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Trump's No Hitler But Germany Can Bring Him Down

Democrats are using the Hitler analogy to warn voters the threat Donald Trump's election will pose for this country.  Relax, Trump isn't  Hitler.  While Hitler was crazy, Trump is crazy like a fox. Just ask Megyn Kelly.  Trump is only in it for the money and his German money connection may be his downfall.  

According to the Wall Street Journal, while many big banks have shunned him, Deutsche Bank AG has been his financial backer.   The bank has led or participated in loans of at least $2.5 billion to companies affiliated with Mr. Trump, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis of public records and people familiar with the matter. That doesn’t include at least another $1 billion in loan commitments that Deutsche Bank made to Trump-affiliated entities.

The long-standing connection makes Frankfurt-based Deutsche Bank, which has a large U.S. operation and has been grappling with reputational problems and an almost 50% stock-price decline, the financial institution with probably the strongest ties to the controversial New York businessman.

But the relations at times have been rocky. Deutsche Bank’s giant investment-banking unit stopped working with Mr. Trump after an acrimonious legal spat, even as another arm of the company continued to loan him money.

Other Wall Street banks, after doing extensive business with Mr. Trump in the 1980s and 1990s, pulled back in part due to frustration with his business practices but also because he moved away from real-estate projects that required financing, according to bank officials. Citigroup Inc., J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. and Morgan Stanley are among the banks that don’t currently work with him.

At Goldman Sachs Group Inc., bankers “know better than to pitch” a Trump-related deal, said a former Goldman executive. Goldman officials say there is little overlap between its core investment-banking group and Mr. Trump’s businesses.

In 2008,  Trump failed to pay $334 million he owed on the Chicago loan because of lackluster sales of the building’s units. He then sued Deutsche Bank.  Trump also attacked Deutsche Bank’s lending practices and said that as a big bank, it was partially responsible for causing the financial crisis. He sought $3 billion in damages. Deutsche Bank in turn sued Mr. Trump, saying it was owed $40 million that the businessman had personally guaranteed in case his company was unable to repay the loan. Amazingly,  the company’s private-banking arm has since financed well over $300 million to Trump entities in the following years.

Perhaps that is why the Donald doesn't want to release his tax returns. Perhaps the Donald  does not want the German bank to find out how bad his finances really are.  The failing bank could demand to see them to make certain the loans are safe. And if there was an Edward Snowden working at the German bank and sent a copy to the Intercept or some respectable media outlet- sorry New York Times - then the House of Trump would collapse like a House of Cards.

Mission Impossible 2: Donald Trump, Manchurian Candidate

Good morning, Mr. Trump.  The Republican Party has systematically damaged the military-readiness and the economic foundations of this once-great country.  Your mission, if you accept it, is to destroy the capacity of the top leaders in the Republican Party, making it a Mission Impossible ever to occupy the White House again.  And, as always if you are caught, Don, Secretary Clinton will disavow you and your team. Good luck, Don.

There you have it, a real Mission Impossible. So far, Don's team has systematically destroyed the Bush Crime family from ever occupying the White House.   Next up: Marco Rubio.

Marco was the momentary savior of the Republican Party. He’s young, exuberant, a fresh face the establishment could sell to Middle America.   He was a rabid neoconservative who wanted to double down on the Bush Doctrine and the torture program. He wanted to reduce federal revenue and give the top 1 percent a massive tax cut. He wanted to repeal ObamaCare without offering a viable alternative to the millions of Americans who now have coverage. He supported a ban on all abortions, including cases of rape and incest. And he wanted to undo Obama’s executive orders protecting LGBT citizens from marriage discrimination.

On the night he suspended his campaign, Rubio had some parting words for his party and the country. They were wise words, a genuinely moderate plea for sanity. Here’s the full quote:

“I think we have to look at the rhetoric coming from the frontrunner Donald Trumpin the presidential campaign. This is a man who in rallies has told his supporters to basically beat up the people in the crowd and he’ll pay their legal fees. Someone who’s encouraged people in the audience to rough up anybody who says something he doesn’t like… This is what a culture and society looks like when everybody says whatever the heck they want. When everybody goes around saying I’m just gonna speak my mind. If I’m angry, it gives me the right to say or do anything I want. Well, there are other people who are angry too, and if they speak out and say whatever they want, the result is it all breaks down. It’s called chaos. It’s called anarchy. And that’s what we’re careening towards in our political process… And you wonder whether we’re headed in a different direction today, where we’re no longer capable of having differences of opinion but in fact now protests become a license to take violence, to take on your opponents physically. Forget about the election for a moment, there’s a broader issue in our political culture in this country, and this is what happens when a leading presidential candidate goes around feeding into a narrative of anger and bitterness and frustration, and I think we all need to take a step back and ask ourselves: Are we contributing to this?”

