Pages Of Interest

Thursday, August 13, 2020

Creepy Neocon Joe Biden

May the source be with you, but remember the KISS principle ;-)
Skepticism and critical thinking is not a panacea but can help to understand the world better



Creepy neocon Joe Biden

Biden is the quintessential swamp rat, having served in Washington, almost continuously, since Jan 1973. He voted for the Iraq War (which should disqualify him for running for any public office) and is up to the neck in the dirt of Clinton-era deregulation. Like Hillary, he also is a symbol of the destruction of Libya, Syria, and Ukraine by the Obama administration; He was instrumental in the EuroMaydan coup which destroyed the standard of living of ordinary Ukrainians. His narco addict son fleeced Ukraine to the tune of several millions a year





Introduction: From Ukraine with love


Biden is a weaker version of Bill Clinton: a wolf in sheep's' clothing -- the person who sold Democratic Party to Wall Street. At some point, the Democratic establishment has decided that all that they need is a more likable candidate, dusted off Biden and pushed him into the race.
And yes, Biden is more favorable ratings in polls than Hillary right now, but then Hillary's favorability was much higher before she kicked off her campaign. Chances for this grinning neoliberal sell-out are approximately the same as Hillary.  He is a staunch neocon who stands well to the right of most Republicans on key elements of the USA foreign policy. So like Hillary he personifies conversion of neoliberal Dems into the second war party. This stooge of MIC voted for the Iraq war, which alone should disqualify him from any public office.  One reason for Biden's run is to deny  Sanders or Warren the nomination. 
The fact that  Demo Rats (Clinton wing of Democratic Party) dusted off and added Joe Biden to the already overclouded roster of candidates  (and falsified polls to show that he is a leader and thus artificially created a following for his candidacy) was clearly a move directed on the reelection of Trump, a very favorable for Trump event.  And it is true that Demo Rats are afraid of Bernie Sanders more than of Trump.
In September three House committees announced earlier this month that they were investigating whether Trump used the withholding of military aid as leverage to get Ukraine’s new President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to probe the Bidens — an allegation that has been bolstered by a  "whistle-blower"( this person is not a whistle-blower but a leaker, as we are talking about potentially criminal actions by Biden, which do deserve investigation by the Ukrainian side)  complaint from inside the intelligence community.
Democrats risk discovering that in the released transcript Trump did not cross the line and at this point, you can say good-buy to Creepy Joe as the leader of the pack, if not as a candidate. So it could well be that the "whistle-blower" is Warren sympathizer within the intelligence community and the whole operation was devised to prop-up Warren and hurt Trump in best Russiagate style. Looks like powerful faction within the intelligence community clearly had a candidate in 2016. Do they also have one in 2020?
The US authorities now are obligated to conduct a full-scale inquiry of Biden behavior, but what is even worse that will add a lot of additional air time to allegations about Biden criminality, linking their party’s 2020 presidential front-runner to Clinton family corruption. The last thing Democrats want is another candidate on the defensive after Trump was rolled over Hillary 2016.”  Also in view of the scandal voters may think Biden not only just too old to be the President, but that maybe that he carries was too much neoliberal baggage. The whistleblower incident is more likely to end the political career of Biden. The whole matter involving his son’s foreign business dealings not only raises unflattering questions but also provides plenty of reminders about his life in the swamp. Trump practically has been defined by his ability to outlive Democratic “witch hunts.'”
Trump probably will crush Creepy Joe even with all the negative factors he now has or will acquire.  Creepy Joe (as WaPo nicknamed him) has three major skeletons in the closet:
  1. his narco addict son magically escaped justice when a crack pipe was found in his rental car
  2. Biden's role in Ukrainian events which are disgusting if not outright criminal. Later after the EuroMaydan events he instrumental if firing Ukrainian Chief Persecutor to squash investigating of gas company Burisma (where his some do some reason got a position in the board of the company) which paid around $50K a month to his son) and his son financial dealings with China.  So his son fleeced impoverished Ukraine where standard living dropped 2-3 times after Euromaidan, which was converted into the debt slave of the  West and where most population live of $2 a day or less.

