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Tuesday, October 15, 2024

Kamala Harris' Plagiarism Scandal Embarrassing And Deeply Damaging For Her Campaign

People who watch American politics more closely than the Boggart Bloggers are suggesting the Kamala Harris, campaing is struggling as the presidential candidate's perrformances in live interviews and media events have revealed she flouders when trying to answer even the most straightforward question when there is no teleprompt in front of her. In fact her 'word salads' when a simple short sentence shuld suffice have become a standing joke.

With Harris already having been caught being 'economical with the truth' several times before she was even elevated to the presidential candidacy integrity is probably not the first quality we would identify her with.

It will come as no surprise to American politics watchers then, that a candidate caught repeatedly on camera switching her accent depending on the audience would have little attachment to sincerity. Still, the claims made by a famous plagiarism hunter about a book written by Harris prior to her term as California attorney general could knock her campaign goal to present herself as a breath of fresh air. Joe Biden, at least, had the good sense to plagiarise from a British politician party leader Neil Kinnock: Harris is alleged to have ripped straight from Wikipedia.

Harris’ book, Smart on Crime: A Career Prosecutor’s Plan to Make Us Safer was supposed to meld her personal experiences as a legal expert with the on-the-ground situation in the Californian criminal justice system. It was never intended to be the next great American novel. But that is precisely why allegations that she plagiarised numerous passages in it, look like being seriously damaging for her. That Harris has been accused of lifting entire passages of her book without attribution from elsewhere, including one lengthy piece from Wikipedia, that threatens to compound her existing reputation for being vacuous. The disgraced former Harvard president Claudine Gay might have been sloppy, in plagiarising easily verifiable passages from other people's work but Harris simply looks lazy and lacking ideas.

(In her other book - tracing her Jamaican roots, Harris lies about her ancestry to make out she has black Jamaican roots, and avoid anyone finding out her great x 4 grandfather was a white Jamaican slave owner of Irish origins. Assumed Gaelicness is at least something she has in ommon with current president Paddy O'Biden and recent predecessors Jock McTrump and Paddy O'Bama. )

Why ancestry matters to the Americans so much is baffling to Europeans; Martin Luther King was absolutely right on this, and therefore out of step with the modern USA. Candidates should be selected on the basis of the content of her character and abilities, not the colour of thir skin or whatever ethnic roots they lay claim to; and voted for on the same basis. The same should be true of DJT.

And therefore, lets be honest, there should probably be two different contenders for President. Too late now, though.

It has been obvious for years that Harris is way too insubstantial to hold any senior position, in fact, she seems to be actually quite thick. Why the Democrat party ever promoted her is a mystery. Surely they have better candidates? The fact that she is where she is clearly demonstrates the reality that a U S president is no more than a front, with the real leaders being back - room deal makers of Capitol Hill and the shadowy and unaccountable deep state operators. They want to stop Trump because he has his own ideas (even if the way he expresses them often do not make much sense,) and intends to pursue them.

Everyone knows instinctively that Harris has been a mere placeholder for the machine behind her ever since her political career was launched as a gratuity for intereting things she id for Willie Brown's brown willie (allegedly - although former San Francisco mayor Brown has not denied it).

The office of President, like that of Britain's Prime Minister, like the currencies, have been increasingly devalued since the turn of last century. The Uniparty machine doesn't even put much effort anymore to hide it. All the institutions are captured - the permanent state - perhaps with only a handful of billionaire - psychopath oligarchs pulling the strings.

Swapping one leader for the other is irrelevant to the machine - the 'leaders' are owned. Harris will be no different than the one suffering severe cognitive decline. Starmer, 100 days into his term of office and already best by scandal anf having to renege on campaign promises, will be no different to Sunak or Johnson. Occasionally we the voters will be thrown a morsel to placate the public mood hi;e the relentless grind towards global government will continue.

Monday, May 22, 2017

Sanders Supporters Class Action Against Democrats - What Mainstream Media Are Not Reporting

by Shane Warren

If you supported Bernie in 2016, chances are you already know how the Democratic National Committee did everything in its power to anoint Hillary Clinton as the Democratic Nominee. What you may not know is that a class-action lawsuit has been filed on your behalf to hold the DNC accountable for their cheating.

