"Top Five Clinton Donors Are Jewish" - How Anti-Semitic Is This Fact?
Top five Clinton donors Are Jewish, campaign tally shows.
Something is wrong with the above statement. Isn't it anti-semitic? Did Trump say that? Readers of that statement may assume, somewhat reasonably, that there is a club of rich Jewish people controlling the Clinton campaign and, maybe, Clinton herself. That sounds like it was taken from the fake Protocols of the Elders of Zion. It clearly must be anti-semitic.
It is also true.
Facts have no bias. They can't be anti-semitic (or can they?). But while facts as such can not have a racial-religious bias, openly stating them surely can. Thus the above statement is anti-semitic. The fact itself isn't bad, reporting it publicly is bad, bad, bad.
Who but an alt-right rag would report such at all? And for what purpose if not for spreading anti-semitism?
Well - quot licet jovi, ...
Jewish papers are of course allowed to report such a fact. That isn't anti-semitic. It is solely to brag about Jewish powers. Within the club that is not only allowed, but welcome. Thus Haaretz writes (sourced to the the Jewish Telegraph Agency) under the identity defining headline at the top of this post:
Haim Saban, George Soros and others stand at the head of a list of wealthy donors who contributed mainly via super PACs.The Washington Post analysis, posted October 24, named the top donors, who are contributing $1 of every $17 of the over $1 billion amassed for the Democratic nominee’s presidential run.
They are Donald Sussman, a hedge fund manager; J.B. Pritzker, a venture capitalist, and his wife, M.K.; Haim Saban, the Israeli-American entertainment mogul, and his wife, Cheryl; George Soros, another hedge funder and a major backer of liberal causes, and Daniel Abraham, a backer of liberal pro-Israel causes and the founder of SlimFast.
Many of the big Clinton campaign donors also give to the Clinton Foundation which at times is a washing machine to put money into the Clinton's private accounts. It is kind of difficult to understand where Clinton Inc begins and where it ends. Campaign funds, Clinton foundation, speech fees, private accounts - does it even matter? Surely those who pay, to whatever Clinton entity, expect a service in return. Given the Clinton's occupations as Senator, Secretary of State and President the ask in return is unlikely to be commercial. It will be political.
And here is why it matters that the five top donors to Clinton's campaign are Jewish, and all big supporters of Israel. (Haim Saban: "I'm a one-issue guy, and my issue is Israel.") They surely will ask for political favors in the interest of the Zionist entity. This is also the reason why Haaretz, an Israeli paper, finds the strong racial-religious bias at the top Clinton campaign tally newsworthy. Big money paid to a Clinton entity can directly effect U.S. policies towards Israel. It buys its acquiescence to Israeli escapades even when those are not consistent U.S. interests.
Clinton's positions towards Syria, Iran and Russia (which limits Israel's freedom of action) are surely not independent of Israeli interests.
But that is of course, anti-semitic speculation ...
Posted by b on October 28, 2016 at 15:16 UTC | Permalink
next page »How mega-donors helped raise $1 billion for Hillary Clinton
What to do with 1 billion?
Buying journalists, you can't prove that.
Buying people to come to her events, there are no.
Buying advertisements, but MSM is already pure Hillary-propaganda.
I don't get it.
Posted by: From The Hague | Oct 28 2016 15:38 utc | 3
Funny, back in the day, b used to kick everyone off his site who mentioned Zionist influences, Yinon Plan, etc. re: world affairs.
But now to help "save the planet" - chuckle - from nuclear Armageddon - srsly, guys, this time it's SERIOUS! - he's willing to bend a few rules.
Just to make note:
b from MoA thinks the following:
1) US elections are real.
2) There's actually a difference between the "candidates". (see #1)
3) That one "candidate" for POTUS will not fully and completely support Israel. (see #2)
4) That worrying/opining about the fake US election is really not succumbing to US propaganda/mind control but is rather the highly analytical/insightful/independent thing an intelligent person should do when worried about "THE FUTURE OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT!!!" as it is necessary to help give TPTB the consent of the governed/participation they need to keep the Spectacle going.
No, seriously, you're really helping everyone, b!
But you should get paid for it.
Posted by: Ron Showalter | Oct 28 2016 16:05 utc | 4
Shouldn't your point be that these five donors are "one-issue guys" regards Israel and foreign policy? That's the real reason people may find these donors objectionable, but you don't say that when you just write, "Top five Clinton donors are Jewish". When you went on about whether this statement is anti-Semitic, I thought that if I didn't know you, I wouldn't know if you had more to say than that. In contrast, in the boards there's been comments like when "The Interview" came out, it has to be some smear campaign because it's from a Jewish director (Seth Rogan).
Posted by: Inkan1969 | Oct 28 2016 16:06 utc | 5
thanks b. "Big money paid to a Clinton entity can directly effect U.S. policies towards Israel." indeed..
@5 ron, your sarcasm is noted and thrown in the trash can like all your other comments here on in..
Posted by: james | Oct 28 2016 16:12 utc | 6
An email released today by Wikileaks reveals the strong pressure of the Israel lobby inside the Hillary Clinton campaign. A draft of Clinton’s famous letter opposing Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel makes what was actually sent out look almost sweet by comparison. The draft called the BDS movement “odious” and “unconscionable” and an attack on “the legitimacy of Zionism.”
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Facts have no bias. They can't be anti-semitic (or can they?). -b
Converse long enough with a Zionist and you'll soon find that absolutely everything under the sun can be "anti-semitic".
Facts, dates, things said, things not said, the way you wear your hat - all can be anti-Semitic when a Zionist wants them to be.
What seems to be the main criteria for deciding whether or not something is anti-Semitic seems to merely be "Is it useful for me right now to silence someone by claiming this is anti-Semitic?"
and et voilà anti-semitism is conjured up out of thin air
Posted by: Killary PAC | Oct 28 2016 16:14 utc | 7
So when I push for the end of private finance am I being anti-semitic?
Think about it readers. It is time to focus on the issues and not be brought down by the politics about people.
Private finance and unfettered inheritance are the core problems we face in the West. When you are tricked into focusing on people instead of the core social organization issues, your argument is compromised entirely.
We are ruled by the folks (regardless of their ethnicity) who own private finance and thusly everything else but the bottom line issue for our society is that private finance exists, not the individuals or families at the top.
Posted by: psychohistorian | Oct 28 2016 16:17 utc | 8
You know, I've kind-of been thinking...
Isn't there something surreal about this whole Jewish relationship with American society? SERIOUSLY! It's become generally accepted that Jewish people control the Mass Soverican Media (MSM), Hollywood, most of the government, half the supreme court, half of the powerful banks, etc., etc., etc. This should lead to an immediate question!
Why do people talk about a shadow government? Of course there is a shadow government. But... this shadow government is hidden by definition, so... the allegedly controlling Jews cannot be the shadow government. So... they must be world-class patsies in one of the biggest false flag operations ever perpetrated. And when the music stops there will be no chairs for them.
Well, this thought just irresistibly percolated up from the bottom of my brain.
Posted by: blues | Oct 28 2016 16:17 utc | 9
We are ruled by the folks (regardless of their ethnicity) who own private finance and thusly everything else but the bottom line issue for our society is that private finance exists, not the individuals or families at the top.
Posted by: psychohistorian | Oct 28, 2016 12:17:12 PM | 9
If all those at the top were White Anglo-Saxon Protestant would anyone be voicing any qualms about identifying them as such?
I think not.
We even have a shorthand version pejorative for "White Anglo-Saxon Protestant" - WASP - and I've never heard anyone object to it's usage. EVER.
Nor have I ever heard anyone object when someone is identified as a "WASP"
So these objections to identifying Killary's top five donors by their ethnicity seem more than just a little hypocritical
Posted by: Killary PAC | Oct 28 2016 16:25 utc | 11
http://www.unz.com/article/the-pathologization-of-dissent/
According to the mainstream media, in a recent speech in West Palm Beach, Donald Trump finally completely lost it. Sawing the air with his tiny hands in a unmistakeably Hitlerian manner, he spat out a series of undeniably hateful anti-Semitic code words … like “political establishment,” “global elites” and, yes, “international banks.” He even went so far as to claim that “corporations” and their (ahem) “lobbyists” have millions of dollars at stake in this election, and are trying to pass the TTP, not to benefit the American people, but simply to enrich themselves. He then went on to accuse the media of collaborating with “the Clinton machine,” presumably to benefit these “global elites” and “international banks” and “lobbyists.”
Now, a lot of folks didn’t immediately recognize the secret meanings of these fascistic code words, and so mistakenly assumed that “global elites” referred to the transnational capitalist ruling classes, and that “lobbyists” referred to actual lobbyists, and that “banks” meant … well … you know, banks.
As it turned out, this was completely wrong.
None of these words actually meant what they meant, not in "anti-Semitic CodeSpeak".
So the mainstream media translated for us.
“Political establishment” meant “the Jews.”
“Global elites” also meant “the Jews.”
“Banks” meant “Jews.”
“Lobbyists” meant “Jews.”
Even “corporate media,” meant “Jews.”
Apparently, Trump’s entire speech was a series of secret dog-whistle signals to his legions of neo-Nazi goons, who, immediately following Clinton’s victory, are going to storm out of their hidey holes, frontally attack the US military, overthrow the US government, and, yes, you guessed it … “kill the Jews.”/
Posted by: Killary PAC | Oct 28 2016 16:28 utc | 12
@ Killary PAC
Do you have proof that ALL of the global plutocratic families that own private finance and everything else are Jewish?
