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#24782222 at 2026-07-02 19:30:03 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #30254: Gonna Be A GAS & HOTT SUMMER Edition

>>24782221
Elizondo says he resigned in 2017 in protest of how much the government kept secret about UAPs.
In the letter addressed to then Secretary of Defense James Mattis, Elizondo said he was quitting because "despite overwhelming evidence, certain individuals in the department remain staunchly opposed to further research on the controversial topic of anomalous aerospace threats."
"They made my life hell," he told Coulthart in a NewsNation interview.

The Pentagon has publicly denied Elizondo's claim that he was the head of AATIP - both in prior public statements and directly to NewsNation.
"The department is fully committed to openness and accountability to Congress and the American people, which it must balance with its obligation to protect sensitive information, sources, and methods," said Sue Gough, Department of Defense spokesperson.
"As we have said many times before, the department and AARO will follow the data wherever it leads; however, to date, we have not found any credible evidence of extraterrestrial activity."
Some relief finally came for the Elizondo family in April 2021 when U.S. Sen. Harry Reid wrote a letter confirming Elizondo's role in AATIP.

Lawmakers want protections for UFO whistleblowers
There has been a recent push from lawmakers to grant immunity for whistleblowers on UAP.
A group of the leading legislators on the subject recently requested the White House grant immunity and waive nondisclosure agreements for those with information on alleged UFO programs.
Lawmakers spoke of great fear from people involved, who even fear speaking to Congress, which has oversight responsibility over government agencies, including the Pentagon.
In a recent press conference, Rep. Eric Burlison, R-Mo., described getting information via what he called a "Tom Clancy-style dead drop" because the whistleblower feared speaking up.

Coulthart also expressed frustration with Congress.
"I am deeply frustrated that no one in Congress is addressing the bear in the room right now," he said. "What has the U.S. recovered in terms of UAP nonhuman technology?"
With multiple witnesses on the record alleging the existence of secret UAP programs, Coulthart stated that the time has come to go beyond investigating whether such programs exist and on to finding out what they have recovered.
"It's not good enough to say you need witnesses to come forward," Coulthart said. "It's time for Congress to do its job and show it's capable of enforcing transparency and accountability for taxpayers who are footing the bill."

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#24525199 at 2026-04-22 01:26:35 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #29915: SPLC INDICTED Manufactured Hate & Right Wing Violence w/Donation$ Edition

1. Huma Abedin,
2. Sergey Abyshev,
3. Zainab Ahmad,
4. Rinat Akhmetshin,
5. Dmitri Alperovitch,
6. Ekim Alptekin,
7. Hina R. Alvi,
8. Amy Anderson,
9. Trisha Anderson,
10. Christopher Andrew,
11. Manos Antonakakis,
12. Robert P. Ashley,
13. Rush Atkinson,
14. Brian J. Auten,
15. Abid Awan,
16. Imran Awan,
17. Jamal Awan,
18. James Baker,
19. Nada Bakos,
20. Jeremy Bash,
21. William Barr,
22. Michael Barry
23. Robert Bauer,
24. Edward Baumgartner,
25. Leonard Benardo,
26. Michael Bertrand,
27. Joe Biden,
28. Maher B. Bitar,
29. Dennis Blair,
30. Perry J. Blattstein,
31. Richard Blumenthal,
32. Sidney Blumenthal,
33. Jeb Boasberg,
34. John Andrew Boehner,
35. Dana Boente,
36. John Bolton,
37. Jennifer Boone,
38. Greg Bower,
39. Patty Brandmaier,
40. John Brennan,
41. Keith Bristow,
42. Gregory Brower,
43. James B. Bruce,
44. David Buckley,
45. Dawn Burton,
46. George Bush Jr.,
47. Maria Butina,
48. Patrick Byrne,
49. Jean L. Camp,
50. Josh Campbell,
51. Joe Capone,
52. David Cariens,
53. Janice Cariens,
54. John Carlin,
55. Jeff Carlton,
56. Peter Carr,
57. Thomas Catan,
58. Andrew Cedar,
59. Christopher Center,
60. Eric Ciaramella,
61. James Clad,
62. James Clapper,
63. Kevin Clinesmith,
64. Hillary Clinton,
65. William Clinton,
66. Randy Coleman,
67. Rosemary Collyer,
68. James Comey,
69. Patrick Conlon,
70. Rudolph Contreras,
71. Anne Conway,
72. Benjamin A. Cooper,
73. David Corn,
74. Peter Corsell,
75. Jerome Corsi,
76. Ted Cruz,
77. Steven Cuevas,
78. David Dagon,
79. Igor Danchenko,
80. Micheal Daniel,
81. Brett Davis,
82. Raymond Dearie,
83. Sir Richard Dearlove,
84. Michael P. Dempsey,
85. Oleg Deripaska,
86. Joseph DiBartolomeo,
87. Elizabeth Dibble,
88. Megan F. Doherty,
89. Charles H. Dolan Jr.,
90. Alexander Downer,
91. Iva Drasinover,
92. Michael Dreeben,
93. Joseph Dunford,
94. Tatyana Duran,
95. Dick Durbin,
96. John Durham,
97. Claire Eagan,
98. Jeffery Edmonds,
99. Nielsen Eggleston,
100. Yael Eisenstate,
101. Marc Elias,
102. Stuart Evans,
103. Sarah S. Farnsworth,
104. Mark B. Feierstein,
105. Dianne Goldman Berman Feinstein,
106. John W. Ficklin,
107. Jonathan Finer,
108. Thomas Fingar,
109. Chris Fonzone,
110. Peter?Fritsch,
111. Michael J. Gaeta,
112. Olga Galkina,
113. Merrick Garland,
114. Tashina Gauhar,
115. Ryan Gaynor,
116. Roger Zane George,
117. Glenn Gerstell,
118. Edward Gistaro,
119. Corinne A. Graff,
120. Lindsey?Olin?Graham,
121. Carl Ghattas,
122. John Glacalone,
123. David Goldein,
124. Andrew Goldstein,
125. Mary Beth Goodman,
126. Brandon Van Grack,
127. Aleksej Gubarev,
128. Julia S. Gurganus,
129. Heather R. Gutierrez,
130. Charles Ronald Llewelyn Guthrie,
131. Avril D. Haines,
132. Steven L. Hall,
133. Stefan Halper,
134. Harry Hannah,
135. John Hannah,
136. Kent Harrington,
137. Harry Harris,
138. Luke R. Hartig,
139. Gina Haspel,
140. Mike Hayden,
141. Curtis Heide,
142. Kevin Helson,
143. Shawn Henry,
144. Don Hepburn,
145. Brittany Hertzog,
146. Fiona Hill,
147. Eric Holder,
148. Brett Holmgren,
149. Emily J. Horne,
150. Michael Horowitz,
151. John Huber,
152. Calvin Humphrey,
153. Doug Hunt,
154. John E. Hyten,
155. Adam Irwin,
156. Mary Jacoby,
157. Samir Jain,
158. Mark Jaroszewski,
159. Valerie Jarrett,
160. Adam Jed,
161. Rodney Joffe "max",
162. Daniel Jones,
163. James Jones,
164. Jeh Johnson,
165. Jamie S. Jowers,
166. Peter Kadzik,
167. Colin Kahl,
168. John Kasich,
169. Kathleen Kavalec,
170. John Kerry,
171. Timothy D. Kilbourn,
172. Konstantin Kilimnik,
173. Neil King Jr.,
174. David Kris,
175. Paul Kolbe,
176. Mike Kortan,
177. Robert Kugler,
178. Charles A. Kupchan
179. Stephanie LaParre,
180. David Laufman,
181. Richard H. Ledgett,
182. Joseph L. Lengyel,
183. Corey Lewandowski,
184. April Lorenzen "tea leaves",
185. Stephen Laycock,
186. Jacob "Jack" Lew,
187. Andy Liepman,
188. Vincent Lucero,
189. Lewis Lukens,
190. Loretta Lynch,
191. Ron Marks,
192. James Mattis,
193. Andrew McCabe,
194. Mitch McConnell,
195. Mary McCord,
196. Darren W. McDew,
197. Denis McDonough,
198. Arthur McGlynn,
199. Charles McGonigal,
200. Brian McKeon,

#24211632 at 2026-02-03 17:27:49 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #29507: No accountability? Escape unscathed? Buckle up! Edition

The Ming dynasty 'Guide to the Galaxy': China names 2100 space plan after 1637 book
updated: 4:23pm, 3 Feb 2026

The US defence secretary during President Donald Trump's first term, James Mattis, repeatedly warned that China would revert to a Ming dynasty-style model, projecting its strong military, technological and economic influence globally.

At the time, his views were widely questioned by mainstream academics as too aggressive. A decade ago, China still lagged far behind the United States.

But Mattis underestimated China's ambitions.

On January 29, China announced the official launch of a national space resources development programme, an ambitious project spanning nearly a century.

According to the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC), the plan is to build a vast interplanetary fleet to extend resource exploration and mining operations to Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Mercury and Venus.

The project is named after the encyclopaedic work Tiangong Kaiwu ("The Exploitation of the Works of Nature"), published in 1637.

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3342211/ming-dynasty-guide-galaxy-china-names-2100-space-plan-after-1637-book
https://web.archive.org/web/20260203171438/https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3342211/ming-dynasty-guide-galaxy-china-names-2100-space-plan-after-1637-book

#23903067 at 2025-11-26 00:07:33 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #29125: Pardons only for the Turkeys Edition

Military Veterans Call Out Trump, Hegseth and Pentagon in New Video

Ten military veterans of different service and rank have made their own video in support of U.S. Sen. Mark Kelly and his congressional colleagues who are caught in a back-and-forth with the Pentagon after urging active-duty members to ignore illegal orders.

The new joint video, released on platforms including YouTube, features veterans and members of several national veterans' groups including Save America Movement, Valor Media, Common Defense, Veterans for Responsible Leadership, and The Chamberlain Network. It shows veterans speaking out in support of Kelly and others amid threats from the Trump administration to court-martial the Arizona senator. They describe the move as unprecedented and a politically motivated use of Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) authority.

On Monday, the Pentagon said in a social media post that it was launching "a thorough review" of allegations of misconduct against Kelly, a retired Navy captain and astronaut from Arizona, for "serious allegations of misconduct." Kelly and a handful of Democratic colleagues in the House and Senate released a video last week urging U.S. troops to refuse what they described as illegal orders.

"So 'Captain' Kelly, not only did your sedition video intentionally undercut good order and discipline but you can't even display your uniform correctly," Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth wrote on X, adding, "When or if you are recalled to active duty, it'll start with a uniform inspection."

The review was widened on Tuesday when the FBI was reported to now be interviewing Kelly and five other congressional Democrats: Sen. Elissa Slotkin (MI) and House Reps. Jason Crow of Colorado, Maggie Goodlander of New Hampshire, and Chris Deluzio and Chrissy Houlahan, both of Pennsylvania.

The veterans' video features 10 service members, some retired, across branches including the Army, Navy and Marine Corps. As one veteran says, "I want to talk about Mark Kelly."

Members in the short video said Kelly is upholding his oath to the country and Constitution from "a targeted attack" emanating out of the executive branch, which as one veteran said impacts the duty of military members who could be ordered to do things which undermine the very citizens they are supposed to protect.

"We all took an oath, not to serve a king or a tyrant but to defend the Constitution. Don't give up the ship," the video concludes.

"We called it, none of this should be surprising," said Harbaugh, a former Navy pilot. "I think it is surprising to many Americans just because it's so shocking.

"But those of us who paid attention during Trump's first term at how far he tried to push the military, and the fact that the only reason he didn't get away from some of his more outrageous ideas and intentions was the Milley's and the [former Defense Secretary Mark) Esper's who stood in his way-we realized that the four years in between terms were used to plan how to avoid that accountability should he win again."

Whether someone like Milley or Esper or James Mattis currently exists in the present administration is unknown, Harbaugh said, while adding that civilian leadership and counsel to Trump is lacking. Things have escalated throughout Trump's second term, notably with the highly publicized gathering of admirals and generals on Sept. 30 at Quantico.

"It is telling that the very first act of the secretary of defense was to let go of any JAG who might stand in the way of illegal or unconstitutional orders," he said. "You only do that if you're planning to break the law."

Hegseth Branded as 'Shameful'
Asked about Pentagon leadership, Harbaugh said Hegseth has brought "shame" upon the broader military institution and claimed the secretary is using his pulpit and his department as a political tool to hound the political opposition.

"I think we should have known-some of us did know-that this was coming given the fact that [Hegseth] could not manage a small nonprofit, given the fact that his personal character failings were on display for everyone to see, sometimes on camera," Harbaugh said.

"The fact that he should be given control over the most powerful, largest instrument of American power-the largest part of the American government-was a slap in the face to those who wear the uniform and risked their lives," he added.

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/11/25/military-veterans-call-out-trump-hegseth-and-pentagon-new-video.html

#23886020 at 2025-11-22 01:28:12 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #29105: ART OF THE DEAL Multi Leveled Quantum Edition

>>23885758
Same bunch 2018

1. Curtis Scaparrotti, four-star Army general; Commander, US European Command and Nato Supreme Allied Commander Europe

2. Mark Milley, four-star Army general, 39th chief of staff for the US Army

3. Robert Neller, four-star Marine Corps general, 37th commandant of the Marine Corps

4. Paul Zukunft, US Coast Guard admiral, commandant of the US Coast Guard. Commands 41,700 active duty servicemen and women

5. Kurt W Tidd, US Navy Admiral, commander, US Southern Command

6. Raymond A Thomas, fourstar Army general, commander, US Special Operations Command

7. Thomas D Waldhauser, Marine Corps General, Commander of the US Africa Command

8. Paul Selva, Air Force General, Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

9. Joseph Dunford, Marine Corps General, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

10. James Mattis, Defense Secretary

11. President Donald Trump

12. Vice President Mike Pence

13. Michael Rodgers, Navy Admiral, Commander of US Cyber Command, Director of the NSA, Chief of Central Security Service

14. John Richardson, Navy Admiral, Chief of Naval Operations

15. Joseph Votel, four-star army general, Commander of the US Central Command, controls all US troops in the Middle East

16. David Goldfein, Air Force General, Chief of Staff of the US Air Force

17. John E Hyten, Air Force General, Commander of US Strategic Command

18. Joseph L Lengyel, Air Force General, Chief of National Guard Bureau

19. Lori Robinson, Air Force General, Commander of the US Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command

20. Patrick M Shanahan, Deputy Secretary of Defense

21. Harry Harris, Naval Admiral, Commander of the US Pacific Command

22. Darren W McDew, Air Force General, Commander of the US Transportation Command at Scott Air Force Base, Illinois

23. Karl Schultz, US Coast Guard Vice Admiral, Commander Atlantic Area

#23495126 at 2025-08-22 16:27:31 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #28623: Bolton Got Raided Edition

181. Joseph L. Lengyel,
182. Corey Lewandowski,
183. April Lorenzen "tea leaves",
184. Stephen Laycock,
185. Jacob "Jack" Lew,
186. Andy Liepman,
187. Vincent Lucero,
188. Lewis Lukens,
189. Loretta Lynch,
190. Ron Marks,
191. James Mattis,
192. Andrew McCabe,
193. Mitch McConnell,
194. Mary McCord,
195. Darren W. McDew,
196. Denis McDonough,
197. Arthur McGlynn,
198. Charles McGonigal,
199. Brian McKeon,
200. John McLaughlin,
201. Herbert Raymond McMaster,
202. Jonna Hiestand Mendez,
203. Joel T. Meyer,
204. Kevin Michelena,
205. Joseph Mifsud,
206. Andrew Pp. Miller,
207. Matthew Miller,
208. Mark Milley,
209. Sergei Millian,
210. Cheryl Mills,
211. Sean Misko,
212. Jonathan Moffa,
213. Lisa Monaco,
214. Michael Morell,
215. Peter Morland,
216. Robbie Mook,
217. John Moseman,
218. Micheal Mosman,
219. Sally Moyer,
220. Robert Mueller III,
221. Shailagh Murray
222. Emile Nakhleh,
223. Joe Nelson,
224. Robert Neller,
225. Mike Neufield,
226. Sean Newell,
227. Vinh X. Nguyen,
228. Victoria Nuland,
229. Barrack Hussein Obama,
230. Bruce Ohr,
231. Nellie Ohr,
232. Gerald A. O'Shea,
233. Stephanie L. O'Sullivan,
234. Lisa Page,
235. Leon Panetta,
236. Sam Patten,
237. Mike Pence,
238. Nancy Pelosi,
239. Dmitry Peskov,
240. Joseph Pientka,
241. Shelby L. Pierson,
242. Larry Pfeiffer,
243. Elizabeth Prelogar,
244. Jeffrey M. Prescott,
245. David Priess,
246. John Podesta,
247. Marc Polymeropoulos,
248. Mike Pompeo,
249. Anna Popova,
250. Samantha Power,
251. David Priess,
252. E.W. "Bill" Priestap,
253. Pam Purcilly,
254. James Quarles,
255. Sarah Raskin,
256. Nick Rasmussen,
257. Amanda Renteria,
258. Jeannie Rhee,
259. Ben Rhodes,?
260. Steve Ricchetti,
261. Susan Rice,
262. John Richardson,
263. Lori Robb,
264. Lori Robinson,
265. Jeffrey A. Rosen,
266. Rod Rosenstein,
267. Yoel Roth,
268. Lynn Forrester Rothschild,
269. Aaron Rouse,
270. Marco Rubio,
271. Thomas Russell,
272. Paul Ryan,
273. Jim Rybicki,
274. Christopher M. Sanders,
275. Allison Sands,
276. Beth E. Sanner,
277. Julia Santucci,
278. Gabriel Sanz-Rexach,
279. Felix Sater,
280. Chris Savos,
281. Curtis Scaparrotti,
282. Adam Schiff,
283. Loren DeJonge Schulman,
284. Debbie Wasserman Schultz,
285. Karl Schultz,
286. Charles E. Schumer,
287. Michael Seidel,
288. Paul Selva,
289. Jeff Sessions,
290. John Sipher,
291. Patrick M. Shanahan,
292. Nick Shapiro,
293. Cody Shearer,
294. Calvin Shivers,
295. Nathan Sheets,
296. Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall,
297. Dilpreet K. Sidhu,
298. Glenn Simpson,
299. Petra Sipe,
300. Stephen Slick,
301. Jack Smith,?
302. Rodney Snyder,
303. Stephen A. Somma,
304. Alexander Soros,
305. George Soros,
306. Christopher Steele,
307. Michael Steinbach,
308. Cynthia Strand,
309. Peter Strzok,
310. Jake Sullivan,
311. Michael Sussman,
312. Adam Szubin,
313. James Taliento,
314. Greg Tarbell,
315. David Terry,
316. Caroline Tess,
317. John Tharp,
318. Timothy?Thibault,
319. Raymond A. Thomas,
320. Kurt W. Tidd,
321. Marty Torrey,
322. George Toscas,
323. Russ Travers,
324. Greg Treverton,
325. John Tullius,
326. James Turgal,
327."Azra Turk"
328. William J. Tuttle,
329. David A. Vanell,
330. Natalia Veselnitskaya,
331. Mike Vickers,
332. Alexander Vindman,
333. Samantha E. Vinograd,
334. Paul Vixie,
335. Ivan Vorontsov,
336. Joseph Votel,
337. M. Ro. Wahid,
338. Thomas D. Waldhauser,
339. Celeste Wallander,
340. Karen Walsh,
341. Clint Watts,
342. David Weiss,
343. Thomas W. West
344. Monty Wilkinson,
345. Matthew Whitaker,
346. Winston Wiley,
347. Joel Willett,
348. Matthew Williams,
349. Thomas Williams,
350. Jonathan Winer,
351. Doug Wise,
352. Linda Weissgold,
353. Andrew Weissman,
354. Kristin Wood,
355. Christopher Wray,
356. Caroline Wren,
357. Sally Yates,
358. Aaron Zebley,
359. Aaron Zelinsky,
360. Paul Zukunft

#23490966 at 2025-08-21 19:29:10 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #28618: The Great Awakening. Q Edition

181. Corey Lewandowski,
182. April Lorenzen "tea leaves",
183. Stephen Laycock,
184. Jacob "Jack" Lew,
185. Andy Liepman,
186. Vincent Lucero,
187. Lewis Lukens,
188. Loretta Lynch,
189. Ron Marks,
190. James Mattis,
191. Andrew McCabe,
192. Mitch McConnell,
193. Mary McCord,
194. Darren W. McDew,
195. Denis McDonough,
196. Arthur McGlynn,
197. Charles McGonigal,
198. Brian McKeon,
199. John McLaughlin,
200. Herbert Raymond McMaster,
201. Jonna Hiestand Mendez,
202. Joel T. Meyer,
203. Kevin Michelena,
204. Joseph Mifsud,
205. Andrew Pp. Miller,
206. Matthew Miller,
207. Mark Milley,
208. Sergei Millian,
209. Cheryl Mills,
210. Sean Misko,
211. Jonathan Moffa,
212. Lisa Monaco,
213. Michael Morell,
214. Peter Morland,
215. Robbie Mook,
216. John Moseman,
217. Micheal Mosman,
218. Sally Moyer,
219. Robert Mueller III,
220. Shailagh Murray
221. Emile Nakhleh,
222. Joe Nelson,
223. Robert Neller,
224. Mike Neufield,
225. Sean Newell,
226. Vinh X. Nguyen,
227. Victoria Nuland,
228. Barrack Hussein Obama,
229. Bruce Ohr,
230. Nellie Ohr,
231. Gerald A. O'Shea,
232. Stephanie L. O'Sullivan,
233. Lisa Page,
234. Leon Panetta,
235. Sam Patten,
236. Mike Pence,
237. Nancy Pelosi,
238. Dmitry Peskov,
239. Joseph Pientka,
240. Shelby L. Pierson,
241. Larry Pfeiffer,
242. Elizabeth Prelogar,
243. Jeffrey M. Prescott,
244. David Priess,
245. John Podesta,
246. Marc Polymeropoulos,
247. Mike Pompeo,
248. Anna Popova,
249. Samantha Power,
250. David Priess,
251. E.W. "Bill" Priestap,
252. Pam Purcilly,
253. James Quarles,
254. Sarah Raskin,
255. Nick Rasmussen,
256. Amanda Renteria,
257. Jeannie Rhee,
258. Ben Rhodes,?
259. Steve Ricchetti,
260. Susan Rice,
261. John Richardson,
262. Lori Robb,
263. Lori Robinson,
264. Jeffrey A. Rosen,
265. Rod Rosenstein,
266. Yoel Roth,
267. Lynn Forrester Rothschild,
268. Aaron Rouse,
269. Marco Rubio,
270. Thomas Russell,
271. Paul Ryan,
272. Jim Rybicki,
273. Christopher M. Sanders,
274. Allison Sands,
275. Beth E. Sanner,
276. Julia Santucci,
277. Gabriel Sanz-Rexach,
278. Felix Sater,
279. Chris Savos,
280. Curtis Scaparrotti,
281. Adam Schiff,
282. Loren DeJonge Schulman,
283. Debbie Wasserman Schultz,
284. Karl Schultz,
285. Charles E. Schumer,
286. Michael Seidel,
287. Paul Selva,
288. Jeff Sessions,
289. John Sipher,
290. Patrick M. Shanahan,
291. Nick Shapiro,
292. Cody Shearer,
293. Calvin Shivers,
294. Nathan Sheets,
295. Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall,
296. Dilpreet K. Sidhu,
297. Glenn Simpson,
298. Petra Sipe,
299. Stephen Slick,
300. Jack Smith,?
301. Rodney Snyder,
302. Stephen A. Somma,
303. Alexander Soros,
304. George Soros,
305. Christopher Steele,
306. Michael Steinbach,
307. Cynthia Strand,
308. Peter Strzok,
309. Jake Sullivan,
310. Michael Sussman,
311. Adam Szubin,
312. James Taliento,
313. Greg Tarbell,
314. David Terry,
315. Caroline Tess,
316. John Tharp,
317. Timothy?Thibault,
318. Raymond A. Thomas,
319. Kurt W. Tidd,
320. Marty Torrey,
321. George Toscas,
322. Russ Travers,
323. Greg Treverton,
324. John Tullius,
325. James Turgal,
326."Azra Turk"
327. William J. Tuttle,
328. David A. Vanell,
329. Natalia Veselnitskaya,
330. Mike Vickers,
331. Alexander Vindman,
332. Samantha E. Vinograd,
333. Paul Vixie,
334. Ivan Vorontsov,
335. Joseph Votel,
336. M. Ro. Wahid,
337. Thomas D. Waldhauser,
338. Celeste Wallander,
339. Karen Walsh,
340. Clint Watts,
341. David Weiss,
342. Thomas W. West
343. Monty Wilkinson,
344. Matthew Whitaker,
345. Winston Wiley,
346. Joel Willett,
347. Matthew Williams,
348. Thomas Williams,
349. Jonathan Winer,
350. Doug Wise,
351. Linda Weissgold,
352. Andrew Weissman,
353. Kristin Wood,
354. Christopher Wray,
355. Caroline Wren,
356. Sally Yates,
357. Aaron Zebley,
358. Aaron Zelinsky,
359. Paul Zukunft

#23490026 at 2025-08-21 14:48:16 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #28617: SEALs Edition

171. Neil King Jr.,
172. David Kris,
173. Paul Kolbe,
174. Mike Kortan,
175. Robert Kugler,
176. Charles A. Kupchan
177. Stephanie LaParre,
178. David Laufman,
179. Richard H. Ledgett,
180. Joseph L. Lengyel,
181. Corey Lewandowski,
182. April Lorenzen "tea leaves",
183. Stephen Laycock,
184. Jacob "Jack" Lew,
185. Andy Liepman,
186. Vincent Lucero,
187. Lewis Lukens,
188. Loretta Lynch,
189. Ron Marks,
190. James Mattis,
191. Andrew McCabe,
192. Mitch McConnell,
193. Mary McCord,
194. Darren W. McDew,
195. Denis McDonough,
196. Arthur McGlynn,
197. Charles McGonigal,
198. Brian McKeon,
199. John McLaughlin,
200. Herbert Raymond McMaster,
201. Jonna Hiestand Mendez,
202. Joel T. Meyer,
203. Kevin Michelena,
204. Joseph Mifsud,
205. Andrew Pp. Miller,
206. Matthew Miller,
207. Mark Milley,
208. Sergei Millian,
209. Cheryl Mills,
210. Sean Misko,
211. Jonathan Moffa,
212. Lisa Monaco,
213. Michael Morell,
214. Peter Morland,
215. Robbie Mook,
216. John Moseman,
217. Micheal Mosman,
218. Sally Moyer,
219. Robert Mueller III,
220. Shailagh Murray
221. Emile Nakhleh,
222. Joe Nelson,
223. Robert Neller,
224. Mike Neufield,
225. Sean Newell,
226. Vinh X. Nguyen,
227. Victoria Nuland,
228. Barrack Hussein Obama,
229. Bruce Ohr,
230. Nellie Ohr,
231. Gerald A. O'Shea,
232. Stephanie L. O'Sullivan,
233. Lisa Page,
234. Leon Panetta,
235. Sam Patten,
236. Mike Pence,
237. Nancy Pelosi,
238. Dmitry Peskov,
239. Joseph Pientka,
240. Shelby L. Pierson,
241. Larry Pfeiffer,
242. Elizabeth Prelogar,
243. Jeffrey M. Prescott,
244. David Priess,
245. John Podesta,
246. Marc Polymeropoulos,
247. Mike Pompeo,
248. Anna Popova,
249. Samantha Power,
250. David Priess,
251. E.W. "Bill" Priestap,
252. Pam Purcilly,
253. James Quarles,
254. Sarah Raskin,
255. Nick Rasmussen,
256. Amanda Renteria,
257. Jeannie Rhee,
258. Ben Rhodes,?
259. Steve Ricchetti,
260. Susan Rice,
261. John Richardson,
262. Lori Robb,
263. Lori Robinson,
264. Jeffrey A. Rosen,
265. Rod Rosenstein,
266. Yoel Roth,
267. Lynn Forrester Rothschild,
268. Aaron Rouse,
269. Marco Rubio,
270. Thomas Russell,
271. Paul Ryan,
272. Jim Rybicki,
273. Christopher M. Sanders,
274. Allison Sands,
275. Beth E. Sanner,
276. Julia Santucci,
277. Gabriel Sanz-Rexach,
278. Felix Sater,
279. Chris Savos,
280. Curtis Scaparrotti,
281. Adam Schiff,
282. Loren DeJonge Schulman,
283. Debbie Wasserman Schultz,
284. Karl Schultz,
285. Charles E. Schumer,
286. Michael Seidel,
287. Paul Selva,
288. Jeff Sessions,
289. John Sipher,
290. Patrick M. Shanahan,
291. Nick Shapiro,
292. Cody Shearer,
293. Calvin Shivers,
294. Nathan Sheets,
295. Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall,
296. Dilpreet K. Sidhu,
297. Glenn Simpson,
298. Petra Sipe,
299. Stephen Slick,
300. Jack Smith,?
301. Rodney Snyder,
302. Stephen A. Somma,
303. Alexander Soros,
304. George Soros,
305. Christopher Steele,
306. Michael Steinbach,
307. Cynthia Strand,
308. Peter Strzok,
309. Jake Sullivan,
310. Michael Sussman,
311. Adam Szubin,
312. James Taliento,
313. Greg Tarbell,
314. David Terry,
315. Caroline Tess,
316. John Tharp,
317. Timothy?Thibault,
318. Raymond A. Thomas,
319. Kurt W. Tidd,
320. Marty Torrey,
321. George Toscas,
322. Russ Travers,
323. Greg Treverton,
324. John Tullius,
325. James Turgal,
326."Azra Turk"
327. William J. Tuttle,
328. David A. Vanell,
329. Natalia Veselnitskaya,
330. Mike Vickers,
331. Alexander Vindman,
332. Samantha E. Vinograd,
333. Paul Vixie,
334. Ivan Vorontsov,
335. Joseph Votel,
336. M. Ro. Wahid,
337. Thomas D. Waldhauser,
338. Celeste Wallander,
339. Karen Walsh,
340. Clint Watts,
341. David Weiss,
342. Thomas W. West
343. Monty Wilkinson,
344. Matthew Whitaker,
345. Winston Wiley,
346. Joel Willett,
347. Matthew Williams,
348. Thomas Williams,
349. Jonathan Winer,
350. Doug Wise,
351. Linda Weissgold,
352. Andrew Weissman,
353. Kristin Wood,
354. Christopher Wray,
355. Caroline Wren,
356. Sally Yates,
357. Aaron Zebley,
358. Aaron Zelinsky,
359. Paul Zukunft

#23454462 at 2025-08-11 19:06:22 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #28577: Bowser Gets Babysitters Edition

Israel Is Not an Ally-It's a Liability

The U.S. is paying mightily for Israel's reckless policies.

My people are starting to hate Israel."

That's what President Donald Trump reportedly told a prominent Jewish donor recently. His remark wasn't just a political aside; it was a warning. As images of starvation and devastation from Gaza flood American screens, even Trump has privately acknowledged the reality of "real starvation." A shift is underway, and it is reshaping the foundations of American politics and foreign policy.

Once-unquestioning support for Israel on the American right is beginning to erode. MAGA-aligned voices-from Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, who labeled Israel's war in Gaza a "genocide," to populist influencers like Steve Bannon and Tucker Carlson-are now publicly challenging the U.S.-Israel relationship. Bannon has observed that Israel has "very little support" among the under-30 MAGA base. Carlson, in an interview with progressive host Ana Kasparian, went further: "They [Israel] are not allowed to use my tax dollars to bomb churches," he declared, accusing Tel Aviv of war crimes and questioning continued U.S. military aid.

This growing skepticism reflects a deeper structural problem in the U.S.-Israel relationship: a classic case of moral hazard. Israel operates with the expectation that Washington will foot the bill-politically, financially, and militarily-regardless of how destabilizing or damaging its actions may be. Israeli leaders have repeatedly defied American warnings, expanded illegal settlements, and abandoned even the pretense of a two-state solution with the Palestinians, all while receiving billions in unconditional aid and carte blanche diplomatic cover.

As former Defense Secretary Robert Gates said back in 2011, Israel is an "ungrateful ally" that gives "nothing in return" for American guarantees, military support, and intelligence sharing. Generals David Petraeus and James Mattis, both former commanders of U.S. Central Command, have likewise warned that Israel's policies directly undermine U.S. interests in the region, inflame anti-American sentiment, and fuel recruitment for extremist groups.

Yet, Israel's leaders continue to act with impunity, confident that the United States will absorb the political and strategic fallout. That is not the mark of a healthy alliance. It is exploitation.

Nowhere is this clearer than in Israel's recent actions toward Iran. Despite explicit warnings from Washington, Israeli forces launched a surprise attack on Iran on June 13, hitting nuclear, military, and civilian sites, and killing senior commanders, scientists, and hundreds of civilians, including children. The timing was no accident: the strikes came just as U.S. diplomats were reportedly on the verge of a breakthrough in nuclear negotiations with Tehran.