Bernie Sanders and Former DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz (Credit: Credit: AP/Jeff Roberson/Lynne Sladky/Photo montage by Salon)

In essence, the lawsuit claims that the DNC violated their charter’s commitment to “impartiality and evenhandedness between the Presidential candidates and campaigns” by helping Hillary at every turn. If this is true, the plaintiffs want the DNC to compensate all Democrats as well as Bernie supporters who donated money under the assumption that the DNC wasn’t lying about their charter’s commitment to fairness.

Naturally, the mainstream media is silent about this lawsuit.

Progressive media, however, is not. Scroll through a Google search of “DNC class action lawsuit” and you’re bound to find at least one article about a bombshell revelation: According to the DNC, it’s their right to pick a candidate in a backroom deal without caring for what the voters have to say. In fact, posits the DNC, statements in the charter concerning “impartiality” are simple “discretionary rules” that they “didn’t have to adopt in the first place.”

Wouldn’t it be great if everything worked that way? Imagine it: You’re sued for putting horse meat in the food you call chicken, and instead of compensating your customers for the lie, you just walk out of the courtroom scot-free because you “didn’t have to make chicken in the first place”.

Unfortunately, the Democratic Party is not a restaurant, and even if it was, Bernie supporters wouldn’t own it. Instead, we’re stuck with an out-of-touch institution that acts as a coronating party for their favored candidate before the first vote is even cast.

If you’re a Bernie supporter, this story has probably gotten your attention already. Rest assured, this is only the beginning. Read on for the three subtle things that make the DNC’s defense even worse than it already looks.

Read the rest at Medium.com >>>

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Wednesday, June 15, 2016

FBI Vows To Go Public If Obama Blocks Indictment Of Hillary

As we have been reporting, Barack Obama's anointed successor Hillary Rodham Clinton is in big trouble over the casual way she handled top secret emails while serving as Secretary of State. The only thing saving Hillary right now is the protection being given her by The Obama Administration. However, if Obama’s Attorney General, Loretta Lynch, does not follow her oath of office and indict Hillary Clinton, FBI investigators will go public with their findings, according to former US House of Representatives majority leader Tom DeLay.

On The Steve Malzberg Show on Monday, 13 June, DeLay repeated a previous claim that the FBI is ready to indict the former Secretary of State on criminal charges related to 1,300 classified documents stored on a private email server.

"They’re ready to recommend an indictment and they also say that if the attorney general does not indict, they’re going public," the Texas Republican told the radio host, "one way or another either she’s going to be indicted and that process begins, or we try her in the public eye with her campaign. One way or another she’s going to have to face these charges."

Malzburg also talked with former Attorney General Michael Mukasey on Monday. He said Obama may direct Lynch to not indict Clinton and if he did it would result in Watergate-level resignations.

“The fact is that the president can direct the attorney general not to bring charges. The attorney general works for the president and the president can order that … Although I can’t believe that you wouldn’t get people resigning in the wake of something like that, the same way that we did at the time of Watergate,” Mukasey said.

Having refused to release the documents despite long-standing Freedom of Information requests The State Department finally released a small batch of heavily redacted documents following several court orders. Wikileaks however (and presumably the FBI also) have around 30,000 documents from Clinton's private server that were circulated during her time at the State Department.

In addition to messages marked 'clasified' relating to national security, documents contained in a Wikileaks email dump revealed conflict of interest issues between Clinton’s official duties as secretary of state and “pay to play” schemes with the Clinton foundation.

Since the story emerged over a year ago, mainstream media media has played down the allegations, conveniently forgetting that while she was in charge of the state department Mrs. Clinton destroyed the careers of several senior military officers, ostensibly for more trivial offences than she now stands accused of, but according to Washington insiders, probably because they stood up to her bullying and authoritarianism. With the exception of Fox News and the alternative media, she has also been given an easy ride on allegations of corruption within the Clinton Foundation, the multi - million dollar charity she heads, which seems to spend little on charitable works and a lot on cronyism and handing out sinecures to allies and people the Clintons seek favours from.

