Political analyst Philip Giraldi, founder of the Council for the National Interest, continues to expose the pro-Israel hypocrisy of American political leaders. No progress towards peace and justice is possible as long as deluded "Christian Zionists" including Donald Trump, VP Mike Pence, Mike Pompeo, John Bolton and Nikki Haley continue to turn a blind eye towards the ongoing atrocities of the Zionist colonizers and their wealthy backers.

"When the expected groveling before Bibi Netanyahu was concluded, the rest of the world learned that Trump is right on board the Netanyahu bandwagon when it comes to making sure that the Palestinians somehow disappear... Trump has already cut in half the money going to United Nations relief efforts helping Palestinian refugees, many of whom still live in camps seventy (70) years after the Jews stole their homes...

Pence and his co-believers, who are sometimes labeled 'Christian Zionists', consider Jews to be the 'Chosen People' of God, and Israel’s creation and survival are all part of the master plan... The re-creation of a Jewish state and the gathering in of as many of the world’s Jews as possible is seen [by them] as a critical step to achieve the Second Coming of Christ, which Pence and his associates fervently hope will occur soon... They stick like glue to their Scofield Reference Bibles* but apparently rarely venture into the New Testament part with its talk of compassion and forgiveness... "

-- Philip Giraldi article

( *Cyrus Scofield, an unscrupulous lawyer turned clergyman, was the editor of the Scofield Reference Bible with its deceptive pro-Zionist "interpretations" in the margins. This work was sponsored by wealthy Zionist Jews including Samuel Untermyer of New York. See "The Life of Cyrus Scofield")

UPDATE: Shortly before the Christian celebration of Easter, a large group of unarmed Palestinians protesting the theft of their land was gunned down by Israeli army snipers near the self-proclaimed border of the Jewish State. Dozens were killed and hundreds more were badly wounded, as Israeli spectators gathered to watch and celebrate. The Trump administration refused to condemn these atrocities, and moved to block a U.N. investigation. Giraldi writes:

"If you want to understand what the 'special relationship' between Israel and the United States really means, consider the fact that Israeli Army snipers shot dead seventeen unarmed and largely peaceful Gazan demonstrators on Good Friday without a squeak coming out of the White House or State Department... The offense committed by the Gazan protesters that has earned them a death sentence was coming too close to the Israeli containment fence that has turned the Gaza strip into the world’s largest outdoor prison...

Since June 8, 1967, when the Israelis massacred the crew of the U.S.S. Liberty, Israel has realized it could do whatever it wants, whenever it wants, wherever it wants, to anybody -- including American servicemen -- and the U.S. would do nothing... The major Israeli assault on Gaza in 2014 included vignettes of Israeli families picnicking on the high ground overlooking the assault, enjoying the spectacle while observing the light-and-sound show that accompanied the carnage...

Let me speak plainly...the current Israel is an evil place that Americans should be condemning, not praising. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should not be receiving 29 standing ovations from Congress, he should be rotting in jail.... That the United States is giving this band of racist war criminals billions of dollars every year is a travesty..."

-- Philip Giraldi article

The "iron wall" policy of the Jewish State was defined by Zionist revolutionary Vladimir (Ze'ev) Jabotinsky, founder of the Betar youth movement, the Irgun terrorist organization, and godfather of the Likud party. This policy of terrorizing the "natives" to the point where "there is no hope left" has been carried out by his devoted successors, including Menachem Begin, Ariel Sharon, and Benjamin Netanyahu.

"My political relationship is characterized by two principles. First: the expulsion of the Arabs from Palestine is absolutely impossible in any form. There will always be two nations in Palestine -- which is good enough for me, provided the Jews become the majority... I am prepared to swear, for us and our descendants, that we will never destroy this equality and we will never attempt to expel or oppress the Arabs. Our credo, as the reader can see, is 'completely peaceful'. But it is absolutely another matter if it will be possible to achieve our 'peaceful aims' through peaceful means..."

"We conclude that we cannot promise anything to the Arabs of the Land of Israel or the Arab countries. Their voluntary agreement is out of the question... Zionist colonization...must either be terminated or carried out in defiance of the will of the native population. This colonization can, therefore, continue and develop only under the protection of a force independent of the local population -- an 'iron wall' which the native population cannot break through. This is, in toto, our policy towards the Arabs... As long as there is a spark of hope that they can get rid of us, they will not sell these hopes."

-- Vladimir (Ze'ev) Jabotinsky, "The Iron Wall" (1923)

Jabotinsky's claim that his Zionist comrades would never try to "expel or oppress" the Arab natives was clearly a bald-faced lie. The so-called Christian Zionists are oblivious to the fact that the modern State of Israel is a Masonic creation, sponsored by the Rothschilds and their allies, which has been opposed by orthodox Jews since its inception a century ago:

"Zionism is a political movement, created almost entirely by 'non-religious' Jews... [It] is the transformation of Judaism from a religion and spirituality to a base nationalism. It is a materialistic goal to have a land, army, etc., removing the Almighty out of the equation. Orthodox Jews have opposed the ideology of Zionism since its inception and the State of "Israel" from the day of its ratification...