You don't of course and are proving my point that once you go down the road of attacking people instead of "things" like private finance and inheritance you have totally lost any argument you might be making.
If we focus on the cancerous issues and not the people that benefit from them we have a much better chance of success.....in our new multi-polar world.
Posted by: psychohistorian | Oct 28 2016 16:50 utc | 13
Funny, back in the day, b used to kick everyone off his site who mentioned Zionist influences, Yinon Plan, etc. re: world affairs.
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Posted by: Ron Showalter | Oct 28, 2016 12:05:07 PM | 5
No, Ron, that's completely wrong.
Like all Decent, Moral people everywhere, b warned commenters not to criticise Jews for being Jewish and for no other reason.
However, it's quite kosher to criticise Jews, and anyone else, for engaging in activities of questionable legality/morality.
But in any case the publicity-seeking "Holocaust Survivors" made themselves hi-profile targets for criticism by making their favourite Holocaust a Moral Issue about Human Decency.
Have you forgotten that "Hollywood" assures us that "There's no such thing as bad publicity?"
Posted by: Hoarsewhisperer | Oct 28 2016 17:09 utc | 14
@ Killary PAC
Do you have proof that ALL of the global plutocratic families that own private finance and everything else are Jewish?
Posted by: psychohistorian | Oct 28, 2016 12:50:35 PM | 14
I never said anything of the sort - I asked if people were to single out "White Anglo-Saxon Protestants", or WASPs to use the common pejorative, would anyone complain?
I said absolutely nothing about "ALL of the global plutocratic families that own private finance and everything else" being "Jewish?"
You just invented that. I'll leave it to others to decide for themselves why you chose to do that.
You don't of course . . .
Well, since I never said it in the first place it's a completely moot point, one which you conjured out of thin air. Again, I'll leave it to others to decide for themselves why you chose to do that.
. . .and are proving my point - Hardly, since I never said it in the first place, you just invented it out of thin air.
once you . . . blah blah blah . . you have totally lost any argument you might be making.
Indeed you have. Once you have to resort to inventing things in order to silence your perceived "opponent" you certainly have "lost any argument you might be making."
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Oh, and thank you for proving my point ;-)
All I did was ask "If people were to single out "White Anglo-Saxon Protestants", or WASPs to use the common pejorative, would anyone complain? "
and you certainly don't seem to have any complaint about the use of the pejorative "WASP's" anyway.
So given all that "These objections to identifying Killary's top five donors by their ethnicity seem more than just a little hypocritical"
So once again, thank you for proving my point.
Posted by: Killary PAC | Oct 28 2016 17:14 utc | 15
Actually it’s not just the top 5 but the top 15 Clinton donors that are Jewish. But not to worry as Jewish mega-donors are well represented (majority?) in the Republican Party as well.
Here is a list of the top 50 mega-donors. You can count the goyim on your fingers.
Meet the wealthy donors who are pouring millions into the 2016 elections
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/superpac-donors-2016/
Nothing to see here… Carry on.
Posted by: pantaraxia | Oct 28 2016 17:23 utc | 16
All the people in the top 5 places on Killary's donor list are Jewish - this is a fact.
so we have our answer to b's question "Are facts anti-Semitic"
According to at least one person here, the answer appears to be
- "Yes, facts are anti-Semitic!"
So much so that even if you never said something, I'll pretend you did say it, in order to try and silence you by claiming that you said something you did not say
Posted by: Killary PAC | Oct 28 2016 17:24 utc | 17
Well, whatever is going on inside the wealthy Jewish minds, they sure place a lot of faith in the Clintonian enterprise. Like begets like.
Posted by: stumpy | Oct 28 2016 17:26 utc | 18
The Top 10
Rank Name Donations
1 Tom Steyer $38 million
2 Donald Sussman $23.4 million
3 Miriam &
Sheldon Adelson $21.5 million
4 Robert Mercer $20.2 million
5 Michael
Bloomberg $20.1 million
6 Fred Eychaner $20 million
7 Paul Singer $17.3 million
8 George Soros $16.5 million
9 Maurice "Hank"
Greenberg $15.1 million
10 Elizabeth &
Richard Uihlein $14 million
Posted by: Killary PAC | Oct 28 2016 17:31 utc | 19
What I think happened...
At:
Killary PAC | Oct 28, 2016 12:28:24 PM | 13
....was subtle snark-fest. And I thought it was very humorous and it made me chuckle.
I think that was the real cherry-pit of the piece.
Posted by: blues | Oct 28 2016 17:42 utc | 20
The US is a jewish colony, the whole world knows that.
Jewish donors, 2 percent of the population, contribute a whopping 50% of funds received by the Democratic Party and 25% to the Republican Party
Posted by: Passer by | Oct 28 2016 17:52 utc | 21
As a non American reader of MoA, I must say the quality of articles as of late has really seemed to take a plunge. I used to love coming here. It's not even about some disagreement with the topics at hand, just disappointment with the declining level of thought. Hopefully after election season we can get back to reading something with a little more substance and analysis.
I still enjoy coming here and have always appreciated your time and effort b, but goddamn your readership totally gets that clinton isn't great. Plus I'm sure they have already made up their minds about voting and you haven't told them anything new in ages. I miss the unconventional and thoughtful insight you used to provide. I certainly never came here to hear what we all already know about the establishment candidate.
Posted by: FecklessLeft | Oct 28 2016 17:56 utc | 22
Sem·ite
ˈsemīt/
noun
a member of any of the peoples who speak or spoke a Semitic language, including in particular the Jews and Arabs.
If one assesses the behavior of Israel, the unequivocal fact that the Israelis themselves are anti-semite becomes manifestly apparent. Technically anyway, but facts are for fucking and truth is what you want to believe.
Posted by: Shh | Oct 28 2016 18:01 utc | 23
re: FecklessLeft | Oct 28, 2016 1:56:10 PM | 23
You should recognize that Hillary Clinton is transcendentally corrupt -- and 99% of the media is bellowing on about how she is our great savior.
A whole lot is at stake here.
Posted by: blues | Oct 28 2016 18:04 utc | 24
re: FecklessLeft | Oct 28, 2016 1:56:10 PM | 23
You should bear in mind that Hillary Clinton is transcendentally corrupt while 99% of the media is shouting out that she is our wonderful savior. Some compensation is to be expected.
Posted by: blues | Oct 28 2016 18:10 utc | 25
@Ron Showalter @5
You have made a total of exactly five comments on this site. All comments said the same, not literally, but content wise. Beating me up for posting about the election.
That's boring.
Stepping away from ethnicity or identity... there had been a push in the U.S. in the late 90s for comprehensive campaign financing reform, which was ultimately unsuccessful. Then W Bush was installed twice under sketchy circumstances, managed to get Roberts and Alito onto the Supreme Court, and they found the means to get the Citizens United ruling which opened the floodgate to the huge donations. The election system is a disaster because powerful people could take advantage to make it so. Focussing solely on ethnic identity can mask or obscure the class based dynamics at play.
Posted by: jayc | Oct 28 2016 18:19 utc | 28
Hahaha - Comey, the head of the FBI, just reopened the criminal investigation into Clinton's email server handling.
Whoopeeeh - 10 days before the election. What a nice little October surprise.
The media had mostly avoided to dig into the Potesta and DNC emails Wikileaks published.
They can't ignore an FBI criminal investigation. Certainly not when many FBI folks are ready to "leak" about it (that's likely why Comey had to reopen - to prevent a big bang leak (which can still come despite that))
If Clinton gets elected they could indict her before she gets into the White House. Interesting scenario (and unlikely).
What is the earliest point Congress could start an impeachment? Before January?
Wtf is a Jew? Everyone else seems to know, but I am genuinely ignorant here. I know what an Israeli is, because I know a bit of geography and have met quite a few. But the evasive "Jew" of legend, I have yet to encounter. Are they like Ginger people in South Park? Lol
Posted by: dan | Oct 28 2016 18:22 utc | 30
Peter Levenda has written on politics, deep politics, religions and secret societies. Board rooms are secret societies. The Skull and Bones Society at Yale is a secret society (both candidates for President of the US in 2004 were Bonesmen; considering that they have only about fifteen new members a year, it's quite a "coincidence" that both candidates came from that same, very exclusive group).Religions have components of secrecy, hierarchies into which most of us are not allowed. Wikileaks is in some ways guilty of giving a glimpse into the temple of covert US politics.
During my working years the Jews I've known were blue collar and most of them were pro-labor and anti-war and supporters of all minorities' rights. That the top five donors to Clinton are Jewish is an interesting fact and should be thoroughly investigated (it won't be more than superficially) for links between the donations and the donors' desires, but remember that the Clinton Foundation got plenty of money from the Saudis and Qataris who are using the past arms deals to supply ISIS. So do the Saudis control Clinton or do the five top donors? Or is there another dynamic?
While I haven't studied these five, I am presuming that like Haim Saban and George Soros, they are motivated by Zionism. After all, these rich old men came into the world in the wake of WWII and its consequences. In the meantime, the US (Clinton's wing) has been using Salafist billionaires from the House of Saud to inflict a holy war across the globe, through their imams, radical mosques and the supply of weapons and training, from Chechnya to Tibet to Syria to Indonesia.