Inexplicably many Democrat voters say they will vote for Clinton regardless of criminal charges.

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Saturday, May 14, 2016

Can this woman possibly be a fit and proper person to serve as President Of The USA

While US mainstream media have been obsessing over transgender rights and whether chicks-with-dicks should be allowed to use the same toilet facilities as women and little girls, the American democratic process has been dragged further into the mud (if that was possible) and the candidacy of Hillary Clinton look to be in greater jeopardy than ever despite her having almost certainly won the primaries campaign by a big enough majority of delegate to secure the nomination. As new scandals relating to the horribly corrupt, money grubbing, elitist Mrs. Clinton, the latest being the inquiry into her charitable foundation which seems to have been spending more money on hospitality (bungs) for Clinton cronies than on good works, the biggest embarrassment, the one that could ultimately land her in jail, the FBI investigation concerning her use, while serving as Secretary of State, the USA's top ranked foreign relations officer, of a private email server set up in her home on which top secret information was allegedly handled and from which such information has been deleted in an attempt to obstruct the course of justice..

Despite Bernie Sanders’ apparent annoyance with the “damn emails,” the scandal getting in the way of serious political debate (when it comes to the real campaign Donald Trump will have no suh scruples, he'll go for the throat) their dominance of the Democratic campaign just entered a new dimension.

Judge Andrew Napolitano revealed on during the week that Russia has possession of around 20,000 of Clinton’s emails, leaving open the possibility her deletions might not have been permanent after all (oh come on, with software available free of charge on the web, I can recover data that has been overwritten three times - the coders claim five but I've never tried that.

“There’s a debate going on in the Kremlin between the [Russian] Foreign Ministry and the [US] Intelligence Services about whether they should release the 20,000 of Mrs. Clinton’s emails that they have hacked into,” Napolitano told Fox News’commentator Megyn Kelly in an interview .

Clinton’s claims she employed the personal email server only for mundane communications and non-sensitive State matters having been proved to be blatant lies, the deletions of 31,830 emails, have suddenly become remarkably relevant.

As the FBI investigation of Hillary Clinton’s questionable email practices deepens, the question of who had access to what information previously located on the former secretary of state’s server is now more critical than ever. But if the Russian government did, it is not looking good for the woman who only a few weeks ago had double digit leads in most polls and was being hailed by her supporters as America's first woman President.

One person who definitely had access to top secret documents on Clinton's private server was Romanian hacker Guccifer, who on being extradited to the United States, revealed he had easily and repeatedly accessed Clinton’s personal server, and he wasn’t the only one.

“For me, it was easy,” the hacker, whose given name is Marcel Lehel Lazar, exclusively told Fox News; “easy for me, for everybody.”

If Guccifer and Napolitano are right, Russia may, indeed, have possession of highly-sensitive information courtesy of Clinton’s arrogant failure to adhere to the obligation to use a government email account during her tenure as secretary — a situation worsened by the now-mendacious claim no sensitive information had been sent through the personal account.

In fact the Kremlin having obtained potentially top-secret material may be the tip of a gargantuan iceberg. Using a readily available program, the Romanian hacker also claimed he observed “up to 10, like, IPs from other parts of the world” during sessions on Clinton’s personal server. If just one of those unknown parties was connected to Russia, who the other nine might be could be central to the FBI’s decision whether or not to charge Clinton for mishandling classified information.

Adding yet another nail in the coffin case against Hillary on Thursday, the Hill reported conservative watchdog Judicial Watch revealed, pursuant to a Freedom of Information Act request, frustration with technical difficulties in obtaining a secure phone line led the secretary to direct a top aide to abandon the effort and call her without the necessary security in place. While specific allegations have not yet been proved they form evidence of a flagrant disregard for national security apparently peppering Clinton’s practices during her time at the State Department. The woman thinks she is above the law. Of such stuff are tyrants made.

A new aspect of the scandal emerged hot on the heels of these developments. It was revealed during the week that employees at the Department of Justice, the main agencie tasked with investigating Clinton’s allegedly improper use of private email servers, gave $75,000 in donations to the presidential front-runner.

