is very much alive at this moment.
What a real impeachable offence looks like
"Brazil: explosive recordings implicate President Michel Temer in bribery".
Erdoğan's goons
Tweets by Gilgo. Erdoğan travels around the world with a very active army of goons to beat up any protesters. The amazing thing is that he gets away with it.
Political suicide
"A visit to Yad Vashem, the Holocaust memorial museum in Jerusalem, was cut short at his request."
Uranium courrier
Tweet (WikiLeaks):
"WikiLeaks cable Robert Mueller delivering highly enriched stolen Uranium to Russia in 2009 https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/09STATE85588_a.html … h/t @apblake"
Mosul University
Tweet (Kris Van Cleave):
"CBS News has learned the laptop bomb that may evade airport scanners was built and tested by ISIS at Mosul University"
So, the Israelis with ISIS in Mosul is the big secret we're not supposed to know about.
Curious that the Americans seem to have discovered ISIS explosive research on their own, without Israeli help: "U.S. believes ISIS' bomb-making research includes new generation of explosives".
"Mosul University after ISIL: Damaged but defiant":
"The Iraqi special forces who retook the campus said that parts were repurposed as weapons production facilities.
"There are chemical weapons there," Brigadier-General Sami al-Aradi told Al Jazeera. "We've cordoned off the laboratories until we can find out exactly what ISIS were doing."
Other buildings believed to have been used as weapons workshops or ISIL barracks were destroyed by coalition air strikes. Most of the remaining facilities appeared to have been torched by ISIL fighters themselves."
I wonder what the Israelis could tell the Americans about ISIS chemical weapons.
Priorities tweet (Alan Derschowitz):
"Don't let the Comey story distract from the far more serious if inadvertent disclosure of Israeli intel sources and methods."
Since Mosul is being liberated, how are Israeli agents endangered by Trump's helpful humanitarian advice to the Russians?
Grabher Jehad
"Was Israel behind US laptop ban on Mideast airlines?":
"The purported Israeli intelligence in question reportedly concerns ISIL's newly acquired capability to hide sophisticated bombs inside laptop computers.
This information is said to have led the US government declaring the ban last March on all large electronic devices on board airlines coming to the US from eight Muslim-majority nations.
The ban affects nine companies: Royal Jordanian Airlines, EgyptAir, Turkish Airlines, Saudi Airlines, Kuwait Airways, Royal Air Maroc, Qatar Airways, Emirates, and Etihad Airways.
All of these airlines have direct flights to the United States and pose strong competition to American aviation companies, especially during the busy summer season.
Former CIA case officer John Kiriakou expressed scepticism about Israel's ability to obtain highly sensitive intelligence of this nature about ISIL.
"If it was the Jordanians or the Turkish intelligences services who have done that, it might make more sense because these organisations have a long history of dealing with groups like ISIL," Kiriakou told Al Jazeera on Tuesday.
"I won't be surprised if it turned out that Israel acted in its own interests to disrupt the Middle Eastern airlines business by throwing its own wrench into the whole thing," he said."
"Why Washington Took al-Qaeda in Syria Off the Terrorist List":
". . . The reason the US cannot designate al-Qaeda in Syria as a terrorist group is because that would make the US legally responsible for having supplied a terrorist group with extremely sophisticated weapons and training. The US is arming and training terrorists in Syria, but instead of just getting out it is pretending that al-Qaeda is not a terrorist organization."
"How Two Prominent Liberal Writers' Feud Spilled Out To The Public". Tweets by CreamsicleDemonPrez. Two dicks rolling in the muck: "Did Paul Berman Tell Us So?"
Short history of the FBI, "America's extralegal secret police": "Russia Blog #6: The FBI Has No Legal Charter But Lots Of Kompromat" (Ames). Reminds me of Israel - you show up with violence passing yourself off as an organ of government or a country, and establish yourself just by continuing to pose as legitimate.
"Senior member of Trump team said to tell Israelis: Western Wall is not your territory". The Trumpian serendipity means that odd truths pop out from time to time.
"Ignored By Western Media, Syrians Describe the Nightmare the Armed Opposition Brought Them".
"Rabbi Metzger enters prison to begin serving his sentence". It is a religion where it is considered perfectly normal for all the top religious leaders to be crooks.
"Bernard-Henri Levy Gets Pied in Belgrade, Attempts to Assault a Man [Video]". So common you have to wonder if he sets this up himself as part of his dangerous clown act.
"Master of Cambridge college admits causing 'hurt' to Jewish students over misleading anti-Semitism inquiry". Note that there appears to have been an altercation, but, as usual, the 'anti-Semitism' is based entirely on unproven allegations. The most recent Mossad Brain-Tumor-Boy phony anti-Semitism operation has (finally) created a boy-who-cried-wolf atmosphere around this vicious supremacist group that uses false cries of victimhood to enable them to kill people and steal their land.
"France's Macron dumps parliamentary candidate after Israel lobby pressure". "Senator on Intelligence Committee says Jews in Diaspora are spies for Israel".
"How Israeli schools help sabotage peace prospects". A charming people.
"Hillary Clinton Returns to L.A. for Dinner Event at Home of Haim Saban (EXCLUSIVE)". Owned Together.
"Blair allies plot new party to replace 'dead horse' Labour" - donors, ahem, 'donors', are standing by. Are the British people alive to the fact that the unbearable massive suffering about to be imposed on them is all due to the machinations of one tiny group of people (khough, khough) who have very specific reasons to fear Corbyn?
"Ontario to consider boosting minimum wage to $15, increasing paid sick days". Trying to win the next election.
Steampunk Don. "Nova Scotia's Lorne Grabher takes fight for personalized licence plate to court". Jehad got to keep his in Ontario.
Fairy tale warnings
One missing piece
Distrakba
The big IC conspiracy theory
Propellor on top
Falling from balcony
This is a very dark and perilous moment
Victory means imposing your will on your enemy
Insecure voters seeking authenticity
Sayanim Club
Camp of the sinners
Flnely calibrated control
#MacronGate
It was an honor
Hiding with Lucky
#SheBringsPeace
Cosmopolitans / problems with the narrative
IQ of a houseplant


