March 21st, 2017

As we said the CIA was always used in marginal ways but Reagan created precedence for such despotism as to undermine the legitimacy of American commitment to US Rule of Law, International Rule of Law, and democratic ideals.  We see Clinton as Governor of Arkansas tied to a Reagan CIA laundering of drugs and guns in the 1980s and this is what is widely understood to be the pathway of drugs and guns into our US cities since the 1980-90s.  This was the beginning of covert operations inside the US with goals of creating instability in American communities.

We then had a Federal agency with leadership feeling it could circumvent Rule of Law under the direction of a US President acting illegally. Keep in mind a then Governor Clinton and a then VP HW Bush were tied to this DECLINE OF AMERICA.  Our national news will try to make it seem a Trump is doing this but it took these few decades to break down all checks and balances in our governance across branches of government to levels of governance---national, state, and local ---to allow all these abuses of US Rule of Law to operate openly.

'Despotism is a form of government in which a single entity rules with absolute power. That entity may be an individual, as in an autocracy, or it may be a group,[1] as in an oligarchy. The English dictionary defines despotism as "the rule of a despot; the exercise of absolute authority."'

I left the categories under which this article is filed to show the breakdown of US Rule of Law and US Constitutional governance under Reagan and it was done because of the movement to global empire-building under global Wall Street neo-liberalism---remember neo-liberalism is far-right basically Libertarianism saying individuals can do anything to accumulate wealth and power.  That includes corrupting our national security agencies.

Reagan's nickname globally was LIER IN CHIEF---this is when our politicians began saying anything to voters while MOVING FORWARD EMPIRE-BUILDING.  Once a secret agency is filled with employees feeling the ability to act illegally and with no regard to human life----things go from bad to worse.

Reagan’s Administration Was Among the Most Corrupt
Categories: Banking Fraud Cognitive Dissonance Constitution DYSFUNCTIONAL EDUCATION Executive Orders GLOBAL GOVERNANCE Government corruption INTERNATIONAL BANKING CARTEL Totalitarianism

Wednesday, January 28th, 2015 by olddog 


 “By the end of his term, 138 Reagan administration officials had been convicted, had been indicted, or had been the subject of official investigations for official misconduct and/or criminal violations.  In terms of number of officials involved, the record of his administration was the worst ever.” from p. 184,Sleep-Walking Through History: America in the Reagan Years, by Haynes Johnson, (1991, Doubleday), as are the examples below:

