This is an article I wish everyone could read get their Heads Around.
I Really, Really Wish people on the Social media could access this and read it.
So, So true.
Mr. G. Reporting.
Quote:WHY IT'LL BE HARD FOR TRUMP TO SURPASS OBAMA'S RECORD OF CHILLING PRESS FREEDOM
Never been a More True Statement, Please watch the video in the article.
Quote:Many in the mainstream media are reacting with righteous indignation over comments from a senior Trump adviser suggesting the administration views the traditional media as an opponent. But if we're to take these apostles of press freedom seriously, they should first explain why the Trump Administration is worse than the Obama Administration.
After all, the Obama Administration literally tried imprisoning an uncooperative journalist, monitored journalists' every digital move, and "hammered" at least one challenging reporter with IRS audits.
Let's rewind the tape.
The Obama Administration began with lofty promises of being "the most transparent administration in history." Instead it ended up setting a record, /]by the Associated Press's count, for denying the most Freedom of Information Act requests.
As the administration's popularity began tumbling early into its first year, the Obama White House declared war on Fox News. The White House director of communications, Anita Dunn, warned they would henceforth treat Fox News "like an opponent," insisting, "we don’t need to pretend that this is the way that legitimate news organizations behave."
The Obama administration made good on that threat. Soon thereafter, the administration sought to deny Fox News' participation in executive branch news-making events -- which only failed after other networks admirably refused to participate if Fox News were excluded.
As you'll see in the montage above, President Obama blamed Fox News and talk radio for virtually every problem his administration encountered, warning in his waning days that these "domestic propagandists" were far more damaging to America than any interference from hostile powers like Russia.
When Fox News's State Department correspondent, James Rosen, reported accurate information about North Korea leaked by a member of the Obama State Department, Eric Holder ordered his movements to be tracked, his phone records seized, and went "judge shopping" until he found one willing to grant such a warrant without telling Rosen himself. Holder even told Google to not notify Rosen that the government was monitoring his email.
"To treat a reporter as a criminal for doing his job — seeking out information the government doesn’t want made public — deprives Americans of the First Amendment freedom on which all other constitutional rights are based," the Washington Post wrote at the time.
And it wasn't just Fox News. The New York Times's James Risen was targeted for almost the entirety of Obama's two terms. His crime? Reporting accurate information the Obama Administration didn't want reported. "Along the way, we found out that the government had spied on virtually every aspect of James Risen’s digital life from phone calls, to emails, to credit card statements, bank records and more," the Freedom of the Press Foundation reported. After the
Supreme Court rejected Risen's appeal of an earlier order mandating he testify about the source of information he reported, Risen faced jail time.
After an outcry, Holder finally backed down.
The Associated Press experienced similar surveillance. For two months, the Department of Justice tracked 20 AP reporters' calls, ostensibly over their reporting into a Libyan terrorist's failed plot. Why was reporting on a failed plot so threatening? The AP said it was because the administration wanted to announce the news itself.
With the Obama Administration, the message to the media was always clear: Report negatively about us, and we'll use the powers at our disposal to make you suffer consequences.
If those journalists currently complaining about the Trump Administration found no such fault with the Obama Administration, perhaps it's because they were all too willing to toe the line.
Cars stopped and beeped their horns as hundreds stared skywards in disbelief at what they were seeing.
But after the footage was posted on Instagram attracting more than 30,000 views and 200 comments it quickly disappeared without a trace.
The video and its subsequent vanishing act has now set conspiracy theorists‘ tongues wagging.
Tyler from UFO monitoring group Secureteam said: “The footage was captured on the Tijuana border on the Mexico side.
“(The footage) captures what can best be described as a fleet or an extremely large grouping of UFOs that look like they are stopping traffic or at least slowing it down.
Mexico is a Drug state where just about everyone is for sale or threatened with death. The perfect play or pay with an axe for those who do not play. The following video is worth a listen when you have time and if you care.. I post this simply because I expect in the next for years things may really heat up between the USA and Mexico.. Maybe I am wrong but.....maybe not. I once had a Col who was a marine tell me we should post our troops on the border and have them march south until we find a border we can defend... He thought it would be around the Panama Canal.
That's right. According to this young lady, she is the secret daughter of Princess Diana and Prince Charles.
If you go by looks alone, she's not lying; she's almost the spitting image of Diana.
The video below shows more pictures that show a better likeness.
Quote:Princess Diana may have had a secret daughter named Sarah, who was kept hidden from the public due to pressure from the Royal family. In 2014 Sarah confronted Prince Charles during a secret meeting in England where she accused him of killing her mother.
The entire confrontation was apparently caught on tape by Globe Magazine, who recorded the confrontation between Sarah and Charles on a surveillance camera.
Globe magazine claims that after Charles and Diana married the fertilised eggs were supposed to be destroyed but a rogue doctor implanted one of the embryos into his wife.
The mag alleges that a 33-year old New England woman, who they say is called Sarah, was born before William and Harry.
Globe says she is now living incognito in New England in the United States, and has feared for her life following Diana’s death in a Paris car crash in 1997.
