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Against all enemies…

We are at war.

In war it is important to know who your enemy is and what their strategy entails, so too in government is it important to know who our enemies are, and how they plan to attack.

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We are at war.

In war it is important to know who your enemy is and what their strategy entails, so too in government is it important to know who our enemies are, and how they plan to attack.

The oath of office for nearly every civil servant and military officer of the United States of America requires that the individual “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic”.

I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.

The oaths for federal judges and newly-commissioned military officers are the same. In sum, this means that millions of individuals have taken upon them such an oath. How, then, can so many people swear to defend the Constitution from its enemies, yet remain unaware as to who such enemies are and how they are to defend the Constitution from them?

By reason of our very citizenship we are responsible for maintaining the integrity of the Constitution. All those desiring to become citizens of this nation are likewise required to affirm with an oath that they will defend the Constitution from its foreign and domestic enemies. This is not an effort relegated to the high ranks of government; We the People are responsible for the eternal vigilance necessitated by the constant encroachment of the numerous hosts of enemies that seek to destroy and ignore the Constitution.

Who, then, are the domestic enemies of the Constitution?

Few like to point fingers and accuse others of so heavy a crime, and yet every day there are more people taking oaths to affirm that they will do so. Before you may act in support and defense of the Constitution from such people, you must know who they are. The relative ignorance of the citizenry regarding such domestic enemies affords them a wide open door for their activities. Our Constitutional defense thus becomes nonexistent, and the enemy wins the day.

I believe that there are two basic groups of domestic enemies.

The first and most obvious is the group of political opponents within our own government who pursue legislation and programs that are contradictory to the powers and principles embodied in the Constitution. These are the individuals who either refuse to acknowledge the Constitution at all, or speak praises about its importance in public, but in private act in a manner that contradicts its restraint. These enemies are not just those in power, however. Domestic enemies of the Constitution likewise include all those who support political officers who themselves are enemies of the Constitution. Anybody who rallies around such a banner (or plasters the bumper sticker on their car) shows through word (support) and deed (vote) what side of the field they are on. They, too, must be opposed, and exposed for the enemies of the Constitution that they are.

The second and more subtle group of Constitutional enemies are those who adhere to and advocate for a moral standard that rejects natural law, traditional morality, and Judeo-Christian values. Many of the Founders spoke of this situation, one of them being John Adams:

“We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”

–John Adams

Indifference, apathy, or the benefit of the doubt do not help in supporting and defending the Constitution. If anything, seeing such widespread inaction emboldens the enemy and assures him an easy victory.

We are at war, and it is incumbent upon each of us to stand up and be counted. We must identify our enemies, not forgetting to look within our own ranks.

Our republic’s success (and the Constitution’s) depends on our ability to accurately identify the threats around us, prioritize them, and act appropriately, diligently and, if necessary ruthlessly against them.

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Please… Thank You… and other dinosaurs

You cannot respect others if you do not respect yourself, in word, deed and action.

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The Presidents’ State of the Union speech is scheduled for tonight and we have been inundated with negativity by the media, “entertainment” figures and opposing politicians. That is not only a shame, but, in my opinion, it is hurtful to our American society. The negativity is not confined to those on the left. With epithets like “Cryin’ Chuck”, for example, President Trump does no favor toward respect of his office. Perhaps a bit of a reminder to our public figures is in order.

I want to remind them of some pretty basic manners. I believe our “civilization” has forgotten and in return has created a downfall. Without manners and respect for one another, this world will get darker and darker. Here are a list of some of the most forgotten manners that need to be reintroduced into today’s society.

Saying “Please” and “Thank you.”

I know this was the very first set of manners I was taught when I was a child and yet, this is the most unused set of manners today! I walk around and hear folks demand something without a please or a thank you.

To be honest, it makes me want to smack them upside the head! Did your parents forget to teach you the core basics of respect? It might be that person’s “job” to retrieve you whatever it was you asked for; however, it is not their job to do it in any time fashion.

You could ask for a side of ranch and they could take 15 minutes — however, you ask for a side of ranch please, that waiter/waitress might bring that ranch a lot faster.

Saying please and thank you takes an extra two breaths and is more respectful. That person you are showing respect to is a human just as you are, and therefore, they deserve manners just like you do.

Holding the door open for others.

My parents taught me that you are to hold the door for anyone — it does not matter who they are: black, white, purple, green, male, female, young, old, baby, someone you love or someone you hate. You show respect to someone no matter what and you hold the door open. Period.