1. James Watt, Reagan’s Secretary of the Interior was indicted on 41 felony counts for using connections at the Department of Housing and Urban Development to help his private clients seek federal funds for housing projects in Maryland, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.  Watt conceded that he had received $500,000 from clients who were granted very favorable housing contracts after he had intervened on their behalf.  In testifying before a House committee Watt said: “That’s what they offered and it sounded like a lot of money to me, and we settled on it.” Watt was eventually sentenced to five years in prison and 500 hours of community service.
2. Although not convicted, Edwin Meese III, resigned as Reagan’s Attorney General after having been the subject of investigations by the United States Office of the Independent Counsel on two occasions (Wedtech and Iran-Contra), during the 3 short years he was in office.
3. E. Bob Wallach, close friend and law classmate of Attorney General Edwin Meese, was sentenced to six years in prison and fined $250,000 in connection with the Wedtech influence-peddling scandal.
4. Lyn Nofziger – Convicted on charges of illegal lobbying of White House in Wedtech scandal.
5. Michael Deaver received three years’ probation and was fined one hundred thousand dollars after being convicted for lying to a congressional subcommittee and a federal grand jury about his lobbying activities after leaving the White House.
6. The Iran-Contra scandal. In June, 1984, at a National Security Council meeting, CIA Director Casey urged President Reagan to seek third-party aid for the Nicaraguan contras.  Secretary of State Schultz warned that it would be an “impeachable offense” if the U.S. government acted as conduit for such secret funding.  But that didn’t stop them.  That same day, Oliver North was seeking third-party aid for the contras.  But Reagan, the “teflon President” avoided serious charges or impeachment.
7. Casper Weinberger was Secretary of Defense during Iran-Contra.  In June 1992 he was indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of concealing from congressional investigators and prosecutors thousands of pages of his handwritten notes.  The personal memoirs taken during high level meetings, detailed events in 1985 and 1986 involving the Iran-Contra affair.  Weinberger claimed he was being unfairly prosecuted because he would not provide information incriminating Ronald Reagan.  Weinberger was scheduled to go on trial January 5, 1993, where the contents of his notes would have come to light and may have implicated other, unindicted conspirators.  While Weinberger was never directly linked to the covert operations phase of the Iran-Contra affair, he is believed to have been involved in the cover-up of the ensuing scandal. According to Special Prosecutor Lawrence Walsh, Weinberger’s notes contain evidence of a conspiracy among the highest ranking Reagan Administration officials to lie to congress and the American public.  Some of the notes are believed to have evidence against then Vice-President George Bush who pardoned Weinberger to keep him from going to trial.
8. Raymond Donovan, Secretary of Labor indicted for defrauding the New York City Transit Authority of $7.4. million. { Republicans will point out that Donovan was acquitted.  And that really matters in Donovan’s case, because he was a Republican.  But it didn’t matter for Clinton or any of his cabinet, most all of whom were acquitted, because they were Democrats!}
9. Elliott Abrams was appointed by President Reagan in 1985 to head the State Department’s Latin American Bureau.  He was closely linked with ex-White House aide Lt. Col. Oliver North’s covert movement to aid the Contras.  Working for North, Abrams coordinated inter-agency support for the contras and helped solicit illegal funding from foreign powers as well as domestic contributors.  Abrams agreed to cooperate with Iran-Contra investigators and pled guilty to two charges reduced to misdemeanors.  He was sentenced in 1991 to two years probation and 100 hours of community service but was pardoned by President George Bush.
10. Robert C. McFarlane was appointed Ronald Reagan’s National Security Advisor in October 1983 and become well-known as a champion of the MX missile program in his role as White House liaison to congress.  In 1984, Mc Farlane initiated the review of U.S. policy towards Iran that led directly to the arms for hostages deal.  He also supervised early National Security Council efforts to support the Contras. Shortly after the Iran-Contra scandal was revealed in early 1987, McFarlane took an overdose of the tranquilizer Valium in an attempt to end his life.  In his own words: “What really drove me to despair was a sense of having failed the country.” McFarlane pled guilty to four misdemeanors and was sentenced to two years probation and 200 hours of community service.  He was also fined $20,000.  He received a blanket pardon from President George Bush.
11. Oliver North – Convicted of falsifying and destroying documents, accepting an illegal gratuity, and aiding and abetting the obstruction of Congress.  Conviction overturned on appeal due to legal technicalities.
12. John Poindexter, Reagan’s national security advisor, – guilty of five criminal counts involving conspiracy to mislead Congress, obstructing congressional inquiries, lying to lawmakers, used “high national security” to mask deceit and wrong-doing.
13. Richard Secord pleaded guilty to a felony charge of lying to Congress over Iran-Contra.
14. Alan D. Fiers was the Chief of the Central Intelligence Agency’s Central American Task Force.  Fiers pled guilty in 1991 to two counts of withholding information from congress about Oliver North’s activities and the diversion of Iran arms sale money to aid the Contras.  He was sentenced to one year of probation and 100 hours of community service.  Fiers agreed to cooperate with prosecutors in exchange for having his felonies reduced to misdemeanors and his testimony gave a boost to the long standing criminal investigation of Lawrence Walsh, Special Prosecutor.  Fiers testified that he and three CIA colleagues knew by mid-1986 that profits from the TOW and HAWK missile sales to Iran were being diverted to the Contras months before it became public knowledge.  Alan Fiers received a blanket pardon for his crimes from President Bush.
15. Clair George was Chief of the CIA’s Division of Covert Operations under President Reagan.  In August 1992 a hung jury led U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth to declare a mistrial in the case of Clair George who was accused of concealing from Congress his knowledge of the Iran-Contra affair.  George had been named by Alan Fiers when Fiers turned state’s evidence for Lawrence Walsh’s investigation. In a second trial on charges of perjury, false statements and obstruction of justice, George was convicted of lying to two congressional committees in 1986.  George faced a maximum five year federal prison sentence and a $20,000 fine for each of the two convictions.  Jurors cleared George of five other charges including two counts of lying to a federal grand jury.  Those charges would have carried a mandatory 10 months in prison upon conviction.  Clair George received a blanket pardon for his crimes from President George Bush.
16. Duane R. (Dewey) Clarridge was head of the CIA’s Western European Division under President Reagan.  He was indicted on November 29, 1991 for lying to congress and to the Tower Commission that investigated Iran- Contra.  Clarridge was charged with five counts of perjury and two counts of making false statements for covering up his knowledge of a November 25, 1985 shipment of HAWK missiles to Iran. Clarridge was also suspected of diverting to the Contras weapons that were originally intended for the Afghan mujahaddeen guerrillas.  Clarridge received a blanket pardon for his crimes on Christmas Eve 1992 from President George Bush.
17. Environmental Protection Agency’s favoritism toward polluter.  Assistant administrator unduly influenced by chemical industry lobbyists.  Another administrator resigned after pressuring employees to tone down a critical report on a chemical company accused of illegal pollution in Michigan.  The deputy chief of federal activities was accused of compiling an interagency “hit” or “enemies” list, like those kept in the Nixon Watergate period, singling out career employees to be hired, fired or promoted according to political beliefs.
18. Anne Gorscuh Burford resigned amid accusations she politically manipulated the Superfund money.
19. Rita Lavelle was fired after accusing a senior EPA official of “systematically alienating the business community.” She was later indicted, tried and convicted of lying to Congress and served three months of a six-month prison sentence.  After an extensive investigation, in August 1984, a House of Representatives subcommittee concluded that top-level EPA appointees by Reagan for three years “violated their public trust by disregarding the public health and the environment, manipulating the Superfund program for political purposes, engaging in unethical conduct and participating in other abuses.”.
20. Neglected nuclear safety. A critical situation involving nuclear safety had been allowed to develop during the Reagan era.  Immense sums, estimated at 200 billion or more, would be required in the 1990s to replace and make safe America’s neglected, aging, deteriorating, and dangerous nuclear facilities.
21. Savings & Loan Bail-out. Hundreds of billions of dollars were needed to bail out savings and loan institutions that either had failed during the deregulation frenzy of the eighties or were in danger of bankruptcy.
22. Reckless airline deregulation. Deregulation of airline industry took too broad a sweep, endangering public safety.     Additionally:
23. Richard Allen, National Security adviser resigned amid controversy over an honorarium he received for arranging an interview with Nancy Reagan.
24. Richard Beggs, chief administrator at NASA was indicted for defrauding the government while an executive at General Dynamics.
25. Guy Flake, Deputy Secretary of Commerce, resigned after allegations of a conflict of interest in contract negotiations.
26. Louis Glutfrida, Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency resigned amid allegations of misuses of government property.
27. Edwin Gray, Chairman of the Federal Home Loan Bank was charged with illegally repaying himself and his wife $26,000 in travel costs.
28. Max Hugel, CIA chief of covert operations who resigned after allegations of fraudulent financial dealings.
29. Carlos Campbell, Assistant Secretary of Commerce resigned over charges of awarding federal grants to his personal friends’ firms.
30. John Fedders, chief of enforcement for the Securities and Exchange Commission resigned over charges of beating his wife.
31. Arthur Hayes, Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration resigned over illegal travel reimbursements.
32. J. Lynn Helms, chief of the Federal Aviation Administration resigned over a grand jury investigation of illegal business activities.
33. Marjory Mecklenburg, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Resources resigned over irregularities on her travel vouchers.
34. Robert Nimmo, head of the Veterans Administration resigned when a report criticized him for improper use of government funds.
35. J. William Petro, U.S. Attorney fired and fined for tipping off an acquaintance about a forthcoming Grand Jury investigation.
36. Thomas C. Reed, White House counselor and National Security Council adviser resigned and paid a $427,000 fine for stock market insider trading.
37. Emanuel Savas, Assistant Secretary of HUD resigned over assigning staff members to work on government time on a book that guilty to expense account fraud and accepting kickbacks on government contracts.
38. Charles Wick, Director of the U.S. Information Agency investigated for taping conversations with public officials without their approval.

