Tuesday, November 15, 2016

Democratic Senator Introduces Bill To Abolish The Electoral College

Back when Donald Trump was lagging badly in the polls - as recently as just over a week ago - any time the republican candidate accused the electoral system of being rigged, Democrats would scream over each other to explain to him just how fair, balanced and sensible is the mandated framework of the US presidential election. Well, Trump won, and the roles are now flipped, with such pundits as Michael Moore, and even Paul Krugman earlier today, slamming the concept of the Electoral College, which Trump won decisively despite losing the popular vote.

In retrospect, Krugman may have been the rational one.
According to the LA Times reports, retiring California Democratic senator Barbara Boxer filed legislation Tuesday to abolish the Electoral College altogether in light of Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton winning the popular vote but still losing the election.

Boxer announced in a statement that the bill, which she introduced later on Tuesday afternoon, would determine the winner of presidential elections by the outcome of the popular vote. She cited President-elect Donald Trump's victory in the Electoral College despite Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton's apparent popular vote advantage.

"In my lifetime, I have seen two elections where the winner of the general election did not win the popular vote," Boxer said in a statement. "The Electoral College is an outdated, undemocratic system that does not reflect our modern society, and it needs to change immediately. Every American should be guaranteed that their vote counts."
"In 2012, Donald Trump tweeted, 'The electoral college is a disaster for a democracy,' " Boxer added. "I couldn't agree more. One person, one vote!"
While such legislation makes a symbolic statement after an election that shocked Democrats, is unlikely to gain traction with Republicans holding control of both chambers of Congress in a lame duck session.

Her bill calls for an amendment to the Constitution that would end the Electoral College system. Should such a thing pass, the amendment would only take effect if ratified by three-fourths of the states within seven years after its passage in the U.S. Congress.

Boxer was a vocal advocate for Clinton throughout the campaign and had said that electing the first female president was on her to-do list before leaving the Senate in January.

This is the fifth time in history that a nominee has won the popular vote but not the Electoral College. The same situation happened to Al Gore in 2000, when he lost to George W. Bush.

While one can debate the merits of changing the constitution just so one's preferred candidate can win, we'll pass and instead conclude with the following cartoon which explains everything.


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Boxer's full proposed legislation is below:
Boxer Introduces Bill To Abolish The Electoral College

Donald Trump to Become Fifth Person in U.S. History To Lose Popular Vote and Still Become President

Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) will introduce legislation when the Senate comes into session later today that would eliminate the Electoral College and determine the winner of presidential elections by the outcome of the popular vote.

Hillary Clinton currently leads the popular vote by nearly a million votes (990,758). By the time all the ballots are counted, the New York Times estimates that Clinton may win the popular vote by more than two million votes and more than 1.5 percentage points. Donald Trump will become the fifth President in U.S. history to lose the popular vote and still win the election.

"In my lifetime, I have seen two elections where the winner of the general election did not win the popular vote," said Senator Boxer. "When all the ballots are counted, Hillary Clinton will have won the popular vote by a margin that could exceed two million votes, and she is on track to have received more votes than any other presidential candidate in history except Barack Obama. This is the only office in the land where you can get more votes and still lose the presidency. The Electoral College is an outdated, undemocratic system that does not reflect our modern society, and it needs to change immediately. Every American should be guaranteed that their vote counts."

"In 2012, Donald Trump tweeted, 'The electoral college is a disaster for a democracy,' " Boxer added. "I couldn't agree more. One person, one vote!"

During his interview on "60 Minutes" on Sunday, Trump said his views on the Electoral College haven't changed. "You know, I'm not going to change my mind just because I won. But I would rather see it where you went with simple votes. You know, you get 100 million votes and somebody else gets 90 million votes and you win," he said. This morning, he tweeted that the Electoral College is "actually genius."

As of early Tuesday, Hillary Clinton had received 61,929,605 votes (47.8 percent) and Donald Trump had received 60,938,847 votes (47.0 percent), according to the Cook Political Report national popular vote tracker.

Senator Boxer's legislation would amend the Constitution of the United States and abolish the Electoral College. The amendment would take effect when ratified by three-fourths of the states within seven years after its passage in the U.S. Congress.

 http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-11-15/democratic-senator-introduces-bill-abolish-electoral-college

Ron Paul: Warning to Trump — “Shadow Government” Will Infiltrate Your Cabinet



https://youtu.be/uuSS8XvHU_E

Dr. Ron Paul appeared in an RT interview speaking about Donald Trump’s election. He made some curious statements about “neocons” and an infiltration by a “shadow government,” and her warned Trump about placing neoconservatives in his cabinet. Trump is currently considering neocons for at least 5 of his cabinet positions. Many of them have links to Wall Street, specifically Goldman Sachs, and almost all of them are members of the Council on Foreign Relations, whose honorary chairman is David Rockefeller.

There is a great danger that a Trump cabinet could look very similar to the one selected by George W. Bush, and the one selected by Barack Obama. Both presidents selected several neoconservatives with clear agendas, the bridging together of world economies, political systems, of people groups, and the collapse of border walls, leaving in its place a world without borders, a world without nationalities. Global governance, global rule under a single ruler at the top, is the ambition. Nothing will keep them from achieving. The Council on Foreign Relations is a massive organization with thousands of members. There are visible rank-and-file, but there are many thousands more who support the agenda of the Rockefellers, the Rothschilds, and other elite families.


Many, many American politicians have been invited as guests to the Council on Foreign Relations. For example, Chris Christie, Marco Rubio, Hillary Clinton (4 times), Jeb Bush, Rudy Giuliani, and others have been guest speakers. The CFR is known for its hawkish positions on foreign policies in the United States and abroad, which might explain why pro-war presidential candidates like Christie, Rubio, Clinton, Bush, and Giuliani are regular speakers at CFR gatherings.