Poor Marco performed an about-face, saying publicly that he will attend the GOP convention and is willing to speak on Trump’s behalf. “I want to be helpful,” Rubio said. “I don’t want to be harmful, because I don’t want Hillary Clinton to be president.” Acknowledging his policy differences with Trump, Rubio insisted stopping Clinton was the more urgent threat.

So the man who helped popularize the #NeverTrump hashtag has now volunteered to cheerlead on his behalf. Rubio would have us believe a former first lady, New York senator, and secretary of state is more dangerous than a TV hustler, a man with zero political experience who has, among other things, proposed killing the families of terrorists and banning Muslims from entering the country. No serious person believes that.

Whatever credibility Rubio had is now gone. His political morality is either irrevocably blinkered or nonexistent to begin with. He was either disingenuous the night he made the above statement or he’s being disingenuous today.

Marco for President in 2020.  Now that's a Mission Impossible. Another victim of a real Manchurian Candidate, Donald Trump.

The Rich Elite Like Hillarious Are Not Like You and Me

Hillarious Clinton would have been fired from the State Department if she were not Hillarious Clinton.  Like a third-world country it is fast becoming, there are different rules for the rich elite like Hillarious in America. 

Fact: Hillarious Clinton’s personal email account and server had “top secret”  material according to the inspector general for the Intelligence Community. There is no evidence she used encryption to shield the emails or her personal server from foreign intelligence services or other potentially prying eyes. Her excuse why she wouldn't allow a standalone computer in her office to check her emails was particularly Hillarious: She didn't know  how to use a computer.

Not-so RICH Chelsea Manning was court-martialed.  None of the documents at issue in that prosecution was “top secret,” unlike the documents found on Hillarious Clinton’s server.

Then-secretary of state convened a press conference to denounce Manning and defend the prosecution. This is what she said:

If his case goes to trial and he is convicted, Manning could face life in prison. The government has said it would not seek the death penalty.

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton called Manning’s alleged actions damaging and unfortunate in remarks to reporters at the State Department on Thursday.

“I think that in an age where so much information is flying through cyberspace, we all have to be aware of the fact that some information which is sensitive, which does affect the security of individuals and relationships, deserves to be protected and we will continue to take necessary steps to do so,” Clinton said.

But Hillarious Clinton is rich and powerful and the rules don't apply to her.  She has no problem watching other  people’s lives and careers  destroyed and  hauled off to prison.  She had no problem firing one her State Department employees for linking to WIKILEAKS. That person's crime was he was not rich or powerful and, MOST OF ALL, not a elite team player at all. His crime was revealing the clowns at the top of this circus were taking the good townspeople's money.

If Hillarious becomes presidense, Good Luck DOJ prosecuting the next government worker who is caught  with CLASSIFIED info in their computers. 

Precedence, Mrs. Presidense.  Hillary Clinton says we are all equal under the law.

But you and I know that's Hillarious.

 

CIA: Ignore That Classified Paper Behind the Curtain

--- Richie Scallia

For an organization that has ZERO credibility after selling US and the world  the lies at the UN that resulted in the worst foreign policy fiasco in US history, the CIA would be wise to shut the fuck up when it comes to telling US that the 9-11 classified report is not to be trusted.  Such irony.

CIA Director John Brennan aka The Wizard of OZ said Sunday that 28 classified pages of a bipartisan commission's report on the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks contains "uncorroborated, unvetted information" that some could seize upon to claim Saudi Arabian involvement in the attacks.

"Uncorroborated, unvetted" information never stopped the CIA from proclaiming Iraq was a threat to US.  

Brennan, speaking on NBC's "Meet The Press," said such claims would be "very, very inaccurate."  

PLEASE,  stop with the irony.

The Obama administration may soon release at least part of the secret chapter, which some believe shows a Saudi connection to the Al Qaeda attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people at the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and Shanksville, Pa. 