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This week we are discussing CIA not fraud with the goal of educating on public policy so WE THE PEOPLE can act PROACTIVELY in stopping authoritarianism---this is why left social Democrats like me and academics were shouting loudly against a Bill Clinton in the 1990s as global Wall Street media was calling all this a conspiracy theory. We should have been protesting en masse against this breakdown in Rule of Law.

The other point to make ----this was the first time a candidate for President used the CIA to undermine a national election with Reagan undermining Jimmy Carter. So the CIA has since the 1980s allowed itself to intervene in US elections.

When people move away from main stream news media and educate broadly you would have seen these articles written during Reagan/Bush.  We don't have to believe everything we read but we file it away to use when more actions speak louder than words.

It is not hard to connect an HW Bush replaced by Jimmy Carter to wanting to use the CIA to get him out of office ergo the CIA actions in Iran tied to the Iran hostage-taking and timing of release of hostages---right after Reagan was elected.

Jimmy Carter was no prize for left social Democrats but it was the direct circumvention of law and undermining a sitting President knowing the same was happening throughout our election process that led to a Bush era tampering with BALLOT BOXES nationally.

We believe the CIA connection to Kennedy's assassination is tied to wealthy business interests in Texas likely HW Bush----and here we see a tie to HW Bush in the assassination attempt on Reagan with Hinkley.

SOMEHOW OUR NATIONAL MEDIA TELL US HW BUSH WAS BETTER THAN MOST PRESIDENTS---THEN NATIONAL MEDIA TELL US CLINTON AND BUSH ARE BELOVED BY LEFT VOTERS OR RIGHT VOTERS---IT IS ALL PROPAGANDA.

The Bush Reagan Plot Against Jimmy Carter
by True Words
Wednesday Sep 5th, 2012 8:58 AM

The Republican plotting against Jimmy Carter continues to this day
When Jimmy Carter became president he ended George H W Bush's 1 year as head of the CIA. In 1980, on March 12th, Bush and James Wolsey, then head of the CIA, met with an Iranian to plot the Iran Contra arrangements. This was an act of treason in which private citizen Bush plotted to keep American POW's, embassy employees, in jail for 9 more months in Iran in exchange for giving Iran arms.

This was done to create the false impression that Jimmy Carter was ineffectual. This was followed by the spy Oliver North, who sabotaged the helicopter rescue mission launched by Carter. Republicans could not have Carter successfully rescuing the hostages.

In addition, G H W Bush whose oil connections from his company Zapata were linked to those of Bahrain, the UAE, Saudi Arabia and elsewhere, used that power to dry up the oil supply during Carter's presidency. This also was an act of treason.

Because Jimmy Carter is a supporter of Palestine he has been excised from the news by our airwaves, which have been leased by those promoting the Netanyahu agenda.

Monologist Romney pawns like Chris Plante of WMALlike constantly to put out disinformation about Carter, perhaps the holiest man ever to occupy the White House.

In 1953 democratically elected Mossadegh became head of Iran and nationalized oil then being taken out of the country by Anglo Iranian Oil, now BP. The CIA and MI6 would not allow a country to control its own property, and instead organized a coup to remove Mossadegh and replace him with the torturing Shah of Iran. British oil interests had often created phony titles for people and installed them on a petroplutocrat throne.

Now in obedience to Netanyahu, Romney and Ryan are attempting to be elected in order to continue endlessly the war in Afghanistan, already the longest war in US history, and to expand the violence and money hemorrhaging into war on Iran and Syria, which like the other wars of the last 30 years have harmed the real security interests of the US while profiteers like Romney have made billions, bloated on the blood of bombed innocents.

Reagan, installed by Bush trickery, would go on to feather the nest of General Electric, owner of NBC, sending copious arms contracts GE's way while tripling military spending. He would begin
the destabilization of the US by unionbusting.

However, after Hinckley, a neighbor of a Bush, tried to murder Reagan, George Bush was never again invited to a nonmandatory function at the Reagan White House.
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Below we see why all this intrigue from Reagan/Bush is relevant to today and indeed tied to much of the CIA induced instability in Central America throughout Reagan 1980s-----and the CONFUSION OF POLITICAL PHILOSOPHIES-------

Bush for whatever reason named his oil corporation ZAPATA----which happens to be the name of a REVOLUTIONARY HERO tied to MARXISM

We see the CIA is tied to these oil corporations with the name of Zapata at the same time the CIA is destabilizing Central American fighting MARXIST REBELS we are hearing them called today ZAPATISTAS

'In addition, G H W Bush whose oil connections from his company Zapata were linked to those of Bahrain, the UAE, Saudi Arabia and elsewhere, used that power to dry up the oil supply during Carter's presidency. This also was an act of treason'.

Bush family is ZAPATA and so is the CIA----


Emiliano Zapata
BiographyMilitary Leader(1879–1919)
Emiliano Zapata was a leading figure in the Mexican Revolution (1910–1920), during which he formed and commanded the Liberation Army of the South, an important revolutionary brigade. Followers of Zapata were known as Zapatistas.

This is where global Wall Street and global oil et al are confusing global citizens with wars and revolutions having names of revolutionary heroes and left Marxist ties all the while these civil unrests are tied to CIA and fake Zapatistas.



'The company traces its origins to Zapata Oil, founded in 1953 by future-U.S. President George H. W. Bush, along with his business partners John Overbey, Hugh Liedtke, Bill Liedtke, and Thomas J. Devine. Overbey was a ‘landman’, skilled in scouting oil fields and obtaining drilling rights cheaply. Bush and Thomas J. Devine were oil-wildcatting associates.[1] Their joint activities culminated in the establishment of Zapata Oil.[2] The initial $1 million investment for Zapata was provided by the Liedtke brothers and their circle of investors, by Bush's father Prescott Bush and his maternal grandfather George Herbert Walker, and their family's circle of friends. Hugh Liedtke was named president, Bush was vice president; Overbey soon left.