Some of the cabinet members that are known neocons/Council on Foreign Relations Members/Goldman Sachs Executives are the following:
  1. John Bolton considered for Secretary of State (CFR Member, Bush Cabinet Member)
  2. Stephen J. Hadley considered for Defense Secretary (CFR Member)
  3. Steven Mnuchin considered for Treasury Secretary (Goldman Sachs Executive)
  4. Robert E. Grady considered for Interior Secretary and Energy Secretary (CFR Member)
  5. Lewis M. Eisenberg considered for Commerce Secretary (Goldman Sachs Executive)
  6. James L. Connaughton considered for Energy Secretary (CFR Member)
Ron Paul’s states that neoconservatives were getting closer to Donald Trump and that we would have to wait to see who Trump selected for his cabinet. Ron Paul also states that he shared agreements with Donald Trump on the issue of diplomacy with Russia, but that he was concerned about his foreign policy with ISIS. Oftentimes, the American people select their candidate (Bill Clinton, George Bush, Barack Obama), but are later disappointed by the cabinet selection, which has been filled with neocons.

Ron Paul speaks about a shadow government that is more powerful then the one that is elected, and that most people don’t know much about the shadow government. They operate in secret, in stealth, to accomplish their agenda: a New World Order. We must pray against their agenda and work in the world.

Source: C. Ervana — YouTube

"If You Like Your Legacy..."


FOR OUR MILITARY FRIENDS REGARDING MAYOR GULININI...



FOR OUR MILITARY FRIENDS REGARDING MAYOR GULININI...

WE HEAR TRUMPS ADVISORS WANT TO PUT THIS DOG BREATH IN AS SECRATARY OF STATE!!!! ARE THEY SERIOUS? THIS SACK OF ULTRA CRAPPOLA NEEDS TO BE HUNG....

NEWT GING-$$$$RICH...ALSO  NEEDS TO GO....
09/05/201621 Comments
CLICK HERE for the YouTube version of this video and CLICK HERE for the 9/11 Suspects playlist.
TRANSCRIPT
After stepping down as mayor of New York City, Rudy Giuliani tried to launch himself as a national political leader on the back of the single defining event of his career.
In the end he failed miserably, with voters immediately seeing his ploy for what it was: base political pandering.
But what many do not realize is that Giuliani’s case is not just that of another ghoulish politician parading on the corpses of those who died on his watch for his own political gain.
On the day of 9/11, while the remains of the twin towers and WTC7 were still smoldering, one of Mayor Giuliani’s first concerns was clearing away the evidence from the crime scene.
RUDY GIULIANI: “We were able to move 120 dump trucks out of the city last night, which will give you a sense of the work that was done overnight.”