Anyone else in? On-sale is Feb 15.
Sorry, been shanghaied by D to Metallica that night.
Never seen the Cow Palace. Vaguely curious as to whether it lives down to its name.
I typoed. it's Apr8, not Mar8.
Will be there with bells on, in that case!
I'll be online for the usual early morning stampede onto ticketmonster, Sunday.
Isn't it My turn to deal with the earlymorning stampede?
And do you prefer floor or seats?
But really, it's no hardship to do the mad ticket dash. You're talking to a raving freak who naturally gets out of bed every morning at 6 AM, no alarm clocks need apply.
Sure you don't want me to nab you some tix and let you sleep in?


Modern yet feminine web site design with many detailed design elements. Click the image for more screen shots. Found via the Graphic Exchange.
I totally want to try this!! Let's go garage sale-ing! Stat! Found via Pinterest.
A very clever suggestion by Suzanne for next year's ArtPrize in Michigan.
This would be #26 on my birthday wish list for sure! Found via Pinterest.
While I write this on my MacBook, I have been moved these last couple days by the nation's heartbreak for Steve Jobs. I received the text from Andy yesterday on my iPhone alerting me that he had passed away. He was such an innovator while creating and leading two very different empires: Pixar and Apple. Truly an inspiration for this generation. Found this image on Dribbble but there were so many to choose from including this close second.