The existence of the State of Israel is in direct contradiction to the teachings of the Torah which forbids the establishment of a 'Jewish state' and commands Jews to remain in exile until released from that exile by the Almighty Himself, without any human intervention, at which time all nations of the world will live together in peace... The mere existence of the state of 'Israel' and the actions that emanate from it is the greatest cause of the exacerbation of anti-Semitism throughout the world."

-- Neturei Karta article (2012)

Christians need to read what Jesus said about the Pharisees. Like the prophets Isaiah and Jeremiah before him, he exposed their corruption, calling them hypocrites, liars and "sons of the devil". His new covenant community was based on a direct relationship with the Creator, without the corrupt priesthood and their Babylonian traditions. For this, the "elders of Zion" arranged to have him killed, and their successors have been trying to rebuild the temple ever since.

"Christian Zionists see the promises of identity, land and destiny as part of an ongoing covenant God has with the Jewish people. In this book (Zion's Christian Soldiers) I unpack this question and show that Christian Zionism is a recent manifestation of a heresy refuted by the New Testament... Here is a simple four page introduction to the main biblical passages that answer and refute the most common Zionist assumptions about God’s purposes for Israel and the Church.”

-- Stephen Sizer article

For background, see our article "Timeline of Zionism" and follow the links. Also see our previous comments on this topic regarding the Israeli murders in Gaza, their contempt for U.N. resolutions, their annual "gay pride" celebrations, etc. He who has eyes to see, let him see!

It should be self-evident that Africans are not Europeans, and Muslims are not Christians, but western leaders and socialist utopians still like to pretend otherwise. Here's an eyewitness account from a Peace Corps volunteer who lived and worked in Senegal:

"Three weeks after college, I flew to Senegal, West Africa, to run a community center in a rural town. Life was placid, with no danger, except to your health... People defecate on the open ground, and the feces is blown with the dust – onto you, your clothes, your food, the water. [The doctor] warned us the first day of training: do not even touch water... Never in my wildest dreams would I have imagined that a few decades later, liberals would be pushing the lie that Western civilization is no better than a third-world country. Or would teach two generations of our kids that loving your own culture and wanting to preserve it are 'racism'...

Senegal was not a hellhole. Very poor people can lead happy, meaningful lives in their own cultures' terms. But they are not our terms. The excrement is the least of it. Our basic ideas of human relations, right and wrong, are incompatible... Wives raised the food and fed their own children, did the heavy labor of walking miles to gather wood for the fire, drew water from the well or public faucet, pounded grain with heavy hand-held pestles, lived in their own huts, and had 'conjugal visits' from their husbands on a rotating basis with their co-wives. Their [Muslim] husbands lazed in the shade of the trees...

The Ten Commandments were not disobeyed – they were unknown. The value system was the exact opposite. You were supposed to steal everything you can to give to your own relatives. There are some westernized Africans who try to rebel against the system. They fail. We hear a lot about the kleptocratic elites of Africa. The kleptocracy extends through the whole society... My town was full of young men doing nothing. They were waiting for a government job. There was no private enterprise. Private business was not illegal, just impossible, given the nightmare of a third-world bureaucratic kleptocracy. It is also incompatible with Senegalese insistence on taking care of relatives. All the little stores in Senegal were owned by Mauritanians. If a Senegalese wanted to run a little store, he'd go to another country. The reason? Your friends and relatives would ask you for stuff for free, and you would have to say yes. End of your business. You are not allowed to be a selfish individual and say no to relatives. The result: Everyone has nothing...

-- Karin McQuillan article

Rather than improving conditions for Africans, it appears that European and American societies are instead degenerating towards similar "third-world" standards of behavior. Western traditions of literacy, ethics, morality and civility are disparaged as "racist" and abandoned. As these disappear, the rights to liberty, property, privacy and security are soon lost. The ideal of informed citizens exercising self government and free enterprise is forgotten. Instead, the public is reduced to a mindless herd of consumers and debt slaves, subservient to an all-powerful corporate state.

Migrant "rape gangs" are now ravaging all of Europe from Italy to Sweden. Crime rates have skyrocketed. Urban areas with large "multicultural" populations and a permanent, dysfunctional underclass are already unsafe for civilized habitation. Eventually, as if it was planned all along, "everyone has nothing" relative to the tiny minority of oligarchs and their privileged servant class. Why should the rest of us accept this fate?

Watch the short video "With Open Gates" which graphically documents the recent Muslim/African invasion of Europe. See also "The Immigrant Invasion" by Arthur Kemp, which describes in detail how millions of third-world migrants are rapidly overrunning and destroying Western society. The leaders of the so-called "liberal world order" have allowed this, and their propaganda organs have defended it. They can only be stopped if determined activists make it impossible to continue the policy.

UPDATE: One of these socialist utopians, founder of a "refugee aid association" in Germany, finally realized that the hordes of Muslim invaders she helped to enable have no intention of conforming to Western standards. On the contrary, they intend to "Islamize" all of Europe using the local females as breeding stock:

"[She] explained that a large majority of her experience with refugees was in 2015, when her NGO had nearly 300 volunteers who were giving German courses to new arrivals... [She] detailed the rise in crime levels since Germany opened their borders and the worsening of the school system as classrooms are overrun with anti-Westernized Muslim children..."