“Hillary’s donations from the Department of Justice completely swamp those of the other candidates, in fact, as Sanders’ total from 51 donors was just $8,900 and Trump garnered an inconsequential $381,”, David Bossie, president of watchdog group, Citizens United, reported

“Attorney General Lynch must appoint a special counsel to determine if Hillary Clinton or her agents broke the law and compromised our national security. This investigation needs to be conducted free of political influence once and for all.” Bossie demanded.

People within the Democratic Party opposed to Clinton's candidacy have previously pointed to Lynch personally donating over $10,000 to Democratic candidates as evidence of a conflict of interest and sufficient reason the Justice Secretary should be excluded from overseeing the investigation of Clinton’s emails.” Ultimately, this disregard for professional ethics, typical of the Obama Administration, represents a deeply-rooted, systemic problem in American government, where accountability is often flouted and transparency laws are obfuscated to protect the oligarchy.

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Saturday, March 05, 2016

So What Was All That Fuss About Donald Trump and the KKK

Ku Klux Klan supporters (one wearing a Lone Ranger mask from fear people will recognise him through the hood. The Klan's alleged support for Donald Trump is no more significant than a gnat's fart. (Image source)

According to the media before the 'Super Tuesday' Republican Primaries,the tide was going to turn against Donald Trump because racism. What had triggered this latest attempt to smear the maverick front runner with the even more maverick haircut was, as we British bloggers found out after several days of totally indifference because we are accustomed to how easily moved to near hysteria the liberal media in the USA are, was that somebody who used to be the Great Panjandrum or something of the Ku Klux Klan had endorsed The Donald.

What the media suggested would turn voters off supporting Trump was that the language he used in responding to the endorsement was not angry or hateful enough. WTF?

If there was any suggestion Donald Trump had sought or welcomed the support of this irrelevant character then there is a case to be made against him. However a candidate has no control over who publicly supports him unless that person is an attention seeker who has attained a little fame or notoriety and uses that to grab a little more public attention.

For all we know Charles Manson might support Bernie Sanders, or Mark Chapman could be a Hillary Clinton fan. Who cares? All that is happening here is the left, those illiberals and authoritarian people who call themselves liberals, who tell us they believe in logic and reason, have nothing with which to oppose Trump other than anger, hatred and increasingly desperate attempts to discredit him. It's ironic that what would stop Trump is a decent candidate, someone with real charisma rather than naked ambition, with a track record of committment to public service rather than a track record of servicing the bank accounts of their families and cronies. Neither democrats nor Republicans can find anybody who fits the bill and fits their political philosophy it seems. (Bernie Sanders may have the track record of public service but he is a socialist.)

But credit where it is due, Donald Trump is a smart enough businessman to know that the public are not stupid or infantile, they don't need to be told what to think to. If anyone is stupid and infantile it is the liberals who are getting their knickers in a twist over yet another non event.

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Monday, February 22, 2016

Lawsuit Challenging Ted Cruz’s Eligibility for President Officially Filed

by Arthur Foxake

Erm ................. haven't we been here before.

Ted Cruz’ eligibility to run for president has been put to a test of legality. On Friday, the Circuit Court of Cook County in Chicago heard questions in a lawsuit challenging the Texas senator’s legal qualifications to determine if his bid for the nomination can continue.

Illinois attorney Lawrence Joyce sued after his previous attempt to dispute Cruz’ placement on the ballot with the state’s Board of Elections was dismissed on February 1.

Joyce reportedly supports Ben Carson in the race for president, and he maintains he has no connections to Donald Trump, who has also threatened to take action over questions of Cruz’ eligibility.

“The child of a U.S. citizen born abroad is a U.S. citizen,” Cruz asserted in response to questions. Born in Canada to a noncitizen father and U.S. citizen mother, Cruz emphasized the issue of such eligibility dates back to the founding of the country.“Indeed the very first Congress … wrote the very first laws on citizenship,” he said. “And they explicitly defined the child of a U.S. citizen born abroad as a U.S. citizen.”

According to the Washington Times, Joyce’s concerns with Cruz hinge on the potential that he could garner the nomination, only to be challenged in court by the Democratic Party — when it would be too late.