A groundswell to declassify the documents began last month, when former Florida Sen. Bob Graham told CBS' "60 Minutes" he believed the 19 hijackers "substantially" received support from officials in Saudi Arabia's government and prominent members of society.

"There are a lot of rocks out there that have been purposefully tamped down, that if were they turned over, would give us a more expansive view of the Saudi role," Graham said at the time.

The 28 pages were withheld from the 838-page report on the orders of then-President George W. Bush, who said the release could divulge intelligence sources and methods. In mid-April, the White House told Graham that it would decide whether to declassify the material within 60 days.

Brennan said Sunday that the pages were classified because "of concerns about sensitive methods, investigative actions, and the investigation of 9/11 was still under way in 2002."

Brennan added that he believed the pages contain "a combination of things that are accurate and inaccurate." He said the 9/11 Commission followed up on the preliminary information in the 28 pages and made "a very clear judgment" there was no evidence indicating "the Saudi government as an institution or Saudi officials individually" financially backed Al Qaeda."   BULLSHIT.

And now the the CIA says - TRUST US - No need to look behind the curtain. George Tenet- SLAM DUNCE - told US not to point fingers at the CIA.  There is nothing behind the curtain.  

We should pull back the curtain on the CIA, the Land of OZ, which has been deluding US munchkins and themselves for as long as it has existed. 

 

Media Feasts While the Joke is on US

Larry Wilmore dropped some shit on the people who serve it to US every night:

On Obama:  But I have to say, it’s great, it looks like you’re really enjoying your last year of the presidency. Saw you hanging out with NBA players like Steph Curry, Golden State Warriors. That was cool. That was cool, yeah. You know it kinda makes sense, too, because both of you like raining down bombs on people from long distances, right? What? Am I wrong?

On CNN:  Speaking of drones, how is Wolf Blitzer still on television? Ask a follow-up question. Hey, Wolf, I’m ready to project tonight’s winner: Anyone that isn’t watching “The Situation Room.”

On Hillarious:  And Bernie got in trouble, remember, Bernie, you got in trouble for saying Hillary was unqualified? Hillary, she is extremely qualified. In fact, when you factor in all of her policy flip-flops, she is at least several of the most qualified candidates ever to run for president. You know I’m not wrong.

Donald Trump said that if Hillary Clinton were a man, he didn’t think she’d get five percent of the vote. Okay, alright, alright. First of all, if Hillary Clinton were suddenly a man, her biggest problem would be finding a bathroom she’d be allowed to use in North Carolina. Alright? That’d be her biggest problem.

Donald Trump, now Donald Trump says he’s going to try and be more presidential. It’s true, he’s serious about it, too. So he says that now, when he boasts about his genitalia during a debate, he’s only going to refer to it as his President Johnson. That’s it. LBJ? Oh, very good.

And I can’t understand why everyone treats Donald Trump with kid gloves. And then I realized they’re the only gloves that’ll fit his stupid, little baby hands. Oh, man.

But guys I am not surprised Donald Trump is happening to America because I watch movies, I do. And every time there’s a black president, something always comes to destroy the earth. Always.It’s true.

Ted Cruz is about to stay in the race. Man. Everybody hates Ted Cruz. Even O.J. Simpson said, “That guy’s just hard to like.”

This is true, this is true: You know, there’s a joke going around the Internet that Ted Cruz is actually the Zodiac Killer. Right? I’m not making that up. Come on, that’s absurd — some people actually liked the Zodiac Killer.

Recently, Ted Cruz got a string of wins and endorsements, and then everybody remembered who Ted Cruz is: the Zodiac Killer.

Ted Cruz got zero delegates in New York, which is actually five more than I thought he would get for the Zodiac Killer.  Don’t even think Ted Cruz wants to be president. I think he’s just criss-crossing the country, Zodiac-killing. That’s my theory on it.

 

But I’m impressed with the people in this room. There are so many rich, powerful people in this room. You know, it’s nice to finally match the names to the faces in the Panama Papers. It’s very nice.

The FBI's TOR-tured Defense Is Bad Intelligence

--- Richie Scallia

Big thinkers like General Hayden predict the next 9-11 terrorist attack will be a cyber-attack on US.  Imagine if the CIA and FBI knew how the terrorists could attack our cyber-vulnerabilities, just like they knew AQ was in town and planning something big, and did nothing to stop it.  Can't imagine it?  Well, zero-hour is approaching and the FBI is doing nothing to prevent a  “zero-day” software vulnerability that allows adversaries to bypass or reduce security restrictions.

