"It is not enough to know that there is a shadow government pulling the strings of the visible government- we must also act to expose it, and defeat it!"-Mark Matheny
Daily Star January 4, 2020 A group claiming to be working on behalf of the Iranian government has hacked a US government website where they plastered sinister warnings
Hackers who claim to be working for the Iranian government have hacked a US government website in a "revenge" attack.
In a brutal take-down of the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP) the hackers warned this first move was “only a small part of Iran’s cyber ability”.
The hackers posted: "This is message from the Islamic Republic of Iran.
“We will not stop supporting our friends in the regions, the oppressed people of Palestine, the oppressed people of Yemen, the people, and the Syrian government, the people and government of Iraq, the oppressed people of Bahrain, the true mujahideen resistance in Lebanon and Palestine.
“They will be supported by us.”
Images of a photoshop Donald Trump appearing to be bloodied by a punch to the face, the Iranian flag and the country's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei were also posted onto the page.
What the hell are Mitch McConnell and the Senate Republicans waiting for? Declare the House Democrats’ impeachment null and void NOW! The House left for a long recess before sending the articles to the Senate. Enough! The speaker doesn’t run the country.
SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS!!! News Mark Matheny December 26, 2019
In what looks to be a show of strength against the Western powers, China,Iran and Russia are coordinating joint naval drills in the Gulf of Oman, set to take place from December 27 to December 30. The Chinese Defence Ministry spokesman, Wu Qian , stated that the Chinese Navy will be deploying its Xining guided missile destroyer -- nicknamed the "carrier killer" for its array of anti-ship and land attack cruise missiles -- in the drills. However, he did not release specifics about the amount of ships or personnel involved in the military exercise. Iran's spokesman stated the exercise would be for "international commerce security in the region" as well as to "fight terrorism and piracy". Back on May 8, 2018 President Trump pulled out of the "Joint Comprehension Plan of Action" also known as the Iran deal set under President Obama, setting heightened tensions between the U.S. and Iran. The withdrawal by the U.S. has caused concern among Iran's officials due to possible impacts on Iran's economy. An article in the Atlantic Council on May 7, 2018 stated:
The uncertainty Trump has cast over the JCPOA since his inauguration has already deprived Iran of many of the economic benefits it had anticipated. For the United States to quit now would reduce, not increase US leverage and undermine sanctions as an alternative to the use of military force. China, a rising great power, would likely be the biggest economic beneficiary and Iran’s strategic alliance with Russia would also deepen. (emphasis mine)
Trump has also decided to level the playing field with China as it relates to trade. Trump has always felt that China has been taking advantage of the U.S. causing big trade deficits upon the United States. Some of its effects of the Trade wars are economic tension in China as well. In the second quarter of 2019, China experienced its slowest economic growth rate since record keeping began in 1992. Although China has been strong in Infrastructure projects at home, they have cut down considerably on projects overseas.
The trade war has fostered international political conflicts, sucking focus and energy from the healthy, gradual development of resources and culture in families and local communities and transferring attention to the “eye-for-an-eye” global gladiatorial arena of historical grievances and economic retaliation. - Acton Institute
Not to leave Russia out, The U.S. has put sanctions on Russia consistently since Trump came into office. On December of 2017, the White House put out the "National Security Strategy of the United States" where they identified both China and Russia as adversarial to the United States. Page 2 of the report states:
The United States will respond to the growing
political, economic, and military competitions we
face around the world.
China and Russia challenge American power, influence, and interests, attempting to erode American
security and prosperity. They are determined to
make economies less free and less fair, to grow
their militaries, and to control information and
data to repress their societies and expand their
influence.
The report goes on to mention North Korea and Iran as well :
At the same time, the dictatorships of
the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and the
Islamic Republic of Iran are determined to destabilize regions, threaten Americans and our allies,
and brutalize their own people.
Then again on January 29, 2018, U.S. intelligence officials came out with another assessment of Global threats to National Security, presented to Congress, Identifying cooperation between China and Russia as their top concern. In the forward, the report begins with:
China and Russia are more aligned than at any point since the mid-1950s, and the relationship
is likely to strengthen in the coming year as some of their interests and threat perceptions
converge, particularly regarding perceived US unilateralism and interventionism and Western
promotion of democratic values and human rights.
As China and Russia seek to expand their global influence, they are eroding once well established security norms and increasing the risk of regional conflicts, particularly in the
Middle East and East Asia.