So we have two polar opposites financing dreams of heaven on earth through American military power. And, not performing as a charity, the elite of the US greatly benefit from the death and destruction around the world.
It happens with just about all people who believe that they can build their heaven on earth on a pile of someone else's bones. There is plenty of irony to go around. The House of Saud, pledged to destroy Israel, is working hand in glove with the Israelis in Syria. Soros, knee deep in the Ukraine mess, is allied with some of the most vile anti-Semites on earth. Is Qatar quietly arming ISIS because it wants to eradicate a pluralist society or because they want their pipeline across Syria? Or both?
Right now there is a huge struggle in the Dakotas about putting a pipeline across Native American sacred land. The parallels with Syria are astounding. So what is the grand unifying theory? Is it religion, capitalism? Or are they both tools for the rich?
Posted by: Bob In Portland | Oct 28 2016 18:30 utc | 31
I think we've been very lucky that in general MoA has been a hasbara-free blog. Most blogs have had someone from the hasbara who is there all the time to put in Israel's point of view at any moment. In the case of MoA, hasbara people started quite often and then gave up. It seemed to be that it was not worth it, as too unimportant. Now MoA is more widely read and I wonder why they haven't come back, with more persistence.
I ask myself why. Is it that the hasbara policy has changed? Israel no longer feels it has to dominate the conversation.
Posted by: Laguerre | Oct 28 2016 18:54 utc | 32
Meanwhile events occurring to the immediate west of Israel do not bode well for the Balfour declared estate of Israel
The rapidly developing relations between Russia and Egypt have been overshadowed by the more prominent relationships between Russia and Syria, as well as Russia and Iran. Nevertheless, the Russia-Egypt relationship deserves closer scrutiny because, unlike the country’s relations with the other two Middle Eastern powers, it concerns a country that until recently appeared to be firmly in Western orbit.
The reasons for this shift are twofold, and have to do with the way Western powers interact with Middle Eastern powers in the context of a systemic economic crisis, as well as with Russia’s demonstrated attractiveness as an ally.
Combined with the military presence in Syria, Cyprus’ general pro-Russian orientation, and the neutralization of Turkey which was also facilitated by an abortive West-promoted coup attempt, Egyptian bases would transform Eastern Mediterranean into a “Russian lake.”
Cooperation now includes the possibility of establishing a Russian airbase in Egypt, visits by Russian paratroopers to Egypt, and special operations troops providing training to their Egyptian counterparts. Egypt is also shifting its military procurement plans toward Russia. The two Mistral-class ships that have been acquired by Egypt will receive the originally planned Russian electronics suite and will carry Russian helicopters; there are discussions of MiG fighter sales to Egypt, and the country received a Molniya-class missile boat.
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2016/10/27/the-geopolitics-of-russia-egypt-relations/
Posted by: ALberto | Oct 28 2016 19:02 utc | 33
Shakesvshav,
Yes, Mr Soros can be included in the pro-Zionist camp despie some minor quibbles he may have with the Likud Party. He has huge financial interests in Israel and is friendly with many of its principal politicians. If he argues with one from time to time it's probably no more than a case of "thieves falling out>'
Posted by: schmenz | Oct 28 2016 19:13 utc | 34
Dan @31,
They're an in-group much like the clubhouses of childhoods past.
Laguerre @33,
Or, perhaps, in a rare lapse of pride, they realize that hasbara is making matters worse, and that appearing in, let alone dominating the conversation is only going to prevent the agent of their endeavors from getting into power.
With all the Tribe members surrounding her, one might expect that Zionists are trying to butter her up for a lead role in Revelations: The Musical.
Posted by: Jonathan | Oct 28 2016 19:14 utc | 35
Wtf is a Jew? Everyone else seems to know, but I am genuinely ignorant here.
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Posted by: dan | Oct 28, 2016 2:22:46 PM | 31
Ask Gilad Atzmon, dan. He's written a book called The Wandering Who?
It's his perspective on Jews and Identity Politics and, as an ex-Jew, he probably knows what he's talking about. And why...
Posted by: Hoarsewhisperer | Oct 28 2016 19:14 utc | 36
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With all the Tribe members surrounding her, one might expect that Zionists are trying to butter her up for a lead role in Revelations: The Musical.
Posted by: Jonathan | Oct 28, 2016 3:14:08 PM | 36
or End Times: The Cartoon.
Posted by: Hoarsewhisperer | Oct 28 2016 19:31 utc | 37
What is a kurd?
I don't know.
Sick name-calling
Posted by: From The Hague | Oct 28 2016 19:35 utc | 38
@ b 30
Comey is feeling the pressure - hedging his bets and is covering in that he can’t afford to chance Wikileaks’ continuing to publish. An open demonstration of their incompetence comes into view.
Pressure Point No: 1
AND, more pressure over the last 2 weeks in worldwide MSM of the seemingly revelations of corrupt connection - the $500,000 donation that may have turned the worm. A shameless donation to the wife of the FBI official who oversaw the HRC email investigation. Not to mention the fact of Comey’s brother’s close Clinton camp connected.
WSJ: Clinton Ally Aided Campaign of FBI Official’s Wife
Group linked to Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe donated nearly half a million dollars to 2015 state Senate candidate
http://www.wsj.com/articles/clinton-ally-aids-campaign-of-fbi-officials-wife-1477266114
McAuliffe is not just a Clinton Ally:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-10-24/prominent-democrat-connected-clintons-donated-675000-campaign-deputy-fbi-directors-w
McAuliffe has been a central figure in the Clinton’s political careers. In 1990 he was Bill’s chief fundraiser…
all the FBI had to do was ask the other 3 letter agency.
Pressure Point No: 2
This is only weeks after Comey said “no reasonable prosecutor would bring charges” against Hillary.
And how about the recent case – a 4 star General, James Cartwright sent to prison for mishandling classified info…. His downfall is a felony charge of lying to investigators probing the leaks.
"Retired General Charged In Probe of Classified Information"
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/retired-general-charged-in-probe-of-classified-information-disclosure-229891
Help me out here. How do you re-open an investigation after ALL the players were granted immunity?
Oh wait, there is one email where Hillary admits instructing they (the emails) be deleted. “I said I told them to delete.
Pressure Point No: 3
And a Trump win? In the 2nd debate, He did promised Hillary…. “You’d be in jail”
The powers that be are now concerned with Trump by a landslide; Compare the crowd draw 10,000-20,000 for Tramp rallies against 300->3,280 for HRC
Do the data mining this isreported by CNBC AI predicts Trump landslide
Here
“Donald Trump will win the election and is more popular than Obama..”
http://www.cnbc.com/2016/10/28/donald-trump-will-win-the-election-and-is-more-popular-than-obama-in-2008-ai-system-finds.html
This guy then is not whistling only air
“Trump wins by landslide – 100% polls manufactured”
http://usawatchdog.com/trump-wins-by-landslide-polls-100-manufactured-clif-high/
Posted by: likklemore | Oct 28 2016 19:52 utc | 39
Obviously, being accused of anti-semitism is par for the course. Any criticism of Israel will be described as anti-semitic; it's Israeli policy.
However the question is the policy of the Jewish community in the US, though far far from all Jews. The policy is based on what the Ottoman Jews did in Istanbul: get close to power in the palace, and you have what you want. palace politics, never mind what the people think. Today in the US, it's a bit more complicated, you have to persuade the public. As Jonatan says, it's for the tribe.
In my view it is sad that we have people who are ready to previlege one tribe over another. Everyone should get their chance.
Posted by: Laguerre | Oct 28 2016 19:54 utc | 40
@33 laguerre.. i think hasbarists still hang out here.. they just periodically (and idiotically) open their mouth less frequently. i like what jonathan @36 says.
@30 b... interesting timing.. thanks.
Posted by: james | Oct 28 2016 19:56 utc | 41
@31, wondered much the same thing. Most people who call themselves Jewish do so because their parents told them, and their parents told them and so on... back into the mists of ancient Lithuania. But as to their putative descent from the ancient Prophets, the original Jews, not a shred of evidence(as far as I know)has been advanced.
Posted by: ruralito | Oct 28 2016 19:58 utc | 42
@feckless left 23
Many of b's recent and uninteresting election time analysis do get linked from other pages, which draws in more readers. They are short and sweet and I have personally sent links to family members, the articles having just enough facts to be relevant and simple enough to be succinct. It does bear repeating the nature of the establishment just as we now behold Donald as a dyed-in-the-wool pussy - grabbing megalomaniac. See the pattern?
It will all be over soon, anyways. Perhaps there is over-saturation, but this is hardly b's fault.
Posted by: NemesisCalling | Oct 28 2016 20:07 utc | 43
wasn't it Obama who ushered in the era of billion dollar electoral campaigns? why yes, i believe it was, and as obscene as that is, it's just a fleeting factoid to the vast majority of our fervent little voters.
god, what a culture of grifters!
Posted by: john | Oct 28 2016 20:12 utc | 44
RE: the new emails about(?) Hillary.
According to NPR, these emails came from Anthony Weiner's data, emails, whatever... . From the investigaion into his sexting. Crikey.
Anthony would have emails from his wife, so...this could be boring or very, very interesting. Did he grouse? Did Huma? He seems to not have an inner editor, so, wow.
Oh my.
Posted by: jawbone | Oct 28 2016 20:13 utc | 45
ALberto'34 Another aspect of the shifting alliances is the stopping oil exports from Saudi Arabia to Egypt because Egypt voted with Russia at the UNSC on Syria.
