HAMMERNEWS- Michael Hammerschlag

Current Political Commentary by journalist Michael Hammerschlag; Thoughts on foreign policy, Republican outrages, liberal strategies, science by 8 year correspondent in Russia/Ukraine over 22 years and longtime commentator; Website: http://HAMMERNEWS.com

Monday, September 17, 2018

KAVANAUGH CONNIPTIONS- 2nd ALLEG, GANG RAPE?, ROSENSTEIN ROCKED- Out?, MANIFORT MACHINATIONS, PUTIN POISONERS, CRISIS 10 YEAR ANNI, CATH PERVS, UIGHUR CONC CAMPS, KIDS HOSTAGE, 9-11, NYT OPED, Mike on NPR

 ROSENSTEIN ROCKED, Out?
9-24 Will he go or will he stay? Blockbuster varying statements about his firing. His replacement Solicitor Gen Noel Francisco is a Trumpanzee who has endorsed Muslim Ban, attacked Comey for going soft on Hillary, argued for "Unitary (Pres) Power", worked on the 2000 Recount, defended GB2's corrupt USAt firings. and his firm represents Trump in Russia Probe- he is a nightmare specifically appointed to be Chumps defender.
--- "And yet Francisco did dine with Rosenstein and Sessions in March shortly after Trump slammed Sessions on Twitter for kicking the investigation of what Trump and his allies see as the FBI’s mishandling of the surveillance of former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page to the inspector general.
    The dinner, coming as it did on the heels of the president viciously and publicly attacking his attorney general, seemed to suggest the three men had formed a united front against Trump’s assaults on Sessions and the Justice Department." ---
                       SOLICITOR GEN. Noel Francisco-
Reality fake President + TV programmer Trump has scheduled a Rosenstein meeting on Thursday, to distract from the JudCom Blasey Hearing on that day. Seems the whole thing may have been a sham. Yep- it was all nothing, he delayed it to the 7th of Never.

In the WTF are you doing Dept, the NYT published a Pyrrhic article about Rosenstein debating taping Chump for evidence to invoke the 25th Amendment, to replace a Prez "unable to carry out his duties"; which is an incredibly high bar- it too needs 2/3 Vote in the Senate when the Pres disputes it. The only thing that makes it more devastating to a criminal incompetent Prez is that most of his Cabinet must first concur in the Palace Coup, no way Repub Quislings can ignore that!! Now, chances are 70/30 Trump will fire him soon (you heard it hear first), and appoint someone who will commence the Mueller Massacre. Juan Cole thinks, like I, that this could lead to Martial Law and blood in the streets. Since Repubs are edging solidly into Treason in their blind support for a criminal who excoriates his own Justice Dept for PROSECUTING CROOKS (Preet podcast) only because they are REPUB CROOKS.... anything is possible.

KAVANAUGH CONNIPTIONS
 2nd ALLEGATION Fm YALE!!!  "...she remembers Kavanaugh had exposed himself at a drunken dormitory party, thrust his penis in her face, and caused her to touch it without her consent as she pushed him away."  (Drinking though + fuzzy memories)  "The social group to which Kavanaugh belonged often drank to excess. He recalled Kavanaugh as “relatively shy” until he drank, at which point he said that Kavanaugh could become “aggressive and even belligerent.”  

GANG RAPE?  MEDIA FLOOZY AVENATTI  HAS sent the JudCom a letter that he has:  ---"significant evidence of multiple house parties in the Washington, D.C. area during the early 1980s during which Brett Kavanaugh, Mark Judge and others would participate in the targeting of women with alcohol/drugs in order to allow a "train" of men to subsequently gang rape them." ---   I would say:  Stick a fork in him, Bret is done!!  but it is Avenatti. Still, don't think he can survive this- if Rethugs ram through a vote they may lose the Senate.

