I just heard that Trump has brought back 400,000 manufacturing jobs. O'Bama said "the jobs can't ever come back." I used to like O'Bama. But if he had the ability to bring back manufacturing jobs, why didn't he?
Unfortunatey, it looks like the "progressive" Democrats are playing Judas to the traditional Democratic base, which has existed since the New Deal. Workers should look and see on which side their bread is buttered. It looks like it is buttered on the Trump Republican side and not on the side of the "liberal" betrayal artists.
James Lateer
I'm addicted to the excellent St. Louis Fed website. Probably the best value that we get from our tax money, bar none.
However, the link cited is for wages. I am talking manufacturing jobs.
According to my calculations from the graph linked below, I found the following regarding the total number of manufacturing jobs in the US:
January 2014 to November 2016= 257,000 jobs in 34 months or 7569 per month.
November 2016 to July 2018= 374,000 jobs in 21 months or 17,809 per month.
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MANEMP#0
James Lateer
Quote:I'm addicted to the excellent St. Louis Fed website.
I'm sorry to hear that. But have hope. There's help for people in your condition! :
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Finally, a posting that befits a Deep Politics Forum. I plan on reading this in detail and it looks like you have new and in-depth info.
I don't see why all people who understand what America should represent, are not irate about this Deep State abuse. And abuse is WAY too nice of an adjective.
James Lateer
Handwritten Notes Reveal Glenn Simpson Gave Bruce Ohr a Memory Stick' in Secret Meeting Shortly After Trump Won 2016 Election
by Cristina Laila August 10, 2018
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/08...-election/
Quote:New handwritten notes penned by twice-demoted DOJ official Bruce Ohr reveal Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson handed Ohr a memory stick during a meeting at a D.C. coffee shop shortly after the election.
It is still unclear what was on the memory stick or if the FBI used the information on it for future actions.
Investigative reporter John Solomon obtained Bruce Ohr's handwritten notes and says it shows an "unmistakable effort to push the Russian investigation closer to Trump's inner circle with uncorroborated tales."
Simpson made uncorroborated claims that Manafort, Carter Page and Michael Cohen were working in coordination with Russia to hijack the presidential election.
John Solomon notes that Simpson interestingly acknowledged that information coming from Christopher Steele wasn't coming from Moscowrather the intel was coming from a former Russian intelligence officer (? not entirely clear) who lives in the U.S." Ohr said in his notes this Russian source in the US seemed to have disappeared.
Via John Solomon of The Hill:
One notation that stands out is Simpson's account that he asked Steele to talk with Mother Jones reporter David Corn about their muckraking on Trump and Russia in the final days of the election. At the time, Steele still worked as an FBI source.
Corn's Oct. 31, 2016, story was one of the most definitive to allege possible ties between the Trump campaign and Moscow, creating an important talking point for Democrats in the final days of the campaign.
"Glen asked Chris to speak to the Mother Jones reporter. It was Glen's Hail Mary attempt," Ohr wrote.
When Simpson testified before Congress, he said he and Steele acted out of a sense of duty. "For him it was professional obligations. I mean, for both of us it was citizenship. You know, people report crimes all the time," he told the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Also according to Ohr's handwritten notes, Steele and Glenn Simpson were behind the false rumors that President Trump created a "secret server" with Russia-based Alfa Bank through Trump Tower New Yorkwhich of course made it into the left-wing media.
In fact, Hillary Clinton even tweeted about the "secret server" right before the 2016 electionright on cue. Coincidence? We think not.
On October 31st, 2016, Hillary Clinton linked to the Slate article spreading the hoax that Trump had a Russia-based "secret server" at the Trump Tower.
Hillary Clinton claimed in her tweet that Trump set up a "secret server" to communicate privately with the Putin-tied Russia bank Alfa bank and when a reporter asked about it, they shut it down. She then claimed Trump created another server a week later with a different name for the same purpose.
Hillary's caption read, "It's time for Trump to answer serious questions about his ties to Russia."
https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/statu...12/photo/1
Glenn Simpson handed Bruce Ohr a memory stick…
Ohr made clear he took possession of some evidence from Simpson, writing: "Glen gave me a memory stick."
