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The US spent $65 million+ just trying to throw the 2004 Ukraine election, favored regime change candidate Viktor Yushchenko to the US . On 11/24/2004, after the US puppet lost, Colin Powell said: “ We cannot accept this result [of the presidential election in Ukraine] as legitimate ,” “U.S. Refuses To Accept Ukrainian Election Result, ” Radio Free Europe. It took 3 elections but US finally “won”: “ Yushchenko wins Ukraine election , Ukraine presidential election, the third in two months monitored by 12,000 international observers. "…US officials say they’re not interfering in Ukraine elections, merely “building democracy” there. some of the money helped train… people who now call themselves part of the Orange revolution.” … “democracy “Orange Revolution training ” by US terror sponsors ( including child beheaders, refuses to pass the “Stop Arming Terrorists” Act) in 1991 $5 billion US taxpayer dollars through Dec. 2013, with only cursory public disclosure Ukraine oligarchs still control 80-85% of Ukraine GDP …“Unfortunately, since 2014 [through 10/3/2017] there has not been much change. Businesspeople continue to hold leading political roles ….After the Euromaidan protests [and US regime change], the political influence of some oligarchs increased even further. "… after 2014 US regime change in Ukraine, protesters who stood in the cold for months “ are gripped with a profound sense of shock” their “revolution” calling for overhaul of elite corruption the reverse, a worse oligarchy and worse elite corruption Ukraine: Insider Oligarchs Derail Maidan Revolution” …
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12/10/2004, “U.S. Spent $65M To Aid Ukrainian Groups, " AP, Washington No U.S. money was sent directly to Ukrainian political parties, the officials say. In most cases, it was funneled through organizations like the Carnegie Foundation or through groups aligned with Republicans and Democrats that organized election training, with human rights forums or with independent news outlets. But officials acknowledge some of the money helped train groups and individuals opposed to the Russian-backed government candidate — people who now call themselves part of the Orange revolution. For example, one group that got grants through U.S.-funded foundations link to Yushchenko’s home page under the heading “partners. ” Another project funded by the [USAID] U.S. Agency for International Development official to Washington last year for a three-week training session on political advocacy.
“There’s this myth that the Americans go into a country and, presto, you get a revolution, heads the International Republican Institute [NED] , which received $25.9 million last year [2003] to encourage democracy in Ukraine and more than 50 other countries.
“It’s not the case that Americans can get 2 million people to turn
out on the streets. The people themselves decide to do that,” Craner
said.
White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan said, “There’s accountability in place. We make sure that money is being used for the purposes for which it’s assigned or designated.” [Right, Scott]. Since the Ukrainian Supreme Court invalidated the results of the Nov. 21 presidential runoff, Russia and the United States have traded charges of interference. A new election is scheduled for Dec. 26 [2004]. Yushchenko wins Ukraine election, ” BBC]
Opposition leaders, international monitors and Bush’s election envoy
to Ukraine have said [alleged] major fraud marred the runoff between
Yushchenko and current Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych, who was
declared the winner. Yushchenko is friendlier toward Europe and the United States than his opponent, as well as backing from the current Ukrainian government
Yushchenko’s backers say Russian support for Yanukovych goes beyond
Putin’s praise and includes millions of dollars in campaign funding and
other assistance. [You mean like $65 million+ US tax dollars that were spent on you including flying you thousands of miles away to the US to hob nob with fat cats whom you'll answer to instead of Ukrainian voters?]
Documents and interviews provide a glimpse into how U.S. [taxpayer] money was spent inside Ukraine.
