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2016 December 24 – 30

Don’t get mad, Mr. Putin. It’s just our little game.

The news this week, about President Obama ordering 35 Russian staff members to leave the country in retaliation for allegedly hacking emails of DNC leaders, sent my memory reeling back to a conversations I had in 1985 with Yuri Bezmenov, a defector from the Soviet KGB. Yuri’s specialty was propaganda and weaponized journalism. He also was a skilled operative in the diplomatic corps.

I learned a lot from Yuri about how governments function at the diplomatic level, but the thing that impressed me most was that political diplomacy is a game played by professionals who follow a strict set of rules. One of those rules is that it is assumed that each diplomat is always lying. Furthermore, one should not take offense at that. It’s merely part of the job, and all the players respect that rule without taking it personally.

Yuri explained to me that, during the Cold War, in order to look good to the people or to cover up some corruption that came to light, political leaders on both sides would find it useful to make a big show of expelling from their country a few members of each other’s diplomatic corps. But it was just a game that the professionals understood. In most cases, those who were expelled soon were replaced by others with the same assignments or, in some cases, they quietly returned to their original posts after a short sabbatical.

(My recorded interview of Bezmenov is shown above. He does not discuss this specific issue in the interview but goes into great detail on how he hoodwinkied journalists and diplomats who visited the Soviet Union. Fascinating stuff.)

All this came to mind when I heard that Obama had given 35 Russian ‘operatives’ 73-hours to leave the country, because they were suspected of having something to do with hacking the emails of DNC leaders. I couldn’t help but wonder how many of them already had plane reservations to Moscow to arrive for a New Year’s celebration with family and friends.

Finally, I began to wonder when Russia, China, Germany, the UK, France, and other countries will send American ‘operatives’ home for hacking emails, phone calls, text messages, bank records, and travel records of the leaders of those countries. Of one thing I am certain, if it does happen, no one will take it personally. It’s just part of the game.

G. Edward Griffin

2016 December 30

FEATURED NEWS STORIES

Obama placed sanctions against six Russian officials and the FSB (the Russian security agency) for allegedly meddling in the US presidential election. The US State Department has given 35 Russian intelligence operatives 72 hours to leave the US. [Neither Obama nor any US intelligence agency has offered evidence to support the claim of Russian interference in the elections. [However, the more Obama and the leftist Establishment make statements like this, and the more the Establishment media reports on those statements without questioning their basis, the more the American people tend to believe Russian meddling must be a fact.] NewsBeat Social 2016 Dec 29 (Story)
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Talk about fake news! US intelligence officials have advanced a conspiracy theory, with zero evidence, of how Russia might have hacked into Democrat Party computers. [The theorists even created code names for the theoretical hacking units to make them sound authentic. Finally, they gave the theoretical operation the name, Grizzly Steppe. This made it appear that this was a real operation that had been discovered. But all of it is made up for political purposes. Notice how uncritically CBS writers and journalists report the story as though it is proven fact.] CBS News 2016 Dec 29 (Story)

WEEK IN REVIEW

North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un has executed 340 people since he took office in 2011, and 140 of those were senior officials and advisors. Some of the infractions that resulted in a death sentence were slouching, having a bad attitude, snoozing during military briefings, and talking back. NY Post 2016 Dec 29 (Story) (Cached)

Obama turned 1.65 million acres of land in Utah and Nevada into National-Monument status thereby making them off limits to any development or useful purpose, including mining, oil extraction, and building. It’s just one more limitation on America’s ability to prosper. Breitbart 2016 Dec 29 (Story) (Cached)
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Obama declared that the land which includes the Clive Bundy Ranch now is a national monument. The Bundy Ranch was the location of the 2014 standoff against federal officials and ranchers over regulation and taxation of grazing land. Now that this will be treated in some ways like a national park, Bundy and other ranchers will be under attack once again. Next News Network 2016 Dec 30 (Story)

Finland is running an experiment on ‘Universal Basic Income’ by selecting 2,000 unemployed citizens who will receive $600 per month, no strings attached, for two years. The collectivist government theorizes that, because people put off finding work in order to keep the benefits they have, giving them more benefits ‘with no strings attached’ will encourage them to seek jobs. Hmmm. NewsBeat Social 2016 Dec 29 (Story)

French citizens will be taxed to beef up private insurance policies to cover the risk of terrorist attacks. [The amount is not great per person, but the collectivist principle behind it is disturbing. Next will come taxes to pay auto insurance, health insurance, home insurance, on and on. The end of that road is when taxes pay for all risks, freedom to participate is denied, political corruption percolates throughout, costs become inflated, and incentive to reduce the risk is all but gone.] Newsmax 2016 Dec 29 (Story) (Cached)

Short-term visitors who travel to the US are being asked for information about their social-media accounts. The program is voluntary at this time. News Beat Social 2016 Dec 28 (Story)