To Succeed on Probation and Preserve Your Freedom, Follow These Simple Guidelines.
Probation represents a great opportunity for anyone convicted of a crime. Instead of sitting in jail, you can return to society, hold down a job, and spend time with family. Of course, probation comes with many restrictions and requirements. If you fail to live up to the agreement, you can find yourself back in jail. To achieve probation success, follow these guidelines.
Whether it's a court date or meeting with your probation supervisor, you must make an effort to keep all of your appointments. Though free from jail, you remain under community supervision. This means you must be accountable for your time, and never miss an agreed upon date.
Most terms of probation come with a drug testing requirement. Whether these tests are random or scheduled, you must pass them to avoid a probation violation. This means you should avoid the use of all illegal drugs, as most of them remain detectable through hair analysis for 90 days. If you were arrested for an alcohol-related offense, you can expect testing for that substance as well.
Similar to the necessity of your appointments, you will have obligations that the court orders you to fulfill. Community service represents a common one, as do classes. Additionally, alcohol-related offenses may come with a requirement for AA attendance.
At Thunder Bail Bonds, we want you to succeed on probation. If you fail to achieve probation success in Oklahoma City, OK, you can rely on us for a bail bond. If you or someone you know ever becomes arrested, give us a call immediately at 405.235.0002.
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In the below exaggerated mess, the bottom end, for example, cannot go to where the cursor is without some ripping up of the existing pipes.

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A film and curriculum guide on the life and ministry of William Carey, the "Father of Modern Missions."
The history and impact of a spiritual phenomenon. During his long and distinguished ministry, Billy Graham has preached the gospel to well over 200 million people worldwide. The massive evangelistic gatherings that took place in sports arenas, concert halls, and outdoor venues became known as the Billy Graham Crusades.
This is the amazing biography of the blind hymn writer, Fanny Crosby. As the writer of more than 10,000 hymns, all penned after the age of 40, she is credited with authoring more verse than any human in history.
This fascinating documentary presents the events of Gladys' life, chronicled by Carol Purves, author of Chinese Whispers: The Gladys Aylward Story and accompanied by photographs, illustrations, and recordings of Gladys' own voice.
Here is an amazing story of hope from the horrific massacre at Columbine High School on April 20, 1999, where many innocent lives were lost. One of those was Rachel Joy Scott, mercilessly murdered for her faith in God.
A look at Amy's life and the continuing work to this day of the Dohnavur Fellowship which she founded.
C. T. Studd had it all. Born into a wealthy upperclass family in England, he studied at Cambridge University and went on to become one of the country's most celebrated athletes. But Studd realized that fame and flattery would not last, and as a Christian, he sensed a profound calling to forsake the things of the world and live for the world to come.
Learn about Patrick's extraordinary life in this docu-drama, featuring enlightening interviews with noted scholars and captivating reenactments of Patrick's life.
This documentary explores Newton's life from his turbulent youth to his involvement in the 18th century African slave trade, his dramatic conversion aboard a sinking ship and on through his remarkable ministry as an evangelistic preacher, hymn writer and abolitionist.
A re-release of the J. Arthur Rank historical classic made in 1954. This cinema drama follows the life of John Wesley from when he was saved out of a burning house as a child and thereby marked for life as a "brand from the burning." His Oxford days, a disastrous mission to America, his decisive Aldersgate experience, his bringing the Gospel into the daily lives of alienated masses, the founding of Methodism, and his astounding role in raising the moral and religious climate in 18th century England, and much more are set forth with careful dependence on the historical sources.
This story deals with the later stages of Handel's life, leading up to the composing of his masterpiece "Messiah." During his early years in London, Handel had enjoyed the King's patronage and people flocked to the theatres to see his operas. But soon fashionable society turned against him. Plagued by financial worries and ill health and abandoned by almost everyone except those closest to him, Handel shut himself away and worked day and night on "Messiah."
This is the story of William and Catherine Booth, founders of The Salvation Army. It is a gripping narrative of struggle, difficulty, love, and ultimate triumph.
This documentary traces the story of John Wesley the 18th century evangelist and social reformer who launched the worldwide Methodist movement. Using excerpts from the 2010 dramatic film Wesley by John Jackman plus interviews with experts and on-location footage shot in Wesley's England, this program takes you inside the world of this influential Christian leader.