1st NY RESIDENT: It’s wild out here. They just keep coming look! It doesn’t stop. There’s more, I keep thinking it’s the end but an it’s not.”
(SOURCE: Donald Trump Commission on TERRORISM NYC mayor Rudy Giuliani = Criminal Destruction of Evidence WTC)
Despite reassurances that the rapid removal of the evidence from Ground Zero was important for emergency access, this process went far beyond merely clearing a path for rescue workers. As Erik Lawyer, founder of Firefighters for 9/11 Truth points out, the massive operation to haul away over 1.5 million tons of debris and to sell much of the steel to Chinese firm Baosteel at discount prices was not just an overzealous approach to clearing the area, but was itself a crime.
ERIK LAWYER: “9/11 was the greatest loss of life and property damage in U.S. fire history. This should of been the most protected, preserved, over-tested and thorough investigation of a crime scene in world history. Sadly it was not. What was it? Well, we know from their (NIST) admission the majority of the evidence was destroyed. Like Richard (Gage) said, (in) 22 years of experience I’ve seen a lot of crime scenes, I’ve never seen anything like this in my life.I was out at the site, I saw trucks leaving faster than anywhere I’ve ever seen but I accepted it at the time and for years I accepted it because it was a recovery and rescue operation and that’s normal to have something like going. Again, we’d never seen anything like it but that was expected.
“What I didn’t know for years was what was going on behind the scenes was that evidence was being destroyed when it was shipped off. By their own admission, the NIST investigation of Tower 7  had no physical evidence. How do you investigate a crime when you’ve destroyed all the evidence? It doesn’t make sense.
“They also admit that they refused to test for explosives or residue of thermite. Now this is what I’m going to go into real quickly is that there are national standards for for an investigation. That’s what all of us are asking fir. An investigation that follows national standards and holds people accountable.”
(SOURCE: Fire Fighter Erik Lawyer Slams NIST And The 9/11 “Investigation“)
Needless to say, an investigation of the 9/11 crime scene following the national investigation standards has never been conducted and never will be as Giuliani oversaw the illegal destruction of the evidence itself.
To add insult to this injury, in 2003 New York City Medical Examiner Charles Hirsch revealed that in the mad scramble to get rid of the crime scene evidence, human remains from the World Trade Center had been left at the Fresh Kills landfill [some footage HERE around 10min mark] where the debris was sorted and the steel was sold. In 2007 Eric Beck, a senior supervisor of the recycling facility that sifted the debris, admitted that some of those human remains ended up in a mixture that was used to pave roads and fill potholes in New York City.
But as grotesque as such revelations are, they are not the most shocking part of Giuliani’s 9/11 story.
In the late 1990s the Mayor oversaw the creation of a state-of-the-art $13 million emergency command center to coordinate the city’s disaster recovery and response efforts. Located on the 23rd floor of World Trade Center Building 7, just across Vesey Street from the Twin Towers, the center — dubbed by local press at the time as “Giuliani’s bunker”– included reinforced, bulletproof, and bomb-resistant walls, its own air supply and water tank, beds, showers to accommodate 30 people, and three backup generators. It could be used to monitor all of New York’s emergency communications frequencies and was staffed 24 hours a day.
And yet, remarkably, on the morning of 9/11, neither Mayor Giuliani nor any other city personnel or police or fire department officials were in the bunker after the Twin Tower strikes.
BARRY JENNINGS: “As I told you guys before it was very, very funny. I was on my way to work and the traffic was excellent, I received a call that a small Cessna had hit the World Trade Center. I was asked to go and man the Office of Emergency Management.
“Upon arriving into the OEM EOC, we noticed that everybody was gone. I saw coffee that was on a desk, the smoke was still coming off the coffee. I saw half-eaten sandwiches.”
(SOURCE: Barry Jennings WTC 7 (Explosions) Interview)
So why wasn’t the Mayor and the city’s emergency personnel in the location that had been purpose built for just such an event? According to Giuliani, they had been told to evacuate because they had been given a warning that the Twin Towers were going to collapse. A warning that was evidently not passed on to any of the emergency personnel that were still working in the buildings.
RUDY GIULIANI: “I went down to the scene and we setup headquarters at 75 Barkley Street, which was right there with the Police Commissioner, the Fire Commissioner, the head of Emergency Management and we were operating out of there when we we’re told that the World Trade Center was going to collapse.
And it did collapse before we could actually get out of the building. So we were trapped in the building for 10-15 minutes and finally found an exit, got out, walked North and took a lot of people with us.”
(SOURCE: ABC Sept. 11, 2001 12:41 pm – 1:23 pm ABC 7, Washington, D.C.)
Giuliani in his own words has admitted that he was warned that the World Trade Center was going to collapse. This despite the fact that there was no possible way for this to be predicted in the first hour of the unfolding disaster. Even more incredibly, despite being given this warning, no effort was made to pass it on to the police, firefighters and other responders who were still working in and around the buildings.
When, precisely, was this warning given, and by whom? Why, despite acting on this warning himself, did Giuliani make no effort to pass the warning on to others?
Predictably, when confronted with these questions by activists during his 2008 presidential campaign, Giuliani merely smiled and denied that he had ever received such a warning.
SABRINA RIVERO: “You reported to Peter Jennings that on 9/11 that you knew that the World Trade Center Towers were going to collapse. No steel structure has ever in history has ever collapsed due to a fire.
How come the people in the building weren’t notified and who else knew about this and how do you sleep at night?”
RUDY GIULIANI: “Ma’am, I didn’t know that the towers were going to collapse.”
TOM FOTI: “You reported it Peter Jennings. You indeed said that you were notified that the towers were going to collapse while you were inside. Not sure exactly where you were prior to, but you said it on ABC video with Peter Jennings in an interview, that you were aware that the towers were going to collapse in advance.
We’d like to know who told you the towers were going to collapse in advance, Sir?
We’d also like to know who else you told?”
RUDY GIULIANI: “Well the fact is that I didn’t realize that the towers would collapse. I never realized that.”
(SOURCE: WeAreChange Confronts Giuliani on 9/11 Collapse Lies)
So where was the Mayor on 9/11? On Pier 92, which was already set up as a functional command center due to a full-scale emergency “drill” by FEMA that, by a remarkable coincidence, had been scheduled for the following day.
RUDY GIULIANI: “… and we selected Pier 92 as our Command Center. The reason Pier 92 was selected as the Command Center was because on the next day, on September 12th, Pier 92 was going to have a drill. It had hundreds of people here from FEMA, from the Federal Government, from the State Emergency Management Office and they were getting ready for a drill for a bio-chemical attack. So that was going to be the place they were going to have the drill, the equipment was already there. So we were able to establish a Command Center there within 3 days that was 2 and a half to 3 times bigger than the Command Center that we had lost at 7 World Trade Center and it was from there that the rest of the search and rescue effort was completed.”
(SOURCE: 9/11 Commission Hearings May 19, 2004)
Mayor Giuliani oversaw the illegal destruction of the 9/11 crime scene and is criminally liable for the deaths of hundreds of emergency workers for not passing on prior warnings about the collapses of the Twin Towers.
It is no wonder, then, that the Fire Department of New York so passionately detest Giuliani for his actions in disgracing their fallen brothers and covering up the 9/11 crime.
HAROLD A. SCHAITBERGER: “Rudy Giuliani has used the horrible events of September 11th, 2001, to create a carefully crafted persona. But the fact is what Rudy portrays is not a full picture of the decisions made that led, in our view, to the unnecessary deaths of our FDNY members and the attempt to stop the dignified recovery of those lost.
The urban-legend of “America’s Mayor” needs to be balanced by the truth.”
(SOURCE: Giuliani Gets Exposed As Fraud by Firefighters)
So what is the reward for Giuliani’s criminal actions on 9/11? An offer to become the head of the Department of Homeland Security in the event of a Trump presidency, of course.
This is the state of American politics, and this is precisely why a true investigation of what happened on 9/11 never has, and never will, be conducted by the US government itself.


Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton walk in to a bar ....


Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton walk in to a bar

Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton walk in to a bar. Donald leans over and, with a smile on his face, says.. “The media is really tearing you apart for that scandal.”

