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What a coincidence.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/31/politics/roseanne-barr-conspiracy-tweets/index.html
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CNN calls itself ‘the most trusted name in news’.
It might have been 40 years ago, when it actually reported news.
Since 2015, however, CNN’s chief Jeff Zucker has issued a policy of anti-Trump editorialising all the time.
On October 14, James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas posted a 19-minute video full of interviews with CNN employees, most of whom complain that Jeff Zucker has gone far enough, perhaps too far, with the anti-Trump narrative. Please take time this weekend to watch this fascinating undercover exposé:
Employees interviewed say that Zucker has a mandatory 9 a.m. telephone call issuing the day’s anti-Trump theme. Most often, this is impeachment, impeachment, impeachment.
The interviewees are not Trump supporters, but even they say this is taking away from CNN’s ability — and their own desire — to cover real news, not editorials.
Staff members say that Zucker helped create the Trump media ‘monster’ by overpublicising him since 2015.
The White House has seen the film, as a campaign lawyer mentions the main CNN whistleblower Cary Poarch in writing. The letter below, dated October 16, 2019, gives notice that Donald J Trump for President, Inc., intends to take legal action against the network:
The day before, Trump tweeted:
Oh, if only.
James O’Keefe has experienced Twitter labelling portions of the Project Veritas video as ‘sensitive content’:
Twitter also omitted the Project Veritas video from their trending list, as O’Keefe explains in the next video:
This is the link to the video of Cary Poarch and Sean Hannity. This Fox News article has a brief summary of the interview.
By the time the Hannity interview took place, Poarch was no longer with the network. Hannity described him as a ‘contractor’ and ‘former satellite uplink technician at CNN’s Washington, D.C. bureau’. Poarch told Hannity that he had problems sleeping at night because of CNN’s extreme bias.
Poarch said he was a Bernie Sanders supporter in 2016 and voted for the Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson that year.
He told Hannity that he and his boss discussed his resignation, which, at the time, they agreed would be voluntary. However, the Project Veritas video circulated so widely and so quickly that the network terminated his employment that day.
The next video, from October 17, features a CNN employee saying that the House of Representatives abuses its power everyday, yet Congressmen and Congresswomen are trying to impeach President Trump for no justifiable reason:
Not everyone at CNN agrees with that assessment. The next video shows an employee saying that the anti-Trump coverage will only go away if the president dies! Pathological:
There have also been sexual shenanigans going on at CNN:
This is a terrible state of affairs but one many of us already suspected.
I congratulate Project Veritas for finally being able to expose CNN.
I spotted this last week:
https://twitter.com/GenZConservati1/status/1162419780743303168
I hope this is satire, but, these days, who knows?
GenZ Conservative appears to claim this came from the Left, but gives us no source. Nonetheless, his/her text gives pause for thought:
… according to this poster it turns out that behaving in ways that were traditionally expected of American citizens is now extremist behavior. Avoiding drugs, promiscuity, and spending time outdoors used to be virtues that Americans would strive for. If the Social Justice Warriors that made this “info sheet” rule us, then I guess we will turn away from them. That won’t end well. In fact, it will end disastrously.
And that could make the left label you a far right extremist, or a deplorable! How crazy is that? Being a responsible, patriotic, or normal citizen will now get you blacklisted. I think that is ridiculous and will end poorly for the Western world.
There is a germ of truth in this, because CNN is promoting the idea that Republicans are ‘the greatest terrorist threat’:
The Left will make the 2020 presidential campaign tense — and tedious.
Let’s hope the following video still shows by the time this post appears:
On Thursday, October 18, 2018, Tucker Carlson featured a video of a crazed leftist ripping up Ted Cruz (R-Texas) campaign signs in Houston’s middle class Montrose neighbourhood. The guy was jumping around and screaming directly into the camera.
There is a ‘zombie’ virus infecting raccoons in the US at the moment. Tucker asked whether it made its way to Texas.
Then he discussed the attacks — verbal and physical — on Trump supporters. Dan Bongino, a former NYPD policeman and retired Secret Service agent joined him. Tucker rolled footage of CNN’s discussion of the ‘bullying’ tactics of Trump supporters with mugs that read ‘Liberal Tears’ then showed a video of left-wing violence in Portland, Oregon. The two men wondered how CNN could be complaining about mugs when Antifa are tearing up the streets of a major American city.
Bongino says that the media are complicit in this crazed violence and the attacks on Trump supporters. The chyron at the bottom of that segment reads:
MEDIA: IF YOU DON’T BACK DEMS, YOU’RE EVIL
Seriously, the Dems are unhinged. They don’t mind Antifa. Legislators such as Maxine Waters and Tim Kaine encourage leftists to harass decent Americans minding their own business. The decent Americans’ sin? Supporting President Donald Trump.
This madness has been going on for two-and-a-half years, since Trump was running for president.
It started in Chicago, where Trump’s scheduled rally had to be abandoned in March 2016.
Democrats are the party of crime and crazed violence. Stop voting for them.
On Saturday, August 11, 2018, leftists attempted to revive the peculiar melee that occurred in Charlottesville, Virginia, on August 12, 2017.
Meanwhile, on August 11, President Trump hosted his biker supporters at his Bedminster, New Jersey, golf club.
Charlottesville
In Charlottesville this year, the Left showed their true colours once again:
https://twitter.com/CassandraRules/status/1028536195981160448
A Unite the Right 2 demonstration took place that day, just as it did last year. However, very few participants must have shown up, because Antifa were the stars of the show.
Antifa verbally abused reporters — ironically, the very people who defend them.
Breitbart reported (language warning in the link):
A crew with the left-wing anarchist group “Antifa” attacked and shouted at a USA Today reporter and photographer during a counter-protest in Washington, D.C. on Sunday.
In a counter-protest to the “Unite the Right 2” protest, Antifa mobs descended on the streets of Washington, D.C., attacking police and threatening onlookers. The Antifa group also threatened and shouted down members of the media, including a USA Today reporter who said she was simply trying to do her job.
