Let's Do Popcorn! News & Markets for 2-15-18
They can't seem to stop the flood of ugly. Seems to indicate quite an ugly thinking agency after all we are projectors.
The FBI said that it was investigating whether or not a disturbing YouTube comment reported to them in September was posted by the suspect in Wednesday's deadly Florida school shooting rampage.
A Mississippi man told CBS that he warned the FBI last September about a social media comment allegedly posted by Florida school shooting suspect Nikolas Cruz. Ben Bennight says he saw a comment on a YouTube video that troubled him and notified the FBI, Pegues reports. The comment on Bennight's YouTube video said, "I'm going to be a professional school shooter," Bennight said.
Later today after admitting they had not investigated and were now investigating this comment, the FBI said it couldn't find the person behind the video indicating there would be a shooting.
Really? ROTFLOL I was born at night but not last night! LOL That investigation took all of two hours? Maybe?
I don't believe that not for one second. Show me the report. Did you look at the headers? Did you capture the ip and trace it? What information did you get from Google? Did you see his browsing history? What were your findings because I want to see you did the work and couldn't find who posted that comment.
I don't believe you FBI. I doubt anyone else does either. No way in hell. As a network engineer for several decades I assure you with the tools and partners they have they found something if they had looked.
The FBI was too busy being used as a political arm for the Dems to actually do its job.
Given the above I tend to ignore the FBI. Bless their hearts.
This is what they are imagining now and they have no basis of information to support them of it either. Just more speculation on what the FBI thinks the world looks like.
FBI Director Christopher Wray informed the Senate Intelligence Committee that Chinese intelligence operatives have infiltrated American universities, “whether its professors, scientists, students;” the FBI must launch surveillance operations from its fifty-six field offices to monitor the situation.
They are trying to divert attention away from their own incompetence, and their own ineptitude. They think they can divert attention away from their own scandal and get more money for the agency to boot! LOL ROTFLOL
I don't believe a word of it.
Wray emphasized that China is determined to dethrone the United States as a global superpower through unconventional means. He framed the infiltration as both a governmental and a societal threat to the American empire.
"One of the things we're trying to do is view the China threat as not just a whole-of-government threat, but a whole-of-society threat on their end"
No, no. LOL We see what you imagine of the world. It's all around us and frankly it is pretty ugly so no thanks. My world is lovely. The world you describe comes right out of the minds of the ones we currently have problems with Brennan and Comey. It is pretty obvious Wray shares their views as well.
I love you. I know you think you are doing good but good for whom? You are not smarter than the people and the people see a far different world than the one you imagine.
Sure. It's a drag being the last guy in the play. The one who doesn't get to do what his predecessors did but that's the game. We all change and grow and the ugly they perpetuate is not ok. It's not ok to think of others as the FBI and our government agencies wish us to think of them. Not going to do it. I AM magnificent and so is everyone else who says I AM.
Go home please and imagine your world all you want. You don't get to use the power and resources of the country that imagines a world that prospers and grows to stop your imagined enemy who is no one's enemy but yours. Go home and fight your monster. It is all inside you and no one else.
The conflict is the people want to trade with all and war with none. That doesn't jibe with the government narrative of the old man and the old man is in shock. Hence conflict.
That's ok. He will be better for the experience in the end. Time for him to go into that hole we all go down into and come out of better for the experience.
Carter Page, a role in the Trump campaign - tiny role at best. Congressional investigators, like Nunes, must be wondering why the FBI and DOJ devoted so much attention to someone like Page instead of going after the “big fish” like Bannon, Flynn, Kushner, Ivanka and Trump Jr.?
Why waste time on Page? It doesn’t make any sense, unless, of course, the others were already being watched by other agencies?
Did the NSA and the CIA have a hand in the surveillance too?
Now that there’s evidence that senior level officials at the DOJ and the FBI were involved in improperly obtaining warrants to spy on members of the opposite party, the investigation is going to go wherever it goes. Whatever restrictions existed before, will now be lifted.
Saturday’s The Hill:
“House Intelligence Committee lawmakers are in the dark about an investigation into wrongdoing at the State Department announced by Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) on Friday. …Nunes told Fox News on Friday that, “we are in the middle of what I call phase two of our investigation. That investigation is ongoing and we continue work toward finding answers and asking the right questions to try to get to the bottom of what exactly the State Department was up to in terms of this Russia investigation.”…
GOP lawmakers have been speculating about allegations that an Obama-era State Department official passed along information from allies of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that may have been used by the FBI to launch an investigation into whether the Trump campaign had improper contacts with Russia.
“I’m pretty troubled by what I read in the documents with respect to the role the State Department played in the fall of 2016, including information that was used in a court proceeding. I am troubled by it,” Gowdy told Fox News on Tuesday.”
State Department and next in line followed by the NSA and Russia-gate point of origin, John Brennan’s CIA.
From Stephen Cohen’s article at The Nation:
“….when, and by whom, was this Intel operation against Trump started?
In testimony to the House Intelligence Committee in May 2017, John Brennan, formerly Obama’s head of the CIA, strongly suggested that he and his agency were the first, as The Washington Post put it at the time, “in triggering an FBI probe.” Certainly both the Post and The New York Times interpreted his remarks in this way. Equally certain, Brennan played a central role in promoting the Russiagate narrative thereafter, briefing members of Congress privately and giving President Obama himself a top-secret envelope in early August 2016 that almost certainly contained Steele’s dossier. Early on, Brennan presumably would have shared his “suspicions” and initiatives with James Clapper, director of national intelligence. FBI Director Comey… may have joined them actively somewhat later….