Hillary: “You mean my lying about Benghazi?”
Trump: “No, the other one.”
Hillary: “You mean the massive voter fraud?”
Trump: “No, the other one.”
Hillary: “You mean the military not getting their votes counted?”
Trump: “No, the other one.”
Hillary: “Using my secret private server with classified material to hide my Activities?”
Trump: “No, the other one.”
Hillary: “The NSA monitoring our phone calls, emails and everything else?”
Trump: “No, the other one.”
Hillary: “Using the Clinton Foundation as a cover for tax evasion, hiring cronies, and taking bribes from foreign countries?”
Trump: “No, the other one.”
Hillary: “You mean the drones being operated in our own country without the benefit of the law?”
Trump: “No, the other one.”
Hillary: “Giving 123 Technologies $300 Million, and right afterward it declared bankruptcy and was sold to the Chinese?”
Trump: “No, the other one.”
Hillary: “You mean arming the Muslim Brotherhood and hiring them in the White House?”
Trump: “No, the other one.”
Hillary: “Whitewater, Watergate committee, Vince Foster, commodity Deals?”
Trump: “No the other one:”
Hillary: “Turning Libya into chaos?”
Trump: “No the other one:”
Hillary: “Being the mastermind of the so-called Arab Spring that only brought chaos, death and destruction to the Middle East and North Africa?”
Trump: “No the other one:”
Hillary: “Leaving four Americans to die in Benghazi?”
Trump: “No the other one:”
Hillary: “Trashing Mubarak, one of our few Muslim friends?”
Trump: “No the other one:”
Hillary: “The funding and arming of terrorists in Syria, the destruction and destabilization of that nation, giving the order to our lapdogs in Turkey and Saudi Arabia to give sarin gas to the “moderate” terrorists in Syria that they eventually used on civilians, and framed Assad, and had it not been for the Russians and Putin, we would have used that as a pretext to invade Syria, put a puppet in power, steal their natural resources, and leave that country in total chaos, just like we did with Libya?
Trump: “No the other one:”
Hillary: “The creation of the biggest refugees crisis since WWII?”
Trump: “No the other one:”
Hillary: “Leaving Iraq in chaos?”
Trump: “No, the other one:”
Hillary: “The DOJ spying on the press?”
Trump: “No, the other one:”
Hillary: “You mean HHS Secretary Sibelius shaking down health insurance Executives?”
Trump: “No, the other one:”
Hillary: “Giving our cronies in SOLYNDRA $500 MILLION DOLLARS and 3 months later they declared bankruptcy and then the Chinese bought it?”
Trump: “No, the other one:”
Hillary: “The NSA monitoring citizens?”
Trump: “No, the other one:”
Hillary: “The State Department interfering with an Inspector General Investigation on departmental sexual misconduct?”
Trump: “No, the other one:”
Hillary: “Me, The IRS, Clapper and Holder all lying to Congress?”
Trump: “No, the other one:”
Hillary: “Threats to all of Bill’s former mistresses to keep them quiet?”
Trump: “No, the other one:”
Hillary: “You mean the INSIDER TRADING of the Tyson chicken deal I did where I invested $1,000 and the next year I got $100,000?”
Trump: “No, the other one:”
Hillary: “You mean when Bill met with Attorney General, Loretta Lynch, just before my hearing with the FBI to cut a deal?”
Trump: “No, the other one:”
Hillary: “You mean the one where my IT guy at Platte River Networks asked Reddit for help to alter emails?”
Trump: “No, the other one.”
Hillary: “You mean where the former Haitian Senate President accused me and my foundation of asking him for bribes?”
Trump: “No, the other one:”
Hillary: “You mean that old video of me laughing as I explain how I got the charges against that child rapist dropped by blaming the young girl for liking older men and fantasising about them. Even though I knew the guy was guilty?
Trump: “No, the other one:”
Hillary: “You mean that video of me coughing up a giant green lunger into my drinking glass then drinking it back down?”
Trump: “No, the other one:”
Hillary: “You mean that video of me passing out on the curb and losing my shoe?”
Trump: “No, the other one:”
Hillary: “You mean when I robbed Bernie Sanders of the Democratic Party Nomination by having the DNC rig the nomination process so that I would win?”
Trump: “No, the other one:”
Hillary: “You mean how so many people that oppose me have died in mysterious ways?”
Trump: “No, the other one:”

Hillary: “Travel Gate? When seven employees of the White House Travel Office were fired so that friends of Bill and mine could take over the travel business? And when I lied under oath during the investigation by the FBI, the Department of Justice, the White House itself, the General Accounting Office, the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee, and the Whitewater Independent Counsel?”
Trump: “No, the other one:”
Hillary: “The scandal where (while I was Secretary if State) the State Department signed off on a deal to sell 20% of the USA’s uranium to a Canadian corporation that the Russians bought, netting a $145 million donation from Russia to the Clinton Foundation and a $500,000 speaking gig for Bill from the Russian Investment Bank that set up the corporate buyout? That scandal?”
Trump: “No, the other one.”
Hillary: “That time I lied when I said I was under sniper fire when I got off the plane in Bosnia?”
Trump: “No, the other one:”
Hillary: “That time when after I became the First Lady, I improperly requested a bunch of FBI files so I could look for blackmail material on government insiders?”
Trump: “No, the other one:”
Hillary: “That time when Bill nominated Zoe Baird as Attorney General, even though we knew she hired illegal immigrants and didn’t pay payroll taxes on them?”
Trump: “No, the other one:”
Hillary: “When I got Nigeria exempted from foreign aid transparency guidelines despite evidence of corruption because they gave Bill $700,000 in speaking fees?”
Trump: “No, the other one:” 
Hillary: “That time in 2009 when Honduran military forces allied with rightist lawmakers ousted democratically elected President Manuel Zelaya, and I as then-Secretary of State sided with the armed forces and fought global pressure to reinstate him?”
Trump: “No, the other one:”
Hillary: “I give up! … Oh wait, I think I’ve got it! When I stole the White House furniture and silverware when Bill left Office?
Trump: “THAT’S IT!  THAT ONE!”
Hillary: “I thought I’d got away with that one, dammit !!!”

ICC: U.S. May Have Committed War Crimes


ICC:  U.S.  MAY ???  HAVE  COMMITTED  WAR  CRIMES 

November 15 2016



THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — U.S. armed forces and the CIA may have committed war crimes by torturing detainees in Afghanistan, the International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor says in a report, raising the possibility that American citizens could be indicted even though Washington has not joined the global court.

