The Trump Administration

[Underdog]

I've never been able to figure out links to this site, but for anyone interested, check on YouTube for Charlie Daniel's open letter to Chuck Schumer. Still waiting to hear any kind of response from upchuck.

[kscarbel2]

I’m repeatedly on record as despising the post-Ted Turner CNN. But that said, this news report actually makes sense.

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CNN  /  May 26, 2017

Then-FBI Director James Comey knew that a critical piece of information relating to the investigation into Hillary Clinton's email was fake -- created by Russian intelligence -- but he feared that if it became public it would undermine the probe and the Justice Department itself, according to multiple officials with knowledge of the process.

As a result, Comey acted unilaterally last summer to publicly declare the investigation over -- without consulting then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch -- while at the same time stating that Clinton had been "extremely careless" in her handling of classified information. His press conference caused a firestorm of controversy and drew criticism from both Democrats and Republicans.

Comey's actions based on what he knew was Russian disinformation offer a stark example of the way Russian interference impacted the decisions of the highest-level US officials during the 2016 campaign.

The Washington Post reported Wednesday that this Russian intelligence was unreliable. US officials now say Comey and FBI officials actually knew early on that this intelligence was indeed false.

In fact, acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe went to Capitol Hill Thursday to push back on the notion that the FBI was duped, according to a source familiar with a meeting McCabe had with members of the Senate intelligence committee.

The Russian intelligence at issue purported to show that then-Attorney General Lynch had been compromised in the Clinton investigation. The intelligence described emails between then-Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz and a political operative suggesting that Lynch would make the FBI investigation of Clinton go away.

In classified sessions with members of Congress several months ago, Comey described those emails in the Russian claim and expressed his concern that this Russian information could "drop" and that would undermine the Clinton investigation and the Justice Department in general, according to one government official.

Still, Comey did not let on to lawmakers that there were doubts about the veracity of the intelligence, according to sources familiar with the briefings. It is unclear why Comey was not more forthcoming in a classified setting.

Sources close to Comey say he felt that it didn't matter if the information was accurate, because his big fear was that if the Russians released the information publicly, there would be no way for law enforcement and intelligence officials to discredit it without burning intelligence sources and methods. There were other factors behind Comey's decision, sources say.

In at least one classified session, Comey cited that intelligence as the primary reason he took the unusual step of publicly announcing the end of the Clinton email probe.

In that briefing, Comey did not even mention the other reason he gave in public testimony for acting independently of the Justice Department -- that Lynch was compromised because Bill Clinton boarded her plane and spoke to her during the investigation, these sources say.

[Keith Pommerening]

On 5/25/2017 at 4:45 PM, Keith Pommerening said:

There was a link to an old statement of action by communist in the congressional record.  What happened to it?  Was it edited out?  Would whoever originally put it in please get it to me!  Thanks,  Keith

Let me run this up the flag pole again and see if anyone shoots at it or is this censored by...?

[41chevy]

12 hours ago, Keith Pommerening said:

Let me run this up the flag pole again and see if anyone shoots at it or is this censored by...?

It was my post and it was flagged as offensive by a certain member. Here it is again I'm sure it will get deleted again.   As I said in the censored post, change Communist to progressive or Liberal Democrat. You are about to read a list of 45 goals that found their way down the halls of our great Capitol back in 1963. As you read this, 39 years later, you should be shocked by the events that have played themselves out.  Paul

The Communist Takeover Of America - 45 Declared Goals

Communist Goals (1963) Congressional Record--Appendix, pp. A34-A35 January 10, 1963

Current Communist Goals EXTENSION OF REMARKS OF HON. A. S. HERLONG, JR. OF FLORIDA IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Thursday, January 10, 1963 .

Mr. HERLONG. Mr. Speaker, Mrs. Patricia Nordman of De Land, Fla., is an ardent and articulate opponent of communism, and until recently published the De Land Courier, which she dedicated to the purpose of alerting the public to the dangers of communism in America.

1. U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.

2. U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.

3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament [by] the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.

4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.

5. Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.

6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination.

7. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N.

8. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev's promise in 1955 to settle the German question by free elections under supervision of the U.N.

9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress.

10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N.