“Our money doesn’t go to candidates; it goes to the process, the institutions that it takes to run a [supposedly] free and fair election,” State Department spokesman The exit poll, funded by the embassies of the United States and seven other nations as well as four[so-called] international foundations [3 of the 4 funded by US] , said Yushchenko won the Nov. 21 vote by 54 percent to 43 percent. Yanukovych and his supporters say the exit poll was skewed.”…
[Ed. note: Later AP reveals 3 of the 4 so-called “international” foundations were actually funded by the US . AP first says it was “4 international foundations, ” but two paragraphs later says: “The four [international] foundations involved included three funded by the U.S. government.” ]
(continuing): “The Ukrainian groups that did the poll of more than 28,000 voters have not said how much the project cost. Neither has the U.S. The four foundations involved included three funded by the U.S. government: The National Endowment for Democracy, [whose longtime chief Carl Gershman “ has called on Americans to “summon the will” to remove Russian President Putin from office "] gets its money ($180 million yearly) directly from Congress ; the Eurasia
Foundation, which gets money from the State Department, and the
Renaissance Foundation, part of a network of charities funded by
billionaire George Soros that gets money from the State Department [ie, US taxpayers]. Grants from groups funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development [USAID, again US taxpayers] also went to the International Center for Policy Studies, a think tank that includes [US favorite] Yushchenko on its supervisory board . The board also includes several current or former advisers to Kuchma, however. IRI [NED], Craner’s Republican-backed [NED] group, used U.S. money to help Yushchenko [their favorite] arrange meetings with Vice President Dick Cheney, Assistant Secretary of State Richard Armitage and GOP leaders in Congress in February 2003. The State Department gave the National Democratic Institute [NED], , nearly $48 million for worldwide [alleged] democracy-building programs in 2003 . Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright chairs NDI’s board of directors. The NDI [NED] says representatives of parties in all the blocs that participated in Ukraine’s 2002 parliamentary elections have attended its seminars to learn skills such as writing party platforms, organizing bases of voter support and developing party structures. also has been a main financial and administrative backer of the Committee of Voters of Ukraine, an election watchdog group vote was not conducted fairly. [Deliberately
deceptive. "Elections" in Ukraine are only for US elites to get another
puppet. NDI [NED] also organized a 35-member team of election observers for the Nov. 21 runoff vote. IRI [NED] sent its own team of observers. The U.S. Agency for International Development [USAID] also funds the Center for Ukrainian Reform Education, which produces radio and television programs aiming to educate Ukrainian citizens about reforming their nation’s government and economy . [Cruel US elites give Ukrainians false hope. Eleven years after the 2004 “election” run by terrorist US, Ukraine oligarchs still control 80-85% of Ukraine GDP ].
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Comment: Crimea is very lucky it was able to get out of US-controlled Ukraine. US taxpayers must be freed from
funding genocidal US elites whose only purpose is to exterminate
countries. We can free ourselves if US is broken into parts. The
southwest can
join Mexico, for example.
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1/3/2017, “Schumer warns Trump: Intel officials ‘have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you'”
………………………………. Ten years before Schumer “six ways from Sunday:”
4/24/2007, “ Amazing Statement Of Congressional Impotence By Senate Intelligence Chairman Jay Rockefeller [D-WVa] ,
“Charles Davis , a freelance reporter, briefly interviewed Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) last Wednesday [April 2007]. Rockefeller, Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, made this startling statement about how the U.S. government really functions:
DAVIS (Reporter): I wonder if you’ve heard some of these news reports that the Bush administration is backing extremist groups in Pakistan to launch attacks against Iran? Are you familiar with those news reports?
ROCKEFELLER (Sen.): I’ve seen no intelligence that would verify that.
DAVIS: Reports quote administration officials as saying this is going on and it’s being done in a way to avoid oversight of the Intelligence Committee …Is there anything you could do in your position as Chairman of the Intelligence Committee to find answers about this
ROCKEFELLER: Don’t you understand the way Intelligence works? Do you think that because I’m Chairman of the Intelligence Committee that I just say I want it, and they give it to me? They control it. All of it. All of it. All of the time. I only get, and my committee only gets, what they want to give me….
DAVIS: Well, what do you think about these allegations?
ROCKEFELLER: I’m not— I don’t comment on allegations. I can’t. I can’t afford to. DAVIS: Okay. Thank you.”
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Added: Pathology of CIA began with its 1953-1961 chief Allen Dulles:
11/2/2015, “ A New Biography Traces the Pathology of [CIA chief] Allen Dulles and His Appalling Cabal, ” “ The Devil’s Chessboard : Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America’s Secret GovernmentJFK fired CIA chief Allen Dulles, a holdover from Eisenhower, after the failed 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion.”