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/israel-is-not-an-ally-its-a-liability/

#23398206 at 2025-07-29 12:57:50 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #28512: The News is Still Fake Edition

164. Stephen Laycock,
165. Jacob "Jack" Lew,
166. Andy Liepman,
167. Vincent Lucero,
168. Lewis Lukens,
169. Loretta Lynch,
170. Ron Marks,
171. James Mattis,
172. Andrew McCabe,
173. Mitch McConnell,
174. Mary McCord,
175. Darren W. McDew,
176. Denis McDonough,
177. Arthur McGlynn,
178. Charles McGonigal,
179. Brian McKeon,
180. John McLaughlin,
181. Herbert Raymond McMaster,
182. Jonna Hiestand Mendez,
183. Kevin Michelena,
184. Joseph Mifsud,
185. Matthew Miller,
186. Mark Milley,
187. Sergei Millian,
188. Cheryl Mills,
189. Sean Misko,
190. Jonathan Moffa,
191. Lisa Monaco,
192. Michael Morell,
193. Peter Morland,
194. Robbie Mook,
195. John Moseman,
196. Micheal Mosman,
197. Sally Moyer,
198. Robert Mueller III,
199. Shailagh Murray
200. Emile Nakhleh,
201. Joe Nelson,
202. Robert Neller,
203. Mike Neufield,
204. Sean Newell,
205. Victoria Nuland,
206. Barrack Hussein Obama,
207. Bruce Ohr,
208. Nellie Ohr,
209. Gerald A. O'Shea,
210. Stephanie L. O'Sullivan,
211. Lisa Page,
212. Leon Panetta,
213. Sam Patten,
214. Mike Pence,
215. Nancy Pelosi,
216. Dmitry Peskov,
217. Joseph Pientka,
218. Larry Pfeiffer,
219. Elizabeth Prelogar,
220. David Priess,
221. John Podesta,
222. Marc Polymeropoulos,
223. Mike Pompeo,
224. Anna Popova,
225. Samantha Power,
226. David Priess,
227. E.W. "Bill" Priestap,
228. Pam Purcilly,
229. James Quarles,
230. Sarah Raskin,
231. Nick Rasmussen,
232. Amanda Renteria,
233. Jeannie Rhee,
234. Ben Rhodes,?
235. Steve Ricchetti,
236. Susan Rice,
237. John Richardson,
238. Lori Robb,
239. Lori Robinson,
240. Jeffrey A. Rosen,
241. Rod Rosenstein,
242. Yoel Roth,
243. Lynn Forrester Rothschild,
244. Aaron Rouse,
245. Marco Rubio,
246. Thomas Russell,
247. Paul Ryan,
248. Jim Rybicki,
249. Christopher M. Sanders,
250. Allison Sands,
251. Gabriel Sanz-Rexach,
252. Felix Sater,
253. Chris Savos,
254. Curtis Scaparrotti,
255. Adam Schiff,
256. Debbie Wasserman Schultz,
257. Karl Schultz,
258. Charles E. Schumer,
259. Michael Seidel,
260. Paul Selva,
261. Jeff Sessions,
262. John Sipher,
263. Patrick M. Shanahan,
264. Nick Shapiro,
265. Cody Shearer,
266. Calvin Shivers,
267. Nathan Sheets,
268. Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall,
269. Glenn Simpson,
270. Petra Sipe,
271. Stephen Slick,
272. Jack Smith,?
273. Rodney Snyder,
274. Stephen A. Somma,
275. Alexander Soros,
276. George Soros,
277. Christopher Steele,
278. Michael Steinbach,
279. Cynthia Strand,
280. Peter Strzok,
281. Jake Sullivan,
282. Michael Sussman,
283. Adam Szubin,
284. James Taliento,
285. Greg Tarbell,
286. David Terry,
287. Caroline Tess,
288. John Tharp,
289. Timothy?Thibault,
290. Raymond A. Thomas,
291. Kurt W. Tidd,
292. Marty Torrey,
293. George Toscas,
294. Russ Travers,
295. Greg Treverton,
296. John Tullius,
297. James Turgal,
298."Azra Turk"
299. David A. Vanell,
300. Natalia Veselnitskaya,
301. Mike Vickers,
302. Alexander Vindman,
303. Paul Vixie,
304. Ivan Vorontsov,
305. Joseph Votel,
306. M. Ro. Wahid,
307. Thomas D. Waldhauser,
308. Celeste Wallander,
309. Karen Walsh,
310. Clint Watts,
311. David Weiss,
312. Monty Wilkinson,
313. Matthew Whitaker,
314. Winston Wiley,
315. Matthew Williams,
316. Thomas Williams,
317. Jonathan Winer,
318. Doug Wise,
319. Linda Weissgold,
320. Andrew Weissman,
321. Kristin Wood,
322. Christopher Wray,
323. Caroline Wren,
324. Sally Yates,
325. Aaron Zebley,
326. Aaron Zelinsky,
327. Paul Zukunft

#23362257 at 2025-07-22 13:33:29 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #28471: Dawn Beckons Edition

#23360043 at 2025-07-21 22:26:16 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #28468: One If By Land ~ Two If By Sea Edition

#23358221 at 2025-07-21 15:23:45 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #28466: Equal Justice, Accountability, and Scathing Edition

#23076570 at 2025-05-24 12:43:25 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #28151: E-Bake³ Edition

>>23076554
>PATIENCE
'Strategic Patience" the Bridge.

The Obama Administration's approach to the problem of North Korea has been termed strategic patience, and is in fact the same approach employed by previous administrations. At the heart of strategic patience is a belief that the status quo, while less than ideal, is better than many possible consequences of taking action. The premise of this argument is incorrect. What we see in North Korea is not a status quo, similar today to what it was decades ago, but rather a situation worsening at an exponential pace. Sooner rather than later, this pace will lead to a North Korea capable of sending nuclear weapons around the globe. While Pyongyang may not be the gravest threat to the United States, if handled carelessly, the situation could distract Trump from other threats and derail his Presidency.

During his transition out of office, former President Obama told President Trump that North Korea is the problem he should worry most about.[1] In April, amidst rising tensions between the U.S. and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Secretary of Defense James Mattis, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, and Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats said in a joint statement that North Korea is "an urgent national security threat and top foreign policy priority."[2]

The U.S. seems to have tried a small dose of everything under the sun to address the threat in North Korea. Yet over the past quarter century, nothing has improved. There will be no magic bullets for North Korea. Our best option for the future must consist of some combination of tools we have already employed against North Korean obstinacy. But we should employ them simultaneously, consistently, and attentively. It is important to understand why these tools have not worked in the past and, if used differently, whether they can be successful in the future. Before exploring tools used to reach an objective, however, the US should first give careful consideration to what that objective should be, which is informed by what we know of the DPRK's nuclear capability.

NORTH KOREA'S NUCLEAR CAPABILITIES TODAY
Nuclear scientist Siegfried Hecker, one of the few individuals the North Korean regime has allowed into the country to observe their nuclear capabilities, explains that three pieces are needed for North Korea to have a viable nuclear threat: fissile materials, weaponization, and delivery.[3] Fissile materials determine the size of the arsenal; the US has high confidence in their estimates of North Korea's plutonium, which is produced mainly by a single 5 megawatt reactor, and low confidence in their estimates of its enriched uranium.[4] Based on Hecker's seven visits to the country and analysis of secondary sources, he estimates-with the caveat that our understanding of their enriched uranium capacity may be lacking-that the country has enough fissile materials for 20-25 bombs today (six to eight of plutonium), and the capacity to build seven additional bombs each year. We know very little about their weaponization capabilities, but the fact that they have developed the bomb over ten years, including conducting five nuclear tests, means that it is likely sufficiently small and sophisticated to reach all of South Korea and Japan. North Korea's progress in their delivery capability has improved over the last few years. We know that North Korea can deliver short and medium range missiles, with increasing versatility and decreasing detectability. In his New Year's Day address, Kim Jong-un claimed the country had "entered the final stage of preparation for the test launch of intercontinental ballistic missile" and that they will "continue to build up [their] self-defense capability, the pivot of which is the nuclear forces, and the capability for preemptive strike." Hecker says, "The question that people then ask is ... do they have a warhead they can put on an ICBM and reach the United States. The answer is, in my opinion, no." Hecker believes this will require more work. He emphasizes, however, "One of the worst scenarios, and the one that worries me the most, is they can strike South Korea and Japan. That's the nuclear crisis. We have that nuclear crisis now."[5]

Way moar

https://thestrategybridge.org/the-bridge/2017/9/29/the-end-of-strategic-patience

#23030687 at 2025-05-14 00:43:34 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #28101: A Great Day In Saudi Arabia Edition

1. Huma Abedin,
2. Sergey Abyshev,
3. Zainab Ahmad,
4. Rinat Akhmetshin,
5. Dmitri Alperovitch,
6. Hina R. Alvi,
7. Amy Anderson,
8. Trisha Anderson,
9. Christopher Andrew,
10. Manos Antonakakis,
11. Robert P. Ashley,
12. Rush Atkinson,
13. Brian J. Auten,
14. Abid Awan,
15. Imran Awan,
16. Jamal Awan,
17. James Baker,
18. Nada Bakos,
19. Jeremy Bash,
20. William Barr,
21. Michael Barry
22. Robert Bauer,
23. Edward Baumgartner,
24. Leonard Benardo,
25. Michael Bertrand,
26. Joe Biden,
27. Dennis Blair,
28. Richard Blumenthal,
29. Sidney Blumenthal,
30. Jeb Boasberg,
31. John Andrew Boehner,
32. Dana Boente,
33. Jennifer Boone,
34. Greg Bower,
35. Patty Brandmaier,
36. John Brennan,
37. Keith Bristow,
38. Gregory Brower,
39. James B. Bruce,
40. David Buckley,
41. Dawn Burton,
42. George Bush Jr.,
43. Maria Butina,
44. Patrick Byrne,
45. Jean L. Camp,
46. Josh Campbell,
47. Joe Capone,
48. David Cariens,
49. Janice Cariens,
50. John Carlin,
51. Jeff Carlton,
52. Peter Carr,
53. Thomas Catan,
54. Eric Ciaramella,
55. James Clad,
56. James Clapper,
57. Kevin Clinesmith,
58. Hillary Clinton,
59. William Clinton,
60. Randy Coleman,
61. Rosemary Collyer,
62. James Comey,
63. Patrick Conlon,
64. Rudolph Contreras,
65. Anne Conway,
66. David Corn,
67. Peter Corsell,
68. Jerome Corsi,
69. Ted Cruz,
70. Steven Cuevas,
71. David Dagon,
72. Igor Danchenko,
73. Brett Davis,
74. Raymond Dearie,
75. Sir Richard Dearlove,
76. Michael Dempsey,
77. Oleg Deripaska,
78. Joseph DiBartolomeo,
79. Elizabeth Dibble,
80. Charles H. Dolan Jr.,
81. Alexander Downer,
82. Iva Drasinover,
83. Michael Dreeben,
84. Joseph Dunford,
85. Tatyana Duran,
86. Dick Durbin,
87. John Durham,
88. Claire Eagan,
89. Marc Elias,
90. Stuart Evans,
91. Dianne Goldman Berman Feinstein,
92. Jonathan Finer,
93. Thomas Fingar,
94. Peter?Fritsch,
95. Michael J. Gaeta,
96. Olga Galkina,
97. Merrick Garland,
98. Tashina Gauhar,
99. Ryan Gaynor,
100. Roger Zane George,
101. Glenn Gerstell,
102. Lindsey?Olin?Graham,
103. Carl Ghattas,
104. John Glacalone,
105. David Goldein,
106. Andrew Goldstein,
107. Brandon Van Grack,
108. Aleksej Gubarev,
109. Charles Ronald Llewelyn Guthrie,
110. Avril D. Haines,
111. Steven L. Hall,
112. Stefan Halper,
113. John Hannah,
114. Kent Harrington,
115. Harry Harris,
116. Gina Haspel,
117. Mike Hayden,
118. Curtis Heide,
119. Kevin Helson,
120. Shawn Henry,
121. Don Hepburn,
122. Brittany Hertzog,
123. Fiona Hill,
124. Eric Holder,
125. Michael Horowitz,
126. John Huber,
127. Calvin Humphrey,
128. Doug Hunt,
129. John E. Hyten,
130. Adam Irwin,
131. Mary Jacoby,
132. Mark Jaroszewski,
133. Valerie Jarrett,
134. Adam Jed,
135. Rodney Joffe "max",
136. Daniel Jones,
137. James Jones,
138. Peter Kadzik,
139. Colin Kahl,
140. John Kasich,
141. Kathleen Kavalec,
142. John Kerry,
143. Timothy D. Kilbourn,
144. Konstantin Kilimnik,
145. Neil King Jr.,
146. David Kris,
147. Paul Kolbe,
148. Mike Kortan,
149. Robert Kugler,
150. Stephanie LaParre,
151. David Laufman,
152. Rick Ledgett,
153. Joseph L. Lengyel,
154. Corey Lewandowski,
155. April Lorenzen "tea leaves",
156. Stephen Laycock,
157. Jacob "Jack" Lew,
158. Andy Liepman,
159. Vincent Lucero,
160. Lewis Lukens,
161. Loretta Lynch,
162. Ron Marks,
163. James Mattis,
164. Andrew McCabe,
165. Mitch McConnell,
166. Mary McCord,
167. Darren W. McDew,
168. Denis McDonough,
169. Arthur McGlynn,
170. Charles McGonigal,
171. John McLaughlin,
172. Herbert Raymond McMaster,
173. Jonna Hiestand Mendez,
174. Kevin Michelena,
175. Joseph Mifsud,
176. Matthew Miller,
177. Mark Milley,
178. Sergei Millian,
179. Cheryl Mills,
180. Sean Misko,
181. Jonathan Moffa,
182. Lisa Monaco,
183. Michael Morell,

#22935733 at 2025-04-20 12:27:49 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27995: EBAKE Edition

#22705777 at 2025-03-05 06:20:12 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27739: State of Things IV Edition

157. Vincent Lucero,
158. Lewis Lukens,
159. Loretta Lynch,
160. Ron Marks,
161. James Mattis,
162. Andrew McCabe,
163. Mitch McConnell,
164. Mary McCord,
165. Darren W. McDew,
166. Denis McDonough,
167. Arthur McGlynn,
168. Charles McGonigal,
169. John McLaughlin,
170. Herbert Raymond McMaster,
171. Jonna Hiestand Mendez,
172. Kevin Michelena,
173. Joseph Mifsud,
174. Matthew Miller,
175. Mark Milley,
176. Sergei Millian,
177. Cheryl Mills,
178. Sean Misko,
179. Jonathan Moffa,
180. Lisa Monaco,
181. Michael Morell,
182. Peter Morland,
183. Robbie Mook,
184. John Moseman,
185. Micheal Mosman,
186. Sally Moyer,
187. Robert Mueller III,
188. Shailagh Murray
189. Emile Nakhleh,
190. Joe Nelson,
191. Robert Neller,
192. Mike Neufield,
193. Sean Newell,
194. Victoria Nuland,
195. Barrack Hussein Obama,
196. Bruce Ohr,
197. Nellie Ohr,
198. Gerald A. O'Shea,
199. Stephanie L. O'Sullivan,
200. Lisa Page,
201. Leon Panetta,
202. Sam Patten,
203. Mike Pence,
204. Nancy Pelosi,
205. Dmitry Peskov,
206. Joseph Pientka,
207. Larry Pfeiffer,
208. Elizabeth Prelogar,
209. David Priess,
210. John Podesta,
211. Marc Polymeropoulos,
212. Mike Pompeo,
213. Anna Popova,
214. Samantha Power,
215. David Priess,
216. E.W. "Bill" Priestap,
217. Pam Purcilly,
218. James Quarles,
219. Sarah Raskin,
220. Nick Rasmussen,
221. Amanda Renteria,
222. Jeannie Rhee,?
223. Steve Ricchetti,
224. Susan Rice,
225. John Richardson,
226. Lori Robb,
227. Lori Robinson,
228. Jeffrey A. Rosen,
229. Rod Rosenstein,
230. Yoel Roth,
231. Lynn Forrester Rothschild,
232. Aaron Rouse,
233. Marco Rubio,
234. Thomas Russell,
235. Paul Ryan,
236. Jim Rybicki,
237. Christopher M. Sanders,
238. Allison Sands,
239. Gabriel Sanz-Rexach,
240. Felix Sater,
241. Chris Savos,
242. Curtis Scaparrotti,
243. Adam Schiff,
244. Debbie Wasserman Schultz,
245. Karl Schultz,
246. Charles E. Schumer,
247. Michael Seidel,
248. Paul Selva,
249. Jeff Sessions,
250. John Sipher,
251. Patrick M. Shanahan,
252. Nick Shapiro,
253. Cody Shearer,
254. Nathan Sheets,
255. Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall,
256. Glenn Simpson,
257. Petra Sipe,
258. Stephen Slick,
259. Jack Smith,?
260. Rodney Snyder,
261. Stephen A. Somma,
262. Alexander Soros,
263. George Soros,
264. Christopher Steele,
265. Michael Steinbach,
266. Cynthia Strand,
267. Peter Strzok,
268. Jake Sullivan,
269. Michael Sussman,
270. Adam Szubin,
271. James Taliento,
272. Greg Tarbell,
273. David Terry,
274. John Tharp,
275. Timothy?Thibault,
276. Raymond A. Thomas,
277. Kurt W. Tidd,
278. Marty Torrey,
279. George Toscas,
280. Russ Travers,
281. Greg Treverton,
282. John Tullius,
283. James Turgal,
284."Azra Turk"
285. David A. Vanell,
286. Natalia Veselnitskaya,
287. Mike Vickers,
288. Alexander Vindman,
289. Paul Vixie,
290. Ivan Vorontsov,
291. Joseph Votel,
292. M. Ro. Wahid,
293. Thomas D. Waldhauser,
294. Karen Walsh,
295. Clint Watts,
296. David Weiss,
297. Monty Wilkinson,
298. Matthew Whitaker,
299. Winston Wiley,
300. Matthew Williams,
301. Thomas Williams,
302. Jonathan Winer,
303. Doug Wise,
304. Linda Weissgold,
305. Andrew Weissman,
306. Kristin Wood,
307. Christopher Wray,
308. Caroline Wren,
309. Sally Yates,
310. Aaron Zebley,
311. Aaron Zelinsky,
312. Paul Zukunft

#22560020 at 2025-02-11 14:08:47 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27571: This Cannot Be Made Up! Edition

#22557752 at 2025-02-11 03:36:04 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27568: Clowns Crying Edition

1. Huma Abedin,
2. Sergey Abyshev,
3. Zainab Ahmad,
4. Rinat Akhmetshin,
5. Dmitri Alperovitch,
6. Hina R. Alvi,
7. Amy Anderson,
8. Trisha Anderson,
9. Christopher Andrew,
10. Manos Antonakakis,
11. Robert P. Ashley,
12. Rush Atkinson,
13. Brian Auten,
14. Abid Awan,
15. Imran Awan,
16. Jamal Awan,
17. James Baker,
18. Nada Bakos,
19. Jeremy Bash,
20. William Barr,
21. Michael Barry
22. Robert Bauer,
23. Edward Baumgartner,
24. Leonard Benardo,
25. Michael Bertrand,
26. Joe Biden,
27. Dennis Blair,
28. Richard Blumenthal,
29. Sidney Blumenthal,
30. Jeb Boasberg,
31. John Andrew Boehner,
32. Dana Boente,
33. Jennifer Boone,
34. Greg Bower,
35. Patty Brandmaier,
36. John Brennan,
37. Keith Bristow,
38. Gregory Brower,
39. James B. Bruce,
40. David Buckley,
41. Dawn Burton,
42. George Bush Jr.,
43. Jean L. Camp,
44. Josh Campbell,
45. Joe Capone,
46. David Cariens,
47. Janice Cariens,
48. John Carlin,
49. Jeff Carlton,
50. Peter Carr,
51. Thomas Catan,
52. Eric Ciaramella,
53. James Clad,
54. James Clapper,
55. Kevin Clinesmith,
56. Hillary Clinton,
57. William Clinton,
58. Randy Coleman,
59. Rosemary Collyer,
60. James Comey,
61. Patrick Conlon,
62. Rudolph Contreras,
63. Anne Conway,
64. David Corn,
65. Peter Corsell,
66. Jerome Corsi,
67. Ted Cruz,
68. Steven Cuevas,
69. David Dagon,
70. Igor Danchenko,
71. Brett Davis,
72. Raymond Dearie,
73. Sir Richard Dearlove,
74. Michael Dempsey,
75. Oleg Deripaska,
76. Joseph DiBartolomeo,
77. Elizabeth Dibble,
78. Charles H. Dolan Jr.,
79. Alexander Downer,
80. Iva Drasinover,
81. Michael Dreeben,
82. Joseph Dunford,
83. Tatyana Duran,
84. Dick Durbin,
85. John Durham,
86. Claire Eagan,
87. Marc Elias,
88. Stuart Evans,
89. Dianne Goldman Berman Feinstein,
90. Jonathan Finer,
91. Thomas Fingar,
92. Peter?Fritsch,
93. Michael J. Gaeta,
94. Olga Galkina,
95. Merrick Garland,
96. Tashina Gauhar,
97. Ryan Gaynor,
98. Roger Zane George,
99. Glenn Gerstell,
100. Lindsey?Olin?Graham,
101. Carl Ghattas,
102. John Glacalone,
103. David Goldein,
104. Andrew Goldstein,
105. Brandon Van Grack,
106. Aleksej Gubarev,
107. Charles Ronald Llewelyn Guthrie,
108. Avril D. Haines,
109. Steven L. Hall,
110. Stefan Halper,
111. John Hannah,
112. Kent Harrington,
113. Harry Harris,
114. Gina Haspel,
115. Mike Hayden,
116. Curtis Heide,
117. Kevin Helson,
118. Shawn Henry,
119. Don Hepburn,
120. Brittany Hertzog,
121. Fiona Hill,
122. Eric Holder,
123. Michael Horowitz,
124. John Huber,
125. Calvin Humphrey,
126. Doug Hunt,
127. John E. Hyten,
128. Adam Irwin,
129. Mary Jacoby,
130. Mark Jaroszewski,
131. Valerie Jarrett,
132. Adam Jed,
133. Rodney Joffe "max",
134. Daniel Jones,
135. James Jones,
136. Peter Kadzik,
137. Colin Kahl,
138. John Kasich,
139. Kathleen Kavalec,
140. John Kerry,
141. Timothy D. Kilbourn,
142. Konstantin Kilimnik,
143. Neil King Jr.,
144. David Kris,
145. Paul Kolbe,
146. Mike Kortan,
147. Robert Kugler,
148. Stephanie LaParre,
149. David Laufman,
150. Rick Ledgett,
151. Joseph L. Lengyel,
152. Corey Lewandowski,
153. April Lorenzen "tea leaves",
154. Stephen Laycock,
155. Jacob "Jack" Lew,
156. Andy Liepman,
157. Vincent Lucero,
158. Lewis Lukens,
159. Loretta Lynch,
160. Ron Marks,
161. James Mattis,
162. Andrew McCabe,
163. Mitch McConnell,
164. Mary McCord,
165. Darren W. McDew,
166. Denis McDonough,
167. Arthur McGlynn,
168. Charles McGonigal,
169. John McLaughlin,
170. Herbert Raymond McMaster,
171. Jonna Hiestand Mendez,
172. Kevin Michelena,
173. Joseph Mifsud,
174. Matthew Miller,
175. Mark Milley,
176. Sergei Millian,
177. Cheryl Mills,
178. Sean Misko,
179. Jonathan Moffa,
180. Lisa Monaco,
181. Michael Morell,
182. Peter Morland,
183. Robbie Mook,
184. John Moseman,
185. Micheal Mosman,
186. Sally Moyer,
187. Robert Mueller III,
188. Shailagh Murray
189. Emile Nakhleh,
190. Joe Nelson,
191. Robert Neller,
192. Mike Neufield,
193. Sean Newell,
194. Victoria Nuland,
195. Barrack Hussein Obama,
196. Bruce Ohr,
197. Nellie Ohr,
198. Gerald A. O'Shea,
199. Stephanie L. O'Sullivan,
200. Lisa Page,

#22364143 at 2025-01-16 14:04:33 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27348: New Day, New Dayshift Edition

>>22364131
>>22364133
>>22364136
>>22364138
>>22364139
>>22364140
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump - WE HAVE A DEAL FOR THE HOSTAGES IN THE MIDDLE EAST. THEY WILL BE RELEASED SHORTLY. THANK YOU!
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/113833442957238587

Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump - BACK THE BLUE
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/113833306008604159

Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump - Windmills are an economic and environmental disaster. I don't want even one built during my Administration. The thousands of dead and broken ones should be ripped down ASAP. Most expensive energy, only work with massive government subsidies, which we will no longer pay!
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/113833216412524131

Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump - Doug Mills @dougmillsnyt .@realDonaldTrump with Steve Witkoff, Trump's special envoy to the Middle East. Trump said, "all hell will break out in the Middle East" if Hamas does not release the hostages by the time he takes office.
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/113833212341981251

Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump - OSZ @OpenSourceZone Greenland Poll Independence From Denmark
Independence 68% (+36)
Stay Denmark 32%
University Of Copenhagen Poll
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/113833211367458581

Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump - @charliekirk11 Greenland wants independence from Denmark.
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/113833210298331227

Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump - Thank you, and congratulations, to the International Longshoremen's Association!
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/113833208508999868

Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump - Jack Smith has 'no standing' in Trump case anymore, David Schoen says | Fox News Video
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6366981933112
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/113832366021933841

Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump - David Schoen has 'never seen an FBI like this before': Politics has 'infected' the agency | Fox News Video
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6366981157112
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/113832364029543515

Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump - As of today, the incoming Trump Administration has hired over 1,000 people for The United States Government. They are outstanding in every way, and you will see the fruits of their labor over the coming years. We will MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, and it will happen very quickly! In order to save time, money, and effort, it would be helpful if you would not send, or recommend to us, people who worked with, or are endorsed by, Americans for No Prosperity (headed by Charles Koch), "Dumb as a Rock" John Bolton, "Birdbrain" Nikki Haley, Mike Pence, disloyal Warmongers Dick Cheney, and his Psycho daughter, Liz, Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan, General(?) Mark Milley, James Mattis, Mark Yesper, or any of the other people suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome, more commonly known as TDS. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/113835342903467996

ICYMI: Big Support For Pam Bondi As Attorney General
https://www.donaldjtrump.com/news/15194ebe-0a00-46d5-8267-8a29f63b3a7c

Pam Bondi Hits Home Run At Confirmation Hearing
https://www.donaldjtrump.com/news/64f91675-1b75-4829-bd77-26c86e6ddbf5

President Trump Secures Gaza Ceasefire Deal
https://www.donaldjtrump.com/news/317cca41-35a2-483b-9db1-8e9bcb73b0cf

January 16, 2025
4 Days Until Inauguration 2025
https://www.inaugural.senate.gov/
https://t47inaugural.com/

JANUARY 16, 1919
18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Primary Documents in American History
Library of Congress
https://guides.loc.gov/18th-amendment

JANUARY 16, 1883
Milestone Documents: Pendleton Act (1883)
National Archives
https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/pendleton-act

JANUARY 16, 1917
Milestone Documents: Zimmermann Telegram (1917)
National Archives
https://catalog.archives.gov/id/302024?objectPage=3
https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/zimmermann-telegram
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#22363940 at 2025-01-16 13:00:10 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27348: New Day, New Dayshift Edition

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
Jan 15, 2025, 8:04 PM

As of today, the incoming Trump Administration has hired over 1,000 people for The United States Government. They are outstanding in every way, and you will see the fruits of their labor over the coming years. We will MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, and it will happen very quickly! In order to save time, money, and effort, it would be helpful if you would not send, or recommend to us, people who worked with, or are endorsed by, Americans for No Prosperity (headed by Charles Koch), "Dumb as a Rock" John Bolton, "Birdbrain" Nikki Haley, Mike Pence, disloyal Warmongers Dick Cheney, and his Psycho daughter, Liz, Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan, General(?) Mark Milley, James Mattis, Mark Yesper, or any of the other people suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome, more commonly known as TDS. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/113835342903467996

#22362011 at 2025-01-16 03:28:19 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27346: THE GOLDEN AGE OF AMERICA IS UPON US Edition

>>22361966https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/113835342903467996
CLASSIC TRUMP TROLLER IN CHIEF
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
As of today, the incoming Trump Administration has hired over 1,000 people for The United States Government. They are outstanding in every way, and you will see the fruits of their labor over the coming years. We will MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, and it will happen very quickly! In order to save time, money, and effort, it would be helpful if you would not send, or recommend to us, people who worked with, or are endorsed by, Americans for No Prosperity (headed by Charles Koch), "Dumb as a Rock" John Bolton, "Birdbrain" Nikki Haley, Mike Pence, disloyal Warmongers Dick Cheney, and his Psycho daughter, Liz, Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan, General(?) Mark Milley, James Mattis, Mark Yesper, or any of the other people suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome, more commonly known as TDS. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/113835342903467996

#22361764 at 2025-01-16 02:35:40 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27345: Soon to be Four Days Away Edition

Trump just gave a massive middle finger to the establishment wing of the GOP. He is not hiring anyone who worked for: Charles Koch, John Bolton, Nikki Haley, Mike Pence, Dick/Liz Cheney, Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan, Mark Milley, James Mattis, Mark Yesper. THIS IS A NEW PARTY. ?

#22361277 at 2025-01-16 01:12:58 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27345: Soon to be Four Days Away Edition

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Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

As of today, the incoming Trump Administration has hired over 1,000 people for The United States Government. They are outstanding in every way, and you will see the fruits of their labor over the coming years. We will MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, and it will happen very quickly! In order to save time, money, and effort, it would be helpful if you would not send, or recommend to us, people who worked with, or are endorsed by, Americans for No Prosperity (headed by Charles Koch), "Dumb as a Rock" John Bolton, "Birdbrain" Nikki Haley, Mike Pence, disloyal Warmongers Dick Cheney, and his Psycho daughter, Liz, Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan, General(?) Mark Milley, James Mattis, Mark Yesper, or any of the other people suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome, more commonly known as TDS. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
Jan 15, 2025, 5:04 PM

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/113835342903467996

dealt into the deal -Potato
delta on the deal?
the steal?

so, who smelt it, first?

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#22049527 at 2024-11-24 17:33:31 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26997: This is Not an Airport Edition

>>22049514
>Politico editors clutch pearls, and it's hilarious.
This transcript has been edited for length and clarity.
Our Panelists
Kyle Cheney
Congress reporter, POLITICO
Anita Kumar
Senior Managing Editor, POLITICO
Meridith McGraw
National Political Correspondent, POLITICO
Eli Stokols
White House reporter, POLITICO
What so far strikes you all as most meaningfully different about this Trump transition versus the first Trump transition? Is it the picks? Is it the pace? Is it something else?
Anita Kumar: People said after he won that, "Oh, you should know what this is like because we went through this before." But I actually think it's very different. Last time he did the transition, he had an office space from the government [in Washington]. Press was allowed to come in there. They had press calls from the transition. Donald Trump did some press conferences. He at least saw the media, and he let the media see the people going up to Trump Tower to essentially interview for jobs. So it just felt very different than what he's doing now, which is social media, press releases. We haven't had a press conference from him. We haven't had transition staff talking to us. And he's just putting out these picks, and it's way faster than last time.
And the picks are really different. Last time he picked people he didn't really know, who were more establishment people. I know people will balk at that because many of them weren't. But compared to who he's picking now, they were more sort of Republicans that people knew that maybe he didn't know. People said, "Oh, you should, you should talk to this guy" or "You should interview this guy," and he did. This time it's people he knows, that have been with him for a while, and that he feels like are really loyal.
Meridith McGraw: I think you just have to look at what a spectacle it has been both times but in different ways. As Anita was saying, the parade of people coming through Trump Tower, the speculation about who may and who may not get a pick, who was having meetings with Donald Trump - there was the fanfare of some of them in 2016 coming to Bedminster for photo ops and meetings with Trump. There was Chris Christie, James Mattis, and some very tabloid-y, New York moments - like when Mitt Romney and Reince Priebus and Trump were caught at Jean-Georges in New York eating frog legs and it was such a moment of humiliation for Mitt Romney. Trump really just didn't know what he was doing, I think.
This time what's different is all of this is happening behind closed doors for the most part, with the exception of glimpses of it from social media or when Trump's allowed the press to come into the room like when he announced Doug Burgum off the cuff, for example. And Trump has, I feel, a different kind of confidence with things this time around. He knows how government works. He knows what pressure points there are in the government to push. And I think that's what you're seeing with some of these picks. It's not only loyalty. He knows that by picking certain people, he's daring Senate Republicans to go against him - but he's also daring the entire government apparatus to defy him. I had one adviser who put it to me this way: "Look, he survived two assassination attempts, he's been indicted how many times - he really is at this moment feeling kind of invincible and sort of emboldened in a way that he never has before." That's all playing out with some of the people he's picked. There's an audacity to all of it.

#22014220 at 2024-11-19 05:24:18 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26955: ++ Edition

>>22014200

The Betrayal and Cover-Up by the U.S. Government of the
Union Bank of Switzerland-Terrorist Threat Finance Connection
To Booz Allen Hamilton and U.S. Central Command

A Whis tleblowing Report
to the United States Congress

Submitted by

Scott Bennett, 2LT, United States Army (Reserve)
11th Psychological Operations Battalion
To The Department of Defense Inspector General

DATE: Memorial Day, May 27, 2013

OFFICIAL COMMUNICATION TO CONGRESS
AND REQUEST FOR SPECIAL HEARING AND INVESTIGATION

Copyright 2013
All Rights Reserved

parts may be reproduced without the express permission of the author.