History is nothing if not humbling.
Behind glass, in the darkened basement of Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino (yup, that's where I spent winter break!), is a delicately lit wall with knotted balls of yarn. It could be confused for just another hipster macrame piece. Except that it's not the fruits of an instagrammable hobby. It's a visual communication system, designed by the Inca people, well over a thousand years ago. Although they didn't have a written language, they mastered a way to store and present data, in communicable form, long before computing software could do the same. Their information design capabilities, coupled with their organizational management prowess, contributed to rapid scale. In just 95 years, from 1438 to 1533, a massive swath of land from central to deep South America fell under Incan control. But scale certainly doesn't equal sustainability. By 1573, the Incas were off the map. Spanish conquistadors took over.
And Incan ideas largely disappeared, covered by thick forest jungle.
The rapid rise and repeal of big ideas, and the regimes who promoted them, is a potent motif across Latin America. My how threatening ideas can be, upending who holds wealth and power, and what is just and good, for whom.
For the past year, we have veered away from big ideas. We deliberately placed our focus on the conditions for ideas to take hold, rather than on the texture or weight of the ideas themselves. That led us to turn our attention inward. Organizations rather than people became a focal point. Ethnographic work centered on organizational dynamics: on power & hierarchy, roles & identity, systems & processes, routines & practices and values & beliefs. Not surprisingly, we surfaced significant gaps between compliance-laden managerialism and deviant-laden experimentalism. The ideas staff generated to close the gap were decidedly underwhelming. At the time, we thought it was more important for organizations to own ideas, and deem them implementable, than for those ideas to upend the natural order and never be implemented. One organization prototyped a new staff orientation process. Another organization sketched a platform for job seekers to find mentors. The one organization that tried a new way of doing professional development, predicated on manager's taking a different role, floundered. Their idea was ultimately rejected.
The ideas that were most palatable were embraced because they reinforced, rather than threatened, how things are done today. These were ideas that accepted our current organizing framework: managers, staff, clients, case notes, referrals, and files. The challenge is, we at InWithForward don't accept the current organizing framework. In our desire to get to the too often elusive implementation stage, we might have been too agnostic about the quality of ideas. We put learning the process of experimenting ahead of learning what constitutes an idea worthy of implementing. And those are ideas that might move us towards a welfare state premised on a different relational basis: that of fellow neighbours and citizens, not anonymous clients and consumers.
This isn't about incrementalism versus radicalism. Small, incremental ideas can embody humanistic and relational values. This is about deviance versus acquiescence.
Deviance is a seemingly dirty word, connoting deliberate disregard for the rules, a flagrant criminality. And yet, Emile Durkheim, the famed sociologist who pioneered much of the early work on deviance, was clear: deviance is also our only source of true innovation. Only by breaking social norms can we re-imagine them. Had Claudette Colvin, Rosa Parks and plenty of courageous peers not deliberately disregarded racist rules in Montgomery, Alabama, they would not have kickstarted a national conversation about race, fairness, and basic human decency that changed the law and, ever so slowly, social norms and expectations.
We talk often about positive deviants: about the people who buck the trend, who perform behaviors that enable them to thrive, despite living in similar circumstances to those who are struggling. But, we haven't talked much about positive deviance, about the act of deliberately deviating from the norm, to expose fundamental questions about what is good, what is just, what is fair. Prototyping the future should be a deviant act. And in 2019, we can and should be unapologetic about the link between deviance and innovation.
Indeed, 2019 is the year for embracing big ideas, again.
Kudoz remains our best example of big ideas packaged into implementable form. The story of Kudoz isn't one of process innovation — although we did use an innovative process — it's a story of how to make every day like World Expo 1986, a story of how novelty got subsumed by routine, a story of safety and security taking primacy over equally human needs for adventure and actualization, and a story of behavioral management overtaking learning theory.
And, it's been darn hard to get those ideas to spread. But, we are not slowing down. Far from it, this is the year, to re-articulate what Kudoz stands for: to put the story front in centre in our communications and refurbished website, and ensure that the big ideas are taking shape and form in the every day interactions. This is the year to renew our commitment to take Kudoz to new places to more people.
Conviviality (versus separateness) That sense of warmth, of hospitality, of sharing great food and great company at neighborhood and city scale.
Colour (versus muteness) The vibrancy, the texture, the soundscape of our collective identity palette.
Movement (versus stagnancy) Going places, hitting the pavement, making things happen, rather than waiting for things to happen to you.
3) Through strong storytelling, including revised websites, more social media, a podcast, a book, etc.
Big ideas aren't possible without inspired people — without a team who can attend to but rise above the mundane, dream up and down and laterally, deeply listen, bring in divergent voices, catalyze others, jump into the fray bravely, and put their own selves on the line. You are that team. And for that, I am truly thankful.
More and more, we view InWithForward as a network. Not as a typical command-and-control organization. We want to grow, not just by putting more people on payroll, but through the right kind of partnerships. We have much room to hone our culture: to create the arena to bring out our personal and collective bests, and to practice what we preach.
InWithForward is, at its best, a trampoline for us all: a challenging, liberating, even exhilarating place to jump and fall and tumble and maybe, for a moment, fly.