REPUB RAPISTS REPLICATE
 Grassley Adviser Resigns After Sexual Harassment Accusation 
 Minnesota Legislator Quits Race After Daughter Says He Molested Her
                               
Yale Classmate
Deborah Ramirez -
 Former Trump Aide Jason Miller Accused of Secretly Administering Abortion Pill

BOYS CLUB THAT PROTECTS BRET: Georgetown Prep 


Despite more + more revelations as to Bret's unfitness, dishonesty, and extremism; he was on track to Committee voting approval Sept 20, with full Senate vote by Oct 1, BUT the HS allegations may have derailed that, with Flake resisting the Rush (but remember- he is a flake). I think the latest allegations are good for the cause (of Saving America- horns), but really far past any statute of limitations. But in the humongous bulk of his 92% hidden TRIPLE SCREENED docs, there is manifest evidence of racism, misogyny, unitary executive, and other far far Right extremist views. Why else would they have to be screened 3 times? He paid 92K/year for his Country Club (that could be an installment for BUYING it!), but doesn't own his House, & has huge debt and gambling problems.  Note Blasey Ford was only 15, haven't heard that much, I presumed they were both 17!

SHELDON SHREDS SC CORRUPTION: My Frenator + marvelously monikered Sheldon WHITEHOUSE rips the far right dark money forces that are pumping money into kreep Kavanaugh and subverting Justice, esp the Federalist Society, with 10 years of suppressed fury! The REAL VAST RIGHT CONSPIRACY!! Kavanaugh looks sick. "Corporate Forces and the Roberts 5 Win EVERY DAM TIME!!" 73 of 73. Holds up the blank "Docs" they received with CONSTITUTIONAL PRIVILEGE written across them. "What Privilege, who has asserted such privilege?" he asked the defensive liar Bret.


Interesting what conditions Ford wants for her "safely" [all of Congress has metal detectors and bag scanning]. Delay it to Friday- you have an important job interview and you have to do your hair!!
                   Kavanaugh/Christine Blasey Ford Yearbook
I think she is nuts to do it- they will rip her apart if she doesn't know when or where this happened is true. VOX Pods says it is- that is highly suspicious- if it was that traumatic, she would remember the year at least; I remember the day I met my best GF, and that was earlier. They will force her admit she was smashed too, which gives them license to discredit everything. The Repubs are determined to ram this through, while faking some sensitivity, but not allowing an FBI check makes it all a sham.
       
PROF TAUGHT POTEN. KAV CLERKS: Dress Like a Model
Even if the Committee voted him down, the repulsive Turtle would still ram him through the Senate despite his multiple lies:    But thousands of Dems are working furiously to discover a silver bullet in the vast mass of docs (only 7% of total that DON'T have his crimes), and I am publishing a Fax / Fone list of swing Senators (Judiciary Com), stay tuned. KEY ARGUMENT- You are Voting to make Chump a near Dictator, Bret is a cruel extremist hard core Repub Operative who has already sworn his Fealty, as Chump demands. He will never vote against him. https://truthout.org/articles/teens-testify-to-show-senators-the-human-cost-of-kavanaughs-confirmation/

 The great David Corn, who warned us TPD was a Russian agent 10 days before the tragic Election, has another exclusive- Kavanaugh has ALREADY helped the Repubs and Russians in crippling a law on foreign interference, making Muellers job much harder.   Did THIS come up?   --- But he gutted the portion of the law that banned foreign spending that is not “express advocacy.” Following his ruling, some of the ads paid for by the Russians in 2016 and named in the February indictment—featuring such messages as “Hillary Clinton Doesn’t Deserve the Black Vote” and “Hillary is Satan, and her crimes and lies had proved just how evil she is”—may well be legal foreign influence activity. ---

Diane Rehms aces the subject with Norm Ornstein + a Constitutional expert- best thing on Kavanaugh!! https://www.npr.org/podcasts/381443514/diane-rehm-on-my-mind

On top of that, it appears Kavanaugh lied in 5 different fields, and is exactly the unscrupulous RW hack that I thought. First HE DID RECEIVE STOLEN EMAILS FROM THE DEM JUD. COM. COUNCIL; He was in charge of ramming through extreme Bush Repub Judges through. 
                                             Trump twists Bret's arm- we have a deal? I'm immune?
--- Dems say the confirmation process of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh is fatally flawed because the records of Kavanaugh’s White House tenure were being redacted by his former deputy, then redacted again by the Trump White House, then redacted a third time by Judiciary Committee chair Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa).  As a result, only 7 percent of Kavanaugh’s White House records have been released to the public—compared to 99 percent of Justice Elena Kagan’s, a nominee of President Obama. ---