UNCLASSIFIED

COMTENTS

WHISTLEBLOWING REPORT DISCLOSURE
PRESS RELEASE: SYNOPSIS
PROEM (i)
INTRODUCTION (ii)

CONSPIRACY AND COVER-UP (2)

UNION BANK OF SWITZERLAND- BRAD BIRKENFELD-BOOZ ALLEN HAMILTON (5)
U.S. CENTRAL COMMAND-TERRORIST THREAT FINANCE-BOOZ ALLEN (5)

JOINT INTERAGENCY OPERATIONS CENTER/ JOINT INTERAGENCY GROUP (9)

INTELLIGENCE SHARING: FAILURE OR COVER-UP? (10)

BUREAUCRATIC DYSFUNCTIONALITY (10)

CONSPIRACY, TORTURE, AND BETRAYAL (12)

BENGHAZI, LIBYA ATTACK PREDICTED (15)

KILL THE MESSENGER (16)

VIOLATION OF '1870 POSSE COMITATUS ACT' (16)

UNION BANK OF SWITZERLAND-BRAD BIRKENFELD INTELLIGENCE (22)
WIKILEAKS: SUPPORTING DOCUMENTATION (24)

STATE DEPARTMENT COORDINATOR FOR COUNTERTERRORISM (S/CT) (25)
U.S. SPECIAL OPERATIONS COMMAND (25)

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE-CIA ASSASINATION ATTEMPT? (25)
'VVoVEDWARD SNOWDEN DISCOVERIES (25.5)

NATIONAL COUNTERTERRORISM CENTER (NCTC) (26)

MIKE MCGONNELL, DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENGE-BOOZ ALLEN HAMILTON (26)
SENATOR CARL LEVIN: ARMED SERVICES AND INVESTIGATIONS COMMITTEE (25)
LETTER TO GENERAL James Mattis, COMMANDER U.S. CENTCOM (29)
$104 MILLION DOLLAR PAY-OFF TO BIRKENFELD FOR REMAINING SILENT (30)
LETTER TO GENERAL JEFF JACOBS, COMMANDER, USACAPOC, (30)

https://archive.org/stream/pdfy-nuxY0nNOAtmL3H70/Shell%20Game_djvu.txt

#22000686 at 2024-11-17 03:39:05 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26939: Learn To Bake E-Bake Edition

>>22000656
Pussie. ?

James Mattis gets married - leaving behind his love, the Marine Corps

The man known as the Warrior-monk is no more after recently exchanging marriage vows with physicist Christina Lomasney. The pair were first married in a riverside ceremony, followed by a Las Vegas ceremony officiated by an Elvis impersonator.

https://www.militarytimes.com/off-duty/military-culture/2022/06/28/James-Mattis-gets-married-leaving-behind-his-mistress-the-marine-corps/

#21976322 at 2024-11-13 16:26:31 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26911: Core Consumer Prices Are Too Damn High Edition

Trump picks Fox News host and Army National Guard veteran Pete Hegseth for defense secretary
In his announcement, Trump called Hegseth "tough, smart and a true believer in America First."

Nov. 12, 2024, 7:28 PM EST / Updated Nov. 12, 2024, 10:19 PM EST
President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday named Pete Hegseth, a Fox News host and military veteran, as his pick for defense secretary.

In a statement, Trump described Hegseth as "tough, smart and a true believer in America First."

"With Pete at the helm, America's enemies are on notice - Our Military will be Great Again, and America will Never Back Down," Trump said.

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., applauded Trump's selection, calling Hegseth a "great choice."

"Pete brings a lot to the table. He's got experience, and I think he'll be reform-minded in the areas that need reform. So I'm excited about the pick," Johnson told reporters on Capitol Hill, without elaborating on what programs he thinks need changing.

Rep. Adam Smith, D-Wash, the top Democraton the House Armed Services Committee, said he was caught off guard by Trump's announcement.

"I confess, I did not know who Pete Hegseth was until about 20 minutes ago," Smith told reporters.

"He does not seem to have much of a detailed background in [Department of Defense] policy. To the extent he's worked on any of that stuff, it has been on veterans policy, not on DoD issues. So the lack of experience is concerning," Smith said.

"Now I have not heard what his plans are, so we will see what his plans are," he added. "But it was surprising and is concerning, just given that lack of experience. You know, the Pentagon, biggest bureaucracy in the world. It's a hard thing to run, so I think it's going to be a challenge."

During an interview on the podcast "The Shawn Ryan Show" released last week, Hegseth denounced what he called diversity, equity and inclusion "woke s—" in the military and outlined a plan to "course correct it."

"Well, first of all, you gotta fire - you've got to fire the chairman of the Joint Chiefs and obviously, you're going to bring in a new secretary of defense. But any general that was involved - general, admiral, whatever that was involved - in any of the DEI woke s— has got to go," Hegseth said.

During his first administration, Trump nominated James Mattis and later Mark Esper to lead the Defense Department.

Mattis resigned in December 2018 and suggested in a resignation letter that he and Trump differed in their views on "treating our allies with respect" and being "clear-eyed" about U.S. adversaries and competitors.

Trump fired Esper in 2020 after disagreements that included the use of active-duty troops to quell nationwide racial justice protests that year after the murder of George Floyd by police in Minneapolis.

Amid a flurry of picks for his second administration, Trump earlier Tuesday said he would nominate former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe to be CIA director.

On Monday, he tapped Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., as his pick for U.N. ambassador and said he would nominate Lee Zeldin, a former House Republican from New York, to lead the Environmental Protection Agency.

Sunday, he named immigration hard-liner Tom Homan as his "border czar."

Trump's first major administration announcement came last week, when he said Susie Wiles, his campaign manager, would be White House chief of staff.
(The media is mad because there won't be leakers this time)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-picks-fox-news-host-pete-hegseth-defense-secretary-rcna179895

#21953753 at 2024-11-10 01:58:58 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26884: Buckle Up, Buttercups Edition

>>21953537
MIKE CHECK:

Gen. Mike Flynn did you get the memo?

President-elect Trump wants to put familiar faces on his national security team after being burned during his first term.

Why it matters: Sources said Trump doesn't want former generals on his national security team and prefers businessmen and CEOs - but he's also considering a line-up of loyalists in prominent D.C. positions.

Trump said several times in his campaign that during his transition he would begin pushing for negotiations between Russia and Ukraine to end the war.
He also signaled in public and in private that he wants to see the wars in Gaza and Lebanon end by the time he is inaugurated.
Zoom in: Here are the top contenders, based on people close to this process:

State Department: A top candidate for Secretary of State is former U.S. Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell, two sources said.

The sources said Grenell advised Trump on foreign policy during the campaign and would likely focus on Russia-Ukraine diplomacy.
Republican control of the Senate neutralizes any difficulty Grenell could have had in being confirmed.
Two other candidates for the Secretary of State job are Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.), who served as ambassador to Japan during Trump's first term, and Trump's former national security adviser Robert O'Brien.

Former State Department spokesperson Morgan Ortagus is also often mentioned for a senior State Department position in D.C. or a key ambassador post.
Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) is a leading name for U.S. Ambassador to the UN.
Defense Department and intelligence agencies: Several names have been floated for Defense Secretary, including former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Rep. Michael Waltz (R-Fla.).

Waltz could also be considered for CIA director, in addition to John Ratcliffe, who briefly served as the Director of National Intelligence under Trump.
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) was also mentioned for top defense or intelligence roles but Axios' Stef Kight reports he told Trump's team he wouldn't be accepting any cabinet roles.
Another former Trump official who could get a senior foreign policy and national security position in the new administration is Brian Hook, who was Trump's Iran envoy and will lead the new administration's State Department transition team. Hook could end up in a senior position at the department, a source said.
The White House: Grenell and Waltz are also potential candidates for national security adviser in the next Trump White House.

Reality check: A former senior Trump administration official told Axios it's hard to predict who Trump decides to appoint.

At the start of Trump's first term, "Rex Tillerson wasn't in the first 3,000 people who were mentioned as candidates for Secretary of State," the former official said.
The official said the most important thing is that Trump's new national security team helps him implement his policy rather than trying to obstruct him like his team did at the beginning of his first term.
Tillerson and the Secretary of Defense James Mattis objected to several of Trump's initiatives.
Zoom in: During Trump's previous term, the Middle East file was mostly run by his senior adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner, who drafted an Israeli-Palestinian peace plan and negotiated the Abraham Accords between Israel, the UAE, Bahrain, Morocco and Sudan.

Kushner has said publicly several times during the campaign that he isn't interested in going back to government.
But Trump's victory, the current crisis in the Middle East and the opportunity to get a Saudi-Israeli peace deal might change his mind.
Others to watch: Avi Berkowitz, who worked with Kushner on the Israeli-Palestinian peace plan and on the Abraham Accords, could also make a comeback and be part of Trump's Middle East team.

David Friedman, who served as the U.S. ambassador to Israel during Trump's first administration, could go back for another term in this post.
Trump's former envoy Jason Greenblatt and Friedman's chief of staff Aryeh Lightstone might also return to government to work on the Middle East.

https://www.axios.com/2024/11/07/trump-national-security-foreign-policy-team

#21841870 at 2024-10-27 19:50:06 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26747: TRUMP TAKES MANHATTAN Edition

Jake Tapper Defends the Deep State During Confrontation with JD Vance

Despite the insufferable Jake Tapper parseltongue, JD Vance does a great job of hitting back against the fraudulent narratives promoted by CNN and the narrative engineer Jake Tapper. I'm actually warming up to JD Vance as a result of these combative interviews. Within the interview the next Vice President of the United States confronts the Tapper spin and fraud that comes from his lips.

John Kelly, James Mattis and their military tribe of war managers, are like managers of Blockbuster Video stores demanding their industrial military purpose has value against a completely new video-on-demand digital streaming world. A complete paradigm shift where President Trump uses economic weapons to ensure national security objectives. The hammers fundamentally cannot function without nails, because in a world where President Trump's doctrine exists their skillset has little value. That is the source of their opposition.

Jake Tapper is defending the Blockbuster Video business model on behalf of the Blockbuster Video managers. The result is what follows. WATCH:

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2024/10/27/jake-tapper-defends-the-deep-state-during-confrontation-with-jd-vance/

#21822855 at 2024-10-24 20:39:08 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26722: Meme Cannon Edition

>>21822835
all three of those Generals are a fucking piece of shit.
John Kelly, Mark Milley, James Mattis

#21651933 at 2024-09-25 00:31:13 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26517: Cannon Edition

H.R. McMaster's New Book Explains Why Trump Fired Him

However, McMaster's praise for Trump's accomplishments comes off as hypocritical because it is accompanied by constant criticism of Trump's leadership, character, and beliefs. Much of this criticism was petty and personal.

I was surprised to read about the intense infighting between McMaster and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Secretary of Defense James Mattis. McMaster writes about Tillerson's astounding incompetence in conducting foreign policy and his refusal to cooperate with the NSC. He portrays Tillerson and Mattis as constantly going behind the backs of himself and Trump. McMaster said Mattis told him he was trying to ensure that "reason triumphs over impulse," meaning Mattis viewed himself as "reason" trying to rein in "impulse"-President Trump. McMaster indicated that he mostly agreed with Tillerson and Mattis's efforts and did not take offense to their "obstructionist and occasionally rude and petty behavior," even though they faulted McMaster for "enabling" the president.

This incredible arrogance adds up to three cabinet members who thought the president should defer to them on foreign policy and not the man-Donald Trump-who was elected president by the American people to make national security decisions to protect their security.

McMaster begins his book with high-minded statements that his work is not partisan or about payback.

He wrote:

But I wrote this book to get past the hyper-partisanship and explain what really happened. I wrote with no political agenda; the politics of our day are pulling this country apart. And I wrote with no desire for requital. I wrote to recount what I experienced.

These claims are laughable because McMaster obviously timed the release of the book to cash in on the 2024 presidential election and the vast audience of Trump haters.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/hr-mcmasters-new-book-explains-why-trump-fired-him

#21427818 at 2024-08-17 13:05:44 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26259: SCOTUS struck down Biden-Harris REWRITE of Title IX! Edition

?ALERT - RED NOTICE!

The Traitors: Once Praised Now Defiled

?? Omarosa Newnan (Deep State Asset)

?? Kelly Mckaneigh

?? Dr. Fauci (Covid-19 Fraud)

?? Jenna Ellis (Deep State)

?? Rudy Giuliani (Destroyed 9/12 evidence)

?? Steve Bannon (Stole Border Wall Funds)

?? Mike Pence (2020 Election Fraud)

?? James Mattis (CCP Ties)

?? Kayleigh McEnany

?? Candace Owens (Married A Rothschilds)

?? Bill Barr

?? Mark Espar

?? Mark Milley ( Helped J6 Cover-up)

?? Rex Tillerson

?? Nikki Haley (This is Obvious)

?? William Barr (Insurrection)

- ALL PLANED ??

Etc.

You noticed he called all these people Great & Amazing??????

What is going to be the argument for the next traitor who has yet to do it??????

This is for the "I'll believe it when I see it" crowd.

Everyone else smells the fart and leaves the area immediately.

But somehow they need evidence of who passed gas when the whole room stinks while the person who farted hopes you don't think it was him.

Who is that in this instance??????Michael Flynn.

Remember when Steve Bannon stole funds that was supposed to go to the border wall??????

Remember when the army was requesting Michael Flynn to return 40k in foreign funds he got from Russia????????

Remember when Rudy Giuliani sent the metal pillars or scraps to China that were found during 9/11 to be discarded??????

Did you know Donald Trump does not follow M. Flynn on Truth Social??????

Did you know M. Flynn was offered a polygraph to enter the Mar-A-Lago and declined when he showed up unannounced??????

People have no idea how deep this swamp goes.

It's a reason why John F. Kennedy & Donald Trump never took a salary while in the White House.

I will let you all do the rest of the digging on the people listed.

https://t.me/INTHESHADQWS

#21422916 at 2024-08-16 17:39:05 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26253: Kneepads Classless KEKS Edition

>>21422914
Much of the information collected by this program remains classified, but two unclassified Navy videos of U.A.P. were cleared for public release at Elizondo's request and posted by The New York Times when it broke the news of the Pentagon's secret U.F.O. unit in December 2017.
In an interview, Elizondo said that he had firsthand knowledge of what he was discussing, but that his security clearances prevented him from explaining the source of his knowledge.
He got Pentagon approval to publish his book partly by attributing some of the information to other sources whose comments had previously been approved.
Elizondo also said he was not approved to discuss his involvement in any other secret projects beyond the program he once led.

With no prior interest in U.F.O.s., Elizondo grew up in Florida, the son of an American mother and a Cuban father who fought alongside Fidel Castro before breaking with him and joining the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion.
Taught to shoot, drive a motorcycle and fly a plane by his father, he went to college and enlisted in the Army. He served in Afghanistan and also ran antiterrorism missions against ISIS, Al Qaeda and Hezbollah, and later led secret programs at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base and prison.
In 2007, the Defense Intelligence Agency launched the U.F.O.-related Advanced Aerospace Weapons System Applications Program, funded with $22 million buried in an undeclared budget secured by Harry Reid, who was then the Senate majority leader.

In 2009, Elizondo became the senior ranking officer running that program's successor, the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, along with James Lacatski and Jay Stratton.
Lacatski, a rocket scientist for the Defense Intelligence Agency, and Stratton, an intelligence official with U.S. Strategic Command, were both part of the precursor program.
Frustrated by what he described as internal opposition and a lack of resources to deal with what he felt was a serious national security threat, Elizondo resigned and decided to bring his concerns to the broader intelligence community, Congress and the public.

"There remains a vital need to ascertain capability and intent of these phenomena for the benefit of the armed forces and the nation," he wrote to James Mattis, then secretary of defense, in his resignation letter dated Oct. 4, 2017.
After Elizondo's departure, the program transitioned to become the U.A.P. Task Force.
By 2022, it had morphed again into the more visible All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office, or A.A.R.O, mandated by Congress to study reports of U.A.P. and release information to the public.
Elizondo said that he met with the A.A.R.O. director and his staff for three hours in a secure facility on Feb. 2, 2023, and gave them classified information about the history of the crash retrieval program.

Elizondo continues to hold the highest security clearances, and to consult for the government.
A veteran scientist with top security clearance whom Elizondo quotes in the book, Harold E. Puthoff, was part of Elizondo's U.F.O. program.
A physicist and engineer with a Ph.D. from Stanford University, Puthoff worked as the chief scientist on highly classified projects for the government for 50 years, often reporting directly to the head of the C.I.A. and to White House advisers.
Elizondo "has briefed us on information that he obtained that appears to be firsthand data and I have no reason to discount that," Puthoff said in an interview. "He certainly had clearances to get primary information."

Elizondo also wrote in the memoir of personal encounters with U.A.P., describing green-glowing orbs about the size of a basketball that invaded his home on and off for over seven years.
The objects were able to pass through walls, and behaved as if they were under intelligent control, he wrote.
The orbs were also witnessed by his wife, two daughters and their neighbors, he wrote.
As for "our friends from out of town," they do not appear to be benevolent, he wrote; perhaps they are neutral. Or they could be a threat to humanity.
"We can no longer stick our heads in the sand," he writes. "We know we are not alone."

2/2

#21328444 at 2024-07-31 20:23:52 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26139: LIVE: President Donald J. Trump Holds a Rally in Harrisburg, PA Edition

Andy Liepman,
Vincent Lucero,
Lewis Lukens,
Loretta Lynch,
Ron Marks,
James Mattis,
Andrew McCabe,
Mitch McConnell,
Mary McCord,
Darren W. McDew,
Denis McDonough,
Arthur McGlynn,
Charles McGonigal,
John McLaughlin,
Jonna Hiestand Mendez,
Kevin Michelena,
Joseph Mifsud,
Matthew Miller,
Mark Milley,
Sergei Millian,
Cheryl Mills,
Sean Misko,
Jonathan Moffa,
Lisa Monaco,
Michael Morell,
Peter Morland,
Robbie Mook,
John Moseman,
Micheal Mosman,
Sally Moyer,
Robert Mueller III,
Shailagh Murray
Emile Nakhleh,
Joe Nelson,
Robert Neller,
Mike Neufield,
Sean Newell,
Victoria Nuland,
Barrack Hussein Obama,
Bruce Ohr,
Nellie Ohr,
Gerald A. O'Shea,
Stephanie L. O'Sullivan,
Lisa Page,
Leon Panetta,
Sam Patten,
Mike Pence,
Nancy Pelosi,
Dmitry Peskov,
Joseph Pientka,
Larry Pfeiffer,
Elizabeth Prelogar,
David Priess,
John Podesta,
Marc Polymeropoulos,
Mike Pompeo,
Anna Popova,
Samantha Power,
David Priess,
E.W. "Bill" Priestap,
Pam Purcilly,
James Quarles,
Sarah Raskin,
Nick Rasmussen,
Amanda Renteria,
Jeannie Rhee,?
Steve Ricchetti,
Susan Rice,
John Richardson,
Lori Robb,
Lori Robinson,
Jeffrey A. Rosen,
Rod Rosenstein,
Yoel Roth,
Lynn Forrester Rothschild,
Aaron Rouse,
Marco Rubio,
Thomas Russell,
Paul Ryan,
Jim Rybicki,
Christopher M. Sanders,
Allison Sands,
Gabriel Sanz-Rexach,
Felix Sater,
Chris Savos,
Curtis Scaparrotti,
Adam Schiff,
Debbie Wasserman Schultz,
Karl Schultz,
Charles E. Schumer,
Michael Seidel,
Paul Selva,
Jeff Sessions,
John Sipher,
Patrick M. Shanahan,
Nick Shapiro,
Cody Shearer,
Nathan Sheets,
Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall,
Glenn Simpson,
Petra Sipe,
Stephen Slick,
Jack Smith,?
Rodney Snyder,
Stephen A. Somma,
Alexander Soros,
George Soros,
Christopher Steele,
Michael Steinbach,
Cynthia Strand,
Peter Strzok,
Jake Sullivan,
Michael Sussman,
Adam Szubin,
James Taliento,
Greg Tarbell,
David Terry,
John Tharp,
Timothy?Thibault,
Raymond A. Thomas,
Kurt W. Tidd,
Marty Torrey,
George Toscas,
Russ Travers,
Greg Treverton,
John Tullius,
James Turgal,
"Azra Turk"
David A. Vanell,
Natalia Veselnitskaya,
Mike Vickers,
Alexander Vindman,
Paul Vixie,
Ivan Vorontsov,
Joseph Votel,
M. Ro. Wahid,
Thomas D. Waldhauser,
Karen Walsh,
Clint Watts,
David Weiss,
Monty Wilkinson,
Matthew Whitaker,
Winston Wiley,
Matthew Williams,
Thomas Williams,
Jonathan Winer,
Doug Wise,
Andrew Weissman,
Kristin Wood,
Christopher Wray,
Caroline Wren,
Sally Yates,
Aaron Zebley,
Aaron Zelinsky,
Paul Zukunft

#20920134 at 2024-05-27 01:12:22 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25658: The Forgotten Bread Name Edition

Biden Reminds West Point Graduates of their Political Duty to Interfere in Election if Leftist Vision of Democracy is Threatened

May 26, 2024 | Sundance |
Judicial WatchTom Fitton puts it this way: "In a speech today at West Point, Biden, who is directly trying to jail his political opponent, suggested theUnited States military must be prepared to intervene in domestic political affairs against President Trump."

Many political followers have likely tracked the Obama-era emphasis about changing the intents, purposes and mission of the U.S. military. During the Obama administration the ideologues who traveled with the Lightbringer, looked at the Pentagon through the prism of domestic affairs; essentially, how can the Dept of Defense be shifted to support the anticolonial effort?

With standards changed to accommodate women in combat, the U.S. military had been increasingly shifting toward political correctness and gender inclusion since the late 1980's.However, it was Obama Inc who pushed wokeism to be the primary effort of military leadership. Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) is a Marxist tool for domestic manipulation of military and social engineering.

By the time we see the issues behind Defense Secretary James Mattis, Joint Chief's Chairman Mark Milley, and the attitude of Alexander Vindman et al, it was already too late. Just like the DOJ and FBI the "fundamental transformation" of the Pentagon was fully metastasized. Our USA military leadership are now predicted to operate just like the Chinese Mongolian divisions during Tiananmen Square massacre. If you doubt this comrade, please remind yourself how the U.S. military was used to enforce COVID-19 compliance.

WASHINGTON POST - [...] In his 22-minute commencement address,=Biden did not mention Trump by name, but he made clear that he was referring to his Republican opponent by pointing to a letter that was a clear reprimand of Trump's leadership. The open letter, signed by more than 1,000 West Point alumni, was addressed to the graduating class of 2020 before Trump delivered the commencement address here. It came just days after military police helped forcibly clear peaceful protesters outside the White House ahead of a Trump photo op. The alumni reminded that year's graduating class that they pledge service to "no monarch; no government; no political party; no tyrant."

"Remember what over 1,000 graduates of West Point wrote to the class of 2020 four years ago," Biden said. "The oath you've taken here 'has no expiration date,' they said." (read more)

The U.S. military dependency on 'contractors' also originated out of necessity.

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2024/05/26/biden-reminds-west-point-graduates-of-their-political-duty-to-interfere-in-election-if-leftist-vision-of-democracy-is-threatened/

#20707502 at 2024-04-10 18:46:37 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25397: POTUS IN ATLANTA Edition

They never stop giving these hypocrites awards, do they?
Former Defense Secretary Mattis Accepts Inaugural Foley Award for Distinguished Public ServiceApril 10, 2024
In accepting the first Thomas S. Foley Award for Distinguished Public Service, former Secretary of Defense and retired general James Mattis on Tuesdaycalled on those in the audience to reject political division and cynicism for this country.(OMG this guy aided and abetted political division & cynicism)

"I trust some of you young folks in the audience will leave tonight refusing to adopt the childish practices you see too often on our television screens. Rather, resolving to embrace the courage, the conviction, the civility and the dignity of Tom Foley," Mattis said during the award presentation by Washington State University's Foley Institute . The award was given at the John J. Hemmingson Center on the Gonzaga University campus.

Before retiring in 2013, Mattis served over 40 years in the United States military, including as a general at the highest levels in the U.S. Marine Corps. Mattis was called back into service as Secretary of Defense under former President Donald Trump. He later resigned and broke from Trump in the lead-up to the 2020 election.

Mattis is also a native son of Washington, having been born in Pullman and graduated from Central Washington University. In accepting the award, Mattis said he hoped he was a good steward for the legacy of Tom Foley, whom he called "one of the finest citizens our state ever produced." The only Speaker of the House from Washington state, the late Congressman served 30 years. A member of the Democratic Party, Foley was Speaker from 1989 to 1995.

Mattis called Foley the "quintessential American patriot," who put his country before his party and his personal interest. He specifically cited Foley's roll in shepherding the Americans with Disabilities Act through Congress in the 1990s. "You see this same theme in him looking at people who are left behind on the margins of our society and bringing them inside and giving them a level playing field," he said.

In Mattis' view, Foley was also an example of a public servant who actively seeks to work with those opposed to him. Calling such bipartisanship a "lost art" in today's politics, Mattis hopes he is a representative of that same ethos." Tom Foley had a worldview that just one generation ago dominated America. It is amazing and can even be a bit discouraging, though, to see how much our political climate has degraded in the past year," he said.

In introducing the general, inventor and entrepreneurEd Schweitzerof Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories saidMattis had "earned a reputation for technical brilliance and humility." "It's fitting and proper that General Mattis, a man who has dedicated his life to public service into protecting and defending the values of democracy and our Constitution, should be the first recipient," Schweitzer said.

More than his military career,Schweitzer pointed to when Mattis spoke out against President Trump amid civil unrest seen in 2020. At the time, Mattis called Trump "the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American people." (Oh, you mean this political division Mattis?)

"There was a time when our country felt divided, angry, hopeless. Many of our political leaders use their platforms to inflame tensions. Others remained silent and said nothing at all. General Mattis spoke out in support of national unity and civil liberties," Schweitzer said at the ceremony.

Mattis only referred to his former boss indirectly. Praising the late 5th district Congressman,Mattis said Foley did not "whine like a baby" and contest the result when losing his seat in 1994 by a mere 4,000 votes - an oblique reference to Trump's debunked election fraud claims.

At the center of Mattis' message was for Americans to reject disunity. Speaking at news conference before the event, Mattis also declined to provide his opinion on the possibility his former boss may win the presidency again this fall. Asked what a Trump victory would mean for the country, Mattis said that retired generals should also "retire their tongues" when it comes to politics.

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2024/04/10/former-defense-secretary-James-Mattis-accepts-wsus-inaugural-thomas-s-foley-award-distinguished.html

#20696085 at 2024-04-08 13:08:34 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25384: Evil Eclipsed Edition

(Not Once do the mention Commander in Chief, why?)
Military Personnel Swear Allegiance to the Constitution and Serve the American People, Not One Leader or Party
By Lee Robinson and Joseph G. Amoroso
April 04, 2024 at 9:35 am
In general, Americans don't trust their government institutions as much as they used to – and that includes the military.

In part, that's because the military can be used as a tool to gain a partisan advantagerather than as a professional group that should be trusted by both parties. For instance, the day he was inaugurated as president, Donald Trump spoke at a luncheon and pointed to retired Marine four-star generals John Kelly and James Mattis, who were serving in his cabinet. "See my generals," he said. "Those generals are going to keep us so safe." This was the first of many times that he referred to top-ranking military officers, whether active-duty or retired, as "my generals" – rather than as military leaders who serve the nation as a whole.

The former president's actions, while perhaps gaining the most attention, reflect a trend among recent presidential candidates, both Democrats and Republicans, who emphasize their connections to the military.

President Joe Biden has claimed he had support from numerous four-star military officers and cited his years of interactions with retired Army Gen. Lloyd Austin as justification for a congressional waiver for Austin to serve as secretary of defense.

We are active duty Army officers who teach at West Point and instruct a mandatory course for cadets on the Constitution and American politics. We are concerned about the implication that the military somehow owes allegiance to specific individuals. Military officers do take an oath upon commissioning – but not to a person. Our oath is to support and defend the Constitution of the United States.

The Constitution as Curriculum
The foundation of what we teach at West Point is that the military's allegiance is to a system of government codified in the Constitution. Article I of the Constitution says that Congress declares war and funds the military. Article II of the Constitution makes clear that the military must follow the orders of the democratically elected civilian president. The Framers of the Constitution shared authority over the military among elected officials to ensure no one person has unchecked power to direct the military, and that the actions of the military are beholden to the public it serves.

The course we teach provides context and depth for cadets to understand their oath. On their first day at West Point, cadets take an oath to the Constitution. When they graduate, they take a similar oath, also to the Constitution, as they transition from cadet to military officer. Graduations, promotions, reenlistments and other major milestones are commemorated by service members reaffirming their commitment to the Constitution...

More than 80% of the military is comprised of noncommissioned officers and enlisted service members. Most of them do not receive the same sort of instruction on the oath and the importance of a nonpartisan military.

They also take a slightly different oath that has changed over the years as the relationship between the military and society evolved. While both officers and enlisted service members swear first to support and defend the Constitution,enlisted service members also commit to obeying the orders of the president and the officers appointed over them. This added provision could be construed as a weakness, or as a justification for soldiers to prioritize obedience to a person over principles. (What???)

We believe concerns about enlisted personnel's oath to obey the president are overstated, for two reasons. First, in terms of both demographics and political preferences, enlisted soldiers are more representative of the wider society they serve than are the officers who lead them....

https://www.military.com/daily-news/opinions/2024/04/04/military-personnel-swear-allegiance-constitution-and-serve-american-people-not-one-leader-or-party.html

#20693603 at 2024-04-07 20:13:20 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25380: Easy Like A Sunday Morning E-Bake

Everyone in Government needs to read this over and over again

Military Personnel Swear Allegiance to the Constitution and Serve the American People, Not One Leader or Party

In general, Americans don't trust their government institutions as much as they used to – and that includes the military.

In part, that's because the military can be used as a tool to gain a partisan advantage rather than as a professional group that should be trusted by both parties. For instance, the day he was inaugurated as president, Donald Trump spoke at a luncheon and pointed to retired Marine four-star generals John Kelly and James Mattis, who were serving in his cabinet. "See my generals," he said. "Those generals are going to keep us so safe." This was the first of many times that he referred to top-ranking military officers, whether active-duty or retired, as "my generals" – rather than as military leaders who serve the nation as a whole.

The former president's actions, while perhaps gaining the most attention, reflect a trend among recent presidential candidates, both Democrats and Republicans, who emphasize their connections to the military.

President Joe Biden has claimed he had support from numerous four-star military officers and cited his years of interactions with retired Army Gen. Lloyd Austin as justification for a congressional waiver for Austin to serve as secretary of defense.

We are active duty Army officers who teach at West Point and instruct a mandatory course for cadets on the Constitution and American politics. We are concerned about the implication that the military somehow owes allegiance to specific individuals. Military officers do take an oath upon commissioning – but not to a person. Our oath is to support and defend the Constitution of the United States.

The Constitution as Curriculum
The foundation of what we teach at West Point is that the military's allegiance is to a system of government codified in the Constitution. Article I of the Constitution says that Congress declares war and funds the military. Article II of the Constitution makes clear that the military must follow the orders of the democratically elected civilian president. The Framers of the Constitution shared authority over the military among elected officials to ensure no one person has unchecked power to direct the military, and that the actions of the military are beholden to the public it serves.

The course we teach provides context and depth for cadets to understand their oath. On their first day at West Point, cadets take an oath to the Constitution. When they graduate, they take a similar oath, also to the Constitution, as they transition from cadet to military officer. Graduations, promotions, reenlistments and other major milestones are commemorated by service members reaffirming their commitment to the Constitution.

We are West Point graduates ourselves and have been taught, as we now teach, that our oath forms the basis of a nonpartisan ethic. In the U.S., unlike in many other countries, the oath implies military leaders should be trusted for their expertise and judgment, not for their loyalty to an individual or political party. We emphasize to cadets the rules and professional expectations associated with this profound responsibility.

We explain that they will likely face challenges that cannot be addressed by the text of their oath. We teach cadets that when the rules are vague or inadequate, they should live and lead without political partisanship and in ways that will maintain the trust of the elected leaders and the American public they serve.

Our assessments of students' learning provide evidence that our lessons are working. Among the concepts taught, cadets demonstrate the largest growth in understanding the Constitution's provisions for civilian control of the military and the expectation of nonpartisanship.

Moreover, we find that by the end of the course, their increased political awareness and understanding corresponds with less cynicism about the state of American politics.

Our course and similar efforts at the other service academies teach future officers to internalize the importance of their oath to the Constitution, especially in the current hyperpartisan political climate.

https://www.military.com/daily-news/opinions/2024/04/04/military-personnel-swear-allegiance-constitution-and-serve-american-people-not-one-leader-or-party.html

#20595282 at 2024-03-20 11:53:45 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25259: Can't Stop The Flood Edition

>>20595207

'Dangerous,' 'unfit,' and 'felony stupid': The most revealing quotes from Jim Mattis on Trump

On dealing with Trump, Mattis said: ""I was often trying to impose reason over impulse. And you see where I wasn't able to, because the tweets would get out there."
On the president's morality, Mattis reportedly said: "The president has no moral compass." (Former Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats is said to have agreed, saying: "To him, a lie is not a lie. It's just what he thinks. He doesn't know the difference between the truth and a lie.")
On receiving orders from Trump, he said: "I never cared much for what Trump said. I ran the Department of Defense. I kept him informed in my private meetings. I wouldn't do it in public, because he would have to play a role then. But I didn't get any guidance from him, generally, other than an occasional tweet."
In response to Trump's weakening of alliances, Mattis said: "What we're doing is we're actually showing how to destroy America. That's what we're showing them. How to isolate us from all of our allies. How to take us down. And it's working very well. We are declaring war on one another inside America. It's actually working against us right now."
On a president being tough and keeping the peace, Mattis said: "Not with the current occupant. He doesn't understand. He has no mental framework for these things. He hasn't read."
On Trump's go-it-alone strategy and dismissal of alliances, Mattis said: "It was indefensible. It was jingoism. It was a misguided form of nationalism. It was not patriotism."
On Trump's lasting impact on the country, Mattis said: "This degradation of the American experiment is real. This is tangible. Truth is no longer governing the White House statements. Nobody believes-even people who believe in him somehow believe in him without believing what he says."
On his decision to resign, Mattis said: "I was basically directed to do something that I thought went beyond stupid to felony stupid, strategically jeopardizing our place in the world and everything else, that's when I quit."