Exclusive footage taken by Breitbart News shows two members of Antifa cursing at and shouting down the USA Today reporter, telling her to “Stop taking pictures!”
“Are you going to report how many people they tear-gassed?” the Antifa member shouted at a photographer.
“If we knew,” the USA Today reporter responded.
The Antifa members then verbally abused the USA Today reporter with foul language. An AFP (Agence France Presse) photographer was also caught up in the incident:
After the altercation, the USA Today reporter and a photographer with AFP said they were just trying to do their jobs.
Then, there is the curious attitude of NBC towards Antifa then and now in Charlottesville. As NewsBusters reports, last year, their political director and news programme host Chuck Todd (emphases in the original):
used his MSNBC program, MTP Daily to elevate Antifa’s violence as a legitimate tactic against the right. He even doubled down and allowed them to use the formerly prestigious Meet the Press as a platform to push their hate and violent methods. Todd has never condemned them.
How ironic, then, that last Saturday night, an Antifa protester shouted foul language at two of Todd’s colleagues:
Late Saturday night, NBC News reporter Cal Perry and his crew were in the thick of it as Antifa members ganged up on them and attacked. The next morning, NBC’s Sunday Today ignored the attack and suggested the media was simply “heckled” by their assaulters.
On Twitter, Perry was documenting the protesters as they marched through the streets of college town when they started to get “very aggressive with the media” and trying to block their camera shots. “Yeah. We’re getting a lot of this. Protesters trying to grab our camera,” he responded to one Twitter commenter telling him to “f**k off national media vulture.”
NewsBusters included a Cal Perry video and even warned about the language content.
Meanwhile, protesters were also assembling in front of the White House. The NBC reporter there, Garrett Haake, said there was violence in Charlottesville, but instead of showing Perry’s video of the altercation involving him and a cameraman, showed their other coverage.
The following day, Chuck Todd ignored the abuse of his colleagues and launched into another anti-Trump diatribe. NewsBusters has the relevant part of the NBC Sunday Today transcript.
This is worth noting:
CNN’s Brian Stelter was in no position to be indignant about Antifa’s attacks on the media:
Washington DC
On Sunday, the scheduled right-wing protest, beefed up by the media, was, in fact, a damp squib. The violent Left dominated once again. The building in the background, by the way, is the Trump International, formerly the Old Post Office:
Here’s more irony about the media, especially CNN, defending Antifa past violence:
Bedminster
Some of President Trump’s longest and most loyal supporters are the Bikers for Trump.
Trump welcomed 180 of them to his Bedminster golf club on Saturday:
The Daily Mail has coverage of the event, including photos:
President Donald Trump has met with a group of 180 bikers at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, reveling in the group’s loyal support as they bashed the press and recited the Pledge of Allegiance.
The group, made up of veterans and members of the New Jersey chapter of Bikers for Trump, descended on Trump National Golf Club on Saturday in a procession of chrome and roar of exhaust pipes.
Claiming nearly 100,000 members across the country, Bikers for Trump is a major grassroots organization that supports the Trump administration’s agenda.
Driving rain at first pushed a planned outdoor photo-op into the club’s ballroom, where the White House press pool was ushered in at around 3.30pm and greeted with noisy chants of ‘USA, USA!’
Here, Trump greets the bikers:
When it began raining, Trump opened his clubhouse to his guests:
This video summarises a happy, fun event which served as a generous ‘thank you’ for their continued support:
Afterwards, Trump tweeted:
Indeed they are Americans who love the Great Republic. May God continue to bless them — and President Trump.
I have dozens of tweets about the outrage and opprobrium President Donald Trump received after Helsinki 2018 on Monday, July 16, 2018.
It’s truly remarkable.
CNN and Time
Here’s Jake Tapper covering the summit. Never mind him, check out the banner at the bottom:
https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1018978244589170688
Fortunately, Senator Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) appeared later on CNN to call out Wolf Blitzer and others on their Trump Derangement Syndrome:
The channel’s ex-CIA guy (summer job only), Anderson Cooper — Gloria Vanderbilt’s son — aired his outrage with Trump:
https://twitter.com/freedom_moates/status/1018888668080234496
There’s truth in humour:
https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1019213834886709248
The following day, Trump reacted …
… and had another go that Thursday:
Perhaps Trump had seen that week’s Time magazine cover of a morphed Putin-Trump. Hideous:
A few days later, Jake Tapper admitted to a bemused news panel that Trump has been ‘tough’ on Russia:
https://twitter.com/WiredSources/status/1022007050677702657
Helsinki 2018 press conference
Here’s Trump at the press conference following the meeting he and Putin held:
https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1018879395551961091
Nonetheless, the summit and Trump’s words drew opprobrium from politicians, media and members of the intelligence community.
This was the reaction from former CIA director John Brennan:
Senator Rand Paul responded in an interview with Fox News:
https://twitter.com/PoliticalShort/status/1019595654757257216
Bernie Sanders chimed in on Trump’s meeting:
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-California) wanted the interpreter for the summit meeting subpoenaed:
A possible reason for the anger
There is a possible reason for the outrage and opprobrium.
What did Putin tell Trump? Did he give him any information to take away?
I’m not a Hal Turner Radio Show listener, but someone on The_Donald is, therefore, a tip of the hat to him for this link from July 17 (updated two days later), ‘Dear God; They Caught Them ALL! …’
We can only hope and pray this is true. Please read Hal’s post in full.
Excerpts follow, emphases in purple mine (those in bold and red are Hal’s):
Thanks to my long-time former colleagues from the Intelligence Community, whom I worked with in my years with the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force, from both inside and outside the US, I am pleased to be the ONLY media outlet to be able to report this extraordinary information . . . .
At the meeting in Helsinki, Finland, between Presidents Putin of Russia and Trump of the USA, the Russians gave to Trump at least 160 TERABYTES of Russian Intelligence Intercepts which expose horrifying activities of many, many, people to deliberately foment social, cultural, and political chaos, violent riots, demonstrations, media smears, phony scandals, and fake news.
