The writing is on the wall and the message is not good. Trump will likely expand the war in Syria and increase tensions with Russia. The American empire is likely to implode under Trump’s watch, as he once again betrays many of the people who voted for him.
Hillary or Trump, we’d be getting the same thing. We had no real choice, and empires don’t reform. Prepare for impact.
– From yesterday’s post: The Imperial War Machine Marches Forward Under Donald Trump
The takeover of the Trump administration by Goldman Sachs has been obvious for months now. The takeover by the deep state has taken a bit longer, hence the non-stop Russia hysteria, which was clearly intended to back him into a corner. If Trump takes military action against Syria, we’ll know for certain the deep state coup is complete.
Fortunately, some Trump supporters are starting to wake up, with former lead investigative reporter for Breitbart, Lee Stranahan, being one of them. Lee recently recorded an extremely important video message, and I ask all of you to listen to it in full and share. He knocks the ball out of the park, and while I was never a Trump supporter since I felt he would act precisely like he’s acting, I applaud Trump voters willing to admit betrayal.
The line that really stuck with me was when he states, “Goldman Sachs is globalism.” This is 100% right, and anyone who tells you otherwise is lying or doesn’t know what they’re talking about.
Moving along, let’s take a closer look at some of the folks Lee focused on in his video report. From iBankCoin:
Let’s look at the ex-Goldman operators within the Trump White House:
Gary Cohn – recently Goldman’s #2, is Trump’s chief economic advisor – who was granted an unprecedented accelerated payout of $285 Million in order to go work at the White House.
– Staunch Democrat
– Huge globalist, led Goldman delegation to restructure Greek debt during financial crisis, helping them hide debt from EU overseers in Brussels.
– Head of the National Economic Council as of January 20th, 2017
– Brought in Drew Quinn – lead negotiator of TPP
Dina Habib Powell, another top Goldman alum and former president of the Goldman Sachs foundation:
– Promoted to Deputy National Security Advisor on March 15th
– Worked in the Bush II administration
– Managing director at Goldman Sachs, named partner in 2010
– Dina’s husband Richard Powell is president at Clinton-linked Teneo
– Bill Clinton is/was a Teneo advisor
– Wikileaks emails reveal a deep and profitable relationship between Teneo, Doug Band, and the Clintons
– Teneo hired Huma Abedin while she was a State Dept. employee.
Nah, nothing to see here.
The future isn’t looking bright, and the only way Trump can politically get away with all this is if his supporters stay silent about it. Let’s hope they don’t.
Meanwhile, take a moment to vote in the following poll (Trump voters only please).
Poll for Trump voters only.
If Trump launches strikes against Syria will you drop support for him?— Michael Krieger (@LibertyBlitz) April 6, 2017
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Mike, Trump got that “talking to” that every president gets when entering the office. Memba when Obama was campaigning on ending wars and transparency? I memeba. Obama got a talking to as well.
I really don’t care if they were shown “the film” or received threats. If they are ordering other people’s family members to be killed, then they can take the same risk they are ordering for others.
There is nothing more worthy about the life of a president or their family than the life of a soldier or a civilian they have ordered into battle or ordered bombed. These are not lesser deaths.
If a president feels he may order others to be killed then he should be able to take that risk himself. If they don’t have the courage to stand up to the IC after seeing “the film” they shouldn’t compound their cowardice by commanding the death of others in the name of their own cowardice.
3rdLegGreg – Do you mean they get threats? Regarding their family’s safety, for instance?
I highly doubt it in Trump’s case. This was easily foreseeable. I saw it and warned about it.
Basically, it is the deep state we’re talking about.
“3rdLegGreg – Do you mean they get threats? Regarding their family’s safety, for instance?”
The answer to that question is yes, if necessary.
But with Donny and his predecessor all it took was cutting the right business deal and they were bought and paid for. Same applies for Bubba.
Of course W was bought and paid for the day he was born. So he was just heat and serve.