According to a CIA internal memo dated November 29, 1975,[2] Zapata Petroleum began in 1953 through Bush's joint efforts with Thomas J. Devine, a CIA staffer who had resigned his agency position that same year to go into private business, but who continued to work for the CIA under commercial cover. Devine would later accompany Bush to Vietnam in late 1967 as a "cleared and witting commercial asset" of the agency, acted as his informal foreign affairs advisor, and had a close relationship with him through 1975.[3]

In 1954, Zapata Off-Shore Company was formed as a subsidiary of Zapata Oil, with Bush as president of the new company. He raised some startup money from Eugene Meyer, publisher of the Washington Post, and his son-in-law, Phillip Graham'

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As with all national justice movements as we say----from BLACK LIVES MATTER to XL PIPELINE there are grassroots citizens really wanting to FIGHT BACK and then there are global NGOs PRETENDING to lead that revolution that are working against WE THE PEOPLE.  We pointed to global Wall Street media stars for Black Lives Matter and XL Pipeline and so too is ZAPATISTAS.

This is how global Wall Street and CIA injects its own controlled instability to regions all over the world and here is what is now extending outside Trump's Wall and inside our US cities and we know from where these REVOLUTIONARIES ARE TIED-----CASA DE MARYLAND and the 5% to the 1% Latino citizens.  It is not revolutionary----they are tied to ONE WORLD ONE GOVERNANCE ZAPATA BIG OIL CORPORATION.

We are already hearing inside US cities and seeing posters of ZAPATISTAS mad as heck against Trump with our global IVY LEAGUE citizens behind them.  This is the MARXISM to Trump's LIBERTARIANISM ----having a goal of destabilizing our US cities.


THIS IS BAD FOR ALL 99% ACROSS POPULATION GROUPS BUT IT IS ESPECIALLY BAD FOR OUR LATINO 99% WHO ARE CONSTANTLY TIED TO THESE BOGUS REVOLUTIONARY GROUPS.

Here we see Mexico's national media as corrupt as American --now Trump is as connected to BUSH as he is to HILLARY because he is team GLOBAL WALL STREET ONE WORLD ONE GOVERNANCE as are Mexican leaders.  This is why we shout all these instabilities over several decades overseas is now being staged in our US cities to bring civil unrest and with it will be martial law and MOVING FORWARD far-right authoritarianism -----same thing happened in Latin America and CIA WAS CENTRAL.



Zapatistas Demand ‘Grassroots Resistance’ Against Trump’s Walls

Resist! Donald Trump, Immigration, Zapatistas
By Staff, www.telesurtv.net
February 17th, 2017

By Staff of Tele Sur – “We call for grassroots movements to resist, resist and rebel against the persecution, the arrests and deportations.” The Zapatista Army of National Liberation, EZLN, called on all of its members and supporters to rally behind the immigrants currently facing arrest, deportation and human rights abuses at the hands of U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration. “We call for grassroots movements to resist, resist and rebel against the persecution, the arrests and deportations … Because every human being has the right to live in freedom and dignity in the place he finds the best for himself, and has the right to fight to stay there,” said the communique, calling resistance an act of “duty.” Signed by Subcomandante Moises and Subcomandante Galeano, the document reinforced the idea that migrants and refugees are “not alone” and that the Zapatistas, “even with our limited possibilities,” fully support their struggle.



“Always remember that we must resist, we must rebel, we must fight and we must organize."Mexico’s Zapatista Army of National Liberation, EZLN, announced Saturday that it will begin selling organic coffee from Chiapas in order to help migrants persecuted by U.S. President Donald Trump.

Working alongside allied international distributors, the EZLN will use coffee sale funds to provide financial assistance to U.S. deportees in Mexico. They will also use funds to support pro-immigrant resistance groups around the world protesting anti-immigrant governments.

The project is part of the group’s “Global Campaign Against the Walls of Capital,” which calls for worldwide immigrant solidarity against detentions and deportations.
“It's 100 percent Zapatista coffee, cultivated in Zapatista lands by Zapatista hands,” EZLN insurgent subcommanders Moises and Galeano wrote in a statement.

“We hope that with this support they will be able to initiate work of support for all persecutions and discriminations of the world.”

The EZLN insurgent subcommanders signed their statement with the words “fuck Trump.”

Since Trump’s election, the radical Mexican group has worked with its international support group, the Sixth Commission, to “support the resistance and rebellion of those who are persecuted.” This includes calling for boycotts of pro-Trump commercial and media organizations while providing free legal assistance to those in need.

The EZLN has also announced plans to present an Indigenous female candidate in Mexico’s 2018 election. Their proposed candidate, who has yet to be named, is described as someone who will “call for Trump’s wall to be torn down.”

Despite the EZLN’s participation in fundraising and electoral politics, the group continues to advocate for mass civil resistance as its primary form of struggle.
“Always remember that we must resist, we must rebel, we must fight and we must organize,” Moises and Galeano also wrote in the statement.

“We must fight for those people who today are persecuted simply for having a certain skin color, culture, belief, origin, history and life.”

The EZLN, inspired by Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata, became active in 1994 after Mexico joined the North American Free Trade Agreement. Since then, the group has declared war against the Mexican government and its allied multinational corporations.

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We want to detour from CIA to say this to our Latin immigrant citizens who we love and support----NOT THAT PESKY 5% TO THE 1%----

The goal of CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA is to create a global human capital distribution structure inside US as it has globally.  What were Latino immigrants able to stay in the US for decades-----having children and jobs long-term is MOVING FORWARD to continuous cycling in and out of different Latino citizens so no PATHWAY TO CITIZENSHIP can occur.  This was the goal of Clinton/Obama and it will be the immigrant policy Trump installs.

Obama's mass deportation of Latinos at the beginning of his term was done for just that---long-term Latino citizens were largely targeted and Trump will do the same.  Meanwhile this national identity system will document how long immigrants have been in the US to push them back into global labor pool.  This is the goal of national identity for US citizens black and white as well----so all 99% of citizens across all population groups should be fighting these policies----NOT EACH OTHER.