    The fact of the matter is that Hunter wasn’t on the board because of his expertise in Eastern European energy issues. He’s part of a long tradition of nepotism when family members of influential politicians profiting off a sense that it’s politically and economically useful to cultivate these connections.

    not to mention his past as the  "mentor" of Yanukovich whom he later backstabbed
  3. His China dealings
At night on September 24, 2019, Pelosi has announced they will pursue impeachment charges against President Trump because an unverified, hearsay whistleblower made a complaint about a phone call between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. 
In response, Trump published the transcript of the call. Trump’s move to release the un-redacted transcripts of the phone call was the right move. But Dems did not stop. They just moved goalposts.
There are few hard facts: a leak claims a whistleblower in the intelligence community believes that during a July 25 phone call, Trump made unspecified “promises” to the Ukrainian president in return for his investigating Biden family corruption. The whistleblower did not have direct knowledge of what was said and may have read a transcript or summary. Trump knew the call was monitored by multiple people yet said whatever he said anyway
The actual words matter a lot. If this whole thing looks like a dance around some flippant statement by the president about investigating corruption that may involve the Biden family turning it into a quid pro quo accusation, it will fail spectacularly with voters. If we all have to become whistleblower law experts the same way we all were obstruction experts just a few weeks ago, it fails.
Yet while the actual words matter, it should not be lost that none of what Trump was supposed to have really done — using military aid to get dirt on Biden — happened.  
No one claims the Ukrainians investigated Biden at Trump’s demand (and Dems insist there was no Biden wrongdoing anyway, so an investigation would be for naught). It is thus a big problem in this narrative that the long-promised military aid to Ukraine was only delayed and then paid out as if the bribe was given for nothing in return—which makes it hardly a bribe. Trump is apparently bad at bribing. Even though he made the decision to temporarily withhold the aid for some reason, the Ukrainians were never even told about it until weeks after the “extortion” phone call, meaning nobody’s arm got knowingly twisted. So no bribe was given, or to the Ukrainians’ knowledge, no money withheld.
In a previous case, the FBI plot to entrap Trump with Moscow hotel led to the Dems claim that they see a smoking gun. But there is nobody on the ground under the muzzle. So will this devolve into another complicated thought crime, another “conspiracy” to commit without the committal?
“No explicit quid pro quo is necessary to betray your country,” helpfully tweeted Adam Schiff, chair of the House Intelligence Committee, a member of Congress Pro-Israel lobby. He does not even understand how right he is.
People became way too cynical following the collapse of Russiagate for Dems to have any level of success in derailing Trump.
Hunter Biden’s American-based firm, Rosemont Seneca Partners LLC, was hired by the Ukrainian natural gas firm, Burisma Holdings in 2014. They gave Hunter Biden a seat on their board and paid Biden’s firm an average of $166,000 a month during his employment with them. The problem? Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin in Ukraine started a widespread corruption probe into Burisma Holdings with specific plans to look at all board members – including Joe Biden’s son.  (Source)
As Vice President, Joe Biden traveled to Ukraine to give them the news that the United States was going to be granting Ukraine $1 Billion in loan guarantees. While there, he threatened to pull the guarantees if they did not fire Prosecutor Shokin, who was investigating the firm Biden’s son was a board member of. (Source)
Sure enough, Ukraine folded in order to not risk losing the loan guarantees and fired Prosecutor Shokin. The corruption investigation into Burisma Holdings was abandoned and no charges were brought against the firm or Hunter Biden. Last year, Joe Biden bragged on video about personally strong-arming the Ukrainians into firing the prosecutor. (Source)