Some of those intercepts reveal who has been financing weapons, supplies, travel, hotel, vehicle rentals and secure communications gear for Terrorist groups, inside Syria, Iraq, and terror attacks in Europe and the US.
Among the intercepted communications are mostly international phone calls, faxes, emails by members of the US Congress, US Senate, federal Judges, state-level elected officials from California, Oregon, Washington, New York (City & State), New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maryland and Virginia. Once those communications left the United States, they became fair game for any country to spy on.
A great number of these communications were encrypted, but Russia has found a way to BREAK much of the encryption! And as part of their effort to improve relations with Trump, they provided the original encrypted versions of the intercepts AND the key which decrypts them so the US can use US-obtained intercepts (which may still be encrypted) along with the Russian-provided decryption key to prove the info is accurate and unedited!!!
Holy moly! Turner says this international group comprises politicians, members of the intelligence community, military officers, wealthy people, social media managers — and, of course, journalists.
Turner writes that he was told:
Foggy Bottom (the nickname for the State Dept.) is turning out to be THE epicenter of evil for a lot of things . . .
Uh oh.
Turner’s sources also deeply implicated the US Department of Justice:
Worst of all, some of the Signals Intelligence grabbed-up certain well-known individuals inside the US Department of Justice. What these people have done will no doubt smash the reputation of the legal system for decades. Not only are some people inside the Justice Department going to prison, their liability for things they’ve done WITHOUT AUTHORIZATION, will expose them to personal liability which will utterly destroy them and their families civilly.
Wow.
Allegedly:
During that meeting, Putin laid out the inner workings of the vast global network of “elites” and the activities they have engaged in to bring wars, refugees, all manner of social and political chaos to countries around the world, much of it in the USA. Russia even provided charts showing “organizational” structures (which are not really “organizations” but more defacto operational realities); who is tasked with what topics or activities, how much they have been paid and by whom.
Actual copies of communications and Signals Intercepts with descrambled recordings of phone calls, descrambled “secure” fax transmissions, descrambled encrypted emails. Vast reports on money transactions via wire transfer, control numbers, account names, amounts, dates, purposes . . . and the recipient info too.
In total, more than 160 TERABYTES of this type of data was given to President Trump in the form of 1 Terabyte USB Flash Memory Drives. The USB drives are DataTraveler® HyperX® Predator 3.0 USB Flash drives which hold 1 terabyte of data each.
The level of criminal conspiracy is so enormous, and the global scale and reach of these efforts is so gigantic, it boggles the mind.
Bankers and titans of industry are also involved. I can also report that Union bosses figure prominently in the intercepts.
Dear me.
Brexit
On Brexit, Turner says his sources revealed that Remainers — including Conservatives — dislike not only the Royal Family but also Britain itself.
Remainers want to remain in the EU to weaken Britain:
These are ELECTED officials who are literally trying to destroy the sovereignty of their own country!
The Clintons
Turner alleges that both Clintons have been under Russian surveillance since 1992. There’s a lot of information:
Now, I’m told, President Trump has it all.
Next steps
Turner says that trusted members of the Trump administration have been sworn to absolute secrecy — including denial — about these data and have been told to sort through them carefully:
… paying particular attention to any activity which resulted in violence, death or property damage, so as to be able to criminally prosecute ALL the Conspirators based on any end-result violence or property loss/damage. Whether the Conspirators intended such acts or not, the acts themselves “were a foreseeable consequence” of their efforts, thus making them ALL guilty …
I asked if any of this evidence can actually be used in court since none of it was obtained via Warrant? I was told that ALL of it is admissible because the United States did not solicit the information and had no part in it being illegally obtained! Thus, there is no “fruit of a poison tree” to block admissibility!
Hal’s conclusion
Turner says this information will take a long time to catalogue but foresees that it is the reason for the outrage and opprobrium:
It seems as though the Putin-Trump meeting in Helsinki has, in fact, become the worst nightmare of a whole slew of people.
Prior to the summit, many people took extraordinary efforts to try to derail the meeting altogether.
After the meeting, those folks and their minions are making enormous noise about anything they can.
They’re worried they’re caught. They think they might be caught. I can report tonight, they are right to worry; they ARE caught!
They think that creating distractions through scandals will prevent them from being held accountable. It won’t.
And this is why the Democrats are scurrying around in a panic:
Democrat Senators and Congressmen ARE COMPLETELY FLIPPING-OUT OVER THIS; they’re calling for Congressional Hearings and to bring Trump’s Interpreter in to testify as to what was discussed and what happened in that meeting!
I sincerely hope this is true.
Q has returned from a three-week absence and, while he/they did not mention this information for obvious reasons, this was one of the first messages to appear on July 24:
Now we know for certain — it’s no longer speculation — why there has been such a hullabaloo over a) Brexit, b) Trump’s election as US president and c) Democrat (including media) rage against Russia!
More on Helsinki tomorrow.
The Singapore Summit took place in June 2018.
Before then, the historic Inter-Korean Summit took place on April 27.
How far things progressed over the past six months!
This post covers the events and negotiations that led to the Inter-Korean Summit.
On December 28, 2017, President Trump tweeted his disappointment that China was ‘allowing oil to go into North Korea’.
Who can forget this tweet from the New Year in 2018?
Four days later:
A week later, Trump rightly took the Wall Street Journal to task for misquoting him:
… I said “I’d have a good relationship with Kim Jong Un,” a big difference. Fortunately we now record conversations with reporters…
Then he began consulting with geopolitical veterans, including Henry Kissinger:
On March 5, Reuters reported (emphases mine):
Feeling the pressure of sanctions, North Korea seems “sincere” in its apparent willingness to halt nuclear tests if it held denuclearization talks with the United States, President Donald Trump said on Tuesday as U.S., South Korean and Japanese officials voiced skepticism about any discussions …
Word of possible talks was delivered by a South Korean delegation on its return from a first-ever meeting with North Korean leader Kim in Pyongyang on Monday.
