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Project MKUltra (or MK-Ultra), also called the CIA mind control program, is the code name given to a program of experiments on human subjects that were designed and undertaken by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, some of which were illegal. Experiments on humans were intended to identify and develop drugs and procedures to be used in interrogations in order to weaken the individual and force confessions through mind control. The project was organized through the Office of Scientific Intelligence of the CIA and coordinated with the United States Army Biological Warfare Laboratories. Code names for drug-related experiments were Project Bluebird and Project Artichoke.The operation was officially sanctioned in 1953, reduced in scope in 1964 and further curtailed in 1967. It was officially halted in 1973. The program engaged in many illegal activities, including the use of U.S. and Canadian citizens as its unwitting test subjects, which led to controversy regarding its legitimacy. MKUltra used numerous methods to manipulate its subjects' mental states and brain functions. Techniques included the covert administration of high doses of psychoactive drugs(especially LSD) and other chemicals, electroshocks, hypnosis, sensory deprivation, isolation, verbal and sexual abuse, as well as other forms of torture.The scope of Project MKUltra was broad, with research undertaken at more than 80 institutions, including colleges and universities, hospitals, prisons, and pharmaceutical companies The CIA operated using front organizations, although sometimes top officials at these institutions were aware of the CIA's involvement.Project MKUltra was first brought to public attention in 1975 by the Church Committee of the United States Congress and Gerald Ford's United States President's Commission on CIA activities within the United States (also known as the Rockefeller Commission).Investigative efforts were hampered by CIA Director Richard Helms' order that all MKUltra files be destroyed in 1973; the Church Committee and Rockefeller Commission investigations relied on the sworn testimony of direct participants and on the relatively small number of documents that survived Helms's destruction order.In 1977, a Freedom of Information Act request uncovered a cache of 20,000 documents relating to project MKUltra which led to Senate hearings later that year. Some surviving information regarding MKUltra was declassified in July 2001. In December 2018, declassified documents included a letter to an unidentified doctor discussing work on six dogs made to run, turn and stop via remote control and brain implants. Project MKUltra - WikipediaTed Kennedy:The Deputy Director of the CIA revealed that over thirty universities and institutions were involved in an "extensive testing and experimentation" program which included covert drug tests on unwitting citizens "at all social levels, high and low, native Americans and foreign." Several of these tests involved the administration of LSD to "unwitting subjects in social situations.At least one death, the result of the defenestration of Dr. Frank Olson, was attributed to Olson's being subjected, unaware, to such experimentation, nine days before his death. The CIA itself subsequently acknowledged that these tests had little scientific rationale. The agents conducting the monitoring were not qualified scientific observers.The revelations about the CIA and the army prompted a number of subjects or their survivors to file lawsuits against the federal government for conducting experiments without informed consent. Although the government aggressively, and sometimes successfully, sought to avoid legal liability, several plaintiffs did receive compensation through court order, out-of-court settlement, or acts of Congress. Frank Olson's family received $750,000 by a special act of Congress, and both President Ford and CIA director William Colby met with Olson's family to apologize publicly. Project MKUltra - Wikipedia

I LOVE that you pointed this out.I thought you would like to see an article I wrote where I put US Election Meddling in our history and compare these against the things the press said about these events. I would love your thoughts and opinions on this article, as I look back on a list of the times the USA has meddled in the election of other countries.TOP FIVE TIMES THE USA HAS MEDDLED IN ANOTHER NATIONS ELECTIONSBefore the United States Presidential elections, the Washington Post broke a story about the Kremlin's ''alleged'' meddling into the Presidential elections. The story made front page news and yet prompted a most unusual reply from the President. ''No thinking person believes that Russia could get away with meddling of an American election.'' But at this time, Hillary Clinton was almost TEN points ahead in every poll.History demands a verdict. And it demands the truth.The Post reported, ''One of the more alarming narratives of the 2016 U.S. election campaign is that of the Kremlin's apparent meddling. Last week, the United States formally accused the Russian government of stealing and disclosing emails from the Democratic National Committee and the individual accounts of prominent Washington insiders.The hacks, in part leaked by WikiLeaks, have led to loud declarations that Moscow is eager for the victory of Republican nominee Donald Trump, whose rhetoric has unsettled Washington's traditional European allies and even thrown the future of NATO — Russia's bête noire — into doubt.Leading Russian officials have balked at the Obama administration's claim. In an interview with CNN on Wednesday, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov dismissed the suggestion of interference as “ridiculous,” though he said it was “flattering” that Washington would point the finger at Moscow. At a time of pronounced regional tensions in the Middle East and elsewhere, there's no love lost between Kremlin officials and their American counterparts.''One of the more alarming narratives of the 2016 U.S. election campaign is that of the Kremlin's apparent meddling. Last week, the United States formally accused the Russian government of stealing and disclosing emails from the Democratic National Committee and the individual accounts of prominent Washington insiders.The hacks, in part leaked by WikiLeaks, have led to loud declarations that Moscow is eager for the victory of Republican nominee Donald Trump, whose rhetoric has unsettled Washington's traditional European alliesand even thrown the future of NATO — Russia's bête noire — into doubt.Leading Russian officials have balked at the Obama administration's claim. In an interview with CNN on Wednesday, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov dismissed the suggestion of interference as “ridiculous,” though he said it was “flattering” that Washington would point the finger at Moscow. At a time of pronounced regional tensions in the Middle East and elsewhere, there's no love lost between Kremlin officials and their American counterparts.Then came the revelations of Donald Trump Jr and the meeting that took place last summer.NBC and CNN reported that the lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya, was a ''Kremlin Lawyer.'' Well, ''Nyet'' not quite. President