Today, I find it rare that the door is held open. If you see me coming, hold the door open for me. I do not care if you are a male or a female, hold the door. I know I have arms, but so do you — it’s called respect.

Saying, “Excuse me.”

Life is a beginning and an end with a lot of hustle and bustle in the middle. I get it, life is crazy during the in between, and people are typically running around like crazy dogs running away from a dog catcher.

What I do not understand is why we as a society have lost the art of using the words “excuse me” when trying to get around someone or when we bump into someone. Since when did it become okay to run into someone and act like almost taking off that poor innocent person’s arm did not matter to you? Oh yeah — it never has.

Telling someone, “Bless you.”

Saying “bless you” to someone has many different backgrounds. The most thought of origin came from illness. In 590 AD, Italy suffered a horrible plague and the Pope issued a law that stated that whenever someone sneezed, people were to say “God bless you” and make the cross over their mouths, in hopes to keep the person from catching the plague.

Because a sneeze was a symptom of the plague, people who heard another sneeze and said “God bless you” took interest in the person’s life. So today, when someone sneezes, and someone says “bless you,” they are taking an interest as well. They want the person to know that they wish them well. While this seems like a minor act, it is an act that can go a long way for someone.

Using eye contact.

Maybe it is just me, but something that can really irritate me faster than being cut off in traffic is when someone does not make eye contact with me while having a conversation.

Eye contact is key to any good conversation. It allows the person you are communicating with to know that you are interested in what they have to say and that you value their time. Therefore, when you have a conversation with someone, look them in the eyes and let them know you value their time and what they have to say.

Of course, in order to make eye contact you will have to put down your cell phone and stop texting… what a radical idea.

Waiting your turn.

Like I said before, I know life is busy.

There is just one thing I want to clarify with everyone. Your life is busy, but so is everyone else’s. I have things within my life that I have to do that require urgency and I know you do as well. Life is about waiting though. Patience is a virtue, or so they say. You wait to go to school. You wait to graduate. You wait to get married and have kids. You wait to retire. Wait. It is within the waiting that you find that life is actually happening and your life is worthwhile.

Using someone’s PROPER title.

The use of someone’s proper title is important.

And this concept goes beyond the title of “doctor” for example. If someone is married or divorced, those titles matter as well. Calling someone a Ms. when they are are truly a Mrs. can make someone upset. Make sure you know someone’s title before you address them.

Basic respect for one another.

I don’t know if it’s just me, or if it has always been like this, but I feel like the level of rudeness that people have toward one another has escalated from a level one to threat level.

Since when did it become okay for everyone to talk about each other? Since when did it become okay for others to use one another to climb their way to the top of the social ladder? When did the basic instinct of human compassion leave each of our hearts and we all become so selfish. I know, you might think that these are not manners, but they are. The definition of manners is the way a person acts toward one another. So when did our ideal standards of manners become ignorance?

It all comes down to one word…respect. Unfortunately we have seemed to lost that concept in our everyday life which is sad. The first step is, of course, self-respect. You cannot respect others if you do not respect yourself, in word, deed and action. It comes under the heading of another concept that seems to be in short supply in our society today… personal responsibility.

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Who Watches the Watchers?

This sort of toying with public records is among one of the many violations of the public trust by our government aided and abetted by their main-stream media allies.

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There’s an important but little-noticed subtext in the revelations about FBI misconduct in the investigations into Hillary Clinton’s email practices and Donald Trump’s Russia associations.

Routine obstruction of public records laws by federal officials.

The records that federal agencies generate while in our employ aren’t owned by faceless bureaucrats or political officials who can choose to withhold or disclose at their discretion and convenience. The records are owned by us: the public. That includes text messages.

In the past two decades as communications via email, smart phones and social media have grown routine.

There’s evidence that federal officials have consciously devised ways to thwart public records laws and keep their communications — our records — secret.

Federal officials have used private email accounts, private servers and aliases (not their own name) for public business. They have deleted or lost messages that are supposed to be saved.

And they have learned to use text messaging.

In an exchange released by the Senate Homeland Security committee, FBI officials Lisa Page and Peter Strzok seem to discuss this very issue in private texts.
“Page: Have a meeting with turgal about getting iphone in a day or so”

Strzok: Oh hot damn. . . We get around our security/monitoring issues?

Page: “No, he’s proposing that we just stop following them. Apparently the requirement to capture texts came from [Office of Management and Budget], but we’re the only org (I’m told) who is following that rule. His point is, if no one else is doing it why should we. . . I’m told – thought I have seen – that there is an IG report that says everyone is failing. But one has changed anything, so why not just join in the failure.”