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Added: Re: Sen. Jay Rockefeller: John “Jay” “Rockefeller, a Democrat, was a senator from West Virginia Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee from 2007 to 2009 . ……………………….
Added: 1/3/2017, “Six ways from Sunday ,” Schumer on MSNBC:
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Comment: Proof if needed that US
elections are a charade to fool the masses, that US voters and taxpayers are a global
joke, and that the political class is in on the joke.
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“Trump is a legitimately elected president whose ouster is being actively sought by the intelligence community. ” .The real problem of successfully removing Trump “would be the precedent of a de facto intelligence community veto over elections.”
10/11/19, “ We’re in a permanent coup ,” “My discomfort in the last few years, first with Russiagate and now with Ukrainegate and impeachment, stems from the belief that the people pushing hardest for Trump’s early removal are more dangerous than Trump this predicament is worse than having a bad president. The Trump presidency is the first to reveal a full-blown schism between the intelligence community and the White House.Senior figures in the CIA, NSA, FBI and other agencies made an open break from their would-be boss before Trump’s inauguration , commencing a public war of leaks that has not stopped …. Donald “Deep State” Trump is a legitimately elected president whose ouster is being actively sought by the intelligence community…. Trump, at least insofar as we know, has not used section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to monitor political rivals. He hasn’t deployed human counterintelligence “informants” . He hasn’t maneuvered to secure Special Counsel probes of Democrats.
And while Donald Trump conducting foreign policy based on what he sees on Fox and Friends is troubling,
it’s not in the same ballpark as CNN, MSNBC, the Washington Post and
the New York Times engaging in de facto coverage partnerships with the
FBI and CIA to push highly politicized, phony narratives like Russiagate. Trump’s tinpot Twitter threats and cancellation of White House privileges for dolts like Jim Acosta also don’t begin to compare to the danger posed by Facebook, Google, and Twitter – under pressure from the Senate – organizing with groups like the Atlantic Council to fight “fake news” in the name preventing the “foment of discord .” I don’t believe most Americans have thought through what a successful campaign to oust Donald Trump would look like. Most casual news consumers can only think of it in terms of Mike Pence becoming president. The real problem would be the precedent of a de facto intelligence community veto over elections , ...............
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Above, 10/11/19, Trump rally at James E. Sudduth Coliseum in Lake Charles, Louisiana: ““Louisiana
cannot take four more years of a Liberal Democrat Governor raising your
taxes, killing your jobs, attacking your industries, and taking money
from Open Borders Extremists. You must VOTE John Bel Edwards OUT!” via Dan Scavino twitter
......... Above, 10/11/19, “President has arrived at the James E. Sudduth Coliseum in Lake Charles, Louisiana. Get out TOMORROW and VOTE REPUBLICAN! Dan Scavino twitter
Below, the night before, Thurs., Oct. 10, 2019, Trump held a rally in Minneapolis, Minnesota, at Target Center
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Italy “hosts more than 30,000 [US] military and employees of the Pentagon in 5 large bases and in more than 50 secondary facilities.” . Number of armed US military stationed on dangerous 2000 mile US southern border: O…. Does Italy know US is a massive state sponsor of Islamic terrorism including child beheaders, helped al-Qaeda conquer Idlib, and that US congress refuses to pass the Stop Arming Terrorists Act? For Italy’s own safety, US brutally destroyed Syria for no reason and now threatens to punish anyone who tries to help rebuild Syria.