Then there were lies about him vetting Judge Pryors nomination..., lies about Bush's Warrantless Wiretapping & the Torture Memo, and his multiple egregious lies about his stance on Roe.... just "PRECEDENT on PRECEDENT", over + over, like a mantra; he had coached other nominees to lie like that!! And his contemptible snubbing of the Stoneman School father- what a soulless piece of crap!! Frank Rich contrasts the bemoaned "lack of civility" in the hearings with extremist Catholic prude's Kavanaugh's gross explicit questions for Clinton- it was the sex that was the crime to him! Like so many extremist Catholic prudes, he is a perv who deeply believes in the supremacy of men- that is what much of the Jihad against abortion is about. He was intimately involved in the Elian Gonzalez Saga, Bush v Gore Florida Recount, and Terry Schiavo Case (crtsy MeanGirl)

He is contemptuous of women's rights (trying to deny a woman an abortion by deliberate delay)- he has called Roe part of a “tide of freewheeling judicial creation of individual rights” and if this attempted RAPE allegation is true, quite the thug. The last abortion clinic in RW KY has to maintain 10 guards round the clock to defend against crazies-
--- In 2015, a man threw his body through the front window. https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-volunteers-guarding-kentuckys-last-abortion-clinic Weeks later, a large rock was thrown through the front door. The attacker has since returned to protesting outside of the clinic. While Operation Save America was in Louisville, they distributed 1500 flyers with E.M.W. employees’ home addresses, labeling them as “killers.” ---

Lastly he seems to be racist, and is a wholehearted supporter of voter disenfranchisement.
Ralph Nader says: "Kavanaugh is a corporate supremacist to a fanatic level of protecting corporate cruelty and greed....
What will he do when cases involve robots harming workers or consumers; corporate algorithms corkscrewing consumers; corporations turning the governments against their citizens; and corporate criminals being bailed out by taxpayers?" 

Frank Rich asks: Among the other weird unexplained developments in this story is the letter that appeared immediately after Ford’s accusations became public in which 65 women who claimed to have known Kavanaugh in high school testified to his high moral fiber. Kavanaugh went to Georgetown Prep, an all-boys school. Did he really have 65 female contemporaries who knew him that well?

One of funniest and sickest things of recent memories was Jud. Chairman Iowan Chas Grassley drone on his "Welcome" for a minute over the persistent and strident objections of 4 Dems; the 85 yo fossil was always a crusty hard core Repub but once was more reasonable- in my successful Anti-(Clinton) Impeachment movement I lobbied him, and walked him out of the Senate:
Jan 23, 99 midnight Wash.DC-- PETITIONERS and LETTER WRITERS
Your Petitions and letters were delivered into the 3 Senators hands that were still there 5:30 -6:30pm Sat (23rd): Gorton, Jeffords, + Grassley- the crucial material to the crucial swing votes at the crucial time. Gorton was going home so may peruse it on his ride. Grassley started making apologies as we left and he locked up: "There was no conspiracy. We never got into a room and said, 'we're going to get the President' ". I said, "Yeah, but I bet Delay + Gingrich (+Lott) did". "Oh, that was over there." (the unruly children of the House) "Come on Senator, you could have stopped this right off the bat". The Repubs are looking for cover now that this might evaporate into a dirty hangover. Credit to Chuck for spending 10 min. debating with the opposition. Once in the linked Hart/Dirkson Senate Bldg., you can't leave late- all entrances are locked and the guards evaporate- there was an empty office and considered setting up shop- new Senator from Puerto Rico or Palau? Petitions and dozens of letters were in inch thick bound semi-prof document: CITIZENS' LETTERS to CONGRESS and PETITION SIGNERS to STOP the MADNESS, Stop the Impeachment Witchhunt Internet Org- Maui--Dallas--R.I.--Wash DC

Taken all together, Kavanaugh may be the worst SC nominee in the last 100 years. His ascension to the SC would mean Trump may be 70% of the way to becoming a dictator, and violence is inevitable. 