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/06/James-Mattis-denounces-trump-protests-militarization/612640/

#20485850 at 2024-02-27 22:32:58 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25128: Bee's Knees Edition

>>20485847

In the first Trump administration, far too many advisers and bureaucrats thought they had been elected president. They actively sought to undermine Trump's MAGA agenda.

You know their names by now from all of the CNN "exposes" of rebellion within the Trump ranks:

Gen. James Mattis and Mark Esper at the Department of Defense; Christopher Wray (still) at the FBI; Bill Barr at the Department of Justice; Steve Mnuchin at the Department of the Treasury; Gary Cohn and Larry Kudlow deep inside the tent at the National Economic Council; Rob Porter as White House staff secretary; John Kelly and Mick Mulvaney as chiefs of staff; John Bolton and H.R. McMaster at the National Security Council; and even Mr. Pence himself, not because he opposed the Trump agenda but because his own chief of staff, Marc Short, was at once a Koch network puppet and puppet master of Mr. Pence himself.

At different times, I had to fight every single one of them in defense of the Trump agenda. Mr. Trump's next vice president seems unlikely to be cut from the same cloth.

Third, Mr. Trump may want his next vice president to be a master of the policy process. Over my four years in the Trump White House, I had to move quickly up a steep learning curve to move the boss's executive orders and presidential memoranda in what I would come to refer to as "Trump Time." Yet I had to move these powerful policy instruments through a bureaucratic maze riddled with needless layers of review and deep state sappers.

My old boss will no doubt remember the difficulties and delays he faced, particularly early on with his tariffs, getting the MAGA agenda through that deep state gauntlet. Accordingly, he may put a high value on a vice president who understands that process from Day One and who will be at the vanguard of swiftly working that process.

Fourth, Mr. Trump will surely want his next vice president to be a master of the media. As I learned in the White House, it's easy to go on Trump-friendly media like Sean Hannity's show. Yet it's flat-out treacherous and possibly even career-ending walking into the lion's dens of CNN or MSNBC or the Sunday shows of the Never Trump ABC, CBS and NBC.

If you don't believe 10 seconds of saying stupid stuff in front of a TV camera can end a career, watch the clip of Mr. Mulvaney, then the acting chief of staff, dig himself a "quid pro quo" grave on Ukraine. Or cringe at Sean Spicer forever crippling his tenure as press secretary on his first day on the job with an inaugural "largest audience ever" gaffe.

Know this: The nanosecond Mr. Trump announces his VP pick, he or she will have to be seasoned enough to weather what will be a withering storm and a glaring, often blinding media spotlight. Mr. Trump's vice president must be out of the gate ready for that challenge.

Finally, Mr. Trump may also want his next VP to be as tireless a campaigner as Mr. Trump is himself. Mike "Et Tu, Brute" Pence not only readily embraced the campaign trail, but his finest moments were his debates with an out-of-control Tim Kaine in 2016 and an arrogant and condescending Kamala Harris in 2020 - that pesky Democrat fly on Mr. Pence's head notwithstanding.

Mr. Trump will likely demand no less of his next VP. I'm sorry it won't and can't be Mike, whom I liked but folded under pressure. Of course, I'm not sorry it won't be Nikki Haley either.

- Peter Navarro served in the Trump White House as manufacturing czar and chief China hawk. This piece originally appeared at http://peternavarro.substack.com.

Copyright ? 2024 The Washington Times, LLC. Click here for reprint permission.

#20458496 at 2024-02-22 21:14:17 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25096: The Awakening: CPAC Day 1 Edition

Part 3/5
Daniel Jones,
James Jones,
Peter Kadzik,
Colin Kahl,
John Kasich,
Kathleen Kavalec,
John Kerry,
Timothy D. Kilbourn,
Konstantin Kilimnik,
Neil King Jr.,
David Kris,
Paul Kolbe,
Mike Kortan,
Robert Kugler,
Stephanie LaParre,
David Laufman,
Rick Ledgett,
Joseph L. Lengyel,
Corey Lewandowski,
April Lorenzen "tea leaves",
Stephen Laycock,??????????????????
Jacob "Jack" Lew,
Andy Liepman,
Vincent Lucero,
Lewis Lukens,
Loretta Lynch,
Ron Marks,
James Mattis,
Andrew McCabe,
Mitch McConnell,
Mary McCord,
Darren W. McDew,
Denis McDonough,
Arthur McGlynn,
Charles McGonigal,
John McLaughlin,
Jonna Hiestand Mendez,
Kevin Michelena,
Joseph Mifsud,
Matthew Miller,
Mark Milley,
Sergei Millian,
Cheryl Mills,
Sean Misko,
Jonathan Moffa,
Lisa Monaco,
Michael Morell,
Peter Morland,
Robbie Mook,
John Moseman,
Micheal Mosman,
Sally Moyer,
Robert Mueller III,
Shailagh Murray
Emile Nakhleh,
Joe Nelson,
Robert Neller,
Mike Neufield,
Sean Newell,
Victoria Nuland,
Barrack Hussein Obama,
Bruce Ohr,
Nellie Ohr,
Gerald A. O'Shea,
Stephanie L. O'Sullivan,
Lisa Page,

#20449168 at 2024-02-21 01:51:40 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25086: White Squall Edition

Part 3
Daniel Jones,
James Jones,
Peter Kadzik,
Colin Kahl,
John Kasich,
Kathleen Kavalec,
John Kerry,
Timothy D. Kilbourn,
Konstantin Kilimnik,
Neil King Jr.,
David Kris,
Paul Kolbe,
Mike Kortan,
Robert Kugler,
Stephanie LaParre,
David Laufman,
Rick Ledgett,
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Corey Lewandowski,
April Lorenzen "tea leaves",
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Jacob "Jack" Lew,
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Vincent Lucero,
Lewis Lukens,
Loretta Lynch,
Ron Marks,
James Mattis,
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Stephanie L. O'Sullivan,
Lisa Page,

#20374941 at 2024-02-07 23:43:24 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #24997: Nobody Wins Edition

Top US general was secretly involved in Yemen war - WaPo

Jim 'Mad Dog' Mattis advised the UAE government after retiring from the Marines

Retired US Marine General James Mattis was hired in 2015 to advise the United Arab Emirates about the Saudi-led campaign in Yemen, the Washington Post reported on Wednesday. Mattis did not publicly disclose the gig when he became secretary of defense in 2017.

The Post looked into Mattis as part of an investigation into the Gulf state hiring retired US military officers and obtained previously undisclosed documents through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit.

Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan, the crown prince of Abu Dhabi at the time, had struck up a friendship with Mattis in 2011, when the Marine general was head of the US Central Command. When Saudi Arabia launched its campaign against the Houthis in Yemen, Mohamed reached out to Mattis, who had recently retired from the US military.

In June 2015, Mattis applied for permission from the State Department and the Marines to advise the UAE on "the operational, tactical, informational and ethical aspects" of the campaign against Yemen.

"I will be compensated," he wrote by hand on the form submitted to the US Marine Corps on June 4, 2015, with the amount to be determined after US government approval.

Robert Tyrer, a senior executive at the Cohen Group - which currently employs Mattis - told the Post that Mattis never accepted money from foreign governments, except the standard travel expenses. According to Tyrer, Mattis put in the compensation claim so his paperwork would receive "the most rigorous level of review."

Documents reviewed by the Post show that his application was approved by the USMC after just 15 days, while the State Department gave its blessing on August 5. The process that usually takes "several months, and sometimes years," lasted just two months, the outlet said. By contrast, the US government took two and a half years to disclose the general's paperwork to the Post.

In 2017, when Mattis was nominated by then-President Donald Trump to head the Pentagon, he did not publicly reveal his UAE consulting job in his work history and financial disclosure forms. He did not mention it in his 2019 memoir, either. Several Democrats on the Senate Armed Services Committee told the Post they did not recall the disclosure coming up during his confirmation hearings, though a committee staffer said it was included in a confidential memo.

In his application, Mattis said he wanted to "bring American military experience in warfighting and campaigning to bear in terms of strengthening UAE's efforts." The Saudi-led coalition spent almost eight years trying to beat the Houthis - with intelligence and aerial refueling support from the US - before admitting defeat and suing for peace.

The Yemeni group is currently barring passage through the Bab-el-Mandeb Straits to any commercial ships linked to Israel, the US or the UK, in protest over the Israeli offensive in Gaza.

https://www.rt.com/news/592034-Mattis-uae-yemen-revealed/

#20270323 at 2024-01-20 01:59:00 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #24871: Insert Cool Title Edition

>>20270250
>Sailors who rebel against a ship's captain and officers are guilty of mutiny, but as readers of THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER know, a ship's captain and officers who commit gross misconduct against the shipowner are guilty of "barratry".
>
>>20270281
>> "barratry"
>
>Barratry is a legal term that, at common law, described a criminal offense committed bypeople who are overly officious in instigating or encouraging prosecution of groundless litigation, orwho bring repeated or persistent acts of litigation for the purposes of profit or harassment.

4415
Q !!Hs1Jq13jV6 ID: 25f29e No.9474380 ?
Jun 4 2020 19:20:42 (EST)
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/06/James-Mattis-denounces-trump-protests-militarization/612640/?
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2020/06/02/senior-military-leaders-being-called-to-testify-to-congress-about-george-floyd-protest-response/?
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense-national-security/pentagon-distances-itself-from-trump-on-crowd-control-laments-murder-of-floyd?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/06/04/revolt-generals/?
Riot [coordination] in select safe-zone cities [D] control mayor(s) [allow] staged event allow former-active MIL brass assertion of 'Unconstitutional' 'Threat to Constitution' _Mutiny
MSM public optics 'staging' underway.
ALERT readiness: severe-critical
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#18734037 at 2023-04-22 11:09:01 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #22986: Morning Light, Comfy The Fight Edition

>>18734023
>"barrarty"
Spelt wrong..

https://thelawdictionary.org/barratry/

barratry Definition & Legal Meaning
Definition & Citations:
In maritime law. An act committed by the master or mariners of a vessel, for some unlawful or fraudulent purpose, contrary to their duty to the owners, whereby the latter sustain injury. It may include negligence, if so gross as to evidence fraud. Marcardier v. Insurance Co., 8 Cranch, 49, 3 h Ed. 481; Atkinson v. Insurance Co., 05 N. Y. 53S; Atkinson v. Insurance Co., 4 Daly (N. Y.) 10; Patapsco Ins. Co. v. Coulter, 3 Pet. 231, 7 L. Ed. 659; Lawton v. Insurance Co., 2 Cush. (Mass.) 501; Earle v. Rowcroft, 8 East, 135.

barratry is some fraudulent act of the master or mariners, tending to their own benefit, to the prejudice of the owner of the vessel, without his privitv or consent. Kendrick v. Delafield, 2 Caines "(N. Y.) 67.

barratry is a generic term, which includes many acts of various kinds and degrees. It comprehends any unlawful, fraudulent, or dishonest act of the master or mariners, and every violation of duty by them arising from gross and culpable negligence contrary to their duty to the owner of the vessel, and which might work loss or injury to him in the course of the voyage insured.

A mutiny of the crew, and forcible dispossession by them of the master and other officers from the ship, is a form of barratry. Greene v. Pacific Mut. Ins. Co., 9 Allen (Mass.) 217. In criminal law. Common barratry Is the pmctice of exciting groundless judicial proceedings. Pen. Code Cal.

#20164299 at 2024-01-01 16:36:13 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #24743: A Shaky Start to 2024 Edition

Former Defense Secretary Mark Esper Very Concerned Next Trump DefSec Would Be Loyal to America and Commander in Chief

December 30, 2023 | Sundance |
These guys keep providing me super timely and apropos fuel for my arguments about the structure of the next Trump administration.

Appearing on CNN, former Defense Secretary Mark Esper outlines his greatest concern that within our constitutionally provided civilian-led military structure, a President Trump Defense Secretary might actually be loyal to the Commander in Chief.

In his own words, Mark Esper views this possibility as a very serious problem. I'm not kidding, WATCH (prompted):

Perhaps people might understand why I wrote:

[...] "Many people understandably freak out with a Def Sec with no experience in military. However, the Def Sec is designed to be civilian led military; the President is the commander in chief. The Def Sec executes military efforts to support the President. This is the problem with having career military as Def Sec, they regard the institution as more important than the instructions they receive. [See Mark Milley and/or James Mattis and/or Alexander Vindman, they go rogue.] The U.S. military needs to be managed now, brought to heel and Wokeism removed." (MORE)

Mike Pompeo, Mark Esper and Mark Milley worked unilaterally, without President Trump's authority, on at least one situation during the winter of 2019 when U.S. strikes took place. ? ? [Background Here] [Background Here] ? ? President Trump made Esper, Milley and Pompeo hold a press conference without Trump supporting them; then President Trump remained silent on the issue for days. ????

(I honestly think these people are losing their minds with fear that their treason may be punished.)

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/12/30/former-defense-secretary-mark-esper-very-concerned-next-trump-defsec-would-be-loyal-to-america-and-commander-in-chief/

https://youtu.be/kG1wl2NAm4w

#20139407 at 2023-12-27 22:54:38 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #24715: In Memory of Janet Ossebaard Edition

The pictures are from a 2 day visit while UN Ambassador

US envoy to UN Nikki Haley travels to India on maiden visit
Press Trust of India, New York | By

Jun 26, 2018 03:17 PM IST

https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/us-envoy-to-un-nikki-haley-travels-to-india-on-maiden-visit/story-wupjr9She9eAAif7rAiCmO.html

Nikki Haley's visit comes just days before US secretary of state Michael Pompeo and secretary of defense James Mattis will be hosting external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj and defense minister Nirmala Sitharaman in Washington for the inaugural of US-India 2+2 Dialogue on July 6.

Nikki Haley is travelling to India for the first time as the US ambassador to the UN on a two-day visit during which she will meet senior Indian officials, business leaders and students, underscoring America's 'strong alliance' with the country.

Talks between Haley, the highest ranking Indian-American in the Donald Trump administration, and Indian officials could include a host of topics including India-US strategic ties and significant global developments.

Haley will travel to New Delhi from June 26-28 during which she will meet with senior Indian government officials, NGO leaders, and the interfaith community 'to underscore the United States' shared values and strong alliance with the people of India,' a brief media advisory from the US Mission to the UN said here yesterday.

While the media advisory did not give further details of the 46-year-old diplomat's programme during her visit, she could call on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and is likely to meet senior officials from the ministry of external Affairs.

She will also deliver remarks to a group of business and government leaders, students, and civil society on advancing US-India relations.

The visit to India by one of the Republican party's rising stars comes just days before US secretary of state Michael Pompeo and secretary of defense James Mattis will be hosting external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj and defense minister Nirmala Sitharaman in Washington for the inaugural of US-India 2+2 Dialogue on July 6.

This meeting will focus on strengthening strategic, security, and defense cooperation as the United States and India jointly confront global challenges, the state department has said.

Haley's visit assumes significance as the Trump administration walks away from key multi-lateral pacts, re-writing American engagement with its key western allies. Haley's visit comes just days after she announced, alongside Pompeo, that the US was withdrawing from the UN Human Rights Council.

Under the Trump presidency, the US has pulled away from the Iran nuclear deal and the Paris climate agreement, where India had played a leadership role in bringing the global pact to fruition.

Following Washington's withdrawal from the Iran deal and the re-imposition of sanctions, Swaraj had said at a press conference in New Delhi that India will comply with UN sanctions and not any country-specific sanctions.

Last month, she had also met Iran's visiting foreign minister Javad Zarif during which he sought India's support in salvaging Iran's nuclear deal with leading world powers in the wake of the US pull out from it.

Haley had visited India in late 2014 when she was the South Carolina governor.

Haley, the daughter of Sikh immigrants from Punjab, is the first Indian-American to serve in a cabinet-level position in any US presidential administration.

More: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5897329/UN-Ambassador-Nikki-Haley-prays-Sikh-temple-continues-tour-India.html

#19970453 at 2023-11-24 18:13:34 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #24517: Black Friday Bread Sale Edition

<snip>

Contrary to Macgregor's assessment, Biden is not escalating. In demanding that Israel allow aid trucks across the Egyptian border uninspected, and restore Gaza's electricity, water, and internet, the president is dismantling Israel's blockade. With Israeli troops on the verge of bisecting Gaza Wednesday, Biden called for a ceasefire. These are actions characteristic not of an ally but an adversary. And offering Iran negotiations for the purpose of legalizing its nuclear weapons program and giving it access to hundreds of billions of dollars are signs of friendship, not enmity.

And it's working. The Biden administration warned Israel that it would stop supplying weapons if they were used to arm civilians, even to defend themselves against another Oct. 7 massacre.

Macgregor worked briefly in Trump's administration, and thought he, too, was headed for war with Iran after the president killed Qassem Soleimani, commander of Iran's external terror unit, the Quds Force. Soleimani was behind an attack on an Iraqi airbase that killed one American contractor and then an attack on the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad. He was plotting more operations against Americans, and had been responsible for the deaths of thousands of U.S. servicemen in Iraq. It wasn't complicated for Trump: If you kill Americans, you die.

Some of Trump's base don't like that about him. They praise him for starting no new wars but that was an effect of his being good at foreign policy: He had a clear vision of the national interest, he supported allies, and he was unpredictably violent, and sometimes emotional. He wanted to kill Bashar Assad, too, after he'd seen pictures of children murdered by the Syrian president, until Defense Secretary James Mattis talked him out of it.

Trump's assessment of the Oct. 7 massacre shows that the man who was the immediate target of every information operation over the last seven years nonetheless sees the world clearly. "This is a fight between civilization and savagery, decency and depravity, and between good and evil," Trump told a Jewish organization recently. "There is no comparison between a group that worships death and a group that cherishes life." He added that every death in the conflict was on Hamas alone, and then seemed to go off script for a moment. "I think you really have to add in the word 'Iran'-Iran, people don't want to talk about it."

Trump was referring primarily to the Biden White House, but he might also have been referring to some of his supporters. Trump is right. The best way for America to avoid entering foreign wars is to get the details straight, or else relaying White House and Iranian talking points will obscure the factor most likely to lead to Armageddon-that the Biden administration is determined to give Iran's murderous regime the bomb.

It's nearly impossible to believe it and most people won't until it's too late. The American right can't afford self-pity and self-delusion.

###
It's a good article. I'm not sure why it's become a target for shills.

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/the-israel-op

#19772174 at 2023-10-20 21:44:29 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #24278: Rig For Red

>>19772157
The Wednesday meeting was held to discuss the situation in northern Syria, where Turkey launched an offensive last week against Kurdish-led forces after the US suddenly withdrew its troops.
Ms Pelosi is then said to have mentioned the House vote and Democratic leader Chuck Schumer began to read the president a quote from former Defence Secretary James Mattis on the need to keep US troops in Syria to prevent a resurgence of the so-called Islamic State group, known as IS or Isis.
According to US media, Mr Trump cut Mr Schumer off, complaining that Mr Mattis was "the world's most overrated general".
As the meeting went on, the president is said to have told Ms Pelosi: "I hate Isis more than you do."
When asked by Mr Schumer if his plan was to rely on the Syrians and the Turks, the president said the plan was "to keep the American people safe". Ms Pelosi reportedly told him that this was a goal, not a plan.
Mr Schumer has said the president then called Ms Pelosi a "third-rate" politician. (She later said it was "third-grade".)
At that point, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer reportedly interjected, telling the president that such insults were "not useful".
The Democratic leaders then left the meeting early.

#19394855 at 2023-08-20 20:35:33 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #23819: Quick Bake Edition

>>19394827
>>19394843
Joseph D. Kernan 1 December 2017 - 10 November 2020[13] James Mattis
Mark Esper Donald Trump
Ezra Cohen (Acting) 10 November 2020 - 20 January 2021 Christopher C. Miller (acting)

The Applied Research Laboratory for Intelligence and Security (ARLIS), based at the University of Maryland College Park, was established in 2018 under the sponsorship of the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security (OUSD(I&S)).

#19321966 at 2023-08-08 15:41:33 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #23730: Women love big bad ass men, that protect them edition.

>>19321924
Donald Trump flexed his military muscle Tuesday by tweeting an Oval Office image of 19 of his most senior military commanders. The group is pictured above left to right,
Army General Curtis Scaparrotti (1),
Army General Mark Milley (2), Marine Corps General Robert Neller (3),
U.S. Coast Guard Admiral Paul Zukunft (4), Navy Admiral Kurt W. Tidd (5),
Army General Raymond A Thomas (6),
Marine Corps General Thomas D. Waldhauser (7),
Air Force General Paul Selva (8),
Marine Corps General Joseph Dunford (9),
Defense Secretary James Mattis (10),
President Donald Trump (11),
Vice President Mike Pence (12),
Navy Admiral Michael Rodgers (13),
Navy Admiral John Richardson (14),
Army General Joseph Votel (15),
Air Force General David Goldfein (16),
Air Force General John E Hyten (17),
Air Force General Joseph L. Lengyel (18),
Air Force General Lori Robinson (19),
Patrick M. Shanahan (20),
Navy Admiral Harry Harris (21),
Air Force General Darren W McDew (22),
U.S. Coast Guard Vice Admiral Karl Schultz (23)

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5605263/Trumps-brass-huddle-White-House-threat-launch-missiles-Syria-plays-out.html?mrn_rm=rta-fallback

#19262641 at 2023-07-29 16:10:55 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #23658: Americans sick & tired of hearing that economy is ‘just fine' Edition

International Q Research Threads
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>>19075778, >>19075920, >>19148273 What counts as CP?
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#23657 >>19261869
>>19261957 Americans are sick and tired of hearing that the economy is going 'just fine'
>>19261961 Deadly cargo ship fire still burning on vessel carrying 500 electric vehicles in North Sea
>>19261968, >>19261977, >>19262171 Subclinical Heart Damage More Prevalent Than Thought After Moderna Vaccination
>>19261982 Why Won't Simon Ateba Stop Shouting?
>>19261993 CIA planning docs show when they overthrew the Guatemalan president in 1954, they plotted planting "flying saucer" stories to distract the media
>>19262001, >>19262013 #NCSWIC
>>19262015, >>19262027 Hunter: In 2018, two federal prosecutors demanded 12 months in prison for a $60k tax cheat.
>>19262033 Pro-LGBT Org Hijacks GOP Program to Open 'Queer' School in One of US's Largest Cities
>>19262065 While Biden Shuts Down U.S. Coal, China's Coal Use Surges To Record Levels
>>19262107 @nypost Sex for sale: This NYC avenue is overrun by brazen brothels operating in broad daylight
>>19262113, >>19262519, >>19262521 call to dig everything about Ulysses S Grant/Orders No. 11, which stated: "The Jews, as a class, violating every regulation of trade established by the Treasury Department, and also Department orders, are hereby expelled from the Department."
>>19262146 Method and device for using an ultrasonic carrier to provide wide audio bandwidth transduction
>>19262160 Should Hotel Chains Be Held Liable for Human Trafficking?
>>19262187 After the UK Government set out its ambition for England to be smokefree by 2030, ASH published a Roadmap to a Smokefree 2030
>>19262201 Italy: The farmers against the agenda. Joining the Dutch against Agenda 30, that will bankrupt them and lower grain yield - Just when we need more! Delta
>>19262203 President Trump arrives at his Iowa Headquarters in Urbandale, IA doing the Karate Chop!
>>19262207 NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day Apollo 11: Catching Some Sun
>>19262279 CHRISTMAS IS CANCELED by Mad Vlad Zelensky
>>19262462 Ukrainian church rejects Zelensky's 'new' Christmas
>>19262339 Candace Owens x Andrew Tate: The Interview
>>19262349 Nancy Mace: The People Have The Right To Know Where Tax Dollars Are Going
>>19262369 The Vaccine injured need to be heard
>>19262374 @DevinNunes: "Clinton-paid-for dirt was used to get a warrant to spy on an American citizen…"
>>19262443 Musk ClockFag Chart.
>>19262449 @EmeraldRobinson: Chinese agents are setting up bioweapons labs in California.
>>19262457 State Dept Issues Immediate Evacuation of American Citizens in Haiti Due to Escalating Chaos
>>19262471 Japanese Man Who Identifies as a Dog, Takes First Public Stroll After $16,000 Transformation
>>19262477 US rejects Australian plea to drop Assange case
>>19262499 Ukraine using North Korean rockets – FT
>>19262510 Dr. Peter Navarro: "These were the guys who gave the memo that turned Pence against Trump"
>>19262578, >>19262597, >>19262599, >>19262617 Pfizer AND Moderna were contracted in 2013 to craft MMA technology
>>19262636 #23657

#23656 >>19261101
>>19261116, >>19261119, >>19261159, >>19261296 Burning Ship's Operator Says Almost 500 EVs Are on Board
>>19261138 Canada is run by the Monarchy it is not a democracy never was!
>>19261151, >>19260566 Passive heat therapy improves endothelial function, arterial stiffness and blood pressure in sedentary humans
>>19261153 Los Angeles County beat expectations when it managed to move 274 youth to the newly renovated Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall in Downey
>>19261177 Maj. Gen. Anthony Potts, 59, piloted the Piper PA-28 Cherokee airplane when he crashed in Havre de Grace, Maryland
>>19261179 most of 100M people who signed up for "Theads" quite using it
>>19261189 Suspected arsonist caught starting wildfire in Italy by police drone
>>19261193 The Next Frontier for Warfighters Might Be Implants in Their Brains. Is the Pentagon Ready for the Consequences?
>>19261210 OPTIC — RFK probably will be Trump's VP for 2024, it makes perfect sense... anon opines
>>19261226 Governor Noem revs up South Dakota's economic engine through NASCAR
>>19261263 FULL SPEECH: President Donald J. Trump in Des Moines, IA -
>>19261430 Trump in Iowa: "I will sign a law prohibiting child sexual mutilation in all 50 states."
>>19261440 Climate BS substack
>>19261442 So what happened to Obama's chef?
>>19261450 Senate Democrats Kill Republican Amendment to Only Fly the American Flag Over Government Buildings
>>19261461 Whistleblower: Biden Crime Family Possibly Joe Biden Himself Are Hiding Money in Offshore Bank Accounts
>>19261463 Russia announces 'temporary' ban on rice exports
>>19261464 Watch: Biden Forgets to Sign Executive Order After Delivering Remarks
>>19261475 Musk's rebrand of Twitter is in full swing as a giant X sign appeared on the roof of the former Twitter HQ in San Francisco
>>19261493 A Secret Chinese Medical Lab That Ran Covid-19 Experiments is Discovered in California???
>>19261501 Steve Bannon: Political Commissars Now for the Military—This is Exactly How They Take Control
>>19261526 @realDonaldTrump "TRUMP LAYS OUT THE KEY POLICIES OF HIS 2024 CAMPAIGN IN TEN AMAZING MINUTES"
>>19261530 @realDonaldTrump Just got back from Iowa. It was a great evening. Big Poll numbers, amazing people!
>>19261554 Beattie: While Russia and China ban all transvestite activity, bloodthirsty US trans generals are leading us into war
>>19261559 PF ADVIC21 over Delaware
>>19261563 New water deluge system to protect against the immense heat & force of Starship launch
>>19261579 Early Access Helen Joyce on transgenderism, ideology and reality
>>19261591 Nuff Said?!?!
>>19261633 X
>>19261651, >>19261665 Walter Cronkite-"I'm glad to sit at the right hand of Satan"/NWO/killery too
>>19261671 @realDonaldTrump returns to Bedminster, after a great afternoon in IOWA....next stop, Erie, Pennsylvania — for a YUGE Trump Rally, this evening....
>>19261673 2009: Dr. Rima Laibow predicts "The Great Culling"
>>19261691 Welcome to Florida, America's Inflation Hotspot.
>>19261696 Holy crap! With overflowed hotels NYC sidewalks are completely taken over by homeless illegals.
>>19261737 Biden ACKNOWLEDGES his seventh grandchild
>>19261755 Brain is the Battlefield of the Future presentation at West Point Institute of Modern Warfare
>>19261894 #23656

#23655-B >>19260304
>>19260485 @RaheemKassam: WATCH: CIA Candidate Will Hurd Booed Off Stage After Trump Jab
>>19260497 @amuse: SHOCK: Hunter Biden's lawyers are no longer allowed to contact the federal court clerk in Delaware after they were caught pretending to represent the House of Representatives
>>19260499 BannonWarRoom: 'Take It Back Or Destroy It': Liz Wheeler Explains How Public Schools Were Set Up To Indoctrinate
>>19260501 Hughes JUPITER 3 Mission(YouTube vid)
>>19260508 BannonWarRoom: "We've got dead aliens, but no Epstein client list?": Americans unimpressed with UFO hearings...
>>19260526 Five Florida public school employees arrested for failing to report alleged sexual assault of 15-year-old girl Each of the faculty members has been "arrested" and "reassigned to positions that do not involve student contact.
>>19260543 Watch: Detransitioner's Desperate Plea to Congress: 'Enough Children Already Victimized by This Barbaric Pseudoscience'
>>19260565 Mr. Speaker!...
>>19260566 They're really trying to cover their crimes by using climate change as the excuse
>>19260577, >>19260958 The Iowa affiliate of the Republican National Committee (RNC) and the organizers of the RNC Lincoln Day Dinner in Des Moines, thought they would be cute by using a snarky song for the entrance music of President Donald John Trump(YouTube vid)
>>19260603 Republicans Finally Going After Joe Biden's Unconfirmed 'Acting' Labor Secretary
>>19260613 WAS GENERAL MILLEY RIGHT ABOUT THE UKRAINE WAR?
>>19260791, >>19260816, >>19260821 In his concurrence with the court's majority, Thomas wrote: "Racialism simply cannot be undone by different or more racialism."
>>19260809 Mitch got sand bagged Comms?(mp4)
>>19260872 @8thPSYOPgroup: "We must recognize that the information warfare, the battle for the hearts and minds of the global audience, is just as heavy a priority as the military operation itself and the tactical events on the battlefield must feed the narrative." - General James Mattis #legend #GOAT?
>>19260884 NASA Loses Contact With ISS for 20 Minutes as Houston HQ Suffers Power Outage
>>19260941, >>19260950 Incumbent and candidates for Seattle Schoolboard identifyMoms For Libertyas "misinformation group"
>>19260954 Brain Hacking, Mind Reading & Neural Interfaces(YouTube)
>>19260965 Team Trump Iowa office visit in Des Moines!(mp4)
>>19261075 Anon's Opinion: we are all energy, part of the greater whole, and nothing is real except our consciousness
>>19261088 LAW OFFICES OF AISSA WAYNE (John Wayne's Daughter) Obama's SS Number. For those of you who don't know but at the very bottom of this article the attorney who authored this article is John Wayne's daughter, Aissa Wayne, also a USC graduate.
>>19261276 #23655-B posted in #23656

#23655-A >>19260304
>>19260338 Residents of Woodlawn, Chicago Vent Anger at Leaders Over Illegal Immigrants: 'They Rob us, They Harass us'
>>19260339, >>19260717 @8thPSYOPgroup: What is the "PSYWAR Center" called today?
>>19260347 @bennyjohnson: Chills watching this. Just watch. Prophecy:(mp4)
>>19260350 @GenFlynn: The more we learn about how the Chinese are freely operating here inside of America, the more every single American should be pissed.
>>19260363 @disclosetv: US sends $345 million in weapons to Taiwan
>>19260366 @KanekoaTheGreat: In 2018, Hunter Biden paid a Russian pimp $25,000 from Joe Biden's bank account, causing the Secret Service to frantically rush to his hotel
>>19260374, >>19260383, >>19260402, >>19260468 Joe Biden to Retreat to Rehoboth Beach Compound for the Next Ten Days While His DOJ Works to Jail Trump
>>19260385 Hunter Biden Remains a 'Good Standing' D.C. Bar Member despite evidence of illicit activities and court proceedings
>>19260386 The scandal engulfing Hunter Biden is now so grave even America's Left-wing media can't ignore it any longer as claims of $5million bribes, drugs and prostitutes surround the President's wayward son
>>19260391 Multiple Banks Filed Over 170 Suspicious Activity Reports on the Bidens
>>19260394 Tucker Carlson's BRUTALLY Honest Interview With Ice Cube (2023)(YouTube vid)
>>19260409 @KanekoaTheGreat: In January 2022, a Rasmussen poll revealed that about 40% of Democrats supported imprisoning the unvaccinated, implementing quarantine camps, and separating children from them. How do you explain this cognitive dissonance?
>>19260423 Mar-A-Lago - PRESIDENTIAL RECORDS case Judge set Pre-Trial Hearing for May 14, 2024(4 yr delta QPOST 4243)
>>19260427 In Tune With Freedom: Independent Musicians Amplify Voices of the Vaccine Injured, Echoing Eric Clapton's Brave Testimony
>>19260445 On Russell Brand's podcast, Oliver Stone admits that he voted for Joe Biden but now regrets it
>>19260462 Polish Army responds to Wagner deployment
>>19260471 Kash Patel ReTruthed: @poldersoldworldmarket: Thank you so much to everyone that voted in the #KashPolderArtChallenge this past week! The winning piece of art is Ride Through the Storm by @maryelizabethpolder_art!
>>19260475 @realDonaldTrump: GREAT visit this evening in IOWA with TEAM TRUMP. Thank you for everything you're all doing! MAGA!!!(17 words)
>>19260478 @gatewaypundit: Transgender Seeks Euthanasia in Canada, Claiming It's the Only Way to End Suffering from Vaginoplasty Complication
>>19261276 #23655-A posted in #23656

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>>19260290 #23654
>>19257908 #23651, >>19258721 #23652, >>19259524 #23653
>>19255506 #23648, >>19256283 #23649, >>19257100 #23650
>>19253339 #23645, >>19253882 #23646, >>19254717 #23647

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#19261866 at 2023-07-29 13:17:11 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #23657: New Logo Yo's Edition

