Tuesday, June 6, 2017

BloggeRhythms

The POTUS received another very strong vote of confidence yesterday. This one coming from the Bilderberg group, a gathering of some of those at the world’s very highest levels of finance and intelligence.  

As reported by Charlie Skelton @theguardian.com, this years grueling three days of meetings took place at the Westfield Marriott Hotel in Chantilly, Virginia.

Among the attendees were two ex-CIA chiefs, Gen David Petraeus and John Brennan, “both of whom now work in the private sector. There was the current US national security adviser, HR McMaster, and a former director of MI6, Sir John Sawers, who now sits on the board of BP.”

The elite attendee list included the heads of Google, AT&T, Bayer, Airbus, Deutsche Bank, Ryanair, Fiat Chrysler, the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, AXA, Allianz, ING, along with Canadian finance minister, Bill Morneau and Banco Santander, Spain’s largest bank 

Skelton opines that “Trump’s commerce secretary, Wilbur Ross, must have made a good case. Ross was a clever choice of envoy: a private equity billionaire, a former trustee of Brookings and a former Rothschild investment banker. He’d fit right in at Bilderberg.”

When Skelton asked Michael O’Leary, Ryanair’s chief executive, if he’d found the conference useful, O’Leary responded “Absolutely. It’s always very useful.” 

Skelton then explains what the term “very useful” might mean to the conference attendees, because to them “useful is not a vague or fuzzy term.” It means “financially worthwhile.” "Something they value enough to clear time in their diaries, to get on a long-haul flight, to risk having to make small talk with George Osborne over cocktails."

All of which adds up to many of the world’s business elites believing that the American economy is on the rise again, as presented to them by Wilbur Ross as representative of President Trump. 

And then, a crack in the Russian election tampering case has now occurred, involving a 25-year-old anti-Trump Federal intelligence contractor, Reality Leigh Winner, of Augusta, Georgia. 

Winner was charged yesterday with leaking a top secret NSA report detailing how Russian military hackers targeted US voting systems just days before the election.

As reported by Charlie Savage @msn.com: “The report described two cyberattacks by Russia’s military intelligence unit, the G.R.U. — one in August against a company that sells voter registration-related software and another, a few days before the election, against 122 local election officials.

“The Intercept said the N.S.A. report had been submitted anonymously. But shortly after its article was published, the Justice Department said that the F.B.I. had arrested Ms. Winner at her house in Augusta, Georgia, on Saturday. It also said she had confessed to an agent that she had printed out a May 5 intelligence file and mailed it to an online news outlet.”

The case at this point is remindful of when Alexander Butterfield pulled the plug on the Nixon administration by revealing on July 16, 1973 the existence of the Watergate tapes. At that time, people associated with the 1972 Nixon re-election campaign broke into the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate building in order to obtain copies of the opposition's documents and plant microphones in their offices.

Although quite different in the specifics, whereas Winner simply disclosed intelligence information, a crime was committed nonetheless. Which means that, just like in the Watergate case, others may be implicated as Winner testifies. And if that proceeds like Watergate, there’s no telling how high up in the Obama administration this might lead.  

As far as the current situation’s concerned, Savage explains: “The F.B.I. affidavit said reporters for the news outlet, which it also did not name, had approached the N.S.A. with questions for their story and, in the course of that dialogue, provided a copy of the document in their possession. An analysis of the file showed it was a scan of a copy that had been creased or folded, the affidavit said, “suggesting they had been printed and hand-carried out of a secured space.”

“The N.S.A.’s auditing system showed that six people had printed out the report, including Ms. Winner. Investigators examined the computers of those six people and found that Ms. Winner had been in email contact with the news outlet, but the other five had not.”

Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein praised the operation, stating: “Releasing classified material without authorization threatens our nation’s security and undermines public faith in government. People who are trusted with classified information and pledge to protect it must be held accountable when they violate that obligation.”

What the mainstream medias doesn’t disclose in their biased reportage, however, is that it was “Trump who called for a crackdown in the context of leaks about what surveillance has shown about his own associates’ contacts with Russian officials.” Furthermore, “The report Ms. Winner is accused of leaking, by contrast, focuses on pre-election hacking operations targeting voter registration databases and does not mention the Trump campaign.”

The first attack, on Aug. 24, involved an attack on an American company “evidently to obtain information on elections-related software and hardware solutions.”

“The report masked the name of the software vendor, referring to it as “U.S. Company 1,” in keeping with standard minimization rules for intelligence reports based on surveillance. 

However, the report contained references to an electronic voter identification system used by poll workers and sold by VR Systems, a Florida company.

“That attack was likely successful. The report said the G.R.U. used data likely obtained from it to conduct the second set of attacks, a “voter registration themed spear-phishing campaign targeting U.S. local government organizations.”

Thus, while there are no implications regarding Trump misdoings whatsoever, if Russia was involved in any kind of attack at all, it certainly wasn’t at the presidential election level.

And lastly, French police shot a man today outside the Notre Dame cathedral in Paris after he tried to attack them with a hammer. According to the interior ministry, he was also in possession of two knives.

Which means that if the left picks up on this event in its usual panic, Home Depot, Sears and Stanley tools are all in for future attack via the MSM for selling weaponry in their hardware departments.

Steak houses too, face boycotts, defamation and protest marches unless they renounce cutlery. Home use, however, well might remain acceptable if properly licensed.

So, although at this point it’s unknown where the situation will lead, it might be wise to divest oneself of any stock ownership in businesses manufacturing, selling or using any kind of hammers or blades.

That’s it for today folks.

Adios

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