The Iraqi-Egyptian agreement came after Saudi oil company Aramco announced cutting the supply of petroleum products to Egypt, which provided an opportunity for Iraq to send an indirect message to Saudi Arabia showing its ability to support Egypt and all of Saudi Arabia’s Arab opponents.Therefore..
"Iraq is already supplying Egypt with 200,000 barrels of oil per month. However, now it will supply it with 1 million barrels per month, and this seems sufficient to meet Egypt’s oil needs".http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2016/10/iraq-egypt-saudi-oil-iran-sisi-abadi.html The Saudis are of course teaming up with Israel to confront Iran, here is what prominent Saudi
Salman Al-Ansari President of the Saudi American Public Affairs committee in Washington said..”Israel, he noted, was “one of the most sophisticated and technologically advanced countries in the field of mining,” as well as “a world leader in the water engineering industry” — both matters of significant interest to the developing Arab Kingdom.
Al-Ansari stressed that the two nations share security concerns, with both “facing constant threats from extremist groups that are directly supported by the totalitarian government of Iran.”
Israel and Saudi Arabia, he argued, could serve as “the new twin pillars of regional stability,”
http://www.timesofisrael.com/saudi-lobbyist-in-us-urges-collaberative-alliance-with-israel/
Posted by: harrylaw | Oct 28 2016 20:17 utc | 46
Interesting tidbit about the Illinois US senate race. The incumbent, the Republican Mark Kirk, had a stroke and since then has made notably unedited comments. Last night he made a comment about Tammy Duckworth's Chinese heritage (her mother is Chinese born in Thailand), and that comment has drawn attention to his overall neurological health.
A friend of mine had a stroke which deeply affected the part of the brain responsible for impulse control. He used to be highly organized, extremely conscious of ramifications of his actions, spent carefully, prepared for exigencies, etc. Since the stroke, and especially when he's feeling more energetic, he spends like a drunken sailor, swears like one, has no care about consequences of his actions. If he's feeling under pressure this is even more exaggerated.
Kirk's recovery from his stroke has won him some sympathy, but I gather there's has not been much reporting about any personality changes. The debate this made this change a bit more open to scrutiny and other examples are apparently being discussed.
Anyone from Illinois know more?
During a debate between Rep. Tammy Duckworth and Sen. Mark Kirk (R-IL) for his U.S. Senate seat in Springfield, Illinois, Kirk mocked Duckworth’s ancestry, saying in rebuttal of her comments on the true cost of war,“I had forgotten that your parents came all the way from Thailand to serve George Washington.”
His remark came in response to her statement that, “My family has served this nation in uniform going back to the Revolution. I am a Daughter of the American Revolution.”
Posted by: jawbone | Oct 28 2016 20:29 utc | 47
There is far more Islamophobia in the UK than Antisemitism, prominent Professor Jonathan Rosenhead had this to say on Antisemitism in response to wild allegations in the UK Labour party.
“In response to a moral panic about Left antisemitism seemingly expanding without limit, the group Free Speech on Israel coalesced in April out of a loosely-knit band of Jewish Labour Party supporters. Some 15 of us got together at a couple of days’ notice for the inaugural gathering. We found that over our lifetimes we could muster only a handful of antisemitic experiences between us. And, crucially, although in aggregate we had hundreds of years of Labour Party membership, no single one of us had ever experienced an incident of antisemitism in the Party.
Some time in May the ex-Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks was interviewed on Radio 4 about the antisemitism ‘crisis’ by now gripping the nation. Helpfully his interviewer invited him to share some of his own personal experiences of antisemitism. His response, from memory ran rather like this: “Well….actually I have never experienced antisemitism myself. Which is odd, because most people know that the Chief Rabbi is Jewish”. https://www.opendemocracy.net/jonathan-rosenhead/jackie-walker-suspense-mystery
Posted by: harrylaw | Oct 28 2016 20:29 utc | 48
28 October 2016 16:32
1st Image of Russian New Missile Which Can Maintain Russian Global Power
http://en.alalam.ir/news/1878429
The prospective strategic missile system is being developed in order to create an assured and effective nuclear deterrent for Russia's strategic forces."
The Sarmat is set to replace the RS-36, a family of ICBMs and space launch vehicles that entered service in the 1970s and 1980s.
I see they even thought ahead to jettison the extension cord once it fires.
Posted by: schlub | Oct 28 2016 20:31 utc | 49
Here's a free clue for all the teenage girls/fanboys that regularly post here:
If you find that you're creaming in your capri pants about every little stupid non-story that is being reported in the MSM about the Spectacle they call the US election you MIGHT just be under the sway of TPTB's propaganda.
No really.
Difference between fake-lefties squealing about insipid US election drama and teeny-boppers squealing about their favorite boy-band of the moment?
The first group should know better but still squeals like teenage girls.
The second group does not know better and are in fact squealing teenage girls.
Posted by: Ron Showalter | Oct 28 2016 20:41 utc | 50
trouble in cyberspace. "Your comment has been posted. Post another" Hmm. but it's a no-show.
@ b 30
Comey is feeling the pressure - hedging his bets and is covering in that he can’t afford to chance Wikileaks’ continuing to publish. An open demonstration of their incompetence comes into view.
Pressure Point No: 1
AND, more pressure over the last 2 weeks in worldwide MSM of the seemingly revelations of corrupt connection - the $500,000 donation that may have turned the worm. A shameless donation to the wife of the FBI official who oversaw the HRC email investigation. Not to mention the fact of Comey’s brother’s close Clinton camp connected.
WSJ: Clinton Ally Aided Campaign of FBI Official’s Wife
Group linked to Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe donated nearly half a million dollars to 2015 state Senate candidate
http://www.wsj.com/articles/clinton-ally-aids-campaign-of-fbi-officials-wife-1477266114
McAuliffe is not just a Clinton Ally:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-10-24/prominent-democrat-connected-clintons-donated-675000-campaign-deputy-fbi-directors-w
McAuliffe has been a central figure in the Clinton’s political careers. In 1990 he was Bill’s chief fundraiser…
all the FBI had to do was ask the other 3 letter agency.
Pressure Point No: 2
This is only weeks after Comey said “no reasonable prosecutor would bring charges” against Hillary.
And how about the recent case – a 4 star General, James Cartwright sent to prison for mishandling classified info…. His downfall is a felony charge of lying to investigators probing the leaks.
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/retired-general-charged-in-probe-of-classified-information-disclosure-229891
Help me out here. How do you re-open an investigation after ALL the players were granted immunity?
Oh wait, there is one email where Hillary admits instructing they (the emails) be deleted. “I said I told them to delete.
Posted by: likklemore | Oct 28 2016 20:51 utc | 51
Helpfully his interviewer invited him to share some of his own personal experiences of antisemitism. His response, from memory ran rather like this: “Well….actually I have never experienced antisemitism myself. Which is odd, because most people know that the Chief Rabbi is Jewish”.
Posted by: harrylaw | Oct 28, 2016 4:29:19 PM | 48
It's almost as if he can't be trusted ain't it?
He talks so much about it "but I've never experienced it" he says . . . .
Anti-Zionism Is The New Anti-Semitism, Says Britain's Ex-Chief Rabbi
http://www.newsweek.com/jonathan-sacks-anti-semitism-anti-zionism-bds-israel-labour-442978 - Cached
3 Apr 2016 ... Anti-Semitism is a virus that survives by mutating; today Jews are hated ... Jonathan Sacks served as Britain's chief rabbi from 1991 to 2013.
http://www.rabbisacks.org/topics/anti-semitism/
Lord Sacks: Corbyn's Israel-Isis remark was 'demonisation of the ...
http://www.jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/lord-sacks-corbyns-israel-demonisation-of-the-highest-order/ - Cached
30 Jun 2016 ... Former Chief Rabbi rounds on Labour leader after he said Jews ... LABOUR ANTI-SEMITISM Embattled leader accused of being 'anti-Semitic' ...
Gee - and if you can't trust The Chief Rabbi, well, who can you trust?
Posted by: Killary PAC | Oct 28 2016 20:59 utc | 52
The point of MoA's post is that it was an Israeli newspaper, the supposedly quality centre-left rag Ha'aretz (and not the right-wing The Jerusalem Post) that bragged about Killer K's top campaign donors being Jewish.
http://www.haaretz.com/world-news/u-s-election-2016/1.749443
In other words, it's all right when Israeli media get all excited about Jewish prominence and influence in US affairs and start crowing about this can only mean more US support for Israel and its aims. (Never mind that only a small elite in Israel actually benefits and the vast majority of Israelis, whether Jewish or not, never see any of that support trickling down to them.) It's not all right though when other people notice.
Now supposedly these people donating to Clinton's campaign are doing so in the hope that she can roll back the Citizens United ruling of 2010 which allowed corporations to donate unlimited amounts of money to political campaigns. The irony is that these donors are beneficiaries of that ruling as well.
As for the observation of the direct support that Saudi Arabia and Qatar are giving to Killer K vis-a-vis the support she's receiving from donors like Sussman and the Adelsons, I don't see any anomalies in that: all these parties can't see longer in the long term than the next six months and as long as their interests coincide, well, as the cliche goes birds of a feather flock together.