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Trump's threat to ignore the Constitution and overthrow democracy by defying Congress in order to construct his Wall against non-white immigrants is grounds for impeachment. Congress must act now to save America from dictatorship By Roger Algase
ImmigrationLawBlogs started a blog post Trump's threat to ignore the Constitution and overthrow democracy by defying Congress in order to construct his Wall against non-white immigrants is grounds for impeachment. Congress must act now to save America from dictatorship By Roger Algase
The Washington Post reports on January 31 that Donald Trump is now showing his true authoritarian colors (so to speak) by issuing a tweet making clear that he will build his border Wall against brown immigrants no matter whether Congress agrees to build one or not.
Trump offers pessimistic view of negotiations over wall funding, says Republicans are 'wasting their time'.
See also: POLITICO, January 30
White House preps emergency wall plan while Congress negotiates
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/...ration-1138308
This is Trump's latest (January 31) tweet:
"Republicans on the Homeland Security Committee are wasting their time. Democrats, despite all of the evidence, proof and Caravans coming, are not going to give money to build the DESPERATELY needed WALL. I've got you covered. Wall is already being built. I don't expect much help."
Even Wall opponents would have to agree with Trump's statement that his Wall is "desperately needed." - to protect Trump from getting another tweet from Ann Coulter.
But by pursuing the Wall at all costs, Trump is directly setting himself against the United States Constitution, which provides that Congress makes the laws in this country, and the president carries them out. In effect, Trump is saying that with regard to immigration, he is the law.
Ever since the time of the infamous 1880's Chinese exclusion laws, the Supreme Court has held to the basic doctrine that immigration is the province of the political branches of the government, namely Congress, and the executive. It has never said that the president makes the immigration laws in the US on his (or her) own.
But this is what Trump is now threatening to do through a "national emergency" declaration based on the proposition that America is threatened by immigrants who do not have the same white skin color as most people in "Countries like Norway".
This authoritarian way of thinking goes against everything our Constitution stands for, and it poses a mortal threat to our democracy. Congress must move without delay to build a Wall of impeachment against Donald Trump to protect America from dictatorship.
Roger Algase
Attorney at Law.
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For more on Trump's determination to build his illegal Wall of hatred against brown immigrants no matter what the Constitution says, see also: The Guardian: (1/31) "Trump inches closer to declaring emergency for wall as negotiations stall"
https:www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jan/31/trump-border-wall-national-emergency-negotiations
ConcernedNYatty commented
How many Norwegians have immigrated to the US in the past two decades? Could your average Norwegian, educated, usually fluent in English even immigrate to the US if they were dumb enough to even want to. If you weren't so racist as to be so insistent on classifying people as white and non white you might realize what harm narrow minded views, motivated by hatred, really are indistinguishable from the drew spewed by the current administration.
Norway stood up against the Nazis in WW2. Racism has no place in immigration today. Impeach Trump, who says he wants immigrants from white, European "Countries like Norway" and not from "shithole countries" of Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East, where most people don't happen to be white.
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You are here: Home / Human Interest / Indian Creek Nature Center wins award for energy efficiency
Indian Creek Nature Center wins award for energy efficiency
September 23, 2019 By Radio Iowa Contributor
Indian Creek Nature Center.
The Indian Creek Nature Center in Cedar Rapids is being recognized for its efficient use of energy and water.
It's the first building in Iowa — and one of just 31 around the world — to earn the Living Building Petal Certification. Center director John Myers says the exhaustive process meant incorporating sustainability into the building plan, using renewable and recyclable materials, and designing for energy efficiency and sunlight.
Myers says, "As a nature center, as a social service organization, it becomes our responsibility to do those innovative practices where a business wouldn't, so that we can help ultimately drive down costs and help show that these types of things are possible." The center met a list of metrics, including on-site water filtration and relying on solar panels for net-positive energy production.
Myers hopes other groups in the state will adopt some of their practices. "We know and are fully aware that at this given point in time, not every building is going to be a living building," Myers says. "But even if they take one or two or three practices that we've done here, think about the impact that's made on the environment because of those changes."
While the better-known LEED certification also promotes energy efficiency, the Living Building program requires that buildings actually regenerate natural resources.
(Thanks to Kate Payne, Iowa Public Radio)
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Mildred Pierce és una pel·lícula estatunidenca dirigida per Michael Curtiz, estrenada el 1945.