DEM PLOTS In another spectacular act of childish lunacy Chump accused the PR death count of being fabricated to “make me look bad”.. this alone would drive most Presidents out of office. San Juan's Mayor unloaded on the pediatric decency cripple:   “Mr Pres in the real world people died on your watch. YOUR LACK OF RESPECT IS APPALLING! … Simply put: delusional, paranoid, and unhinged from any sense of reality. Trump is so vain he thinks this is about him. NO IT IS NOT.”   Both Florida Repub candidates  have had to disavow any knowledge or support of Chump's actions, even invertebrate Paul Ryan concurred.

Note this is the worst disaster in America for 118 years, since the Galveston Hurricane (~6000 dead),  and except for 50-80 victims, all fatalities happened AFTER the Hurricane due to criminal Gov neglect. Chump neglect.

THE BLUE WAVE IS COMING + IT'S A MONSTERBring It!




BILL MARR DEVASTATES CHUMP:  If there was a nutrition label on Trump's ass it would say 35% Fat 65% Narcissistic Personality Disorder.


MANAFORT STOPS STANDING-UP
Facing 25 years in prison, Manafort finally broke and co-operated with Mueller. He was in the famous Trump Tower meeting so probably knows that Trump was informed all about it- it would have been HIS JOB to do that if nobody else did. A Pardon may be a get-out-of-jail free card for Manafort BUT NOT FOR CHUMP. As I've heard, he can be subpoenaed, forced to testify and forced to answer, because he has NO LIABILITY (as if granted immunity). But he can then presumably lie with impunity. But I believe in his deal with Mueller, he has stipulated to such serious and terrible crimes, that he can't walk them back and WON'T get a pardon!!

Paul's had a lifetime of cozying up to murderous dictators, including +20 years with Russia. Manafort probably helped set up the Trump Tower meeting, and was probably the primary contact with the Russians as Trump came under the klieg lights, with his multiple backchannels to Oligarchs. I should have paid alot more attention to him here- but Ukraine was so rife with corruption that an American sleaze wouldn't seem to add much... but he rehabilitated the thuggish 3 yr ex-con goon into acting more Presidential, so he squeaked out a win over Tymoshenko with nasty slanders (alleged involvement in a 14 year old political murder) and the help of pro-Russian voters. Presidential didn't work with Chump, but slandering Hillary, dirty tricks, and treason with an enemy power did.

Ukr Election Radio Report (MP3 audio) - KIEV:  Realplayer - 6:06min, Jan 17-18, 2010 Ukrainian voters are exhausted and disillusioned by the endless vicious battles between the big 3 Prez. candidates: President Yushchenko, PM Tymoshenko, and former PM Yanukovich, Interviews of a dozen voters in Kiev + Mohyla Academy Political Science Professor Olexiy Haran before ELection.

3 hours after Yanukovich was declared President by the Constitutional Court I questioned 6 people in Kyiv, 2 of them had already been punished for not supporting him!! Bad bad guy! Audio maybe coming.

Lets be honest- we all know TRUMP IS GUILTY, he has always been guilty. It is time to burn some witches, or as we call them today, traitors. Trump is a Russian agent actively sabotaging every US Alliance, and he must be stopped.
  Florida with a 16 ft ocean rise
SEA LEVEL 20-30 FT HIGHER 125K YRS AGO AT TODAYS TEMPS
  This is daunting news, they say the Wilkes Subglacial Basin melted, a deeply below sea level basin in East Ant (80% of Antarctica is BSL, meaning 2 miles of ice sits on the ocean bottom, where sea water can and will penetrate, quick Yankees, what does salt do to ice?). Of course, this is maybe in 2100 or 2200; but long before sea level causes the homelessness of 1-2 bil, the AGW drought-caused famines will kill billions, followed by the pandemics feeding off of the millions of weak and dying  Civilization will break down.. all before 2100. I believe we are on track to 4-6C rise by then (we are at 2C rise right now, with another 1-1.5C locked in), and there is no doubt they will do sulfur abatement; the first 400 mil dead, they will do EVERYTHING. Bet Rand and Military have the Operational Plans already gamed out. Half the world lives below 100 ft altitude, ~750 mil below 30 ft! The total ocean rise if all 7 mil cu. miles of ice melted is 225 ft, or 280 ft, I've read both, but that would take +1000 years, I think.