"Members of US armed forces appear to have subjected at least 61 detained persons to torture, cruel treatment, outrages upon personal dignity on the territory of Afghanistan between 1 May 2003 and 31 December 2014," according to the report issued by Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda's office on Monday.

The report added that CIA operatives may have subjected at least 27 detainees in Afghanistan, Poland, Romania and Lithuania to "torture, cruel treatment, outrages upon personal dignity and/or rape" between December 2002 and March 2008.

Most of the alleged abuse happened in 2003-2004, the report said.

Prosecutors said they will decide "imminently" whether to seek authorization to open a full-scale investigation in Afghanistan that could lead to war crimes charges.

State Department spokeswoman Elizabeth Trudeau said the U.S. does not believe an ICC investigation is "warranted or appropriate."

"The United States is deeply committed to complying with the law of war, and we have a robust national system of investigation and accountability that more than meets international standards," Trudeau said.

A Pentagon spokesman, Navy Capt. Jeff Davis, said officials were awaiting more details about the ICC findings before commenting.

Established in 2002, the International Criminal Court is the world's first permanent court set up to prosecute war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide. 

More than 120 countries around the world are members, but superpowers including the United States, Russia and China have not signed up.

Former U.S. President Bill Clinton signed the Rome treaty that established the court on Dec. 31, 2000, but President George W. Bush renounced the signature, citing fears that Americans would be unfairly prosecuted for political reasons.

Even though the United States is not a member of the court, Americans could still face prosecution at its headquarters in The Hague if they commit crimes within its jurisdiction in a country that is a member, such as Afghanistan, and are not prosecuted at home.

So far, all of the ICC's trials have dealt with crimes committed in Africa.

Prosecutors say investigations also are reportedly underway in Poland, Romania and Lithuania — all signatories to the Rome Statute — into possible crimes at CIA detention facilities in those countries.

The abuse allegations came in a wide-ranging annual report into the prosecution office's so-called preliminary examinations, which involve studying reports of possible crimes to establish if they fall under the court's jurisdiction.

The same report said that Taliban and Afghan government forces also may have used torture and committed other atrocities in that country's long and bitter conflict. The report says that the Taliban and its affiliates killed thousands of people and are suspected of committing war crimes including murder, recruiting and conscripting child soldiers and attacking civilians and humanitarian workers.

Referring to the alleged U.S. war crimes, the report said they "were not the abuses of a few isolated individuals. 

Rather, they appear to have been committed as part of approved interrogation techniques in an attempt to extract 'actionable intelligence' from detainees."

The report adds that, "The information available suggests that victims were deliberately subjected to physical and psychological violence, and that crimes were allegedly committed with particular cruelty and in a manner that debased the basic human dignity of the victims."

Before deciding to open a full-scale investigation, ICC prosecutors have to establish whether they have jurisdiction and whether the alleged crimes are being investigated and prosecuted in the countries involved. The ICC is a court of last resort that takes on cases only when other countries are unable or unwilling to prosecute.

The report noted that U.S. authorities have conducted dozens of investigations and court-martial cases and says ICC prosecutors are seeking further clarifications on their scope before deciding whether any American cases would be admissible at the ICC.

After the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, the administration of President George W. Bush allowed the use of waterboarding, which simulates drowning, and other so-called enhanced interrogation techniques against suspected terrorists. President Barack Obama banned such practices after taking office in 2009.

During the presidential campaign, Republican nominee Donald Trump suggested that as president he would push to change laws that prohibit waterboarding and other harsh interrogation techniques, arguing that banning them puts the U.S. at a strategic disadvantage against Islamic State militants.

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/7ebe643c029d4e01b4a2e794118b3b1e/icc-prosecutors-us-forces-may-have-committed-war-crimes 


Check out the new sticker on Trump's plane \;-)

Earlier today I issued a warning about Trump possibly getting drugged

It is definitely a threat that should be considered, he needs to watch out. HOWEVER,
He chose Steve Bannon from Brietbart for his white house advisor. That was a good choice. Now he needs to make Ron Paul his Secretary of State, which he has not picked yet. If he does that, there is not much that could go wrong. I was seriously miffed when he said the Obamas and Clintons were "good people". And that made me think he might have already been drugged. However, with his choice of white house advisor, he's not going to get kicked straight to the gutter even if things like that do go wrong.

Check out the new sticker on Trump's plane

 

 

The National Enquirer is far more credible than the New York times, SEE THIS:

 

The Americans Native 11-2016… “It’s Happening: More Cops Leave Standing Rock and Refuse to Return”