It’s quite a tale, and one bolstered by the fact that Diana did undergo a gynaecological examination before her engagement to Charles, according to a report in the Daily Mail.
But Dan Brown couldn’t write it any better, and in fact the whole story bears a quite spooky resemblance to a fictional book entitled The Disappearance Of Olivia about a supposed secret daughter of Diana’s.
The author, Nancy E. Ryan, imagined a story in which an oncologist who “admired Princess Diana and wanted to emulate her” discovers she is Diana’s secret daughter. In the novel, Olivia also lives in hiding, much like ‘Sarah.’
Asked once whether there was any basis in fact of her story, Ryan replied, “It’s not for me to say. I believe that my story could have been true. Many have told me that they believe my story is the only one that is entirely plausible. These same people also think that Prince Charles wanted Diana to be fertile that he might have pushed Diana into having her eggs harvested to prove her fertility… I believe that fantasies allow us to explore our feelings. I hope that Diana’s fans would understand that the book allows us to say ‘What if?’”
Quote:This has to be one of the strangest UFO footage ever sent into me. I’m sharing it with you guys to get your thoughts an opinions. The guy who caught the object does not have a history of putting out anything fake or crazy like this. He was filming a friend reading scriptures when they noticed the object out the window.
I have passed this along to several UFO Experts and Channels. No one has yet to find anything as far footage manipulation. Which then raises the question as to what could it be?? I’m sure there will be tons of ideas and theories.
This is one of the people that Obama commuted just before he left office. Thomas was sentenced to 19 years in prison in 2008 for distribution of cocaine.
He was supposed to get out in March of this year.
Quote:(Reuters) - A Michigan man whose drug-related prison sentence was commuted by former President Barack Obama was shot dead this week at a federal halfway house, according to local media reports.
Demarlon Thomas, 31, was shot and killed on Monday night by a man with an assault-style rifle in Saginaw, Michigan, around 100 miles (160 km) northwest of Detroit, according to local CBS affiliate WNEM.
A spokesman for the Michigan State Police did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Reuters.
Two masked men with assault-style rifles entered the facility where around two dozen people were staying, Michigan State Police Lt. David Kaiser told local news website MLive.com.
"One person watched over a group of them while another subject located the victim and executed him," Kaiser said, according to the website. "They were looking for this person."
No one else was injured in the attack, Kaiser said.
Thomas was sentenced to 19 years in prison in 2008 for distribution of cocaine after being caught in a three-year federal investigation called "Operation Sunset," aimed at taking down Saginaw's Sunny Side Gang, the website reported.
His sentence commuted by Obama in November as part of a larger commutation of 79 sentences, MLive.com said. His sentence was set to be completed in late March.
Stymied by Congress in efforts to pass comprehensive criminal justice reform, Obama focused on reducing the sentences of drug offenders who would have served less time if convicted under current laws.
A day before leaving office, Obama commuted the prison sentences of 330 federal inmates, particularly drug offenders.
The commutations were the most ever performed in a single day, the White House said, and brought the total number of sentences reduced by Obama to 1,715.
Obama granted more commutations than any other president in U.S. history and, the White House said, surpassing the number granted by the past 13 presidents combined.
There is a chart on the source page that shows the numbers of commutations by former Presidents. Obama's numbers are... well, outrageous!
Something about this execution stinks!
We all know the government is involved with the drugs shipped in and out of this country. I wonder if he was "working for them" and they locked him up to keep him quite, and then Obama released him so he could be killed... silenced from telling what he may know?
Or, was it a "message" to the other 329 telling them to keep their mouth shut, or they would get the same?
The evidence of a cover up of Hillary Clinton's emails from inside the Obama administration is overwhelming. The people involved either were directly in contact with the Clinton campaign or Hillary Clinton herself. The cover-up included members of the Department of Justice, the Department of State, members of her campaign staff and the President of the United States. Yes, you read me right. President Obama participated in an effort to cover up details of Hillary Clinton emails.
In March of 2015, the Clinton campaign worked hard to try and figure out exactly what could be done to minimize the damage Hillary's emails could do. One thing became clear very early on - the Clinton campaign knew that Hillary exchanged emails with President Obama. This fact alone would bring the President in on the swelling scandal and also lead to detailed questions as to what kind of correspondence did they exchange. To remedy the exposed weakness, on March 4, 2015 Podesta suggested that Obama should invoke "executive privilege" over "emails to/from POTUS" (President of the United States).
"We could get them to ask for that..." noted Podesta writing to Clinton legal counsel Cheryl Mills. "They may not care, but I(t) seems they will."
Instead of taking the Nixonian like course of declaring Obama emails off limits openly, which would have raised a political furor, Obama opted instead to find a friendly news outlet and lie. On March 7, 2015 Obama took an interview from CBS where he flatly denied knowing about Hillary's emails. Obama said he learned through news reports that Hillary Clinton used a personal email account for official business while she served as his secretary of state.
Of course, we now know from the email releases that he frequently exchanged emails with Clinton. In fact, on one occasion Obama exchanged emails using his classified address with Clinton while she was inside Russia. Obama's lie to America and his denial of knowledge flies in the face of the overwhelming evidence. Obama clearly knew of Hillary's private system since he was sending and receiving email from her on a regular basis.