PAPA PUTIN CIRCLES WAGONShttps://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/13/skripals-russia-putin-salisbury-poisoning-suspects-interview
In his characteristic contempt, Putin has paraded the poor confused innocent tourists (poisoners) who took the 160 mile trip to Salisbury to see Stonehenge (8 miles away) twice in 2 days, but seemed to forget to see it. They just loved the steaks and it had a great clock! It was snowy and slushy, you see, and I know Russians NEVER leave home when it is icky out. Probably an elaborate legend has been created of their lives, with fake wives kids, job, employers, etc; or this is it- they will disappear off the face of the Earth, sent to Vorkhuta (Arctic helhole nickel plant) or Yakutsk (-70F Siberian center).  If there were more than a few real journos left in Russia, the Potemkin tourists' cover would be shredded quickly, let's see. GUARDIAN: "Like, how do they happen to have passport numbers that differ by one single digit, as Russian reporters have discovered?" Cease-peeshus Nyet? The lads submitted to a quite dubious and hostile RT interview and did very well- acting the part of innocent tourists very well (24 min). But the Salisbury Steak slush-haters Internal Passports (like US Drivers License + SS card, if it was a booklet) have TOP SECRET stamps and a Defense Ministry phone number! Whoops!    In exhaustive detail, the Investigative Site Bellingcat dug this up:  https://www.vox.com/2018/9/13/17855222/russia-rt-skripal-poison-novichok

With the definitive identification of the Russian (attempted) assassins of the Skripals, England should have sent 009 to Russia to dispatch the killers. Complaining, whining or sanctions don't work... but if you punch Russians in the face they do respect you. This isn't just Cold War behavior, it is worse because they tried to assassinate a guy that they traded 10 other agents for- the so-called Americans of the TV series (about to watch the Finale), and did kill some poor dumpster divers who found their perfume (Final Fragrance). You just can't do that! Putin is deliberately breaking rules that have never been broken, and has paid no direct price- only force can bring him back into line. Maybe some Russian diplomat should suffer a heart attack or stroke; Putin has just been whacking way too many people! Now they think the mysterious evil attacks on US embassies in Cuba and elsewheres were by microwave! With Trump they should set it to "POTATO"! Would we even notice?
                                                 Dawn Sturgess Salisbury poisoning fatality
When Obama braced Putin in June 2016 about the hacking, he might have stopped the DNC releases if he had sent a plane load of antimissile HARM missiles to Ukraine & said: "Every time there is a release of the hacked information another plane load of the most advanced weapons will go to Ukraine!". But Putin was convinced he was a weakling and would never follow through. The Trump Administration has actually been tougher about Ukraine but from the Op-ed we know that it was in spite of Trump, not because of him.

To emphasize his viciousness, the Pusssy Riot guy who ran onto the field in the Moscow World Cup Final was poisoned and the other rioting kittens begged for expert help- he was medivaced to Germany. It means Puta is quite confident.. Can't touch me!. Britain should have kept quiet and dealt with these mokes with extreme prejudice, although the number of spies and agents there is a fraction since most Westerners were sent packing in 2007-8, inc Yours Truly. And Russians at-hacked the Swiss Lab testing their poisons!!