Early on, Ohr's notes detail, the conversation focused on a theory apparently offered by Simpson that revolving Trump team members former campaign chairman Paul Manafort, followed by informal adviser Carter Page, then Cohen forged a secret channel with Moscow to hijack the election.
All three men long have been cited in the Russia investigation; each denies any coordination with Russia. But Ohr's notes are the first to quote Simpson as suggesting the three essentially were shark-tooth spies who replaced each other in a secret plot.
"He identified Michael Cohen, a lawyer in Brooklyn w. Russian (Brighton Beach) clients, as the go-between from Russia to the Trump campaign who replaced Manafort and Carter Page," Ohr's notes read, quoting Simpson's alleged narrative.
The notes suggest guilt by association, citing Cohen's wife and suggesting one of Cohen's in-laws had real estate dealings in Moscow "with ties to the Kremlin."
These Bruce Ohr notes opened up a whole new can of worms.
"What was on the memory stick? What did Ohr do with the information? Did the FBI rely on it for future court actions? Did the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act court that approved surveillance warrants know Ohr was getting information from the Simpson-Steele operation after Steele had been dismissed?" John Solomon asked.
New Evidence Provides Additional Support that the UK Interfered with the 2016 US Election More Than Russia!
by Jim Hoft August 10, 2018
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/08...an-russia/
Quote:In May TGP reported… New evidence proves that a foreign government meddled in the 2016 US Election. But the government identified is the UK, not Russia!
We shared the following:
After more than a year of the Mueller investigation, millions of dollars and the Mainstream Media's (MSM) relentless attack on President Trump, what do we have? Nothing really.
President Trump tweeted in February that if the goal of Russia was to create discord in the US then they have succeeded. "They are laughing their asses off in Moscow. Get smart America!"
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/stat...-russia%2F
Since this tweet, the Russia fairy tale has fallen apart. Corrupt Mueller and his team of conflicted, biased and corrupt investigators and attorneys have found nothing related to their target, President Trump, and now their indictments are unraveling.
After discussing the status of Mueller's indictments to date we stated the following.
As the Russia meddling into the 2016 US election unwinds, the meddling by the UK, is becoming surprisingly more apparent.
Christopher Steele
We've known for over a year that the Clinton campaign and the FBI worked with former UK MI6 spy Christopher Steele, who authored a dossier of salacious statements about President Trump. Steele was reportedly paid by Fusion GPS for the document.
Steele was paid $168,000 by Glenn Simpson's company Fusion GPS for the series of memos containing information that was selectively briefed to journalists approved by Simpson and used by the FBI.
The Steele dossier was never verified and is suspected of being a total fiction. This act alone by a spy from the UK is troubling enough, but that is not it.
Joseph Mifsud
George Papadopoulos, the lower level campaign worker for the Trump campaign, appears to have been targeted by three individuals with ties to British and/or U.S. Intelligence: Joseph Mifsud, Alexander Downer and Stefan Halper.
Mifsud and Papadopoulos obtained positions at an organization named the Centre for International Energy and Natural Resources Law & Security. Papadopoulos was a nobody' and the Centre sketchy at best. Mifsud vanished in early November 2017, shortly after Papadopoulos was in the news and indicted. His whereabouts are still unknown.
Although the common story is that Mifsud is a Russian Agent, many ties seem to lead [him] back to UK Intelligence. Julian Assange put out a Twitter Thread noting the connection between Mifsud and UK Intelligence.
Alexander Downer
Although, not a Brit, Alexander Downer is the Australian individual who apparently overheard Papadopoulos talk about Trump and Russia in a bar which alerted the FBI to the story and their eventual spy program on Trump. This story has been refuted for months.
The Papadopoulos/Downer meeting has been portrayed as a chance encounter in a bar. That does not appear to be the case….Downer has direct ties to UK Intelligence firm Hakluyt where he served on the Advisory Board from 2008-2014.