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>>16694358 ------ France #7
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>>19236542 ------ Japan #16
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GLOBALS
Anons
Bunker = https://endchan.org/qrbunker
Posting guidelines - report cp and violent threats, no naked children
>>19089056 Ban lifts, video downloads, Q clock, Joe M's videos, Qagg Download
>>18024378, >>18561054 Updated PROTO Instructions
>>19075778, >>19075920, >>19148273 What counts as CP?
>>19088769, >>19156675 Why admins try to keep spam down
>>19259750 I have had contact with the FBI many times. Whenever I report crimes. I report them to the FBI./J6 NEW
Bakers
>>19089065 Baking Tools & Guidelines - NEW BAKERS, PLEASE READ
>>17322509, >>17322518 How to bake/e-bake
>>17835052 Formatting Q posts
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NOTABLES ARE NOT ENDORSEMENTS

#23656 >>19261101
>>19261116, >>19261119, >>19261159, >>19261296 Burning Ship's Operator Says Almost 500 EVs Are on Board
>>19261138 Canada is run by the Monarchy it is not a democracy never was!
>>19261151, >>19260566 Passive heat therapy improves endothelial function, arterial stiffness and blood pressure in sedentary humans
>>19261153 Los Angeles County beat expectations when it managed to move 274 youth to the newly renovated Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall in Downey
>>19261177 Maj. Gen. Anthony Potts, 59, piloted the Piper PA-28 Cherokee airplane when he crashed in Havre de Grace, Maryland
>>19261179 most of 100M people who signed up for "Theads" quite using it
>>19261189 Suspected arsonist caught starting wildfire in Italy by police drone
>>19261193 The Next Frontier for Warfighters Might Be Implants in Their Brains. Is the Pentagon Ready for the Consequences?
>>19261210 OPTIC — RFK probably will be Trump's VP for 2024, it makes perfect sense... anon opines
>>19261226 Governor Noem revs up South Dakota's economic engine through NASCAR
>>19261263 FULL SPEECH: President Donald J. Trump in Des Moines, IA -
>>19261430 Trump in Iowa: "I will sign a law prohibiting child sexual mutilation in all 50 states."
>>19261440 Climate BS substack
>>19261442 So what happened to Obama's chef?
>>19261450 Senate Democrats Kill Republican Amendment to Only Fly the American Flag Over Government Buildings
>>19261461 Whistleblower: Biden Crime Family Possibly Joe Biden Himself Are Hiding Money in Offshore Bank Accounts
>>19261463 Russia announces 'temporary' ban on rice exports
>>19261464 Watch: Biden Forgets to Sign Executive Order After Delivering Remarks
>>19261475 Musk's rebrand of Twitter is in full swing as a giant X sign appeared on the roof of the former Twitter HQ in San Francisco
>>19261493 A Secret Chinese Medical Lab That Ran Covid-19 Experiments is Discovered in California???
>>19261501 Steve Bannon: Political Commissars Now for the Military—This is Exactly How They Take Control
>>19261526 @realDonaldTrump "TRUMP LAYS OUT THE KEY POLICIES OF HIS 2024 CAMPAIGN IN TEN AMAZING MINUTES"
>>19261530 @realDonaldTrump Just got back from Iowa. It was a great evening. Big Poll numbers, amazing people!
>>19261554 Beattie: While Russia and China ban all transvestite activity, bloodthirsty US trans generals are leading us into war
>>19261559 PF ADVIC21 over Delaware
>>19261563 New water deluge system to protect against the immense heat & force of Starship launch
>>19261579 Early Access Helen Joyce on transgenderism, ideology and reality
>>19261591 Nuff Said?!?!
>>19261633 X
>>19261651, >>19261665 Walter Cronkite-"I'm glad to sit at the right hand of Satan"/NWO/killery too
>>19261671 @realDonaldTrump returns to Bedminster, after a great afternoon in IOWA....next stop, Erie, Pennsylvania — for a YUGE Trump Rally, this evening....
>>19261673 2009: Dr. Rima Laibow predicts "The Great Culling"
>>19261691 Welcome to Florida, America's Inflation Hotspot.
>>19261696 Holy crap! With overflowed hotels NYC sidewalks are completely taken over by homeless illegals.
>>19261737 Biden ACKNOWLEDGES his seventh grandchild
>>19261755 Brain is the Battlefield of the Future presentation at West Point Institute of Modern Warfare
>>19261894 #23656

#23655-B >>19260304
>>19260485 @RaheemKassam: WATCH: CIA Candidate Will Hurd Booed Off Stage After Trump Jab
>>19260497 @amuse: SHOCK: Hunter Biden's lawyers are no longer allowed to contact the federal court clerk in Delaware after they were caught pretending to represent the House of Representatives
>>19260499 BannonWarRoom: 'Take It Back Or Destroy It': Liz Wheeler Explains How Public Schools Were Set Up To Indoctrinate
>>19260501 Hughes JUPITER 3 Mission(YouTube vid)
>>19260508 BannonWarRoom: "We've got dead aliens, but no Epstein client list?": Americans unimpressed with UFO hearings...
>>19260526 Five Florida public school employees arrested for failing to report alleged sexual assault of 15-year-old girl Each of the faculty members has been "arrested" and "reassigned to positions that do not involve student contact.
>>19260543 Watch: Detransitioner's Desperate Plea to Congress: 'Enough Children Already Victimized by This Barbaric Pseudoscience'
>>19260565 Mr. Speaker!...
>>19260566 They're really trying to cover their crimes by using climate change as the excuse
>>19260577, >>19260958 The Iowa affiliate of the Republican National Committee (RNC) and the organizers of the RNC Lincoln Day Dinner in Des Moines, thought they would be cute by using a snarky song for the entrance music of President Donald John Trump(YouTube vid)
>>19260603 Republicans Finally Going After Joe Biden's Unconfirmed 'Acting' Labor Secretary
>>19260613 WAS GENERAL MILLEY RIGHT ABOUT THE UKRAINE WAR?
>>19260791, >>19260816, >>19260821 In his concurrence with the court's majority, Thomas wrote: "Racialism simply cannot be undone by different or more racialism."
>>19260809 Mitch got sand bagged Comms?(mp4)
>>19260872 @8thPSYOPgroup: "We must recognize that the information warfare, the battle for the hearts and minds of the global audience, is just as heavy a priority as the military operation itself and the tactical events on the battlefield must feed the narrative." - General James Mattis #legend #GOAT?
>>19260884 NASA Loses Contact With ISS for 20 Minutes as Houston HQ Suffers Power Outage
>>19260941, >>19260950 Incumbent and candidates for Seattle Schoolboard identifyMoms For Libertyas "misinformation group"
>>19260954 Brain Hacking, Mind Reading & Neural Interfaces(YouTube)
>>19260965 Team Trump Iowa office visit in Des Moines!(mp4)
>>19261075 Anon's Opinion: we are all energy, part of the greater whole, and nothing is real except our consciousness
>>19261088 LAW OFFICES OF AISSA WAYNE (John Wayne's Daughter) Obama's SS Number. For those of you who don't know but at the very bottom of this article the attorney who authored this article is John Wayne's daughter, Aissa Wayne, also a USC graduate.
>>19261276 #23655-B posted in #23656

#23655-A >>19260304
>>19260338 Residents of Woodlawn, Chicago Vent Anger at Leaders Over Illegal Immigrants: 'They Rob us, They Harass us'
>>19260339, >>19260717 @8thPSYOPgroup: What is the "PSYWAR Center" called today?
>>19260347 @bennyjohnson: Chills watching this. Just watch. Prophecy:(mp4)
>>19260350 @GenFlynn: The more we learn about how the Chinese are freely operating here inside of America, the more every single American should be pissed.
>>19260363 @disclosetv: US sends $345 million in weapons to Taiwan
>>19260366 @KanekoaTheGreat: In 2018, Hunter Biden paid a Russian pimp $25,000 from Joe Biden's bank account, causing the Secret Service to frantically rush to his hotel
>>19260374, >>19260383, >>19260402, >>19260468 Joe Biden to Retreat to Rehoboth Beach Compound for the Next Ten Days While His DOJ Works to Jail Trump
>>19260385 Hunter Biden Remains a 'Good Standing' D.C. Bar Member despite evidence of illicit activities and court proceedings
>>19260386 The scandal engulfing Hunter Biden is now so grave even America's Left-wing media can't ignore it any longer as claims of $5million bribes, drugs and prostitutes surround the President's wayward son
>>19260391 Multiple Banks Filed Over 170 Suspicious Activity Reports on the Bidens
>>19260394 Tucker Carlson's BRUTALLY Honest Interview With Ice Cube (2023)(YouTube vid)
>>19260409 @KanekoaTheGreat: In January 2022, a Rasmussen poll revealed that about 40% of Democrats supported imprisoning the unvaccinated, implementing quarantine camps, and separating children from them. How do you explain this cognitive dissonance?
>>19260423 Mar-A-Lago - PRESIDENTIAL RECORDS case Judge set Pre-Trial Hearing for May 14, 2024(4 yr delta QPOST 4243)
>>19260427 In Tune With Freedom: Independent Musicians Amplify Voices of the Vaccine Injured, Echoing Eric Clapton's Brave Testimony
>>19260445 On Russell Brand's podcast, Oliver Stone admits that he voted for Joe Biden but now regrets it
>>19260462 Polish Army responds to Wagner deployment
>>19260471 Kash Patel ReTruthed: @poldersoldworldmarket: Thank you so much to everyone that voted in the #KashPolderArtChallenge this past week! The winning piece of art is Ride Through the Storm by @maryelizabethpolder_art!
>>19260475 @realDonaldTrump: GREAT visit this evening in IOWA with TEAM TRUMP. Thank you for everything you're all doing! MAGA!!!(17 words)
>>19260478 @gatewaypundit: Transgender Seeks Euthanasia in Canada, Claiming It's the Only Way to End Suffering from Vaginoplasty Complication
>>19261275 #23655-A posted in #23656

#23654 >>19259568
>>19259583, >>19259591, >>19259610, >>19259657 ECW: Thank you Senators @JohnCornyn and @MarkWarner for taking the lead on classification reform.
>>19259633, >>19259703, >>19259941 @realDonaldTrump stops by the Team Trump Iowa Office before heading to Des Moines
>>19259675 Pence is a great actor Anons.
>>19259756 Joe Manchin Parties with Billionaires at Mansion of Washington Post Heiress Lally Weymouth
>>19259790 Neutral status for Ukraine 'fundamental' to Russia - Putin
>>19259798 I'm old enough to remember when both sides agreed that president's children AND grandchildren were off limits.
>>19259821, >>19259860 'Certain forces' in the West spent years plotting against Russia – Putin
>>19259854 THE FACEBOOK FILES PART 2.
>>19259865 Night Owl News With Dee, Orlando, Dame, Ox, Bizznizzy 'Fun Friday Free For All'-
>>19259873 US and UK media spin Russia-Africa summit as failure
>>19259909 Laurence Allen Elder
>>19259917 Niger coup leader declares himself president
>>19259926 Air Farce One touched down at Dover AFB at 6:53 p.m. ET. resident Biden disembarked from the plane at 7:07 p.m. ET.
>>19259960, >>19260134 DARREN BEATTIE INTERVIEW WITH IMRAN KHAN FOR REVOLVER !!
>>19259962 Alvin Bragg Suffers Major Court Loss in Bogus Trump Case – Judge Quashes Subpoena Seeking Melania Trump's Emails
>>19260086 DeSantis Drops to Single Digits in Ohio, Trump Crushes Field with 64%, Ramaswamy Gains Second with 12%
>>19260109 Four people believed to be dead after military helicopter crashes into ocean off Hamilton Island overnight
Live Trump
>>19259589, >>19259648, >>19259783 Live Trump @ Iowa GOP dinner
>>19259631, >>19259634, >>19259638, >>19259698, >>19259745, >>19259763, >>19259805, >>19259813, >>19259845, >>19259886, >>19260004, >>19260052, >>19260096 GOP dinner pics
>>19260023, >>19260027 Trump is talking fast to fit it all in 10 minutes.
>>19260045 President Trump: The democrats are the radicals on this issue [abortion], because they're willing to kill babies in their fifth, sixth, seventh, eight, ninth month. And they're willing to kill babies even after birth.
>>19260068 President Trump: The 2024 election is our last shot to save America, and there's only one candidate, and you know who that candidate is, who's gonna get that job done.
>>19260092 President Trump: We will say no on eighty-seven thousand IRS agents, who want to take your money, and much worse than that, they want to weaponize the IRS just like they've weaponized the Justice Department and the FBI.
>>19260290 #23654

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>>19257908 #23651, >>19258721 #23652, >>19259524 #23653
>>19255506 #23648, >>19256283 #23649, >>19257100 #23650
>>19253339 #23645, >>19253882 #23646, >>19254717 #23647

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#19261276 at 2023-07-29 08:57:36 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #23656: E-bake Edition

>>19261275
>>19261101

#23655-B' >>19260304
>>19260485 @RaheemKassam: WATCH: CIA Candidate Will Hurd Booed Off Stage After Trump Jab
>>19260497 @amuse: SHOCK: Hunter Biden's lawyers are no longer allowed to contact the federal court clerk in Delaware after they were caught pretending to represent the House of Representatives
>>19260499 BannonWarRoom: 'Take It Back Or Destroy It': Liz Wheeler Explains How Public Schools Were Set Up To Indoctrinate
>>19260501 Hughes JUPITER 3 Mission(YouTube vid)
>>19260508 BannonWarRoom: "We've got dead aliens, but no Epstein client list?": Americans unimpressed with UFO hearings...
>>19260526 Five Florida public school employees arrested for failing to report alleged sexual assault of 15-year-old girl Each of the faculty members has been "arrested" and "reassigned to positions that do not involve student contact.
>>19260543 Watch: Detransitioner's Desperate Plea to Congress: 'Enough Children Already Victimized by This Barbaric Pseudoscience'
>>19260565 Mr. Speaker!...
>>19260566 They're really trying to cover their crimes by using climate change as the excuse
>>19260577, >>19260958 The Iowa affiliate of the Republican National Committee (RNC) and the organizers of the RNC Lincoln Day Dinner in Des Moines, thought they would be cute by using a snarky song for the entrance music of President Donald John Trump(YouTube vid)
>>19260603 Republicans Finally Going After Joe Biden's Unconfirmed 'Acting' Labor Secretary
>>19260613 WAS GENERAL MILLEY RIGHT ABOUT THE UKRAINE WAR?
>>19260791, >>19260816, >>19260821 In his concurrence with the court's majority, Thomas wrote: "Racialism simply cannot be undone by different or more racialism."
>>19260809 Mitch got sand bagged Comms?(mp4)
>>19260872 @8thPSYOPgroup: "We must recognize that the information warfare, the battle for the hearts and minds of the global audience, is just as heavy a priority as the military operation itself and the tactical events on the battlefield must feed the narrative." - General James Mattis #legend #GOAT?
>>19260884 NASA Loses Contact With ISS for 20 Minutes as Houston HQ Suffers Power Outage
>>19260941, >>19260950 Incumbent and candidates for Seattle Schoolboard identifyMoms For Libertyas "misinformation group"
>>19260954 Brain Hacking, Mind Reading & Neural Interfaces(YouTube)
>>19260965 Team Trump Iowa office visit in Des Moines!(mp4)
>>19261075 Anon's Opinion: we are all energy, part of the greater whole, and nothing is real except our consciousness
>>19261088 LAW OFFICES OF AISSA WAYNE (John Wayne's Daughter) Obama's SS Number. For those of you who don't know but at the very bottom of this article the attorney who authored this article is John Wayne's daughter, Aissa Wayne, also a USC graduate.
#23655-B

Anons, please check it out.
Let me know if I'm missing something.
If anything is unnecessary, I will correct it.

#19260872 at 2023-07-29 04:31:35 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #23655: Iowa GOP Came, Trump Wins, Again Edition

8th PSYOP Group (Airborne)
@8thPSYOPgroup
?
Jul 25
"We must recognize that the information warfare, the battle for the hearts and minds of the global audience, is just as heavy a priority as the military operation itself and the tactical events on the battlefield must feed the narrative." - General James Mattis #legend #GOAT?

https://twitter.com/8thPSYOPgroup/status/1683833315051163649

#19128908 at 2023-07-05 20:22:21 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #23493: Biden Crime Family Exposed

Huma Abedin,????????????????Jacob "Jack" Lew,
Sergey Abyshev,????????????????? Andy Liepman,
Zainab Ahmad,???????????????????Vincent Lucero,
Rinat Akhmetshin,?????????????? Lewis Lukens,
Dmitri Alperovitch,??????????????? Loretta Lynch,
Hina R. Alvi,????????????????????????????? Ron Marks,
Amy Anderson,???????????????????? James Mattis,
Trisha Anderson,???????????? Andrew McCabe,
Christopher Andrew,???????Mitch McConnell,
Manos Antonakakis,??????????? Mary McCord,
Robert P. Ashley,????????????Darren W. McDew,
Rush Atkinson,???????????? Denis McDonough,
Brian Auten,????????????????? ???? Arthur McGlynn,
Abid Awan,????????????????? Charles McGonigal,
Imran Awan,?????????????????? John McLaughlin,
Jamal Awan,????? Jonna Hiestand Mendez,
James Baker,??????????????? ??? Kevin Michelena,
Nada Bakos,?????????????????????? Joseph Mifsud,
Jeremy Bash,??????????????????????Matthew Miller,
William Barr,??????????????????????????? Mark Milley,
Robert Bauer,???????????????????????? Sergei Millian,
Edward Baumgartner,?????????? ? Cheryl Mills,
Leonard Benardo,???????????? Jonathan Moffa,
Michael Bertrand,????????????????? Lisa Monaco,
Joe Biden,???????????????? ?????????? Michael Morell,
Dennis Blair,????????????????????????? Peter Morland,
Richard Blumenthal,?????????? ? Robbie Mook,
Sidney Blumenthal,???????? ? John Moseman,
Jeb Boasberg,??????????????? Micheal Mosman,
John Andrew Boehner,????? ???? Sally Moyer,
Dana Boente,?????????????????? Robert Mueller III,
Jennifer Boone,??????????????? Shailagh Murray,
Greg Bower,??????????????????????? ? Emile Nakhleh,
Patty Brandmaier,????????????????? ? Joe Nelson,
John Brennan,??????????????????????? Robert Neller,
Keith Bristow,????????????????????????Mike Neufield,
Gregory Brower,????????????????????? Sean Newell,
James B. Bruce,??????????????? Victoria Nuland,
David Buckley,???????????? Barrack H. Obama,
Dawn Burton,?????????????????????????? Bruce Ohr,
George Bush Jr.,???????????????????? ? Nellie Ohr,
Jean L. Camp,????????????????? Gerald A. O'Shea,
Josh Campbell, ??? Stephanie L. O'Sullivan,
Joe Capone,????????????????????????????? Lisa Page,
David Cariens,???????????????????? ?? Leon Panetta,
Janice Cariens,???????????????????????? Sam Patten,
John Carlin,?????????????????????????????? Mike Pence,
Jeff Carlton,??????????????????????????? Nancy Pelosi,
Peter Carr,?????????????????????????? ? Dmitry Peskov,
Thomas Catan,????????????????? Joseph Pientka,
James Clad,????????????????????????? ? Larry Pfeiffer,
James Clapper,???????????? Elizabeth Prelogar,
Kevin Clinesmith,????????????????? ? David Priess,
Hillary Clinton,???????????? ???????? John Podesta,
William Clinton,??????Marc Polymeropoulos,
Randy Coleman,??????????????? ?? Mike Pompeo,
Rosemary Collyer,???????????? ??? Anna Popova,
James Comey,??????????????? Samantha Power,
Patrick Conlon,????????????????? ????? David Priess,
Rudolph Contreras,????? E.W. "Bill" Priestap,
Anne Conway,??????????????????? ????? Pam Purcilly,
David Corn,?????????????????????? ?? James Quarles,
Peter Corsell,???????????????????? ??? Sarah Raskin,
Jerome Corsi,??????????????????Nick Rasmussen,
Ted Cruz,???????????????????????? Amanda Renteria,
Steven Cuevas,???????????????????? Jeannie Rhee,?

#19113847 at 2023-07-03 02:38:28 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #23474: Nightshift Engage Edition

Republicans Demand Answers on DOD Clearing Former Official of Alleged Misconduct on Amazon JEDI Bid (Mattis Fucked)
Kristina Wong2 Jul 2023.1/4
Based on newly revealed evidence, Republicans are now questioning the Department of Defense Office of Inspector General's (DOD OIG) April 2020 finding that a former senior defense official - Sally Donnelly - did not engage in ethical misconduct by allegedly trying to steer a massive government contract to Amazon.

Now in control of the House, Republicans are reviewing the DOD OIG's conclusion, which leaves the former official in a position to continue pursuing lucrative contracts for Amazon with the DOD, as well as to sit on a key DOD business advisory board.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) recently previewed their efforts in an exclusive interview with Breitbart News. "There are a number of members that have been looking into this contract, how the contract was made - is there any illegal activity done within there - and I think more of that will come to light," he said in March.

Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC), who sits on the Oversight and Accountability Committee, is one of the members digging into the details of the investigation.

"The conflict of interest there is major," she told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview in May. "This is a 'what the f-ck' moment."

Background

The DOD OIG investigation concerned allegations that Donnelly and her allies as far back as 2017 improperly used their positions within the DOD to try to steer a multibillion-dollar information technology contract to Amazon.

Donnelly served as a top adviser to then-Defense Secretary James Mattis between 2017 and 2018. During that time, she arranged several meetings between Mattis and her former consulting firm clients, which included Amazon Web Services (AWS), according to emails obtained through FOIA litigation and previously reported by Breitbart News.

At the time, AWS was vying for a lucrative contract known as "Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure" (JEDI), which would provide DOD with a single cloud infrastructure and cloud services.

Donnelly's activities, among others, raised suspicions of ethical misconduct, and after the contract appeared poised to be awarded to AWS, House Republicans requested for the DOD OIG look into the matter.

At the center of the DOD OIG's investigation was whether or not Donnelly had followed federal ethics regulations.

One of those regulations requires government officials to recuse themselves for one year from "covered relationships," or relationships with people or companies who were sources of income. For Donnelly, that would have included her former consulting clients AWS and C5, a British-based venture capital firm owned by CEO and founder Andre Pienaar.

In March 2017 Donnelly arranged a private dinner with Mattis at an exclusive London venue that included Pienaar and an AWS executive named Theresa Carlson.

During that dinner, Carlson pitched a meeting with then-Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos to Mattis. After the dinner, Donnelly approved a phone call between Mattis and Bezos. Donnelly would also later give AWS employees guidance on how to speak to Mattis about AWS cloud services during a visit by Mattis to Amazon's headquarters in summer 2017. And she also organized a subsequent dinner between Mattis and Bezos.

These meetings occurred while AWS was seeking to land the lucrative DOD cloud contract.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/07/02/republicans-demand-answers-dod-clearing-former-official-alleged-misconduct-amazon-jedi-bid/

#19007553 at 2023-06-14 19:34:45 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #23338: Happy Flag Day Edition

>>19007518
Look at Mad Dog Mathis that retarded woke dog bit/bites

"James Mattis, Who Sat on Theranos Board"

lol If he could patent GP 41, GP 120, GP 160 he would have

#18841202 at 2023-05-13 18:23:35 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #23126: Ghostly Saturday Morning Edition

TheLastRefuge Retweeted

Paul Ingrassia
@PaulIngrassia
This entire list now supports Ron DeSantis.
Quote Tweet

Jordan Schachtel
@JordanSchachtel
?
3h
A partial list of Trump's very bad hires:
-Bill Barr
-Chris Wray
-James Mattis
-John Kelly
-Scott Gottlieb
-Robert Redfield
-Anthony Fauci
-Mark Milley
-Mark Esper
-Wilbur Ross
-Chad Wolf
-Deborah Birx
-Rex Tillerson
-Gina Haspel
-Elaine Chao
-Mike Pence
-Jerome Powell
-Jerome Adams
-Alyssa Farah
-Matthew Pottinger
-Alex Acosta
-Stephen Hahn
-Moncef Slaoui
-Rod Rosenstein
-Kirstjen Nielsen
-Seema Verma

Many of the people on this list did irreparable damage to our country.

What indications are there that any of this would change in term two?

https://twitter.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1657425429823627265?s=20

#18739396 at 2023-04-23 09:23:45 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #22993: Trump Flynn 2024 Edition

>>18738590 pb
>>>18738578
>
>Why is POTUS surrounded by generals ^^
Mattis, McMaster and Kelly were Deep State aligned, basically Trump's handlers

"We train our boys to be killing machines," President Donald Trump declared on Twitter in October 2019. He meant it as a compliment-and, as Peter Bergen shows in his powerful new book, Trump and His Generals: The Cost of Chaos, Trump's sense of military men and women as "killing machines" was what drew Trump to populate his cabinet early on with generals like Michael Flynn, John Kelly, James Mattis, and H.R. McMaster. Yet, in some cases sooner and in some cases later, Trump soured on all of them-and they soured on Trump. (The possible exception is Flynn, but he at least soured enough to cooperate extensively with Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation.) So, what did Trump think he would get from these generals, and what went wrong?

https://www.justsecurity.org/67884/trump-loved-his-generals-until-he-got-to-know-them/

#18299991 at 2023-02-07 10:51:22 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #22427: Deus Ex Edition

BREAKING: Trump-appointed Secretary of Defense, James Mattis believed that Trump would be too aggressive, so he did not tell him about the Chinese spy balloons.

Dear MAGA Republicans. This doesn't make Trump look good. It makes him look very bad.

https://twitter.com/krassenstein/status/1622655543537016833

#18012179 at 2022-12-25 07:36:56 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #22072: Merry Christmas Q All Edition

>>18012091

Shortly after the Senate voted overwhelmingly to confirm President Joe Biden's nominee for Secretary of Defense, Gen. Lloyd Austin, he was sworn in on Friday afternoon by Tom Muir, acting director of Washington Headquarters Services, becoming the first Black Pentagon chief in the nation's history.

January 22, 2021

Senators voted 93-2 to confirm Austin's nomination in a final floor vote.
The only members to vote no were Republican Senators Josh Hawley of Missouri and Mike Lee of Utah.
According to a Pentagon statement, Austin took part in an intelligence briefing and meetings with Deputy Defense Secretary David Norquist and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Mark Milley promptly after being sworn in.
"It's an honor and a privilege to serve as our country's 28th Secretary of Defense, and I'm especially proud to be the first African American to hold the position," Austin tweeted after his confirmation. "Let's get to work."
On Thursday, the Senate Armed Services Committee advanced Austin's nomination while also approving a requisite waiver, which was necessary due to a law requiring active duty service members to wait seven years before serving as defense secretary. Austin retired from the Army just four years ago after 41 years of service. Congress had issued a waiver for Trump appointee James Mattis in 2017, which made some lawmakers hesitant to approve another waiver within such a short period. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Friday that the Senate should "pause and reflect" after granting waivers to both the Trump and Biden administrations to confirm defense secretaries. "The law that we keep waiving actually exists for a good reason," McConnell said. "Civilian control of the military is a fundamental principle of our republic." Earlier this week, Austin attempted to ease such concerns earlier during his confirmation hearing. "Let me say at the outset that I understand and respect the reservations some of you have expressed about having another recently retired general at the head of the Department of Defense," Austin stated. "The safety and security of our democracy demands competent civilian control of our armed forces, the subordination of military power to the civil," said Austin, adding that he would surround himself with qualified civilians to make policy decisions.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/tommybeer/2021/01/22/lloyd-austin-sworn-in-as-first-black-defense-secretary-in-us-history/?sh=7542597219cc

Might the documents not exist because it's an oral process and no stenographers/photographers around?
Harris just thought he looked like Willie…

#17788666 at 2022-11-19 00:07:47 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #21800: @45 on Never-Ending Witchhunt Tonite @8:30 PM EST Edition

Remember ol' Mad Dog Mattis?
He was such a hero here, long ago.
Turned out not.
But not everyone knows just what a schmuck he was.
He had connections with Theranos.
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/22/James-Mattis-testifies-in-elizabeth-holmes-theranos-fraud-trial.html

#17560367 at 2022-09-22 09:58:03 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #21529: FBI: One Way Or Another I'm Gonna Trick [Y]a, I'll Trick [Y]a Edition

>>17560366
Regarding his other post-government activities, she said Patel wanted Axios to include this statement, in its entirety, in the story: "The fundraising focus has changed from the Kash Patel Legal Offense trust to the broader K$H foundation with an expanded mission of a variety of efforts including education, youth development projects, and veterans assistance. All money raised via K$H merchandise will benefit these great causes. The Kash Foundation is properly operating as a not-for-profit organization, has applied for tax exempt status, submitted the designation request to the IRS and is awaiting a designation."

As a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, the Kash Foundation would likely be required to file detailed annual reports on its finances and activities with the IRS. But until that tax-exempt status is secured, it is difficult to know what Patel's group - currently structured as a legal trust, Knight said - has raised financially or how it has spent its money. Knight declined to provide details on the group's activity to date.

Later that day, at the Mar-a-Lago reception for CRA, Trump confirmed some of these impressions from Paoletta and Patel about his deep-rooted animosity toward top people in his administration. In a 45-minute speech, Trump rambled over a long list of grievances about his government, according to a witness.

He ridiculed his first Defense Secretary James Mattis, calling him "the most overrated general" in history, and added that a lot of the generals were overrated and should not be allowed to appear on television. Eventually, Trump asked the people who were holding up their iPhones to stop recording.

Trump saved his kindest words that night for two individuals: Mark Meadows and Russ Vought. He praised their organizations and the important work they were doing.

During the past year, Vought's group has been developing plans that would benefit from Schedule F. And while the power rests largely on the fear factor to stifle civil service opposition to Trump, sources close to the former president said they still anticipate needing an alternate labor force of unprecedented scale - of perhaps as many as 10,000 vetted personnel - to give them the capacity to quickly replace "obstructionist" government officials with people committed to Trump and his "America First" agenda.

In other words, a new army of political partisans planted throughout the federal bureaucracy.
cont:

#17560364 at 2022-09-22 09:56:58 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #21529: FBI: One Way Or Another I'm Gonna Trick [Y]a, I'll Trick [Y]a Edition

>>17560363
Vought was a policy wonk who became one of Trump's most trusted officials. Before joining the Trump administration in 2017 as deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget - and ultimately going on to run the agency - Vought had a long career in conservative policy circles.

That included a stint as executive director and budget director of the Republican Study Committee - the largest bloc of House conservatives - and as the policy director for the House Republican Conference.

Trump was helping raise money for Vought's CRA, which has been busily developing many of the policy and administrative plans that would likely form the foundation for a second-term Trump administration.

Trump himself was running late to the reception. But the introductory speaker, his former chief of staff Mark Meadows, was filibustering, entertaining the crowd with stories about Trump and Vought's efforts to fight a deep state that had tried to thwart them. Meadows paused. He scanned the patio. "Are there any Cabinet secretaries here?" he asked the audience. "Raise your hand if you're a Cabinet secretary."

Nobody raised their hand. "Well that's a good thing," Meadows said. "They often weren't cooperating with us."

Meadows was picking up on a theme from earlier in the day, when Vought's group had held off-site sessions at The Ben, a luxury hotel a 10-minute drive up the coast from Mar-a-Lago.

In those closed-door sessions, Trump confidants, including former senior administration officials, discussed the mistakes they had made in the first term that would need to be corrected if they regained power.

They agreed it was not just the "deep state" career bureaucrats who needed to be replaced. Often, the former Trump officials said, their biggest problems were with the political people that Trump himself had regrettably appointed. Never again should Trump hire people like his former chief of staff John Kelly, his former defense secretaries, James Mattis and Mark Esper, his CIA director Gina Haspel, and virtually the entire leadership of every iteration of Trump's Justice Department.

cont:

#17510107 at 2022-09-07 16:15:20 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #21464: Be Careful of Metal Objects Edition

https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/ex-pentagon-chiefs-warns-of-civil-interference-in-military-o

Ex-Pentagon chiefs warns of civil interference in military operations

Former US Defense chiefs published an open letter on Tuesday on the War On The Rocks website which details how political divisions in US politics are exerting pressure on the military personnel while stressing that relations between civilians and the military could further deteriorate in the future.

In order to prevent this, eight former defense secretaries and five ex-joint chiefs chairmen signed a statement on 16 "Best Practices of Civil-Military Relations."

"We are in an exceptionally challenging civil-military environment," they wrote.

"Politically, military professionals confront an extremely adverse environment characterized by the divisiveness of affective polarization that culminated in the first election in over a century when the peaceful transfer of political power was disrupted and in doubt," they said.

"Looking ahead, all of these factors could well get worse before they get better."

The statement did not cite any examples to illustrate civil-military tensions. Yet, it appears to be referring to the challenges faced by the 2020 election results by Trump and his supporters that led to the January 6, 2021 assault on the US Capitol. As per the statement:

"Politically, military professionals confront an extremely adverse environment characterized by the divisiveness of affective polarization that culminated in the first election in over a century when the peaceful transfer of political power was disrupted and in doubt. Looking ahead, all of these factors could well get worse before they get better."

The Pentagon has been accused of stalling the deployment of National Guard troops to confront the US Capitol attackers.

The Pentagon was chastised for its slow response during the January 6 attack on Congress by supporters of then-President Donald Trump, which resulted in five deaths and dozens of injuries.

Due to a slew of bureaucratic requirements, it took military officials more than three hours to deploy the National Guard to Congress as it was besieged by rioters.

On December 31, 2021, the Pentagon announced that it would streamline the process for approving the use of National Guard forces in Washington, nearly a year after the deadly attack on the US Capitol.