The following day, the AP reported that talks between North and South Korea would be scheduled for April:
Chung Eui-yong, the South Korean official who spoke after participating in talks with Kim in Pyongyang, also said the North Korean dictator had agreed to meet with South Korea’s president at a border village in late April.
North Korea didn’t announce what South Korea on Tuesday described as agreements between the rivals. But the North’s state media earlier reported Kim had “openhearted” talks with South Korean envoys, expressed his willingness to “vigorously advance” North-South relations and made a “satisfactory” agreement on the inter-Korean summit talks.
On March 7, the AP featured a timeline article on progress, including this:
South Korea also said North Korea has agreed to halt tests of nuclear weapons and missiles if it holds talks with the United States on denuclearization.
The Conservative Treehouse (CTH) said that this had been in the works since at least August 2017 — when Charlottesville occurred — and that other countries, particularly China, were involved:
All of this was generally under-reported and took place months before President Trump arrived in Asia last year. The U.S. media was busy pushing racism and Charlottesville narratives. More importantly this quiet activity took place while President Trump directed US Trade Rep Robert Lighthizer to begin a section 301 trade investigation (Intellectual Property theft) into China.
President Trump was ramping up the economic pressure on Chinese President Xi Jinping; but more specifically Lighthizer’s action was targeting Beijing’s command and control economy along with the behavior of North Korea.
China -vs- U.S. moves have been taking place in Europe, Russia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Cuba, Venezuela, India, Libya as well as Mexico, Canada and ASEAN nations. When dragon puts a footprint in Mexico, eagle puts a footprint in Vietnam. When eagle puts a print in India, dragon puts a print in Pakistan…. this has been going on for well over a year, well beyond the media horizon, and almost no-one’s paying attention.
On March 9, BT.com reported that Trump and Kim were to meet in May:
North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un and Donald Trump plan to meet in May for nuclear disarmament talks …
It would have been an unthinkable suggestion just a few months ago, when the insults were at their peak — Mr Trump was a “senile dotard” and Mr Kim was “Little Rocket Man”.
Trump officials had received a briefing in Washington from the South Koreans beforehand.
Even normally critical media pundits acknowledged that Trump’s ‘madman approach’ to North Korea was working.
The South Koreans issued an affirmative statement. The South China Morning Post reported:
South Korea’s national security adviser Chung Eui-yong made the announcement of Kim’s offer in Washington on Thursday (Friday morning Hong Kong time).
Chung said Kim was “committed to denuclearisation” and would refrain from any further nuclear and missile tests.
He said Kim wanted to meet Trump as “soon as possible” and that Trump said “he would meet Kim Jong-un by May to achieve permanent denuclearisation” of the Korean peninsula.
The White House posted Chung Eui-yong’s full statement, including this:
Kim pledged that North Korea will refrain from any further nuclear or missile tests. He understands that the routine joint military exercises between the Republic of Korea and the United States must continue …
The Republic of Korea, along with the United States, Japan, and our many partners around the world remain fully and resolutely committed to the complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula. Along with President Trump, we are optimistic about continuing a diplomatic process to test the possibility of a peaceful resolution.
The Republic of Korea, the United States, and our partners stand together in insisting that we not repeat the mistakes of the past, and that the pressure will continue until North Korea matches its words with concrete actions.
A video of his announcement can be found here.
That Sunday, March 11, the news shows were abuzz with analysis of the upcoming US-North Korea talks, including perspectives from John Bolton and Mike Pompeo.
Even the anti-Trump Independent in the UK had praise for the American president:
… during a recent, daily grumble about The Donald, I got thinking; if you look past the ridiculous Twitter pronouncements, and the President’s general veneer – what has he actually done? How bad has the 45th President of the United States actually been for the country?
The answer, it might surprise you, is not that bad at all.
Stock market up, unemployment down. After plateauing for much of 2015 and 2016, numbers of manufacturing jobs have been on the rise since Trump’s inauguration …
On foreign policy, he’s been brash and unpredictable, but successful. He can’t take full credit for the defeat of Isis in their traditional strongholds, but they have been defeated. He can’t take full credit for defusing tensions with North Korea – but under President Trump, Kim Jong-un is becoming more receptive to talks with South Korea, and even sent a team to the Winter Olympics. His “quirky” style of diplomacy has led to, in the past few days, talk on the denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula and the closest thing to a peaceful North Korea we’ve seen in years. On Friday it was even announced that Trump will be meeting with Kim Jong-un …
On Wednesday, March 14, news emerged that North Korea was involved with Syria. The Washington Free Beacon reported:
Regional reports have begun to surface indicating North Korea has neared completion of the construction of an underground military base located near Qardaha in Syria, the hometown of embattled Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
“According to … satellite images and a military source the underground facility has been under construction for seven years, started by the beginning if the Syrian revolution in March 2011,” Zaman Al Wasl, a Syrian news outlet, reported earlier this month. “The high level of secrecy and tight guard in the North Korean base raise speculations whether it’s a nuclear facility or overseas depot for North Korean weapons.”
U.S. officials told the Washington Free Beacon they are monitoring these reports and efforts by North Korea to help Assad rebuild Syria’s chemical weapons factories.
“We are aware of reports regarding possible DPRK [Democratic People’s Republic of Korea] assistance to Syria to rebuild its chemical weapons capabilities,” a State Department official, speaking on background, told the Free Beacon. “We take these allegations very seriously and we are working assiduously to prevent the Assad regime from obtaining material and equipment to support its chemical weapons program.”
The Trump administration has been engaged in efforts to counter North Korea’s proliferation in Syria, particularly its efforts to supply Assad with chemical weapons.
On Friday, March 23, Legal Insurrection reported that Trump signed the Omnibus Bill with North Korea — and Iran — in mind:
Why the need for government funding for at least 6 months? That could have waited for another short term funding bill, some more muddling through, perhaps even muddling through until the November elections.
What was the rush to sign a bill with increases in authorized military spending NOW?
While Trump ran as someone who wasn’t looking at foreign policy as his reason for election, his presidency and attention increasingly are turning to foreign potential conflicts. In the next couple of months Trump will be dealing with two major potential conflict areas: North Korea and Iran.