Biden as a neoliberal

Biden is dyed-in-the-wool in the wool neocon and neoliberal. His real constituents wear pinstripe suits and work on Wall Street and in corporate headquarters. He is the only 2020 candidate who voted for the Iraq war. As a part of the Obama administration, he was instrumental in Libya and Ukraine disasters. He created a sinecure for his cocaine-addicted sun in Ukraine in the form of the board member of oil and gas company Burisma and prevented corruption investigation of the company by Ukrainian authorities by forcing the firing of the Chief Prosecutor by President Poroshenko) . Kind of mini Clinton cash scandal. Al-in-all he is a fossilized remnant of Clinton wing of Democratic Party. 
When people learn about his voting record his ratings will probably drop:
Iraq War supporter? Check. Clinton was pilloried by the left and the right alike as a wild-eyed hawk; her vote in favor of the Iraq invasion haunted both her 2008 and 2016 campaigns. ...Let's be clear: If he runs, Biden will be the only candidate -- out of up to 20 Democrats running for the nomination -- to have voted for the Iraq War.Friend of Wall Street? Check. Clinton had a Goldman Sachs problem; Biden has an MBNA problem. Headquartered in his home state of Delaware, the credit card giant MBNA was his biggest donor when he served in the Senate. In 2005, Biden threw his weight behind a bankruptcy bill, signed into law by President George W. Bush, that shamefully protected credit card companies at the expense of borrowers.
Champion of mass incarceration? Check. Clinton took flak for supporting the 1994 crime bill, which helped push up the U.S. prison population, introduced new federal death penalty crimes, and hugely exacerbated racial disparities in the criminal justice system. And Biden? Well, he wrote the damn thing!
Establishment-friendly? Check. Biden arrived in D.C. in 1973; he spent 36 years in the Senate and eight years in Obama's cabinet.When Trump tries to run again as an anti-establishment outsider in 2020, what will Biden's response be?
Loser? Check. Clinton won the Democratic nomination in 2016, at the second attempt, having been defeated by Obama eight years earlier. For Biden, it would have to be third-time lucky.
Biden is 76 and he is one of the oldest candidates, older than Trump. As Trump sarcastically noted during a CBS interview last year running against Biden would be “a dream,” noting that Barack Obama “took him out of the garbage heap” to make him his running mate in 2008:  Biden unsuccessfully sought the Democratic presidential nomination in 1988 and in 2008, both times dropping out after poor showings. That was evidence, Trump said, that Biden “by himself could never do anything.” ( The Washington Post )
Biden's biggest and only strength is that he is a well-known establishment neoliberal. It is also his biggest weakness. It is well known that Biden is beholden to Wall Street (Strategic Culture).
In 1978, Biden worked for Wall Street by voting to rollback bankruptcy protections for college graduates with federal student loans. Six years later he did the same to vocational school graduates. In 2005, he worked with Republican allies to pass the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act, which put traditional “clean slate” Chapter 7 bankruptcy out of reach for millions of ordinary Americans and thousands of small businesses. The bill put bankruptcy filers under far stricter Chapter 13 rules, turning countless citizens into de facto indentured servants of finance capital (including the many credit card companies headquartered in Delaware.) Biden backed an earlier version of the bill that was too corporatist even for Bill and Hillary Clinton.
He voted against a bill that would have compelled credit card companies to warn customers of the costs of only making minimum payments.
In 1979, Biden recognized campaign donations from Coca-Cola by cosponsoring a bill that permitted soft-drink producers to skirt antitrust laws. That same year he was one of just two Congressional Democrats to vote against a Judiciary Committee measure to increase consumers’ rights to sue corporations for price-fixing.
Biden strongly supported the 1999 Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act, which permitted the re-merging of investment and commercial banking by repealing the Depression-era Glass–Steagall Act. This helped create the 2007-8 financial crisis and subsequent recession.
Biden naturally supported the corporate-neoliberal North American Free Trade agreement and the globalist investor rights Trans-Pacific Partnership deal.
All of this and more in Biden’s record is richly consistent with the beginning of his political career. He’s been an unapologetic corporatist from the start. As Branko Marcetic noted on Jacobin last summer:
“In 1984, the Washington Post specifically named him, along with Gary Hart and Bill Bradley, as one of the best-known figures among that era’s Democratic Party’s ‘neo-liberals,’ who ‘singled out slimming the role of government and pushing new technology’….Biden built his career advertising himself as someone who refuses to toe the progressive line. He proudly boasted of defying liberal orthodoxy on school busing, for instance. But throughout his career, that boast has most often taken the form of bashing liberal ‘special interests.’ Biden toured the country in 1985 chiding…unions and farmers for being too narrowly focused, and complained that Democrats too often ‘think in terms of special interests first and the greater interest second.’ In the latter case, Biden was specifically complaining about their opposition to his calls for a spending freeze on entitlements and an increase in the retirement age” (emphasis added).