Syria: US-backed rebels control the Ein al Fija spring that supplies 65% of the water for Damascus. Previously, the rebels threatened to cut off the supply by blowing up the channels through which it is delivered. Now, the Syrian Government itself had to cut off delivery, because it was discovered that the water had been contaminated with diesel fuel, leaving citizens without water for days. Western media is blaming the Syrian government for bombing the spring, but there is no evidence (or logic) to support that claim. These video clips of government trucks delivering emergency water to its citizens tell the story. RT 2016 Dec 28 (Story)

Hawaii: Trump supporters are called Nazis and banned from eating at Honolulu’s Café 8 ½. There will be no legal recourse such as there was when a bakery owned by Christians refused to bake a cake for a lesbian couple. That’s the double standard that is readily tolerated in liberal and leftist communities. Gateway Pundit 2016 Dec 28 (Story) (Cached)

Obama signed the military-spending bill for 2017 that authorizes arming Syrian rebels with shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles. The obvious use for these at present is to shoot down Russian jets that are attacking ISIS and other so-called rebels in Syria. Russia says it is “a hostile act”, but the US says the weapons will be given only to Kurds who are fighting ISIS. There is no reason to believe that, given present US hostility to Russia’s involvement in Syria and the fact that previous shipments of US arms have landed in the hands of extremist organizations, including the al-Qaida-affiliated Nusra front. TeleSure 2016 Dec 27 (Story) (Cached)

Brawls broke out in more than a dozen shopping malls across the US, involving hundreds of young people. The media declined to report that most of these flash mobs were black or that they appear to have been coordinated over social media. [It will be interesting to see if anyone in the media or in government will seriously investigate to discover who was the directing force behind this.] CNN 2016 Dec 27 (Story)

This video segment from the 1981 police sit-com, Barney Miller, qualifies as a pretty good description of the Trilateral Commission. Nevertheless, the script required the actor portraying the man who knew about the Trilateralists to look like a fruitcake. People watching this had no idea they were being programmed to scoff at truth. ABC posted 20166 Dec 27 (Story)

In a rush to get the job done before Trump’s inauguration, Obama has accepted 25,584 refugees since October, an 86% increase over the number last year during the same period. Almost all of them are from Syria, Iraq. and Somalia and are being settled in Texas, California, Arizona, and New York. ZeroHedge 2016 Dec 26 (Story) (Cached)

Obama quietly signed the ‘Countering Disinformation and Propaganda Act’ into law. Late Friday night, while most Americans were distracted by the Christmas holiday, Obama signed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) which authorizes $611-billion for the military in 2017. Buried inside that bill, the ‘Countering Disinformation and Propaganda Act’, also was activated, which sets the stage for shutting down websites that do not follow the government line. The law will create the equivalent of an Orwellian ‘Ministry of Truth’ to create so-called ‘fact-based’ narratives that no one will be allowed to question. ZeroHedge 2016 Dec 26 (Story) (Cached)

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Pennsylvania: George Ciccariello-Maher, a history and politics professor at Drexel University, was reprimanded by the school’s administration for tweeting, “All I Want for Christmas is White Genocide.” After he was criticized, he tweeted that it was good that whites were massacred during the Haitian Revolution. Then he tried to pass his remarks off as satire. Information Liberation 2016 Dec 26 (Story) (Cached)

Israel is accusing Obama of orchestrating the anti-settlement resolution at the UN last week. Netanyahu is afraid that Obama will set parameters for a Palestinian state in the next three weeks and is hoping to persuade President-Elect Trump to “economically hurt” those countries that voted against Israel in the UN and that may do so in the future. Trump’s response will be an indicator of his resolve to make America Great again. Times of Israel 2016 Dec 26 (Story) (Cached)

Pakistan’s defense minister threatened to retaliate in kind to any Israeli nuclear strike after allegedly being tricked by a ‘fake news site’. AWDNews reported that Israel threatened to destroy Pakistan with a nuclear attack if it send ground troops to Syria. A confrontation on social media ensued, and then Israel denied making the threat. The media accepted Israel’s denial and blamed the whole thing on ‘fake news’ which added great credibility to the latest drive to censor all news sources and social media. [How convenient.] AFP 2016 Dec 25 (Story) (Cached)

Obama has removed the word ‘limited’ from US nuclear policy, which is being interpreted as taking a more aggressive posture against Russia and China. There is no doubt, however, that this signals a step up in military spending on a Star Wars system that leading defense scientists characterize as a fantasy. If they are right, this is just another huge boondoggle for the Military-Industrial Complex. ZeroHedge 2016 Dec 24 (Story) (Cached)

Goldman-Sachs was found guilty of rigging interest rates and manipulating the value of the dollar to gain illegal profits. No one went to prison, and the fine of $120 million, paid by its stockholders, not its crooked executives, was a small price to pay for the billions it made from the crime. The government’s pretense at punishment is an incentive to continue cheating. Free Thought Project 2016 Dec 24 (Story) (Cached)

The NY Times and Fortune Magazine, senior members of the Establishment media, now are implying that Russia is responsible for Pizzagate. They say that Russia is planting child porn on the computers of its political opponents to discredit them. Daily Sheeple posted 2016 Dec 24 (Story) (Cached)

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News and commentaries that reveal historical facts and trends that place current events into perspective and make it possible to anticipate future events.