PERVS IN ROBES:  And the enormous Catholic Priest sex abuse scandal is metastasizing- 1700 German priests are accused of child molestation, mostly boys under 13 yo; and there were huge number in Ireland- apparently this is omnipresent, that worldwide the Catholic Church is totally infested with child-molesting monsters. LET THEM MARRY, for God's sake.. or a least for the kids' sake! No Sex doesn't work, you hear that, Abstinence creepos!!
          - Uighur prisoners in Chinese camp
WORK MAKES YOU FREE:  And the Chinese have explained the 1 mil odd Uighur they have imprisoned in internment camps: “What China is doing is to establish professional training centers.” Li continued, saying that the detention of the ethnic minority was the “necessary way to  deal with Islamic or religious extremism.”  OK then, training, maybe to make assembly line parts for 39 cents a day (or tunnels), and Internment FOREVER for the wrong religion or ethnicity. ChiComs plan to expand these helholes 4-fold!! Once Uighurs are there for a year, they WILL be terrorists, and a Final solution becomes more tempting. The Chinese have been building crematoriums and advertising for guards with a strong constitution! And they have all these healthy organs for the Party and their Princelings!  Note to God: 2 Mongol Hurricanes and 40 days+nights of rain for Beijing.  https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/09/13/48-ways-to-get-sent-to-a-chinese-concentration-camp/

OUR FREEDOM FIGHTERS:  “Secretary of State Mike Pompeo certified to Congress on Wednesday that the Saudi-backed coalition fighting in Yemen’s civil war was doing everything it could to prevent civilian casualties—a move that allows the U.S. military to continue supporting the coalition, 'undertaking demonstrable actions to reduce the risk of harm to civilians and civilian infrastructure.' ” Except of course for blowing up children on class trips, a 2nd group of kids was killed later! August was the deadliest month this year for civilian casualties in the war. All jets and bombs Made in America - changing hearts and minds by dissection. https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/09/12/trump-doubles-down-on-war-in-yemen-pompeo-congress-middle-east-saudi-arabia-united-arab-emirates-bombing-civilian-casualties/

PEACE IN OUR TIME:  Jared showed his tremendous value in settling the thorny issue of Palestine, by confining them to a permanent prison camp based on 3000 year old instructions from God- let an Orthodox anything show you the authentic One True Way. Today Trump, in his continual despicable treatment of the right-less refugees, closed the US PLO office, after cutting all relief and support payments. Maybe they will just march into the Sea like the Pharaoh and Egyptians- oh no, access to the Sea is banned, even for the Gazans who live on it... they might make it to Cyprus... or catch some fish!

TORTURE OF IMMIGRANTS - Proud to Be an American? The nasty cracker Hobbit Sessions is finally enacting the racist solutions he has dreamed about for decades- torture immigrants until they leave and never return. He is returning America to a level of cruelty unseen since the 1920s or the Japanese Internment.
Unfortunately, the same man is the only thing standing between us and a Trump dictatorship- if he goes so will the whole Mueller Inquiry (although at this point they have probably secreted the evidence in many US attorneys & State AG's Offices). Maybe it is much better to provoke this BEFORE THE ELECTION so that the voters can can see the terrible totalitarian threat and also vote out Republicans in the Senate !

I wonder how many US Attorneys would commit suicide by going after Chump. We really can only count on the State Attorney General's of New York New Jersey California Oregon and Washington. Eventually even Republicans will rebel and vote to remove the monster- I wish they realized that now.
      
IF ONLY WE KNEW  
 (some did)  
---"A collapse by any major player (investment house) could create a chain reaction of falling dominos... the ultimate result could be a global economic collapse, because America is overextended way past the cliff, the net is disappearing, and a sinking America will drag down the world" - Bush Battered Dollar 3/2008
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0805/S00017.htm

I predicted the crash in Sept 2007 to friends: "Sell everything including your house, in 2 years you will be able to buy it back at half price (one friend is still wistful he didn't)." I wrote about it in March 08 in a Middle Atlas mountain village at 6900 ft in an unheated hotel room (nothing had heat in Morocco so my omnipresent 100w bulb/extension cord stayed lit 24 hrs). Focus was more the dying dollar- in my 9 month trek across Europe & Africa the dollar was so low ($1.65/€, Euro started at 85¢) there was a risk our bond holders would dump them for Euros. Right in the middle of writing it, Bear Stearns collapsed and the miracle was it took 5 more months for the whole rotten House of Cards to come down, since everyone on Wall St. knew it was coming. The now "heros" like Paulson did nothing to restrict the damage.