It’s a shockingly cavalier attitude from an attorney and high level FBI official.

There are more text messages between Strzok and Page from a critical time period, as we now know, that the FBI claimed had been lost in a technical glitch. After that became public, the Inspector General said he was able to recover them. (Interesting that the FBI couldn’t.)

Where are all those text messages now? Instead of providing them directly to Congress, the Inspector General is giving the recovered text messages to the Department of Justice which then can give them to Congress (after any bad actors theoretically implicated in the texts have time to mount a defense).

This is just one example of a huge problem that also includes federal agencies routinely violating Freedom of Information Act law.

They’ve twisted the law on its head, using it to obstruct and delay the release of obviously public information. They filter legitimate public records through political reviews before releasing them. This process isn’t allowed under Freedom of Information law.

Documents released years after they should have been, when the news related to them had died down, reveal that during the Department of Justice’s Fast and Furious scandal—where federal agents were instructed to allow thousands of weapons to be trafficked to Mexican drug cartels—public records officials were told to forward any Freedom of Information Act requests were withheold under the guise of “coordination.”

“Recently requests have been made to multiple components for certain records pertaining to Project Gunrunner, an ATF initiative,” a Department of Justice information official wrote to various agencies and officials on May 20, 2011, including DEA, the Attorney General’s office, the Marshal’s Service, the FBI and the Inspector General. “You should contact me directly before proceeding, and as soon as possible…Similarly, you should contact me if you receive a request from Sharyl Attkisson.”
This process ensured that Attkisson, a reporter, did not receive lawful responses to Freedom of Information requests on Fast and Furious.

This sort of toying with public records is among one of the many violations of the public trust by our government aided and abetted by their main-stream media allies. The newly-released text messages further that view, but there appears to be no serious effort to remedy it.

This has happened too many times regarding too many issues. Stonewalling, blocking of information, obvious obstruction of judicial process and abuse under the color of authority on the part of too many in the government in furtherance of political agendas. Deflection, failure to report facts, purposeful disinformation and enabling on the part of a largely complicit media.

The question must be asked: “Who’s watching the watchers?”

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Dead Reckoning

Originally, authorities announced that Lesin died from a heart attack. However, the results of his autopsy released months later indicated a far more sinister cause of death and the heavily redacted FBI documents that were just released add to that story.

In November 2015, it was reported that Mikhail Lesin, the former head of media affairs for the Russian government, and the founder of Russia Today (RT), was found dead in the hotel room that he was staying at in Washington DC.

Originally, authorities announced that Lesin died from a heart attack. However, the results of his autopsy released months later indicated a far more sinister cause of death and the heavily redacted FBI documents that were just released add to that story.

The documents, detailing the FBI investigation into Lesin’s death were just released last Saturday morning in spite of the investigation ending in October of 2016.

In spite of the original cause of death noted as a heart attack, a few months later, the District of Colombia’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner (OCME) and Metropolitan Police Department said that “blunt force injuries of the neck, torso, upper extremities and lower extremities” contributed to Lesin’s death.

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“The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner (OCME) has released the cause and manner of death for Mikhail Lesin… Cause of Death: blunt force injuries of the head,” the statement said.

Essentially, all other information in regards to the findings of Lesin’s death has been scrubbed from the documents as the remaining pages are almost entirely redacted.
Not only did the US remain tight-lipped on the investigation but they also refused to allow Russian authorities to cooperate.
As RT reports, back in 2016, months before the closing of the case, Moscow said it was expecting Washington to explain why Russia had not received any details from the probe into Lesin’s death, despite repeated requests.

The original announcement of the heart attack back in November 2015 makes this case all the more ominous considering the fact that the medical examiner’s office also said Lesin’s body had blunt force trauma to the neck, torso, arms and legs too. How did authorities overlook his wounds?

A case of blunt force trauma suicide caused by drunkenly throwing himself repeatedly to the ground until he was dead? I would think he would have lost consciousness first. Must have been one very determined Russki!

With recent revelations that some in the FBI hierarchy ordered field agents to alter their 302’s (incident reports), it is disturbing but not surprising that “something” here doesn’t smell quite right. Another case of Arkanscide perhaps?