Zero-day software hacks systems which use that software. The FBI used it to hack into the Tor network. The Tor Browser runs on the same fundamental codebase as Firefox … which is used by hundreds of millions of people who are less safe because that zero-day has not been reported and patched.

The FBI’s activity subsequent to their Tor hack has been ruled an illegal search by a federal judge.   The FBI doesn't care - it refuses to say how it did it - ENSURING millions of Firefox users are unsafe. 

Why would the FBI do this?  KNOWLEDGE IS POWER and FAILURE IS REWARDED WITH BIGGER BUDGETS.  

The FBi kept the CiA in the dark about what it knew about the terrorists planning 9-11 and the CiA kept the FBi in the dark.  How did that turn out, boys ????

 Anybody with power, and zero-days are power, is naturally disinclined to give it up for some sort of abstract marginal benefit spread across millions of other people, even if that benefit is cumulatively massive. It’s hard to see how a star-chamber FISA-like review board can effectively advocate for stripping government agencies of that power — even if that would make the public more safe. Expect more of the same; and expect criminals to use exploits that the US government could have closed long ago.

Our  "intelligence" people are infamous for using TOR-tured defense to not share intelligence. But there is method to their madness: they can wait for another big terrorist attack and go to Congress and demand more resources. Hey, it worked for 9-11.  Yeah, some buildings fell down, a real nightmare for US,  but the FBI and CIA got a bigger budget, and that's a wet dream for bureaucrats. 

Saudi Arabia Threatens to Destroy US on 9-11...Again

For a bunch of rich pricks, them Saudi royal camel fuckers are really stupid.  The Saudi royals - as  opposed to the not-so-rich Saudis they oppress- say they will cripple the US economically if it goes ahead with a bill to blame Saudi officials for financing AQ, and therefore, the 9-11 attacks.

NYT:  Saudi Arabia has told the Obama administration and members of Congress that it will sell off hundreds of billions of dollars’ worth of American assets held by the kingdom if Congress passes a bill that would allow the Saudi government to be held responsible in American courts for any role in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

The Obama administration has lobbied Congress to block the bill’s passage, according to administration officials and congressional aides from both parties, and the Saudi threats have been the subject of intense discussions in recent weeks between lawmakers and officials from the State Department and the Pentagon. The officials have warned senators of diplomatic and economic fallout from the legislation.

Adel al-Jubeir, the Saudi foreign minister, delivered the kingdom’s message personally last month during a trip to Washington, telling lawmakers that Saudi Arabia would be forced to sell up to $750 billion in treasury securities and other assets in the United States before they could be in danger of being frozen by American courts.

The administration aka the Wall Street War Party, which argues that the legislation would put Americans at legal risk overseas, has been lobbying so intently against the bill that some lawmakers and families of Sept. 11 victims are infuriated. If the Saudis are depending  upon Obama, then they are as stupid as they are rich.

Not aware of the optics, these Saudi camel fuckers just don't understand US.  They forget we destroy countries that don't threaten US.   Imagine what the US will do to one that does.

Donald Trump may be our next president. Do you really want to find out how crazy we really are?

FBI Makes Deal With the Devil in Biting Apple

The FBI has a bad history of making deals with criminals - even the MAFIA - when it suits them.  Since the Garden of Eden when the devil tempted Eve to take a bite of the apple, it's been assumed you could expect a  bad  result in making a deal with the devil.  One would think the FBI would learn its lesson,  given the Whitey Bulger fiasco.  And yet we learn the FBI is dealing with hackers to bite Apple in the exploitation of a security flaw of its Iphone.  The FBI cracked a San Bernardino terrorist's phone with the help of professional hackers who discovered and brought to the bureau at least one previously unknown software flaw, according to people familiar with the matter. And it wasn't cheap: Director James Comey today gave some hints on how much the agency paid to access the iPhone of San Bernardino shooter Syed Farook, suggesting a sum upwards of $1.3 million.  According to Reuters, Comey said the FBI paid an amount exceeding what he will make in the next seven years and four months as director of the FBI. 

The new information was then used to create a piece of hardware that helped the FBI to crack the iPhone's four-digit personal identification number without triggering a security feature that would have erased all the data, the individuals said.