Trump wondered aloud today, '' how is it was she even here in the USA when her VISA had expired is a story that has to be reviewed in its own merit.Apparently, (according to Fox News) Veselnitskaya showed up the very next morning at a congressional hearing that happened to be on 'Russian Aid.' If this is true - watch out. This will fall like a lead weight on the Democrats if true.I read ''Clinton Cash'' and there are serious charges leveled against Hillary Clinton. Now, I am a TRUTHSEEKER. I am not out to bust Hillary Clinton or exonerate Donald Trump. I believe it is crucial to differentiate between partisan accusations and true, hard-core historical research. As always, I look into great detail for myself, looking for Primary Documentation. I am well sourced and very ACCURATE.Almost lost in this never-ending cycle of anti-Trump vitriol is the Hillary Clinton deal for Uranium to Vladimir Putin after her famous ''reset'' button. There is much truth and much in the way of false information on Hillary Clinton.IT is deliberately confusing. Did Clinton deal 20% of America's uranium to Russia? According to A chapter in the book suggests that the Clinton family and Russia each may have benefited from a “pay-for-play” scheme while Hillary Clinton was secretary of state, involving the transfer of U.S. uranium reserves to the new Russian owners of an international mining operation in exchange for $145 million in donations to the Clinton Foundation.My first issue with this has to do with my own research.I looked for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for a statement. And I found it. ''NRC’s review of the transfer of control request determined that the U.S. subsidiaries will remain the licensees, will remain qualified to conduct the uranium recovery operations, and will continue to have the equipment, facilities, and procedures necessary to protect public health and safety and to minimize danger to life or property.The review also determined that the licensees will maintain adequate financial surety for eventual decommissioning of the sites. Neither Uranium One nor ARMZ holds an NRC export license, so no uranium produced at either facility may be exported.''In other words,it seems as if NO uranium ever left the country. It's hard to make any sense out of the rest of the story when it falls short here. If you look at the timing of the donations, it also appears to be inconsistent with the news stories regarding the Clinton foundation. I know - because I spent hours upon hours of looking in an effort to factually stand up this story. But it seems to be very circumstantial.So why does ''Clinton Cash'' come unglued when it comes to this story? Perhaps its because the Clintons did not report all of their contributions. One fault investigations into the Clinton Foundation’s practices did find was that not all of the donations were properly disclosed — specifically, those over a three year period by Ian Telfer.The foundation admitted this shortcoming and pledged to correct it, but as the Guardian pointed out in its May 2015 discussion of Clinton Cash, the fact that it happened is reason enough to sound alarm bells:The mining company, Uranium One, was originally based in South Africa, but merged in 2007 with Canada-based UrAsia Energy. Shareholders there retained a controlling interest until 2010, when Russia’s nuclear agency, Rosatom, completed purchase of a 51% stake.Hillary Clinton played a part in the transaction because it involved the transfer of ownership of a material deemed important to national security — uranium, amounting to one-fifth of U.S. reserves — thus requiring the approval of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), on which the U.S. Secretary of State sits. But when we examine intent and pay-for-play, we see that in some cases, accusations fall short.It is important to stay on the side of truth. Neither side is exclusive in its rewrite of past events. Pay-for-Play certainly seems true based on Wikileaks. The Clinton-Cash book has plenty of accurate and good points, but not in the case of the Uranium story.As for the news we see today on the Clintons - well - the other Clinton scandals are being completely buried right now.So - That Brings us to today. Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer and Elizabeth Warren have all been ''aghast'' at Russian ''meddling'' with our presidential election process. They are demanding one investigation after another.Where was this disgust toward Russia when Obama leaned into Putin and told him, ''Don't worry, i'll have much more leverage after the election.''Where was this disgust toward Russia when they invaded Crimea? They will say that these pathetic sanctions are enough. Under Obama's lead from behind, we never had a chance. Russia got away with an invasion where citizens lost their lives, homes, and their press was overrun.President Trump pointed out that the meddling HAD to have happened during Obama's presidency. (Well- he IS right) Then he asserts that Obama didn't act on any of the intel because he was sure Hillary Clinton was going to win the election. It didn't happen that way.And now -we are suddenly struck by this mock anger over Russia meddling in our election process when we OURSELVES, have been doing it for years. But nothing as vast as the past decade.KENYAThe BBC is a historically left-of-center news agency. And yet, Investigative reporter Jerome Corsi of BBC broke this story when he visited Kenya and was able to confirm that Obama, as a U.S. Senator, illegally used a taxpayer-financed trip to campaign for far-left presidential candidate Raila Odinga in Kenya’s 2006 elections.Odinga, according to the BBC, was distantly related to Obama and both families belonged to the Luo tribe. Indeed, both of their fathers served in the administration of Jomo Kenyatta in the 1960s. According to a document obtained by Corsi, Odinga promised Kenya’s growing Islamic movement that if elected, he would “rewrite the constitution of Kenya to recognize Sharia as the only true law sanctioned by the Holy Quran for Muslim declared religions.”The secret agreement also called for the creation of Muslim “madrassa classes,” a crackdown on Christian evangelical events and gospel programs, and legal protections for Muslims suspected of terrorism, even international terrorism.Sources: ****1) Beckett Fund of Religious Liberty - The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty is a non-profit, public-interest legal and educational institute with a mission to protect the free expression of all faiths.Biased Right/LeftRight: *2) Writer: Jerome Robert Corsi (born August 31, 1946) is an American author, political commentator and best known for his two New York Times bestselling books: The Obama Nation and Unfit for Command (with co-author John O'Neill). He is Right of Center, so we will downgrade accordingly knowing that the story, while true, are going to be interested in pushing that agenda. This is one star to the right of center, maybe even two. But the sources back up the story which gives Corsi great credibility.Accuracy: **/5Misleading Paragraph: According to a document obtained by Corsi, Odinga promised Kenya’s growing Islamic movement that if elected, he would “rewrite the constitution of Kenya to recognize Sharia as the only true law sanctioned by the Holy Quran for Muslim declared religions.”The Truth Revealed:Since the Kenyan Constitution was drafted, no mention of madrassas or Sharia Reform. HOWEVER - The government has been powerless to stop a steep rise in radicalism in Kenya, especially in the north.Integrity Chapter, requires an Independent Ethics Commission to be set up that will monitor compliance with Integrity in all government institutions and make investigations,recommendations to the necessary authorities i.e. Attorney General and any other relevant authority.