10/11/19, “The F-35s were on Pompeo’s secret agenda in Rome “ The sale of the F-35 warplanes was finally part of the agenda of the trip of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to Italy, although the opposite was officially said As for his visit to the Vatican, officially focused only on “theological issues,” he actually sought to mobilize the Holy See against China, Cuba, Iran and Syria. The American F-35 stealth war plane, supposedly invisible to radars, is in any case invisible to politics. It does not appear in any of the official communiqués about the meetings that US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo held with the leaders of Italy during his stay in Rome. However, Corriere della Sera reveals that Pompeo asked Italy to just complete the payment of the F-35 already acquired and to proceed with a new purchase and Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte already guaranteed that "we will stay faithful to our covenants ». Italy has so far bought 14 F-35 fighter jets from the American firm Lockheed Martin. Thirteen of these devices, already delivered, are "fully financed ," a precision mentioned last June 3, before the Senate, by then Defense Minister Elisabetta Trenta (of the 5 Star Movement), who also announced new purchases that they will raise to 28 the amount of those American planes that Italy must acquire by 2022. But Italy has committed to buy a total of 90 F-35 planes, which brings the estimated total of those purchases to 14 billion Euros. To this expense must be added what will cost the constant updating of the computer programs that the F-35 needs to operate, programs whose exclusivity is in the hands of the American firm Lockheed Martin . Only for the 14 units already purchased , these updates already cost Italy 500 million euros. However, Italy is not only a buyer but also a manufacturer of the F-35 , as a second level partner . The Italian firm Leonardo (formerly
Finmeccanica), which is the largest Italian military industry – with
the Ministry of Economy as the main shareholder (30% of the shares) – is
in charge of the assembly and testing line of the F -35 in the installation of Faco di Cameri (Piemonte) , where the devices for Italy and the Netherlands come from. The Italian company Leonardo also manufactures the wings of the F-35 that are assembled in the United States and makes them with materials produced in the facilities of the Italian towns of Foggia, Nola and Venegono
The United States government selected the Cameri complex (also in
Italy) as a regional center for the maintenance and updating of the
fuselage in Europe. A thousand people work in the Faco factory , many of them – a sixth of the total – with precarious jobs. The installation costs of that factory and the purchase of the F-35 are well above the amounts of the contracts stipulated by the Italian companies for the production of the F-35 . And we must not forget that, while the profits go entirely to private companies, the expenses come out of the public funds , which further elevates the expenses of Italy in the military sector , which already reach 70 million euros day. However, in his meetings with Italian President Sergio Mattarella and Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte , Secretary of State Mike Pompeo stressed the need for Italy and other European countries “to increase their investments in the collective defense of NATO By the way, in the meetings held under the greatest discretion, Pompeo
did not make that observation diplomatically but in a peremptory tone. That is, while the State Department praises Italy because “it hosts more than 30,000 military and employees of the Pentagon in 5 large bases and in more than 50 secondary facilities Mike Pompeo requested in the reserved meetings to install on Italian soil plus military bases, perhaps in exchange for some reduction of US taxes on Italian Parmesan cheese. In addition, on the secret agenda of Pompeo was also the organization of the next arrival in Italy of the new US nuclear bombs B61-12 , which will replace the current B-61 . ....... The new US nuclear bombs B61-12 are designed specifically for the F-35A warplanes and
6 of those planes, belonging to the Italian air force, already received
in October the approval of NATO certifying that they are fully
operational . During his stay in Rome, Pompeo did not deal only with earthly issues , such as the F-35 war plane and Parmesan cheese. During a symposium held at the Vatican, Pompeo spoke about human dignity and faith in free societies [1 ]. Pompeo said at that symposium that “the United States arrived a little later than San Pedro, but has always protected religious freedom ” and, with it, "human dignity. " He [Pompeo] then accused China, Cuba, Iran and Syria of repressing that freedom.
That said, under a huge crucifix this holy man who, when he was
nominated as director of the CIA, declared to the United States Congress
his intention to study the return to waterboarding (a type of drowning drill) and other methods of ” Strong interrogation ,” an expression used to avoid saying the word torture.” ........ Source: Il Manifesto (Italy)
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Added:
......... Image: 12/30/2018, “US flag flies in Syria’s Manbij despite pullout notice,” What “international law” allows US to invade Syria and plant its flag on Syrian land?
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“Tweet, Cave, Repeat "…….Without $5 billion US taxpayer dollars over 23 years , US couldn’t have achieved “regime change” in Ukraine in 2014. The ONLY thing the US military is absolutely forbidden to do, is to defend the actual borders of the United States.”