“At that point, all of his fundraising would dry up. And his support in the polls would drop dramatically,” Joyce said. “He may be forced at that point to resign the nomination.”

Anyone who wants to know what the only definition of a 'natural born citizen' (which is different to a plain old citizen) should study The Law Of Nations by Compte Emmlich de Vattel. It's ideal bedtime reading :-)

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Sunday, February 21, 2016

Democrats About To Disintegrate Over Sanders Success.

Brandon English - a democratic Party backroom boy decicated to promotinmg racial division in the US to the Democrats advantage.

So Bernie Sanders did not win the Democratic Party Caucus In Nevada. No surprise given Hillary Clinton's supposed popularity among black and 'Hispanic'* voters, what is surprising according to many US political pundits and statistics geeks was that given the huge lead Hillary was given in opinion polls just a few weeks ago, that Bernie came so close to scoring an upset.

More interesting though is that the Democratic Party, the party of race hustlers, identity politics players, sexual minorities, the snip and tuck community and other synthetic demographics, and hand winging, breast beating, attention seeking emotional retards, is about to tear itself apart over the emergence of a feasible candidate who tends to say what he means while the standard for Democrat politicians speaking on controversial issues in recent years has been mealy mouthed equivocation.

Some say the Republican establishment is having daily panic attacks over its frontrunner, a candidate who should be no more than a sideshow, when it comes to Bernie Sanders' surprisingly strong performance to date, the Democrat party is in a similar sort of tizzy. Hillary Clinton's primary campaign, which was supposed to be a procession leading up to the coronation of the anointed one, has been anything but. Sanders stormed New Hampshire, lost Iowa on the toss of six coins (all of which landed heads up - hmmmmmmm), and now has run Hillary close in a state she was expected to win in a canter.

Time for the Democratic Nomination Committee to stick the boot in Sanders you might think. Well they seem to think so to, but they are doing it with all the ham fisted incompetence that has typifies the Obama administrations efforts.

As the Hill reports, a former deputy executive director of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) on Friday lashed out at presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders in a post on Medium titled "Go fuck yourself, Bernie."

The post, by Brandon English, was in response to Sanders implying that rival Hillary Clinton, in praising President Obama, was playing the race card in order to "win support from the African American community where the President is enormously popular."

English, a black American who was profiled two years ago by Politico, emerging as one of the most race obsessed people in US politics, the stereotypical angry black man with not just a chip but a server farm's worth of Intel 4 core, 64 bit processors on his shoulder. English was not happy that anyone at all, let alone a Democratic Party candidate would be criticising the USA's first black president: "It’s not just Black people that love Obama. The President is 'enormously popular' among all Democrats. Welcome to the Party," former DCCC official Brandon English wrote in his post.

"Do you have any idea how belittling it is to reduce Obama to the President that the Blacks like?" English noted that both Sanders and Clinton have been attempting to curry favor among black voters.

If, as English says, it is belittling to reduce Obama to 'The President only blacks like', then why does Obama himself start channeling Richard Pryor when he is addressing an audience of 'black folks'? When I hear him go into that faux ghetto patois I half expect him to start singing "Way down upon de Swannee Ribber".

As an impartial observer, albeit on who in 2008 warned that Obama was backed by neocons, hedge fund controllers and certain foreign governments, (yes I do use the dark web and no, it's not all goat porn, snuff movies and terrorist sites,) all I can say is if English thinks Obama is enormously popular with black voters, my recent reading on US social problems suggests this aparatchik is as deluded as President Obama himself.

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Tuesday, February 16, 2016

American Democracy Today?

Democracy having a bad hair day in America (Image source)

Being a British citizen living and voting in Britain I am both fascinated and mystified by the arcane American electoral system. However even before learning that despite his having obliterated Hillary Clinton in the New Hampshire democratic Party primary last week, Bernie cannot hope to emerge from the process with more delegate votes than Hillary when it comes down to the final nomination process, due to the influence of 'Super Delegates' I decided this blog ought to take a closer look at the way things are done.

And what I found was the system is as unfair and undemocratic and as biased towards preserving the status quo as our archaic and broken system in Britain.