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> This sounds like positive things are happening at Standing Rock. With the Higher Energies coming in, this type of event should be occurring more and more. Those who are called to be "oppressors" are refusing to join in on the "oppressing".
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>> "Widespread outrage over both the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline and violent police crackdowns rages on. That outrage is spreading even to police agencies now returning from deployment to the reservation. Two departments have already refused to return, citing personal and public objections. As if that wasn’t enough, an army of sympathizers is re-purposing social media to combat police efforts in Standing Rock.
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>> "Minnesota’s Hennepin County Sheriff’s Department is among that group. Lawmakers, according to MPR News, found police activities in Standing Rock “inappropriate.”... “I do not support Sheriff Stanek’s decision to send his deputies to North Dakota,” says LT. Governor Tina Smith, “nor did we approve his decision to begin with. I do not have any control over the Sheriff’s actions, which I think were wrong...
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>> "Sheriffs from Wisconsin’s Dane County were more empathetic, pulling out and refusing to return. According to the Bismarck Tribune, Sheriff Dave Mahoney made the decision after a “wide cross-section of the community” decried the deployment. “All share the opinion that our deputies should not be involved in this situation,” says Mahoney. Dane County’s deputies were deployed to Standing Rock for around a week. Sources report Dane County wasn’t involved in recent arrests, a string of which scooped up an alderwoman from Madison Wisconsin."
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> It’s Happening: More Cops Leave Standing Rock and Refuse to Return
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> North Dakota — Widespread outrage over both the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline and violent police crackdowns rages on. That outrage is spreading even to police agencies now returning from deployment to the reservation. Two departments have already refused to return, citing personal and public objections. As if that wasn’t enough, an army of sympathizers is re-purposing social media to combat police efforts in Standing Rock.
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> Minnesota’s Hennepin County Sheriff’s Department is among that group. Lawmakers, according to MPR News, found police activities in Standing Rock “inappropriate.” It’s to the point where they’re considering rewriting legislation to avoid future deployments to incidents like the pipeline resistance.
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> Police officials, of course, declined to comment on their return from North Dakota or their feelings on what’s happening there. It’s also made the task of rebuilding trust with the community an even loftier uphill battle. “I do not support Sheriff Stanek’s decision to send his deputies to North Dakota,” says LT. Governor Tina Smith, “nor did we approve his decision to begin with. I do not have any control over the Sheriff’s actions, which I think were wrong, and I believe he should bring his deputies home if he hasn’t already.”
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> Sheriffs from Wisconsin’s Dane County were more empathetic, pulling out and refusing to return. According to the Bismarck Tribune, Sheriff Dave Mahoney made the decision after a “wide cross-section of the community” decried the deployment. “All share the opinion that our deputies should not be involved in this situation,” says Mahoney. Dane County’s deputies were deployed to Standing Rock for around a week. Sources report Dane County wasn’t involved in recent arrests, a string of which scooped up an alderwoman from Madison Wisconsin.
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> Ald. Rebecca Kemble traveled to North Dakota as a “legal observer,” filming and participating in prayer ceremonies. When Morton County officers–if they cans till be called that–grabbed and arrested her for engaging in a riot. According to Kemble, no riot was happening. Other Wisconsin departments have been recalled, with at least one staying behind for a more couple weeks.

So Trump is President- Elect - Judge Anna - A Must Read!


By Anna Von Reitz


The election is finally over.  Thank goodness and mercy for small favors.  And Hillary didn't win, which would have been four more years of the same old nasty, corrupt, self-serving disaster.  So a hearty "Thank God!" for that.  And now we are embarked on another chapter in United States, Inc.---- not American--- history.
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This is an important distinction for everyone to learn.
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As a non-citizen American State National none of the ups and downs of these elections mean anything more than a changing of the administration of a service company----- imagine that your local hardware store changed management, or your dry cleaning service got a new boss.
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That's all that these elections really mean for you, and you would be right to be unconcerned and maybe even totally unaware of all this hullaballoo.  After all, do you get all bent out of shape when the local Dairy Queen gets a new manager?
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No.
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About all that concerns you is the quality of the service you receive, and how much it costs you.
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It behooves us to ask---- what is Donald Trump President-Elect of?  And what does the office of "President" imply?
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At this point, the UNITED STATES (INC.) is under liquidation and THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (INC.) is undergoing Chapter 11---- read that, both of these international governmental services corporations are now under the control of international bankruptcy trustees---- NOT the "President" of whatever governmental services corporation steps forward and claims to be successor to the constitutional contract.
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There are numerous service providers claiming to have the right to be "Successor to Contract"---- there's the so-called "New Republic" representing a new version of the same-old service providers, there's the States of America representing the actual American States of the Union, and a whole grab bag of New Age and foreign organizations competing for a piece of the action.
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And what should you do in the midst of the chaos?  Look sharp and hard and keep your Shinola Sensors on Full Alert.  It will become clear what version of "United States" Donald Trump has inherited, just as it will become clear what he intends to do with it.
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As consumers of government services you should be looking at three things in all of this---- (1) what is the government involved in that it shouldn't be involved in? ----such as your family, your religious beliefs, and your political status? and (2) what is the quality of service with respect to the nineteen enumerated services your states contracted to receive? and (3) how much is this costing you?
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If the "government" is infringing on your privacy, your rights, or placing false claims on your property--- including abuse of your name to profit itself--- then it is past time to complain and bring actions against them.
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If the "government" is pretending to have rights and prerogatives you didn't grant it, it is likewise time to stand up and take action.  Form your local Jural Assemblies at the County level, then organize the State level.....
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And prepare to assemble a true Continental Congress to resolve exactly how to define and organize the governmental services contract and do the housekeeping that needs to be done.
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Donald Trump doesn't rule over us.  He rules over a governmental services corporation, its employees and actual dependents.  Nothing more.  The office of "President" of Whatever is a private corporate business office. 

Look up the legal definition of the word "President" and you will get an entirely new and different view of the office of President and have a better understanding of how this whole country was set up over two centuries ago.

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California and Oregon Propose Secession from United States

The traitors, seditionists and their violent stooges did not get their way in this last election and being the sore losers that they are, there is now talk of secession in California and Oregon.

I say, good. Good-bye. Good riddance to bad rubbish.

We were crestfallen when President Obama, a radical “community organizer” who not only never held a real job but was raised in Indonesia (!) was elected President not once, but twice. But he we was and we accepted it. That’s what citizens of a free country do after free and fair elections.