As to North Korea, Trump is gearing up for talks with “Little Rocket Man.” As to Iran, Trump is facing fights both with the Europeans and the Iranians as to whether Obama’s Iran Nuclear deal survives. Trump already has made moves to strengthen the U.S. posture. Adding John Bolton as National Security Advisor sends a get-tough signal, a message that Trump will not repeat the appeasement mistakes of Obama-Kerry.
As Trump approaches potential conflict with North Korea and Iran, he could spend the prior months rolling through one “shutdown” after another, one-month spending bills, an inadequate military budget held hostage by Democrats, and the prospect of months more such turmoil at least through the midterm elections.
Alternatively, Trump could approach the North Koreans and Iranians with government funding in place including substantial increases for the military.
Do you think the North Koreans and Iranians care about the domestic spending fights that now occupy media coverage? I doubt it. I do think they care about a Trump focused on rebuilding the military and a U.S. military which has just been given additional resources. Trump wants to be the strong horse, a dramatic change from the Obama administration posture. Add to this increased military aggressiveness by Russia and China.
Elsewhere, speculation returned to a soundbite from the end of 2017 about ‘freeing 25,000,000 slaves worldwide’. Was it about human trafficking or was it about North Korea, as Q commented? (Image below courtesy of Reddit’s Q-oriented GreatAwakening)
On March 28, Trump tweeted:
Press Secretary Sarah Sanders had this to say:
That day, the KORUS trade agreement between the US and South Korea was agreed upon in principle:
On March 29, the AP announced that a highly historic summit between North and South Korea would take place on April 27:
Summit meeting will be only the third time leaders of the divided Koreas have met in the 65 years since the end of the Korean War.
On April 9, WND interviewed Peter Schweitzer, author of Secret Empires: How Our Politicians Hide Corruption and Enrich Their Families and Friends, who said that China was a huge part of the North Korea picture:
“My view has always been that absent China skirting the rules and going fast and loose with commercial ties, North Korea would be on the brink of collapse,” Schweizer told WND in an interview.
“I think that’s the opportunity that Trump has, to go to the Chinese and say: ‘Look, the bottom line is you need to deal with this. You need to cut off trade, you need to cut off commercial ties to help us deal with North Korea. Nobody else is in the position to do it the way that you are.’”
Schweizer said critical sectors such as minerals and energy “are what keeps North Korea bumping along while the people are starving.”
“You take that stuff away and the regime has a massive, economic problem,” he said.
On April 17, just days before the summit between the two Koreas, CNBC reported:
North and South Korea are in talks to announce a permanent end to the officially declared military conflict between the two countries, daily newspaper Munhwa Ilbo reported Tuesday, citing an unnamed South Korean official.
Ahead of a summit next week between North Korean premier Kim Jong Un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in, lawmakers from the neighboring states were thought to be negotiating the details of a joint statement that could outline an end to the confrontation …
Pyongyang and Seoul have technically been at war since the 1950-1953 Korean conflict ended with a truce — and not a peace treaty. Geopolitical tensions have occasionally flared up since the armistice, although to date both countries have managed to avoid another devastating conflict.
CTH’s TheLastRefuge — aka Sundance — pointed out the change in 12 months:
That day, Trump welcomed Japan’s prime minister Abe to Mar a Lago along with a delegation. CTH told us:
The formal bilateral meeting began shortly before 4 p.m. POTUS Trump and PM Abe together with translators and delegations. The U.S. side: Deputy Secretary of State John Sullivan, Chief of Staff John Kelly, National Security Adviser John Bolton, US Ambassador to Japan William Hagerty and National Security Council Asia director Matthew Pottinger.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said their one-on-one meeting was productive. On North Korea, “for the first time in the history of the world there will be a summit meeting between the United States and North Korea”, Abe said. Prime Minister Abe said “Trump has applied maximum pressure on the North and credited it for leading to the direct talks.”
Trump described their meeting as ‘great’.
The next day, we found out that Mike Pompeo had already been in North Korea on secret talks:
The White House declined further comment.
On April 19, South Korea’s president Moon Jae-in was optimistic about the upcoming summit. NBC reported:
Moon said big-picture agreements about denuclearization, establishing a peace regime and normalization of relations between the two Koreas and the United States should not be difficult to reach through summits between the North and South, and between the North and the United States.
“I don’t think denuclearization has different meanings for South and North Korea,” Moon said during a lunch with chief executives of Korean media companies. “The North is expressing a will for a complete denuclearization.”
“They have not attached any conditions that the U.S. cannot accept, such as the withdrawal of American troops from South Korea,” he continued. “All they are talking about is the end of hostile policies against North Korea, followed by a guarantee of security.”
On April 21, Yonhap News Agency reported:
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has announced that the country will suspend nuclear and missile tests and shut down a nuclear test site in the northern area, state media said Saturday.
“From April 21, North Korea will stop nuclear tests and launches of intercontinental ballistic missiles,” the Korean Central News Agency said.
Even CNN had to acknowledge this was yuge news — ha ha — on Wolf Blitzer’s show no less. Mediaite has a report and video:
CNN’s Will Ripley, one of the few journalists who regularly reports from the repressive Hermit Kingdom, phoned in to Wolf Blitzer’s show on Friday night to cover the breaking news …
“Wolf, I have to say, I am really almost speechless here at the pace at which North Korea has done this U-turn,” Ripley reacted. “This all started with Donald Trump agreeing to sit down with a summit with Kim Jong Un.”
Meanwhile, Mike Pompeo was able to guarantee North Korea’s release of three American citizens that day. They returned home on May 10.
On April 22, Treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin met with the South Koreans:
Productive discussion with South Korean DPM KIM Dong-Yeon. The US remains committed to the complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.