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Analysis of the FISA memo

it is my opinion that the DOJ, FBI and the DNC colluded and conspired to rig a national presidential election in favor of Hillary Clinton

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I like to do my own research and draw my own conclusions. Sometimes you need to defer to someone who has a better working knowledge of the situation. the information contained in the following link is the Analysis from an intelligence professional

Here is the excerpted conclusion he draws:

“In conclusion, it is my opinion that the DOJ, FBI and the DNC colluded and conspired to rig a national presidential election in favor of Hillary Clinton, and paid a former foreign intelligence agent (if there is such a thing as a “former” intelligence agent) to assist. I suspected this was the case, as many Americans did. The difference here is that we have it documented by the People’s representatives and released for public viewing.

I’m not sure what consequences will come of this, if any, but please continue preparing for what may come. The Deep State is actively working to increase it’s power and influence. This is a war. As Bracken would say, “act accordingly”.

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FAKE NEWS

But these people have put the reporters’ reputation, even their jobs, in danger. Moreover, they have engaged in a serious abuse of the public trust and an abuse of power.

Who knows how many of these mistakes, spread over numerous outlets, came from the same sources? This seems newsworthy.

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Once again the “Mainstream Media” have exhibited their bias against President Donald J. Trump in their slanted coverage and commentary of Tuesday’s State of the Union address.

This “reporting” run by major news organizations, written and “reported” by top reporters and, presumably, churned through layers of scrupulous editing, turned out to be either misrepresented or completely wrong.

If we are to accept the pleadings of journalists, in their attempts at apologetics, we have to believe these were all honest mistakes. They may be.

But a person might then ask: Why is it that every one of the dozens of honest mistakes is prejudiced in the very same way?
Why hasn’t there been a single major honest mistake that diminishes the Trump-Russia collusion story?

Why is there never an honest mistake that indicts Democrats?

Maybe the problem is that too many people are working backward from a preconception.
Maybe newsrooms have too many people who view the world through an identical prism.

This brings three lines of questioning to mind.

First: Do news organizations typically run stories about documents they’ve never authenticated? Can they point to a single story about the Obama administration CNN has written using a similar process?

Second: Why would two independent sources lie about a date on an e-mail if they didn’t want to mislead the public? And how independent could they really be? How many stories regarding the “Russian-collusion investigation” has CNN run from these same sources?

Three: If sources lie to you, why not burn them?

There may be good reasons to avoid exposing a dishonest source. Perhaps it will scare away legitimate whistleblowers. Perhaps reporters want to preserve relationships with those in power — because they may help on other stories in the future. At the end of the day, you’re in contest for information.

But these people have put the reporters’ reputation, even their jobs, in danger. Moreover, they have engaged in a serious abuse of the public trust and an abuse of power.

Who knows how many of these mistakes, spread over numerous outlets, came from the same sources? This seems newsworthy.

When honest mistakes are found, the knee-jerk reaction of many journalists has been portraying themselves as sentinels of free speech and democracy. Often they will attempt to do this by contrasting their track record on truth with that of their perception that Donald Trump is untruthful.

What that fails to do, however, is undermine the ability of the press to report stories accurately. Trump didn’t make your activist sources lie.

The fact that many journalists have a political agenda is not new, but they have become a proxy of operatives who peddle falsehoods, and they have lost credibility with an even bigger swath of the audience.

It doesn’t really matter if it through sloppy or lazy reporting or if it is because they are willing accomplices in a “soft coup” against the duly elected President of the United States. The result is the same.

The media emperor is naked and he/she is peddling fake news.

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Errors of omission

“With regard to the House Intelligence Committee’s memorandum, the FBI was provided a limited opportunity to review this memo the day before the committee voted to release it,” the statement said. “As expressed during our initial review, we have grave concerns about material omissions of fact that fundamentally impact the memo’s accuracy.”

Disingenuous? Inaccurate? Grave concerns about material omissions? HORSEHOCKEY!

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On last Sunday, prior to the House Intelligence Committee vote to release the FISA memo, FBI Director Christopher Wray was brought in to the House of Representatives secure room location to review the memo for accuracy. After 90 minutes he responded that there were no errors, in fact, contained therein.

On Wednesday, realizing that the White House was going to release the memo over his objection, the FBI issued a terse two-paragraph message laying bare its worries about the document.

Disingenuous? Inaccurate? Grave concerns about material omissions? HORSEHOCKEY!

The FBI & Justice Department had “stonewalled the House Oversight Committee for better than a year until they finally were forced to produce documents regarding the activities surrounding the FISA investigation under threat of subpoena and charges of Contempt of Congress.

After Chairman Nunes personally took FBI Director Christopher Wray to view the “Intel Memo” on Sunday night, and prior to the House Intel Committee vote to release the memo Monday evening, FBI Director Wray sent a Main Justice official and a “counterintelligence official” to view the content.