(Chapter Six)An advanced Human Rights and Equality Commission that will also have power to investigate and summon people involved in Human Rights abuses within the government and with the public.(Article 252)Equitable Sharing of resources between the National government and the County government through a resolution of Parliament. Chapter 12- Part 4.Impact in USA: * 1/2This went almost completely unreported here in the USA but was heavily reported within Kenya. The President, Uhuru Kenyatta, has kept a low profile and Kenya remains largely peaceful save several pockets of extreme Islamic radicalism.---------------------------------ISRAELObama tried to cost Netanyahu the Election - something he did not deny when asked about it.During Israel’s 2015 elections, the Obama administration — led by Secretary of State John Kerry — illegally intervened when they attempted to defeat the reelection of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by covertly funneling State Department grants to opposition groups. The Obama administration detested Netanyahu due to his refusal to cave into Palestinian demands, a group that even refused to recognize the existence of Israel.Furthermore, Netanyahu rallied Arab allies and told them ahead of time what Obama's intentions with Iran were. An Aid package was approved by congress for Israel, but Obama punished Israel by capping the aid and insisting that a good portion of it go to the removal of Israeli settlers in Palestinian areas.Obama’s State Department gave $350,000 to a group called the “One Voice Movement (OVM),” for supporting “peace negotiations between Israel and Palestine.” However, the State Department then used leftover funds to organize an effort against Netanyahu’s reelection.OVM contracted out a group called “V15,” which in turned hired five campaign experts from the U.S., including Obama’s field director from his last presidential campaign. As the Weekly Standard’s Jim Swift wrote, “once the infrastructure was built, it was used in an attempt to topple the government of one of America’s closest allies.”An investigation by the U.S. Senate found that the “State Department failed to adequately guard against the risk that resources built with government grants would be deployed for political purposes.” As with most investigations of Obama scandals, emails documenting this illegal election activity were destroyed. And, as usual, no one was held accountable.Sources: *****There are many sources on both sides that agree with the major points of this story. Even Politifact said, ''...Yes, Obama sent money to OneVoice, a group that promoted a two-state solution. And yes that group partnered with a different group V15 that wanted Netanyahu defeated.''Accuracy: ****There is no doubt of our intervention in Israel. The one uncertainty is the amount of money given to OVM. It may have been as little as $233,000 and as much as $350,000.Biased Right/Left: -*- Right Down the MiddleThis is not under any dispute by the Left or the Right. The LA Times, Boston Globe, NYTimes and WaPo have ALL reported it as truth. The Conservative Right wanted Netanyahu to win. Both sides have not disputed this story.Impact in USA: **Surprisingly this had little play in the American press and only a few members of the American Jewish electorate openly disagreed with Obama. The voting block and lobbyists were almost silent in our own election.-------------------------LibyaMy knowledge of the history and culture of Libya is quite extensive. After Ronald Reagan bombed Libya in 1986, we had heard very little from Gaddafi. It wasn't as if he wasn't still staunchly Pro-Palestinian, but he prevented Libya from falling into the same quagmire that Iraq had become.Gone were the chemical and biological weapons and in its place were the monies needed to rebuild critical infrastructure in the cities as well as new hotels and tourist attractions. Libya - for a number of years - was the safe and affordable ''Go-To'' place for travel within Europe.Gaddafi was the other reality that the world had to consider in the wake of Saddam's removal from office. But in successive moves, Obama interfered with the Egyptian election, seeing to it that Morsi, (head of the Muslim Brotherhood) would win and then see him overthrown by a conservative and Pro-American president. That chaos spilled over the border into Libya, where America interfered again. And this time, it was in front of the ENTIRE world.In 2011, Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, not only interfered politically in Libya but militarily as well, by orchestrating a series of policies designed to remove Muammar Gaddafi from power. While it would be a stretch to call Gaddafi a U.S. ally, he was cooperating with the U.S.A. in fighting Islamic extremists and had turned over all his WMDs to American officials. Western investment was flowing into Libya, the country was becoming more westernized and, most certainly, it was no longer a threat to the USA.As National Review wrote, “all that vanished when Hillary Clinton, Samantha Power, and Susan Rice ordered the bombings that turned Libya into a terrorist paradise.”One explanation for the abrupt attack on Libya was that Gaddafi was a rival to the Saudis over the leadership of the Islamic faith and since the Saudis had contributed at least $10 million to the Clinton Foundation, Secretary Clinton had, as usual, a money motive to intervene in Libya.The opposition to Gaddafi’s regime was led by the Libyan Transitional National Council, whose leaders include many radical Muslims such as Abdel Hakim Belhaj. Belhaj also headed an al-Qaeda affiliate called the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG), which was designated a terrorist organization by the State Department.Nevertheless, Obama spent at least $1 billion to fund a military operation to topple Gaddafi, with American soldiers actually fighting alongside jihadist-dominated rebel groups.Moreover, the Washington Times reported that the “CIA was providing covert assistance to elements of the Transitional National Council,” again, a group dominated by radical jihadists. Under Obama, Libya was transformed from a moderate Islamic regime which posed no threat to the USA, to a violent wasteland dominated by various ISIS and al-Qaeda linked militias.Sources: *****/5 It was (A) well-documented, (B) had multiple high-level and mid-level sources whose statements have been with one or two degrees of similarity and accuracy. The sources were many and well researched. Let's look at NEWSEEK'S coverage of the story.A more democratic region will ultimately be more stable for us and our friends. Even if someone wants to be dictatorial, it’s going to be difficult.”