Michael,
Your honesty and insights are greatly appreciated. While I gave up on voting after the 1992 Presidential Election, I had held out some remote hope that Trump would be the Populist President, the champion of the people, but when he started cutting deals with Sheldon Adelson last fall, it seemed to me that the fix was in.
Even after Trump’s Inauguration in January, I still held out hope that he might deliver on his campaign promises, such as draining the swamp in Washington. In my view, it ain’t gonna happen, especially with Jared Kushner serving as Benjamin Netanyahu’s personal switchboard operator. It seems to me that the NeoCon’s are back with a vengeance, and they are setting the policy, which will quite likely take us into World War III.
Going forward, I suspect that Trump is going to rebuild American industry and infrastructure for the express purpose of putting America on a solid war footing. The endgame is to fatten up the cow, which will eventually be taken to market for slaughter.
My two cents.
Blessings to all. Don’t allow yourselves to be deceived.
Thanks to all for your reporting and comments. Keep fighting! (h/t Lee Camp)
Great Video!!!!!
I couldn’t agree more with Michael’s take on Trump’s direction. I was suspicious of Trump’s hardiness from the beginning, in such an environment; especially concerning his ability to ward off cooptation by the deep state. When I saw the “crossed the line in Syria” comment with regard to gas attacks (real or fake) I thought to myself, “this is exactly the same play book that Hitlary’s state dept ran in 2013, providing the excuse for the neocons and neolibs to meddle in Syria.” I, like many of you, am sick of watching the disaster capitalism war model, whose sole purpose is for feeding the MIC parasites. It’s like Gerald Celente says, “at the bottom of the cycle, when they get desperate, they always take you to war.”
Some Trump supporters jumping off the bandwagon is indeed a good thing, but I fear there will not be enough of them and that their departure will be counterbalanced by neocons reversing course and supporting him as he follows their war agenda. I voted for Obama in 2008, my last general election presidential vote, but I had already lost my enthusiasm before the election after he picked the credit card companies’ best ally as his VP and then enthusiastically supported the TARP. The American empire seems to have become an out of control engine, revving ever faster and coming dangerously close to redlining.
On the other side, the Democrats have set a real trap for themselves. If Trump orders in ground troops, they are going to have a hard time opposing him. He’ll be able to posture a as a wartime president, and if Assad is toppled without WW3 starting he’ll become Teflon. Outstanding work, as usual, from the party that couldn’t shoot strait.
I think what will become increasingly apparent is that a betrayal by Trump will be infinitely more damaging to the social environment than HRC doing the same things. No one–in their right mind at least–expected anything but more war, more debt, more corruption, more globalism, more screwing average Americans from Hillary.
Trump was a different story. It was so clearly etched in supporters’ minds that this time IT WAS GONG TO BE DIFFERENT.
When that little dream finally fades, I think you will see a level of disillusionment with the entire political class that will dwarf anything we have seen in all of American history. 62 million voters will have been callously betrayed. The remaining ones never wanted him anyway.
This is setting up for civil disobedience and likely civil insurrection. When the guy with the white hat sells out, there is nothing left but voting from the rooftops.
Goldman Sachs, the intelligence community, the MIC and a handful of huge corporations call the shots on everything. Voting doesn’t matter. The result is always the same. Endless war, rich get richer, middle class gutted. The only thing that will change any of this is a collapse of the empire. So basically cover your own ass and hope the collapse doesn’t come in your lifetime. America has has been overtaken and the citizens too misinformed and divided to make any difference. Bleak but true.
Thanks. I don’t need to read any further. You’ve said it all.
Goldman Sachs is a “founding sponsor” of the Rockefeller/CFR. Lloyd Blankfein is a CFR member, along with Dina Powell, Herbert McMaster, John McCain, Bill Clinton, and George Soros. See member lists at cfr org.