The two officials – one from the bureau’s counterintelligence division and the other from the legal division. These officials could not point to any factual inaccuracies. The top official within FBI Counter-Intelligence is still the same official who was present during the 2016/2017 “Trump Operation. His name is Bill Priestap.

On the trail to get this far, we have been introduced to a number of Department of Justice and FBI players. Names like FBI Agent Peter Strzok; his mistress FBI Attorney Lisa Page; their ideological comrade deposed Assistant FBI Director Andrew McCabe; FBI Chief Legal Counsel James Baker; DOJ-NSD head John P Carlin; along with DOJ Deputy Bruce Ohr; and his wife, Fusion-GPS contract employee Nellie Ohr. Fusion-GPS founder Glenn Simpson and his wife Mary Jacoby. These are a few of the names that have hit the headlines as a result of ongoing investigations into the politicization of the FBI and DOJ.

…. But there’s one name ALWAYS conspicuously absent, FBI Director of Counterintelligence, Bill Priestap.

When you understand how central Bill Priestap is to the entire 2016/2017 ‘Russian Conspiracy Operation‘, the absence of his name, amid all others, creates a curiosity.
Bill Priestap is the head of the FBI Counterintelligence operation. He was FBI Agent Peter Strozk’s direct boss. If anyone in congress really wanted to know if the FBI paid for the Christopher Steele Dossier, Bill Priestap is the guy who would know. That’s why Devin Nunes wanted to talk to him.

So there we have FBI Director James Comey telling congress on March 20th, 2017, that the reason he didn’t inform the statutory oversight “Gang of Eight” was because Bill Priestap (Director of Counterintelligence) recommended he didn’t do it.

Apparently, according to Comey, Bill Priestap carries a great deal of influence if he could get his boss to NOT perform a statutory obligation simply by recommending he doesn’t do it.

Then again, Comey’s blame-casting there is really called creating a “fall guy”. FBI Director James Comey is ducking responsibility in March 2017 by blaming FBI Director of Counterintelligence Bill Priestap for not informing congress of the operation that began in July 2016. (9 months prior).

At that moment, that very specific moment during that March 20th hearing, anyone who watches these hearings closely could see Comey was creating his own exit from getting ensnared in the consequences from the wiretapping and surveillance operation of President Donald Trump. In essence, Bill Priestap is James Comey’s shield from liability.

But more curiously for current discussion, there has been NO MENTION of Bill Priestap in any of the media revelations, despite his centrality to all of it.

Bill Priestap would have needed to authorize Peter Strzok to engage with Christopher Steele over the “Russian Dosssier”.

Bill Priestap would have needed to approve of the underlying documents that were used for both FISA applications (June/July and Sept/Oct).

Bill Priestap would be the person to approve of paying, or reimbursing, Christopher Steele for the Russian Dossier used in their counterintelligence operation and subsequent FISA application.

Without Bill Priestap involved, approvals, etc. the entire Russian/Trump Counterintelligence operation just doesn’t happen. Heck, James Comey’s March testimony in that regard is also evidence of Priestap’s importance.

So we all can see that Bill Priestap is a central figure.
•FBI Director James Comey defers to him;
•FBI Special Agent in Counterintelligence Peter Strzok reports to him.
Yet there’s absolutely no mention of Bill Priestap in any of the explosive investigative story-lines in the entire two months this story was breaking headlines.

Why?

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Wink, Wink, Nudge, Nudge

this is the subtle art of getting the people to give up their liberties and freedoms and make them look forward to it.

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With many from the Deep State and the DC Sewer scrabling to keep one step ahead of a vacation at the Graybar Hotel, we might want to remember a character from Barack Hussein Obama’s inner circle. A critter by the name of Cass Sunstein.

Cass Sunstein, a friend of Obama’s from his University of Chicago Law School days, spent four-plus years running the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA). It’s an obscure but exceedingly powerful perch that enabled Sunstein to put his imprint on everything from fuel efficiency standards and the redesign of the food pyramid to the rules for the landmark health care and Wall Street overhauls.

Sunstein used his office as a laboratory for his brand of “progressive paternalism” — his self-described and seemingly paradoxical approach to structuring prompts for people that promote their welfare by protecting them from their own more self-destructive impulses.

Sunstein’s approach is built on behavioral economics, which has upended centuries of belief that individuals are rational actors who will act in their own best interest left to their own devices. The science behind behavioral economics is largely accepted by academics, but applying it in the policy realm is controversial. Detractors conjure up Big Brother and with good reason.