Of course there are those who insinuate that the Saudi royal family has Jewish origins, and that the fundamentalist Wahhabi sect itself was influenced by British agents who in turn were influenced by British Israelism, and how much credence we should give to those rumours I do not know. It seems intriguing though that Saddam Hussein, while President of Iraq, and himself friendly towards the Iraqi Jewish community (perhaps as a result of the circumstances of his birth; he was delivered by a Jewish midwife), actually got his intelligence people to investigate the Saudi royal family's supposed Jewish origins and write a report on the matter. The report was later found and translated into English after 2003.
http://www.conspiracyschool.com/blog/2002-iraqi-intel-reported-wahhabis-are-jewish-origin
Posted by: Jen | Oct 28 2016 21:01 utc | 53
"Wtf is a Jew? Everyone else seems to know, but I am genuinely ignorant here."
@Dan 31
The jews are the people with the highest IQ on this planet. The difference between an askenazi jew (IQ 115) and a white euro american (IQ 100) is like the difference between a white euro american (IQ 100) and an african american (IQ 85). Nearly 87 percent of US jews have been to college, a very high number, unlike any other group in the US, they have a large number of professors, the number of Nobel Prizes that they won is also very large. Jews, 2 percent of the US population, are nearly 25 percent of the students of America's best Universities. In Harvard, there are more jews (2 percent of the US population) than white euros (63 percent of the US population). Jews earn more than anyone else in America, as 44 percent of jewish families earn over 100k compared to 19 percent of regular american families. It is not a coincidence that they rule over euro people, since euro people are not smart enough to rule themselves.
They can verbally manipulate most people in a way most people can not understand. They are the best at ethnic warfare. They are so good at it that a several million jews could destroy one billion of white euros (not with weapons, but via their brains), if they want to.
Jews specialize in verbal IQ and the ability to control and manipulate others via words. They are great at ideology and media. The jewish brain wins in its ability to recognize emotional states and opportunities for psychological manipulation. In this world, those who are smarter rule over those who are not that smart.
A few jews rule over a billion of euros just like a few whites ruled over South Africa.
The euros are also somewhat intelligent, they are capable of creating a high tech civilization, this is why jews are interested in using these relatively smart euro people as a proxy and a puppet, so that jews, via the larger number of euros, could control the planet. Just like the physically weak woman who, if she could control the king, could control the world.
The white euros are good at creating machines (spatial intelligence), but they are not that good at ruling themselves (not enough verbal intelligence). And this is where the jews come in, as the brain behind the body. The jews are like the small, but smart woman, verbally controlling her big husband, who is good at driving or using tools, but is not that good at talking.
Posted by: Observer | Oct 28 2016 21:08 utc | 54
Me @ 51 (cont’d)
Pressure Point No: 3
And a Trump win? In the 2nd debate, He did promise Hillary…. “You’d be in jail”
Trump by a landslide; Compare the crowd draw 10,000-20,000 for Trump rallies against 300->3,280 for HRC
Do the data mining this is reported by CNBC -AI predicts Trump landslide
Here
“Donald Trump will win the election and is more popular than Obama..”
http://www.cnbc.com/2016/10/28/donald-trump-will-win-the-election-and-is-more-popular-than-obama-in-2008-ai-system-finds.html
This guy then is not whistling only air
“Trump wins by landslide – 100% polls manufactured”
http://usawatchdog.com/trump-wins-by-landslide-polls-100-manufactured-clif-high/
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11 days out and a
Friday afternoon's Bombshell
Appears the 21 WikiLeaks dump did not see any daylight in MSM. However, as FBI announce it has seized Huma's and her husband's devices this Friday afternoon is considered a bombshell. Now the presstitutes can't duck coverage. From CNN, the Clinton News Network -
Bernstein of Watergate fame on CNN:
FBI Would Not Reopen Case Unless New Evidence Was "A Real Bombshell"
CARL BERNSTEIN: Well, there's no question that the e-mails have always been the greatest threat to her candidacy for president, that her conduct in regard to the e-mails is really indefensible and if there was going to be more information that came out, it was the one thing, as I said on the air last night, actually that could really perhaps affect this election.
We don't know what this means yet except that it's a real bombshell. And it is unthinkable that the Director of the FBI would take this action lightly, that he would put this letter forth to the Congress of the United States saying there is more information out there about classified e-mails and call it to the attention of congress unless it was something requiring serious investigation. So that's where we are…[.]
Posted by: likklemore | Oct 28 2016 21:16 utc | 55
http://www.gilad.co.uk/writings/pre-traumatic-stress-disorder-pre-traumatic-stress-disorder.html
While many may find it heartening or amusing that even an Israeli right winger cannot see a ray of light at the end of the Zionist tunnel, it is rather disconcerting to read that Israelis are already seriously contemplating their next Shoah. I would argue here that it is exactly this form of deadly meditation that turns Israel, Israelis, global Zionists and Neocons into the gravest enemies of world peace.
Indeed, a growing number of people want to see an end to Israel, the ‘Jew Only State’. Yet, no one around expresses any murderous or terminal plans against world Jewry or even against their Jewish State. No one in the political or the media spheres is calling for a homicidal act against the Jews or their Jewish State. Thus the well-established Judeocentric tendency to interpret almost any legitimate political and ideological criticism as a perpetration of an upcoming Judeocide should be comprehended as a severe form of paranoia verging on collective psychosis, which I define as Pre-Traumatic Stress Disorder (Pre-TSD).
Within the condition of the Pre-Traumatic Stress Disorder, the stress is the outcome of a phantasmic event, an imaginary episode set in the future; an event that has never taken place. Unlike the PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) in which stress comes as the direct reaction to an event that (may) have taken place in the past, within the state of Pre-TSD, the stress is the clearly the outcome of an imaginary potential event. Within the Pre-TSD, an illusion pre-empts reality and the condition in which the fantasy of terror is focussed is itself becoming grave reality. If it is taken to extremes, even an agenda of total war against the rest of the world is not an unthinkable reaction.
One may wonder at this stage whether Pre-TSD is just another name for paranoia. I would argue that the difference between the two is rather obvious. In the case of paranoia he who is subject to the disease makes us feel sorry for him. In the case of confrontation with a Pre-TSD case, we happen to feel sorry for ourselves.
Projection and Pre-TSD
"We fired more than a million cluster bombs in Lebanon. …What we did was insane and monstrous, we covered entire towns in cluster bombs,’ (the head of an IDF rocket unit in Lebanon http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/761781.html)
Let us face it once and for all. Since no one voices a call to throw the Israelis into the sea or to nuke them instead, one is entitled to argue that the Israeli inclination to blame Muslims and Arabs for holding such murderous tendencies themselves must be understood in terms of projection. The people who rained Lebanon with ‘more than a million cluster bombs’ are projecting their murderous zeal onto their victims and even onto their victims to come.
Sheleg, for instance, throws his own malicious tendencies onto the Muslim world and Iran in particular. Sheleg, being a devoted Zionist who advocates violent measures against almost anyone who fails to be a Jew, is doomed to project his own murderous zeal when referring to Arabs and Muslims. Obviously Sheleg is not alone; the American Jewish Committee (AJC) is doing exactly the same thing. In a recent PR campaign it warned Europe of Iran’s long-range missiles. Obviously within their phantasmic Judeocentric universe, a global war against Islam is a ‘Judeo-Christian interest’. However, Europeans tend to laugh once confronted with the AJC’s embarrassingly aggressive ideology. Europeans are obviously not afraid of Iran at all. Unlike the Jewish American Committee members who happen to promote violence, the Europeans fantasise over peace; seemingly Europeans have had enough wars (clearly AJC didn’t have enough yet….). Europeans also realise that as long as they do not harm Iran, Iran’s ballistic capability is totally irrelevant to their security. In other words, Europeans fail to regard Iran as a murderous entity just because unlike the AJC, Europeans are not murderous to start with. Because they aren’t murderers, they simply fail to see murderers in others. The Europeans lack the necessary aggressive zeal, which the AJC are overwhelmingly saturated with. This is exactly where a growing abyss is emerging between the Zionist’s utterly phantasmic bloodthirsty universe and the rest of Humanity.
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Maybe this is why the Chief Raabbi lies so much about something he admits he has never even experienced?
Posted by: Killary PAC | Oct 28 2016 21:22 utc | 56
To likklemore:
I've noticed comments sometime take a good while to appear including not appearing until after later comments by others and yourself have appeared. It might have something to do with specific links although I haven't figured it out. The comment always seems to appear eventually.
Or maybe it has to do with previewing a comment or not clicking the "post another comment" link. I think it might only happen when you refresh the page right after posting.
To all on the topic of debate:
1. What is a word? Unfortunately a word, any word, can be used to mean anything and nothing depending on who said it and who read it and in what context which is why words should be a free-for-all and freedom of speech must be incredibly lenient.
Wittgenstein was jewish by birth, homosexual, possibly a mean kid and perhaps even traumatizing a young Adolf Hitler (I doubt it, WWI is a far more likely culprit), smart and stupid like everyone else and changed his own conclusions about words and word games; possibly from a correct one to an incorrect one.
2. If the jews are so smart and intelligent then why are they so good at creating so many enemies for themselves and why do the most successful of them apparently strive to become living incarnations of some of the worst most widespread racist stereotypical caricatures? Their megalomaniac excesses makes me feel a little bit sorry for ordinary jews.