"I thought their medieval view was going to change with time…[but] had to recognize that the Muslim 'refugees' have grown up with values that are totally different... [They] are indoctrinated by Islam and absolutely do not intend to adopt our values. Worse, they regard we infidels with disdain and arrogance... [They] understand the world as ‘Muslims against others'... With the help of the left wing…they will begin to change the rules to which we will have to adapt…

It was a jarring perception when I noticed that these people I had helped, who were eating, drinking, dancing and laughing with me, who didn’t pray, who didn’t go to the mosque, who didn’t respect Ramadan, who made fun of religion and deeply religious people, called me ‘the stupid German whore’ when they were eating my food and were in my garden."

-- Jon Hall article

The never-ending "Russian collusion" investigation led by former FBI director Robert Mueller has produced no tangible results, wasting millions of taxpayer dollars and further polarizing a divided public. Recent revelations of the blatant pro-Clinton, anti-Trump bias of the investigators, including Peter Strzok and his FBI mistress, expose the hypocrisy of this ongoing effort to undermine the President.

It was Strzok, working with director James Comey, who shut down the FBI investigation of Hillary Clinton's illicit use of a private, unsecure email server and her "gross negligence" in handling classified State Dept documents during her tenure as Secretary of State. Contrary to normal procedure, Clinton was also allowed to delete thousands of possibly incriminating messages from her private server after the setup was discovered.

Key players in this political circus, including Robert Mueller himself, are directly tied to the Clintons and the highly lucrative "Uranium One" deal with the Russians during the previous administration. Foreign businessmen involved in the deal, led by Canadian investor Frank Giustra, "donated" millions of dollars to the Clinton Foundation:

"The president [should] investigate the Obama-Clinton-Mueller-Rosenstein criminal collusion that enriched the Clinton-Democrat crime syndicate by hundreds of millions of dollars...the multi-billion-dollar Uranium One pay-to-play scam... In 2010, when Mueller was FBI director, the Obama administration and then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton approved and facilitated this highly suspicious business deal that... effectively handed Russia and Vladimir Putin control over upwards of 20% of the uranium assets of the United States...

While Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State under President Barack Obama, the Russian atomic energy agency, Rosatom, was handed official U.S. Government authorization to purchase a Canadian company named Uranium One which controlled uranium mining stakes stretching from Central Asia to the American West, including approximately 20% of America's known uranium resources. Uranium One...was effectively the creation of a Canadian entrepreneur named Frank Giustra [who] happened to be a major Clinton donor* and a personal friend of Bill Clinton. The Clinton-Giustra genesis of the Uranium One scam was detailed in a lengthy New York Times story in April 2015 titled "Cash Flowed to Clinton Foundation Amid Russian Uranium Deal"...

The new company Giustra formed (in 2005) to effectuate the Uranium One deal, UrAsia Energy Ltd., signed a preliminary deal giving it stakes in three uranium mines controlled by Kazatomprom, the government agency that runs Kazakhstan's uranium mines and nuclear energy industry. In 2007, UrAsia merged with Uranium One in what was described as a $3.5 billion transaction, with the successor company retaining the name Uranium One...

When all was said and done, UrAsia's investors controlled the new Uranium One. Chairman of the new company was Canadian Ian Telfer.** Telfer donated $2.3 million to the Clinton Foundation. Frank Giustra, who had shepherded Bill Clinton's influence with the Kazakhstanis, held a personal stake in the deal estimated at about $45 million... According to the New York Times, one year after the 2005 uranium deal was final Giustra donated $31.3 million to the Clinton Foundation with a promise of $100 million more. One adviser on the Uranium One-UrAsia merger was Paul Reynolds. Reynolds donated $1 to $5 million to the Clinton Foundation. A company called U.S. Global Investors Inc. held $4.7 million in Uranium One shares. A U.S. Global executive named Frank Holmes donated $250,000 to $500,000 to the Clinton Foundation...

The Clinton cabal's uranium wheelings and dealings began immediately at the commencement in 2009 of the Obama administration, under the close direction of newly-installed Secretary of State, Hillary Rodham Clinton. In order for Russian nuclear entity Rosatom to purchase Uranium One the deal required approval from the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, or CFIUS. The committee consists of top officials from nine different federal agencies [and] the key agency is the U.S. Department of State... In June of 2010, the same month that Rosatom struck its deal for a majority stake in Uranium One, Bill Clinton spoke in Moscow for the tidy sum of $500,000, the 2nd highest fee he had ever received for a speech."

-- Roger Stone article

* Frank Giustra has been an active partner with the Clinton Foundation since 2007 (CGSGI) and a Foundation director since 2013.

** Giustra, Telfer and Holmes were partners in several Canadian mining businesses. Telfer is currently chairman of Goldcorp.

Much speculation has been swirling around regarding the recent Las Vegas shooting incident. Who was the alleged gunman, Stephen Paddock? What connections did he have? How many other accomplices were involved? Why did the police take so long to break into his hotel room? Why haven't the hotel and casino surveillance videos been shown to the public? Why would a "lone nut" need 23 semi-automatic weapons, instead of just swapping clips on the one or two needed to carry out the attack? Why do photos of the alleged "sniper nest" on the 32nd floor show only a handful of shell casings instead of the thousands that should have been there?