The efforts to cover up the growing email scandal also extended to inside the Obama Department of Justice. One such circumstance surrounds the efforts of Assistant Attorney General Peter Kadzik. Kadzik used his private Gmail account to give John Podesta a "Heads Up". Kadzik's use of his personal account kept his emails from legal discovery and FOIA retention rules, similar to Hillary's use of her private email.
"There is a HJC (House Justice Committee) hearing today where the head of our Civil division will testify," noted Kadzik in the email to Podesta. "Likely to get questions on State Department emails."
"Another filing in the FOIA case went in last night or will go in this am that indicates it will be awhile (2016) before the State Department posts the emails," wrote Kadzik.
Podesta immediately sent Kadzik's email around the Clinton team seeking their input, noting that the court hearings and filings could generate negative stories.
"Additional, chances for mischief," wrote Podesta.
Kadzik attended Georgetown University’s law school with John Podesta in the 1970s and is a close confidant, dining often with the Clinton campaign leader. Kadzik also donated to Hillary Clinton’s former leadership PAC and 2008 presidential campaign while working as an attorney at the D.C.-based law firm Dickstein Shapiro LLP. A further email, tying Kadzik with Clinton, shows Kadzik's son PJ tried to land a position inside campaign the just days before his father would send the "Heads Up" email to Podesta.
Another major example is the FBI meetings with Department of State official Patrick Kennedy. The FBI documents on Kennedy and his efforts to cover up the Clinton email scandal are detailed and damming. Kennedy repeatedly pressed FBI officials to re-classify Clinton emails. In one such incident, the FBI agent noted Kennedy's intent.
"Kennedy told <classified name> that the FBI's classification of the e-mail in questions caused problems for Kennedy and Kennedy wanted to classify the document as "B9", noted the FBI report.
"Kennedy further stated that the "B9" classification would allow him to archive the document in the basement of DOS (Dept. of State) never to be seen again."
In another meeting, Kennedy pressed the FBI to change classified emails to unclassified in an effort to cover-up the severity of Hillary's national security violations.
"During the conversation, participant specifically asked whether any of the emails in question were classified. Making eye contact with <classified name> Kennedy remarked, 'Well, we'll see.' <Classified name> believed this was reference to the FBI's categorization of the SECRET//NOFORN email which Kennedy was attempting to influence. In a private meeting with Kennedy following the all agency meeting, Kennedy asked <classified name> whether the FBI could 'see their way to marking the email unclassified?'"
Following this exchange Kennedy went even further to undermine national security and protect Hillary Clinton. The details of this effort are again spelled out in no uncertain terms by the FBI agents involved.
"Shortly thereafter, <classified name> received a call from <classified name> of the International Operations Division IOD) of the FBI, who 'pressured' him to change the classified email to unclassified. <Classified name> indicated he had been contacted by Patrick Kennedy, Undersecretary of State, who had asked his assistance in altering the email's classification in exchange for a 'QUID PRO QUO'. <classified name> advised that, in exchange for marking the email unclassified, STATE would reciprocate by allowing the FBI to place more Agents in countries where they are presently forbidden."
To make this perfectly clear. The FBI agent summarized his finding with a stunning and damning accusation.
"<Classified name> believes STATE has an agenda which involves minimizing the classified nature of the CLINTON emails in order to protect STATE interests and those of CLINTON."
These and other documents detail crime. This particular crime is conspiracy to obstruct justice - aka 'COVER UP". The Clinton ring of conspirators pressured government officials to downgrade the intelligence classification of documents in order to justify Clinton’s false claim that she never dealt in classified materials on her basement email system. The Clinton conspirators miss-used the FOIA exemption laws to bury evidence from legal discovery. The Clinton conspirators used information obtained from leakers inside the Department of Justice to prepare for upcoming events which could harm her politically and criminally.
This conspiracy to obstruct justice - to cover up - goes all the way into the Oval Office of the White House and right to Obama who lied to the American public when he asserted he had no knowledge of Hillary's personal email service.
Donald Trump on waterboarding: 'We must fight fire with fire'
'Mr Trump is reportedly seeking a review of how the US is conducting its war on terror, including techniques such as waterboarding.
Donald Trump has hinted he would be willing to contemplate the use of torture techniques against America's enemies.
In his first one-to-one television interview since his inauguration, the US President said senior officials had told him that so-called enhanced interrogation techniques did work.
His administration is reportedly seeking a review of how the US is conducting its war on terror, including interrogation techniques such as waterboarding and whether CIA "black site" prisons overseas should be reopened.
Torture techniques are regarded as illegal under US and international law.
Mr Trump said he would be guided by his cabinet members - including CIA director Mike Pompeo, who has ruled out using torture, and defence secretary James Mattis, who told the President that it is counter-productive...' SOURCE:
Don't forget MSM, never call him President up front and begin to massage
a narrative that implies President Trump is all for torturing.
In fact, give it a week and then say he likes to torture... hint at that he enjoys...
no, needs to torture black people, gay people and women.
Yeah, that'll do it.