—An American diplomat, after the overthrow of a Middle Eastern dictatorThat quote sounds as if it came from what the foreign policy elite in the Obama administration would call some “neocon nut job,” with an eerie echo of the blindly confident rhetoric from the early days of the U.S. occupation of Iraq in 2003. Except this time the speaker wasn’t a neocon nut job, and it was May 2012. Denis McDonough, then Barack Obama’s deputy national security adviser, was taking a victory lap in a speech at a Washington think tank. And he wasn’t boasting about Iraq; he was crowing about Libya.Accuracy: *** 1/2I give this episode three and a half out five stars because time has elapsed and much that is written is written from the vantage of hind-sight. To me, this is where a story loses integrity and accuracy. The best way to understand this story is to realize that the outcomes - and who they benefitted - may not have been the initial intention.Impact on America: Negligible to date.HONDURASRiots in Tegucigalpa, NYTimesThis was a no-win situation for Obama, who should have left well-enough alone. Honduras has been a criminal paradise for the worst of the worst in the Western Hemisphere. Drugs, human-trafficking, murder, wire-fraud and international smuggling have riddled Honduras for years, So when an uprising began there during the early part of Obama's second term, it was a bit surprising that the President wanted to involve himself there.But it was a high-level diplomatic meeting between emissaries of America and Venezuela's Hugh Chafez that seemed to change Obama's viewpoint. Suddenly, and without much explanation, Obama announced he was supportive of hard-Left President Manuel Zelaya attemp to illegally amend the Honduran Constitution so as to allow himself to serve as President longer than one term.Wait - this did NOT make sense!As a result, on orders from the Honduran Supreme Court, he was forcefully removed from office as Honduran law calls for.But the power of the USA became evident Obama attacked Zelaya’s removal, falsely calling it a “coup d’état” and a WikiLeaks cable revealed that Obama backed Zelaya’s reinstatement. The chaotic reasoning for Obama's support of a ruthless dictator was in stark contrasts to his support of popular uprisings elsewhere in the world.Eventually, WE would see new elections were a new president elected, but there’s little doubt that the Obama administration meddled in the Honduran political process in an effort to support the hard left in that country. Indeed, when Obama announced that he supported the return of Zelaya from exile, Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen announced “Now that everything is in place for Zelaya’s return, there are no more false reasons for the Obama administration to continue its pressure tactics against those in Honduras who opposed Zelaya’s attacks on their country’s constitution and the rule of law.”Sources: **** /5There is no limit to the number of reliable sources who have contributed, it's just that these particular sources come with an axe to grind. Visual Documentation is aplenty, both with communiques and Wikileaks. Given the chance to counter the charges on Wikileaks, Obama did not.Accuracy: ***Careful what you read and who writes it - when it comes to this story, there are those on the Left, and those on the Right, and not much in-between.Biased (Right/Left) * ALTHOUGH we can read these scandals, you would have to visit Honduras to see how they feel about it. The Left loved Obama in Honduras.Impact on USA: **** Very strong, especially given the Benghazi fiasco.MACEDONIAThe ramifications of what we have done in Macedonia are being felt to this day. Charges of collusion, bribery and theft have left a government that was backed by the Obama administration on the edge of collapse. The leadership of the country finally fell apart in December 2016, after Obama's promised support fell through when Clinton lost the election.Consider the British News Source, The Times of London. They reported on street riots just two months ago, in May of 2017. They wrote, ''Thousands of furious Macedonians took to the streets yesterday in anger over alleged EU interference in country's elections. Following weeks of pressure from the EU, the Macedonian Assembly announced that Talat Xhaferi had been elected as the speaker of its parliament.In response, protesters in the country's capital of Skopje said the European bloc had "issued an order to choose our leaders". The furious demonstration comes after months of political turmoil in the country, which has been without a government since December last year.The government watchdog group, Judicial Watch, obtained government documents that “show the U.S. government has quietly spent millions of taxpayer dollars to destabilize the democratically elected, center-right government in Macedonia by colluding with leftwing, billionaire philanthropist George Soros.”Indeed, Obama’s ambassador to Macedonia, Jeff Baily, worked to funnel millions of dollars from the State Department and USAID to groups created by Soros which were, according to JW, working to overthrow the conservative government.Leading Republican House representative Christopher Smith announced an investigation in the activities of the US Embassy in Macedonia, and the allegations that it has acted in an openly partisan way in the past years, supporting the left wing SDSM party, MIA reported.The call comes after the Embassy failed to respond to a letter signed by Smith and five other GOP representatives, who demanded answers over meddling in domestic politics, but also over Embassy funding for activities of the George Soros-led Foundation Open Society Macedonia.The Independent of England took an especially strong investigative stand. "The US Ambassador should not have a role in forming the Government or take sides during the coalition making process. It is not the place of the United States or the US representatives in Skopje to do so.We, as a group of members of Congress, sent specific question in our letter asking whether there was collusion between the Embassy and left wing parties during the elections. We need to have free and fair elections and to work with the media, but under no circumstances should we take sides. This Ambassador has taken a side and he should be fired immediately!''