Trying to get a straight answer out of the State Department about Hillary Clinton’s emails is always a frustrating exercise.  However, the traditional group of newly minted fraternity and sorority journalistas thought they’d give it a go.  Predictably, it didn’t work out.

The millenials sighed for the eleventy-fifth time and went back to their iPhone quest for the latest Pokemon capture.   Then something odd happened:

Spokeswoman Elizabeth Trudeau is being obtuse about the 44 newly-released emails which show Clinton’s team in the State Department setting up business for the Clinton Foundation and Clinton Global Initiative through the use of the Secretary of State’s office.

The emails being discussed were not in the original 30,000 handed over to the State Department, despite Clinton’s claims she turned over all work-related emails. (more…)

Keeping up with his ‘man of the people image‘ Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders has purchased this third house, a $600,000 lakefront vacation chalet in Champlain Islands.

Part of the traditional campaign negotiations between various camps is the willingness of the endorsed candidate to absorb the campaign debt of the endorser.  The tighter the race, the more value is assigned to it.  Subsequently, it shouldn’t necessarily come as a surprise to see Sanders financially benefiting from his endorsement of Hillary Clinton.   How else does a Senator afford three homes on a congressional salary.

Let's not kid ourselves. We have today a campaign finance system that amounts to legalized bribery.

— Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) July 29, 2016

Senator Sanders owns one house in Washington DC and another house in Vermont; the $600k vacation home becomes his third, albeit ‘seasonal’, residence: (more…)

Because you’re worth it !

Yesterday the New York Times posted a story titled: “Researchers or Corporate Allies? Think Tanks Blur the Line”.

[…] Think tanks, which position themselves as “universities without students,” have power in government policy debates because they are seen as researchers independent of moneyed interests. But in the chase for funds, think tanks are pushing agendas important to corporate donors, at times blurring the line between researchers and lobbyists. And they are doing so while reaping the benefits of their tax-exempt status, sometimes without disclosing their connections to corporate interests.

Thousands of pages of internal memos and confidential correspondence between Brookings and other donors — like JPMorgan Chase, the nation’s largest bank; K.K.R., the global investment firm; Microsoft, the software giant; and Hitachi, the Japanese conglomerate — show that financial support often came with assurances from Brookings that it would provide “donation benefits,” including setting up events featuring corporate executives with government officials, according to documents obtained by The New York Times and the New England Center for Investigative Reporting. (link)

As a person who has floated though the disconcerting world of Think Tank politics, the Times article was a worthy notation not only because of the substance within it, but also -and perhaps more aptly- because in the world of intellectual property amalgamation such a news article (research proposition) doesn’t just happen organically as a matter of happenstance.

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Anyone thinking Donald Trump is not intensely serious about America-First economics received a massive dose of reality when they realized Donald Trump put reinstatement of Glass-Steagall into the Republican Platform:

“We support reinstating the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933 which prohibits commercial banks from engaging in high-risk investment,” said the platform released by the Republican National Committee. (link)

CONTEXT – Beyond the larger context of Globalists VS Nationalists (Americanism), the internal opposition to Common Sense economic conservatism (Americanism) can be broken down into two categories:

♦ The first group are those who are fundamentally naive about large and historic economic issues; and how the economy was changed, forced to change through the past forty years, by financial interests who created a second, “false“, paper economy. (more…)

This is a modified and updated repost from an early January ’16 outline which collected data from all of the various Donald Trump interviews, position papers, and historical outlines. Candidate Trump has been speaking about broad U.S. economic issues for decades. Trump approaches the challenges by focusing on “Main Street”, not Wall Street.

For the sake of brevity, we’re going to accept that most readers here are familiar with who funds and directs Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan, Jeb Bush, John McCain, Mitch McConnell, and in larger more consequential measures –  the DC UniParty legislative team in charge of U.S. Policy, ie. Wall street.

During the January 2016 South Carolina debate, and in response to Trump pointing out a necessary shift in trade position (a shift to put American interests first – a shift to stop the dependency on cheap import goods – a shift to use China’s dependency on access to our market to OUR advantage), Jeb Bush came back with an example of Boeing manufacturing.

Donald Trump, responded to Jeb’s Boeing example, and pointed out China is forcing Boeing to open a manufacturing plant in China. As would be typical from a candidate who is unfamiliar and poorly briefed on the issue, Jeb Bush looked back incredulously and said:

“C’mon man”…

There we saw it.

Right there was the disconnect. (more…)

Democrat National Committee supporter Bil Maher confronted WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange during an HBO interview which aired last night.

From the video it is clear that Mr. Maher was intent on isolating Assange and protecting the candidacy of Hillary Clinton.  Maher was/is upset about the the damage WikiLeaks created by exposing the intentional bias, fraud and party directed black-ops attacks against former presidential candidate Bernie Sanders.

Despite Maher’s best efforts, things did not go according to his plan:

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Revolutionary “treading” turns into President Obama and Tom Perez “stomping”…

(Via The Daily Mail) The United States workplace discrimination watchdog is considering if employees wearing clothing with a Gadsden flag logo are racial harassing African Americans.

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is reportedly investigating the issue surrounding the ‘Don’t Tread On Me’ snake logo after an African American employee of a federal agency complained they were racially harassed when a co-worker wore a cap showing the symbol.

The complainant said he found the cap racially offensive to African Americans because the flag was designed by Christopher Gadsden, who he described as a ‘slave trader & owner of slaves’. (more…)

This is a great example of the current state, and competence, of American Journalism.  Worse yet, this example shows the U.S. Secretary of State, John Kerry, didn’t even know what’s going on, and Vice-Presidential Candidate Tim Kaine also joins the crew of the clueless.

CNN and The Washington Post are both making an absurd attack Donald Trump story out of the most simple and easy to prove claim.

Donald Trump said there was video (yes, that’s a screen grab of the video above), put out by Iran, showing the United States sending pallets of cash in exchange for U.S. hostages.

Trump stated the Iranian’s were using the video to “embarrass the President“.  The Washington Post and CNN jumped on the Trump statement and immediately decried it as ridiculous and set out to prove the claim false: (more…)

When republican house speaker Paul “Omnibus” Ryan and republican Senator John McCain earlier refused to endorse candidate Donald Trump the media proclaimed both were standing on high morale ground based on principle.   Ergo, it was Trump’s fault.

Of course it was.

Representative Paul Ryan is the staunch TPP trade advocate who also supports open borders, amnesty, the failed gang-of-eight bill, the Koch Brothers and Wall Street’s legislative priorities as reflected by globalist Tom Donohue and the crony U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

In addition, Paul Ryan supports unlimited corporate spending to influence U.S. elections, and radical changes to social security and entitlement benefits.

All of these Ryan positions and interests are directly counter to republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. (more…)

President Obama held a joint press conference today with Prime Minister Lee of Singapore, the subject of the White House meeting was Obama’s controversial Trans-Pacific Trade deal.

However, breaking with all traditional political decorum, and using a seeded question from the press gallery, President Obama launched into a five minute tirade against republican presidential candidate Donald Trump:

Moments ago Donald Trump responded to President Obama via a Facebook post:

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