Es tracta d'una adaptació de la novel·la Mildred Pierce de James M. Cain, publicada el 1941. El 2011, Todd Haynes en realitza una nova adaptació, Mildred Pierce , mini-sèrie televisada per a la cadena HBO.

Argument
Monte Beragon és assassinat per diversos trets en la seva propietat de la vora de mar. La seva dona, Mildred Pierce, és convocada a un interrogatori i s'assabenta que el seu antic marit, Bert Pierce, s'acusa de l'homicidi. Però davant l'inspector Peterson, recusa aquesta mentida i torna llargament sobre el seu passat per explicar totes les circumstàncies que envolten el drama.

Fins on pot portar l'amor d'una mare? Tot el que Veda desitja, la seva mare - Mildred Pierce - li ho ofereix. En l'univers masclista estatunidenc, Mildred no vacil·la a trencar amb el seu marit que manté una relació amb una altra dona des de fa diversos mesos. Per respondre a les exigències de luxe de la seva filla, s'ha de debatre doncs per grimpar els esglaons socials. Comença per ser una simple cambrera en un restaurant baix de gamma, però la seva ambició l'empeny a obrir el seu propi establiment amb l'ajuda d'un antic col·laborador del seu marit, Wally Fay. En aquesta ocasió, troba el seductor, però ociós i mandrós, Monte Beragon, amb qui es casa, creient-lo ric, fins i tot si no l'estima, tot això per pujar la seva filla en l'escala social i afavorir l'amor que li professa: «Faria qualsevol cosa per a ella». Inclou un homicidi?

Repartiment
 Joan Crawford: Mildred Pierce
 Zachary Scott: Monte Beragon
 Ann Blyth: Veda Pierce
 Jack Carson: Wally Fay
 Eve Arden: Ida
 Bruce Bennett: Bert Pierce
 Lee Patrick: Maggie Binderhof
 Moroni Olsen: Inspector Peterson
 Veda Ann Borg: Miriam Ellis
 Jo Ann Marlowe: Kay Pierce
I, entre els actors que no surten als crèdits :
 Joyce Compton: Servent
 James Flavin: Detectiu
 Charles Trowbridge: M. Williams