3. Anyone who thinks the Intelligence Quotient is some kind of golden standard does not understand it and are less intelligent than they think they are. Hey that includes everybody anyway right? :D
The political system is rigged by Zionists on both sides.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/23/sheldon-adelson-trump-super-pac-donation-25-million
Oh, and it's only a coincidence that they happen to be Jewish and Zionist; lest you be banned for equating the two with the power that runs politics and media.
So I guess we're smelling the coffee now; too late for those that were banned for seeing this pattern first then daring to expose same and getting run out by a bunch of Zionist rats congregating here in sheep's clothing.
Posted by: Circe | Oct 28 2016 22:22 utc | 58
Thanks Outsider,
Over the past 2hrs waiting for my other posts to show up
Posted by: likklemore | Oct 28 2016 22:23 utc | 59
If you took all of the Jews, all across the entire planet, and somehow added all of their brains together, that summation would not amount to 10% of the brainpower that resides in my small head.
I will rule. You will lose.
Get used to that.
Posted by: blues | Oct 28 2016 22:27 utc | 61
Oh, and it's only a coincidence that they happen to be Jewish and Zionist;
Posted by: Circe | Oct 28, 2016 6:22:21 PM | 57
That's a very strange thing to say - the link between Judaism and Zionism is anything but "coincidental".
The so-called "Christian Zionism" found almost exclusively in the US, is a result of a collaboration between a con-man and convicted fraudster named Cyrus Scofield and a Wall St Banker/Jewish Zionist called Samuel Untermeyer
Posted by: Killary PAC | Oct 28 2016 22:39 utc | 62
@54
A Jew couldn't have spelled it out better than you just did...therefore, case in point: it takes one to know one.
In other words, you just made an excellent case for my point: a bunch of Zionist rats congregating here in sheep's clothing.
At first glance your post could be considered the height of anti-Semitic tripe; but at second glance you make an excellent case for Rabbi Ovadia who equated gentiles with donkeys and according to your post: dumb as mules and equated Jews with their masters.
Of course, it begs the question: Why do so many gentile people allow themselves to be tools for Zionism?
Posted by: Circe | Oct 28 2016 22:48 utc | 63
When Zios use the EXACT terminology as neo-nazis (look above at Observer's screed), it's perfectly appropriate to call the Zionazis, I think.
Behind both boy-gangs is the same superiority complex. Just different symbols really at this point. They even work together in most of the world's large metro areas, against the left. And they kill together, at the Russian front.
Posted by: sejomoje | Oct 28 2016 22:54 utc | 64
I wouldn't call hiding behind the same, enduring pain in the face of an argument, at the same time as inflicting the same pain upon another group of people as intelligent.
I'd call that looking for trouble.
Posted by: MadMax2 | Oct 28 2016 22:57 utc | 65
@61 Only if sarcasm is strange.
@33 I think we've been very lucky that in general MoA has been a hasbara-free blog.
That's only because the subject of Israel and Zionism is rarely the topic of discussion, ergo, this is a great site for hasbara, Zionists and Jews who pretend they're unaffiliated with Zionism to "wag the dog" or make themselves appear to be on the right side of history.
Posted by: Circe | Oct 28 2016 23:24 utc | 66
@ b and Greg Bacon 1,
Pritzker? (Billiionaire) Penny is our current Secretary of Commerce. The Chicago machine works. And money can take one to high places. It's like ($700Mill) Hank Paulson at Treasury. Who says the US doesn't have its own Oligarchs?
As to truth from Israel, that has always been strange. They can say things our media never touch except when Joel Stein (and even Ben Stein) confirmed that Hollywood is run by Jews.
And it's both parties where the heavy influence resides if you include Sheldon Adelson. (and the visits to AIPAC or meeting Netanyahu) It reminds me of a comic about Ukraine with two groups faced off behind sand bags with the caption "Our Oligarchs are better than yours!"
Posted by: Curtis | Oct 28 2016 23:48 utc | 67
The MSM people have avoided giving much coverage to the WikiLeaks’publishing John Podesta, (Clinton’s Campaign chair’s) emails. But these newly discovered emails are not from Wikileaks (sponsored by Putin) did it.
Yahoo! Hillary’s side-kick Huma’s and her hubby ‘s devices his email sexting a 15 year old.. That Huma.
Today the FBI’s announcement is considered a bombshell. The letter went to Congress and very difficult for the MSM to duck coverage.
Bernstein of Watergate fame:
Bernstein: FBI Would Not Reopen Case Unless New Evidence Was A Real Bombshell
link here
Watergate journalist Carl Bernstein comments on the FBI's shocking Friday afternoon announcement that they are reopening the investigation into Hilary Clinton's email server because new evidence has come to light.
Related Video: Flashback August 2015: Donald Trump Jokes About Anthony Weiner Accessing Classified Info Through Huma Abedin
CARL BERNSTEIN: Well, there's no question that the e-mails have always been the greatest threat to her candidacy for president, that her conduct in regard to the e-mails is really indefensible and if there was going to be more information that came out, it was the one thing, as I said on the air last night, actually that could really perhaps affect this election.
We don't know what this means yet except that it's a real bombshell. And it is unthinkable that the Director of the FBI would take this action lightly, that he would put this letter forth to the Congress of the United States saying there is more information out there about classified e-mails and call it to the attention of congress unless it was something requiring serious investigation. So that's where we are...
Is it a certainty that we won't learn before the election? I'm not sure it's a certainty we won't learn before the election. [.]
But this is her achilles heel and we have to remember that it also comes on the -- back to the word heel -- of the revelations about the Clinton Foundation. So the confluence of all of this is bad for her as it stands now but with some knowledge she might be able to stop, turn things around,[.]
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Carl, the word heel is appropriate. Hillary has some difficulty walking and climbing stairs and sidewalks. She is known to fall, need a helping hand.
Posted by: likklemore | Oct 28 2016 23:54 utc | 68
http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Beware-of-antisemitisms-third-rail-470779
Whoever the Jews are, they seem to be saying they are pivotal in leading progressivism generally and to bring Palestinians their rights.
And if you don't allow them to do it their way you will get nowhere, you anti-Jews.
And oh, by the way BDS is NOT the right way, in fact it is anti-Jewish. In fact any movement which would turn Israel into a genuine democracy and remove (inherently discriminatory) rabbinical law, is not the right way, is in fact also anti-Jew.
Atzmon has exposed these people, so does this piece.
Posted by: truthbetold | Oct 28 2016 23:59 utc | 69
I think we've been very lucky that in general MoA has been a hasbara-free blog.
Posted by: Laguerre | Oct 28, 2016 2:54:09 PM | 33
Mein Gott, was ist mit Slothrop passiert?
Posted by: DM | Oct 29 2016 0:06 utc | 70
<>Posted by: truthbetold | Oct 28, 2016 7:59:49 PM | 68
lol
That article is exactly what Atzmon is talking about when he refers to "Pre-Trauma", where literally everything is "anti-Jew"
Posted by: Killary PAC | Oct 29 2016 0:11 utc | 71
- Antisemitism is not a belief but a virus. The human body has an immensely sophisticated immune system which develops defences against viruses.
It is penetrated, however, because viruses mutate. Antisemitism mutates.”
- The Chief Rabbi’s Haggadah (Essays) p. 36
Those Anti-Semitic Mutants are, like, the worst
Posted by: Killary PAC | Oct 29 2016 0:20 utc | 72
Why is the word Zionist or Zionism rarely if ever are expressed by the mainstream media? Is it because it's the Zionist media; the Zionist mouthpiece or the Zionist-owned media?
Or is it because Zionism is a crime of ethnic cleansing and has supremacist connotations therefore a dirty word? Isn't it because, to say the least, it's politically incorrect, but to spell it out as it really is, it's like calling someone a Nazi?
So the only reason some leaders and politicians are trying to equate anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism is because the majority of Jews are Zionists ergo the crime must be white-washed so they can keep on committing it with impunity; no not Zionists, Jews who don't want to be known as Zionists, because God-forbid we should blame Jews for anything, ergo we've had to pretend that Zionists are not really Jews; they're some kind of aberration. But then why do the majority of Jews support Zionism? Why not distance themselves from what is obviously a criminal operation that they try so hard to legitimize by repeatedly demonizing the other? Isn't it a good thing in a way that anti-Zionism is being equated with anti-Semitism? Why pretend that most Jews are not somehow fueling a grave injustice a war crime and crime against humanity?
To pretend that Palestinians i.e. Arabs, Muslims in Israel, Palestinian refugees in the Territories and Diaspora don't deserve the same and equal rights and dignity afforded to Jews in Israel and everywhere and to perpetuate such an injustice, such a crime, war crime is the epitome of racism, bigotry, hate regardless of which two people has the higher I.Q. and should therefore justify treating the other like chattel forced to queue up like chattel for their rights and everything else and reduced to sub-human species not deserving of the advantages enjoyed by their masters who stole that land and property from them.
It's time to recognize that Jews are therefore Zionists as they are the authors of Zionism that has resulted in a hate crime against millions of Palestinians and that this crime is perpetuated by an abuse of power that they try to deny ONLY when it's inconvenient.
Posted by: Circe | Oct 29 2016 0:27 utc | 73
@1 (& @2) -- "Israeli papers will not only..."
Nice little closed loop of convenience.
The US government (Obama) donates imaginary 'printed' debt money to the Zionist apartheid regime occupying Palestine and then they donate it back to the Clinton slush fund.
Hmmm, ....?