Who wants to live with these totalitarian animals? They work viciously and violently to destroy the very founding principles of this magnificent country – individual rights, property rights, capitalism, freedom of speech and gun rights. Frankly, America would be well off to be rid of these savages. I say, let them go.
The last civil war we had, Abraham Lincoln fought these same Democrats over slavery. It’s the same war albeit a different form of slavery. This time, why lose 650,000 American lives? Let these enslavers secede. We would be vastly better off. We don’t we to live with them and they don’t want to live with us.
Basta. Go already.
“California Today: Secessionist Groups Seize the Moment,New York Times‎, November 10, 2016:
For a second night on Wednesday, thousands of protesters gathered in cities across the state to denounce the idea of a Donald J. Trump-led America, with some chanting, ”Not my president!
On social media, the hashtag #Calexit took off, echoing the British decision to leave the European Union.
And in Sacramento, a joint statement from legislative leaders said, “Today, we woke up feeling like strangers in a foreign land.”
For one group, the postelection reaction has been electrifying. Yes California, a grass-roots organization with 3,000 or so supporters, has for years been trying to persuade Californians to take up the cause of secession.
“We hit it big with Trump being elected,” Marcus Ruiz Evans, a spokesman, said on Wednesday.
California cannot, of course, just pick up and leave. Even if the state wanted to, an exit would require two-thirds approval of both the House and Senate in Washington, along with the blessing of 38 state legislatures — a feat analysts say is implausible.
But Mr. Evans may be on to something. After Mr. Trump clinched his victory late Tuesday, at least three tech investors signaled a willingness to finance a secession effort.
Shervin Pishevar, a co-founder of Hyperloop One, announced on Twitter that he would back a “legitimate campaign” for California to become its own nation.
And Oregon:
“After Donald Trump victory, Oregonians submit ballot proposal to secede from the union,”Oregon Live, November  10, 2016:
Two days after Donald Trump was elected president of the United States, two Portlanders have submitted a petition for a 2018 ballot initiative to have Oregon secede from the United States.

On Thursday morning, Jennifer Rollins, a lawyer, and Christian Trejbal, a writer, filed the Oregon Secession Act.

“Oregonian values are no longer the values held by the rest of the United States,” Trejbal said over the phone Thursday.

Those values? “Life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness,” Trejbal said, “plus equality.”

“Obviously,” he said, the ballot proposal “came about partially in response to the election results on Tuesday.”

“But,” he added, “it’s been developing over time.”

Trejbal said that he and Rollins are hoping to start a serious conversation in Oregon about what it would mean to peacefully leave the United States. They opted for 2018 to give Oregonians some time to really think about what seceding from the union would mean.

Some Californians have already expressed interest in seceding and the language of the Oregon proposal includes the option to bring other states into a “Constitutional Convention.”

Trejbal said that joining forces with other states like Washington, California and Nevada is “a viable way to go forward.”
These states, he said, “could all get together and form a nation that uphold the values that we share.”

To start the ballot title drafting process, the Oregon Secession Act must receive 1,000 signatures. Trejbal said he and Rollins would be at Pioneer Courthouse Square in Portland on Thursday night to begin the process of getting those signatures.

You can read the Oregon Secession Act here.
Update: Nov. 11, 3:13 p.m. The petition for this ballot measure has been withdrawn after overwhelming positive and negative responses. 
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Monday, November 14, 2016

The Lost George Soros Interview He Doesn't Want You to See

The Lost George Soros Interview He Doesn't Want You to See  



SOROS - i AM GOING TO BRING DOWN THE UNITED STATES




What the 'elites' have planned for you is NOT new


WHAT THE 'ELITES' HAVE PLANNED 
FOR YOU IS NOT NEW!
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Carpe Diem, Final Assault" - Fulford Report - 11.14.16


Carpe Diem, Final Assault" - Fulford Report - 11.14.16

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Carpe diem seize the day and mount a final assault on the Khazarian mafia

Posted by 
benjamin
November 14, 2016

(Full Report)


In the war against the Khazarian mafia, the election of Donald Trump as President of the United States is as the Russian victory at Stalingrad was for World War 2: a tide turning victory. However, it also means the war is far from over.

This is how a source who was in a secret meeting in Antarctica on US November 8th election day described the situation:

“The whole election strategy changed when John Kerry went to Antarctica as ordered. He was told by the special elite, the Gnostic Illuminati, who are still in control of this planet, to tell Obama and Clinton to back off and let Trump win. As we know, Hillary is only a front for the cabal and will most likely self-terminate within a few months at the most. Bill Clinton is at the end game now. His quadruple bypass surgery is not able to pump blood through his lifeless body anymore. We are informed that he will be gone by year end”.

This order to Kerry was followed by a special-forces attack on a Khazarian base in Denver that successfully stopped cabal efforts to steal the US election on behalf of their zombie proxy Hillary, CIA sources say.

The Pentagon, for their part, say “Mass arrests began right after the election, butt hurt Hillary cried a river when told to concede or she’ll be arrested, [President] Obama was ordered to stay in DC, finish ISIS, stop delaying the Global Currency Reset, and meet Trump to ensure a smooth transition.”

In addition to this the US military is advising President Elect Donald Trump to “not appoint neocons, Jews [all Jews must recuse themselves from senior government positions until it can be confirmed they are not working for the Khazarian mafia], bankers, or Bush minions to the cabinet or White House.”.

In addition, the Pentagon sources say “Soros-funded protests have sped up the Trump plan to terminate the Bush-Clinton cabal before inauguration.”

The attack must continue relentlessly on all fronts until humanity is freed from Khazarian control.

The Manchu occupation of China is a good analogy to the how the Khazarians control the West. In Manchu China, native Chinese who passed the civil service exam were allowed to progress up the bureaucratic ladder to a certain point but all the positions at the very top were filled by Manchus. In the West it is the same, intelligent, hard-working technocrats can rise to positions like deputy director but the top first, second and often third positions in most large, powerful organizations are held by Khazarian mobsters or their proxies.

The Khazarians have been removed from the Pentagon, and Gnostic Illuminati sources say FBI Director James Comey has also been confirmed to be clean despite false wikileaks claims that he received funds from the Clinton Foundation. The State Department and other branches of the government must now in turn be cleansed of gangsters if the US is to be freed.