Shortly after the Papadopoulos and Downer chance encounter, Peter Strzok was in London per texts released by the FBI. "Strzok texts suggest he was in London on August 3, 2016." The corrupt FBI's investigation into Trump officially started a few days earlier.
Stefan Halper
One individual all over the Internet and social media by the name of Stefan Halper has been identified as a potential FBI spy into the Trump campaign. (Note that some believe that Obama may have had more than one spy on the Trump campaign). The most intriguing individual related to Papadopoulos is Halper.
According to Jeff Carlson at theMarketswork
My guess is Papadopoulos never knew what hit him. A young man, suddenly thrust into a position beyond his experience, Papadopoulos made for an easy intelligence target.
Carter Page almost certainly discussed the just completed Moscow trip with his host, Stefan Halper, during the London symposium.
It's now being reported that Devin Nunes has learned the identity of a "top secret intelligence source" that was part of the FBI's Counterintelligence Investigation.
I think there's a decent chance that source is Stefan Halper.
Halper had contact with both Papadopulos and Carter Page. Halper has connections to UK Intelligence and US Intelligence. Halper met with Carter Page just days after Page's Moscow trip.
Other Internet sleuths tied Halper to the Obama team of crooks. Halper was paid more than $400,000 in 2016 for his efforts to set Papadopulos up and get him to sing to the Australia diplomat about Hillary's emails being held by Russia. Halper and others planted this information on Papadopulos before he shared this with the Aussie in a drunken London pub discussion.
Additional research shows that Halper was a classmate of impeached President Bill Clinton. Halper apparently knew Bill Clinton well in their days at Oxford. He later worked as an Advisor to the Clinton Administration.
Robert Hannigan
Hannigan had been Head of the GCHQ and he suddenly resigned in January [2017]
Hannigan only took over at the UK's surveillance agency in November 2014 to oversee a more open approach after revelations by the National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden put GCHQ on the defensive in 2013.
His sudden resignation he informed staff just hours before making this decision public prompted speculation that it might be related to British concerns over shared intelligence with the US in the wake of Donald Trump becoming president.
But the GCHQ press release stressed his decision was exclusively for family reasons. As well as his ill wife, Hannigan has two elderly parents to look after. He will remain in post until a successor is appointed.
It's still not known, what, if any connection to the Trump Russia collusion fantasy, Hannigan may have had.
Now we know that we were absolutely on to something ->
Over the past couple of days information about Christopher Steele's relationship with demoted FBI attorney Bruce Ohr has been released. Ohr's wife worked for Fusion GPS, the firm that also worked with Steele in the creation and dissemination of the famous fake and unsupported dossier used to obtain a FISA warrant to spy on President Trump.
Yesterday we reported that investigative reporter John Solomon obtained text messages between twice-demoted DOJ official Bruce Ohr and dossier author Christopher Steele that are very damning to the Russia witch hunt.
Bruce Ohr, who worked directly under Rod Rosenstein, was discussing getting Christopher Steele back into the FBI in the summer of 2017after he was deemed "not suitable" and terminated' for leaking to the media in November of 2016.
Via John Solomon of The Hill, beginning in July of 2017, Christopher Steele was sending urgent text messages to Bruce Ohr desperate to assist Robert Mueller in the Russia witch hunt.
"Hi Bruce, hope you're enjoying the summer," Steele wrote Ohr on July 16, 2017. "I spoke to my old colleagues last week and they assured me they would not stand in the way of our re-engagement with the Bureau."
Solomon continues
Whatever the case, the text messages portray Steele as increasingly aggravated that his return to informant's work on the Russia case was going so slowly.
"I am presuming you've heard nothing back from your SC colleagues on the issues you kindly put to them from me," Steele texted Ohr on Nov. 18, 2017. "We have heard nothing from them either.
"To say this is disappointing would be an understatement! Certain people have been willing to risk everything to engage with them in an effort to help them reach the truth."
Was Steele referring to his former boss Hannigan when he noted that "certain people have been willing to risk everything" and was he referring to the UK intelligence community when he mentioned his "old colleagues"? If this is the case then was the top of the UK intelligence network involved with Steele and Spygate'? Why were they trying to prevent President Trump from winning the election?