Now like most Europeans who take a passing interest in American politics I was aware that money is a major factor in US elections and so was aware that the so called Super PACs are a way of avoiding legal spending limits on candidates campaigns. I was curious to know more about superdelegates and being a survivor of a long career in Information Technology wanted to know just how easy it is to hack the voting machines. (Quick guess: an eleven year old could do it).

Here's an article from former green Party Presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney that a lot of people will find informative.

Ian R Thorpe.

Super PACs, Super-Delegates, & Hacked Voting Machines.

from an Op Ed by Cynthia McKinney for RT

(This piece has been edited for brevity, although we are sure the significance of the content has not been altered - Editor)

According to the New Testament, Jesus once remarked to a wealthy man that “it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than it is for a rich man to go to heaven.”Today, we could amend the words of that Biblical reference with the US presidential race underway:

“It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a voter in the US to know and understand the rules regulating the administration of all elections, including elections for President of the United States.”

Let’s start with the phenomenon of what is called a “minority president.” A minority president is one who has failed to win a plurality of the votes cast in the race for president, and yet is still able to become President of the United States. This is the exact opposite of what a true democracy would require.

The United States has actually had several minority presidents in its history, while the 21st century began ominously enough with yet another minority President: George W. Bush, the Republican who failed to secure the most votes cast by the people [in the 2000 election, the Supreme Court, in a 5-4 ruling, decided the victor of the race after moving to halt the recount process in the state of Florida].

Both the US House and the US Senate are charged with counting the Electoral College votes, and this is a process in which I have participated. It’s not the people who have the last word in US elections. It’s a non-democratic construct called the Electoral College that does, except in those rare instances when it doesn’t.

The Electoral College was created by the framers of the US Constitution to ensure that the votes of the plebes did not supersede the interests of the landed gentry. That’s not just my opinion. For example, according to FairVote, an organization with which I have worked in the 2000 Presidential election, a whopping 78 percent of the votes cast were rendered unimportant due to the arcane rules of the Electoral College. They estimate that in 2008, the figure still topped 70 percent.

In order to be declared the winner of the presidency, 270 Electoral College votes are required. But the process is not what could be called transparent. For example, veteran Pro Se litigator Asa Gordon has demonstrated how the Black vote in the US is rendered less relevant by the arcane apportionment rules of the Electoral College.

Add to the above debacles, the US Congress and the election authorities in the 50 states have authorized and encouraged the use of hackable electronic voting machines that are used for vote casting and vote tabulation. Bev Harris and her company, Black Box Voting, has accumulated horror stories surrounding the non-transparency of US elections.

Such a scenario is what led former President Jimmy Carter to comment he “absolutely” could not be elected today under such conditions, going so far as to characterize the United States as an oligarchy, not a democracy.

In the US, votes and vote tabulation processes are done without any traceable back-up procedures. In other words, there is no paper trail - no receipt of a vote, as it were - whatsoever. In one of my Congressional elections in which the electronic voting machines “failed,” not only was I unable to obtain the election data despite a lawsuit having been filed, an expert witness for the state of Georgia testified that voters have to simply “trust” that the announced winner is the actual winner. Meanwhile, candidates have no access to the raw election data because that information is “owned” by Diebold—the company that produced the electronic voting machines and the software used by them (The documentary ‘American Blackout’ tells my own personal story with US elections). It is difficult to place trust in the US election system when we learn about the number of votes cast that go uncounted. In the 2000 Presidential election between Bush and Gore, between two million and five million Americans went to the polls and voted, yet their votes were thrown out, disqualified for any number of reasons. Half of those uncounted votes were cast by Black Americans.

Add to these procedural vagaries, the influence of private money in US elections and even the pretense of holding transparent, free, and fair elections is stood completely on its head. As I wrote in a previous post, the rules have given rise to super-wealthy individuals who lurk in the shadows while becoming the power behind the public faces of candidates: Marco Rubio has Norman Braman as his closest and most important backer. Hillary Clinton has Haim Saban as one of her top donors; Sheldon Adelson is a “player” at the Presidential level in US politics. Billionaire Donald Trump self-finances his Presidential bid and former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is rumored to be willing to spend one billion dollars in his still-to-be-announced independent presidential run.