...I've served in the Congress for 37 years, I am a senior member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, I chair the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe and the Global Human Rights and International Operations Subcommittee. And I think it is unheard of that our Ambassador in Skopje takes a side in these elections, or in any other past or future elections.''''That is not his job. We intend to get to the bottom of this. We did not receive a response to our letter and we are asking the Inspector General to file a report. If they violated the law, they will be held responsible", representative Smith told the Macedonian Television correspondent in Washington D.C.More details about this intervention were exposed by Victor Gaetan in a series of exposés in The American Spectator. Gaetan has confirmed that Soros, in conjuction with the Obama administration, “financed a left-wing agenda to divide the nation and bring a socialist-Muslim coalition to power.” Incredibly, Obama’s USAID “selected Soros’ Foundation Open Society Macedonia (FOSM) to manage $2.5 million in taxpayers’ dollars earmarked for oxymoronic ‘democracy building,’ an amount increased to $4.8 million two years later.”This funding was directed to a coalition of socialist groups that work in conjunction with the Social Democrat Union of Macedonia (SDSM), a socialist party with close ties to Soros.The intervention is, incredibly, still ongoing with the result being chaos and disruptive street demonstrations. Gaetan’s investigative work also indicates that Obama’s agencies intervened politically with a number of other Balkan counties, including Bosnia, Kosovo, Albania and Greece.It appears the Trump administration knows little about such interventions since many leftist Obama-appointed ambassadors continue to hold on to their positions. And USAID funds continue to pour into leftist political groups in the Balkans as if Trump never came to power. Indeed, as one Macedonia Member of Parliament quoted by Gaetan said, “Under Obama’s ideological programs, it [USAID] became the super crack of the left.”they are now announcing an investigation in the allegations and say they will take the matter before the newly appointed Secretary of State Rex Tillerson."Our message is that, if the US Government took a political side, it has made a major error and all those involved should apologize and stop immediately. Ultimately, diplomats who were acting in this way will be held responsible. We are all for free and fair elections, but not for taking sides. I will be in touch with Secretary Tillerson, and I have already been in touch with members of the Trump transition team. ''''We need to have a detailed oversight into what the Administration has been doing over the past eight years because we have been taking sides politically in other countries as well, and there have been other similar incidents. That undermines US public diplomacy and our diplomacy in general. It is against the law and is unheard of. Again, he (Baily) needs to be fired!", Smith told the Macedonian National Television.''Sources: *****/5: This story is excellently sourced and proven by multiple news agencies and primary documentationAccuracy: ****/5: The major news agencies agree with the story but on several fronts it is worded differently.Impact on The USA: */5 This story got absolutely NO press play in the USA EXCEPT when it became Donald Trump's headache. Little explanation was given as to why Trump should have been held responsible, but the New York Times and NBC both agreed that his temerpment and demeanor were the cause of horrible riots and unrest in Europe. Not only was this story NOT reported when it actually happened, but when it DID happen, the current president gets the blame for it.There are many elections across the world that are due to happen in 2017-2018. America is certainly not the only nation to demonstratively interfere with the elections of another country. Espionage and subterfuge has been a part of American history through the ages.But what is lost in American media today is the acknowledgement that we are a well-documented meddler ourselves. It isn't meant to justify any of this. In a perfect world, this doesn't happen.In baseball, it isn't uncommon for one team to pick up and steal another team's signs. It's frowned upon and can result in the hitter of the offending team being drilled by a 95-mph fastball to the ribs. I had it coming too. I know for a fact that I am good at stealing the signs of the opposing teams catcher. But it isn't against the rules. It's perhaps unethical - but the countries of the world know that they are going to be drilled.Although I end this article with a bit of good natured humor, I hope i made the point. Every news agency and network is handling this election meddling story as if it is the first time in history that it has happened. But history requires us to take a good look at ourselves.If we are going to manipulate the world around our own grand design, we have to be open to the fact that we are going to get caught and the outcome is not going to be good. The level of obvious ''projection'' by House Democrats, Senators and by almost every press agency in the country is insulting to the average person.It is like the old adage, ''He who throws mud gets dirt on his hands too.'' ###You can steal your opponents signs if they let their guards down. But be prepared for retaliation when you do.

This is going to be difficult for some Democrats to read, so I’m going to try to keep my commentary to a minimum and use quotes from Democrats wherever I can to make this less painful.A couple of decades of elitism-Van Jones: ‘Obnoxious elitism has found a home’ in Democratic Party“It feels nearly impossible to have a productive conversation with ‘the other side,’ ” Mr. Jones said, CNN reported. “We are still acting like one side is always right and one side is always wrong.”Biden rips Democrats' 'elitism,' faults party for failing to reach working class“I believe that we were not letting an awful lot of people — high school-educated, mostly Caucasian, but also people of color — know that we understood their problems,” he reportedly said.”Democrats — the party of the professional class? - The Boston Globe“I never worried about West Virginia,’’ said Dukakis. “It is working-class America, but now we’ve just kind of basically said: Well, it’s a red state.’’“I’ve been in groups of workers, who used to be so closely aligned with the Democrats, where I’m more welcome than a Democrat would be,” said Senator Rob Portman, a Republican running for reelection in the swing state of Ohio. “The Democrats have become a little more elitist, less in touch with the life experiences of middle-class Americans, and more attuned to the college-educated, urban-dwelling segment.”Portman is hardly impartial. But is he wrong?Yolie Capin blasts Democratic Party as elitist in wake of Trump victory - SaintPetersBlog“I know people who voted for Trump. (Some of them) were Ph.D.’s, OK?” Capin says. “It’s mind boggling. Let them keep saying it’s the ‘yahoos and the hillbillies.’ Let them keep doing that,” she says of what she calls the elitism of the Democratic Party leadership. “That’s exactly what the people felt, (that) you feel that you’re more intelligent, more informed. But you don’t listen.”Corruption is only relevant when the other side does it-Yolie Capin blasts Democratic Party as elitist in wake of Trump victory - SaintPetersBlog“So then we fast forward to 2016 and the Democratic establishment rigs the convention and the thing is, they got caught and the sad, sad part is that everybody was OK with it!” Capin said, referring to the thousands of leaked WikiLeaks emails that showed DNC disdain toward Bernie Sanders and support for Clinton long before any votes were cast.Dear Democrats, Read This If You Do Not Understand Why Trump WonBy not listening to your fellow Americans, and accusing them of being “conspiracy theorists” and trusting the corporate media, you ignored reality. By only following other liberals on social media, and only reading liberal or corporate news, once again ignoring reality. When Hillary Clinton was caught rigging the primary against Bernie Sanders, and Democrats nominated her anyway they ignored reality……I took it upon myself to understand Trump, and his supporters. What I found was millions