I have no need to view the video as it was all written in from well before the start. So can we abandon this idea that the Trump regime was taken over and simply respect the fact that Wall Street had placed winning bets, and personnel, within both of the political clubs they operate? Then these clubs go out and try their darndest to get their members to the public trough and corporate largess that comes with being elected to office in Washington. This is what the political clubs are all about, nothing else certainly, as they all follow and install the same policies their predecessors did. Even FDR admitted this fact so why in heaven can’t we? Are we terminally stupid?
“The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the large centers has owned the government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson” FDR in a letter to banking go-for and elected Colonel House, Nov, 21, 1933
If anyone can point to a time when this situation changed I might be persuaded that the election of close to a century of politicians has had any merit in expecting any ‘hope of change.’ Until then anyone giving their perennial political rah rah rah can stick their enthusiasm where the sun don’t shine! What is apparent is that when the people are organized they can achieve some meaningful progress, begrudgingly given by the apex elites, but only from fear of a united populous.
Over at Zero Hedge I’ve been reading the comments. Trump people are really angry. Not everyone, but many. Some have contacted the WH as has this liberal. There are libertarians against this, a few liberals and it looks like more than a few Trump supporters.
On board is Clinton, Kristol, other idiots in the Dim party and the powerful Repubs along with the MSM.
Yes, there has been a coup against the American people. It intensified after 9/11 with each president playing his part in the process. People of conscience must pull together to oppose this madness. Liberals need to call out the “liberal”, “anti”-war groups. Time for these groups to actually oppose war even though Clinton supports it. Trump supporters need to call out their fellow Trump voters who are accepting what is not acceptable. We need to stand up together and peacefully oppose all of these war mongers, no matter what party they belong to (or we belong to). Yes, contact the WH. Everybody who can. Protest and speak out to the best of your ability. Everything is at stake.
This is such an obvious false flag for war. The fact that Trump won’t even consider going to the ICC and accusing Assad there, where actual evidence is required, tells you this has nothing to do with “helping” children. It has everything to do with plans laid long in advance. (wikileaks has info on those plans). We can’t let this nation keep dripping with blood. That’s not the nation I want. It’s not the nation the world needs.
As an addendum could not any blogger see that Trump is a mish mash collage of ideological ‘pickings’ and ideas crammed into a grandiose personality, as cover for insecurities, that can be played to on the one end with Delphi mind control techniques (you are so smart, you came up with that idea all by yourself!) and gaslighted on the other insecure end? I consider myself of normal intelligence, no super intellectual abilities with a high IQ to match and I could understand this from a mile off just listening to the ramblings, poor speaking and corresponding thought abilities shown from day one. A man should know his own limitations but with Trump it is apparent this quality is severely lacking and the bluster act he will engage in, thinking it somehow Presidential, has already worn thin where I live.
“As previewed earlier tonight, the US has launched air strikes against Syria, with NBC reporting that under instructions from President Trump, US ships have launched 60 Tomahawk missiles, striking Syria. NBC adds that only tomahawks missiles fired, no fixed wing aircraft involved, for now”
Over at zerohedge.
I voted for Trump. Originally I financially supported Bernie Sanders because of all the candidates he was the most honest and willing to work for the middle class. Bernie was my guy. Then when he lost, I just couldn’t stand the thought of Hillary being president. She had a huge past filled with greed and corruption and known to be owned by Goldman Sachs.
Trump was an outsider, a wild card. An unknown was always going to be a better choice than the known evil of Hillary.
Trump said in his campaign he was not owned by Goldman Sachs. He said he would drain the swamp. He said he was not controlled. Did I believe him? Well no, not really but there was always hope he was telling the truth. What else did we have?
I remember Trump being against going to war against Assad. I feared Hillary was going to start a war with her “No Fly Zone”. I was sure she would start a war in Syria.