Paddock allegedly fired 200 rounds at a hotel security guard, at point-blank range, and only managed to hit him in the leg. This 64 year old retiree with no military experience then turned around and, we are told, hit some 500 other moving targets from nearly 1000 feet away using a hand-held weapon in less than 10 minutes. Seems incredible, doesn't it? Like something out of a twisted MGM movie. Note that both the Luxor and the Mandalay Bay hotels are owned by MGM.

The FBI and the corporate media would like for us to simply swallow the "official story", without any sort of actual forensic investigation. Just another crazed gun nut who acted alone, case closed. Typical media hype and emotional garbage with no actual analysis, combined with political demands to increase surveillance and disarm the law-abiding public, etc. Meanwhile, bloggers have followed every rabbit trail like baying hounds, jumping to wild conclusions based on the limited and contradictory "facts" that have been provided. All part of the diversion and cover-up which is standard after every such event.

Some have suggested that Paddock may have been an undercover agent for the government, working on a "sting" operation gone bad. In this scenario, the "clients" got wise to the setup, killed Paddock, carried out the attack on the concert venue, and escaped during the confusion, leaving Paddock as the "fall guy":

"While Stephen Paddock’s intelligence bosses were eager to put marked guns in the hands of jihadist supporters in America, ISIS [sic] was many steps ahead of the intel bureaucrats... If the killings at the Orlando Pulse* were an initial taste of glory, the assault on Las Vegas would surely be a bumper harvest... While Paddock and his agency superiors set the trap as neatly as he would fill an accounting ledger, the ISIS gunmen quietly took their stations at the Bellagio, Caesar’s Palace, the Aria, New York New York, Tropicana and the Mandalay Bay..." (part 1)

"How can anyone be so certain about professional military involvement? When information from the Las Vegas police radio scanner is superimposed on a map of The Strip, it discloses that the triangle of fire from machine-guns at the Tropicana/Hooters and New York New York hotels passed through narrow spaces between structures onto the concert venue over a distance of more than 300 meters..." (part 2)

"This essay...explores the centrality of Gov. Terry McAuliffe’s fiefdom in the Commonwealth of Virginia to the military contractor role of the fall guy Stephen Paddock, along with the governor’s support for federalization of the state National Guards... Attempts to probe the background to the ownership of the Cirrus SR20 aircraft, registered under the name of Stephen Paddock for covert ops, have met with obfuscation..." (part 3)

-- Yoichi Shimatsu series: part 1, part 2, part 3

Interesting speculation, but not conclusive. Why would the Feds set up such an operation on the 32nd floor of a crowded luxury hotel? Why thousands of rounds of ammo just to sell a few "marked guns"? Why didn't the clients simply kill "agent Paddock" quietly and then disappear into the crowd? Where is the physical evidence of "machine-guns" firing at ground level? The so-called ISIS / al Queda terrorist group has been funded, trained and protected by US government agencies since its inception. The story doesn't hold up.

So, the questions remain unanswered. What was the actual target of this whole operation? Who really carried out the attack? Who benefits from tagging "ISIS" as the perpetrators? Why was this "harvest sacrifice" staged directly in front of the Luxor pyramid and obelisk of Osiris?

UPDATE: The hotel security guard mysteriously vanished from public view just before a scheduled press conference where he might have faced some embarrasing questions. It seems that his handlers needed more time to polish up his "story" for maximum emotional effect with minimal factual content. The alleged "hero" showed up again a few days later in a carefully scripted appearance on an NBC talk show favored by LGBTQ socialists. No serious questions were asked, and it was declared that he would give no further interviews. How convenient.

* See our previous comments on the Orlando Pulse nightclub event last year.

By now, most TV viewers have seen the overpaid ball players of the National Football League (NFL) pissing on the American flag and raising the socialist fist in yet another ill-conceived "black power" protest. You know, that same hypocritical, corporate sponsored NFL that features the pro-military patriotic bullshit during their half time shows? Well, instead of watching "the game" this week, lets have a look at some of the recent team stats provided by the FBI instead.

Black males, ages 15 to 64, comprise only about 4% of the overall U.S. population, yet according to the data they are responsible for over 37% of all violent crimes and over 28% of all property crimes, including:

• 52% of the murders
• 54% of the robberies
• 33% of the aggravated assaults
• 29% of the rapes

Go, team! What an amazing record! This team literally blows the others away. The latinos are currently trailing in second place.

Being the undisputed champs in this area does come at a cost, however. Frequent altercations with the officials are to be expected, and sometimes the penalty is severe. Of course, the millionaire "entertainers" of the NFL, like their Hollywood comrades, don't allow mere facts to interfere with their political grandstanding.

Maybe it's time for the rest of us just to pull the plug on their games, their sponsors, and their funding. Maybe it's time to put down the beer, get off the couch, and finally do something about these real-world stats instead. We could start by sacking the "liberal" governments in urban cesspools like Detroit and Oakland, and escalate from there. Has anyone noticed that most of the police shootings also occur in these Democrat controlled cities?

UPDATE: According to the "NFL Game Operations Manual" for franchise owners: "During the National Anthem, players on the field and bench area should stand at attention, face the flag, hold helmets in their left hand, and refrain from talking... We continue to be judged by the public in this area of respect for the flag and our country." This includes the franchise in Oakland, whose "black team" members allowed the token white quarterback to be "sacked" several times after he failed to bow the knee as demanded.