11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces. (Some Communist leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the U.N. as by Moscow. Sometimes these two centers compete with each other as they are now doing in the Congo.)

12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.

13. Do away with all loyalty oaths.

14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office.

15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.

16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.

17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers' associations. Put the party line in textbooks.

18. Gain control of all student newspapers.

19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.

20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policy-making positions.

21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.

22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to "eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms."

23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. "Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art."

24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press.

25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.

26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural, healthy."

27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity, which does not need a "religious crutch."

28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of "separation of church and state."

29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.

30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the "common man."

31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the "big picture." Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over.

32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture--education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.

33. Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus.

34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities.

35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.

36. Infiltrate and gain control of all unions.

37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business.

38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand [or treat].

39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.

40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.

41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.

42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use ["]united force["] to solve economic, political or social problems.

43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government.

44. Internationalize the Panama Canal.

45. Repeal the Connally reservation so the United States cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction [over domestic problems. Give the World Court jurisdiction] over nations and individuals alike.

I'll add a couple of my own

 46. Import anti-white racists from the Third World, via an open-borders policy, then force their integration to divide and conquer white Western civilization in North America.

47. Feminize and disarm both the citizenry and military; especially white males.

Source:Congressional Record, Vol. 109 88th Congress, 1st Session Appendix Pages A1-A2842 Jan. 9-May 7, 1963 Reel 12

 

[Keith Pommerening]

Thank you, that was exactly what I was looking for...sobering.  Must have got to close to home for some!  Keith

[41chevy]

2 minutes ago, Keith Pommerening said:

Thank you, that was exactly what I was looking for...sobering.  Must have got to close to home for some!  Keith

At least one.  Paul

[TeamsterGrrrl]

Interesting late McCarthey era artifact... Too bad you guys live in the past and take it seriously.

[GA_Dave]

29 minutes ago, TeamsterGrrrl said:

Interesting late McCarthey era artifact... Too bad you guys live in the past and take it seriously.

It's not that we live in the past, it's that we did live in the past and we've seen much, of what 41chevy posted, happen. 

[carlotpilot]

some would still deny that any one of these has happened.the kool aid has morphed into jellO

[TeamsterGrrrl]

These "communist goals" fall well into the realm of "alternative facts". For a start, there is no evidence that any communist or communists stated them. The "newpaper" quoted appears to be the written rantings of a single paranoid person and was never a proper newspaper. 41 Chevy blunders even farther into the realm of alternative facts when he attempts to assign this unproven artifact to the democratic party or progressive movements. Let the real facts speak for themselves- Communism failed and pretty much died, the Democrats are thoroughly capitalistic, and the progressive movement at most only wants to civilize "jungle capitalism" to the point that it doesn't destroy itself.

[Underdog]

If the enclosed information is untrue, unproven and harmless, then why was it attempted to be suppressed and deleted before it was properly addressed?

[Dirtymilkman]

6 hours ago, TeamsterGrrrl said:

These "communist goals" fall well into the realm of "alternative facts". For a start, there is no evidence that any communist or communists stated them. The "newpaper" quoted appears to be the written rantings of a single paranoid person and was never a proper newspaper. 41 Chevy blunders even farther into the realm of alternative facts when he attempts to assign this unproven artifact to the democratic party or progressive movements. Let the real facts speak for themselves- Communism failed and pretty much died, the Democrats are thoroughly capitalistic, and the progressive movement at most only wants to civilize "jungle capitalism" to the point that it doesn't destroy itself.

So Bernie Sanders isn't a Democrat? 

[Keith Pommerening]

Florida democratic represenative Albert S. Herlong Jr. presented, this into the Congessional Record, as a warning of how communism would destroy America.  Artifacts Hillary and Obozo took it  as a game plan for the democratic party.  Thank God we don't have Hillary continuing the Obozo's implimentation of this agenda.  The democrats have come a long way from Herlong's wise statements!  Keith

[TeamsterGrrrl]

Shows how lost in the past some of you guys are... Communism has been effectively dead for 30 years now. Other than maybe Cuba and North Korea until those regimes fall, the only place you'll find communism now is in the museums, where it belongs... Along with the swastikas and confederate flags.