The people who helped the U.S. government come from the sometimes shadowy world of hackers and security researchers who profit from finding flaws in companies' software or systems.

Apple remains in dark on how FBI hacked iPhone without help

Security and privacy experts have been calling on the government to disclose the vulnerability data to Apple so that the firm can patch it. 

Who is the FBI -  the US government - protecting?  Not you. 

If the government shares data on the flaws with Apple, "they're going to fix it and then we're back where we started from," FBI Diretor Comey said in a discussion at a privacy conference last week. Nonetheless, he said Monday in Miami, "we're considering whether to make that disclosure or not."

The White House has established a process in which federal officials weigh whether to disclose any security vulnerabilities they find. It could be weeks before the FBI's case is reviewed, officials said.

"When we discover these vulnerabilities, there's a very strong bias towards disclosure," White House cybersecurity coordinator Michael Daniel said in an interview in October 2014, speaking generally and not about the Apple case. "That's for a good reason. If you had to pick the economy and the government that is most dependent on a digital infrastructure, that would be the United States."

But, he added, "we do have an intelligence and national security mission that we have to carry out. That is a factor that we weigh in making our decisions."

The decision-makers, which include senior officials from the Justice Department, FBI, National Security Agency, CIA, State Department and Department of Homeland Security, consider how widely used the software in question is. They also look at the utility of the flaw that has been discovered. Can it be used to track members of a terrorist group, to prevent a cyberattack, to identify a nuclear weapons proliferator? Is there another way to obtain the information?

In the case of the phone used by the San Bernardino terrorist, "you could make the justification on both national security and on law enforcement grounds because of the potential use by terrorists and other national security concerns," said a senior administration official, speaking on the condition of anonymity because of the matter's sensitivity.

So the bad guys know how to hack your Iphone and your government won't protect you.  Says it's FORBIDDEN  KNOWLEDGE.

The Devil you say. 

 

Hillary Clinton Early Victim of the Zika Virus ?

 

Zika virus was first discovered in 1947, the same year Hillary Clinton was born.  What has attracted a lot of attention is the apparent association of two serious complications that affect individuals on opposite ends of the life cycle — small brain development in fetuses exposed to the virus (called microcephaly) and neurological problems causing severe muscle weakness, especially in older males.   Then the Zika virus  explains it all:  Hillary's pinhead decisions to invade Iraq, Libya and Syria, and Bill Clinton's Zombie performance on the Hillary campaign. 

Obama's Lazy Fair Play Rules For the Ruling Class

For an oppressed minority,  Obama sure identifies with the ruling class when it comes to fair play.  He goes after the lower-level "help" when there is a violation of security but he gets lazy and  lets the ruling class go Scott-free.  Since he entered the White House in 2009, his government has waged a war against whistleblowers and official leakers. On his watch, there have been eight prosecutions under the 1917 Espionage Act – more than double those under all previous presidents combined.

And yet other apparent leaks have gone entirely unpunished or have been treated, as in the case of General David Petraeus, as misdemeanors. As Abbe Lowell, lawyer for one of the Espionage Act eight, Stephen Kim, has argued in a letter to the Department of Justice, low-level officials who lack the political connections to fight back have had the book thrown at them, while high-level figures have been allowed to leak with “virtual impunity”.

Now it's getting Hillarious

While President Obama acknowledged Hillary Clinton had shown a degree of "carelessness" in managing her emails while heading the State Department, what's the big deal, right, folks?

"I continue to believe that she has not jeopardized America's national security," the president told Fox News Sunday in an interview. But, he added, "what I've also said is that -- and she has acknowledged -- that there's a carelessness, in terms of managing e-mails, that she has owned, and she recognizes."

"But I also think it is important to keep this in perspective,” Obama said. “This is somebody who has served her country for four years as secretary of state, and did an outstanding job."

Yeah, who needs the FBI anyway.  Obama has ruled.

What's that?  Top Secret stuff? 

The use of a private email server by the former secretary of state is currently under investigation by the FBI. Earlier this year, the State Department said it had found 22 emails on Clinton's home server that had to be upgraded to "Top Secret," the highest level of classification. Those top secret documents were withheld from being publicly released along with the rest of her emails.

But like the Mafia, crimes don't matter if you are a member of the crime family.  Like the Mafia, Clinton and Obama kill people for a living.  Got to give Obama his due, in that Hillary has done an OUTSTANDING job.