UPDATE: According to the U.S. Code, Section 36, Paragraph 301, titled Patriotic and National Observances: "During a rendition of the National Anthem...all persons present should face the flag and stand at attention with their right hand over the heart...and when the flag is not displayed, all present should face toward the music and act in the same manner they would if the flag were displayed." Until these black circus performers are ready to renounce their U.S. citizenships and their lucrative contracts, they are not exempt.

After an alleged "nerve gas" attack which killed several people in Syria, the CFR connected media immediately pointed the finger at president Assad followed by cries to "do something" about the atrocity. The Israelis called for airstrikes against the Assad government forces. The obsequious Hillary Clinton, interviewed by CFR member Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times as if her opinion really mattered, echoed the Israeli demand.

President Trump quickly obliged after consulting his security advisors, led by CFR member Gen. Herbert McMaster and CSIS trustee Rex Tillerson. Dozens of million-dollar cruise missiles (purchased from CFR corporate sponsor Raytheon) were fired from U.S. ships targeting the Shayrat airbase near the city of Homs, damaging the base facilities and killing several people in a nearby residential area. CFR member Brian Williams of NBC provided color commentary during the action, gushing over the "beautiful" missile launch. Former CFR director Fareed Zakaria of CNN called the action "presidential".

Trump was rewarded by the establishment media with several days of favorable publicity, after his theatrical statement lamenting the death of "beautiful babies" in an attempt to justify the U.S. assault -- which caused even more deaths. This is the sort of nauseating, hypocritcal performance one would expect from a CFR sponsored "liberal" harpy like Hillary Clinton or Madeline Albright. Trump was supposed to be different.

The hasty counter-strike, planned well in advance, was launched without a U.N. investigation of the incident, without any proof that the Assad regime was actually responsible, and without authorization from the U.S. Congress. Back in August 2013, the Assad regime was falsely accused of a similar attack which was later shown to have been perpetrated by the rebel forces in an attempt to justify overt U.S. involvement in the conflict. Trump and his "advisors" are surely aware of that precedent. Back then, he said:

"We should stay the hell out of Syria. The 'rebels' are just as bad as the current regime. What will we get for our lives and $ billions? Zero!"

-- Donald Trump tweet, 2013-06-15

Photos at the scene appeared to show gassing victims being handled by people who were not wearing proper protective equipment. If a "nerve agent" had actually been used as reported by the media, those responders would likely have died from contact with the victims. Who would take such a risk? If the airbase actually held a stockpile of such deadly chemical weapons, who would be foolish enough to detonate them with a missile strike?

The selected target of the counter-strike was the same airbase where Syrian forces had successfully repelled a squadron of Israeli jets on an illegal bombing mission inside Syrian territory a couple of weeks ago. The alleged "nerve gas" attack provided a convenient pretext for a retaliatory strike against the base and its air defense systems.

Trump said he would "make America great again". He would "put America first" in policy decisions. He would withdraw from counter-productive foreign conflicts, including the war in Syria. He would cooperate with the Russians. Instead, it appears that he is continuing the same pro-war, pro-Zionist imperial policies of previous administrations. Who benefits from this?

UPDATE: See this commentary from David Stockman, who called the fiasco "surely the most impetuous, thoughtless, reckless and stupid act from the Oval Office that we can remember." The CFR script writers are devious, but not stupid. Every scene in the play, including the election of Donald Trump, is a setup for the next act. So what if a few "extras" are killed in the process?

UPDATE: The CFR journal Foreign Affairs is complaining that the populists are now threatening the "liberal" world order they have dominated for the past century. There is nothing "liberal" about corporate socialism, imperial wars and debt slavery, comrades! The hypocrisy of the CFR oligarchs and their minions -- led by the likes of David Rockefeller, George Soros and David Rubenstein -- is exceeded only by their arrogance.

UPDATE: In late June, investigator Seymour Hersh published a detailed report on the event which refutes the official story. The "advisors" apparently knew the facts, but allowed (encouraged) Trump to proceed with an unjustified and ineffective military strike against Syria as a prelude to further escalation:

"Trump issued the order despite having been warned by the U.S. intelligence community that it had found no evidence that the Syrians had used a chemical weapon... There had been no chemical warhead. And yet it was impossible for the experts to persuade the president of this once he had made up his mind."

-- Seymour Hersh article

The Organization for the Prevention of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) also released a report claiming that "people were exposed to sarin, a chemical weapon" without conducting an on-site inspection. Since the OPCW is not authorized to "identify who is responsible for alleged attacks", the U.N. is now starting an investigation. Note that Israel, which supports the Syrian rebels, is one of only 4 nations which is not a member of the Chemical Weapons Convention. Also note that the U.N. organization itself is one of the key institutions created by the CFR following WW2.

UPDATE: In June, David Rubenstein, Jewish billionaire and founder of the Carlyle Group, became the new Chairman of the CFR, succeeding Robert Rubin. The Carlyle Group is a major "defense" contractor which profits from the wars and suffering in the Middle East, while advancing the strategic goals of the Jewish State and their Saudi allies. Several other Carlyle officers have also been CFR members, including George H.W. Bush, James Baker and Frank Carlucci. Former CFR director George Soros is a Carlyle investor.