During 2018 cycle he supported Hillary Joe Biden Shills For Establishment Over Nevada Berniecrat -
Politically all the time in congress Biden is a classic corrupt, beholden to insurance companies and large banks  Third Way neoliberal similar to Bill and Hillary Clinton. He spends years attacking progressive “special interests” while crossing the aisle to vote with Republicans in major instances that were decidedly unhelpful to the working class.
He also excels in Clinton-style corruption: The most well-known case is Biden’s relationship with MBNA, a major credit card company based in his home state that was his largest single donor between 1989 and 2000. By sheer coincidence, Biden voted against a measure requiring credit card companies to warn consumers of the consequences of making only minimum payments and voted four times for an industry-supported bankruptcy bill that made it harder for financially strained borrowers to get protection from creditors. Another coincidence: MBNA hired Biden’s son, Hunter, as a lobbyist straight out of law school, and later hired him as a consultant from 2001 to 2005 — the same years Biden was helping to pass the bill.
Another coincidence: MBNA hired Biden’s son, Hunter, as a lobbyist straight out of law school, and later hired him as a consultant from 2001 to 2005 — the same years Biden was helping to pass the bill.
Another side of neoliberal corruption is exorbitant speaking fees. Biden has long been prolific on the speaking circuit. By 1979, he was one of the Senate’s top twenty-five earners of outside income — and, along with twenty-two others on that list, voted against a bill to limit such earnings. As early as 1977, his speaking-fee income was among the highest in the Senate, totaling $22,596 that year (almost $94,000 in today’s dollars) for a practice that even then was controversial. And while he did sponsor a bill that year to bar senators from taking such fees, he clearly wasn’t bothered by its failure, continuing to rack up thousands of dollars in fees from pro-Israel groups and others in the ensuing years, and commanding $100,000–$200,000 per speech today.
Biden can close connections with lobbyists. Many Biden’s longtime staffers became lobbyists  From 1989 to 2008 the industry donated $344,400 to him, more than the $300,000 given to him by finance and credit card companies.  He openly proclaims himself a neoliberal:
This hints at the larger issue with Biden: at a time when left-wing populism is increasingly accepted as the antidote to Trump and the GOP’s nativist and corporate-friendly pitch, Biden stands as a remnant of precisely the sort of left-averse, triangulating Democratic politics that Hillary Clinton was relentlessly criticized for personifying.
If you don’t believe me, there’s someone else who can tell you all about it. His name is Joe Biden.
In 2001, Biden was specifically asked by the National Journal about whether or not he thought a “populist message” was an effective one. This was his response:
[Bill] Clinton got it right. I was one of those guys in 1987 who tried to run on a platform that Clinton basically ran on in 1992. And that is, for a lack of a better phrase, his “Third Way.” It worked. It’s where the American people are. It’s where the Democratic Party should have been. Al Gore abandoned it without an alternative, and [Sen.] Paul Wellstone [D-Minn.] thinks we lost because we didn’t take care of Ralph Nader’s voters. One of the things I’m most angry about in the [aftermath of the] 2000 election, we’re now renegotiating as a party what the hell our message should be and who we are, when for me it was settled in 1992 ….
The idea now, and it’s credible, is that class warfare and populism is the way we should conduct the next election. We do that [and] George Bush will be a second term president, regardless of how bad a job he may do.
In fact, even in today’s political climate, Biden continues to defend the ultrarich from criticism — “I don’t think five hundred billionaires are the reason we’re in trouble. The folks at the top aren’t bad guys,” he said last year — suggests his views haven’t shifted much in the last seventeen years.
Biden’s always been a traitor of his class. In 1984, Washington Post specifically mentions that he (with Gary Hart and Bill Bradley) is the best-known Democratic Party “neo-liberal”. A politician that subscribes to deregulation, slimming the role of government and pushing new technology
Biden also spent the 1990s voting for a string of neoliberal policies: NAFTA, one of the most devastating political defeats for unions in recent memory, and one where Biden was a crucial vote that switched to help it pass; the balanced budget amendment to the Constitution, which he had earlier decried as “mak[ing] Herbert Hoover’s economic policy a constitutional mandate,” a claim that if anything understates the case; Clinton’s appalling welfare reform; and the repeal of the New Deal-era Glass-Steagall prohibition on banks engaging in risky securities dealings. He did this all while moaning endlessly about excessive government spending.
Being the establishment candidate has a lot of advantages. One is money. Biden got over 6 million in his chest the day he announced his candidacy.
His speeches are full of platitudes and balderdash. Biden has no new political ideas and has no clue how to deal with the crisis of neoliberalism in the USA (one of the side effects of which was the election of Trump). His sole point is "I am better than Trump."