Al voltant de la pel·lícula

Joan Crawford, després de divuit anys passats a la Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), havia entrat a la Warner Bros. Pictures. La firma l'havia contractat amb la idea singular de competir amb Bette Davis, la gran estrella de la Warner, sense cap dubte per calmar les reivindicacions d'aquesta última. L'antiga estrella de la MGM, llavors al forat de l'ona, aspirava a un gran paper. Va agafar el seu temps i va estudiar acuradament tots els guions proposats per la Warner, desitjosa de no perdre la seva tornada fins al dia en què va llegir un guió que Bette Davis i Barbara Stanwyck havien manifestat que no hi estaven interessades pel personatge de Mildred Pierce. El productor de la pel·lícula Jerry Wald, va empènyer Jack Warner a aconseguir els drets de la novel·la des de la seva sortida el 1941, i ja havia pensat en Joan Crawford. Va acceptar el paper amb entusiasme: «És exactament el que jo buscava.»Ella va declarar igualment: «El personatge que interpretava a la pel·lícula», reconeixerà Joan Crawford, era una barreja dels papers que havia interpretat anteriorment i d'elements que provenien de la meva pròpia personalitat i del meu propi caràcter. No tant, d'altra banda, el sofriment, ja que crec massa en la Christian Science per patir hores i hores. Però els meus universos professional i personal havien evolucionat tant... Alguns amics havien mort o marxaven... El públic mateix ja no semblava saber què desitjava... Les companyies cinematogràfiques tenien cada vegada més problemes. Els meus dies daurats i sovint gloriós s'havien acabat i Mildred Pierce  apareixia com una mena de celebració amarga del final. »

L'argument tret d'una novel·la de James M. Cain s'ha modificat profundament pels guionistes successius. Una atmosfera inherent a la pel·lícula negra i una intriga criminal, temes absents de la novel·la, seran injectats en l'adaptació. A més, la pel·lícula, contràriament a la novel·la, serà construïda en flash-backs.

Jack Warner vol que la pel·lícula sigui dirigida pel més conegut director de la Warner, Michael Curtiz. Però els començaments del rodatge van ser força agitats entre el realitzador i l'actriu; Curtiz no desitjava dirigir una «has been».», que a més, segons ell, es comporta encara com si fos a la MGM. Joan Crawford es troba amb un equip de rodatge que no coneix i dirigida per un realitzador tirànic; ella que estava acostumada a treballar, durant prop de vint anys, amb els mateixos tècnics de «la firma del lleó». Malgrat això, l'actriu farà tot el possible per provar que és l'actriu ideal pel paper i davant tantes persuasions, les seves relacions amb Curtiz milloraran i el realitzador reconeixerà els seus errors.

James M. Cain, admirat perquè l'actriu havia fet amb el personatge de Mildred, li va oferir un exemplar, relligat de cuir, de la seva novel·la amb una dedicatòria: «A Joan Crawford, la meva gratitud eterna a qui va donar vida a Mildred com sempre havia esperat»

La pel·lícula va tenir un èxit triomfal amb una recaptació de cinc milions de dòlars i l'Oscar a la millor actriu per a Joan Crawford que va celebrar així la seva tornada al primer pla.

Premis i nominacions

Premis
 1946: Oscar a la millor actriu per Joan Crawford

Nominacions
 1946: Oscar a la millor pel·lícula
 1946: Oscar a la millor actriu per Eve Arden
 1946: Oscar a la millor actriu per Ann Blyth
 1946: Oscar al millor guió adaptat per Ranald MacDougall
 1946: Oscar a la millor fotografia per Ernest Haller

Referències

Enllaços externs

 Tràiler
 Fitxa film: Argument, informacions, premis, crítica, fotos

Pel·lícules dels Estats Units del 1945
Pel·lícules dramàtiques dels Estats Units
Pel·lícules de cinema negre
Pel·lícules basades en novel·les
Pel·lícules dels Estats Units en blanc i negre
Pel·lícules dirigides per Michael Curtiz
Pel·lícules guionades per William Faulkner