"The Carlyle Group is essentially a hedge fund for war-making and high tech espionage. They are the people who brought you the Iraq war [2003] and all those intrusive niceties of 'Homeland Security'... Many of Carlyle’s executives and investors have spent decades in the Pentagon, the CIA or the State Department, before cashing in for more lucrative careers as war profiteers. They are now licking their chops at the prospect for an all-out war against Syria, no doubt hoping that the conflagration will soon spread to Lebanon, Jordan and, the big prize, Iran."

-- CounterPunch article (Sep 2013)

The internet has been buzzing with the latest evidence of the sexual perversion endemic in the inner circles of Washington and New York. Such morally corrupt individuals, leading double lives and subject to blackmail like serial pederast Dennis Hastert, have no business serving in positions of public trust. Formal investigation and exposure of these activities, involving high-ranking officials and their associates, is required to "drain the swamp" and restore honest government. Many interesting facts have been revealed, along with plenty of speculation and misdirection. Here's a brief summary.

The recent exposure* began with a "sexting" scandal involving New York congressman Anthony Weiner and an underage girl. Weiner is the husband of Hillary Clinton's closest "personal aide" Huma Abedin, who began serving Ms. Clinton at the age of 19. It was discovered that Secretary Clinton and her aides had been "carelessly" conducting State Dept business using an illicit, unsecured private email server in order to hide her various activities. Many of the Clinton emails were then published by Wikileaks, followed by an email dump from John Podesta, another long time aide and chairman of Clinton's presidential campaign. This trove of leaked and/or hacked emails includes shocking evidence of collusion, hypocrisy, malfeasance -- and more.

Shortly before his untimely death in 2012, reporter and investigator Andrew Breitbart publicly accused John Podesta, founder of the Soros-funded Center for American Progress, of helping to "cover up" the alleged child trafficking activities of the now-defunct ACORN organization. In an interview with Slate, he asked "What’s in your closet, John Podesta?". The question is still valid.

John Podesta and his brother, DC lobbyist Tony Podesta, share a taste for deviant, sexually explicit and disturbing artwork, some of which is proudly displayed at Tony Podesta's home. Two of their favorite "artists" are the notorious Marina Abramovic and Biljana Djurdjevic. The Podestas have social ties with DC businessman James Alefantis, chairman of the "Transformer" art gallery and owner of the "Buck's Fishing and Camping" restaurant and the nearby "Comet Ping Pong" pizza restaurant, which hosts fundraisers for Democrat candidates. Comet also features bizarre artwork and sexually themed performances totally unsuited for a "family friendly" pizza place.

James Alefantis is a homosexual partner of Democrat political operative David Brock, founder of the Soros-funded Media Matters organization. The "Comet Ping Pong" Instagram collection posted by Alefantis ("jimmycomet") and his employees, including barman "joshuaryanv", features dozens of explicit, pizza-themed homosex images. Alefantis chose an image of emperor Hadrian's boy lover as his icon. Why would a gay bar pretend to be a "kid friendly" pizza place? What are these "bucks" really fishing for, and what kind of "ping pong" are they playing?

The leaked Clinton and Podesta emails include dozens of peculiar references to "pizza" and "hot dogs" which make no sense in the context of the messages. Why would wealthy and powerful political operatives, who belong to exclusive clubs and dine at the finest restaurants, be so obsessed with "pizza" and "hot dogs"? Why was Alefantis listed by GQ Magazine as one of the "top 50" influential people in Washington DC? Published FBI guidelines for the coded language and symbols typically used to mask illicit sexual activity provide a clue. When these are used to decode the messages, a very disturbing pattern appears.

For instance, the "Besta Pizza" restaurant -- located next door to Buck's Fishing and Comet Ping Pong -- featured a spiral triangle in its company logo. After it was pointed out that this matches the symbol for "boy lover" identified by the FBI, the logo was quickly modified and the inner triangle was erased. Why change it, at considerable cost to reprint signs and menus, if there was nothing to hide?

Investigative journalist Yoichi Shimatsu has produced a lengthy series of reports on this scandal. He assumes that the reader is already familiar with the major events, and his story includes both facts and speculation. Let the reader decide. Hopefully, this will lead to demands for a formal investigation.

See the Yoichi Shimatsu series on "PizzaGate": part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6, part 7, part 8, part 9, part 10

* A decade ago, New York financier Jeffery Epstein, who hosted sex parties for the rich and famous on his private Caribbean island, was convicted of "soliciting prostitution from underage girls". Bill Clinton, a fellow CFR member and one of Epstein's frequent guests, traveled at least a dozen times on Epstein's private jet. A resident of the exclusive Palm Beach community, Epstein was also a member of Donald Trump's famous Mar-a-Lago club, and one of his accusers is a young woman who previously worked at the club. A few years before the scandal was exposed, Trump said in an interview: "I've known Jeff for 15 years. Terrific guy. He's a lot of fun to be with."

The election circus is finally over. Anyone familiar with the Bush and Clinton dynasties should be glad that the Trump campaign managed to block them from recapturing the White House. However, it is clear that the Donald is not going to be allowed to "drain the swamp" as promised. His selection of cabinet officers will ensure that elitist organizations such as the Rockefeller's Council on Foreign Relations, its various affiliates, and its corporate sponsors including Goldman Sachs will continue to dictate policy.