Biden as a neocon

Biden is a dangerous neocon, Hillary Clinton without any selling points as one commenter defined him.  See Joe Biden I'm a Democrat and I love John McCain - YouTube
He is an adamantly anti-Iran politician:
 Bro. CurtisFeb 8, 2009
MUNICH – Vice President Joe Biden warned Saturday that the U.S. stands ready to take pre-emptive action against Iran if it does not abandon nuclear ambitions and its support for terrorism...."We will draw upon all the elements of our power — military and diplomatic, intelligence and law enforcement, economic and cultural — to stop crises from occurring before they are in front of us,"

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090207/ap_on_go_pr_wh/biden_europe
Not long after the turn of the twentieth century, Biden enthusiastically voted for the greatest foreign policy disaster of the twenty-first: the Iraq War (“I voted to go into Iraq, and I’d vote to do it again”). It was the worst of a pattern for Biden, who backed Margaret Thatcher’s war in the Falklands and was one of the key figures pushing for NATO’s eastward expansion in the 1990s, needless provocation of Russia that the famed Cold War diplomat George Kennan, speaking more than a year before Vladimir Putin took office, presciently denounced as “the beginning of a new cold war.” Biden’s strategy for Afghanistan is indistinguishable from the one the Trump administration is now pursuing, and his “counterterrorism plus” approach — the use of drone strikes and special forces anywhere in the world — became Obama’s anti-terror policy, one that visited death and carnage to a long series of countries and fueled the very threat it was supposed to extinguish.
Needless to say, Biden isn’t just pro-Israel — he’s one of the most Israel-friendly politicians of his generation.  See for example this  YouTube video:

Through speaking fees and campaign donations, Israel has been good to Biden his whole career, and Biden’s been good right back, from pushing for more US aid to voting to move the embassy to Jerusalem — another extremist policy Trump cribbed from Biden and his friends — and even chiding the Bush administration for its criticism of Israel’s assassination program. But being “the best friend of Israel” in the Obama administration didn’t get him far with Benjamin Netanyahu, who openly rebelled against the US under Obama, and humiliatingly announced new illegal settlements in the middle of an official visit from Biden.