His latest book is called “Simpler: The Future of Government”. It’s a kind of follow-up to Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness.

Sunstein drew a straight line from Obama’s embrace of the office back to Ronald Reagan. In a bid to choke off burdensome regulatory mandates, Reagan insisted that the benefits of new rules outweighed their costs.

Now why is this a big deal?
Does anyone remember Barack Hussein Obama signing an executive order instructing the Gov. to use Behavioral Science to persuade the public?”
Quote:
“Behavioral insights and public policy: Can the former be used to craft solutions for the latter?
Traditionally, many government policies are designed on the basis of how people should behave and an assumption that this behavioral is rational. Yet both individuals and organizations make many decisions that systematically depart from what is rational. The result? Policies that are ineffective or even backfire.
But using insights gleaned from behavioral economics, psychology and other social sciences, you can craft better policies that have more successful outcomes.
Better Public Policy from Behavioral Insights.”

“Led by a renowned group of scholars and practitioners working in this rapidly expanding field, this program will introduce you to cutting-edge research from various social science disciplines and how these can be used to build more effective policies. You will examine how behavioral insights can inform the development of nontraditional policy tools and why these can be more impactful and cost-effective than traditional policy tools.
OK, well this is the class that teaches this concept to future leaders and gov. officials.”

The intent is to “Nudge” people into accepting political policy even when they don’t want it.

Why should you care?

Because this is the subtle art of getting the people to give up their liberties and freedoms and make them look forward to it.

Among other directives, Obama’s order authorized the government to “recruit behavioral science experts to join the Federal Government as necessary,” and to “strengthen agency relationships with the research community to better use empirical findings from the behavioral sciences.”
In other words, it sanctioned the sharing among government agencies of an entirely new set of data points on the private activities and tendencies of the American people.

Add to this the NSA data collection of texts, phone calls and internet usage of every American and you have a true-life George Orwell scenario. And, with artificial intelligence “appliances” like “Alexa” and “Cortana” et al the populace is spending their own money to buy the eyes and ears of Big Brother. They are carefully forging the chains of their own slavery.

We can only hope that President Trump succeeds in reconciling the concept of individual sovereignty with conscientious participation in the American political process. We have closely observed the manner in which well-meaning small-town politicians and policy makers often accept, unthinkingly, their increasingly marginal role in shaping the quality of their own lives, as well as those of the people whom they serve.

American public policy is plagued by inscrutable and corrupt motives on a national scale, a fundamental problem which individuals, families and communities must strive to solve.

This can only be achieved if Americans rediscover the principal role each citizen plays in enriching the welfare of our Republic and takes personal responsibility for their actions, lives and welfare of themselves and their families.

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The winds of change

“What has prompted the sudden flurry or resignations of “high-profile” actors between October 2017 and December 2017?”

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Suddenly, after the FBI Director had the opportunity of reviewing the House Intelligence Committee memo, Andrew McCabe has been “removed” from his post as deputy director. Happenstance? Coincidence?

There have been rumblings that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, (who was responsible, according to reports for extending the surveillance of Donald Trumps’ campaign), is also mentioned in the memo and soon will also be on his way out the door.

The House Intelligence Committee on Monday voted along straight party lines, with all Democrats voting “NO” to release the memo in question. The President has five days to object, but reports are the memo will come out soon… perhaps very soon.

President Trump’s recent executive order has declared a “national emergency” as a declaration of war against all forms of crime – not just human trafficking and human rights abuses.

The question then becomes; “What has prompted the sudden flurry or resignations of “high-profile” private sector persons between October 2017 and December 2017?” “Did they have advance warning that “something” was about to go down?” “What, if anything, do they have in common?”