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I'm in tears of both passionately supporting this but also reflecting our journey as a family. It was like you were reciting our "D day".
You are so right!! What if?? What if we were told the positives. I'm sure our road would of been less heartbreaking and filled with isolated confusion. Thank you ! I love this blog!!!
I'm sorry your experience was so heartbreaking, Edwina. It shouldn't be. I wish I could reach every professional diagnosing our children!
Wow, a great honest piece, so well written.
Please have a look at http://www.informingfamilies.ie which is a website providing information/resources etc. on informing families set up by my colleague Alison Harnett in the National Federation of Voluntary Bodies.
Informing families is all about giving parents, family members messages of hope around the time of diagnosis, whether it is at birth or at any stage.
Thank you, Niamh, I will have a look.
As if we needed that final punch to the gut.
Thank you very much for writing this, and describing Autism as a part of who our children are, and not something they ail from.
I'm sorry you had such a horrible experience for your daughter, but how wonderful to hear that you had a positive experience for your son. It's good to know that they can happen!


In 1967, a helicopter carrying three passengers and a pilot returning from an offshore drilling platform crashed into the Gulf of Mexico beyond Louisiana's territorial waters, killing all aboard. The families of the decedents instituted a wrongful death suit in admiralty, seeking recovery under general maritime law, the Death on the High Seas Act (DOHSA), and the Jones Act. The federal district court found Mobil Oil Corporation, the owner and operator of the helicopter, negligent. In awarding damages the district court limited recovery to pecuniary losses, holding that a pecuniary loss limitation applied regardless of the theory of recovery. Specifically, the court denied plaintiffs recovery for loss of society damages. The Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit reversed, holding that under recent Supreme Court and Fifth Circuit decisions, beneficiaries of a decedent wrongfully killed on the high seas could recover loss of society damages under general maritime law despite the pecuniary loss limitation of DOHSA. Because of conflicting decisions in the circuit courts of appeals regarding the precise limits of the cause of action and remedies for wrongful death under general maritime law, the Supreme Court granted certiorari and, reversing the court of appeals, held in Mobil Oil Corp. v. Higginbotham that nonpecuniary damages could not supplement DOHSA's pecuniary loss limitation; thus, the Court reinstated the district court's holding and denied recovery for loss of society damages. Consequently, DOHSA now provides the exclusive remedy for wrongful deaths occurring on the high seas. By so holding, however, the Court ignored the legislative history of DOHSA, which does not mandate this result. Moreover, Higginbotham not only restores various anomalies to maritime wrongful death actions that earlier decisions sought to eliminate, but also contravenes the humane policies of admiralty law. The Court's decision, therefore, retreats from the modem trend toward fashioning a uniform cause of action and remedy for maritime wrongful deaths and creates further confusion in maritime law.
Howard Hall, Mobil Oil Corp. v. Higginbotham—Confusion Returns to Maritime Wrongful Death Actions, 2 SEATTLE U. L. REV. 398 (1979).


In addition to the classic "Web of documents" W3C is helping to build a technology stack to support a "Web of data," the sort of data you find in databases. The ultimate goal of the Web of data is to enable computers to do more useful work and to develop systems that can support trusted interactions over the network. The term "Semantic Web" refers to W3C's vision of the Web of linked data. Semantic Web technologies enable people to create data stores on the Web, build vocabularies, and write rules for handling data. Linked data are empowered by technologies such as RDF, SPARQL, JSON-LD, OWL, and SKOS.
The goal of this wiki is to provide a "first stop" for more information on Semantic Web technologies, in particular on Semantic Web Standards published by the W3C. It does not aim to give a complete set on information on Semantic Web related events, conferences, ontologies or community efforts. There are already a number of sites maintained by the community that users can refer to (see some below).
Semanticweb.org contains references to events, news, personal pages on the community.
The Ontology Design Pattern Wiki is a Semantic Web portal dedicated to ontology design patterns (ODPs).
Semantic Web Meetups give a list of all the local "meetups" in the Semantic Web area around the globe.
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