Biden involvement  in Obama administration color revolution against  Trump

The "putsch" that intelligence agencies organized after Trump's election as well as a gambit to appointed the special prosecutor were not unprecedented (JFK assassination is probably one close instance, Nixon removal is another).  But it enjoyed full and continues support of the Justice Department and several key Obama administration officials, including Obama himself.
Obama has had an outstanding record of dirty tricks and connections to intelligence agencies, even by Democrat standards with Bill Clinton and Hillary as standards in this area.  His state senate campaign, the Senate campaign…and it would explain some oddities in the 2012 Presidential campaign. Not to mention 2016. Obama White House was not only aware of the intelligence agencies' operation against Trump - but possibly was directing it (FBI Spying On Trump Started In London, Earlier Than Thought, New Texts Implicate Obama White House). To hide traces the intelligence agencies targeting of Trump associates wouldn't occur on U.S. soil, Obama moved them to London. London was the center of the "Operation Crossfire Hurricane"  - the code name given to the early official Trump-Russia investigation.  Some now accuse the UK of colluding with the Obama administration and Clinton campaign to influence the 2016 US election.
As David Stockman  observed (The RussiaGate Witch-Hunt Stockman Names Names In The Deep State's Insurance Policy )
There was a sinister plot to meddle in the 2016 election, after all. But it was not orchestrated from the Kremlin; it was an entirely homegrown affair conducted from the inner sanctums---the White House, DOJ, the Hoover Building and Langley----of the Imperial City.
Likewise, the perpetrators didn't speak Russian or write in the Cyrillic script. In fact, they were lifetime beltway insiders occupying the highest positions of power in the US government.
Here are the names and rank of the principal conspirators:
  • John Brennan, CIA director;
  • Susan Rice, National Security Advisor;
  • Samantha Power, UN Ambassador;
  • James Clapper, Director of National Intelligence;
  • James Comey, FBI director;
  • Andrew McCabe, Deputy FBI director;
  • Sally Yates, deputy Attorney General,
  • Bruce Ohr, associate deputy AG;
  • Peter Strzok, deputy assistant director of FBI counterintelligence;
  • Lisa Page, FBI lawyer;
  • and countless other lessor and greater poobahs of Washington power, including President Obama himself.
To a person, the participants in this illicit cabal shared the core trait that made Obama such a blight on the nation's well-being. To wit, he never held an honest job outside the halls of government in his entire adult life; and as a careerist agent of the state and practitioner of its purported goods works, he exuded a sanctimonious disdain for everyday citizens who make their living along the capitalist highways and by-ways of America.
So we can talk about the participation or implicit support of the putsch by at least two departments (Justice Department and the Department of State) as well as several key figures of ama administration, especially Susan Rice and Samatha Powell. 
Fmr. FBI Assistant Director James Kallstrom argues the FBI planned to destroy Donald Trump's presidency (Dec 19, 2017). In his Fox interview said that there was a "cabal" of FBI personnel around Comey as well Justice Department.  He asks an interesting question: "Why Trump Justice Department does not comply with the congressional subpoena?".
The role of Peter Strzok is also pretty interesting: Jordan Appears There Was Orchestrated Plan Within DOJ, FBI to Prevent Trump From Becoming President - YouTube
I realize that Clinton's wing of Democratic Party (soft neoliberals) and their supporters which include a part of Wall Street, a large part of Silicon Valley and most MSM progressives hate Donald Trump so much that they believe that any pretext is justified in taking him down. So they joined efforts with the neoconservatives. That's why war-mongering against Russia is now OK for them and the Democratic party now is just another War Party (as was evident from Hillary campaign).
Many people who detest Trump view Russiagate as the most effective path to achieve Trump’s impeachment, so this desirable end justifies whatever means. that makes them very similar to supported of Ukrainian Maydan, which removed Yanukovich and installed far-right junta with a lot of unsavory characters. But to me, it looks like Trump surrendered after just 100 of anti-Russian smear campaign launched by neocons. So why they still want to finish him?  So it must be more to it; there might be some skeletons in the closet revealing of which previous administration and their factions in intelligence services the are afraid to die. Because their action is as close to sedition as one can get. In other words, they went VA bank by unleashing on Trump Steele dossier (VA bank is a common expression among Russian and German speakers. which means to put everything at risk in order to win. And nowhere it is more clear than in sordid case of Steele dossier.
Russiangate can be viewed as an "American Maydan" story.  Ukrainian Maydan was about  Yanukovich removal. Yanukovich who was a neoliberal wanted to bargain more before signing EU memorandum and postpone its signing despite the pressure.  At this point, the EU and the USA decided that he crosses the line and decided to remove legitimately elected president of Ukraine by force.
Similarly, Trump wanted to reach some level of detente with Russia (at least during the election campaign) rightly considering the level of hostility achieved under Obama dangerous and counterproductive (to the extent that Obama might be controlled by Brennan it might be not Obama personal fault).  In this sense, Trump also crossed the line (with the only difference that he did it during the election campaign) and at this point, all power of neocons and neo lib including their factions in intelligence agencies was unleashed for his removal.
That's why Steele dossier was created and advertised: as part of anti-Trump coup d'état by the neocons, Clinton neoliberals, and parts of the US intelligence services.  In both cases, the interests of the USA and national security suffers. In a way, both neocons and neoliberals are elements of foreign influence that do not care much about ordinary Americans. In any case now two-third of US population now is brainwashed into an adamantly anti-Russian mindset, increasing the risk of the major war