Posted by: x | Oct 29 2016 0:41 utc | 74
@20 KP
The total of your top ten is $206.1 million ... If she's had 10,000 donations that's 20% of HRC's $1 billion from the 0.1%.
I'd bet that Trump's figures are in the same ballpark, less 3 or 4 zeros on the right.
Where'd you get the numbers? Got Trump's? The top 100 would be even more interesting.
@23 FL
I agree. Generally comments on the 'perception' sphere ... Trump/Clinton 'positions', the US election in general, propaganda spin on Syria, 'journalism' ... both feet off the ground in all cases. Might just be my visceral reaction to all of those topics themselves ... blamed on the messenger ... ten days to go for an end to a good half of it in any case.
Posted by: jfl | Oct 29 2016 0:43 utc | 75
"Jewishness" and not Judaism has been exploited by the Hidden Hands since the fall of the Roman Empire. This Jewishness is a trait, basically the ability to create money out of money or in other terms, usury. (See wiki Court Jew for more details). As the Kazarian turkic tribes moved into eatern Europe during the Great Migration, they would gradually come to positions of power in Christian courts as the Clergy prevented loans with interest to royalty. The Court Jew would serve that purpose. Now, fast forward to the early 19th century and consolidation of European central banks in the hands of wealthy descendants of those jewish central asian families. You know the names, no need to there. So, my point is this is not a conspiracy of world domination by "Jews" but the real movers & shakers (the Globalist Elites) need these jewish money-experts for their plans & purposes..
Posted by: Lozion | Oct 29 2016 0:57 utc | 76
Posted by: jfl | Oct 28, 2016 8:43:41 PM | 74
from the link posted @ 17
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/superpac-donors-2016/
Where'd you get the numbers? Got Trump's? The top 100 would be even more interesting.
Trump's "official" campaign finance declarations are a fraction of Killary's, she's probably raised something like 7 or 8 times as much money as Trump has
2 of his largest donors are Sheldon Adelson and Peter Thiel - Thiel is described as "German-American" and "evangelical", and you already know what Adelson is
the top 10 figures are not just for Killary btw- they cover both Trump and Clinton - so the top 10 political donors, both Dem and Re-pug, are all . . . .
Posted by: Killary PAC | Oct 29 2016 1:00 utc | 77
seems I'm wrong on the size of the respective war-chests
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/superpac-donors-2016/
pro-Clinton super PACs, $1.14 billion to support her campaign by the end of September — on par with what Obama and his allies brought in for his 2012 reelection bid.
GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump, who did not begin fundraising in earnest until the end of May, had collected $712 million, including $56 million of his own money.
so she raised approx twice as much through PAC's, as he did, but direct campaign donations she outstrips him easily, many multiples what he raised in direct campaign financing (i.e. not funnelled through PACs)
Posted by: Killary PAC | Oct 29 2016 1:06 utc | 78
@33 LG 'Is it that the hasbara policy has changed? Israel no longer feels it has to dominate the conversation.'
I think that's right. They are on the verge of completion of their Final Solution to the 'Palestinian problem'. As this post points out ... Trump/Clinton ... Obama ... the US Congress ... they dominate the US Government. Between Syria, Iraq, and Yemen the TNC MSM has focused 'International' attention on Saudi/Turkish/'Russian' and to some small extent US/NATO genocides ... Israel is on page 43, and they've nearly 'won'. Doesn't make any difference what the world thinks of Israel anymore, in any case. Israelis are used to being hated, and thrive on it.
Posted by: jfl | Oct 29 2016 1:15 utc | 79
OT but ......Congress: Attorney General
Lynch ‘Pleads Fifth’ on Secret Iran ‘Ransom’ Payments
Obama admin blocking congressional probe into cash payments to Iran http://freebeacon.com/national-security/attorney-general-lynch-pleads-fifth-secret-iran-ransom-payments/
Posted by: terry | Oct 29 2016 1:27 utc | 80
And here's another curious thing; Jews on both sides Republican and Democrat clamor when the other side abuses power but then are silent when that abuse of power is used to suppress Palestinian rights or shoot at them like fish in a barrel in Gaza. These Zionists, i.e. Jews clamor and wail endlessly about the poor Syrians subjected to war crimes and exile in their Zionist-inspired proxy war against Bashar al-Assad, but are quiet as church mice when fellow Jewish Zionists in the forcibly recognized but racist Jewish State commit war crimes against Palestinian children in schools and hospitals in their long-standing concentration camp of Gaza.
So it's not only Jews who are unashamed Zionists that are guilty of the crimes against Palestinians that fall under the heading of Zionism, but all JEWS WHO REMAIN SILENT AND DO SQUAT TO DENOUNCE AND STOP ALL THIS...they're guilty too, and especially, since it's all being done for their benefit.
And one day Rev. (if you can call him that) Hagee will rejoice when Armageddon comes to the Jewish State because the marriage between the so-called Christians backing Trump and the Jewish Zionists leveraging both sides is as unholy, hypocritical and made in hell as any union ever was.
Posted by: Circe | Oct 29 2016 1:29 utc | 81
Maybe this situation can be a positive. From reading several sources, Putin and Netanyahu have a very good relationship based on real world interests (as of my last reading, they have visited six times in the last year). Steven Cohen says that under Putin, he has treated the Russian Jewish population better than any czar. Putin even went to Israel for the unveiling of a war monument to Russian Jews who fought and died in World II for the Soviet army. This leverage could be used to moderate Clinton if Bibbi is calling Hillary and telling her not to use nuclear weapons as many Jews will also die. Or, if Putin got absolutely hard nosed, he could threaten to supply and arm Hezbollah and any other group with thee latest weapons to rain hell on Israel if the US does not back off. Seems many possibilities for constructive back channel talks to at least stop Hillary from launching a nuclear war.
Posted by: Erelis | Oct 29 2016 2:43 utc | 82
Looking back and regretfully acknowledging that one had been duped and morally compromised by what seemed the least troublesome path 25 years earlier, saying “I woulda, shoulda, coulda done the right thing,” is a haunting moment for anyone. Doing it in a way that exposes in detail how a foreign country constantly manipulates American elections over decades is worthy of everyone’s notice.
Who is the author of this quote referring to? None other than the quintessential peacenik who recently passed: Tom Hayden, once Jane Fonda's husband.
These two articles are must reads to understand the scope of Jewish Zionist power and influence in American Politics and what a corrupting influence it is; like selling one's soul.
http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/10/27/tom-haydens-haunting/
And if this were Hayden's last word; he did his fellow Americans a great service in opening their eyes to who pulls the strings in their so called democratic electoral process.
http://www.counterpunch.org/2006/07/20/i-was-israel-s-dupe/
Posted by: Circe | Oct 29 2016 3:10 utc | 83
A few disparate unrelated points about how ClintonInc may yet repeat history and drag defeat from the jaws of victory.
If the FBI really get into the Hillary to Hum(p)a and back again emails, how long before some holier than thou xtian federale leaks one of the more salacious missives?
You'd have to think it wouldn't be long especially since under the last time a Clinton was on watch FBI agents were dismissed on 'morality grounds' for patronising a swingers' bar.
If I was a fed I'd be totally pissed off with a world where what is good for the gander may be good for gay geese, if they're in the elite, but isn't a starter for the turkeys of any gender or preference.
I wonder if the Comey's reluctant and somewhat oblique congressional notification is because FBI intelligence confirm what many of us suspect, that Trump is more of a chance in the amerikan empire party raffle, than the media are claiming? Many of those who are gonna vote for Trump are too ashamed to admit it. In fact the incessant, ubiquitous & repetitive claims that Hillary has it in the bag have been totally counterproductive because very few people really want to tick the Clinton box; so if she has the job done, that means they can stay home on election day & leave the grunt work up to the kazillions of 'true believers' the msm assures us are backing Hill the shill.
Of course by the same token that could be a concern of the DNC hacks 'n hackettes who have pressured Comey into the alleged October surprise because they want all anti-trumpists to be concerned enough at the potential outcome to get off their arses & vote.
It's weird I loathe soaps on TV, and when I watch the box if a show dallies in the "who is up who & which one pays the rent" territory I always fast forward thru it - maybe it's because the prez '16 reality show provides an extra filip in that for years afterwards it is possible to slowly uncover what was actually happening and check off the scorecard to see which bits you guessed correctly and on which bits you were led up the garden path.
That's the only reason I can think of - there hasn't been an amerikan prez beauty contest in the 60+ years I've been wasting oxygen, that didn't result in a sociopath asshole winning - since we already know whoever wins we will lose - why do we pay it any mind?
I guess that the way it is able to reality check for those who pay sufficient attention - by allowing us to slowly uncover the deceits we missed, the prez contest provides invaluable feedback if you believe accurate perception is an important survival attribute.
Posted by: Debsisdead | Oct 29 2016 3:26 utc | 84
Hey MoA! Votes against the Democratic Party. That's all I've got to say on my one-liner. Thanks. Have a good weekend everyone. :-)
Posted by: Jack Smith | Oct 29 2016 3:33 utc | 85
@82 From reading several sources, Putin and Netanyahu have a very good relationship based on real world interests...
Interesting theories.