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Activists Gather in New York City to Protest President Trump's Immigration Orders
Charlotte Alter
Jan 25, 2017


Hundreds of activists gathered in New York City on Wednesday to protest President Donald Trump's two executive orders on immigration.
The demonstration, led by the New York Chapter of the Center for American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) was hastily organized in response to Trump's executive orders restricting immigration from Muslim countries and efforts to curb undocumented immigration within the U.S. On Wednesday, Trump green-lighted the construction of a wall along the southern border, ordered the Department of Homeland Security to build more detention centers, and ended federal grant funding to so-called "sanctuary cities" that refuse to cooperate with federal anti-immigration efforts.
The demonstration, in Washington Square Park, was both a rally in support of undocumented immigrants and Muslim refugees and a protest against Trump. It was also a test of whether the fragile coalition of activists who marched all over the country in the Women's March last weekend could maintain their unity in the long run.
"I think the Women's March was a giant wake-up call," says Celine Robinson, a 27-year-old writer in New York City who attended Wednesday's protest. "What am I doing standing up there if I'm not standing up here?"


Many of the attendees at the Wednesday protest said they had also attended the Women's March on Saturday. Massage therapist Jennifer Landry, 47, said coming to this demonstration is "the only thing that feels like we’re doing something." Her 3-year-old daughter played patty-cake with other children to a new song they had learned: "H ey hey, ho ho, Donald Trump has got to go."
Edna Bonhomme, a socialist organizer and PhD student, said she was encouraged by the turnout at both the Women's March and the Washington Square Park demonstration. "N ow you have a broader layer of people who are protesting that might not have come out to previous protests," she says. She is not a Muslim or an immigrant, but, she says, "We all stand with Muslims against hate."
Still, some of the black protesters in the crowd on Wednesday questioned the motivations of the demonstrators who were newer to social-justice activism. "There's a lot of white folk here, and while that’s really dope, a lot of them look like they're just passing by," says Toni Wilson, a social-work student. "It looks like ‘Look at me, I support you,' not ‘Look at me, I’ll get in the trenches with you.'"
Wilson's friend Ramelcy Uribe, a youth organizer, says she's skeptical of white female protesters who didn't take to the streets until Trump started mouthing off about sexual assault. "Folks did not feel pressured to show up for other folks until they were specifically threatened," she says. "I don't think cis white women feel like they need to show up to protest until the threat of sexual assault named them."
"I don't know if it’s really solidarity or if it appears to be solidarity," she added.

For Robinson, the rally in defense of immigrants and Muslims is just the second of many, many protests she plans to attend throughout the Trump Administration. "I think I will show up to all the rallies and protests I hear about rather than be selective. We can’t afford to be selective," she says.

The Women's March, she says, gave her marching orders. "I think it helped me to see that there are allies that I didn't expect, but it reminded me that I need to be a better ally to Black Lives Matter and other causes," she says.
"A lot of white women were called on their white feminism, and I’m grateful for it."

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What we are discussing is COMMON KNOWLEDGE----there is no conspiracy theory-----these connections of CIA to global oil corporations have been documented for decades.
It does not take a rocket scientist to expand a connection of Bush oil Zapata-----to the CIA civil unrests in Central America between groups one of which is ZAPATISTAS.
Who was the original Mexican revolutionary hero in late 1800s named ZAPATA? He may well have been a populist hero.
THIS IS NOT CONTROVERSIAL----IT IS NOT CONSPIRACY THEORY-----and all our national media outlets KNOW THIS.

January 7, 2007 | Russ Baker


CIA Helped Bush Senior In Oil Venture

Newly released internal CIA documents assert that former president George Herbert Walker Bush’s oil company emerged from a 1950’s collaboration with a covert CIA officer.


Bush has long denied allegations that he had connections to the intelligence community prior to 1976, when he became Central Intelligence Agency director under President Gerald Ford. At the time, he described his appointment as a ‘real shocker.’

But the freshly uncovered memos contend that Bush maintained a close personal and business relationship for decades with a CIA staff employee who, according to those CIA documents, was instrumental in the establishment of Bush’s oil venture, Zapata, in the early 1950s, and who would later accompany Bush to Vietnam as a “cleared and witting commercial asset” of the agency.


According to a CIA internal memo dated November 29, 1975, Bush’s original oil company, Zapata Petroleum, began in 1953 through joint efforts with Thomas J. Devine, a CIA staffer who had resigned his agency position that same year to go into private business. The ’75 memo describes Devine as an “oil wild-catting associate of Mr. Bush.” The memo is attached to an earlier memo written in 1968, which lays out how Devine resumed work for the secret agency under commercial cover beginning in 1963.


“Their joint activities culminated in the establishment of Zapata Oil,” the memo reads. In fact, early Zapata corporate filings do not seem to reflect Devine’s role in the company, suggesting that it may have been covert. Yet other documents do show Thomas Devine on the board of an affiliated Bush company, Zapata Offshore, in January, 1965, more than a year after he had resumed work for the spy agency.


It was while Devine was in his new CIA capacity as a commercial cover officer that he accompanied Bush to Vietnam the day after Christmas in 1967, remaining in the country with the newly elected congressman from Texas until January 11, 1968. Whatever information the duo was seeking, they left just in the nick of time. Only three weeks after the two men departed Saigon, the North Vietnamese and their Communist allies launched the Tet offensive with seventy thousand troops pre-positioned in more than 100 cities and towns.


While the elder Bush was in Vietnam with Devine, George W. Bush was making contact with representatives of the Texas Air National Guard, using his father’s connections to join up with an elite, Houston-based Guard unit – thus avoiding overseas combat service in a war that the Bushes strongly supported.


The new revelation about George H.W. Bush’s CIA friend and fellow Zapata Offshore board member will surely fuel further speculation that Bush himself had his own associations with the agency.


Indeed, Zapata’s annual reports portray a bewildering range of global activities, in the Mideast, Asia and the Caribbean (including off Cuba) that seem outsized for the company’s modest bottom line. In his autobiography, Bush declares that “I’d come to the CIA with some general knowledge of how it operated’ and that his ‘overseas contacts as a businessman’ justified President Nixon’s appointing him as UN ambassador, a decision that at the time was highly controversial.