That day, we found out more about Mike Pompeo’s secret trip to Pyongyang from the Korean Noon news agency:
Mike Pompeo met with KJU 3-4 times during his 3-day stay in Pyongyang per Asahi Shimbun. KJU reportedly said he’s on the same wavelength with Pompeo: “This is the first time I’m meeting someone who has the same fire in the belly as I do” (loose translation)
Also:
Per Asahi, KJU conveyed to Pompeo NK could “completely denuclearize” and that USFK would not have to leave. KJU wants full diplomatic relations with US and easing of UNSCR & bilateral sanctions in return. Pompeo went with 5 CIA staff and was aided by NIS
Pompeo first met with Kim on April 1:
The meetings were very successful per Asahi. Pompeo first met KJU on April 1 and that’s when he was told about “complete denuclearization”. Pompeo was aided by NIS chief Suh Hoon, who has formed working relationships with both Pompeo and NK’s Kim Yong-chol
Not everything was 100% successful:
But there are still differences: Asahi says while KJU may have expressed “willingness to denuclearize,” he was reluctant to include specific, time-based clauses as part of summit agreement, while calling for diplomatic relations and easing of sanctions.
Noon also told us of an ongoing CIA presence in North Korea:
CIA employees in Pyongyang? You don’t have to travel that far down the memory lane to realize this happened before: Avril Haines and Michael Morel were both in Pyongyang in 2012 during Obama’s term but they didn’t get to meet KJU. But they’ve had contacts
Pompeo was finally confirmed as Rex Tillerson’s replacement at State on April 26:
The historic Inter-Korean Summit between the two Korean leaders took place as planned on April 27 (videos here, here and here):
Kim walked across the border to South Korea for the summit, which was held in Panmunjom in the DMZ.
Kim wrote this message in the guest book at Peace House:
‘new history starts now; age of peace, from the starting point of history’
The leaders issued a joint statement:
The description for that video reads, in part:
During the Friday summit, the first between the two Koreas’ leader in more than a decade, Kim was accompanied by his sister and confidante, Kim Yo-jong, and the 90-year-old nominal head of the North Korean state, Kim Yong-nam.
During the meeting, the South Korean president expressed hope for achievement of a “bold agreement.”
The White House sent this message:
On the occasion of Republic of Korea President Moon Jae-ins historic meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, we wish the Korean people well. We are hopeful that talks will achieve progress toward a future of peace and prosperity for the entire Korean Peninsula. The United States appreciates the close coordination with our ally, the Republic of Korea, and looks forward to continuing robust discussions in preparation for the planned meeting between President Donald J. Trump and Kim Jong Un in the coming weeks.
By the end of the day (full video here):
The Korean leaders then shared dinner together.
Ambassador Chris Hill summed up the first day as follows:
President Trump sent his congratulations. The South Korean foreign minister remembered Trump in an interview with CNN’s Christine Amanpour:
South Korea’s Foreign Minister tells me in Seoul that “clearly credit goes to President Trump” for bringing North Korea to the negotiating table. “He’s been determined to come to grips with this from day one,” Kang Kyung-wha says.
The Straits Times published the full text of the Panmunjom Declaration for peace, prosperity and unification of the Korean Peninsula which resulted from the Inter-Korean Summit. Excerpts follow:
1) South and North Korea affirmed the principle of determining the destiny of the Korean nation on their own accord and agreed to bring forth the watershed moment for the improvement of inter-Korean relations by fully implementing all existing agreements and declarations adopted between the two sides thus far.
2) South and North Korea agreed to hold dialogue and negotiations in various fields including at high level, and to take active measures for the implementation of the agreements reached at the summit.
3) South and North Korea agreed to establish a joint liaison office with resident representatives of both sides in the Gaeseong region in order to facilitate close consultation between the authorities as well as smooth exchanges and cooperation between the peoples.
4) South and North Korea agreed to encourage more active cooperation, exchanges, visits and contacts at all levels in order to rejuvenate the sense of national reconciliation and unity.
5) South and North Korea agreed to endeavour to swiftly resolve the humanitarian issues that resulted from the division of the nation, and to convene the Inter-Korean Red Cross Meeting to discuss and solve various issues, including the reunion of separated families.
6) South and North Korea agreed to actively implement the projects previously agreed in the 2007 October 4 Declaration, in order to promote balanced economic growth and co-prosperity of the nation.
The two leaders agreed, through regular meetings and direct telephone conversations, to hold frequent and candid discussions on issues vital to the nation, to strengthen mutual trust and to jointly endeavour to strengthen the positive momentum towards continuous advancement of inter-Korean relations as well as peace, prosperity and unification of the Korean Peninsula.
In this context, President Moon Jae In agreed to visit Pyongyang this fall.
Tomorrow’s post will feature analysis and the events that led to the Singapore Summit, which President Trump attended after the G7 in mid-June.
The American actress Roseanne Barr has long been an advocate for children. Having worked in Hollywood for so long, she knows that many young stars have been molested and drugged.
She wants it stopped, which is one of the reasons she supports President Donald Trump.
On Passover — Saturday, March 31 — she tweeted:
President Trump has freed so many children held in bondage to pimps all over this world. Hundreds each month. He has broken up trafficking rings in high places everywhere. notice that. I disagree on some things, but give him benefit of doubt-4 now.
I happened to read it hours after it was posted. She did catch flak for it, and tweeted about Passover being synonymous with freedom from slavery. Unfortunately, she has taken both tweets down and is now focussing on her newly revived eponymous sitcom.
That day, CNN reported about that and an older Barr tweet in which she wanted to hear from Q because she had information to give (emphases mine):
“The Storm,” as Newsweek, Mediaite and others have explained, alleges that high-profile Democrats and other famous people are involved in child sex-trafficking rings, and that Trump is breaking them up and arresting those involved in their operation. The theory has been traced to the online message board 4Chan, where an anonymous user known as “QAnon,” or simply “Q,” has propagated the theory.
Uh, keep up, CNN. Q has been on 8chan for some time now.
Anyway:
Twitter users concerned about Barr’s involvement in such theories quickly pointed to past tweets by her that would further explain her involvement in the theory. In November, Barr tweeted, “Who is Q?” The Daily Beast reported. The actress added hours later, “tell Qanon to DM me in the next 24 hours.”