Also, the Trump election means the Khazarian controlled TPP and TTIP trade deals are now dead. “Trump is now poised to remove rigged corporate tribunals from NAFTA and all trade deals in a massive defeat for the Khazarian mafia,” the Pentagon sources say.

The Pentagon is also planning a huge data dump about 911 in order to force Donald Trump to convene a 911 tribunal, the sources say. The New York Times will also be “forced to report on 911 and other Khazarian crimes,” they say.

In Europe, meanwhile, here is how the Pentagon describes the next phase in the attack; “NATO is in in disarray as the military sent tons of ammo to US troops in the EU for arrests, and cabal stooges like [German Chancellor Angela] Merkel and [French President Francois] Hollande are to be replaced by nationalists. The Trump-led American revolution expands to Europe to remove Khazarians from power.”

The Russians and Chinese have also now been put in charge of Interpol “so that they can sweep up lower level cabal flunkies,” the Pentagon sources say. They, together with the gnostic illuminati, are also hunting for the master criminal George Soros.

In Asia, meanwhile, the battle over the real prize, the ability to create and distribute money world-wide, has yet to be concluded.

Here is what CIA sources in Asia say is happening:

“Mark Rutte, the Dutch PM and spokesman for King Willhem-Alexander (and his mother Beatrix the former queen) will be in Jakarta on the 23rd of this month, along with his trade mission delegates. He is coming to negotiate their claim and the recovery of their share of the Au stored in Jakarta and Semerang on behalf of the Netherlands, i.e. The Vatican and their patrons. We are closely monitoring the situation”.

In other words, the bloodline families are aiming to continue their control of the planet by laying claim to the legendary gold stashes in Asia and the right to create money that is based on these claims.

As Neil Keenan points out, if they can conjure up $50 trillion out of thin air by claiming ownership of 1 million tons of gold, they can win the war and buy (bribe) their way back into full control of the planet.

The day Donald Trump’s election was confirmed the UN declared a fast track strategy for the implementation of its sweeping 2030 Agenda.
https://www.technocracy.news/index.php/2016/11/09/general-assembly-...

This is a well-intentioned plan put forth by the bloodline families but it is way too little too late for this planet. Under this plan only a tiny fraction of the $50 trillion the bloodlines are plotting to create would ever reach the people who really need it. With humanity in control of its own future, i.e. in control of the process of creating and distributing money, trillions of dollars could be made available to end poverty and stop environmental destruction within a matter of months, not decades.

Also, the top ranks of the UN and other cabal created international institutions are hopelessly corrupt and incompetent. Just take for example the fact that Saudi Arabia is on the UN human rights tribunal. In Saudi Arabia, if a married woman is raped by somebody other than her husband, she is punished by being buried up to the waist and then stoned to death. Saudi Arabia is not a country but rather a family owned slave plantation.

Entirely new organizations need to be set up to take over the functioning parts of existing international organizations and dismantle the corrupt and evil parts of these groupings. This is especially true for the groups like the WHO who have been involved (almost always without the rank and file being aware) in spreading bio-weapons as part of a population culling plan.

The White Dragon Society is monitoring the gold situation as are the Chinese army, the Pentagon and other agencies. The world’s financial system is not going to remain under the control of genocidal gangsters no matter what happens. The WDS is willing to broker a compromise between the benevolent bloodline families and the gnostic illuminati to create a win-win solution on the gold and financial system issue. The Dragon family is also on the case. The WDS expects to hear from the Rothschild and other bloodline families soon.
The gnostic illuminati say the bloodlines would rather die than surrender and are instead planning once last big offensive aimed at retaining their control. This is likely to take the form of attempted coordinated assassinations of leaders like Trump and Head of US Joint Chiefs of Staff General Joseph Dunford.

However, the world’s military forces have already sent clear messages to the Vatican and the bloodline families. Pentagon sources note the recent earthquakes in Italy quakes “may have convinced the Vatican not to grant conversions or provide asylum to senior cabalists.” Remember how Tony Blair and George Bush Senior went to meet the pope and convert as soon as they left office? They were announcing to the world they had P2 Freemason lodge protection and so could not be prosecuted for their war crimes in Iraq and elsewhere. Pope Francis is being advised not to repeat the mistakes of his predecessor pope maledict.

Furthermore the Pentagon sources say recent “quakes with minimal damage in Argentina and New Zealand are warnings to the cabal they have no place to hide.”

In addition, the sources say “underwater bases at the Horn of Africa and the Black Sea were destroyed after General Dunford visited Turkey plus Saudi Arabia and Russian PM Dmitry Medvedev visited Israel.”

In Japan, meanwhile, the Khazarian slave regime of Shinzo Abe is in a state of total panic now that their masters in the US have lost power. Sources in the Japanese underworld say that Heizo Takenaka, the former finance minister who handed control of Japan’s corporations to the Khazarian mafia, has fled to his apartment in Kyoto but that he will not be safe no matter where he goes. The same goes for all the other traitors in Japan, the Japanese underworld sources say. Right wing sources linked to the imperial family are saying preparations are under way for a new Japanese government and a serious economic, governmental and social overhaul.

The Chinese government and establishment, for their part, were also initially shocked by Trump’s election but they are now realizing that, despite his campaign rhetoric, a Trump regime is actually more in China’s interests than a Clinton regime would have been. The Chinese were advised the Khazarian mobsters behind Clinton would tell the Chinese whatever they wanted to hear and then stab them in the back the first chance they got. In contrast, Trump advisers are already telling China the US is considering joining the Chinese-initiated Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, Chinese government sources say. The US is also negotiating a deal to trade Chinese military gold stashes for hard currency.


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