Previously disclosed FBI files include a memo from bureau director J. Edgar Hoover, noting that his organization had given a briefing to two men in the intelligence community on November 23, 1963, the day after the assassination of John F. Kennedy. The memo refers to one as “Mr. George Bush of the Central Intelligence Agency” and the other as “Captain William Edwards of the Defense Intelligence Agency.”


When Nation magazine contributor Joseph McBride first uncovered this document in 1988, George Herbert Walker Bush, then vice president and seeking the presidency, insisted through a spokesman that he was not the man mentioned in the memo: “I was in Houston, Texas, at the time and involved in the independent oil drilling business. And I was running for the Senate in late ’63. I don’t have any idea of what he’s talking about.” The spokesman added, “Must be another George Bush.”


When McBride approached the CIA at that time, it initially invoked a policy of neither admitting nor denying anyone’s involvement with the agency. But it soon took the unusual step of asserting that the correct individual was a George William Bush, a one-time Virginia staffer whom the agency claimed it could no longer locate. But that George Bush, discovered in his office in the Social Security Administration by McBride, noted that he was a low-ranked coast and landing-beach analyst and that he most certainly never received such an FBI briefing.


It was perhaps to help lay to rest the larger matter of the elder Bush’s past associations that the former president went out of his way during his recent eulogy for President Ford to sing the praises of the Warren Commission Report as the final authority on those days.
After a deluded gunman assassinated President Kennedy, our nation turned to Gerald Ford and a select handful of others to make sense of that madness. And a conspiracy theorist can say what they will, but the Warren Commission report will always have the final definitive say on this tragic matter. Why? Because Gerry Ford put his name on it and Gerry Ford’s word was always good.


In fact, Ford’s role on the Warren Commission is seen by many experts as a decisive factor in his rise to the top. As a Commission member, Ford altered its report in a significant way. As the Associated Press reported in 1997, “Thirty-three years ago, Gerald R. Ford took pen in hand and changed – ever so slightly – the Warren Commission’s key sentence on the place where a bullet entered John F. Kennedy’s body when he was killed in Dallas. The effect of Ford’s change was to strengthen the commission’s conclusion that a single bullet passed through Kennedy and severely wounded Texas Gov. John Connally – a crucial element in its finding that Lee Harvey Oswald was the sole gunman.”


This modification played a seminal role in ending talk of a larger conspiracy to kill the president. Knowledge of Ford’s alteration has encouraged theorists to scrutinize the constellation of other figures who might have had a motivation to cover up the affair.
Meanwhile, there is much more to learn about George H. W. Bush’s friend, Thomas Devine. The newly surfaced memos explain that Devine, from 1963 on, had authority from the agency to operate under commercial cover as part of an agency project code-named WUBRINY.


Devine at that time was employed with the Wall Street boutique Train, Cabot and Associates, described in the memos as an “investment banking firm which houses and manages the [CIA] proprietary corporation WUSALINE.” These nautical names – ‘Saline’ and ‘Briny’ – or, for the Bay of Pigs invasion ‘Wave’ – are CIA cryptonyms for the programs and companies involved.
George H.W. Bush’s own ties are amplified in the 1975 CIA memo, dated November 29, which makes it clear that he had knowledge of CIA operations prior to being named the new director of the CIA in the fall of that year.

The 1975 memo notes that, through his relationship with Devine, “Mr George Bush [the CIA director-designate] has prior knowledge of the now terminated project WUBRINY/LPDICTUM which was involved in proprietary commercial operations in Europe.”

The Bush documents, part of a batch of 300,000 records the CIA provided to the House Select Committee on Assassinations, were publicly released in 1998 as the result of a lawsuit, donated to a foundation, scanned into a database – and only just noticed by an independent researcher.

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Moving beyond the Reagan HW Bush years to George Bush/Obama we saw the exposure of our NSA/CIA in what was global espionage but what was as revealing is yet again our national security agencies are tied to global corporate espionage and it is this broad insertion into every aspect of civilian life that has global citizens concerned about the power of our CIA---in what we constantly shout as FREE MARKET USA-----we are constantly reminded that all markets are FIXED.

It was George Bush creating HOMELAND SECURITY having that goal of creating in US cities deemed Foreign Economic Zones the same global security structures that exist overseas. This was the point that the CIA became officially part of our US city policing and surveillance. We know they were there before but now it is open and public policy. This is where we are having problems with our election rigging and fraud----it is where we have problems within citizen organizations wanting to share thoughts and goals openly but are now assuming their actions are being watched and they likely are. So, the NSA/CIA that used to look outward globally is now firmly being installed in our US cities. When shouting against global Wall Street and fraud and government corruption and why no oversight and accountability----this is it.
Shouting against Trump does nothing------working to end designation of US CITIES DEEMED FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES reinstates national, state, and local sovereignty and takes the SPOOKS OUT OF OUR LOCAL CAFES!


FEINSTEIN is about as far-right wing authoritarian as one can get----she is a pol from San Fran area touted as being very left social progressive-------here we see Feinstein back in Bush era torture discussions saying all that is unAmerican and flash forward to Feinstein confirming as deputy CIA those involved in these torture policies----


'Sen. Feinstein knows as much about the CIA’s detention and torture programs under the Bush administration — which went well beyond the acts depicted in photographs from Abu Ghraib — as anyone outside the CIA. She described them as “un-American and brutal,” '


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03/19/2014 11:04 pm ET | Updated May 19, 2014

Beyond CIA and NSA Spying: Corruption
By Shahid Buttar

Even before open war erupted last week between the CIA and Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), embattled NSA officials had woven tangled skeins to downplay public crimes including lying to Congress.
Many observers have noted the double standard apparent in Feinstein challenging the CIA while deferring to the NSA. Few have recognized that both the NSA’s pattern of spying and then lying about it and the CIA’s trajectory of first committing torture crimes, then spying on Congress to cover it up, then lying about the spying when caught, can be described in a single word: corruption.