of great Americans who had been disenfranchised, normal people like you and I, who did not recover from the Great Recession. They’re pissed off about Obama Care, endless wars, trade deals that have killed jobs, higher taxes, a rigged economy–and, they are not wrong……Had Democrats taken the concerns of average American seriously, especially the concerns of Millennials, they would have quickly realized Hillary Clinton was not the right nominee for the Democratic party in 2016.Democrat Actually Admits A Crime Was Committed With Hillary Clinton’s E-Mail ScandalYesterday Comey testified before Congress again and dropped a bombshell. The FBI found classified material on Anthony Weiner’s lap top that were forwarded to him from his wife Huma Abedin, who is Hillary’s right-hand girl. To recap: Hillary mishandled classified information on her private e-mail server by sending it to Abedin, who mishandled it some more by sending it to her pervert husband. Anthony Weiner isn’t even allowed within 500 feet of school so he definitely doesn’t have top security clearance……Morning Joe’s Willie Geist asked Senator Blumenthal if he thought Abedin had committed a crime.“If there was classified information and it was improperly passed to a person unauthorized to receive it. Yes, it’s a crime. Without knowing what the intentions were and so forth, there is potentially a prosecutable crime,” said Blumenthal.UPDATE: President Obama’s Own Defense Deputy Admits Obama White House Spied on Candidate/President-Elect Trump…“More than a half-dozen current and former officials described various aspects of the effort to preserve and distribute the intelligence, and some said they were speaking to draw attention to the material and ensure proper investigation by Congress. All spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were discussing classified information, nearly all of which remains secret.” (link)Democrat Congressman Admits ‘Obama Wiretapped Everyone, Even Me’“I can vouch for the fact that extracurricular surveillance does occur, whether or not it is officially approved,” Kucinich said.Former president Obama was a serial wiretapper, using any excuse to listen in to his rivals private conversations. He developed such a taste for it that he even tapped the phones of his Democratic Party comrades.“I was wiretapped in 2011 after taking a phone call in my congressional office after taking a call from a foreign leader,” Kucinich continued. “The fact is that if a member of Congress can have a phone call intercepted, there is no one safe. It is plausible that a presidential candidate could have had his phone calls tapped.“Kucinich also slammed the Obama administration for being “out of control with this surveillance stuff.““The larger question is, what about the rights of Americans to privacy? We have five constitutional amendments that are meant to protect our privacy. Now we learn from WikiLeaks that things like an iPhone can be used to get people’s conversations, they use televisions…“Let’s demonize everyone else-The party who cried racistHillary Clinton's infamous "basket of deplorables" speech labeled half of Trump's supporters — more than 30 million Americans — as "irredeemable" racists.The Democrats' destructive politics of righteousnessMcGovern naively took for granted the traditional party loyalty of union leaders and the white working class. But these pillars of the New Deal collation recognized that McGovern's creation of a new "coalition of conscience" built around opposition to the war, identity politics and a redistribution of wealth excluded some of their own conscientiously held moral convictions. McGovern went on to lose every state but Massachusetts and the District of Columbia — and with them the party allegiance of blue-collar workers, union leaders and — what often amounted to the same voters — conservative Roman Catholics.Jimmy Carter was not a member of McGovern's coalition of conscience: He had his own powerful sense of moral righteousness, one he derived from his Southern Baptist heritage of personal rectitude rather than McGovern's secularized Methodist heritage of moral uplift and social reconstruction. There was much in that mix that was admirably righteous, especially the instinct to protect racial and sexual minorities from social oppression. The problem is that pursuing righteousness by expanding individual rights at the expense of communal values often creates greater social conflict. As sociologist Robert Bellah argued in 1991, "rights language itself offers no way to evaluate competing claims." One side wins, the other loses.Gloria Steinem and Madeleine Albright Rebuke Young Women Backing Bernie Sanders“We can tell our story of how we climbed the ladder, and a lot of you younger women think it’s done,” Ms. Albright said of the broader fight for women’s equality. “It’s not done. There’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help each other!”……“When you’re young, you’re thinking: ‘Where are the boys? The boys are with Bernie,’ ” Ms. Steinem said.Realizing that this was potentially offensive, Mr. Maher recoiled. “Oh. Now if I said that, ‘They’re for Bernie because that’s where the boys are,’ you’d swat me.”Jon Stewart: "Hypocrisy" For Left To Think Everybody Who Voted For Trump Is A RacistHacked Audio: Clinton Calls Bernie Fans Frustrated Basement-Dwellers“They’re children of the Great Recession,” Clinton said of Bernie fans. “And they are living in their parents’ basement. They feel they got their education, and the jobs that are available to them are not at all what they envisioned for themselves.”The leaked recording discloses Clinton’s comments at a Virginia fundraiser hosted by former U.S. ambassador Beatrice Welters in February, reports the Washington Free BeaconJeff Klein Calls Criticism Of New Breakaway Democrats 'Racist' & 'Obnoxious'“The reality is we have a group of rogue Democrats who are empowering Trump Republicans, and blocking me from becoming the first woman and first African-American woman Senate President or co-President,” Stewart-Cousins told the paper, while also calling the allegations of racism "dangerous and offensive."This isn't the first time that charges of racism have been levied in defense of the IDC. When Marisol Alcantara came under fire after she won a primary while pledging to conference with the IDC, consultant Lis Smith tweeted that her critics were "white progressives" trying to silence "new Americans." Alcantara herself suggested to the Village Voice that non-white politicians were more likely than their white colleagues to be "demonized" and accused of looking out for themselves when they "make decisions based on helping their constituents."In addition, Jose Peralta's spokesman Juan Soto said that chatter about a primary challenger for Peralta was racially charged. "In Queens, when it comes to Latinos, this is the type of sugar cane plantation style politics that the Queens political machine will resort to keep dissent quiet," he told Politico.Sheila Jackson Lee - Discover the NetworksDuring a 1997 visit to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, Jackson Lee, who was then serving on the House Science Committee and on the Subcommittee that oversees U.S. space policy, asked a guide whether the Mars Pathfinder would be able to show an image of “the flag