Since credit default swaps (CDS); credit debt obligations (CDO) were completely unregulated, nobody knew how much there was of this toxic debt. Turns out there was $600 trillion, 10 times more than all the money in the world! Obama's steady hand really prevented a full-on Depression.

THIS AMERICAN LIFE's podcast: "Giant Pool of Money" broke down the Genesis of the Collapse. (courtesy Erin). THE BIG SHORT movie was an excellent explainer too, and funny as helll. "I just settled on my 4th house, but things aren't moving like before," - Vegas stripper to Shorters investigating the Bubble (from memory- feel free to enlighten me what ah really says!).

I wish I knew about those NINA loans, I would have flipped houses and got out in 2006-7, but I was completely ignorant.

Will it happen again- Republicans have pretty much guaranteed it by gutting 80% of the Dodd-Frank act, allowing those same toxic financial "instruments", and done nothing to control deadly computer trading that can wipe out countries in the blink of an eye (many proposals to tax them). And this time nobody will get up because there won't be $8 trillion to bail out criminal speculators ($7.7 trillion in secret Fed Agencies secret loans and grants to the Big Banks from Oct '08-Jan '09- Rolling Stone + Bloomberg). Obama's great failing was in not jailing the top 5 or 10 architects of the mortgage loan scam (all criminal fraud) - with no personal punishment and a full government bailout, they will just do it again, since it cost them nothing!

They also should have reprised the Glass Steagall Act, which had kept the wolves away for 65 years.

Americans think everything happened only to them, but the developing world got smashed by the Collapse or Crisis much worse, with their Currency devaluing by 20-50%!! Imagine if your dollar suddenly was worth only 50¢, that's what happened to many countries just emerging into the 2nd or 1st World. And it was entirely American Bankster's fault.

9-11 And the anniversary of our greatest failure: 9-11 rolls
around again- we had so many chances to stop it but we failed miserably... and millions died in the 2 Wars that resulted (although one was a Bush War Crime). I just saw The Looming Towers which
                               First NYC Overflights MichaelHammerschlag©9/15/2001

details the CIA's subversion of the FBI. I was so mad about it for years, because I had 10 connections to the event, from being scheduled to fly over Manhattan at 6:30pm Sept 11, to predicting a terrorist attack on NYC or DC, to running into the pilot of the second WTC plane in the Ft Lauderdale Library 5 months before, to exploring Ground Zero 7 weeks later.   9-11 Commission has a new report?  The haunting story w many pics is here-  http://hammernews.blogspot.com/2005/09/   
- Ground Zero from the Hyatt skybridge to Nowhere fm my Video MichaelHammerschlag ©12/9/2001

GUILTY FOR 9-11 With the reappearance of the disgusting holy warrior Ken Starr trying to glom on to his acolyte's success and the return of (justified) Impeachment, and smear the Clinton's AGAIN, we should remember. If not for the 5 year witchhunt against Bill and the whole Administration (which found NO crime except against the Clintons), Clinton would probably have wiped out OBL after the appalling African Embassy bombings, so Ken Starr caused 9-11, Afghanistan and Iraq Wars! It was his modus oporendi in Bosnia/Kosovo. Yet Starr comes back trashing Monica and the Clintons in his silky prim self-serving voice; "Clinton should have been censured, not Impeached"- sure then why did you let Bret write that incredibly slanderous explicit trash report advocating IMPEACHMENT?

OPED COURAGE: The Deep State is nonsense, except for the constantly recycled scum of mass-murdering neocons, (and the KOCH manipulations). Can't they be given villas on some tropical island and no communications- it's just 100 or so.

