Authored by David Stockman via David Stockman's Contra Corner blog,
This is how the Deep State crushes disobedience by the unwashed American public.
It indicts not only ham sandwiches but,
apparently, political infants in diapers too, if that's what it takes.
Hence the sudden notoriety of Baby George Papadopoulos, who
pled guilty to "lying" about an essentially immaterial date to the FBI.
Oh, and by all signs and signals that plea came after this 30 year-old novice had been wearing a wire for several months.
So here's how this noxious act of bullying by Robert Mueller's Federally-deputized thugs came down. It
seems that during the early months of 2016, when Trump was winning
primary after primary against all mainstream media expectations, the
Donald's establishment betters began attacking his foreign policy
credentials with special malice aforethought.
That was mainly owing to his sensible suggestion that it would be
better to seek rapprochement with Russia rather than pursue Hillary's
Cold War 2.0 and that 25 years after the disappearance of the Soviet
Union from the pages of history that NATO was obsolete.
Since this totally plausible (and correct) viewpoint was deeply
offensive to the Imperial City's group think and threatened the Warfare
State's existential need for a fearsome enemy, Trump's ruminations about
making a deal with Putin were belittled. They were, in fact, attributed
not to a fresh look at the realities abroad or the possibility that
homeland security does not require a global empire, but to the
candidate's lack of any pedigreed foreign policy advisors.
Indeed, when it came to the Republican-oriented foreign policy
establishment---nearly all of which had joined the Never Trump
cause----the Donald added insult to injury. That is, by suggesting he
got his foreign policy views watching TV (like most of Washington) and
that he could do a better job against terrorism than the Pentagon
generals (not hard).
At length, however, the "who are your foreign policy advisors" meme
got so relentless that the Donald relented. On March 21, 2016 he
announced a group of five advisors that exactly no one who was anyone in
the Imperial City had ever heard of, and for good reason.
The group included two recycled DOD flunkies, an anti-Muslim fanatic
from the Lebanon religious wars and two kids of no accomplishment in the
foreign policy field whatsoever. In a word, the foreign policy
establishment's boycott of the Trump campaign at that stage was 100%
effective.
Indeed, under a snarky headline the next day about how the new Trump foreign policy team "baffles GOP experts",
Politico laid on the disdain good and hard:
“I
don’t know any of them,” said Kori Schake, a research fellow at
Stanford University’s Hoover Institution and a former official in the
George W. Bush State Department. “National security is hard to do well
even with first-rate people. It’s almost impossible to do well with
third-rate people.”
One of the five, of course, was Carter Page who had actually spent
time in Moscow years earlier working as a stock broker and didn't
exactly share Hillary's fulminations that Putin was Adolph Hitler
incarnate.
So
Politico made very clear that Mr. Page was apparently some kind of Kremlin stooge for uttering true facts about Russia.
To wit, that Russia had not "invaded" Ukraine, but to the
contrary, the February 2014 coup on the streets of Kiev was fomented,
funded, and illegally installed in power by Washington agents on the
ground. Among others, these included the US Ambassador to Ukraine,
Assistant Secretary Victoria Nuland ("Yats is our man"), CIA operatives
under embassy cover, the National Endowment for Democracy and its NGO
subalterns and, especially, the War Party's roving Viceroy, Senator John
McCain:
Page,
who has worked for Merrill Lynch in Moscow, has accused the State
Department's top official for Ukraine and Russia, Victoria Nuland, of
"fomenting" the 2014 revolution that overthrew Ukraine's government.
That charge is often lodged by pro-Kremlin media outlets but is strongly
disputed by the Obama administration.
In this context,
Politico made short shrift
of young Mr. Papadopoulos and properly so. This kid had no more
qualifications to be named among the top five foreign policy advisors to
the then near-presumptive GOP nominee than anyone else in the DC phone
book----although at the time Baby George was called to duty he was
apparently domiciled in London and perhaps listed in its phone book.
Indeed, after rounding up an ex-Pentagon bean counter, a washed-up
general who had "managed" (not well) the US "occupation" of Baghdad in
2003-2004 and Walid Phares, the Lebanese war veteran who claimed that
the Moslem Brotherhood had infiltrated the State Department and was
fixing to spread "Sharia law" to the towns and villages of America, you
almost have the impression that the Donald instructed Ivanka and Jared
to check out the Mar-A-Logo sandbox for candidates to round out the
rooster.