First, let's discuss the historical origins of the term “color revolution”. The latter is a new subversive tactic that was successfully used as a means to triggering “regime change”, which has emerged in a large number of countries in the course of the last decade, especially in the USSR space (Georgia, Ukraine, Moldova, Russia, etc). But the key methods of "color revolution" coup d'état can be traced to Chilean coup d'état or even earlier.
The “color revolution” is a US intelligence operation that consists of covertly supporting as well as infiltrating protest movements with a view to triggering “regime change” under the banner of a pro-democracy template. The objective of a “color revolution” is to manipulate or delegitimize elections (if the winner in nor the desired candidate), foment social unrest, and use the protest movement to topple an existing legitimate government.  Formatting social unrest is done via media (and achieving media dominance is an important step in unleashing a color revolution)  which serves an important role in any color revolution. Similar to the role of aviation in modern wars. With the only difference that it drops propaganda bombs. The goal is always the same -- to install a compliant pro-neoliberal, pro-US government (“puppet regime”).
The main underlying features of the color revolution is that those activities are structured as intelligence operation and some players might not even understand that they are puppets of the pretty nefarious scheme and believe in noble slogans that are on the surface of events.  A lot of technologies in the color revolution were taken from Trostyiate and Bolsheviks' handbooks. That includes the role of students as foot soldiers of regime change, Attempt to capture media as the first step, digging dirt on key figures of existing government (corruption is the favorite change in such revolutions). Color revolution added several new features: massive financial infusion to keep unrest going, coordinating role of neoliberal NGO and think tanks in a particular country, penetration into and use of law enforcement for deposing the members of the current government (typically on corruption charges). 
This contact bombardment of the public with negative information about the current administration and "outsize" role of intelligence agencies we can observe in the current campaign to de-legitimize and depose President Trump.  Instead of corruption changes they use the change of cooperation with the country which they demonized and present as an adversary -- Russia. That why some call this color revolution Russiagate. As James Petras observed (Imperial Power Centers, July 24, 2017):
With the ascent of Donald Trump to the US Presidency, imperial rulership has become openly contested terrain, fought over amid unyielding aspirants seeking to overthrow the democratically elected regime.
While Presidents rule, today the entire state structure is riven by rival power centers. At the moment, all of the power seekers are at war to impose their rule over the empire.
In the first place, the strategically placed security apparatus is no longer under Presidential control: They operate in coordination with insurgent Congressional power centers, mass media and extra-governmental power configurations among the oligarchs (business, merchants, arms manufacturers, Zionists and special interest lobbies).
Sectors of the state apparatus and bureaucracy investigate the executive, freely leaking damaging reports to the media, distorting fabricating and/or magnifying incidents. They publicly pursue a course with the goal of regime change.
The FBI, Homeland Security, the CIA and other power configurations are acting as crucial allies to the coup-makers seeking to undermine Presidential control over the empire. No doubt, many factions within the regional offices nervously look on, waiting to see if the President will be defeated by these opposing power configurations or will survive and purge their current directors.
The Pentagon contains both elements that are pro as well as anti-Presidential power: Some active generals are aligned with the prime movers pushing for regime change, while others oppose this movement. Both contending forces influence and dictate imperial military policies.
The most visible and aggressive advocates of regime change are found in the militarist wing of the Democratic Party. They are embedded in the Congress and allied with police state militarists in and out of Washington.
Engineered protest movements are carefully planned and well-financed (to the extent of creating a caste of "professional protesters"). Again the key feature of all color revolutions is that they are essentially intelligence ops performed via NGO and similar organization, with a huge role of the US embassy as the coordinating center.  They use non-governmental organizations and opposition media to recruit protesters.  The creation of powerful opposition media is the necessary prerequisite step in the preparation of the color revolution. The protest needs to be televised in order to amplify their significance (preferably out of proportion and TV is perfectly suitable for that, using the necessary angles to create an impression of a huge crowd and interviewing patsies to show deep discontent), and create a critical mass of discontent among the population. Again, the change of corruption is the favorite delegitimization tactics in such events (and who in modern political life is not corrupt, or do not have skeletons in the closet?).  As if it can be stopped by the "regime change" (often after color revolution corruption and looting of the country becomes much worse, reaching like was the case with Russia in 1990th and Ukraine in 1990th and after 2014 really epic scales).  Often even more corrupt oligarchs come to power as a result, only more subservient to multinational corporations. And BTW its multinationals such as GE which control the US media too. How convenient. 
Looks like McCabe, Rosenstein, Clinton, Morell, Brennan, et al have betrayed the US Constitution by treating the national security services’ staff as their personal servants for political (and material) gains.