On page 5, the report goes on to say this concerning China, Russia, North Korea and Iran:
Our adversaries and strategic competitors will increasingly use cyber capabilities—including cyber
espionage, attack, and influence—to seek political, economic, and military advantage over the United
States and its allies and partners. China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea increasingly use cyber
operations to threaten both minds and machines in an expanding number of ways—to steal
information, to influence our citizens, or to disrupt critical infrastructure.
At present, China and Russia pose the greatest espionage and cyber attack threats, but we anticipate that
all our adversaries and strategic competitors will increasingly build and integrate cyber espionage, attack,
and influence capabilities into their efforts to influence US policies and advance their own national security
interests.
And of course we have Kim Jong Un back in the headlines just a couple days ago threatening to deliver "a Christmas gift" to the U.S. Christmas has passed however, with no follow through by the North Korean Dictator. According to the Hill:
North Korea has set a year-end deadline for the U.S. to change its nuclear policy, and analysts have predicted a return to intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) and nuclear tests if no progress is made between the two countries.
In the run-up to the deadline, North Korea has hurled insults at Trump, calling him a “dotard” and saying “foolish” U.S. actions have already helped it make a “definite decision” on its next steps.
President Trump is facing the Democrats and the Deep State here on our shores, as well as a growing threat from the Eastern powers since his entrance to office.
Joe diGenova has been talking about the seditious plot to overturn the 2016 election for at least a year, maybe longer. Unlike a lot of the people commenting on this in the mass media, he is not using it to sell books or boost his cable career. He also knows how the FBI and DOJ works from a practical matter. Being knowledgeable makes him a rare guy in the commentariat. Most of the people brought on as experts for the cable chat shows know very little about their alleged areas of expertise.
Regardless, he has been one of the most hawkish people on the Barr investigation, claiming that it is a real investigation with real criminal targets. In this recent radio interview he goes into the details of both the Barr investigation and the ongoing impeachment fiasco. He is a Trump partisan, so his opinions on impeachment are predictable, but his thoughts on the conspiracy are interesting. He probably has access to information from the Trump White House.
The interesting thing about all of this is just how widespread the conspiracy was during the 2015-2016 period. In that interview he talks about former NSA Director Admiral Mike Rogers, who is allegedly cooperating with Barr and Durham. What makes the Rogers issue interesting is that he was the original whistle-blower. He is not treated as such, because the media hates Trump and anyone associated with him, but Rogers was the guy who blew the whistle on the spying to the Trump people.
What’s also interesting about Rogers is he seems to have been a good guy, who decided to put an end to the shenanigans with regards to access to top-secret data by FBI contractors. He closed off their access at some point in 2016, which put him in bad odor with the Obama administration. He was eventually pushed out, which suggests the conspiracy has roots into the Obama inner-circle. That may explain why the easy cases to be made against the FBI conspirators are on hold.
That’s the other thing about the Rogers case. As CTH explains in that post, his addition to the story reveals that the use of the NSA database by political contractors working for the Democrats goes back to at least 2012. It is an axiom of white-collar crime that the practice always goes back much further than the evidence initially reveals. Anyone who has done forensic accounting knows this. You find the first evidence of a crime, but it turns out that the pattern goes back much further.
That may be what lies beneath all of this. The great puzzle thus far has been the lack of prosecutions, despite ample evidence. The FBI agents are all guilty of crimes that have been detailed in public documents and the IG reports. There is now proof that Comey perjured himself many times. Just from a public relations perspective alone, rounding up these guys and charging them with corruption seems like a no-brainer. Almost a year into his tenure and Barr has charged no one with a crime.
One obvious explanation is that Barr is running a long con on Trump and the rest of the country, on behalf of the inner party. Robert Mueller was supposed to use his investigation to hoover up all the data so it could not be made public, in addition to harassing the Trump White House. His incompetence meant Barr took over the job and is now hoovering up all the information on the various parties. That way, everyone has an excuse for not doing anything about plot.
One bit of evidence in support of this is the handling of the James Wolfe issue. He was the Senate staffer caught leaking classified information to one of the prostitutes hired by the Washington Post. Big media hires good looking young women to sleep with flunkies like Wolf in order to get access to information. Wolf was caught and charged, but instead of getting a couple years in jail, he got two months. He will come out and land into a six-figure job as a reward for being a good soldier.
An alternative explanation is that what started as a straight forward political corruption case bumped into a long pattern of behavior. In the course of investigating that pattern, the trail went much further back than the 2016 election. If there is evidence of abuse going back to 2012, maybe it goes back further. It was the Bush people, after all, who pushed for the creation of secret courts and secret warrants. Maybe Dick Cheney was listening to your phone calls after all. Read the entire article