That's apparently where Papadopoulos came from because he
had graduated from college only in 2009, got two more degrees by 2011 in
London, functioned as a junior researcher at Hudson Institute for
several years and then "worked" on Ben Carson's presidential campaign
for three months---- if you consider that an actual job.
Per
Politico at the time of the announcement:
One
of them, George Papadopoulos, is a 2009 college graduate and an
international energy lawyer. Papadopoulos had previously advised Ben
Carson's presidential campaign. According to his LinkedIn page,
he was a researcher at the conservative Hudson Institute in Washington,
D.C., before joining the London Center of International Law Practice,
which describes itself as dedicated to "peace and development through
international law and dispute resolution."
Papadopoulos' LinkedIn page also boasts about his role at
the 2012 meeting in Geneva of Model U.N., the student role-playing
exercise on international diplomacy. It adds that he has "had experience
lobbying foreign policy resolutions on Capitol Hill by means of
coherent and concise arguments."
In a word, Baby George's "crime" came about in the process of trying
to put on his Big Boy Pants and get noticed by higher-ups in the
campaign. So doing, he came into contact on about March 14 with a London
professor who claimed to be plugged into Russian sources with "dirt"
about Hillary.
Needless to say, the London professor, one Joseph Mifsud, who had
formerly served in a high ranking government position in his native land
of, well, Malta (as assistant to the Maltese foreign minister), didn't
know anybody in the Kremlin, either. That is, Mifsud was actually a no
count talking to a another no count.
Prior to his appearance on the FBI's fake stage of international
intrigue, in fact, Mifsud had been a "director" of some sort at the
London Academy of Diplomacy-----a place that grants masters degrees to
young people earnestly endeavoring a career in making diplomacy, not
war. That is to say, by the standards of the Imperial City it's a kind
of Quaker Meeting for idealistic diplomats on the road to Nowhere.
As it turned out, George never made any contact with any
Russian state officials, didn't have any meetings with clandestine Putin
operatives and came up with no anti-Hillary dirt at all----despite
months of trying and sending loads of essentially unanswered emails up
the chain of command at Trump Tower.
In fact, despite sending six emails volunteering his eagerness to set
up a meeting between the Donald and Vlad Putin nothing happened. Even
the government's charging document admits these missives were based on
Papadopoulos' conversations with a "Russian National" who claimed to be
Putin's niece, but wasn't; and someone who claimed to have contacts at
Russia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), but also, apparently,
didn't.
As it turns out, the latter unnamed go-between was one Ivan
Timofeev, a program director at a Russian government-funded think tank
called the Russian International Affairs Council. The latter was
actually a glorified welcome wagon which hosts public meetings with
prominent visiting politicians and public figures from the U.S. and
other countries.
Indeed, one guest speaker at this forum had been none other than
Obama's former US Ambassador to Russia, Michael McFaul. The latter is
actually a fire-breathing Russophobe who can hardly be considered a pal
of Putin's.
In any event, the government's charging document makes clear that
Baby George's emails got nowhere. Indeed at one point the zealous
Mr. Papadopoulos got swatted away by Paul Manafort, who---
.... replied
to one such request by saying that "Trump is not doing these trips. It
should be someone low-level in the campaign so as not to send any
signal."
So finding no contacts, no meetings, no"collusion" or anything else
validly related to Mueller's mandate, the latter's legal gunslingers
came up with the usual default "crime" when a criminal investigations
comes up empty. To wit, Papadopoulos allegedly
perjured himself by telling the FBI early this year that he had met the no count London professor
before beginning his service as a Trump advisor.
And that was true enough---except by the lights of the hair-splitting Torquemadas on Team Mueller.
It seems young George met the London Professor on March 14, about a
week before the Trump campaign's official announcement of its Team of
Five. But in the kind of twisted gotcha that only jerks with a badge and
gun can come up with, Papadopoulos stands guilty of perjury by his own
(coerced) plea.
That's because at the time of the meeting he had already been
recruited from the sandbox and "knew" he would be appointed to an
advisory committee.
So what!
Trump apparently met with the Five only once and that was
for a photo op, and no one running the campaign paid much attention to
them, either.
Still, Baby George's carelessness about the exact dates and sequences
of utterly irrelevant and inconsequential events is enough to get him
time in one of Uncle Sam's hospitality suites:
Defendant
PAPADOPOULOS acknowledged that the professor had told him about the
Russians possessing "dirt" on then-candidate Hillary Clinton in the
forms of "thousands of emails", but stated multiple times that he
learned the information prior to joining the Campaign. In truth and
fact, however, defendant PAPADOPOULOS learned he would be an advisor to
the campaign in early March, and met the professor on or about March 14,
2016......