In Summary
As we noted in May: Based on information to date, the UK had more to do with interfering with the US 2016 Presidential election than Russia. The Obama team and the Clinton campaign spied on the Trump team and used the entire government apparatus, including the CIA, FBI, the DOJ and others, to do so.
It appears, they also had help from the UK.
These crooks were willing to risk World War III with Russia rather than face a Trump Presidency. This all leads to the question What is so damn damning that these many individuals would go to such brazen lengths to remove President Trump from office?
This is clearly 100 times worse than Watergate! We were right time to keep our eyes on the real country interfering with our election the UK!
Trump Strikes Back at Ringleader' Brennan
"Brennan will fight hard to avoid being put on trial but will need united support from from his Deep State co-conspiratorsa dubious proposition"
Ray McGovern
https://consortiumnews.com/2018/08/15/tr...r-brennan/
Quote:There's more than meets the eye to President Donald Trump's decision to revoke the security clearances that ex-CIA Director John Brennan enjoyed as a courtesy customarily afforded former directors. The President's move is the second major sign that Brennan is about to be hoisted on his own petard. It is one embroidered with rhetoric charging Trump with treason and, far more important, with documents now in the hands of congressional investigators showing Brennan's ringleader role in the so-far unsuccessful attempts to derail Trump both before and after the 2016 election.
Brennan will fight hard to avoid being put on trial but will need united support from from his Deep State co-conspiratorsa dubious proposition. One of Brennan's major concerns at this point has to be whether the "honor-among-thieves" ethos will prevail, or whether some or all of his former partners in crime will latch onto the opportunity to "confess" to investigators: "Brennan made me do it."
Well before Monday night, when Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani let a small bomb drop on Brennan, there was strong evidence that Brennan had been quarterbacking illegal operations against Trump. Giuliani added fuel to the fire when he told Sean Hannity of Fox news:
"I'm going to tell you who orchestrated, who was the quarterback for all this. … The guy running it is Brennan, and he should be in front of a grand jury. Brennan took … a dossier that, unless he's the biggest idiot intelligence agent that ever lived … it's false; you can look at it and laugh at it. And he peddled it to [then Senate Majority Leader] Harry Reid, and that led to the request for the investigation. So you take a false dossier, get senators involved, and you get a couple of Republican senators, and they demand an investigationa totally phony investigation."
The Fix Brennan Finds Himself In
After eight years of enjoying President Barack Obama's solid support and defense to do pretty much anything he choseincluding hacking into the computers of the Senate Intelligence CommitteeBrennan now lacks what, here in Washington, we refer to as a "Rabbi" with strong incentive to advance and protect you. He expected Hillary Clinton to play that role (were it ever to be needed), and that seemed to be solidly in the cards. But, oops, she lost.
What needs to be borne in mind in all this is, as former FBI Director James Comey himself has admitted: "I was making decisions in an environment where Hillary Clinton was sure to be the next president." Comey, Brennan, and co-conspirators, who decidedin that "environment"to play fast and loose with the Constitution and the law, were supremely confident they would not only keep their jobs, but also receive plaudits, not indictments.
Unless one understands and remembers this, it is understandably difficult to believe that the very top U.S. law enforcement and intelligence officials did what documentary evidence has now demonstrated they did.
So, unlike his predecessors, most of whom also left under a dark cloud, Brennan is bereft of anyone to protect him. He lacks even a PR person to help him avoid holding himself up to ridiculeand now retaliationfor unprecedentedly hostile tweets and other gaffes. Brennan's mentor, ex-CIA Director George Tenet, for example, had powerful Rabbis in President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney, as well as a bizarrely empathetic establishment media, when Tenet quit in disgrace 2004.
The main question now is whether the chairs of the House oversight committees will chose to face down the Deep State. They almost never do, and the smart money says that, if they do, they will loselargely because of the virtually total support of the establishment media for the Deep State. This often takes bizarre forms. The title of a recent column by Washington Post "liberal" commentator Eugene Robinson speaks volumes: "God Bless the Deep State."