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Saturday, January 23, 2016

Is This The End Of Hillary Clinton's Political Ambitions

Hillary clinton: Eight years in The Big House more likely than eight years in The White House (Image source)

So much evidence of Hillary Clinton's criminal negligence in handling state secrets has now piled up that it is now undeniable the FBI investigation can only conclude with the prosecution of Mrs Clinton for the mishandling of classified material, otherwise the FBI and US Justice department will lose what little credibility they have left. It should also mean Mrs Clinton's campaign as a candidate for the Democratic Party nomination in the Presidential election should be a dead duck.

A Special Forces Operational Detachment Alpha (ODA) in Afghanistan in 2006 changed the game for state secrets held on magnetic media. Everyone on that team maintained a Top Secret Sensitive and Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) clearance. A few months into their deployment, their Intelligence Sergeant lost a thumb-drive that contained classified information. A week later the thumb drive was found for sale at a local bazaar.

In response to the events, Col. Ken Allard (ret.) stated, “You've got a situation in which the U.S. is going to be forced to change an awful lot of its operational techniques."

As a result of that new protocols for the handling of classified material were established, and the transportation of classified material on thumb drives was strictly forbidden. In fact USB ports on military and diplomatic service PCs were disabled to prevent non - secure storage media being used to copy data. breaching the new protocols became a serious offence. It may seem harsh to non military people (me for example) but the rules are clear and apply to everybody handling sensitive government data. And the Secretary of State (the role filled by Mrs Clinton from 2008 to 2012) would involve handling the most highly classified information.

As more information from Hillary Clinton’s private (i.e. hackable by script kiddies with high school level computer skills) server has been made available, it is clear that the the server contained Imagery Intelligence (IMINT), Human Intelligence (HUMINT), and Signal Intelligence (SIGINT).

Senior officers have gone to jail for failing to observe the correct security procedures with lower levels of state secrets that this.

First, when imagery that is classified SECRET//NOFORN (no foreign national) is viewed, regardless of the absence of classification markings, it is distinctly evident. Second, any documents that contain or reference HUMINT is always classified SECRET, and if specific names of sources or handlers are mentioned, they are at a minimum SECRET//NOFORN. Third, SIGINT is always classified at the TS level. It’s not uncommon for some SI to be downgraded and shared over SECRET mediums, however, it is highly unlikely that a Secretary of State would receive downgraded intelligence. Finally, SAP intelligence has been discovered on Clinton’s private server, and many are now calling this the smoking gun.

With more damming evidence being released on a drip feed a remark made by Mrs Clinton during last Sunday’s Democratic debate: “No one is too big for jail” takes on a new significance. It was assumed the words referred to bank CEOs and Hedge fund managers, but the more cynical kind of commentators are now asking did Hillary Clinton just say, "I double dare you" to the FBI?

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Wednesday, January 20, 2016

Sarah Palin Is Back. Good News Or Bad News For Satirical Bloggers.

In a twist worthy of Game Of Thrones, Presidential hopeful Donald Trump yesterday ~~married Cersei Baratheon (nee Lannister~~) recruited to his campaign the former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin. Some say it may boost support for Trump among likely Republican voters especially in the mid west where Protestantism is a powerful persuader, but in the long run could harm the Republicans chances of winning the presidency.

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Hang on, I thought, she has only endorsed him, he hasn't named her as his running mate. Others are saying the move signals the end of the Tea Party, although that too is crazy because this Tea Party never existed.

For myself, while I acknowledge that Mrs Palin's politics are whacko as ever and she has put on quite a lot of weight thus not looking as good as she did, if the lady who can see Russia from her house takes an active role in the campaign she can only add to the fun. I did warm to Mrs Palin somewhat in 2008 after having built an absurdist blog post around her during the campaign, in which I had her taking the newly elected John McCain to Alaska for a weekend break and losing him under the ice on a fishing trip after, Mister Magoo like, he blundered into an ice hole.