That's all she wrote. This damning nugget appears on page 2 of the
"Statement of Offense" and the balance of the 14 pages is a complete
farcical joke. Papadopoulos' failure to get anywhere with the
Russians in his digging for dirt on Hillary would make for a
worthy episode starring the rascals of South Park, but that's about all.
Anyone not involved in the campaign to reverse the 2106 election and
remove the Donald from office should be forgiven for splitting a gut
laughing when reading this hideous and utterly bogus case against Baby
George Papadopoulos.
Every single player in the cast of characters identified by Team
Mueller---mostly unnamed by the prosecutors but already sussed out by
the press---had no ability to influence anything, let alone 139 million
voters in a US election bombarded with upwards of
$20 billion worth of reported and unreported campaign expenses, and the mainstream media's free nonstop campaign in behalf of Hillary.
Yet the document and Monday morning's announcement are also cause for alarm. The "crime", if there was any, was the $10 million that
the DNC and Clinton campaign spent on the Trump Dossier. Those
scurrilous documents were actually purchased for real money on the back
streets of Moscow and do cite actual, live Russian MFA sources, not
allegedly "MFA-connected" people, who apparently weren't.
But, of course, that's not what's coming down. The self-righteous
Mueller, who turned a blind eye to the massive stench of corruption
coming out of the Uranium One deal in 2009/2010 when he was FBI
director, has only one mission in mind: To mug the American electorate
for its audacity in electing Donald Trump President, thereby disturbing
the equanimity of the Deep State's untethered rule.
The truth of the matter, however, is nearly the opposite. Prosecuting
anyone---one either side of the partisan aisle----for marginal and
tangential contacts with a Russian government purportedly wishing to
"influence" the US election amounts to the height of hypocrisy.
Meddling in the political life, elections and governance
of virtually every nation on planet earth----enemy, foe, rival, neutral
and friend, alike---is what Imperial Washington does.
It spends more than $1 billion per year on propaganda operations by
the NED and the various agencies of the Board for International
Broadcasting. And that's to say nothing of the tens of billions spent by
the CIA, NSA and other elements of the $75 billion per year
intelligence community hacking and stealing virtually all communications
that course through the worldwide web.
But all of this is lost on the beltway media brats who front for the
Deep State. Here is what one of the worst of these scolds and toadies, a
"journalist" named Mike Allen, had to say about the Baby George case on
his pretentious Axios platform this AM:
Be
smart: There is zero doubt — and piles of new evidence — that Russia
manipulated our election. This next phase will show if Trump himself was
aware or involved, or has any interest in doing anything about it — and
how extensively America's most powerful companies enabled the mass
manipulation.
Is this guy kidding?
If there is any evidence of Russia meddling or of hacking
the Podesta and DNC emails, it lies right there in the
massive NSA server farms which capture all incoming communications to
the US and outgoing, too. It is retrievable in an instant, but hasn't
been because it's not there.
We didn't need Mueller's bully boys to bushwhack Baby George to find that out.
Then again, if you don't recognize that the Deep State
and its minions in the press and both party establishments in
Washington are pushing the nation to an extra-constitutional removal of a
sitting President, you simply aren't paying attention.
So at least stay out of the casino. That's where the temblors will hit first.
 |
| Using pawns with body wires in failed attempt to entrap someone innocent...sound familiar? |
DOD will be holding an EMP DRILL NATIONWIDE on November 4-6th.
Title of article: "Communications Interoperability Training with Amateur Radio Community Set"
"Elements of the US Department of Defense will conduct a "communications interoperability" training exercise November 4-6, once again simulating a "very bad day" scenario. Amateur Radio and MARS organizations will take part.
"This exercise will begin with a notional massive coronal mass ejection event which will impact the national power grid as well as all forms of traditional communication, including landline telephone, cellphone, satellite, and internet connectivity," Army MARS Program Manager Paul English, WD8DBY, explained in an announcement."
http://www.arrl.org/arrlletter?issue=2017-10-26#toc02
Pure Evil War Criminal Treasonous Seditious Psychopaths at the CIA / Deep State May just cut off the power & let Antifa / I CIA SIS do their thing.