According to the Pentagon, the Secretary of Defense will now be "the single approval authority for all requests" for emergency use of District of Columbia National Guard personnel inside Washington.

Also during the Trump years, military personnel were asked to help in a number of non-traditional activities, including building a border wall and guarding the border against undocumented migrants, and helping police cities hit by violent protests.

In one incident, Trump had then-defense secretary Mark Esper and General Mark Milley, who is still the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, walk alongside him in front of the White House after police cleared the street of people protesting the murder of a Black man, George Floyd, by police.

Both later expressed regrets they took part in what was widely labelled a political "photo op" for the president.

Under President Joe Biden, the military has been forced to undertake a haphazard and deadly withdrawal from Afghanistan that senior Pentagon leaders did not agree with.

And Biden was widely criticized last week for giving a deeply political speech attacking Trump's supporters while two Marine guards stood behind him.

The officials stressed that the military leadership must accept orders even when they disagree with them, but said the orders must be legal.

"Regardless of the process, it is the responsibility of senior military and civilian leaders to ensure that any order they receive from the president is legal."

The statement was signed by defense chiefs under both Democratic and Republican administrations, including Robert Gates, Leon Panetta, Mark Espe,r and James Mattis. The latter two served under Trump and were both fired after they clashed with the president.

#17452430 at 2022-08-28 00:58:48 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #21391: Anons are united and one family under God edition

Imprimis June/July 2022 | Volume 51, Number 6/7

The Rise of Wokeness in the Military[Part One]
Thomas Spoeher
Director, Center for National Defense at the Heritage Foundation

The following is adapted from a talk delivered on July 20, 2022 at the Allan P. Kirby Jr Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship on Hillsdale's Washington, D.C. campus, as part of the AWC Family Foundation Lecture Series.

Excerpts:

Wokeness in the military is being imposed by elected and appointed leaders in the White House, Congress, and the Pentagon who have little understanding of the purpose, character, traditions, and requirements of the institution they are trying to change. The push for it didn't begin in the last two years under the Biden administration - nor will it automatically end if a non-woke administration is elected in 2024.

Woke ideology undermines military readiness in various ways. It undermines cohesiveness by emphasizing differences based on race, ethnicity, and sex.
It undermines leadership authority by introducing questions about whether promotions are based on merit or quota requirements. It leads to military personnel serving in specialties for which they are not qualified or ready. And it takes time and resources away from training activities and weapons development that contribute to readiness.

Wokeness in the military also affects relations between the military and society at large. It acts as a disincentive for many young Americans in terms of enlistment. And it undermines wholehearted support for the military by a significant portion of the American public at a time when it is needed the most.

EXAMPLES

In 2015, then Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus rejected out-of-hand a Marine Corps study concluding that gender-integrated combat formations did not move as quickly or shoot as accurately, and that women were twice as likely as men to suffer combat injuries. He rejected it because it did not comport with the Obama administration's political agenda.

In 2015, near the end of his second term, President Obama initiated a change to the Pentagon's longstanding policy on transgender individuals in the military. Subsequent evidence presented to then Secretary of Defense James Mattis - including the fact that transgender individuals suffering from gender disphoria attempt suicide and experience severe anxiety at nine times the rate of the general population - raised legitimate concerns about their fitness for military service.

…Along similar lines, the Biden administration has recently ended support for a longstanding policy prohibiting individuals infected with HIV from serving in combat zones. The policy had been based on sound science tied to the need for HIV medications and the danger of cross-infection through shared blood.

Much of the emphasis of wokeness today is on promoting the idea that America is fatally flawed by systemic racism and white privelege. Our fighting men and women are required to sit through indoctrination programs, often with roots in the Marxist tenets of critical race theory, either by Pentagon diktat or through carelessness by senior leaders who delegate their command responsibilities to private Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion instructors.

These indoctrination programs differentiate servicemembers along racial and gender lines, which runs completely counter to the military imperative to build cohesiveness based on common loyalties, training, and standards. Traditional training and education programs us to combat racial and sex discrimination have been supplanted by programs that promote discrimination by replacing the American ideal of equality with the progressive ideal of equality - which in practice means unequal treatment based on group identity.

Last year, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told the House Armed Services Committee, "we do not teach critical race theory, we don't embrace critical race theory, and I think that's a spurious conversation." Despite repeated denials by Austin and others in the Pentagon that critical race theory is being taught in the military, there is no shortage of evidence to the contrary.

Last year, Secretary Austin called for a one-day military-wide stand-down to address the so-called problem of "extremism" in the ranks, despite the fact there has been no evidence presented- including in testimony by senior officials - that there is a problem of extremism in the military. Commanding officers were instructed to discuss the topic using a Power Point presentation that included Ted Talks asking the question, What is up with us white people?"

#17437599 at 2022-08-24 21:32:27 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #21372: trumps pushed HQC, media spin, fda rushed by trump edition

>>17437080pb pb
>Another Conspiracy Theory Vindicated: MSNBC Tells Peasants 'You'll Miss the Deep State When It's Gone'
>MSNBC and The Daily Beast recently made an amazing admission that the Deep State - the permanent DC bureaucracy that persists from administration to administration - is real.
>David Rothkopf - an acolyte of war criminal Henry Kissinger - said the quiet part out loud on national television and in a column he penned titled "You're Going to Miss the Deep State When It's Gone."

the Anon conspiracy theory is not vindicated because anons have a totally different meaning for the term Deep State than David Rothkopf who is talking about the bureaucracy of unelected officials in the civil service, the military, the intelligence community and the foreign service; when anons talk about the Deep State, they think Satanist Cabal of pedophile cannibals, consisting on Hollywood celebs, Dem politicians and international organizations and oligarchs … and they also consider one part of the Deep State, Pentagon and the Military being Patriot White Hats who fight against the Deep state …

how Rothkopf uses the term is close to Hussein's top aide Ben Rhodes' term the Blob …

….
In a 2016 New York Times Magazine profile of Ben Rhodes, the top aide to then-President Barack Obama derisively labeled America's foreign policy establishment "the blob."

With that term, now ubiquitous in Washington, DC, he sought to lambaste both Democrats and Republicans who generally followed the same internationalist playbook since 1945, many of whom supported the Iraq War and trade deals that hurt the middle class.

It's not that Rhodes disagreed with all their beliefs - the importance of US global leadership, free trade, democracy promotion, and protection of human rights - but he disparaged the blob's insistence on continuing the forever wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, minimizing climate change, and ignoring other challenges like pandemics.

Rhodes wasn't alone. Obama felt similarly, and he and his team raged against foreign policy traditionalists both in and out of government. They "saw themselves as insurgents," wrote James Mann in The Obamians, a 2012 book on that administration's foreign policy cadre.

President Donald Trump followed suit, riding a wave of anti-elite, anti-expert populism with chants of "America First" straight to the White House.

Those two presidents' rejection of the blob wasn't absolute, of course. Obama had Hillary Clinton and John Kerry serve as his secretaries of state, and Trump had John Bolton in the White House and James Mattis at the Pentagon. But the last two presidents were deeply skeptical of the capital's groupthink and, when they could, kept establishment types at arm's length.

That's not the case with President-elect Joe Biden.

Biden has warmly welcomed traditionalists into his inner circle. "The blob is back," said Aaron Friedberg, a former national security adviser to Vice President Dick Cheney who is now at Princeton University.

https://www.vox.com/22153765/joe-biden-foreign-policy-team-revenge-blob

#17098852 at 2022-08-06 23:22:13 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #21279: Here We Go Again Edition

>>17098271
>>17098331
>7:10 = 17
<"top General"
<"Remember this date"
WOMP WOMP
this aged well...

> https://www.yahoo.com/news/retired-marine-general-john-allen-trump-military-beginning-of-the-end-america-152143340.html
Retired top general joins Mattis dissent from Trump, warns of 'beginning of the end' for democracy if troops are used against protests
Dylan Stableford
Dylan Stableford?Senior Writer
June 4, 2020?5 min read

Retired Marine Gen. John Allen on Wednesday said President Trump's threats to use the U.S. military on protesters "may well signal the beginning of the end of the American experiment."

"The slide of the United States into illiberalism may well have begun on June 1, 2020," Allen wrote in a scathing essay published online by Foreign Policy magazine. "Remember the date."

Allen, the former commander of the NATO International Security Assistance Force and U.S. forces in Afghanistan, said Trump's halting Rose Garden speech in which he declared himself the "president of law and order," the use of tear gas on protesters outside the White House and the church photo op that followed Monday was a "stunning" moment and potentially a pivotal one.

"Donald Trump expressed only the barest of condolences at the murder of George Floyd, but he also said nothing about the fundamental and underlying reasons for the unrest: systemic racism and inequality, a historic absence of respect, and a denial of justice," Allen wrote. "Yes, he mentioned George Floyd, but he did not touch on long-standing societal problems at all. He sees the crisis as a black problem - not as something to be addressed by creating the basis and impetus for a move toward social justice, but as an opportunity to use force to portray himself as a 'law and order' president.

"...Trump was clear he views those engaged in the unrest and criminal acts in these riots as terrorists, an enemy," Allen continued. "He said so, ostensibly as justification to deploy the U.S. military to apply federal force - his 'personal' force - against the riots.

"...Donald Trump isn't religious, has no need of religion, and doesn't care about the devout, except insofar as they serve his political needs," he added. "He failed to project any of the higher emotions or leadership desperately needed in every quarter of this nation during this dire moment."

Allen - who retired from the military in 2013 and is now president of the Brookings Institution - was particularly struck by the juxtaposition of Trump's claim to be "an ally of peaceful protesters" and the removal of those peaceful protesters to clear the street in front of St. John's Church.

"Fully equipped riot police and troops violently, and without provocation, set upon the peaceful demonstrators there, manhandling and beating many of them, employing flash-bangs, riot-control agents, and pepper spray throughout," he wrote. "These demonstrators had done nothing to warrant such an attack. Media who were watching over the scene craned their cameras to try to understand what had happened to justify this violence, until it became clear for all to see. The riot police had waded into these nonviolent American citizens - who were protesting massive social injustice - with the sole purpose of clearing the area around St. John's Episcopal Church, on the other side of the park, so the self-proclaimed 'ally of peaceful protesters,' Donald Trump, could pose there for a photo-op."

Allen's essay echoed a statement issued Wednesday by former Secretary of Defense James Mattis, who said he was "angry and appalled" at the White House's response to the protests.

#16780847 at 2022-07-22 15:07:11 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #21167: TRUMP RALLY IN A.Z FOR KARI LAKE AND OPEN COMMS EDITION

>>16780840
A radical plan for Trump's second term
4 of 5
Trump was helping raise money for Vought's CRA, which has been busily developing many of the policy and administrative plans that would likely form the foundation for a second-term Trump administration.

Trump himself was running late to the reception. But the introductory speaker, his former chief of staff Mark Meadows, was filibustering, entertaining the crowd with stories about Trump and Vought's efforts to fight a deep state that had tried to thwart them. Meadows paused. He scanned the patio. "Are there any Cabinet secretaries here?" he asked the audience. "Raise your hand if you're a Cabinet secretary."

Nobody raised their hand. "Well that's a good thing," Meadows said. "They often weren't cooperating with us."

Meadows was picking up on a theme from earlier in the day, when Vought's group had held off-site sessions at The Ben, a luxury hotel a 10-minute drive up the coast from Mar-a-Lago.

In those closed-door sessions, Trump confidants, including former senior administration officials, discussed the mistakes they had made in the first term that would need to be corrected if they regained power.

They agreed it was not just the "deep state" career bureaucrats who needed to be replaced. Often, the former Trump officials said, their biggest problems were with the political people that Trump himself had regrettably appointed. Never again should Trump hire people like his former chief of staff John Kelly, his former defense secretaries, James Mattis and Mark Esper, his CIA director Gina Haspel, and virtually the entire leadership of every iteration of Trump's Justice Department.

Shortly after noon, Kash Patel enteredThe Ben's ballroom. Donors and Trump allies sat classroom-style at long rectangular tables in a room with beautiful views of the Atlantic Ocean.

The group was treated to a conversation between Patel and Mark Paoletta, a former senior Trump administration lawyer with a reputation for finding lateral ways to accomplish Trump's goals. The Patel-Paoletta panel discussion was titled, "Battling the Deep State."

Paoletta was a close family friend and prominent public defender of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and his wife, Ginni Thomas. Throughout the Trump administration, Ginni Thomas had taken a strong interest in administration personnel. She complained to White House officials, including Trump himself, that Trump's people were obstructing "MAGA" officials from being appointed to key roles in the administration.

As Axios previously reported, Ginni Thomas had assembled detailed lists of disloyal government officials to oust - and trusted pro-Trump people to replace them.

Her recommendations to the White House included appointing the right-wing talk radio provocateur and former Secret Service agent Dan Bongino for a Homeland Security or counterterrorism adviser role. Thomas has recently been a subject of interest to the Jan. 6 Select Committee after the committee obtained text messages she sent to then-chief of staff Mark Meadows urging him to work harder to overturn the 2020 election.

Patel had enjoyed an extraordinary risefrom obscurity to power during the Trump era. Over the course of only a few years, he went from being a little-known Capitol Hill staffer to one of the most powerful figures in the U.S. national security apparatus.

He found favor with Trump by working for Devin Nunes when he played a central role in the GOP's scrutiny of special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation. Patel was the key author of a memo in which Nunes accused the Justice Department and the FBI of abusing surveillance laws as part of a politically motivated effort to take down Trump.

Some of Nunes' and Patel's criticisms of the DOJ's actions were later validated by an inspector general, and Trump came to view Patel as one of his most loyal agents. He put him on his National Security Council and made him the Pentagon chief of staff.

In one astonishing but ill-fated plan, Trump had wanted to install Patel as either the deputy director of the CIA or the FBI late in his administration. He abandoned this only after vehement opposition and warnings from senior officials including Haspel and former Attorney General Bill Barr, who wrote in his own memoir that he told then-chief of staff Mark Meadows that Patel becoming deputy FBI director would happen "over my dead body."

https://www.axios.com/2022/07/22/trump-2025-radical-plan-second-term

#16764458 at 2022-07-19 20:13:33 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #21146: London City Burning Down Edition

>>16764256
>Lindsey Graham or James Mattis

It's either Mattis or he's lost his ever loving fucking mind. He just got married so the latter is a distinct possibility.

Mattis: Zelenskyy cut from the same cloth as Founding Fathers
Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelenskyy is a courageous leader who is cut from the same cloth and displays the same righteous fury as America's nations' founding fathers, Mattis said.

"What an inspiration Zelenskyy has been. It is such a clear choice between good and evil," Mattis said. "This exhausted defiant leader reminded the world of our shared human values, the values his valiant people are defending, and noting as he did, that a Russian speaker in Kyiv has more freedom of speech that a Russian speaker in Moscow."

https://www.palmbeachdailynews.com/story/news/nation-world/2022/03/09/general-jim-Mattis-ukraine-russia-war-speech-florida/9428980002/

#16764256 at 2022-07-19 19:42:40 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #21146: London City Burning Down Edition

>>16763928

Lindsey Graham or James Mattis

#16712067 at 2022-07-11 01:57:01 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #21079: Teamwork Makes the Dream Work Edition

#21077
>>16710572 Ntd: Biden Considers Declaring a National Health Emergency in Response to Abortion Ruling
>>16710581, >>16710873 Benny Johnson: Hunter Biden arguing with a hooker about how much crack he has
>>16710595, >>16710608, >>16710655 Dutch distribution center (EV) blockaded by farmers a few days ago goes up in flames! (videos)
>>16710597, >>16710611, >>16710623 Nypost: Bill De Blasio walks alone after giving up NYPD bodyguards
>>16710609, >>16710634 ZH: Chinese Bank Run Turns Violent After Angry Crowd Storms Bank of China Branch Over Frozen Deposits
>>16710689 Smh.com: Australia: National security cited to keep Barilaro documents secret
>>16710690 Washingtonexaminer: Dig for Georgia Guidestones time capsule adds to mystery
>>16710729 Jerone4Congress: Black GOP pastor fights 'Democrats in Klan hoods' with AR-15 in campaign ad
>>16710745 Childrenshealthdefense: Uruguay Halts COVID-19 Vaccine for Kids Under 13, Judge Demands Government Officials Turn Over Pfizer Contracts
>>16710752 TGP: Liz Cheney Funded by Obama and Hillary Donors in Wyoming Primary
>>16710758 PDJT @TS: Why is it that the Unselect Committee of Political Hacks refuses to investiate the fact that crazy Nancy Pelosi rejected my strong recommendation
>>16710763 Sputnik: Liz Truss Announces Her Candidacy for UK Prime Minister
>>16710774 RT: Former Polish president suggests reducing Russia's population
>>16710811 Middleeasteye: Saudi dissident killed in Lebanon, says opposition party
>>16710824 ClockfagL Hillbags coming up this Saturday on QClock. very, very bad gurl
>>16710884 Cernovich: Hunter Biden wanted to get caught. That was his only true way of punishing his father. Why he needs to do this ... that's a question for "Peter."
>>16710888 Henrik almgren: Huge fire covering 100 hectares in wheat field in Timis/Romania. Just a coincidence. (mp4)
>>16710908 Lewis Brackpool : A fire has spread rapidly at a "picnic" facility in Almelo. Picnic in the Netherlands, is a supermarket company funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation that delivers groceries with small electric cars
>>16711053 Devin Nunes puts up a poll on TS: Who's to blame for the CA fires?
>>16711061 Ninnyd101: When an Advisor to a former French President went on record to reveal the depopulation agenda (mp4)
>>16711075 Wfaa.com: Yosemite fire grows as crews protect iconic sequoias
>>16711080 Breitbart: Billboards Reading 'Alaska Is Ours' Pop Up In Russia
>>16711099 John Soloman retweets Justthenews: 4chan users claim hack of Hunter Biden's iCloud account, start leaking alleged screenshots
>>16711125 Nypost: Tennessee volunteer firefighter Leslie Roy Winchester charged with setting fires at church, Masonic Lodge
>>16711160 TGP: AVOID AT ALL COSTS: "Thor Love and Thunder" - Unless You Like Woke Movies Where Even the Rock People are Gay and Having Babies and The Queen is a "King"
>>16711201 Breitbart: 10K Migrants Cross into Texas Border Town in Six Days
>>16711747 #21077

#21076
>>16709860 Axios: Shinzo Abe's political party wins supermajority in parliamentary elections
>>16709913 Continuing from the Nancy Pelosi bred that was hijacked (video)
>>16709936 Breitbart: Kinzinger Says in 10 Years There Won't Be a Single Trump Supporter
>>16709985 Applicantpro: Bohemian Grove Summer Encampment July 11th- July 31st 2022
>>16710091 Palmbeachdailynews: Former U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis says Americans must unite in response to Russian invasion of Ukraine
>>16710093 Uk.news.yahoo: Fire burns in Rome archaeological park
>>16710115 Sunday Morning Talk Shows 2022-07-10
>>16710147 Joel Berry: The Washington Post turned the Jan 6. testimony into a comic book and it's absolutely hilarious
>>16710183 Conservativetreehouse: Used Car Repossession Rates Double for Both Sub-Prime and Prime Borrowers, Indicates Trouble on Main Street
>>16710197 DOD: USNavy sailors assigned to #NavalSpecialWarfare Group 8 display the flag while performing dive operations from the fast-attack submarine, USS New Mexico, in the Atlantic Ocean
>>16710203 TGP: Facebook Was Just CAUGHT RED HANDED - Faces Lawsuit for Sharing User 'Deleted Messages' (video)
>>16710230 Theeconomiccollapseblog: Now An Outbreak Of The Marburg Virus Has Begun
>>16710283 AP via Jphn Basham: A growing number of people in Western nations have lost faith in democratic governance, science and a free press, turning instead to conspiracy theories, dark plots and secret explanations
>>16710370 Hello-earth: Nikola Tesla FBI Vault and Margaret Storm - Return of the Dove: The Story of Freedom's Star Happy Birthday Nikola Tesla
>>16710407 Usnews: White House Confirms Biden Trip to Saudi Arabia Despite Domestic Outrage
>>16710491 Potato: Republicans are doing nothing but obstructing our efforts to crack down on gas-price gouging, lower food prices, lower healthcare costs, and hopefully, soon, lower your prescription drug costs
>>16711342 #21076

#21075
>>16707517 Citizens.news: How the media secretly carries out assignments for the CIA
>>16707524 This is the twitch account of the Hunter Biden iCloud leaker.Some of his streams are still up, for now (use caution)
>>16707528 PDJT ReTruths: Any church that is pro-abortion and against tehe overturning of #RoeVsWade that claims to be Christian - is not
>>16707537, >>16707548, >>16707580 Pbs.org: Biden visits CIA headquarters to mark agency's 75th anniversary (video)
>>16707555 Abbott announces additional $30 million to boost local border security efforts
>>16707571 Ezra Cohen retwwets The Economist: New data suggest that the damage from shutting down schools has been worse than almost anyone expected
>>16707593 Justthenews: NIH division spends $413,000 to study effect of climate change on mental health of the young
>>16707618 KanekoaTheGreat retweets Childrenshealthdfense: Pfizer Asks Court to Dismiss Whistleblower Lawsuit Because Government Was Aware of Fraud
>>16707620 Conservativetreehouse: If They Lose, You Will Eat Bugs - Dutch Farmer Spokesperson Explains How EU Climate Change Goals Will Reduce Farm Production (video)
>>16707627 RT: Le Pen blasts reverse effect of anti-Russia sanctions
>>16707666 TGP: President Donald Trump reportedly waived Executive Privilege and will allow Steve Bannon to speak to Liz Cheney and the sham January 6 Committee
>>16707681 Abc.net.au: China's Foreign Minister blames Morrison government for poor relations, tells Penny Wong to 'treat us as a partner, not a threat'
>>16707710 TGP: Sen. Ron Johnson: The FBI Had Hunter Biden's Computer Since Dec. 2019 - They Havent "Done Squat With It"
>>16707738 TGP: Arson Fire Set at Catholic Church in DC Suburb of Bethesda, Maryland; Same Church and Nearby Methodist Church Attacked Night Before
>>16707751 News.com.au: Thousands of Australian companies folded last financial year as collapse nightmare worsens
>>16707817 Conservativenation: Look Out Hunter, Dr. Jill is Going to Be Mighty ANGRY About This
>>16707988, >>16709518 PDJT @TS: Sarah Palin, not surprisingly, brought great energy and verve to our totally sold out +++ rally last night in Anchorage She endorsed me early on in 2016, and it was an Endorsement that meant a lot, both to me and to the voters
>>16708042, >>16709517 TGP" "Hey, Where Your F***ing Training Wheels At?" - Joe Biden Heckled on Bike Ride in Delaware (mp4)
>>16709385 Liboftiktok: A Minnesota high school had a 'drag day' for Pride month where students were encouraged to come dressed in drag
>>16709403 Midnight Rider Channel re: Jankowicz on CNN: The disinformation board was a victim of disinformation go figure
>>16709439 Conservativebrief: 'Impeachable' Offense Biden Scrutinized By Republican Congressmembers For China Petroleum Deal
>>16709454 Wnd: Health minister wants to be able to KILL children up to age 12! Proposal made to 'alleviate' suffering of those with serious illnesses
>>16709531 TGP: AP Fact Checks Meme Joking About Shinzo Abe Having Information That Could Lead to the Arrest of Hillary Clinton
>>16709515 Lauren Rankin of Teen Vogue provided a detailed guide entitled "How to Get an Abortion If You're a Teen After Roe v. Wade Was Overturned"
>>16709523, >>16709548, >>16709549 PDJT @ TS: Wow, Moring Joe is tanking badly | In any event, these numbers are in the "Sleepy Eyes" Chuck Todd category
>>16709540 Planefag: CTM1275 France MIL in Alaska too
>>16709562 American Beauty: MSNBC hack accidentally slips up and admits the DC globalist elites hope that President Trump dies
>>16709566, >>16709588, >>16709615, >>16709665, >>16709684 Big fire, possible explosion, in Rome
>>16709584 TGP" As our nation faces economic collapse and our greatest enemies literally engage in war games in our backyard, US Military and Defense leaders are focusing on the important things - mainly, creating "safe spaces", pushing radical leftist ideologies, and - of course - purging the ranks of all dissenters
>>16709599 Usatoday: Oprah mourns the death of her father Vernon Winfrey: 'He felt the love and reveled in it'
>>16709764 Clockfag: JFK Jr. Plane Crash, 23PAIN, HRC & WITCH HUNT
>>16709796 TGP: Biden Calls for More Pro-Abortion Protests
>>16711334 #21075

Previously Collected
>>16709208 #21074
>>16705083 #21071, >>16706214 #21072, >>16706614 #21073
>>16704304 #21070, >>16705083 #21071, >>16706214 #21072
>>16701993 #21067, >>16702750 #21068, >>16703520 #21069

>>16463405 Notables Bread #14: Gonna Rise Up
General Notable Pins: https://ghostbin.com/14ehq
TripCode feed: https://8kun.top/qresearch/tripcode.xml
Aggregators: https://qnotables.com | https://anontimes.com | https://qresear.ch | https://qproofs.com

#16711342 at 2022-07-11 00:40:36 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #21078: Voodoo Chile Ebake Edition

Previous Bread Notables #21076

#21076
>>16709860 Axios: Shinzo Abe's political party wins supermajority in parliamentary elections
>>16709913 Continuing from the Nancy Pelosi bred that was hijacked (video)
>>16709936 Breitbart: Kinzinger Says in 10 Years There Won't Be a Single Trump Supporter
>>16709985 Applicantpro: Bohemian Grove Summer Encampment July 11th- July 31st 2022
>>16710091 Palmbeachdailynews: Former U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis says Americans must unite in response to Russian invasion of Ukraine
>>16710093 Uk.news.yahoo: Fire burns in Rome archaeological park
>>16710115 Sunday Morning Talk Shows 2022-07-10
>>16710147 Joel Berry: The Washington Post turned the Jan 6. testimony into a comic book and it's absolutely hilarious
>>16710183 Conservativetreehouse: Used Car Repossession Rates Double for Both Sub-Prime and Prime Borrowers, Indicates Trouble on Main Street
>>16710197 DOD: USNavy sailors assigned to #NavalSpecialWarfare Group 8 display the flag while performing dive operations from the fast-attack submarine, USS New Mexico, in the Atlantic Ocean
>>16710203 TGP: Facebook Was Just CAUGHT RED HANDED - Faces Lawsuit for Sharing User 'Deleted Messages' (video)
>>16710230 Theeconomiccollapseblog: Now An Outbreak Of The Marburg Virus Has Begun
>>16710283 AP via Jphn Basham: A growing number of people in Western nations have lost faith in democratic governance, science and a free press, turning instead to conspiracy theories, dark plots and secret explanations
>>16710370 Hello-earth: Nikola Tesla FBI Vault and Margaret Storm - Return of the Dove: The Story of Freedom's Star Happy Birthday Nikola Tesla
>>16710407 Usnews: White House Confirms Biden Trip to Saudi Arabia Despite Domestic Outrage
>>16710491 Potato: Republicans are doing nothing but obstructing our efforts to crack down on gas-price gouging, lower food prices, lower healthcare costs, and hopefully, soon, lower your prescription drug costs

#16711301 at 2022-07-11 00:35:07 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #21078: Voodoo Chile Ebake Edition

GLOBALS
>>15487554 Use /tech/ for ban lifts & bug reports
>>15443568 HOW TO BAKE Thread; >>16087759 Newfag Q&A Thread; >>16050716 bakers & notetakers, plz tag the dough
>>16495621 CP guidelines: No Hunter near kids, use discernment with anything borderline
>>16538203 Baker's Lite JS code, can insert in Options menu, shows when Q posts (use discernment)
>>16514077, >>16552582, >>16511354 JW & BO on Q posting, Q's board, TOR, SALT, Tripcodes
>>16559261 OP formatting now that Q is posting
>>16666573 Posting on TOR http://8kun.top.4o5xwl3fsmzwys7edqxtohvva6ikxc6h7wt7el4ar3d5om6k2zz7yaqd.onion/qresearch/catalog.html
OR http://8kun.top.4o5xwl3fsmzwys7edqxtohvva6ikxc6h7wt7el4ar3d5om6k2zz7yaqd.onion/qresearch/index.html
>>16703775, >>16703944 PLEASE KEEP HUNTER BIDENS COCK, BALLS AND/OR HOMEMADE INCEST CP OUT OF GENERAL!!! NEW

NOTABLES ARE NOT ENDORSEMENTS

#21077
>>16710572 Ntd: Biden Considers Declaring a National Health Emergency in Response to Abortion Ruling
>>16710581, >>16710873 Benny Johnson: Hunter Biden arguing with a hooker about how much crack he has
>>16710595, >>16710608, >>16710655 Dutch distribution center (EV) blockaded by farmers a few days ago goes up in flames! (videos)
>>16710597, >>16710611, >>16710623 Nypost: Bill De Blasio walks alone after giving up NYPD bodyguards
>>16710609, >>16710634 ZH: Chinese Bank Run Turns Violent After Angry Crowd Storms Bank of China Branch Over Frozen Deposits
>>16710689 Smh.com: Australia: National security cited to keep Barilaro documents secret
>>16710690 Washingtonexaminer: Dig for Georgia Guidestones time capsule adds to mystery
>>16710729 Jerone4Congress: Black GOP pastor fights 'Democrats in Klan hoods' with AR-15 in campaign ad
>>16710745 Childrenshealthdefense: Uruguay Halts COVID-19 Vaccine for Kids Under 13, Judge Demands Government Officials Turn Over Pfizer Contracts
>>16710752 TGP: Liz Cheney Funded by Obama and Hillary Donors in Wyoming Primary
>>16710758 PDJT @TS: Why is it that the Unselect Committee of Political Hacks refuses to investiate the fact that crazy Nancy Pelosi rejected my strong recommendation
>>16710763 Sputnik: Liz Truss Announces Her Candidacy for UK Prime Minister
>>16710774 RT: Former Polish president suggests reducing Russia's population
>>16710811 Middleeasteye: Saudi dissident killed in Lebanon, says opposition party
>>16710824 ClockfagL Hillbags coming up this Saturday on QClock. very, very bad gurl
>>16710884 Cernovich: Hunter Biden wanted to get caught. That was his only true way of punishing his father. Why he needs to do this ... that's a question for "Peter."
>>16710888 Henrik almgren: Huge fire covering 100 hectares in wheat field in Timis/Romania. Just a coincidence. (mp4)
>>16710908 Lewis Brackpool : A fire has spread rapidly at a "picnic" facility in Almelo. Picnic in the Netherlands, is a supermarket company funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation that delivers groceries with small electric cars
>>16711053 Devin Nunes puts up a poll on TS: Who's to blame for the CA fires?
>>16711061 Ninnyd101: When an Advisor to a former French President went on record to reveal the depopulation agenda (mp4)
>>16711075 Wfaa.com: Yosemite fire grows as crews protect iconic sequoias
>>16711080 Breitbart: Billboards Reading 'Alaska Is Ours' Pop Up In Russia
>>16711099 John Soloman retweets Justthenews: 4chan users claim hack of Hunter Biden's iCloud account, start leaking alleged screenshots
>>16711125 Nypost: Tennessee volunteer firefighter Leslie Roy Winchester charged with setting fires at church, Masonic Lodge
>>16711160 TGP: AVOID AT ALL COSTS: "Thor Love and Thunder" - Unless You Like Woke Movies Where Even the Rock People are Gay and Having Babies and The Queen is a "King"
>>16711201 Breitbart: 10K Migrants Cross into Texas Border Town in Six Days
>>16711747 #21077

#21076
>>16709860 Axios: Shinzo Abe's political party wins supermajority in parliamentary elections
>>16709913 Continuing from the Nancy Pelosi bred that was hijacked (video)
>>16709936 Breitbart: Kinzinger Says in 10 Years There Won't Be a Single Trump Supporter
>>16709985 Applicantpro: Bohemian Grove Summer Encampment July 11th- July 31st 2022
>>16710091 Palmbeachdailynews: Former U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis says Americans must unite in response to Russian invasion of Ukraine
>>16710093 Uk.news.yahoo: Fire burns in Rome archaeological park
>>16710115 Sunday Morning Talk Shows 2022-07-10
>>16710147 Joel Berry: The Washington Post turned the Jan 6. testimony into a comic book and it's absolutely hilarious
>>16710183 Conservativetreehouse: Used Car Repossession Rates Double for Both Sub-Prime and Prime Borrowers, Indicates Trouble on Main Street
>>16710197 DOD: USNavy sailors assigned to #NavalSpecialWarfare Group 8 display the flag while performing dive operations from the fast-attack submarine, USS New Mexico, in the Atlantic Ocean
>>16710203 TGP: Facebook Was Just CAUGHT RED HANDED - Faces Lawsuit for Sharing User 'Deleted Messages' (video)
>>16710230 Theeconomiccollapseblog: Now An Outbreak Of The Marburg Virus Has Begun
>>16710283 AP via Jphn Basham: A growing number of people in Western nations have lost faith in democratic governance, science and a free press, turning instead to conspiracy theories, dark plots and secret explanations
>>16710370 Hello-earth: Nikola Tesla FBI Vault and Margaret Storm - Return of the Dove: The Story of Freedom's Star Happy Birthday Nikola Tesla
>>16710407 Usnews: White House Confirms Biden Trip to Saudi Arabia Despite Domestic Outrage
>>16710491 Potato: Republicans are doing nothing but obstructing our efforts to crack down on gas-price gouging, lower food prices, lower healthcare costs, and hopefully, soon, lower your prescription drug costs
>>16711342 #21076