For presenting the bumbling vice pres candidate as a scheming soap virago on the lines of Joan Collins in Dynasty, I was subjected to a hate attack from 'Liberals'.

"You shouldn't be presenting her as funny and interesting, you should be telling the world what an evil person she is," they screeched. Well anyone who was hated so much by such contemptible people couldn't be all bad, I thought. And then the same people tried to tell me that Michelle Obama was one of the most beautiful women in the world. Since then I have not been able to take any Obama supporter seriously.

And then the opposition was Obama, the man from nowhere who has no past. Things I discovered bout him on the dark web (I had a UNIX machine in my office - not a company asset but my own, I was always self employed - made me sure he would be an incompetent president, a neo - con puppet and a war monger) told me forget the lookalike, the real Mr Magoo would be a better president. The Liberals, contrary to the famous dream of one of their heroes, had made the mistake of judging a candidate by the colour of his skin rather than the quality of his character.

Not that Obama had much character to judge he was a vacuum and apart from rumours which would have finished a white candidate, there was nothing. One of his main backers however, a Bilderberger, neo - Nazi German billionaire who specialisis in building tax evasion vehicles for corporate clients, should have worried everybody.

So as a UK blogger who has no vote in the US election, Sarah Palin became my favorite (although when some controversy about a pipeline became an issue I did have fun speculating that if Obama / Biden won it would be build from a bourbon distillery direct to the Vice President's Office.

So this blog says GO Sarah, we need a few laughs from the campaign.

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Saturday, January 16, 2016

Is Hillarygate coming? The e - mail scandal keeps getting bigger.

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hillary Clinton: Wearing her ugly knickers again today.

Things American voters once considered “unthinkable” seem to have become the norm as the campaigns for Republican and Democrat nominee for the Presidential election continue to unravel. Recently broken news of Barack and Hillary Clinton’s plot to promote terrorism should not come as a surprise to anyone. Obama said way back in his 2008 campaign that in his Presidency the USA would support rebellion. Just like that, no qualification, no hedging bets by saying 'we will assess each case on its merits'. He also said justice would be based on the principle that the poorer person in a case was the injured party.

On top of the many allegations that have been made against Obama, in a Drafted Resolution Consisting of 48 Separate Criminal Charges Drafted For Obama’s Impeachment, further evidence is presented that he gave material aid as well as moral support to rebels, wll for rebels read terrorists, ISIS, Al Qaeda, in fact he was helping and supporting declared enemies of the United States. It was obvious to everyone with a teeny bit of legal savvy when the news originally broke that Obama had defied a judge’s order and covered for Clinton's idiotic incompetence (I'm being kind OK) in first being extremely careless in her disregard for security protocols and having confidential mails sent to a private server.

It is significantly important that we fully understand why Obama is covering for Hillary. Informed opinion from Washington insiders suggests you would have to trace the Hillary email and personal server story all the way back to its origins to see who is killing her bit for The White House. It has been reported that within Washington’s inner circles rumour has it that the devastating leaks about Clinton’s server came from none other than Obama's right hand woman (the real Presideent according to some wits,) Valerie Jarrett. That means you KNOW the leaks were done with the full knowledge and approval of Barack Hussein Obama.

Things are not going to plan however. Bernie Sanders, who has challenged strongly in opinion polls on the Democrats nomination race was never supposed to be anything other than a placeholder candidate. She was the anointed one (although it was obvious Obama would stab her in the back and at the last moment put up a complete unknown, probably Reggie Love, as candidate. Bernie's job was to make Hillary look good, look as if being married to an ex President really did qualify someone to be President. He was never supposed to get anywhere near winning, yet now he has a massive lead New Hampshire and according to unofficial reports is nudging ahead in Iowa.

As if that was not enough bad news for hillary, Vice President Joe Biden is now talking about Hillary as unqualified, unprepared, was a disaster as Secretary Of State and how everything is falling apart for her.

The long knives are coming out for Hillary Clinton. And the long knives are coming out for her in many ways just like the long knives are finally coming out for her husband, Bill, who’s now being mentioned in the same sentences with people like Bill Cosby. There are those of us who have been waiting for that to happen since the mid- to late 1990s.

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