Or it just means that even the great Vlad isn't immune to the Zionist bait, because Netanyahu and Putin couldn't be bosom buddies when Netanyahu just might rival Kim in the crazy department. I have to wonder about their mutual interest. Netanyahoo wouldn't think twice about screwing over Putin. After all, the yahoo can't wait til Assad meets with Gaddafi's fate, and Putin's delaying his gratification. But no doubt yahoo takes pleasure in the conflict Putin is helping prolong in Syria that takes the global focus/outrage off Israel's war crimes. And I'm sure Putin appreciates yahoo's IDF giving comfort and aid to al-Nusra!
So I have to wonder what each is up to...HMMM
Posted by: Circe | Oct 29 2016 3:53 utc | 86
In the US media, of the sixty-seven(67) senior executives of the major television and radio news networks, forty-seven(47) are Jews or have Jewish spouses. This is a numerical representation of 70%. Jews are approximately 2% of the U.S. population. Therefore Jews are over-represented among the senior executives of the major television and radio news networks by a factor of 35 times(3,500 percent).
Posted by: anon | Oct 29 2016 4:38 utc | 87
@53 jen.. thanks for your posts.. i always keep an eye out for your posts as i find myself in sync with your view most of the time and informative..
@81 menechem golani.. menechem, charles drake - if you've seen one hasbarist, you've seen them all.. same drivel all the time..
Posted by: james | Oct 29 2016 5:18 utc | 88
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Of course, it begs the question: Why do so many gentile people allow themselves to be tools for Zionism?
Posted by: Circe | Oct 28, 2016 6:48:54 PM | 62
$$$ + $$$$ + $$$$$.
See: The Occult Technology of Power (Anonymous) - RexResearch.
Posted by: Hoarsewhisperer | Oct 29 2016 5:20 utc | 89
So we can vilify all the Jews or we can recognize that they are hurt/paranoid and thusly should not be in positions of power where they act out their feelings on the rest of us not responsible for their past treatment.
or
We can recognize their contribution to the growth of the West, accept that the world of private finance they built and maintain through inheritance no longer serves our society and modify our social organization to eliminate private finance and neuter inheritance. This change would eliminate the power base they use to attain and retain power and control of the West.
As I said earlier in the comments, the incentives that permeate our society because we continue to allow private finance to set and reinforce them perpetrates the anti-humanistic fealty to the God of Mammon over cooperation and sharing that has stifled our evolution as a species.
Killing the Jews like Hitler did is not the answer. Ending private finance and neutering inheritance represents a more structural approach to the problem which should lead to long term societal improvements for all of us.
I hope that the "adults" of our species can lead us to this solution before we extinct ourselves by allowing the ongoing expression of all that hurt.
Posted by: psychohistorian | Oct 29 2016 5:51 utc | 90
Hillary is just as corrupt as you suspect,
Clinton bemoans US not rigging 2006 Palestinian election in newly-released tape
https://www.rt.com/usa/364628-clinton-rigging-palestine-tape/
Posted by: TheLsL | Oct 29 2016 7:29 utc | 91
Actually, Christians have this thing about how they are holier that the others, so they will go to heaven. Muslims have a similar game, plus a "proliferation strategy" similar to Mormons and some Catholics whereby they increase their flock by way of sheer fecundity. Jews have rabbis who tell them they are outright superior to the others. If people simply want to believe in a god I don't care. "Organized religions" on the other hand are spiritual Ponzi schemes that end up producing millions of gallons of blood.
Telling people they are "superior" is especially nasty since the believers always tend to strive to crawl up on top of the "inferior" others.
I do believe that above and beyond everything else there has always been a secret ruling "elite" that compulsively runs everything while pretending to be Jewish, Christian, or whatever, while actually being Satanic. Their favorite sport is breeding peasants and then sacrificing them to Satanic Wars. It's an old narrative.
Posted by: blues | Oct 29 2016 8:46 utc | 92
James @ 88: Thanks for the hat tip and you know I'm over at Mark Chapman's Kremlin Stooge blog and Off-Guardian.org too!
Posted by: Jen | Oct 29 2016 10:50 utc | 93
Jonathan Taylor at Counterpunch has a nice compendium of the activist Jews in the media and the ADL (Stevens, Mensch, Kirchick, Joffe, Greenblatt) and Republicans like Rick Wilson who are horrified because they believe that Trump has implicated Jews as the enemies of America:
http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/10/14/trump-anti-globalism-and-the-anti-semitism-slur/
Apparently, criticizing globalism is like criticizing Israel: if you do so, you will be accused of anti-Semitism. It’s a great way to stifle legitimate discussion.
As Taylor notes, “It’s as if someone responded to the Occupy movement that ‘the 1%” is a codeword for Jews, so we should stop talking about wealth disparity.’ The ramifications are obvious — leave the global elites out of this campaign or you’re a Jew-hating bigot and by the way here comes the ADL.”
Taylor is remarkably candid about the reality of Jewish involvement in globalism:
“For our tiny size, we are by far the most politically influential. The worlds of finance, media, journalism and law are home to extremely disproportionately high numbers of Jews. Leading globalist institutions like the World Bank, IMF, and WTO have high numbers of Jewish executives and staffers, as do organizations such as the Council on Foreign Relations, which one informal estimate claims is around 50% Jewish. Half of the US’s billionaires are Jewish. Jewish donors play an enormous role in funding Hillary Clinton's campaign.
The normally Republican and predominantly Jewish neoconservatives have thrown their support behind Hillary
http://forward.com/news/343903/how-hillary-clinton-is-winning-over-neocons-and-why-she-will-disappoint-the/
Bringing up anti-Semitism then just reminds people of how much influence and power Jews have.”
Taylor then comes up with a standard Jewish response when Jewish overrepresentation is brought up by people who are critical of the policies this overrepresentation results in:
“None of this is evidence of conspiracy. Jews are overrepresented in a many other fields as well, such as mathematics, physics, medicine, philosophy, etc. Jews like to argue with each other and with gentiles, and anybody positing a unified Jewish perspective on any issue has obviously never had Shabbat dinner with a typical Jewish extended family. But claims that Jews are using their disproportionate wealth and influence to support Hillary Clinton are, in fact, true.”
Of course, that’s nonsense. What we are seeing now, as on many issues ranging from Israel and endless neocon wars to immigration and refugee policy, is a “virtually unanimous” Jewish hostility toward Trump.
Posted by: anon | Oct 29 2016 13:44 utc | 94
Fecundity of human beings is naturally devastating to earth; religion is destructive in that it fundamentally demands separatism via "us vs. them" - "in-group/out-group" rationale. (as blues described).
As we have learned throughout history, religion with its divisiveness is a critically important tool in fomenting war. It masterfully exploits the in-group/out-group paradigm.
We see it at work today in spades.
There is no truth in the Muslim Scare and it is both sad and disgusting that the PTB and every candidate seeking political office cannot swim against the current. Everything is premised on "protecting America" (Christians) from the scary other.
Not protect and defend the Constitution; the Constitution is just a goddamn piece of paper as President Dubya so eloquently stated. It has been shredded "for our protection".
Posted by: fastfreddy | Oct 29 2016 13:50 utc | 95
@90 psychohistorian
“So we can vilify all the Jews or we can recognize that they are hurt/paranoid”
Hurt/paranoid???
Perhaps this applied to the victims of WW2. There seems to be a far different philosophy embedded within the Jewish culture which Gilead Atzmon has exposed in various writings and it is radically different from the eternal victimhood myth we have been inundated with.
Ovadia Yosef, the Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel, espoused a dogma in regard to the relationship between Jews and goyim which seems rather at odds with the hurt/paranoid (eternal victim) myth. Before writing off Yosef as some fringe fanatic, it should be noted that when he died in 2013, he was buried in the largest funeral in Israeli history and was praised to the heavens by major American politicians.
In a sermon Yosef said:
"Goyim [non-Jews] were born only to serve us. Without that, they have no place in the world – only to serve the People of Israel."
"Why are gentiles needed? They will work, they will plow, they will reap. We will sit like an effendi and eat."
"With gentiles, it will be like any person - they need to die, but [God] will give them longevity. Why? Imagine that one’s donkey would die, they’d lose their money. This is his servant... That’s why he gets a long life, to work well for this Jew.”
Posted by: pantaraxia | Oct 29 2016 14:27 utc | 97
@96 h
re: Jewish control of U.S. media:
Who controls Your Mind 2013
http://i.stack.imgur.com/PPhcg.jpg
Posted by: pantaraxia | Oct 29 2016 14:40 utc | 98
@ trhuthbetold 68.
BDS is the one boycott that Israel attacks. (It was okay to boycott the Germans in 1933 as well as other political boycotts.) Do a search on Israel cyberwar against BDS. And notice another double standard at play. The media plays up Israeli successes at cyberwar as well as the companies that spin off out of them. Example:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/richardbehar/2016/05/11/inside-israels-secret-startup-machine/#13c68240157d
Posted by: Curtis | Oct 29 2016 14:45 utc | 99
@ Killary PAC 77.
Isn't it interesting that Killary claims she's opposed to Citizen's United but has no problem with the Super PACs that support her?
Posted by: Curtis | Oct 29 2016 14:49 utc | 100
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Israeli papers will not only print this w/o the flying monkey's anti-Semite brigade attacking, but Israelis will actually show their pride in that fact.
J.B. Pritzker? Of the Chicago Pritzker's, the same family that had some very shady dealings with a Chicago bank and groomed Obama from a dope-smoking wastrel to a dope-smoking presidential mass murderer?
Posted by: Greg Bacon | Oct 28 2016 15:23 utc | 1