#21075
>>16707517 Citizens.news: How the media secretly carries out assignments for the CIA
>>16707524 This is the twitch account of the Hunter Biden iCloud leaker.Some of his streams are still up, for now (use caution)
>>16707528 PDJT ReTruths: Any church that is pro-abortion and against tehe overturning of #RoeVsWade that claims to be Christian - is not
>>16707537, >>16707548, >>16707580 Pbs.org: Biden visits CIA headquarters to mark agency's 75th anniversary (video)
>>16707555 Abbott announces additional $30 million to boost local border security efforts
>>16707571 Ezra Cohen retwwets The Economist: New data suggest that the damage from shutting down schools has been worse than almost anyone expected
>>16707593 Justthenews: NIH division spends $413,000 to study effect of climate change on mental health of the young
>>16707618 KanekoaTheGreat retweets Childrenshealthdfense: Pfizer Asks Court to Dismiss Whistleblower Lawsuit Because Government Was Aware of Fraud
>>16707620 Conservativetreehouse: If They Lose, You Will Eat Bugs - Dutch Farmer Spokesperson Explains How EU Climate Change Goals Will Reduce Farm Production (video)
>>16707627 RT: Le Pen blasts reverse effect of anti-Russia sanctions
>>16707666 TGP: President Donald Trump reportedly waived Executive Privilege and will allow Steve Bannon to speak to Liz Cheney and the sham January 6 Committee
>>16707681 Abc.net.au: China's Foreign Minister blames Morrison government for poor relations, tells Penny Wong to 'treat us as a partner, not a threat'
>>16707710 TGP: Sen. Ron Johnson: The FBI Had Hunter Biden's Computer Since Dec. 2019 - They Havent "Done Squat With It"
>>16707738 TGP: Arson Fire Set at Catholic Church in DC Suburb of Bethesda, Maryland; Same Church and Nearby Methodist Church Attacked Night Before
>>16707751 News.com.au: Thousands of Australian companies folded last financial year as collapse nightmare worsens
>>16707817 Conservativenation: Look Out Hunter, Dr. Jill is Going to Be Mighty ANGRY About This
>>16707988, >>16709518 PDJT @TS: Sarah Palin, not surprisingly, brought great energy and verve to our totally sold out +++ rally last night in Anchorage She endorsed me early on in 2016, and it was an Endorsement that meant a lot, both to me and to the voters
>>16708042, >>16709517 TGP" "Hey, Where Your F***ing Training Wheels At?" - Joe Biden Heckled on Bike Ride in Delaware (mp4)
>>16709385 Liboftiktok: A Minnesota high school had a 'drag day' for Pride month where students were encouraged to come dressed in drag
>>16709403 Midnight Rider Channel re: Jankowicz on CNN: The disinformation board was a victim of disinformation go figure
>>16709439 Conservativebrief: 'Impeachable' Offense Biden Scrutinized By Republican Congressmembers For China Petroleum Deal
>>16709454 Wnd: Health minister wants to be able to KILL children up to age 12! Proposal made to 'alleviate' suffering of those with serious illnesses
>>16709531 TGP: AP Fact Checks Meme Joking About Shinzo Abe Having Information That Could Lead to the Arrest of Hillary Clinton
>>16709515 Lauren Rankin of Teen Vogue provided a detailed guide entitled "How to Get an Abortion If You're a Teen After Roe v. Wade Was Overturned"
>>16709523, >>16709548, >>16709549 PDJT @ TS: Wow, Moring Joe is tanking badly | In any event, these numbers are in the "Sleepy Eyes" Chuck Todd category
>>16709540 Planefag: CTM1275 France MIL in Alaska too
>>16709562 American Beauty: MSNBC hack accidentally slips up and admits the DC globalist elites hope that President Trump dies
>>16709566, >>16709588, >>16709615, >>16709665, >>16709684 Big fire, possible explosion, in Rome
>>16709584 TGP" As our nation faces economic collapse and our greatest enemies literally engage in war games in our backyard, US Military and Defense leaders are focusing on the important things - mainly, creating "safe spaces", pushing radical leftist ideologies, and - of course - purging the ranks of all dissenters
>>16709599 Usatoday: Oprah mourns the death of her father Vernon Winfrey: 'He felt the love and reveled in it'
>>16709764 Clockfag: JFK Jr. Plane Crash, 23PAIN, HRC & WITCH HUNT
>>16709796 TGP: Biden Calls for More Pro-Abortion Protests
>>16711334 #21075

#21074
>>16706666 dough #21074
>>16706744 I'm still in Alaska after an incredible Rally last night in Anchorage - djt t.s post
>>16706746 halfmind clown distraction event -hunter cloud topic (how many version of laptops have been dropped already, we have it all)
>>16706770, >>16706992, The American story isn't a simple one - biden twat and mp4 vid (never ask a simpleton moran to explain it)
>>16706852 The Netherlands is the proud host of the Global Co-ordination Secretariat ("GCS") for the worldwide network of Food Innovation Hubs', wrote Foodvalleyn - expose-news.com
>>16706928, >>16707007, djt letter to bannon wavie E. privilage allowing him to testify - djt t.s post
>>16707041 djt rally in alaska - rumble link (worth a watch) baker will take notes sometime this week. no note taker this week.
>>16707086, >>16707106, >>16707130, >>16707321, >>16707396, >>16707411, >>16707441, >>16707469, >>16707481, Kiev comments on US congresswoman's allegations - rt.com (news from russian newsfeeds)
>>16707097 French, German Leaders Warn Populations "Prepare For Total Cut-Off Of Russian Gas" As Social Unrest Looms - zerohedge
>>16707118, >>16707187, US Senators Meet With Ukrainian President, Discuss Designating Russia As "State Sponsor Of Terrorism" - zero hedge and western media assets news on ukraine and russia
>>16707120 Delaware Court of Chancery - Twitter/Musk Related bun
>>16707141 All Macau Casinos Will Shut Down Monday As COVID Outbreak Worsens - zerohedge (covid topic)
>>16707144 BEST NEWS REPORT ON THE FARMERS PROTEST IN DENMARK and GLOBAL - youtube sky australia
>>16707181 Utah Ritualized Sexual Abuse Investigation: The Mormon Church And Child Sexual Abuse - thefreethoughtproject.com
>>16707210, >>16707342, System, method and container delivery system for manipulating the functioning of a target, Patent 11,164,677 - patft.uspto.gove, covid gene human targeting system
>>16707226 Election Fraud Documentary 'The Deep Rig' To Premiere in Naples Florida on July 21 - nationalfile (patrick byrne the clown effort)
>>16707230 US Money Committed to Ukraine Has Already Exceeded Cost of First 5 Years Afghan War - western journal
>>16707231 Donald Trump Calls Elon Musk a 'Bullshit Artist' at Alaska Rally - breitbart.com
>>16707244 Japan ruling party heads to victory in wake of Abe's death - breitbart (what a surprise)
>>16707245, >>16707270, In Oct 2020 we reported exclusively that Joe Biden used the pseudonym "Peter Henderson". - raheem kassam twat (aka the national pulse)
>>16707247 Pritzker: Ban Assault Weapons, High Capacity-Magazines Nationally - breitbart
>>16707262 German Court Confirms Mandatory Coronavirus Jabs for Military - breitbart
>>16707265, >>16707285, Germany's Leftist Govt Will Give Residency to 130,000 Failed Asylum Seekers - breitbart articles
>>16707298 Heinz-Alfred Kissinger (nickname Henry) revealed that world conquest by the Talmudists would be through FOOD, ENERGY and MONEY. - henrymakow.com
>>16707303 Soros Gets a Shock When He Tries to Buy Local Radio Station with Conservative - western journal
>>16707311 Hundreds Of Virginia Bureaucrats Quit After Youngkin Makes Them Show Up In-Person - yourdestinationnow.com kek
>>16707329 These websites are logged and tracked, and the government collects their metadata in various ways - jim watkins telegram
>>16707330 CHD Films Presents - Infertility: A Diabolical Agenda - rumble vid (africa 1st then you)
>>16707363 The first people to warn of Biden's age-based cognitive decline were inside-DC Dem operatives in 2019, worried Biden would get the nomination from name recognition - glenn greenwald thread on twat
>>16707372 NHTSA opens THIRTY-SEVENTH Tesla crash probe after couple from California were killed when their Model 3 smashed into back of Walmart truck in Florida - daily mail
>>16707378, >>16707412, fire in vatican city italy = teoanon telegram (4 hot spots) explosion
>>16707391 Guilty are Now Hiding Humanitarian Catastrophe - Dr. Pierre Kory rumble vid and article
>>16709208 #21074 in #21075

#21073
>>16706336 Protesters broke through the front gate of Sri Lanka's Central Bank. - wall street silver twat (banks attacked)
>>16706480 Chinese protesters demanding bank deposits tussle with security men - reuters.com
>>16705916, >>16705918, Twitter's general counsel warns big-mouthed employees to shut up about Elon Musk deal - americanwirenews.com
>>16705925, >>16705955, >>16705972, >>16706117, >>16706293, >>16706333, hunter biden cloud hack topic - screen shots and moar
>>16705926, >>16705927, Trump sends letter to Jan 6 Committee allowing Bannon to publicly testify - the post millennal
>>16705959, >>16706049, >>16706063, New Sky King images on dailymail - sky king topic
>>16705982 planefags posts zulu 82
>>16705995, >>16706019, >>16706032, Vigan City Obelisk Struck by Lightning July 7, 2022 - 34 Satanic Buildings to be hit by Rods of God including White House - youtube
>>16706046 Trump complains Biden's 2020 victory was 'mathematically impossible' in new documentary 'Unprecedented - daily mail
>>16706254 Trump Lawyer Says He Will Be Reinstated as President if GOP Win Midterms - newsweek hopium
>>16706106, >>16706101, >>16706132, >>16706147, >>16706149, >>16706163, Former Fox 'Medical A-Team' Psychiatrist Dr Keith Ablow Raided By DEA - newhounds.us(therapist topic)
>>16706129, >>16706510, trump in alaska - various media posts bun
>>16706519 REPLAY: PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP RALLY IN ANCHORAGE - rumble link
>>16706167 Deadly brain-eating amoeba found in Midwest beach as temperatures rise - foxweather.com (virus fear porn moneypox coming)
>>16706168 Naomi is the daughter of Hunter Biden and Kathleen Buhle. - hunter digz bun
>>16706206, >>16706303, At least 15 shot dead in South Africa bar - BBC News - youtube bbc
>>16706214 #21072 notes in full lb
>>16706264 FBI Director Christopher Wray claims Serious threat to western businesses': FBI warn China 'set on stealing your technology' -skynews.com (china topic)
>>16706276, >>16706330, Broad sense of frustration, anger, despair': Dutch farmers protest against nitrogen cuts - sky australia vid youtube (farmers protest global agenda 2030, baker nom)
>>16706366 Donald Trump's Shinzo Abe Tribute Speech Drowned Out by 'God Bless the USA' - newsweek.com
>>16706370 im still in alaska - trump t.s posts
>>16706413 Biden weighs authority to declare abortion-related public health emergency after Roe overturned - msn.com
>>16706418 Amazing Justice Clarence Thomas, i would rather die then withdraw from sc hearings - twat and mp4 vid
>>16706437 Dig for Georgia Guidestones time capsule adds to mystery - epoch times
>>16706456 Mick Mulvaney says he resigned on Jan. 6 because Trump "failed" as president - youtube
>>16706494, >>16706586, >>16706604, Nebraska news is wild, play by play post on twittera total og about 50 posts - Twat news thread
>>16706496 France prepares for total cutoff of Russian gas - nationalpost.com
>>16706540 Covid learning loss has been a global disaster - the economist and ezra retweet
>>16706614 #21073

#16710091 at 2022-07-10 21:40:01 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #21076: EBake

Founding Fathers now? That is the most fucked up comparison I've ever heard. Bar none. Call sign "Chaos"? No call sign "FUBAR".

Mattis: Zelenskyy cut from the same cloth as Founding Fathers
Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelenskyy is a courageous leader who is cut from the same cloth and displays the same righteous fury as America's nations' founding fathers, Mattis said.

"What an inspiration Zelenskyy has been. It is such a clear choice between good and evil," Mattis said. "This exhausted defiant leader reminded the world of our shared human values, the values his valiant people are defending, and noting as he did, that a Russian speaker in Kyiv has more freedom of speech that a Russian speaker in Moscow."

Former U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis says Americans must unite in response to Russian invasion of Ukraine

https://www.palmbeachdailynews.com/story/news/nation-world/2022/03/09/general-jim-Mattis-ukraine-russia-war-speech-florida/9428980002/

#16594062 at 2022-07-04 10:19:23 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #20996: WE CAN'T BE STOPPED EDITION

>>16594044
In addition to the Trumps, those on board are United Nations ambassador Nikki Haley, Secretary of Defense James Mattis, HUD chief Ben Carson, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Vice President Mike Pence, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, spokeswoman Sarah Sanders, National security adviser John Bolton, adviser Kellyanne Conway and White House Chief of Staff John Kelly.

Nikki Haley = rabid Zionist neocon never Trumper, will run 2024
Mad Dog = resigned in frustration, bashed trump afterwards
Jeff Sessions = no good bum, a coward who let me down said trump
Pence …. will run 2024
Bolton = a neocon, anti Trump
Pompeo = neocon, CIA, together with Bolton managed to sabotage the Korean Peace what might have got Trump a Nobel Prize will run 2024
JOhn Kelly - one of the Deep State Generals trying to "rein in" Trump and prevent him from action out his bad impulses

#16554884 at 2022-06-29 13:18:14 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #20946: Who Will Be Surprised Edition

#20943
>>16552764 For the keks: Clint Eastwood calls out Keith Olberman as a "parrot on cocaine"
>>16552812 RT: Drug lab busted at alleged NATO nuclear base
>>16552835 A spectacular rise and fall as Andrew Gillum faces federal indictment
>>16552992, >>16552994, >>16553269 Cassidy Hutchinson Interned @ the Trump White House in her senior year in College
>>16553182 House GOP: Cassidy Hutchinson was so "disgusted" by President Trump on January 6th that she wanted a job at Mar-a-Lago post-January 6th. Makes sense!
>>16553186 Please remember that 'Q' cannot endorse any candidate for partisan political office: doing so would be a violation of the Hatch Act
>>16553204 More Ukraine fake news?
>>16553252 Planefag: C-17 c/s 'PENCE62 on ADSB nr Moses Lake Washington, E-6B EMMER71 doing a tour of the Prairie states. Heading into Tinker AFB
>>16553290 #20943

#20942
>>16551890 Dr. Peter McCullough Drops Epic COVID Truth Bomb in Texas Senate HHS Testimony
>>16551938 Eric Trump: Happy to see this ridiculous story crumble
>>16552009, >>16552014 Donald J. Trump Truth Social: Various...
>>16552051 Californians to get 'inflation relief' payments
>>16552055 Election Night Livewire : Final Major Night of Primaries Before August Suggests Bigger Red Wave
>>16552076 Election Bun
>>16552190 Inside plush 'Disneyland' prison with GARDENING course where Ghislaine Maxwell's lawyer has requested she serve sentence and Ghislaine Maxwell wants to transfer from 'disgrace' US prison to 'far superior' UK one
>>16552230 Former Marine Gen. and Defense Secretary James Mattis married a physicist in a ceremony officiated by an Elvis impersonator Saturday in Las Vegas, according to reports.
>>16552221, >>16552251 Plane Faggin'
>>16552281, >>16552279 Scavino just thank PDJT for the ZERO DELTA. No Babyfist picture
>>16552270, >>16552301 Global Notable Nom:Jim explaining the reactivation of Tor and Salt Rotation
>>16552523 #20942

#16554087 at 2022-06-29 11:03:08 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #20945: Does EPA get bad news today? Edition

#16553308 at 2022-06-29 08:25:15 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #20944: Confirmation Chaos Edition

#20942
>>16551890 Dr. Peter McCullough Drops Epic COVID Truth Bomb in Texas Senate HHS Testimony
>>16551938 Eric Trump: Happy to see this ridiculous story crumble
>>16552009, >>16552014 Donald J. Trump Truth Social: Various...
>>16552051 Californians to get 'inflation relief' payments
>>16552055 Election Night Livewire : Final Major Night of Primaries Before August Suggests Bigger Red Wave
>>16552076 Election Bun
>>16552190 Inside plush 'Disneyland' prison with GARDENING course where Ghislaine Maxwell's lawyer has requested she serve sentence and Ghislaine Maxwell wants to transfer from 'disgrace' US prison to 'far superior' UK one
>>16552230 Former Marine Gen. and Defense Secretary James Mattis married a physicist in a ceremony officiated by an Elvis impersonator Saturday in Las Vegas, according to reports.
>>16552221, >>16552251 Plane Faggin'
>>16552281, >>16552279 Scavino just thank PDJT for the ZERO DELTA. No Babyfist picture
>>16552270, >>16552301 Global Notable Nom:Jim explaining the reactivation of Tor and Salt Rotation
>>16552523 #20942

#20941
>>16551074, >>16551536, >>16551569 TS: DJT
>>16551077, >>16551101 Biden Prostitution Bun
>>16551261 PEDO BUN 28 June 22
>>16551455 Trump's Latest DOJ Nom Was At Key Meeting With Comey And Sessions
>>16551544 Trump-endorsed Mary Miller wins GOP primary in Illinois 15th Congressional District
>>16551581 Jan 6th Hearings are a Colossal Failure.
>>16551710 EPA is attacking Texas oil country, too.
>>16551764 #20941

#16552546 at 2022-06-29 06:11:04 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #20943: Sailing on Edition

GLOBALS
>>15487554 Use /tech/ for ban lifts & bug reports
>>15443568 HOW TO BAKE Thread; >>16087759 Newfag Q&A Thread
>>16050716 Bakers & notetakers, plz tag the dough
>>16495621 CP guidelines, plz read: No Hunter near kids, use discernment with anything borderline new
>>16514077 ADMIN: BO of /projectdcomms/ deleted the B post / Trip Codes new
>>16538203 Here's a copy of baker's lite JS code, can insert in Options menu new (Use Discernment)
>>16552582 Jim Watkins on salt rotation and trip codes. New

NOTABLES ARE NOT ENDORSEMENTS

#20942
>>16551890 Dr. Peter McCullough Drops Epic COVID Truth Bomb in Texas Senate HHS Testimony
>>16551938 Eric Trump: Happy to see this ridiculous story crumble
>>16552009, >>16552014 Donald J. Trump Truth Social: Various…
>>16552051 Californians to get 'inflation relief' payments
>>16552055 Election Night Livewire : Final Major Night of Primaries Before August Suggests Bigger Red Wave
>>16552076 Election Bun
>>16552190 Inside plush 'Disneyland' prison with GARDENING course where Ghislaine Maxwell's lawyer has requested she serve sentence and Ghislaine Maxwell wants to transfer from 'disgrace' US prison to 'far superior' UK one
>>16552230 Former Marine Gen. and Defense Secretary James Mattis married a physicist in a ceremony officiated by an Elvis impersonator Saturday in Las Vegas, according to reports.
>>16552221, >>16552251 Plane Faggin'
>>16552281, >>16552279 Scavino just thank PDJT for the ZERO DELTA. No Babyfist picture
>>16552270, >>16552301 Global Notable Nom:Jim explaining the reactivation of Tor and Salt Rotation
>>16552523 #20942

#16552523 at 2022-06-29 06:07:43 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #20942: Squeezing the Buns Edition

Notes Final

#20942
>>16551890 Dr. Peter McCullough Drops Epic COVID Truth Bomb in Texas Senate HHS Testimony
>>16551938 Eric Trump: Happy to see this ridiculous story crumble
>>16552009, >>16552014 Donald J. Trump Truth Social: Various…
>>16552051 Californians to get 'inflation relief' payments
>>16552055 Election Night Livewire : Final Major Night of Primaries Before August Suggests Bigger Red Wave
>>16552076 Election Bun
>>16552190 Inside plush 'Disneyland' prison with GARDENING course where Ghislaine Maxwell's lawyer has requested she serve sentence and Ghislaine Maxwell wants to transfer from 'disgrace' US prison to 'far superior' UK one
>>16552230 Former Marine Gen. and Defense Secretary James Mattis married a physicist in a ceremony officiated by an Elvis impersonator Saturday in Las Vegas, according to reports.
>>16552221, >>16552251 Plane Faggin'
>>16552281, >>16552279 Scavino just thank PDJT for the ZERO DELTA. No Babyfist picture
>>16552270, >>16552301 Global Notable Nom:Jim explaining the reactivation of Tor and Salt Rotation

Whut?

#16552404 at 2022-06-29 05:45:11 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #20942: Squeezing the Buns Edition

Notes @Party Time, Excellent!

#20942
>>16551890 Dr. Peter McCullough Drops Epic COVID Truth Bomb in Texas Senate HHS Testimony
>>16551938 Eric Trump: Happy to see this ridiculous story crumble
>>16552009, >>16552014 Donald J. Trump Truth Social: Various…
>>16552051 Californians to get 'inflation relief' payments
>>16552055 Election Night Livewire : Final Major Night of Primaries Before August Suggests Bigger Red Wave
>>16552076 Election Bun
>>16552190 Inside plush 'Disneyland' prison with GARDENING course where Ghislaine Maxwell's lawyer has requested she serve sentence and Ghislaine Maxwell wants to transfer from 'disgrace' US prison to 'far superior' UK one
>>16552230 Former Marine Gen. and Defense Secretary James Mattis married a physicist in a ceremony officiated by an Elvis impersonator Saturday in Las Vegas, according to reports.
>>16552221, >>16552251 Plane Faggin'
>>16552281, >>16552279 Scavino just thank PDJT for the ZERO DELTA. No Babyfist picture
>>16552270, >>16552301 Global Notable Nom:Jim explaining the reactivation of Tor and Salt Rotation

Bring It!

#16552274 at 2022-06-29 05:18:48 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #20942: Squeezing the Buns Edition

>>16551808
Notes @yer moms

#20942
>>16551890 Dr. Peter McCullough Drops Epic COVID Truth Bomb in Texas Senate HHS Testimony
>>16551938 Eric Trump: Happy to see this ridiculous story crumble
>>16552009, >>16552014 Donald J. Trump Truth Social: Various…
>>16552051 Californians to get 'inflation relief' payments
>>16552055 Election Night Livewire : Final Major Night of Primaries Before August Suggests Bigger Red Wave
>>16552076 Election Bun
>>16552190 Inside plush 'Disneyland' prison with GARDENING course where Ghislaine Maxwell's lawyer has requested she serve sentence and Ghislaine Maxwell wants to transfer from 'disgrace' US prison to 'far superior' UK one
>>16552230 Former Marine Gen. and Defense Secretary James Mattis married a physicist in a ceremony officiated by an Elvis impersonator Saturday in Las Vegas, according to reports.
>>16552221, >>16552251 Plane Faggin'

Bring It!

#16552230 at 2022-06-29 05:10:38 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #20942: Squeezing the Buns Edition

Former Marine Gen. and Defense Secretary James Mattis married a physicist in a ceremony officiated by an Elvis impersonator Saturday in Las Vegas, according to reports.

https://twitter.com/starsandstripes/status/1542011729596383232

Elvis has been in the news lately too. More than just about the new movie coming out

#16439900 at 2022-06-13 12:49:20 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #20798: LIAR: Liz Cheney Manipulates Facts To Sway Public Opinions Edition

>>16439759
>>16439759
>7:10 = 17
<"top General"
<"Remember this date"
WOMP WOMP
this aged well…

> https://www.yahoo.com/news/retired-marine-general-john-allen-trump-military-beginning-of-the-end-america-152143340.html
Retired top general joins Mattis dissent from Trump, warns of 'beginning of the end' for democracy if troops are used against protests
Dylan Stableford
Dylan Stableford?Senior Writer
June 4, 2020?5 min read

Retired Marine Gen. John Allen on Wednesday said President Trump's threats to use the U.S. military on protesters "may well signal the beginning of the end of the American experiment."

"The slide of the United States into illiberalism may well have begun on June 1, 2020," Allen wrote in a scathing essay published online by Foreign Policy magazine. "Remember the date."

Allen, the former commander of the NATO International Security Assistance Force and U.S. forces in Afghanistan, said Trump's halting Rose Garden speech in which he declared himself the "president of law and order," the use of tear gas on protesters outside the White House and the church photo op that followed Monday was a "stunning" moment and potentially a pivotal one.

"Donald Trump expressed only the barest of condolences at the murder of George Floyd, but he also said nothing about the fundamental and underlying reasons for the unrest: systemic racism and inequality, a historic absence of respect, and a denial of justice," Allen wrote. "Yes, he mentioned George Floyd, but he did not touch on long-standing societal problems at all. He sees the crisis as a black problem - not as something to be addressed by creating the basis and impetus for a move toward social justice, but as an opportunity to use force to portray himself as a 'law and order' president.

"…Trump was clear he views those engaged in the unrest and criminal acts in these riots as terrorists, an enemy," Allen continued. "He said so, ostensibly as justification to deploy the U.S. military to apply federal force - his 'personal' force - against the riots.

"…Donald Trump isn't religious, has no need of religion, and doesn't care about the devout, except insofar as they serve his political needs," he added. "He failed to project any of the higher emotions or leadership desperately needed in every quarter of this nation during this dire moment."

Allen - who retired from the military in 2013 and is now president of the Brookings Institution - was particularly struck by the juxtaposition of Trump's claim to be "an ally of peaceful protesters" and the removal of those peaceful protesters to clear the street in front of St. John's Church.

"Fully equipped riot police and troops violently, and without provocation, set upon the peaceful demonstrators there, manhandling and beating many of them, employing flash-bangs, riot-control agents, and pepper spray throughout," he wrote. "These demonstrators had done nothing to warrant such an attack. Media who were watching over the scene craned their cameras to try to understand what had happened to justify this violence, until it became clear for all to see. The riot police had waded into these nonviolent American citizens - who were protesting massive social injustice - with the sole purpose of clearing the area around St. John's Episcopal Church, on the other side of the park, so the self-proclaimed 'ally of peaceful protesters,' Donald Trump, could pose there for a photo-op."

Allen's essay echoed a statement issued Wednesday by former Secretary of Defense James Mattis, who said he was "angry and appalled" at the White House's response to the protests.

#16235874 at 2022-05-08 18:13:12 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #20537: 2000 Ebakes Edition

>Wyden supports legal abortion
>Wyden has been an advocate of gun control.
>Wyden voted for the Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act of 2005, which would change federal law to allow federal money to fund embryonic stem-cell research, ending a federal ban. He urged President Bush to sign it, saying, "I see no reason why embryonic stem-cell research should be treated any differently than other research" in terms of federal grant funding
>In November 2018, Wyden was one of 11 senators to sign a letter to then-United States Secretary of Defense James Mattis about "the overt politicization of the military" with the Trump administration's deployment of 5,800 troops to the U.S.-Mexico border and requesting a briefing and written justification from the U.S. Northern Command for troop deployment while urging Mattis to "curb the unprecedented escalation of DOD involvement in immigration enforcement."
>supporter of unfettered illegal immigration
fucking pottery
oh there will be i told you so's
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Wyden

#16148361 at 2022-04-25 05:46:02 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #20425: Night Time Anons Scare The Darkness Edition

>>16147118 pb
>>16147118
>Lloyd Austin was a Raytheon board member before joining the Biden Admin. Raytheon is principle manufacturer of the Javelin antitank missile system

Trump's cabinet didn't consist only of Wall Street (Billionaire Jew) Parasites, it had also Military/Military Industrial Complex guys, many of them Trump's Deep State handlers …

and it was Trump who began the 'lethal' weapon aid to Kiev which allowed the regime keep on bombing the Eastern Ukraine Russian rebel republics, thus contributing in a major way to the current situation.

(2019) Trump's National Security Team Is Now a Wholly Owned Subsidiary of the Defense Industry

the defense industry is poised to receive even more representation in the highest levels of President Donald Trump's foreign policy team. Bolton deputy Charlie Kupperman-a former executive at Boeing and Lockheed Martin-was tapped to fill the job in an acting capacity, giving industry veterans another prominent perch in the administration. Ex-Raytheon lobbyist Mark Esper already serves as Secretary of Defense.

While in office, Trump has become a major booster for American defense contractors. He's urged Vietnamese leaders to buy "the best military equipment in the world by far" from American firms and has even promoted specific companies, such as Lockheed Martin, from the White House's official Twitter feed. When Saudi Arabia, a longtime US ally, drew international condemnation for its role in ordering the death of a Washington Post journalist, Trump appeared to excuse the kingdom's behavior due, in part, to the "record amount of money" it had spent on "military equipment from Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon and many other great US defense contractors."

That unwavering support for the defense industry is reflected in the makeup of Trump's advisory team.

Kupperman worked in space operations at Lockheed and as a missile defense executive at Boeing after holding several positions in the Reagan administration. He joined Bolton's staff in January as deputy national security adviser, replacing another former Boeing executive, Mira Ricardel.

Esper, who originally served as Army secretary, lobbied on behalf of the Aerospace Industries Association of America and US Chamber of Commerce before spending seven years at Raytheon. He succeeded acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan, who entered government service for the first time in July 2017 following more than three decades at Boeing.

Even James Mattis, Trump's first Defense Secretary, has ties to the defense industry. Following his retirement from the Marine Corps, Mattis joined the board of General Dynamics, and upon his exit from Trump's Cabinet, he re-joined the board. etc

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/09/trumps-national-security-team-is-now-a-wholly-owned-subsidiary-of-the-defense-industry/

#16089937 at 2022-04-17 01:14:00 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #20352: Night Shift Rollin Edition

1 of 3

Partial List Of Military Elite Purged and Fired Under Obama

Compiled By General Paul Vallely

3-17-14

Here is the list of our military elite who have been purged or fired under Obama:

Commanding Generals fired:

? General John R. Allen-U.S. Marines Commander International Security Assistance Force [ISAF] (Nov 2012)

? Major General Ralph Baker (2 Star)-U.S. Army Commander of the Combined Joint Task Force Horn in Africa (April 2013)

? Major General Michael Carey (2 Star)-U.S. Air Force Commander of the 20th US Air Force in charge of 9,600 people and 450 Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (Oct 2013)

? Colonel James Christmas-U.S. Marines Commander 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit & Commander Special-Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force Crisis Response Unit (July 2013)

? Major General Peter Fuller-U.S. Army Commander in Afghanistan (May 2011)

? Major General Charles M.M. Gurganus-U.S. Marine Corps Regional Commander of SW and I Marine Expeditionary Force in Afghanistan (Oct 2013)

? General Carter F. Ham-U.S. Army African Command (Oct 2013)

? Lieutenant General David H. Huntoon (3 Star), Jr.-U.S. Army 58th Superintendent of the US Military Academy at West Point, NY (2013)

? Command Sergeant Major Don B Jordan-U.S. Army 143rd Expeditionary Sustainment Command (suspended Oct 2013)

? General James Mattis-U.S. Marines Chief of CentCom (May 2013)

? Colonel Daren Margolin-U.S. Marine in charge of Quantico's Security Battalion (Oct 2013)

? General Stanley McChrystal-U.S. Army Commander Afghanistan (June 2010)

? General David D. McKiernan-U.S. Army Commander Afghanistan (2009)

? General David Petraeus-Director of CIA from September 2011 to November 2012 & U.S. Army Commander International Security Assistance Force [ISAF] and Commander U.S. Forces Afghanistan [USFOR-A] (Nov 2012)

? Brigadier General Bryan Roberts-U.S. Army Commander 2nd Brigade (May 2013)

? Major General Gregg A. Sturdevant-U.S. Marine Corps Director of Strategic Planning and Policy for the U.S. Pacific Command & Commander of Aviation Wing at Camp Bastion, Afghanistan (Sept 2013)

? Colonel Eric Tilley-U.S. Army Commander of Garrison Japan (Nov 2013)

? Brigadier General Bryan Wampler-U.S. Army Commanding General of 143rd Expeditionary Sustainment Command of the 1st Theater Sustainment Command [TSC] (suspended Oct 2013)

A complete list of officers from all branches is too long to post. More Here:

https://rense.com/general96/listof.html

#16088324 at 2022-04-16 19:13:36 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #20350: Could IBM's Quantum Computer be "Q"? Edition

Consider this counter-intelligence. NPR = state propaganda. Here is how the DS perceives the war in Ukraine to be going, or at least how they want the public to think it is going.

Note the focus on unconventional or hybrid warfare.

National Security
Without sending troops, the U.S. wages 'hybrid warfare' against Russia

The U.S. and Russian militaries have both talked for years about "hybrid warfare" as the future of war. Yet it remains a fuzzy term with no fixed meaning. The general idea is waging unconventional war on multiple fronts and well beyond the traditional battlefield.

What's clear is the U.S. and its allies are doing this now - perhaps on a scale never seen before - as they attempt to counter Russia in the war in Ukraine.

Here's a look at what it means in the current conflict:

Q. How did "hybrid warfare" enter the military vocabulary?
>The first prominent figure to talk about it publicly was James Mattis, the retired Marine Corps general and former U.S. defense secretary. He used the term in a 2005 speech, though he didn't go into detail.
>Then in 2013, the Russian military's chief of the general staff, Gen. Valery Gerasimov, gave a speech on hybrid warfare that caught the attention of some Western journalists.

Q. How exactly are the U.S. and its allies waging this type of warfare?
>The U.S. and its NATO allies haven't sent a single soldier into Ukraine, but they began their unconventional warfare before the first shot was fired.
>The U.S. released intelligence in advance of the Russian invasion, "pre-bunking" Russian disinformation such as the claim that Ukraine is being run by Nazis.
>President Biden's administration worked closely with Europe for months to ensure they would roll out a tough, unified sanctions package as soon as the war began.

>One of the most important steps has been the U.S. sanctions on the Central Bank of Russia. This will keep President Vladimir Putin's government from getting access to roughly half of the $600 billion war chest it had amassed before the war.