Photo (1-50) (Click photo to enlarge)	Last	First	Title	Organization	Stock Ticker	Date Resignation Announced
Bookmark: #patricia-barbizet	1. Barbizet	Patricia	CEO	Artemis (Christie’s, Vivendi, NBC Universal)	VIV	11/29/2017
Bookmark: #david-brady	2. Brady	David	CEO	Red Cross Texas Gulf Coast Region		10/28/2017
Bookmark: #john-bryant	3. Bryant	John	CEO	Kellogg’s	K	09/28/2017
Bookmark: #mike-cagney	4. Cagney	Mike	CEO	SoFi	SOFI	09/15/2017
Bookmark: #kenneth-chenault	5. Chenault	Kenneth	CEO	American Express	AMEX	10/18/2017
Bookmark: #bill-delaney	6. DeLaney	Bill	CEO	Sysco	SYY	01/01/2018
Bookmark: #chad-dickerson	7. Dickerson	Chad	CEO	Etsy	ETSY	05/03/2017
Bookmark: #mickey-drexler	8. Drexler	Mickey	CEO	J. Crew	JCREW	06/05/2017
Bookmark: #wolfgang-duerheimer	9. Duerheimer	Wolfgang	CEO	Bentley	VLKAY	09/22/2017
Bookmark: #steve-ells	10. Ells	Steve	CEO	Chipotle	CMG	11/29/2017
Bookmark: #charlie-ergen	11. Ergen	Charlie	CEO	Dish Network	DISH	12/05/2017
Bookmark: #trevor-fetter	12. Fetter	Trevor	CEO	Tenet Healthcare	THC	09/01/2017
Bookmark: #christina-galanis	13. Galanis	Christina	CEO	HealthlinkNY	HIE	12/18/2017
Bookmark: #carlos-gomez	14. Gomez	Carlos	CEO	NYPD		12/21/2017
Bookmark: #sam-haskell	15. Haskell	Sam	CEO	Miss America Organization	MAO	12/21/2017
Bookmark: #stephen-hemsley	16. Hemsley	Stephen	CEO	UnitedHealth	UNH	08/17/2017
Bookmark: #erik-huggers	17. Huggers	Erik	CEO	Vevo (Sony, Google Abu Dhabi Media)	VEVO	12/15/2017
Bookmark: #robert-iger	18. Iger	Robert	CEO	Disney (ABC)	DIS	10/04/2017
Bookmark: #jeff-immelt	19. Immelt	Jeff	CEO	GE	GE	06/12/2017
Bookmark: #joseph-jimenez	20. Jimenez	Joseph	CEO	Novartis	NVS	09/04/2017
Bookmark: #travis-kalanick	21. Kalanick	Travis	CEO	Uber	UBER	06/21/2017
Bookmark: #david-karp	22. Karp	David	CEO	Tumblr (Yahoo)	YHOO	11/27/2017
Bookmark: #alex-kozinski	23. Kozinski	Alex	Judge	9th Circuit Court		12/18/2017
Bookmark: #jack-latvala	24. Latvala	Jack	President	Florida Senate		12/20/2017
Bookmark: #kevin-mansell	25. Mansell	Kevin	CEO	Kohl’s	KSS	09/26/2017
Bookmark: #bob-maresca	26. Maresca	Bob	CEO	Bose	BOSE	09/06/2017
Bookmark: #michael-j-massey	27. Massey	Michael J.	CEO	PetSmart	PETM	08/10/2017
Bookmark: #dave-mcclure	28. McClure	Dave	CEO	500 Startups		07/03/2017
Bookmark: #bill-mcnabb	29. McNabb, III	Frederick William “Bill”	CEO	Vanguard	VGT…	07/13/2017
Bookmark: #robert-mercer	30. Mercer	Robert	CEO	Renaissance Technologies	REN FD	11/02/2017
Bookmark: #wick-moorman	31. Moorman	Wick	CEO	Amtrack	AMTRAK	06/26/2017
Bookmark: #david-doc-oconnor	32. O’Connor	David ‘Doc’	CEO	Madison Square Garden	MSG	11/13/2017
Bookmark: #dkwon-oh-hyun	33. Oh-hyun	Kwon	CEO	Samsung	KRX	10/13/2017
Bookmark: #tony-podesta	34. Podesta	Tony	CEO	Podesta Group		10/30/2017
Bookmark: #xavier-rolet	35. Rolet	Xavier	CEO	London Stock Exchange	LSE	11/29/2017
Bookmark: #eric-schmidt	36. Schmidt	Eric	CEO	Google	GOOGL	12/21/2017
Bookmark: #john-schnatter	37. Schnatter	John	CEO	Papa John’s	PZZA	12/21/2017
Bookmark: #ron-shaich	38. Shaich	Ron	CEO	Panera	PNRA	11/10/2017
Bookmark: #d-shivakumar	39. Shivakumar	D	CEO	Pepsico	PEP	10/09/2017
Bookmark: #russell-simmons	40. Simmons	Russell	CEO	Def Jam	UMG	11/30/2017
Bookmark: #john-skipper	41. Skipper	John	CEO	ESPN	DIS	12/18/2017
Bookmark: #richard-smith	42. Smith	Richard	CEO	Equifax	EFX	09/26/2017
Bookmark: #randall-stephenson	43. Stephenson	Randall	CEO	Boeing	BA	12/15/2017
Bookmark: #tim-sullivan	44. Sullivan	Tim	CEO	Ancestry.con	ACOM	09/12/2017
Bookmark: #joseph-swedish	45. Swedish	Joseph	CEO	Anthem	ANTM	11/03/2017
Bookmark: #peter-terium	46. Terium	Peter	CEO	Innogy	IGY	12/20/2017
Bookmark: #alexander-wang	47. Wang	Alexander	CEO	Alexander Wang	ADILT	10/02/2017
Bookmark: #john-watson	48. Watson	John	CEO	Chevron	CVX	08/22/2017
Bookmark: #tim-westergren	49. Westergren	Tim	CEO	Pandora	P	06/27/2017
Bookmark: #meg-whitman	50. Whitman	Meg	CEO	HP	HPQ	11/21/2017