Biden corruption and Ukrainian adventures

Biden steered billions of dollars in aid to Ukraine, while his son, Hunter Biden, raked in millions through a deal with a Ukrainian energy company.  "This blurs the ethical line so much that you can't even make out the line anymore. What Hunter Biden did may be technically legal, but it is a grotesque abuse of elite sun privileges. This is as bad as the Clintons getting money from Pinchuk.

Biden might have problems with MeToo movement

Biden has also long been criticized for his creepy contacts with women and girls and was even referred to as “Creepy Uncle Joe Biden” by the Washington Post.
The Great America PAC, according to The Hill, dumped six figures into the ad titled "Creepy Joe." The minute-long video showcases children watching a television screen of Biden accuser former state Sen. Lucy Flores (D-NV) explaining the "mortifying" interaction she had with the then-vice president during an interview with CNN's Jake Tapper. As the audio of the interview continues, the ad cuts to images of Mr. Biden touching young girls' faces, arms, and shoulders, and pressing his face up against them and kissing their head.
But that's just one of this character flaw.  That is another one.

Continue Reading...Hear 









             Trump Train Song












One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. -- Plato (429-347 BC)


THE PATRIOT
 "FIGHTING FOR FREEDOM AND LIBERTY"

and is protected speech pursuant to the "unalienable rights" of all men, and the First (and Second) Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America, In God we trust

Stand Up To Government Corruption and Hypocrisy

Knowledge Is Power And Information is Liberating: The FRIENDS OF LIBERTY BLOG GROUPS are non-profit blogs dedicated to bringing as much truth as possible to the readers.



NEVER FORGET THE SACRIFICES
BY OUR VETERANS 



Note: We at The Patriot cannot make any warranties about the completeness, reliability, and accuracy of this information.


The Patriot is a non-partisan, non-profit organization with the mission to Educate, protect and defend individual freedoms and individual rights.



Support the Trump Presidency and help us fight Liberal Media Bias. Please LIKE and SHARE this story on Facebook or Twitter.

COMPLAINTS ABOUT OUR GOVERNMENT REGISTERED HERE WHERE THE BUCK STOPS!



GUEST POSTING: WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE PUBLISHED ... DO YOU HAVE SOMETHING ON YOUR MIND?



Knowledge Is Power - Information Is Liberating: The Patriot Welcome is a non-profit blog dedicated to bringing as much truth as possible to the readers.

Big Tech has greatly reduced the distribution of our stories in our readers' newsfeeds and is instead promoting mainstream media sources. When you share with your friends, however, you greatly help distribute our content. Please take a moment and consider sharing this article with your friends and family. Thank you



Please share… Like many other fact-oriented bloggers, we've been exiled from Facebook as well as other "mainstream" social sites. 

We will continue to search for alternative sites, some of which have already been compromised, in order to deliver our message and urge all of those who want facts, not spin and/or censorship, to do so as well.

Keep on seeking the truth, rally your friends and family and expose as much corruption as you can… every little bit helps add pressure on the powers that are no more.





"Yet, while denial might placate those who do not prefer to confront unpleasant facts, truth does not mold itself to the wishes and desires of the willfully ignorant." Unknown  


Those Who Don't Know The True Value Of Loyalty Can Never Appreciate The Cost Of Betrayal.

No comments:

Post a Comment