the astronauts planted there before.” When it was subsequently pointed out that the flag to which she was referring was in fact the one that Neil Armstrong had planted on the Moon—not Mars—in 1969, Jackson Lee complained that she was being mocked by bigots. “You thought you could have fun with a black woman member of the Science Committee,” her then-chief-of-staff wroteangrily in a letter to the editor.In 2005 she expressed her objection to the World Meteorological Organization's (WMO) practice of assigning “lily white” names to hurricanes—i.e., names normally associated with Caucasians. “All racial groups should be represented,” the congresswoman told The Hill Magazine, in hopes that the WMO in the future “would try to be inclusive of African American names.” She suggested such names as “Keisha, Jamal and Deshawn.”In 2011 Jackson Lee went to the House floor to complain about a Pepsi Max commercial that had aired during that year's Super Bowl telecast. In the ad, a black woman was shown throwing her soda can at her boyfriend or husband for glancing at an attractive white female jogger; when he ducked, the can struck the jogger, and the couple then scurried away. “It was not humorous,” the congresswoman shouted. “It was demeaning—an African-American woman throwing something at an African-American male and winding up hitting a Caucasian woman.”Absolute Power corrupts absolutely-Democrats ‘Shame’ Voters With MailersDemocratic Party postcards and letters sent to more than 800,000 New Yorkers this week gave them grades based on how often they had voted and told them their voting records in 2014 would be watched.Political observers, both partisan and not, said the mailers were akin to a pre-Halloween scare.Ed Klein - Democrats and the Abuse of Presidential PowerA tip of the hat to Jeff Kisseloff of The Nation, who reminds us that Franklin D. Roosevelt was the first president to order J. Edgar Hoover, the director of the FBI, to use the relatively new investigate tool of wiretapping against his political opponents.According to Today in Civil Liberties History, Harry S. Truman approved a memo from his attorney general that authorized FBI wiretapping of political dissidents……Before Barack Obama and his administration spied on Trump, they rifled through the emails and phone records of Fox reporter James Rosen, claimed executive privilege during the Fast and Furious scandal, and used the IRS to target conservative groups and deny them tax-exempt status.Democrats' shameful double standard on abuse of power…A similar dynamic is at work in New York City, where a new municipal ID program for undocumented immigrants was designed by City Council Democrats with a provision to delete ID holders' data in the event of a Republican presidential victory in 2016."In case a Tea Party Republican comes into [the White House] and says, 'We want all of the data from all of the municipal ID programs in the country,' we're going to take the data," explained City Councilman Carlos Menchaca (D-Brooklyn). "That allows us to prepare for any new leadership."……In a 2008 speech now frequently cited by his critics, President Obama seemed aware of the hazard in amassing power in one branch of government. "I take the Constitution very seriously," he said. "The biggest problems that we're facing right now have to do with George Bush trying to bring more and more power into the executive branch and not go through Congress at all. And that's what I intend to reverse when I'm president of the United States of America."Six years in, it's clear that there will be no such reversal.Democrats Defend an Indefensible Abuse of Executive Power“Democrats are defending the indefensible. The Constitution clearly delineates the powers of each branch of the federal government. Congress is given sole authority to make law, and the president is given the responsibility of enforcing it. There is no special clause in the Constitution that gives the president power to enact his agenda when Congress disagrees with him.”Drone strikes under Obama killed up to 117 civilians, intelligence report claims…Rights groups have criticized the Obama administration’s estimates of civilian casualties caused by counter-terror actions.Human rights organization Reprieve said in July that the U.S. government has misled the public on its drone programme and “shifted the goalposts on what counts as a civilian to such an extent that any estimate may be far removed from reality.”"In U.S. drone operations, reports suggest all 'military aged males' and potentially even women and children are considered 'enemies killed in action' unless they can 'posthumously' and 'conclusively' prove their innocence," it added.America dropped 26,171 bombs in 2016. What a bloody end to Obama's reign | Medea BenjaminWhile candidate Obama came to office pledging to end George W Bush’s wars, he leaves office having been at war longer than any president in US history. He is also the only president to serve two complete terms with the nation at war……President Obama has claimed that his overseas military adventures are legal under the 2001 and 2003 authorizations for the use of military force passed by Congress to go after al-Qaida. But today’s wars have little or nothing to do with those who attacked the United States on September 11, 2001.The twisted legal architecture the Obama administration has constructed to justify its interventions, especially extrajudicial drone killings with no geographic restrictions, will now be transferred into the erratic hands of Donald Trump.What does the administration have to show for eight years of fighting on so many fronts? Terrorism has spread, no wars have been “won” and the Middle East is consumed by more chaos and divisions than when candidate Barack Obama declared his opposition to the invasion of Iraq.While the switch from US troops on the ground to airstrikes and special forces has saved US lives, untold numbers of foreign lives have been snuffed out. We have no idea how many civilians have been killed in the massive bombings in Iraq and Syria, where the US military is often pursuing Isis in the middle of urban neighborhoods. We only sporadically hear about civilian killings in Afghanistan, such as the tragic bombing of the Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz that left 42 dead and 37 wounded.Ask James Carville It’s still “the economy stupid.”Democrats turn to lies to avoid the economyBuried under fake Democratic outrages about Mr. Trump is news like this from the past few days:• “U.S. homeownership rate drops to lowest since 1965.” (Bloomberg).• “Another GDP stunner: Growth only 1.2% over the last 3 months.” (USA Today).• “Worst economic recovery since 1930s; salaries fall $17,000 short.” (Washington Examiner).