What do they have in common? Clinton Foundation? John Podesta? Exploitation of personally identifiable data stolen by the rogue C.I.A.? Pedophilia? Money laundering? Drug and child sex trafficking? Murderous satanic rituals? Patent theft?

This Executive Order may very well be an avenue for anyone who was involved to be taken down.

If you read the EO there is mention of US citizens who illegally sell US assets out of the country. Possibly the Clinton foundation, Obama, Holder, Kerry and many others. It has been reported that Obama has retained “high-profile” counsel.

Time will tell. A concern on this is what is to keep the US from just taking corporations much like Venezuela does by simply naming them a corrupt criminal? Also…we haven’t declared a war via Congress since WWII.

There is an old Chinese curse; “May you live in interesting times.” Things are certainly getting interesting.

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…and the sheep say

Back before TV, fractured families and the interwebs, a guy might go get into a fight just to entertain himself or to see how tough he is.

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There is a saying that goes something like, “When the government is telling lies, it is dangerous to be telling the truth”. There are two types of knowledge. Knowledge derived from internet or books or magazines, word of mouth, etc..

The other type on knowledge is First hand personal experience, “Boots in the Field” experience.

When the masses believe what is taught them, by people who learned what they are stating as fact from the internet, and then they run quick like a bunny to a different forum, and state what they know as the truth or the way it is based on what they know and learned from the different forums and blogs…….”In that environment it is pointless and dangerous to state what you know from first hand experience……with boots in the field.

In this “Information Age” there is a tremendous amount of information that is totally believed, everyone knows is true , common knowledge…..that is wrong to varying degrees, from totally wrong, to just a small partly inaccurate.

If there are 50 people in a discussion on a thread, stating what they think, and what they think is based on “ZERO” first hand or Boots in the field experience…….and someone enters that discussion who is old and has 50 or 60 years of first hand experience day in and day out living that subject of that thread. they will be called, “Troll” and shouted down.

The masses rule.

People without “First Hand” or Boots in the Field experience can not accept the truth, they want to believe what they have believed for a very long time. They will fight savagely to defend what they believe, even as they have zero first hand experience.

It is fun to just read threads, and watch that most say, “Well, I THINK” what they are saying is they think something is a stated way, based on zero first hand experience. This is very different from someone stating, “Well, I KNOW” this or that, based on first hand experience.

A nationwide survey of Americans finds that rude behavior is the new norm.

Experts said all the texting and social media is eating away at our manners.

When we can shoot off a two-line e-mail to get our point across we’re then taking that and acting in the same way when we’re face to face, we’re missing social cues, we’re missing emotional cues.

From road rage in the morning commute to high decibel cell-phone conversations that ruin dinner out, men and women behaving badly has become the hallmark of a hurry-up world.

Maybe older people don’t show up as often because they have their priorities straight. There’s very little internet truth. At one point I used it to gain knowledge, but I’ve had to develop the knowledge and skill to avoid the half-truths and falsehoods that it seems many take on face value. Old people don’t have time to put up with “know-it-alls” and their bull****.

I think that the rudeness which comes along with having conversations online is very off-putting to most thinking people.

Back before TV, fractured families and the interwebs, a guy might go get into a fight just to entertain himself or to see how tough he is. The only reason to be rude was to get into a fight. And the only way to avoid getting into a fight was to display some level of courteous behavior toward anyone who might take offense.

Recently, I have been blinded by the sheer lack of manners of people in today’s society. All around me, I am surrounded by rude people with no regard for the safety, concern or respect of the people who are around them and it makes me question their upbringing. Sadly, this world has become a very dark place to live in, and I feel like you cannot trust anyone. The more I look around at this world, I feel like people only have one thing they want to look out for: themselves, and that’s a shame.

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