10/11/19, “Trump Brings Troops Back Home To Saudi Arabia “Monday: Want to bring back US forces engaged in endless wars: Trump “We want to bring our troops back home. It”s been many many years. It”s been decades, in many cases . . I got elected on that . If you go back and look at our speeches, I would say we want to bring our troops back home from these endless wars, " Friday: Lucas Tomlinson @LucasFoxNews – 17:50 UTC · Oct 11, 2019 "Pentagon: Since May [2019], U.S. forces have increased in Middle East by ~14,000 : statement . There are currently more than 60,000 U.S. troops deployed to various countries and aboard warships. "
Dan Lamothe @DanLamothe – 17:50 UTC · Oct 11, 2019 "Pentagon just announced the deployment of two more fighter squadrons, one air expeditionary wing, two Patriot batteries and one THAAD unit to Saudi Arabia just now, moments before briefing with senior officials. " None of which is able to defend Saudi Arabia against another drone or cruise-missile attack.
The troops should be reminded that deployments in Saudi Arabia can end in unfriendly ways .”
Added: June 25, 1996, in Saudi Arabia, 19 US airmen killed, 500 wounded: “On this day in 1996, a tanker truck loaded with 25,000 pounds of explosives rips through the U.S. Air Force military housing complex Khobar Towers in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, killing 19 U.S. airmen and wounding nearly 500 others. The terrorist attack that blew off much of the eight-story Building 131, leaving a crater 50 feet wide and 16 feet deep, was the deadliest attack against U.S. forces since the 1983 bombing ………………………………. Among comments …………………………….. ““None of which is able to defend Saudi Arabia against another drone or cruise-missile attack.”
Well, yes and no. For now
these forces don’t have the ability to intercept the kind of slow and
low-flying cheap drones that recently hit the Saudi Oil facility. But
they do have the ability to stomp hard on anyone launching them Although that depends on our forces having some sort of clue as to what they are doing Pity that the United States military does not have the mission of actually defending our country from the ongoing invasion over the southern borderthe ONLY thing the US military is absolutely forbidden to do , is to defend the actual borders of the United States ?Yes I know it’s racist to think this way,
Posted by: TG | Oct 11 2019 16:53 utc | 8″
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10/9/19, “America’s Political Implosion, ” Finian Cunningham, Strategic Culture
“The inescapable conclusion is that powerful political forces within the US simply do not recognize the democratic rights of the electorate who voted Trump into office. these forces not respect democratic principle ,do not respect due legal process or the high offices of their own government. This is a lurking ideology of dictatorship and fascism . Paradoxically, these labels are pinned on the maverick Trump. More accurately, they apply to the politicians and media who claim to be “liberal” and “democrats”. The accelerating political implosion in the US nails the lie to oft-repeated American proclamations about their nation being the paragon of “sacred” democratic virtue and rule of law. And the people who are doing the damage to US politics and its constitution are “patriotic” Americans, not Russia or any other imagined foreign adversary….
America is at war with itself. It is Americans themselves who destroying their own political system, and perhaps even the very society, and their addled, paranoid brains – without any assistance from a “foreign enemy”.”
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10/8/19, “Donald Trump, Alone Against All, ” Voltaire, Thierry Meyssan “All historians agree that George W. Bush did not really hold the presidency , first with his vice-president, Dick
Cheney, and his secretary of defense, Donald Rumsfeld . It is also clear that Barack Obama had very little power other than targeted assassinations. Donald Trump is not in a position to change US policy. the office of President of the United States has been almost exclusively in the media . And, if the president does not make policy, those who do so in the shadows are not elected. Secondly, the United States’ allies do not obey the US President, but its deep state. Only Russia and China are truly independent . Russia is the only one of these three states whose president is democratically elected and who exercises power on behalf of its people . participate in its political life. The United States system is perfectly opaque ….[subhead, Lessons of this story] President Trump believed he had neutralized the opposition implementing the more or less secret treaties of the United States with its allies. He
believed he had negotiated with the alternative government constituted
as a preventive measure in the event of a nuclear war. He was obviously wrong…. Alone, against his opposition, against his administration and against his allies, President Trump does not seem to be able to fulfill his campaign commitments Three years after his election, the House of Representatives launched an impeachment procedure against him because he is fighting against the corruption of the Clinton clan.”….
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