Re the Cowardice or Courage of the NYT OPED writer, Frank Rich excoriates him for collaboration, but Chucky does it better:
I, on the other hand, am deeply appreciative, probably because I have lived under repressive Soviet societies like author of this, Anne Applebaum:
--- Washington Feels Like the Capital of an Occupied Country: In nations that have known the horror of dictatorship or foreign occupation, there are often long traditions of what Poland’s national poet once called “patriotic treason.” ---
https://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/52194-washington-feels-like-the-capital-of-an-occupied-country

RUSSIA PROTESTS: The protests roiling Russia are about Putin raising the low Russian pension age (the pensions are near starvation levels)- it has to be cause men die very early because of drunkenness and accident: --- a life expectancy of 66 while for women it is 77, the World Health Organization says. 43% of men WILL NOT LIVE TO RETIREMENT.
The retirement age for men and women will start being increased gradually. By 2036 it will have risen from 60 to 65 for men and from 55 to 60 for women (Mr Putin softened the initial plan to raise women's retirement age to 63). ---

MIKE ON NPR:  ON-POINT, w TIM SNYDER Comment on Russian Propaganda's Effect against Ukraine
http://hammernews.com/TimSnyderHAMMERcmtOnPoint@22.20-3.41-6-7-18.mp3

YALE PROF. TIMOTHY SNYDER (YOUTUBE) author Bloodlands THINKING TOGETHER CONFERENCE - Why you say Eurasian Union rather than Soviet, without China can it be Asian; failure of the Western Left in reacting to Putin's lies - Mohyla Academy May 15, 2014 ; After Speech-AUD - Snyder writes article I suggested (prev aud) pic right 

TALKING to the TALIBAN
The US Military is now trying to get some negotiated settlement with the Taliban, which I think is a fool's errand, as their recent savage Afghan attacks showed. It means we are throwing in the towel- it is Vietnam circa 1972, Taliban isn't interested in sharing, or being part of a Gov, they want total control to impose their religious fanaticism on everyone. Sounds simplistic and crude, but the only good Taliban or ISIS is a dead one. There was some settlement reached sometime back between 80 Tribal leaders and the Taliban that people thought would provide some respite... the Taliban, having identified them, came back and killed every last Tribal leader, cutting off many heads. But this crazy US woman journo went banging on their door in Afghanistan and interviewing them, + somehow didn't get enslaved. 30 min audio https://foreignpolicy.com/2...

HMM, IGOR GOOD, TRADE BAD: NPR Politics Podcast says Trump wrote on a speech "TRADE BAD!" and hates ALL TRADE, that he thinks buying from foreigners is letting them rip us off. Insane, I bet his bully father indoctrinated that into him, since we know he is utterly vacant of any real thought processes.

Does CYBERWAR need a Geneva Convention? https://foreignpolicy.com/2...

VOX PODCASTS: I found another superb site with a wide variety: VOX PODCASTS- Best is Ezra Klein (find exc Chump Corruption show) + Worldly (India/Paki nuke standoff) https://www.vox.com/pages/p... VERY SMART TALK w swearing & no RW false equivalent chumps

MIKE QUESTIONS BOB WOODWARD NPR 1A (kinda) https://the1a.org/audio/#/shows/2018-09-17/woodward-his-words-your-questions/115525/@05:15
Woodward's FEAR: --- In the political back-and-forth, the evasions, the denials, the tweeting, the obscuring, crying ‘Fake News,’ the indignation, Trump had one overriding problem that John Dowd knew but could not bring himself to say to the president: ‘You’re a fcking liar.’ ” --- 

BOSTON GAS PIPELINES BLOWS UP ACROSS SEVERAL CITIES- Dozens of fires!!!  Go Bahstan, why should Chicago have the record? Apparently pipeline system was damaged by contractors last month, in repair and restoring it they vastly overpressurized the system, causing pilots to extinguish? and house to fill up with gas. Just get the ammunition ships out of the harbor!

FINALLY, A ROUND 2 FOR BREXIT -
Yes absolutely, Moslem Mayor Sadiq Khan says it was a MISTAKE, DO IT AGAIN!!!  Exactly, just like Chump (or Ed King), given another chance people would vote 2:1 to STAY IN THE EU; or pick PRESIDENT HILLARY!! KHAAAAAAAAAAAN!

BAKERSFIELD SHOOTER KILLS 5 + HIMSELF2 RAMPAGE SHOOTINGS on SAME DAY IN PENN. -  No further info ever; just look at the last one