Trump sold me out. Trump sold us all out. He put a bunch of Goldman Sachs guys in charge. And now he attacks Assad. The exact thing he pledged he was not going to do. And he said if we elected Hillary she would start her war. Trump is just another Goldman Puppet like Obama, The Clinton’s and the Bushes. So here we go. War against Assad. Russia supporting Assad. Nothing has changed.
Government Sach’s lives!!! And I feel we are are hopeless and powerless to do anything about it.
I’m not going to mince words here. How about stop being a dupe just for starters?
I wasn’t duped. My Guy was Bernie. I funded Bernie. I campaigned for Bernie. I fought for Bernie. I was a Green party member so I couldn’t vote for Bernie. I wasn’t listed as a Democrat.
When left with two choices Trump was the least of two evils. I voted for Trump.
Yes you were. Sanders, despite all his rhetoric and using social issues as his backdrop is a party hack and considered ‘safe.’.Others use other backdrops as their shtick depending on polling on the constituents general political identification. Why have the Democrats never seriously challenged him in his riding over all the years he has been running for office and why did he sell his supporters out and “go with her.” and did he know the fix was in all along?. What was behind these deals? Now Kucinich was the real deal and had to be gerrymandered out of getting a nomination for actually becoming involved with various protest groups and actually showing up at protests and actually proposing legislation that could have made a difference (NEED Act)…while Sanders has never shown up. Sanders has proven a valuable public relations asset for the Democrats while being deniable as an independent. Do you read Chris Hedges columns? If so then you should know what Sanders is all about and has built a career on his progressiveness while real progressives, like Kucinich and McKinney get the boot.
Even Jill Stein sold out with that stupid recount. Glad I didn’t vote for her. I dropped out of the green party after that. I always thought the green party was the one party not bought and paid for.
That is where I was duped.
What is happening is unbelievable…I trusted Mr Trump. And I still think that he WAS trustworthy.
I wonder if unknown mind control techniques are currently being used on the political leaders……(or threats, or blackmail)…
I often wonder how European leaders can ruin their bautiful countries with this massive Muslim invasion…How can they disregard the safety and well-being of their own people ?
European people seem defenseless in the face of their own cultural and racial genocide.
Manipulation techniques should be investigated, exposed, and neutralized…
if we want to protect our and our children’s minds and lives from the megalomaniac, depraved, destructive globalists.
None of that happened with Trump in my opinion. This was not hard to predict, as I warned about on many occasions.
The deep state figured out how to manipulate Trump. It wasn’t that difficult.
I strongly doubt the IQ of the people who believed Trump was an outsider in the first place and now think he is being manipulated by the deep state.
Trump was part of the same scum that Hillary and others are a part of. Look at his friendship with Bill Clinton and his buddies. Donated multiple times to the clinton’s.
He cleverly manipulated peoples anger at obama (birther theory) and launched his political ambitions.
If the readers of this website are for liberty, I request anyone to explain me what qualities you saw with Trump that convinced you he will stand up for liberty. I tried to look and couldnt find any.
For the record, this website voiced concerns constantly about Trump, never supported him and I did not vote for him (or Hillary).
This site was unabashedly against both the entire time.
Trump failed, new president, same bullshit. Change only comes from the people, not the system. Welcome to the estahblisment. Fuck off Trump!
:It is really tough being a cynic these days. It is SO MUCH WORK to keep up!”
––Lily Tomlin
There are forces that catch every president and whirl him into war, again and again. The way TV works, and our lack of education in how to resist it, will always favor these violent national mood swings. Obama resisted once in 2013 to his credit.
As for the missiles themselves, they are the act of a helpless giant.
Play the Trump “Drain the Swamp” challenge!
All you have to do is to find a high-ranking Trump official who isn’t a General, national-level politician (Congressman or Governor), or has a net worth less than $100 million. To make it even harder, you can’t choose Ben Carson (he was never elected and has a net worth of only ~$26million – sad).
If Goldman helps keep President Trump’s rentals full then he will be a happy man.
All the negative talk about Trump, and we did NOT o to war