Of course, many media outlets picked up on this, but Q provided the CNN link (message 1061):
Many headlines were identical. How does that happen organically? It can’t. I posted about Mockingbird last week, pointing out that someone researched the word for March 26, which was ‘gamble‘.
Someone on 8chan grabbed a screenshot from March 31:
Roseanne’s eponymous — and highly popular sitcom — originally ran from 1988 to 1997. Nearly everyone I knew watched it. I tried, but it wasn’t my cuppa. My late widowed mother never watched it, either.
For those living outside of the United States, these tweets give you an idea of the show and how happy millions of viewers are to see it return:
https://twitter.com/NicoleNesbitt10/status/979367780054192133
The new series premiered on Tuesday, March 27, 2018 with such phenomenal ratings that it was renewed for another series on March 30! In the meantime, Trump rang to congratulate her:
Think about how many Americans Roseanne reaches on television (and Twitter). Her returning character is a Trump supporter. Connecting the dots, we can see how many minds she can influence. As a Tablet magazine article pointed out:
… Roseanne is the first decent argument that Donald Trump has had in the culture business since he got elected. It’s even more powerful coming from a comedian like Roseanne who, bless her soul, may be the single most important feminist symbol in America, relevant because she belongs not to the moneyed and privileged chattering vanguards but to the working class. Roseanne herself knows Trump, and appears to personally dislike him.
Wrong:
Continuing with the article:
But she’s given him this arguably undeserved gift because she also agrees with him on several key issues, like trade and political correctness. She also understands that Trump plugs in to the frustrations of millions of Americans who’ve been getting shafted for nearly three decades now with neither Democrats nor traditional Republicans doing much to help them out.
Almost for certain, the success of the new season of Roseanne will lead many bien pensants to call the comedian a crackpot or worse …
Indeed:
Here’s the exchange between Roseanne and the New York Times (Roseanne’s responses in bold):
Considering that Trump opposes many of the principles that you and Roseanne Conner have stood for, how can you support him?
No, he doesn’t, I don’t think he does. I don’t think so at all. I think he voices them quite well.
I’m thinking of abortion rights, same-sex marriage rights, labor protections —
He doesn’t oppose same-sex marriage.
He doesn’t favor it. He has not come out in favor of it.
He does. Yes, he does. He has said it several times, you know, that he’s not homophobic at all.
What about labor union protections and blue collar workers, and
What do you mean, the — oh, let’s not get into this.
[A representative for Ms. Barr interjected: “You don’t have to get into it. We can move on.”]
Well, you know, it’s —
Yes, let’s do.
A question people wonder about.
Well, I think working-class people were pissed off about Clinton and NAFTA, so let’s start there. That’s what broke all the unions and we lost all our jobs, so I think that’s a large part of why they voted for Trump because they didn’t want to see it continue, where our jobs are shipped away. So, it’s more, why did people support shipping our jobs away?
Now, let’s take this one stage further.
Although she won’t tweet about Q anymore, Big Media have plastered it all over television and the internet that Roseanne Barr knows about Q.
How long before Q goes mainstream?
For that, we have the unwitting media and the very much plugged-in Roseanne Barr to thank.
Expect millions more red pills to be dispensed this year, which will make The Storm that much easier for many Americans to understand once it breaks.
In closing, here’s a great quote from an 8channer:
If you told me in 1989 that Donald Trump, Roseanne Barr, and James Woods would save the world with what I knew as (NES/Atari260) hooked up to the phone line and a color TV…. I’d tell you that you were nuts.
yet here we are.
Indeed we are!
The hugely historic news of March 8, 2018, is that President Donald Trump will be meeting with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un by May to discuss denuclearisation:
Earlier in the day, Trump met with a delegation from South Korea:
South Korea’s national security adviser, Chung Eui-Yong, issued a statement through the White House, excerpted below:
7:11 P.M. EST
CHUNG: Good evening. Today, I had the privilege of briefing President Trump on my recent visit to Pyongyang, North Korea. I’d like to thank President Trump, the Vice President, and his wonderful national security team, including my close friend, General McMaster.
I explained to President Trump that his leadership and his maximum pressure policy, together with international solidarity, brought us to this juncture. I expressed President Moon Jae-in’s personal gratitude for President Trump’s leadership.
I told President Trump that, in our meeting, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un said he is committed to denuclearization. Kim pledged that North Korea will refrain from any further nuclear or missile tests. He understands that the routine joint military exercises between the Republic of Korea and the United States must continue. And he expressed his eagerness to meet President Trump as soon as possible.
President Trump appreciated the briefing and said he would meet Kim Jong-un by May to achieve permanent denuclearization.
This is some of the best news we could have hoped for. Of course, it will take time and a great deal of care, as General Jack Keane told Fox News’s Lou Dobbs:
Senator Lindsay Graham issued the following statement:
Media reaction
Not surprisingly, Fox News was positive:
CNN’s talking points yesterday revolved around pron (intentional typo) star Stormy Daniels and civilian Donald Trump about something that might or might not — she says it didn’t — happen over a decade ago.
That said, there was some coverage:
The CNN jerks look like they did on Election Night in 2016:
This must have been a difficult moment:
Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee — father of press secretary Sarah Sanders and a former GOP presidential candidate reacted:
Yes, we are used to CNN’s — and other media outlets — useless analysis and predictions:
Overseas reaction
On Friday, March 9, I listened to an excellent interview on RMC — French radio — on the political talk show, Les Grandes Gueules (The Big Mouths). Although all the commentators and both hosts are left-of-centre, only one said he was ‘suspicious’ of Trump’s motives, i.e. a lead-in to war. Everyone else gave him credit — albeit reluctantly — for his willingness to negotiate. The final comment was from one of the panellists who said that it takes a tough man to negotiate with someone like Kim Jong Un. Dictators and tyrants, he said, listen only to force. It’s true. The nearly unanimous conclusion was that Trump should be applauded in this instance (a big deal considering that Les Grandes Gueules, bar one, do not like Trump at all).