According to a Guardian article, by late 2015 or early 2016 Brennan was receiving, or soliciting, reports from foreign intelligence agencies regarding “suspicious ‘interactions’ between figures connected to Trump and known or suspected Russian agents.”
If these reports and Brennan’s testimony are to be believed, he, not the FBI, was the instigator and godfather of "Russiagate.”
Frankly, he seemed quite proud of his role and we shouldn't ignore it. LOL We should embrace it and he will receive some ass biting.
It's the same old MO. Just as the CIA launched its disinformation campaigns against Saddam Hussein and Muammar Gadhafi, so too, Russia has emerged as Washington’s adversary requiring a massive propaganda campaign to persuade the public that America faces a serious external threat. So far no one believes them.
Americans know it is not the outside, it is the inside that is the threat. The ones who tell us we are threatened are the ones doing the threatening. We are better than that.
The demonizing of Russia had already begun by the time Hills et al decided to join in by blaming Moscow for hacking John Podesta’s emails. The allegations were never persuasive, but they did provide Brennan with some cover for the massive Information Operation (IO) that began with him.
According to the Washington Times:
“It was then-CIA Director John O. Brennan, a close confidant of Mr. Obama’s, who provided the information — what he termed the “basis” — for the FBI to start the counterintelligence investigation last summer….Mr. Brennan told the House Intelligence Committee on May 23 that the intelligence community was picking up tidbits on Trump associates making contacts with Russians.”
It all started with Brennan.
Putin blocked Brennan’s operations in both Ukraine and Syria. Brennan was not happy being thwarted so he retaliated and used the tools at his disposal to demonize Putin and try to isolate Russia.
The “election meddling” charges fit perfectly with Brennan’s overall strategy to manipulate perceptions and prepare the country for an eventual confrontation. It provided him the opportunity to kill two birds with one stone, to deliver a blow to Putin and Trump at the very same time.
ROTFLOL - he was obviously not righteous because it is ass biting time now.
The plan has backfired and the investigations are gaining steam. Trump’s allies in the House smell the blood in the water and they want answers. Did the CIA surveil members of the Trump campaign on the basis of information they gathered in the dossier? Who saw the information? Was the information passed along to members of the press and other government agencies? Was the White House involved? What role did Obama play? What about the Intelligence Community Assessment? Was it based on the contents of the Steele report? Will the “hand-picked” analysts who worked on the report vouch for its conclusions or were they coached about what to write? How did Brennan persuade Comey into opening a counterintelligence investigation on members in the Trump campaign when he knew it would be perceived as a partisan attempt to sabotage the elections by giving Hillary an edge?
That would only come out if Hills lost and she did.
I look forward to hearing Brennan tell us again, proudly, the investigation started with him.
You have to understand there are only really two states of consciousness when it comes to a nation, a victim and a bully, a master and a slave. The world evolution that the CFR and BIS and their ilk envision is just business as the master/bully as usual and the rest of us are slaves/victims as usual.
Historically, that relationship continued as soon as the the 'victims' were appeased enough to start the cycle all over again when they tried to rise up. That is changing around the world not just in the US.
America was the new way. That went to sleep in 1907. Now it is waking up again.
Governments in and of themselves indicate a victim mentality. American democracy with a small, tiny federal government and an army that would be raised during times of need if any and an armed populace would deter any would be bullies, including their own government, was the way.
It is still the way.
That is fundamentally the only way a government can be in the world of today. Costa Rica gets it. The rest of us need to take a look there and America needs to return to fundamentals. Wilson wanted to be important, a man of the world and so did Hamilton, and so did Roosevelt and Johnson, Nixon, Carter, et al.
That is catering to the ego/role and not the One, the people. Listening to the role is what got us into this mess. I AM is taking us out of this mess.
You don't need 17 spy agencies, you don't need so many bombs you can destroy the world a million times over, you don't need pensions, you don't need a bloated fat skimming off the top throughout the ranks military, you don't need all those agencies to tell you how to live, how to be safe and what to do and you certainly don't need them to spend your money and shake you down for taxes to pay for the bonds they take out in our name. I could go on, the list is long, but you get the idea.
That is victim mentality. We are doing it to ourselves and then we cry about it happening. Stop thinking like a victim. It is that simple. The world reflects the inside.
Well the people stopped thinking like a victim and the conflict has arisen and some have imagined an end and are persisting in it. All of us dancing together in unity, harmony and love and that someone has faith, which is not a religion, and has hope and love for all.
Every single person who sang Imagine with Lennon has been feeding this rocket.
So don't cry it is happening. Be happy and of good cheer there is conflict in the world. The old man is dying and the new man is rising.
It's all good.
Markets
Nice rally with a higher low and higher high indicating more to the upside tomorrow.
S&P 500 Resistance – 2759, 2785, 2811, 2842, 2876, 2905
S&P 500 Support – 2730, 2715, 2682, 2655, 2638, 2607, 2575, 2560, 2530, 2505, 2478, 2422, 2400, 2375
Target 3200 remains
Cryptos - Bitcoin
Futures closed over 10k Nice rally. If the spot (BTC) closes above 10k there will be a nice run to the upside.
Take care,
Rita
Take care,
Rita
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