George H.W. Bush was a CFR director, and his successor Bill Clinton is a CFR member. Since WW2, almost every chairman of the Federal Reserve Board has been a CFR member, along with most Secretaries of State, Treasury, Defense and CIA. Also their key deputies, assistants and advisors.

After rejecting several candidates for Secretary of State, Trump settled on oilman Rex Tillerson, chairman of Exxon-Mobil -- the modern incarnation of Rockefeller's Standard Oil trust and a "founding sponsor" of the CFR. Tillerson is not listed as a CFR member. However, he is a trustee at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a CFR affiliate dominated by CFR members. The choice was made on the recommendation of CFR members Robert Gates, Condoleeza Rice, Stephen Hadley, and James Baker. It was seconded by CFR members Dick Cheney and Henry Kissinger -- also a CSIS trustee.

The deputy Secretary of State is likely to be neocon CFR member John Bolton, former UN ambassador and advisor at the pro-Zionist "United Against Nuclear Iran" (UANI) organization along with Jeb Bush and CFR members Joe Lieberman, Dennis Ross, and James Woolsey. [Update Feb 2017: Tillerson picked neocon CFR member Elliot Abrams as deputy, but was blocked by Trump. Bolton was then considered for National Security Advisor, but Trump selected CFR member Gen. Herbert McMaster instead.]

Trump's pick for Secretary of Defense, Gen. James Mattis, is not a CFR member. However, he works closely with former CIA director Gen. David Petraeus, a CFR member and a trustee at the McCain Institute along with fellow CFR members John McCain, Joe Lieberman, Frances Townsend and Lynn Forester de Rothschild.

The deputy Secretary of Defense is likely to be CFR member David McCormick, president of Bridgewater Associates, another CFR corporate sponsor. McCormick is a trustee at the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies, along with several other CFR members, including Aspen chairman Madeline Albright and president Walter Isaacson. Isaacson, former chairman of CFR sponsor Time-Warner/CNN, is also a member of the Rhodes Scholars along with Bill Clinton, Brookings president Strobe Talbott and CFR president Richard Haass.

Trump has appointed an "economic advisory panel", led by billionaires Steve Schwarzman of Blackstone, Laurence Fink of BlackRock, Jamie Dimon of JPMorgan, and Daniel Yergin of IHS Markit. All of them are CFR members. Blackstone, BlackRock, and JPMorgan are CFR corporate sponsors. Fink and Yergin are CFR directors along with hedge fund manager John Paulson, another Trump "advisor". Schwarzman is also a Rhodes Scholar.

This incestuous club of billionaires, foundations, corporations, politicians, and propagandists constitute the "invisible government". Membership is by invitation, and those who do not conform are excluded. See our CFR database entry and follow the links for member lists and related background articles. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss...

"The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one perhaps of the Right, and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers. Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can 'throw the rascals out' at any election without leading to any profound or extensive shifts in policy."

-- Carroll Quigley (CFR historian), "Tragedy and Hope", 1966, p. 1247

It appears that Hillary Clinton suffers from some sort of chronic, debilitating medical condition possibly related to her concussion and brain injury a few years ago. Her coughing fits, frequent fatigue, unexplained head bobbing, strange cover-all clothing, handicap transport van, and team of "handlers" all point in that direction. The compliant CFR connected media has attempted to cover up the issue, but it can no longer be ignored. This week, even the National Enquirer, which specializes in embarrassing celebrity stories, featured a front page article.

At yesterday's 15th anniversary celebration of the 2001-09-11 attack on New York City, Clinton allegedly "felt overheated" despite the mild weather and left the proceedings early. While still wearing a dark colored blazer and strange blue sunglasses, she walked to the pickup location with help from an aide, then leaned against a concrete pylon with the aide firmly holding her arm. When her van arrived, she was unable to stand or walk three steps and had to be lifted / dragged into the van by her handlers.

"The most important quality in a President and Commander-in-Chief is steadiness — an absolute, rock solid steadiness."

-- Hillary Clinton, Twitter message, 2016-09-08

The corporate media quickly broadcast misleading reports about what happened, but fortunately a spectator uploaded a live video of the episode. Reduce the playback speed, and watch it yourself. Instead of going to nearby Bellvue hospital where her true health condition could be evaluated, she was taken to the Manhattan apartment of her daughter Chelsea. A couple of hours later, she emerged smiling and "feeling great" -- with no aides around her. How did they know she wouldn't collapse again? (see photo discussion here)

"Michael Morell, the former CIA deputy director, told CNN's Jake Tapper [that] he was with Clinton on Friday for a national security meeting, and: "She looked fantastic. She had high energy... Let's not make more of this than there is."

-- CNN article, 2016-09-11

Time Warner Inc, which owns CNN, is a corporate sponsor of the CFR. The article fails to mention that both CIA director Michael Morell and CNN's Jake Tapper are CFR members -- along with Bill Clinton, Chelsea Clinton, and Time-Warner chairman Jeffrey Bewkes. Perhaps Hillary's "high energy" is merely a temporary effect of her medication, masking a more serious problem. Dr. Drew Pinsky, who hosted a popular show on CNN/HLN, was recently interviewed about Hillary's health and her medical care. His show was cancelled within a week after he spoke out.