Ben Swann proves that the US-backed ‘moderate rebels’ in Syria actually are jihadists in ISIS or al-Qaeda. In 2015, $500-million in US funds was spent supposedly to train thousands of so-called moderate rebels, but the number that actually completed the training was no more than five soldiers! There are no moderate rebels in Syria, and the US sent 3,000 tons of weapons there in 2016 in support of jihadists and terrorists. The goal is, not to protect or free the people of Syria, but to enslave them as necessary to make Syria yet another puppet state of the Western Establishment. Ben Swann 2016 Dec 28 (Story)
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The US and China are preparing to edit the genes of cancer patients to ensure they are not passed down in their DNA, using the Crispr-Cas9 technique of cutting targeted DNA sections. Dr. Kozubek, warns that removing DNA to treat illnesses almost certainly will affect other genes that have beneficial effects and thereby could halt favorable combinations and wipe out future generations of geniuses. [Warnings will make no difference because, as long as scientists receive government or corporate grants to do thse thing, that’s what they will do. If states were held to the task of defending life, liberty, and property, they would outlaw such irresponsible experimentation.] Express UK 2016 Dec 27 (Story) (Cached)

Maine used to be a high-welfare state, with one in every three people receiving at least one tax-derived benefit. Governor Paul LePage revolutionized the welfare system by requiring able-bodied people age 19 through 50 who were on assistance to either look for work, go to school, or volunteer for service. One-third of them left the state for greener pastures. Daily Signal posted 2016 Dec 26 (Story)

A new study at the University of Southern California is underway to discover how to get people to change their political beliefs and to respond ‘properly’ to ‘fake news’. It is clear from this study that presenting facts is not sufficient. In fact, contradictory evidence usually only hardens one’s beliefs. The researchers say that, to change people’s minds, it is necessary to trigger their emotions and their desire for group acceptance. [Yup. That’s how they do it.] Science Daily posted 2016 Dec 24 (Story) (Cached)

David Knight interviews Dr. Randy Short about Obama’s plan to remain in Washington, DC, to lead a shadow government. His goal is to redistrict the US, promote the global-warming agenda, and increase immigration. Dr. Short says that Black Lives Matter, funded by George Soros, is the paymaster for other organizations that support the race-war agenda, including some churches and Democrat political groups. InfoWars posted 2016 Dec 24 (Story)

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Posted 2016 Dec 28

Jim Kerr: You just struck a nerve with me regarding Dane Wigington. I don’t comment much any longer on this subject but here goes. Several years ago, at DW’s request, I sent him numerous video clips I filmed over the Antelope Valley Ca. connecting the dots to the Naval Research Labs publicized testing of Plasma Cloud using an Ionospheric heater located at the China Lake Naval Station. The footage also showed how the plasma cloud could be manipulated by injecting the cloud with chemtrails. I did get a response from DW but, in essence, he labeled me as a nut job.

Betty Kelley: I was a friend with Dane, speaking on the phone with him many times and also on FB, but he unfriended me some time ago for speaking the truth. This hurts, not just me, but all of us. Truthfully, no one loves this world more than I do. I have always spent much of my time in and connected to the natural world–which is why I know in my head and heart as well as much research that this is all geoengineered. I saw it immediately many years ago. I have studied weather and used all the weather maps for 20 plus years as well as lovingly observing my skies all my life due to being outdoors, a painter of skies and landscapes as well as a biologist by profession.

Supporting the global warming meme/hoax is playing right into the hands of this deadly diabolical geoengineering agenda being done for profit and control by the eugenicists/globalists. It is destroying our planet and all life and has completely derailed the earth’s natural systems. Supporting the global warming meme is just what they need and want to continue this control by convincing the public it is “needed”.

Just the fact it is being “pushed” in all the mainstream media and magazines such as National Geographic which is run by the Council of Foreign Relations —> connected with the UN should say it all.

Sharon Marsh LePere: I’ve wondered for years why DW hasn’t joined forces with our other very knowledgable activists. Wouldn’t that be the thing to do? There are many differences of opinion on the details of GeoEngineering, many views of the whys and wherefores, and others discuss it and try to seek the truth. He will not do this He will just get rid of you. We need to unite, but that won’t happen with DW.

Look at what he is doing to Edward Griffin. He will try to destroy your reputation, this is not the first time. We need the truth in order to get anywhere. Griffin has asked for a debate, that would be the proper thing to do if you truly care about this most serious issue. Who would turn down that offer? That chance to prove their theory? Only someone who can’t.

WIGINGTON NON RESPONSIVE TO CRITIQUE
posted 2016 Dec 28 from Brent Crowder
Dear Mr. Griffin,
I applaud your effort to expose Mr. Wigington for his willingness to use unethical means to accomplish his desired results. In May of 2015, I attempted to convince Wigginton that he should stop using false premises to support his anti-geoengineering campaign. His lack of response was disappointing. Such lack of response to well intended comments to ensure he bases his conclusions on truthful premises is unfortunately consistent with your negative experience with him.

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