CIA: Spying on Congress to Cover Up Criminal Human-Rights Violations


Sen. Feinstein knows as much about the CIA’s detention and torture programs under the Bush administration — which went well beyond the acts depicted in photographs from Abu Ghraib — as anyone outside the CIA. She described them as “un-American and brutal,” and her colleague Mark Udall (D-Colo.) called them both “brutal and ineffective.”

Beyond their brutality, their ineffectiveness as an intelligence tool, and the fact that they violated fundamental American values and foreign-policy interests, the programs were also international crimes at least partly responsible for the deaths of U.S. military servicemembers. Releasing the Senate’s authoritative, 6,000-page, $40-million report to the public is long overdue — especially for an administration that falsely champions transparency while routinely undermining it.

While the CIA’s torture program prompted Feinstein to begin her committee’s investigation, it was the agency’s continuing coverup that prompted her to voice her concerns on the Senate floor in a speech described by her colleague Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) as the most important he had ever witnessed in his 40-year career in the Senate.

Feinstein revealed that CIA personnel had removed files from the computers used by Senate staff to conduct their investigation, and that a CIA lawyer himself complicit in human-rights abuses has tried to intimidate Senate investigators by outrageously seeking their prosecution — for obtaining an internal CIA document confirming facts that the agency is trying to continue covering up.

Ultimately, the CIA’s attempt to limit what material its congressional overseers can review smacks of self-interest and reflects an evasion of accountability for severe institutional crimes. Brennan’s confirmation by the committee last spring entitled him to lead the CIA, not to place it above the law.



NSA: Lies to Congress and the Public to Cover Up Mass Surveillance


Observers from across the political spectrum have agreed that Director of National Intelligence James Clapper either misled Congress or lied outright when asked a straightforward question by Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) in a March 2013 Senate hearing.
With advance notice, Clapper was asked whether the NSA collects “any type of data at all on millions ... of Americans.” He answered, “No sir. Not wittingly.” In June the Snowden revelations shocked the globe and proved that his statement was simply not true, not to mention self-serving.
Many people have gone to prison for less-significant lies than that.


Responding to Clapper’s admittedly false answer to Wyden, seven Republican members of Congress wrote to the attorney general in December seeking a Justice Department investigation into potential perjury. They correctly noted, “Congressional oversight depends on truthful testimony,” which is why “witnesses cannot be allowed to lie to Congress.”
Members of Congress from both parties and both chambers are not alone in calling for accountability: Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington called for an investigation nearly a year ago, followed by the Bill of Rights Defense Committee and grassroots activists and organizations from across the country.


Obama: On the Sidelines While His Legacy Is Sealed


How else might we describe demonstrably false, self-serving statements by NSA officials paid by taxpayers to perform a public service, or CIA efforts to secretly hamstring investigations into their activities by the elected officials charged with overseeing them? In any country that claims to be a democracy, the most elegant answer is a single word — corruption — with crucial connotations for a contemporary debate that remains limited, even after the Snowden revelations.

As members of Congress have challenged executive agencies covering up their crimes, President Obama has absurdly attempted to evade responsibility. This maneuver, like his initial decision to “look forward, not back” on torture, is what I described then as “an illegal capitulation to illegitimate political interests carrying profound consequences for human rights and freedom both in the U.S. and around the world.”

President Obama’s evasion is the antithesis of President Truman’s reminder that “the buck stops here” and undermines his own prior commitment to releasing at least parts of the Senate’s torture report. Coming from an administration that has accepted poorly deserved awards for transparency in ironically appropriate secret meetings, this tacit support for executive lawlessness is a spectacular — though entirely unsurprising — failure.

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'In-Q-Tel is the venture capital firm of the CIA. Yes, the Central Intelligence Agency'.

THE CIA HAS A VENTURE CAPITAL FIRM.



Here is the point where our US Congress is no longer effectively in control of these Federal agencies.  The CIA and NSA is tied to global Wall Street and ONE WORLD ONE GOVERNANCE global corporate tribunal and sees no responsibility to our Congressional pols.

Now our elected officials are watched by a CIA to assure these officials are not working against ONE WORLD ONE GOVERNANCE OR THE CIA.

This is why we have no voice or power as citizens and if we do not fix this power imbalance away from global Wall Street and US cities as Foreign Economic Zones we cannot reverse or get anything other than LEFT SOCIAL PROGRESSIVE BONES that mean nothing.

'Many observers have noted the double standard apparent in Feinstein challenging the CIA while deferring to the NSA. Few have recognized that both the NSA’s pattern of spying and then lying about it and the CIA’s trajectory of first committing torture crimes, then spying on Congress to cover it up, then lying about the spying when caught, can be described in a single word: corruption'.

I tell my local global Wall Street pols to STOP THIS FRAUD AND CORRUPTION and they all say-----

OH, THEY WOULDN'T LIKE THAT.  OH, REALLY?????

So, are WE THE PEOPLE the 99% going to be fearful of protesting----of running for elective office-----of demanding justice or accountability ----of stopping MOVING FORWARD because of this overreach?  Of course not.  If the CIA starts killing US citizens inside American cities randomly as they do overseas ANYTIME SOON----they know civil unrest they do not want will follow. 

DO NOT BE FEARFUL---SIMPLY BE EDUCATED ON PUBLIC POLICY STANCES AND GOALS.



The CIA, NSA and Pokémon Go

Before heading out to capture Pokémon, you might want to consider the data the game has access to and the history of the company that created the game
Credit: Michael Kan

With Pokémon Go currently enjoying, what I would call, a wee-bit-o-success, now seems like a good time to talk about a few things people may not know about the world's favorite new smartphone game.
This is not an opinion piece. I am not going to tell you Pokémon Go is bad or that it invades your privacy. I’m merely presenting verifiable facts about the biggest, most talked about game out there.


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Let’s start with a little history.
Way back in 2001, Keyhole, Inc. was founded by John Hanke (who previously worked in a “foreign affairs” position within the U.S. government). The company was named after the old “eye-in-the-sky” military satellites. One of the key, early backers of Keyhole was a firm called In-Q-Tel.