[General Ike]

56 minutes ago, TeamsterGrrrl said:

Shows how lost in the past some of you guys are... Communism has been effectively dead for 30 years now. Other than maybe Cuba and North Korea until those regimes fall, the only place you'll find communism now is in the museums, where it belongs... Along with the swastikas and confederate flags.

So I guess China is the 12,000lb pink communist elephant standing in the room that you can't see?

[grayhair]

1 hour ago, TeamsterGrrrl said:

Shows how lost in the past some of you guys are... Communism has been effectively dead for 30 years now. Other than maybe Cuba and North Korea until those regimes fall, the only place you'll find communism now is in the museums, where it belongs... Along with the swastikas and confederate flags.

Wow, how stupendously, delightfully naive.  China is almost 1/5th of the world's population.  (China @ 1.5 billion vs. world population of 7.5 billion = 18.7%)  And China shows no sign of being a "failing regime."  Quite the contrary, China is ascending in terms of military, technology, and fiscal strength.   

[kscarbel2]

China firmly embraces capitalism, while the former Soviet Union went hard core with Karl Marx’s political theories……and the rest is history.

Interestingly, Marx was from Prussia (Germany today) and wrote his Communist Manifesto in London with another German philosopher named Friedrich Engels.

[HeavyGunner]

53 minutes ago, kscarbel2 said:

China firmly embraces capitalism, while the former Soviet Union went hard core with Karl Marx’s political theories……and the rest is history.

Interestingly, Marx was from Prussia (Germany today) and wrote his Communist Manifesto in London with another German philosopher named Friedrich Engels.

yeah they support capitalism s long as the government approves and takes most of the cream off of the top. To make them sound civilized seems short sighted. 

https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2016/country-chapters/china-and-tibet

Edited June 1, 2017 by HeavyGunner

[TeamsterGrrrl]

2 hours ago, kscarbel2 said:

China firmly embraces capitalism, while the former Soviet Union went hard core with Karl Marx’s political theories……and the rest is history.

Interestingly, Marx was from Prussia (Germany today) and wrote his Communist Manifesto in London with another German philosopher named Friedrich Engels.

China is "communist" in name only, they're actually one of the most capitalist countries.

[41chevy]

4 hours ago, HeavyGunner said:

yeah they support capitalism s long as the government approves and takes most of the cream off of the top. To make them sound civilized seems short sighted. 

https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2016/country-chapters/china-and-tibet

Communism is dead in most of the world but is has been replaced by Social Democrats, The government controls or regulates most all services,Water, Food, Energy, Education, favors and promotes unions and most media is pro S.D. but they allow business and property ownership and free trade as long as they severly regulate and tax it. Here is the Britannia link  (a non reliable link as per her, probably tied to Trump)

https://www.britannica.com/topic/social-democracy

It is interesting that the January 10 Congressional record is considered fake news by her. I can only assume that Albert S. Herlong Jr was laying the ground work for fake news and Trump? Or isn't it approved revisionist history? Or a carefully faked record in the Congress' archives?

Bernie :Cheech" Sanders is not a Communist, his is a Socialist and Hillary the "President Select" is as she stated "a Progressive Democrat or PDA" . Like our little ray of doom and gloom.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_Democrats_of_America

[TeamsterGrrrl]

OK, hopefully we have finally laid communism to rest. Now you're telling me you want polluted water, unsafe food, overpriced energy, no education, and slave labor?

[Underdog]

14 hours ago, TeamsterGrrrl said:

OK, hopefully we have finally laid communism to rest. Now you're telling me you want polluted water, unsafe food, overpriced energy, no education, and slave labor?

Yes I want all those things. Remove all the warning labels and let natural selection run its course.

[HeavyGunner]

2 hours ago, TeamsterGrrrl said:

 Now you're telling me you want polluted water, unsafe food, overpriced energy, no education, and slave labor?

That's china to a tee. 

[41chevy]

How did telling me I made up the Congressional record turn into polluted water and air, no education and slave labor? Don't forget the rest of the standard rhetoric about the children and poor illegals

[TeamsterGrrrl]

Your political inexperience is showing- All kinds of crap gets read into the Congressional Record, doesn't mean it's true. And the crap in question got dumped into the federal record over half a century ago. Back then, communism was a real threat... Today, it's almost a joke. Some of you need to catch up with the times...