Also watch this short clip where CFR member Bill Clinton is "interviewed" by fellow CFR member Charlie Rose, attempting to blame Hillary's collapse on "dehydration". Note that Bill says this has "frequently" happened before, but when the edited clip was broadcast on the CBS Evening News, that part was cut out. Stephen Capus, executive producer of CBS Evening News, is also a CFR member.

The 9-11 attack on New York City, and the military response, had been planned during the Clinton administration and executed after Hillary was installed as Senator. In September 2000, a year before the attack, members of the Project for the New American Century published a report which called for a "catastrophic and catalysing event -- like a new Pearl Harbor" to shock the public. Most of those "neo-con" PNAC members are current members of the CFR, along with David Rubenstein (Carlyle Grp), Maurice Greenberg (AIG), and former CFR director George Soros who has invested over $30 million to support the Clintons.

The CFR connected media (CNN, CBS, NBC, ABC, PBS, NPR, et al) made sure that the "official version" of what happened on 9-11 was immediately burned into the public mind, and each year the myth is retold. Half of the members of the 9-11 Commission in 2002, which totally ignored the collapse of WTC 7, were also CFR members. This is how history is falsified, and warmongering liars are installed in public office.

"The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country... We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of."

-- Edward Bernays (assistant to CBS founder and CFR member William Paley), from his book "Propaganda", 1928

UPDATE: Senior MSNBC reporter Andrea Mitchell, CFR member and wife of Alan Greenspan, finally broke ranks and complained that Hillary had betrayed her "protective press pool", leaving them looking like complicit flacks. Of course, that's exactly what they are, but they don't like being exposed and embarrased over it.

James Tracy Ph.D., a professor of Media Studies who was fired for actively questioning the official story of the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting event, has recently posted an article reviewing some of the anomalies:

"The evidence [presented] demonstrates that (1) proof of death was suppressed, (2) emergency protocols were not followed, (3) drill protocols were followed instead, (4) there was foreknowledge of the event, (5) there was confusion over the weapons supposedly used, (6) Adam Lanza cannot possibly have carried out the shooting as claimed, (7) strange and inappropriate behavior was displayed by officials, witnesses, and relatives, (8) many odd photos of the participants and premises were released, (9) the crime scene was destroyed under conditions of secrecy."

-- Vivian Lee article

"On December 14, 2012 the Sandy Hook massacre event was reported as fact by US news media, even though it remains difficult to ascertain what actually took place on that day. For weeks after the event the nation and world were terrorized by around-the-clock coverage and discussion of the narrative. At the same time powerful interests behind the multitude of gun control change agents, which included the families directly involved in the Sandy Hook event, capitalized on this fear. As a result of these efforts SHP and other ostensibly “non-profit” organizations have reaped tens of millions [of dollars]."

-- James Tracy article

Whether or not you agree with the author's conclusions, the questions remain. Why are the site photos consistent with an emergency responder exercise rather than an actual shooting? Why no photos of a mass evacuation? Why were normal protocols not followed? Why were the alleged shooting victims left inside the school? Who pronounced all of them dead at the scene? Why were public records concealed? Where are the autopsy reports? Why was evidence at the "crime scene" sealed then destroyed without proper investigation?

Watch the press conference with Dr. Wayne Carver, the "chief medical examiner" who allegedly conducted autopsies on the murdered children. Flanked by state troopers, he seems very nervous and evasive, providing no answers to specific questions about what happened. What was he afraid of?

If there is even one deception in the official narrative, then the entire event is open to question. For example, watch the video clip of "Robbie Parker" getting ready for his CNN television interview (starts at 3:00). Does this really look like a grieving father who just lost his daughter in a gruesome murder? Or does it look more like this?

"In method acting, performers try to duplicate real life emotional experiences and conditions in an effort to recreate a life-like, realistic performance. Method actors draw or borrow from their own emotions, experiences and memories influencing their characters portrayal. When applying proper deep breathing exercises while practicing your method technique it can help you focus, relax and concentrate, resulting in a powerful emotional output."

-- "Method Acting and Proper Breathing"

Also see the melodramatic performances by Gene Rosen, a psychologist and amateur thespian, who allegedly helped "shelter" some children from the school. His acting may be good enough for the Newtown community theatre, but why does his story keep changing? Why didn't he call the police immediately?

The official Sandy Hook story is inaccurate and incomplete. Media reports designed for "powerful emotional output" replaced factual investigation, like this tear-jerker by CFR member Diane Sawyer of ABC News. Politicians then used the manufactured fear to advance the establishment agenda: increase surveillance, lock down the schools, disarm the public, implement "mental health" screening, etc.

Barack Obama, who shed a few crocodile tears for the occasion, is a hypocrite who boasts of murdering "terrorists" -- anybody he chooses, for any reason, without evidence or due process -- using paid mercenaries and remote controlled drones. Liberal war hawk Hillary Clinton, the darling of Brookings and the CFR, was right beside him, helping to pull the trigger and lusting for "her turn". Those drones are now being employed by militarized U.S. police departments. Which is the real threat to Americans?

For more evidence of deception at Sandy Hook, see the Media Solidarity Group video and the online book "Nobody Died at Sandy Hook" (400 pages, many photos). Check the facts, then decide for yourself.