• “Let’s face it — the U.S. economy is going nowhere fast.” (CBS).It is no surprise then, when this newspaper, The Washington Times, reports on a shocking new Harris poll finding that “82 percent of Americans believe that the people running the country don’t really care what happens to them. Another 78 percent say the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer while 70 percent believe that most people in power try to take advantage of people like them.”Perhaps they feel that way because it’s true.Don’t buy the lie that Obama’s leaving behind a healthy economyThe truth is that the Obama years have been among America’s worst for the economy. His eight years will go down in history as the Great Recession, even though for much, even most, of the span, we weren’t technically in a recession.It just felt that way. And no wonder. Obama’s is the only modern presidency that failed to show a single year of growth above 3 percent, a point Trump stressed during the campaign (and that was conceded even by the website Politifact).Plus, the Obama economy failed to prosper even though the Federal Reserve had its pedal to the metal. Its quantitative easing, $2 trillion balance-sheet expansion and zero-interest-rate policy all produced zilch.Except for pumping up Wall Street and producing what Trump calls a “false economy.” The recent declines in the unemployment rate are due less to the uptick in employed persons than to an increasing number of persons leaving the labor force.In a “true economy,” what people would boast about would be the number of employed persons rising faster than the size of an expanding workforce. In reality, the job participation rate is the lowest in decades, as millions are too discouraged to seek a job.And the recent record Dow Jones average? It’s pumped up by the Federal Reserve. It’s nowhere near a record if the Dow is calculated in the most traditional measure of value. The gold value of the Dow peaked way back in 1999.Most Americans Are Worried About Losing Their HousingLast week, a new poll showed just how far this anxiety reaches in the U.S. According to a survey by the NHP Foundation, 75 percent of Americans are worried they could lose their homes, while 83 percent of respondents said that they were concerned about the rising costs of housing.Some 30 percent of the respondents described themselves as “very concerned” that they or a close friend or relative could lose their housing, meaning that nearly one-third of Americans feels that a lack of affordable housing could represent a personal crisis. Another 27 percent described themselves as “concerned”—meaning more than half of respondents consider housing instability to be a looming danger.Per the poll, about 40 percent of respondents say that they fear they could lose their homes due to job loss. This fear is not unfounded. Neil Gabler’s May cover story for The Atlantic cites Federal Reserve Board data that showed that almost half of U.S. households (47 percent) could not muster $400 in an emergency. A report by the Urban Institute shows that more than one-third of all American families (36 percent) have savings of less than $250. One-quarter of U.S. households have no savings at all.The Hill Poll: Majority of voters believe Obama has changed country for worseTwo-thirds of likely voters say President Obama has kept his 2008 campaign promise to change America — but it’s changed for the worse, according to a sizable majority.A new poll for The Hill found 56 percent of likely voters believe Obama’s first term has transformed the nation in a negative way, compared to 35 percent who believe the country has changed for the better under his leadership.The results signal broad voter unease with the direction the nation has taken under Obama’s leadership and present a major challenge for the incumbent Democrat as he seeks reelection this fall.Conducted for The Hill by Pulse Opinion Research, the poll comes in the wake of last month’s Supreme Court decision that upheld the primary elements of Obama’s signature healthcare legislation.It found 68 percent of likely voters — regardless of whether they approve or disapprove of Obama — believe the president has substantially transformed the country since his 2009 inauguration.How Obamacare Destroyed The Middle Class In One ChartAmerica’s middle class is hurting, and that’s why Trump is popular | Brookings InstitutionScapegoat diagnoses lend themselves to simplistic solutions: get rid of the scapegoats, or somehow tax or punish them other ways, and then somehow, some way, all will be better. Maybe there are enough voters who are so upset with the dysfunction in Washington, and anxious about the chaos around the world, that this is all they need to hear. They’ve had it (understandably) with traditional candidates who have State-of-the-Union-like laundry list plans for governing, either because they don’t like or understand what’s in those plans, or more likely, because they know that any campaign plan will be chewed up or stopped by a Congress that is deeply divided along partisan lines and likely to remain that way even after November, 2016.Is Obamacare Good For The Middle Class?Apparently not. For every person who has obtained insurance in the (Obamacare) exchanges, there are two other eligible people who have not enrolled. We now have a good idea why that is……For the previously uninsured, out of pocket costs for medical care go up -- even after the federal subsidies. On the plus side, they do consume more medical care once they are insured. And there is some value in the risk reduction insurance provides. But these advantages are not enough to offset the financial loss for almost everyone above 250% of the federal poverty level. Even the Obamacare mandate’s threatened penalties are not enough to make Obamacare insurance attractive to the vast majority of the uninsured middle class.That’s the conclusion of a new NBER Working Paper by Wharton School economists Mark Pauly, Adam Leive and Scott Harrington. The conclusion is consistent with the evidence on enrollment. About 83% of people obtaining insurance in the exchanges have incomes below 250% of poverty and above that level enrollment drops off sharply as income increases. (See the chart below.)…Our estimates indicate that the majority of the previously uninsured would be subject to substantial negative financial impacts by purchasing insurance on exchanges in response to the [Affordable Care Act]. Impacts on welfare are less stark, with potential gains at low income and high-risk levels. However, many of the non-poor formerly uninsured are estimated to be worse off because the subsidies are not large enough and coverage not generous enough to offset their new obligation to pay part of the premium along with required cost sharing. This loss contributes to the relatively low estimated takeup rates to date for exchange coverage for persons who do not qualify for large premium subsidies and cost sharing subsidies.So the people below aren’t happy with the Democratic option right now;DeplorablesBasement DwellersThe RidiculousEveryone that the Democrats said was racist or sexist.People still waiting for “hope and change”West VirginiaRepublicansMenPeople, who even after eight years, haven’t recovered from the recession.People that don’t like drone attacks on innocent civilians.The Middle ClassPeople that think that politicians aren’t above the law.People still looking for a job.People that lost their healthcare plan to Obamacare.People screwed by their own party in the party primary and then mocked at the National Convention.Of the die hard Democrats that the party still had left, the party forced a candidate on them that they were unmotivated to show up and vote for. They literally forced one of the few people out there that Trump could actually beat.Democrats still scratch their heads and wonder what went wrong.