Trump received a huge compliment from Australia:
Q was right
Q was right in saying to watch the news this week. Q had been dropping his/their ‘breadcrumbs’ for some time now.
From February 15 (message 765):
Watch the water.
Q
Two photos have been circulating on 8chan’s Q research boards. Someone there combined them. One is from Clinton’s time in office (1990s) and the other is from March 5. Look at the water in the paintings behind those assembled. Also note that the North Korean — Kim’s father (?) — and Clinton are sitting in the older photo but Kim Jong Un is standing in the newer one:
On March 6, someone posted the new photo. Q responded (message 846):
Water.
Why is this event BIG?
What does it signify?
Why is NK out of the news?
As The World Turns.
Q
That day’s headline in some papers was about denuclearisation, based on South Korea’s discussion with their northern neighbour. Someone on 8chan posted the New York Times headline about it. Q responded, indicating that North Korea is being watched from the sky (message 864):
Wait & see.
Re_read drops – you have more than you know.
Eyes in the SKY.
SUM of ALL FEARS //\\
Q
There are a few more Q messages about North Korea, but message 888 from March 9 indicates that things are moving forward in the right direction:
Thank you Kim.
Deal made.
Clowns out.
Strings cut.
We took control.
Iran next.
Q
By the way, this is a satellite photo of North Korea. Notice the near universal darkness contrasting with the light in South Korea:
How it happened
In a nutshell, Trump spent a lot of time last year discussing unfair trade policies with China, which is highly dependent on slave labour and natural resources from North Korea.
Trump wants to break the Chinese control over North Korea. He wants North Korea to trade with South Korea and Japan instead.
Trump also implemented tariffs on March 8 on foreign imports, except for those from Mexico and Canada. That would include Chinese steel. Whilst the US does not buy much steel directly from China, China sells a lot of their steel to other countries. The US then purchases steel from those nations.
There might have been a military operation that took place in North Korea late last year which, if true, could have disrupted their nuclear operations. On September 19, Business Insider reported:
Defense Secretary Jim Mattis hinted that the United States still had military options left for dealing with North Korea, but did not elaborate when asked for details Monday …
… according to Mattis, the Pentagon has a few tricks up its sleeve that wouldn’t involve the decimation of Seoul.
When asked whether there was “any military option the US can take with North Korea that would not put Seoul at grave risk,” Mattis responded, “Yes, there are, but I will not go into details” …
So what does Mattis have in mind? He wouldn’t say, but he did let slip one interesting comment.
“Just to clarify, you said that there were possible military options that would not create a grave risk to Seoul,” a reporter said later. “Are we talking kinetic options as well?”
“Yes, I don’t want to go into that,” Mattis said, agreeing that his closely held military option involved kinetic action, a euphemism to describe lethal military force.
The Last Refuge — Sundance from The Conservative Treehouse — explains the Trump Doctrine simply and clearly. This thread is about not only North Korea but worldwide strategies. Highly recommended reading. Excerpts follow, emphases mine:
3. Just because western media doesn’t understand how President Trump executes a geopolitical strategy based on economic leverage, that doesn’t mean adversaries are not fully aware of the effectiveness of the approach.
4. The Trump Doctrine has two avenues toward dealing with national security adversaries.
5. The first route is direct assignment of responsibility toward the enablers: see China for North Korea; The Gulf States for Qatar (Sunni extremism); Russia for Syrian terrorism (Assad); and Pakistan for Afghanistan (Taliban); as recent examples.
6. However, when the geopolitical threat stems directly from the enabler, and not the enabled, the Trump Doctrine has a distinctly different & far more encompassing, approach.
7. Route two goes through leveraging regional allies and partners. (TWO THREATS, China and Russia) See ASEAN and India for ¹China; and France, Poland, Baltic States for ²Russia.
8. In each case: China, Russia and Iran, unlike Western media, these powers assemble volumes of research to assist them in understanding the most likely sequence of events President Trump will take.
9. When we say volumes of research, we indeed mean hundreds of people researching and drafting position documents based upon every scintilla of every deal Donald J Trump has engaged in.
10. These states fully understand how President Trump intends to utilize economic leverage toward his next national security focus. As soon as President Trump mentions a strategy for a foe, all international adversaries immediately began road-mapping their defense.
16. For the North Korean problem, Japan, South-Korea and India are all economically leveraged against China by President Trump [via favorable trade and market access opportunities.]
18. The U.S. military is not the leverage, the military helps creates leverage. The leverage itself is economic. Financial interests are always the best leverage to use because inherent within the fundamental principles of economics is “self-interest”.
20. Everyone knows the first North Korean missile test was conducted during Bill Clinton’s presidency. That was over 20 years ago.
21. What President Trump was able to do with the approach he took with North Korea is jaw-droppingly smart. Stunningly so. Economic leverage works.
23. The review of the enhanced sanctions against N-Korea should be incorporated with the larger issue of policy toward the DPRK’s enabler, China.
33. When it comes to the use of economic leverage to create U.S. national security outcomes, well, we are learning at the knee of an economic master player. The media will now do everything they can to stop people from realizing how effective President Trump is…
What to ignore from media this weekend
Please note that last point from The Last Refuge’s Twitter thread.
The media will tell you this weekend that Trump is acting impulsively. That is untrue. He has known for decades about the dangers of nuclearisation and unfair trade. He said the same things then that he is now.
He discussed unfair trade on Oprah’s show in the early 1980s and said he would run for president only if things got really bad. Well, by the grace of God, he’s in the White House now:
In 1999, Britain’s Channel 4 picked up an interview from NBC’s Meet the Press wherein Trump discussed the dangers of North Korea’s nuclear arsenal. We have Clinton to thank for that, by the way:
https://twitter.com/RaheemKassam/status/971970370755440640
In conclusion, Trump has taken no impulsive decisions. He has known and understood the situation for many years.
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In other news, the deadline for renegotiating DACA — Monday, March 5 — came and went with nary a peep from Democrats so desperate to maintain Obama’s Dreamer plan.
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