In-Q-Tel is the venture capital firm of the CIA. Yes, the Central Intelligence Agency. Much of the funding purportedly came from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA). The NGA handles combat support for the U.S. Department of Defense and provides intelligence to the NSA and CIA, among others.
Keyhole’s noteworthy public product was “Earth.” Renamed to “Google Earth” after Google acquired Keyhole in 2004.
In 2010, Niantic Labs was founded (inside Google) by Keyhole’s founder, John Hanke.
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Over the next few years, Niantic created two location-based apps/games. The first was Field Trip, a smartphone application where users walk around and find things. The second was Ingress, a sci-fi-themed game where players walk around and between locations in the real world.
In 2015, Niantic was spun off from Google and became its own company. Then Pokémon Go was developed and launched by Niantic. It’s a game where you walk around in the real world (between locations suggested by the service) while holding your smartphone.


Data the game can access

Let’s move on to what information Pokémon Go has access to, bearing the history of the company in mind as we do.
When you install Pokémon Go on an Android phone, you grant it the following access (not including the ability to make in-app purchases):
Identity

• Find accounts on the device

Contacts

• Find accounts on the device

Location

• Precise location (GPS and network-based)
• Approximate location (network-based)

Photos/Media/Files

• Modify or delete the contents of your USB storage
• Read the contents of your USB storage

Storage

• Modify or delete the contents of your USB storage
• Read the contents of your USB storage

Camera

• Take pictures and videos

Other

• Receive data from the internet
• Control vibration
• Pair with Bluetooth devices
• Access Bluetooth settings
• Full network access
• Use accounts on the device
• View network connections
• Prevent the device from sleeping

Based on the access to your device (and your information), coupled with the design of Pokémon Go, the game should have no problem discerning and storing the following information (just for a start): 

• Where you are
• Where you were
• What route you took between those locations
• When you were at each location
• How long it took you to get between them
• What you are looking at right now
• What you were looking at in the past
• What you look like
• What files you have on your device and the entire contents of those files

 I’m not going to tell people what they should think of all this. I’m merely presenting the information. I recommend looking over the list of what data the game has access to, then going back to the beginning of this article and re-reading the history of the company.

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We are trying to show how close all ROBBER BARON pols these few decades are----from Reagan/Clinton/Bush/Obama to make it clear that 2016 election rigging both for Democratic and Republican primaries and general election was indeed rigged and fraudulent and that a HILLARY campaign KNEW TRUMP was tapped to win because that is what MOVING FORWARD needs----a loud-mouthed, far-right wing, authoritarian, militaristic dictator and family.
So Clinton/Obama were throwing their 5% to the 1% under the bus but as important it shows how any attempt at third or fourth political parties NOW will not work. All national leaders of these third and fourth parties are the same global Wall Street players.
We want to remind folks of how I reported on election day here in Baltimore how Baltimore Board of Elections allows BALTIMORE POLICE DEPARTMENT to pick up ballots and ballot box printouts all across the city.....know where CIA can be found? Inside local police departments. This is likely happening in your neck of the woods and it is the cause of election frauds in US over these few decades.

Obama and Hillary are simply protecting this TRUMP INSTALLATION from their 5% and the CIA is being used to cover up creating this crazy Russian hacking 'INTEL'.


Is CIA Trying to Cover Its Own Hack or Accommodating Obama?


Blog/2016 U.S. Presidential Election

Posted Dec 13, 2016 by Martin Armstrong

Obama’s parting shot across the bow is his order of a full review into hacking aimed at influencing US elections going back to 2008. Instead of targeting the CIA or the NSA, WikiLeaks has gone after an organization Democrats actually care about — the Democratic National Committee and exposed its internal corruption. If Obama could, he would declare Wikileaks a Terrorist Organization and anyone who published its stuff should be thrown in prison.


Nevertheless, this latest act by Obama is clearly a politicized action that seems more about widening the divide in the country and to continue to smear doubt over the election. The CIA claim that Russia hacked the DNC and gave the data to Wikileaks to help Trump against Hillary, is really questionable since there is no evidence of a hack. The FBI said that Hillary’s emails had been hacked by five foreign governments. They could not be 100% sure who, or what they got since the really classified stuff was omitted, but the CIA is now claiming it was Russia who hacked the DNC and got this collection of 19,252 emails and 8,034 attachments from the DNC. There is absolutely NO WAY that a professional hacker who leaves no concrete trace with Hillary’s emails, would be sloppy enough to leave such a trace at the DNC.

Furthermore, Julian Assange  came out and stated publicly it was a leak and not a hack but declined to say who was the leak. Backing up Assange, the former British ambassador to Uzbekistan, Craig Murray, confirmed he has met the person who gave the DNC emails to Wikileaks and said publicly it was not the Russians. That was reported by BizPac Review, which is a contributor to Google News. Additionally, there is just no hard evidence whatsoever. This is clearly a false flag report by the Obama Administration supported by the highly partisan Washington Post, which has lost all credibility during this election. Yes, Trump was correct, 77% of all press reporting during the election was negative against him according to a Harvard study.


There is absolutely no evidence that the votes were hacked in any state by Russia, China, Bangladesh or Canada just so Justin Pierre James Trudeau who have someone to talk to if Hillary won. So exactly how is this sinister hack supposed to have influenced the election? Oh, that’s right, it revealed that the Democrats conspired with the press to make sure Trump would be the pick because they thought they could demonize him and beat him easily. Then they conspired to stop Bernie take California and cheated to give that to Hillary to the point the head of the DNC had to resign. But hey! What Obama is really saying is if they DNC hack had not taken place, then the Democrats would have gotten away with it fair and square?


There is something else behind the curtain. That is, there were plenty within the FBI and the Intelligence Community who wanted Hillary indicted. There was talk that the hack of the DNC was home grown from within the CIA and handed to Wikileaks. So is the CIA now trying to cover its own trail? Or is Obama trying to set the stage for the next election saying Trump was really not the president? There cannot be any hard-core proof Russia was behind that hack. This seems to be a false-flag to clean the deck before leaving office and to try to shift the proof that the DNC was rotten to the core.
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