>Russia faces a cascade of bond payments that are due, starting Wednesday. If Russia defaults on any of these payments - considered a real possibility in the near future - it could become a pariah on international financial markets for years to come.

https://www.npr.org/2022/03/15/1086641007/without-sending-troops-the-u-s-wages-hybrid-warfare-against-russia

#15898569 at 2022-03-19 17:53:39 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #20104: Voting Integrity Conference ft. Sen. Mastriano, Lindell in PA Edition

General Lloyd Austin

2003 Helped lead the invasion of Iraq March 2003
2010 Commanding General of US Forces in Iraq.
2011 Vice Chief of State USArmy
2013 Commander of CENTCOM, preceded by James Mattis
2014 argued US Mil focus against ISIL should be in Iraq, as opposed to Syria.
2015 Testified program to train Syrians to fight ISIL wasn't successful - faced pointed questions from NO-NAME.

2016 - joins board of RATHEON $$$
2017 - appointed to NUCOR's board
2018 - TENET HEALTHCARE board ind. director

Operate a consulting firm. Has been a partner at PINE ISLAND CAPITAL (investment co.) with SEC OF STATE ANTONY BLINKEN and Michele Flournoy.

2021 - current Sec. of Defense

2021 - praised the National Guard for protecting the capital (J6)

Coordinated w/ FAUCI over covid pandemic,first order of business to urge service members to take the shot. (1/3 had turned it down).

REMOVED TRUMP'S APPOINTEES from PENTAGON advisory board. incl Newt GINGRICH & Corey LEWANDOWSKI.

Jan 2 2022 - tested positive for COVID. Double vaxed & boosted (Oct 2021).

Concerned about "right wing extremism" in the troops… all required to stand down and be trained in the importance of the oath of office, extremist behaviors, etc.

Feb 2021 spoke w/ Crown Prince SA
Feb 2021 Coordinated defensive airstrikes against Iranian backed militia in Syria.

In charge of troop w/d from Afghanistan.

and much more:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd_Austin

#15782291 at 2022-03-04 19:46:17 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #19956: Over The Target AF Edition

>>15782225
>https://patelpatriot.substack.com/p/devolution-part-18?s=w
>>15782225
>Is it possible for Trump to be working with Putin? (They've done so before)

>How does it all connect to the Biden's and Burisma?
So I was reading the Whitney Webb article with the Dindu Ukrainians while listening to Psaki.

Psaki was describing what the Ukrainians have been doing since the coup, but projecting it as if Putin was doing it.

> https://www.mintpressnews.com/frustrated-syria-us-turns-ukraine-next-russian-proxy-war-gambit/231181/

Frustrated in Syria
US Turns to Ukraine for Next Russia Proxy War Gambit

With Ukraine rolling out a murderous ethnic cleansing campaign in its Donbass region on the Russian border, the Russian government has responded with restraint. The new provision of arms to Ukraine by the U.S. will likely change that - and start a proxy war more dangerous than Syria'.
by Whitney Webb

August 22nd, 2017

By Whitney Webb Whitney Webb

8 Comments

Just weeks after announcing a plan to arm the Ukrainian government with lethal weapons, the Pentagon announced on Friday that Secretary of Defense James Mattis - who has endorsed the plan - will be traveling to Ukraine this coming week in order to reassure the government in Kiev that the U.S. is "firmly committed to the goal of restoring Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity."

Though the Trump administration is still well less than a year old, it has become clear that Mattis gets what he wants, especially given his assumption of far-reaching war powers once reserved for the President. This, of course, makes the likelihood of the U.S. arming Ukraine increasingly likely.

While the official reasons for the U.S.' justification in arming Ukraine are wrapped in the usual cloak of "humanitarianism" and fending off "Russian aggression," it is hardly a coincidence that the plan to send lethal weapons to the government in Kiev coincides with the U.S.' reluctant winding-down of involvement in the six-year-long conflict in Syria - a conflict often treated as a U.S.-Russia proxy war. This begs the question: Is the U.S. government, led by Mattis, seeking to ignite a new proxy war against Russia, this time on their doorstep?

>>15782133
>>15782168

#15310094 at 2022-01-05 01:06:09 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #19365: Adam Schiff Admits He Had J6 Text Messages Tampered with? Edition

>>15310074
His name keeps coming up in my ufo travels

Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program

The Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP)[1] was an unclassified but unpublicized investigatory effort funded by the United States Government to study unidentified flying objects (UFOs) or unexplained aerial phenomena (UAP).[2] The program was first made public on December 16, 2017. The program began in 2007, with funding of $22 million over the five years until the available appropriations were ended in 2012.[3][4][5] The program began in the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency.[6]

According to the Department of Defense, the AATIP ended in 2012 after five years, however reporting suggested that U.S. government programs to investigate UFOs continued.[7] This was confirmed in June 2020 with the acknowledgement of a similar military program, the unclassified but previously-unreported Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon Task Force.[8]

Luis Elizondo, who was the AATIP program director,[9] went on to work for To The Stars… Academy of Arts & Science in 2017.[10][11]

Origins
Initiated by then Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nevada)[12] as the Advanced Aerospace Weapon Systems Applications Program (AAWSAP) to study unexplained aerial phenomena (UAP) at the urging of Reid's friend, Nevada billionaire and governmental contractor Robert Bigelow,[13] and with support from the late senators Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) and Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii), the program began in the DIA in 2007 and was budgeted $22 million over its five years of operation.[3][4]

The United States Air Force facility known as "Area 51" is located in Reid's home state of Nevada. After the revived interest in the 1970s surrounding the balloon crash that is often referred to as the "1947 Roswell UFO incident", "Area 51" was rumored by ufologists and conspiracy theorists to be the US government's storage location for the crashed alien craft for study.[14]

June 24, 2009 letter from Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to Deputy Secretary of Defense William Lynn regarding the Advanced Aerospace Threat and Identification Program (AATIP)
When interviewed in the aftermath of publicity surrounding the AATIP, Reid expressed pride in his accomplishment, and was quoted as saying "I think it's one of the good things I did in my congressional service. I've done something that no one has done before."[3][5] Reid explained the reasoning behind his sponsorship of the program by saying "I'm interested in science, and in helping the American public understand what the hell is going on" and stated that "hundreds and hundreds of papers" have been available since the program was completed and that "Most all of it, 80 percent at least, is public" adding "I wanted it public, it was made public, and you guys have not even looked at it."[5]

A 2009 letter by Reid was published by KLAS-TV investigative journalists George Knapp and Matt Adams, where the Senator states that AATIP has made "much progress" with the "identification of several highly sensitive, unconventional aerospace-related findings" that will "likely lead to technology advancements" and recommends the creation of a special access program for specific parts of AATIP.[15]

Leadership and functions
AATIP was headed by Luis Elizondo.[9] Elizondo resigned from the Pentagon in October 2017 to protest government secrecy and opposition to the investigation, stating in a resignation letter to US Defense Secretary James Mattis that the program was not being taken seriously.[16] Elizondo said on December 19, 2017, that he believed there was "very compelling evidence we may not be alone."[17]

AATIP, through a contract awarded to Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies (BAASS), has generated a 494-page report that documents alleged worldwide UFO sightings over several decades.[18][19] This "Ten Month Report" has not been released to the public but focuses on reports, plans and extensive analysis of unexplained aerial phenomena.[18] According to one former BAASS contractor, the BAASS report was only a sample of the materials provided to the Defense Intelligence Agency as "monthly reports were being sent to the Pentagon, in addition to annual program updates, that were all about UAP or anomalous phenomena."[18] The program also funded and published 38 studies.[18][20][21] Those theoretical studies cover a range of advanced, exotic, and theoretical aerospace topics, ranging from "Detection and High Resolution Tracking of Vehicles at Hypersonic Velocities" to "Warp Drive, Dark Energy, and the Manipulation of Extra Dimensions."[18][21][22]

#15308227 at 2022-01-04 19:27:11 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #19362: Hold The Line and Fight Like Flynn REPEAL RINOS Edition

when do the faggots who were on the board of directors of Theranos go to jail… you know, Bill Frist, James Mattis and other such deep state faggots?

#15042181 at 2021-11-20 09:27:14 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #19030: Vanishing Magical Swamp Edition

https://nypost.com/2021/09/23/James-Mattis-testifies-in-elizabeth-holmes-theranos-trial/
Ex-Defense Secretary Mattis testifies in Elizabeth Holmes fraud trial
September 23, 2021

#15014821 at 2021-11-16 21:49:41 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #18996: Patriots Stand United Edition

CNN
FALL FROM GRACE
"Prosecution About To Rest In Fraud Trial Involving Former Head Of Blood Testing Company Theranos."
174416NOV21ET

Gen. James Mattis: $85,000 invested in Theranos

what up, Holmes
o7

#14920245 at 2021-11-04 06:12:21 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #18874: NIGHT TIME E-BAKE Edition

>>14920007
"There is a reason some could no longer be trusted" 11/9/2018
Who left the administration in 2018. List of everyone that left in 2028.

Top Trump administration officials who said farewell in 2018
BY KATHRYN WATSON
UPDATED ON: DECEMBER 31, 2018 / 2:47 PM / CBS NEWS
- To declare 2018 a busy year in the Trump administration, both in terms of major policy shifts and major staffing changes, would be an understatement.
As President Trump approaches his halfway mark in his term, his Cabinet and list of top advisers will look quite different at the start of 2019 than at the start of 2018.
- James Mattis
Mattis, who joined in the Trump administration in the first days as defense secretary, officially leaves at midnight. He handed his letter of resignation over to Mr. Trump on Dec. 20 and intended to stay on till February, but the president moved up his departure date.
- Nikki Haley
Haley announced in October that she'd be departing from the role of U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations at the end of the year.
- Jeff Sessions
Sessions' departure was long speculated, as the president repeatedly ridiculed his attorney general for not defending him more vigorously. Mr. Trump finally took the day after the November midterm elections to announce Sessions' departure. In his resignation letter, Sessions noted he was leaving at the president's request..
- John Kelly
President Trump abruptly announced his chief of staff John Kelly's impending departure on the White House South Lawn on Dec. 8. Acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney is replacing Kelly for now, although it's unclear if he will remain in that role for long. Kelly officially leaves the administration at the turn of the year.
- Don McGahn
McGahn served as the White House counsel until this fall.
- Brett McGurk
CBS News "Face the Nation" host Margaret Brennan first reported the impending departure of McGurk, the U.S. envoy in the war against ISIS. McGurk's resignation coincides with Mr. Trump's announcement that he is pulling troops out of Syria. The president claimed he never even knew McGurk, blasting him as an Obama holdover, even though Mr. Trump could have ousted McGurk at any point. McGurk's last day is Dec. 31.
- Scott Pruitt
Pruitt, the embattled former head of the Environmental Protection Agency who faced a slew of federal investigations, resigned in June.
- Ryan Zinke
Mr. Trump announced Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke would be leaving earlier this month, but has yet to announce his replacement, as the president said he would the following week. Zinke is out at the end of 2018,
- Andrew McCabe
Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe was fired by then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions in March.
- Hope Hicks
Hicks, the president's longtime confidant and White House communications director, left that role in March. Hicks went on to work as an executive at Fox.
- David Shulkin
Mr. Trump announced his then-Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin would be leaving in a March tweet. The White House said Shulkin quit, although Shulkin claimed he was fired. Mr. Trump attempted to replace Shulkin with his White House doctor, Ronny Jackson, but that pick ended in failure over controversy about Jackson's conduct.
- Rex Tillerson
Mr. Trump announced the departure of then-Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in March while Tillerson was on his way back from a trip abroad. Mr. Trump and Tillerson were known to clash. Mr. Trump replaced Tillerson with Mike Pompeo, the current secretary of state.
- Gary Cohn
Cohn served as Mr. Trump's top economic adviser until March, when he stepped down amid disagreements with Mr. Trump on tariffs. Cohn was replaced by Larry Kudlow, who still serves as the president's top economic adviser.
- Rob Porter
Porter was the formerly little-known White House staff secretary who became the focus of controversy in January 2018, when his two ex-wives leveled allegations of abuse.
- Marc Short
Short left his post as the White House's director of legislative affairs in July.
- H.R. McMaster
Mr. Trump announced the departure of then-national security adviser H.R. McMaster on Twitter in March.
- Dina Powell
Powell, formerly the deputy national security adviser, left the White House in early 2018. Her departure was announced in December 2017.
- John McEntee
The president's personal assistant, John McEntee, was fired because he was under investigation by the Department of Homeland Security for financial crimes, as CBS News confirmed in March.
- Michael Anton
Anton was the top spokesman for the National Security Council until he announced his departure in April.
- Omarosa Manigault Newman
Former "Apprentice" star Omarosa Manigault Newman's departure was announced in late 2017, but she stayed on the White House payroll well into January 2018.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/top-trump-administration-officials-who-left-in-2018/#app

#14667698 at 2021-09-26 22:10:01 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #18553: Call The Ball Edition

>>14667681
and the Great flight of Military commanders during the Obama admins purge of true Patriots.

List Of Military Elite Purged
And Fired Under Obama

Compiled By General Paul Vallely
3-17-14

Here is the list of our military elite who have been purged or fired under Obama:
Commanding Generals fired:

? General John R. Allen-U.S. Marines Commander International Security Assistance Force [ISAF] (Nov 2012)
? Major General Ralph Baker (2 Star)-U.S. Army Commander of the Combined Joint Task Force Horn in Africa (April 2013)
? Major General Michael Carey (2 Star)-U.S. Air Force Commander of the 20th US Air Force in charge of 9,600 people and 450 Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (Oct 2013)
? Colonel James Christmas-U.S. Marines Commander 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit & Commander Special-Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force Crisis Response Unit (July 2013)
? Major General Peter Fuller-U.S. Army Commander in Afghanistan (May 2011)
? Major General Charles M.M. Gurganus-U.S. Marine Corps Regional Commander of SW and I Marine Expeditionary Force in Afghanistan (Oct 2013)
? General Carter F. Ham-U.S. Army African Command (Oct 2013)
? Lieutenant General David H. Huntoon (3 Star), Jr.-U.S. Army 58th Superintendent of the US Military Academy at West Point, NY (2013)
? Command Sergeant Major Don B Jordan-U.S. Army 143rd Expeditionary Sustainment Command (suspended Oct 2013)
? General James Mattis-U.S. Marines Chief of CentCom (May 2013)
? Colonel Daren Margolin-U.S. Marine in charge of Quantico's Security Battalion (Oct 2013)
? General Stanley McChrystal-U.S. Army Commander Afghanistan (June 2010)
? General David D. McKiernan-U.S. Army Commander Afghanistan (2009)
? General David Petraeus-Director of CIA from September 2011 to November 2012 & U.S. Army Commander International Security Assistance Force [ISAF] and Commander U.S. Forces Afghanistan [USFOR-A] (Nov 2012)
? Brigadier General Bryan Roberts-U.S. Army Commander 2nd Brigade (May 2013)
? Major General Gregg A. Sturdevant-U.S. Marine Corps Director of Strategic Planning and Policy for the U.S. Pacific Command & Commander of Aviation Wing at Camp Bastion, Afghanistan (Sept 2013)
? Colonel Eric Tilley-U.S. Army Commander of Garrison Japan (Nov 2013)
? Brigadier General Bryan Wampler-U.S. Army Commanding General of 143rd Expeditionary Sustainment Command of the 1st Theater Sustainment Command [TSC] (suspended Oct 2013)

Commanding Admirals fired:
? Rear Admiral Charles Gaouette-U.S. Navy Commander John C. Stennis Carrier Strike Group Three (Oct 2012)
? Vice Admiral Tim Giardina(3 Star, demoted to 2 Star)-U.S. Navy Deputy Commander of the US Strategic Command, Commander of the Submarine Group Trident, Submarine Group 9 and Submarine Group 10 (Oct 2013)

Naval Officers fired: (All in 2011)
? Captain David Geisler-U.S. Navy Commander Task Force 53 in Bahrain (Oct 2011)
? Commander Laredo Bell-U.S. Navy Commander Naval Support Activity Saratoga Springs, NY (Aug 2011)
? Lieutenant Commander Kurt Boenisch-Executive Officer amphibious transport dock Ponce (Apr 2011)
? Commander Nathan Borchers-U.S. Navy Commander destroyer Stout (Mar 2011)
? Commander Robert Brown-U.S. Navy Commander Beachmaster Unit 2 Fort Story, VA (Aug 2011)
? Commander Andrew Crowe-Executive Officer Navy Region Center Singapore (Apr 2011)
? Captain Robert Gamberg-Executive Officer carrier Dwight D. Eisenhower (Jun 2011)
1/2

#14639465 at 2021-09-22 23:09:35 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #18518: EBake All For A LARP Edition

ml8_ml8 @ml8_ml8
3h
Any other day, this might be fun news. Former SecDef General Mattis testifying at the Theranos / Elizabeth Holmes trial. He was on the board of directors.

erin griffith @eringriffith
At the courthouse for US v Holmes. James Mattis has taken the stand.

ml8_ml8
@ml8_ml8
In case you were wondering how General Mattis' trstimony wemt today.
twitter.com/eringriffith/s...

erin griffith @eringriffith
At the courthouse for US v Holmes. James Mattis has taken the stand.

https://twitter.com/ml8_ml8/status/1440815268792467459

#14578118 at 2021-09-14 14:30:48 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #18441:

>>14578106
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/8/31/20839873/James-Mattis-book-theranos

#14496662 at 2021-08-31 12:40:46 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #18339: Breaking! Patriots Rumored To Seek Out New States, And Audit Them Edition

Theranos and the Mad Dog tangent
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/8/31/20839873/James-Mattis-book-theranos

Mattis not only served on Theranos's board during some of the years after he'd retired from military service, while it was perpetrating the scheme, but he earlier served as a key advocate of putting the company's technology (technology that was, to be clear, fake) to use inside the military while he was still serving as a general. Holmes settled the SEC case, paying a $500,000 fee and accepting various other penalties, while Balwani is fighting it out in court. (Holmes and Balwani are both battling criminal fraud charges.)

#14443759 at 2021-08-24 10:19:53 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #18272: Ultimate Q Decode - The Q Code Solution Edition

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-20/elizabeth-holmes-warns-lab-chief-s-testimony-may-upend-trial?sref=6uww027M
Elizabeth Holmes Warns Lab Chief's Testimony May Upend Trial
Of all the high-profile witnesses set for Elizabeth Holmes's criminal trial, Kingshuk Das isn't exactly a key player in the collapse of Theranos Inc. But Das poses enough of a risk for her defense that her lawyer said his testimony threatens to upend the proceeding.
Das, a former lab director for Theranos, has said he told Holmes, who founded the company and was its chief executive officer, that its blood-testing equipment was deficient and not reliable, court filings show. He's one of the few high-level scientists positioned to explain to jurors how aware Holmes was of problems with the machines even as she continued to promote them.
But on Friday, lawyers for Holmes argued in court that Das was added too late to the prosecution's list of witnesses for a trial that starts in 11 days. The defense said in court filings it wasn't aware until late last month that the government might rely on his expert opinions about assays, or tests. That didn't allow enough time to prepare a response at trial, her attorneys said.
Prosecutors argued that Das is providing testimony about facts and events in the case, not expert opinion.
In response, U.S. District Judge Edward Davila said he's inclined to let Das testify – so long as he doesn't veer into subjects that get too technical for jurors. The judge suggested the subject may be "something we're going to have to police as the witness testifies."
Lance Wade, a lawyer for Holmes, warned against "kicking this can down the road," suggesting that dealing with Das's testimony in the middle of trial poses possible problems of fairness that could derail it.
"My concern is if we wait and defer on this we're not going to draw the lines the way we think is appropriate," Wade told the judge. Waiting until Das testifies, he added, "is creating the serious risk of a continuance down the road."
Jury selection is scheduled to begin in federal court in San Jose, California, on Aug. 31.
Holmes is charged with lying to doctors, patients and investors about the accuracy and capabilities of blood-testing machines made by Theranos. The company was once valued at $9 billion, but crashed and was dissolved after exposes and regulators revealed myriad problems with the tests.
Possible witnesses at the trial include former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and former Secretary of Defense James Mattis who both served on the board of Theranos and Holmes herself.
According to court filings, Das said he was told by Holmes when he was hired in 2015 that his job would include responding to findings in an audit of the company's Edison blood-testing machine by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Das said he was told the CMS audit had uncovered "a few irregularities," but that specific details weren't discussed, according to a court filing.
The findings by the CMS were grave enough that the regulator banned Holmes from running a lab company for two years. Theranos also had to retract or correct the results of tens of thousands of medical tests.
In his own review of Theranos data, Das "concluded the Edison devices did not perform well, and the accuracy and precision did not meet the level needed for clinical testing," court records show. Das told the government that "even using a fairly low bar, none of the Edison tests passed an acceptable level," and that CMS inspectors were "100% correct with their deficiency findings."
He was laid off at Theranos in 2018, the year the company ceased operations.
The case is U.S. v. Holmes, 18-cr-00258, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California (San Jose).

#14369062 at 2021-08-16 18:04:28 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #18178: Ebake Flood Detection wtf

Pentagon leaders repeatedly praised Afghan army that collapsed in days

For years, US military leaders praised the improvement of the Afghan forces

The Afghan military caved to Taliban pressure, losing control of the country in a swift and devastating fashion that undermined the praise American military leaders have heaped on them over the years.

For years, American generals have claimed that Afghan forces were improving and developing their ability to handle themselves against the Taliban.

"The Afghan army is increasingly effective," Gen. James Mattis told Congress in July 2010 at his confirmation hearing when he was nominated for commander of U.S. Central Command. He added that the Afghan military - alongside U.S. forces - were "the worst nightmare for the Taliban."

In December of that year, then-Defense Secretary Robert Gates told reporters that Afghan troops were "responsible for security in Kabul," "performing well" and would "continue to improve."

Cut to 2012, and Gen. John Allen, then the Commander of the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan, told the House Armed Services Committee, "We remain on track to ensure that Afghanistan will no longer be a safe haven for Al Qaida and will no longer be terrorized by the Taliban."

Allen went on to say that "as the potential unifying influence in Afghanistan, the Afghan forces are better than we thought they were, and they're better than they thought they were when tried in combat."

In November 2014, Gen. John Campbell told NPR, when asked if Afghan forces could fight with assistance, that "whenever the [Afghan security forces] get involved with the Taliban, the Taliban cannot hold ground, they can't hold terrain."

"I'm telling you what I've seen," Campbell continued, "the change from a couple of years ago to today. They do have the capability to protect themselves. They are the strongest institution in Afghanistan."

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pentagon-leaders-praised-afghan-army-collapse

#14350500 at 2021-08-14 16:11:53 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #18155: Commandment #11 Thou Shalt Audit Elections Edition

>>14350349 pb
>https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/the-thirty-tyrants
Meanwhile, Kissinger's geopolitical maneuver became the cornerstone of his historical legacy. It also made him a wealthy man selling access to Chinese officials. In turn, Kissinger pioneered the way for other former high-ranking policymakers to engage in their own foreign influence-peddling operations, like William Cohen, defense secretary in the administration of Bill Clinton, who greased the way for China to gain permanent most favored nation trade status in 2000 and become a cornerstone of the World Trade Organization. The Cohen Group has two of its four overseas offices in China, and includes a number of former top officials, including Trump's former Defense Secretary James Mattis, who recently failed to disclose his work for the Cohen Group when he criticized the Trump administration's "with us or against us" approach to China in an editorial. "The economic prosperity of U.S. allies and partners hinges on strong trade and investment relationships with Beijing," wrote Mattis, who was literally being paid by China for taking exactly that position.

why is POTUS surrounded by highly respected Generals? Why are Marines special?
-Q
I read POTUS thought "Mad Dog" sounded kinda cool

#14333550 at 2021-08-12 13:16:56 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #18134: Cyber Symposium Findings Give Plausibility To De-Certify Election Edition

https://www.mei.edu/publications/irregular-warfare-case-study-cia-and-us-army-special-forces-operations-northern-iraq

In February 2002, the Northern Iraq Liaison Element (NILE) team13 entered Northern Iraq.14 A CIA published review of a book on the topic stated, "In Iraqi Kurdistan during 2002-2003, the U.S. Intelligence Community had the advantage of experienced hand picked teams of CIA and Special Forces personnel who knew the terrain, culture, language and people."15 The NILE team's mission was primarily to reestablish contact with the two main political parties in Iraqi Kurdistan, the Kurdish Democratic Party (KDP) and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), which at the time had been in an official state of war with each other since 1996. The attacks of September 11, 2001 had occurred a few months earlier and U.S. national security leaders were concerned that Iraq might become another theater in the War on Terror. The intent was to link up with both parties and work with them to prepare the north for a potential war with Saddam in coordination with the Turkish government.

The NDS of 2018 was the first in over a decade. As described by then-Secretary of Defense James Mattis, the strategy has three main parts: building a more lethal force, strengthening alliances and attracting new partners, and reforming the Department of Defense (DoD) for greater performance and affordability. Strengthening alliances and attracting new partners was considered crucial to the ability to shift resources to match our new priorities.26

The NDS prioritizes the great power competitors of China and Russia, the rogue state actors of North Korea and Iran, and then countering the threat of terrorism against the homeland and our interests, allies, and partners aboard. The belief was that after 20 years of warfare in Afghanistan and Iraq against mostly unconventional forces and terrorist organizations (with the exception of Saddam Hussein's Republican Guard at the beginning of the war in Iraq in 2003), that the U.S. needed to focus on more significant threats to the nation

#14217054 at 2021-07-28 21:30:18 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #17986: House cleaning Edition

>>14216014 pb
>This is my one true hope. Because in the news, on their twitter feeds, out of the mouths of their own Generals, Army, Navy & AF have really made me sad for what they have become.
>
>But the Marines? They have been quiet & not making any waves or stupid tweets or whatever.

Think Robert Mueller.
Think Gen. Mattis.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/06/James-Mattis-denounces-trump-protests-militarization/612640/
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/06/Mattis-blames-trump-for-violence-at-capitol-says-his-actions-poison-our-respect-for-fellow-citizens.html
These are some of the most revealing quotes from Mattis on Trump

On dealing with Trump, Mattis said: ""I was often trying to impose reason over impulse. And you see where I wasn't able to, because the tweets would get out there."
On the president's morality, Mattis reportedly said: "The president has no moral compass." (Former Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats is said to have agreed, saying: "To him, a lie is not a lie. It's just what he thinks. He doesn't know the difference between the truth and a lie.")
On receiving orders from Trump, he said: "I never cared much for what Trump said. I ran the Department of Defense. I kept him informed in my private meetings. I wouldn't do it in public, because he would have to play a role then. But I didn't get any guidance from him, generally, other than an occasional tweet."
In response to Trump's weakening of alliances, Mattis said: "What we're doing is we're actually showing how to destroy America. That's what we're showing them. How to isolate us from all of our allies. How to take us down. And it's working very well. We are declaring war on one another inside America. It's actually working against us right now."
On a president being tough and keeping the peace, Mattis said: "Not with the current occupant. He doesn't understand. He has no mental framework for these things. He hasn't read."
On Trump's go-it-alone strategy and dismissal of alliances, Mattis said: "It was indefensible. It was jingoism. It was a misguided form of nationalism. It was not patriotism."
On Trump's lasting impact on the country, Mattis said: "This degradation of the American experiment is real. This is tangible. Truth is no longer governing the White House statements. Nobody believes-even people who believe in him somehow believe in him without believing what he says."
On his decision to resign, Mattis said: "I was basically directed to do something that I thought went beyond stupid to felony stupid, strategically jeopardizing our place in the world and everything else, that's when I quit."

#14129165 at 2021-07-15 16:55:15 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #17876: #AZaudit T -45 and Counting Ebake Edition

>>14129148
>07/15/21
>Despite massive Voter Fraud and Irregularities during the 2020 Presidential Election Scam, that we are now seeing play out in very big and important States, I never threatened, or spoke about, to anyone, a coup of our Government. So ridiculous! Sorry to inform you, but an Election is my form of "coup," and if I was going to do a coup, one of the last people I would want to do it with is General Mark Milley. He got his job only because the world's most overrated general, James Mattis, could not stand him, had no respect for him, and would not recommend him. To me the fact that Mattis didn't like him, just like Obama didn't like him and actually fired Milley, was a good thing, not a bad thing. I often act counter to people's advice who I don't respect.
>
>In any event, I lost respect for Milley when we walked together to St. John's Church (which was still smoldering from a Radical Left fire set the day before), side by side, a walk that has now been proven to be totally appropriate-and the following day Milley choked like a dog in front of the Fake News when they told him they thought he should not have been walking with the President, which turned out to be incorrect. He apologized profusely, making it a big story, instead of saying I am proud to walk with and protect the President of the United States. Had he said that, it would have all been over, no big deal, but I saw at that moment he had no courage or skill, certainly not the type of person I would be talking "coup" with. I'm not into coups!
>In fact, around the same time Milley, in a conversation, was an advocate of changing all of the names of our Military Forts and Bases. I realized then, also, he was a much different person than I had hoped. I said to him, "spend more time thinking about China and Russia, and less time on being politically correct."
>But never during my Administration did Milley display what he is showing now. He was not "woke." Actually, I don't believe he ever was, but the way I look at Milley, he's just a better politician than a general, trying to curry favor with the Radical Left and the absolute crazy people espousing a philosophy which will destroy our Country!

>>https://www.donaldjtrump.com/news/statement-by-donald-j-trump-45th-president-of-the-united-states-of-america-07.15.21-04

Holy crap.

#14129148 at 2021-07-15 16:52:09 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #17876: #AZaudit T -45 and Counting Ebake Edition

DJT so far today
07/15/21
Nancy Pelosi is a known nut job. Her enraged quotes that she was afraid that I would use nuclear weapons is just more of the same. In fact, I was the one that got us out of wars, not into wars. And I was the one who got respect for our Country again, not like now when the leaders of the entire World are laughing at us. They didn't laugh when I was there!
https://www.donaldjtrump.com/news/statement-by-donald-j-trump-45th-president-of-the-united-states-of-america-07.15.21

07/15/21
Kevin McCarthy will be meeting with me this afternoon at Trump National in Bedminster, N.J. Much to discuss!
>https://www.donaldjtrump.com/news/statement-by-donald-j-trump-45th-president-of-the-united-states-of-america-07.15.21-02

07/15/21
Mike Carey, a true champion, is doing really well against the gang of RINOs in Ohio's 15th Congressional District. Mike loves our Country, is smart, strong, tough on Crime and Borders, adores our Military and our Vets, and will totally protect our Second Amendment. I have known Mike for many years and he will not let you down! Mike Carey has my Complete and Total Endorsement. Get out and VOTE on August 3, 2021!
>https://www.donaldjtrump.com/news/statement-by-donald-j-trump-45th-president-of-the-united-states-of-america-07.15.21-03

07/15/21
Despite massive Voter Fraud and Irregularities during the 2020 Presidential Election Scam, that we are now seeing play out in very big and important States, I never threatened, or spoke about, to anyone, a coup of our Government. So ridiculous! Sorry to inform you, but an Election is my form of "coup," and if I was going to do a coup, one of the last people I would want to do it with is General Mark Milley. He got his job only because the world's most overrated general, James Mattis, could not stand him, had no respect for him, and would not recommend him. To me the fact that Mattis didn't like him, just like Obama didn't like him and actually fired Milley, was a good thing, not a bad thing. I often act counter to people's advice who I don't respect.

In any event, I lost respect for Milley when we walked together to St. John's Church (which was still smoldering from a Radical Left fire set the day before), side by side, a walk that has now been proven to be totally appropriate-and the following day Milley choked like a dog in front of the Fake News when they told him they thought he should not have been walking with the President, which turned out to be incorrect. He apologized profusely, making it a big story, instead of saying I am proud to walk with and protect the President of the United States. Had he said that, it would have all been over, no big deal, but I saw at that moment he had no courage or skill, certainly not the type of person I would be talking "coup" with. I'm not into coups!

In fact, around the same time Milley, in a conversation, was an advocate of changing all of the names of our Military Forts and Bases. I realized then, also, he was a much different person than I had hoped. I said to him, "spend more time thinking about China and Russia, and less time on being politically correct."

But never during my Administration did Milley display what he is showing now. He was not "woke." Actually, I don't believe he ever was, but the way I look at Milley, he's just a better politician than a general, trying to curry favor with the Radical Left and the absolute crazy people espousing a philosophy which will destroy our Country!
>https://www.donaldjtrump.com/news/statement-by-donald-j-trump-45th-president-of-the-united-states-of-america-07.15.21-04

07/15/21
Big hearing in Arizona on the Forensic Audit at 1:00PM EDT. Watch on OAN!
>https://www.donaldjtrump.com/news/statement-by-donald-j-trump-45th-president-of-the-united-states-of-america-07.15.21-05

#14059031 at 2021-07-05 14:44:05 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #17790: Ariz. Senators Expect Audit To Reveal â€˜Significantâ€™ Fraud Edition

>>14058998

1. Army General Curtis Scaparrotti, Commander, U.S. European Command and NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe
2. Army General Mark Milley, U.S. Army Chief of Staff
3. Marine Corps General Robert Neller, Commandant of the Marine Corps
4. U.S. Coast Guard Admiral Paul Zukunft, Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard
5. Navy Admiral Kurt W. Tidd, Commander, U.S. Southern Command
6. Army General Raymond A Thomas, Commander, US Special Operations Command
7. Marine Corps General Thomas D. Waldhauser, Commander, U.S. Africa Command
8. Air Force General Paul Selva, Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
9. Marine Corps General Joseph Dunford, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
10. Defense Secretary James Mattis
11. President Donald Trump
12. Vice President Mike Pence
13. Navy Admiral Michael Rodgers, Director of the National Security Agency
14. Navy Admiral John Richardson, Chief of Naval Operations
15. Army General Joseph Votel, Commander, U.S. Central Command
16. Air Force General David Goldfein, Air Force Chief of Staff
17. Air Force General John E Hyten, Commander, US Strategic Command
18. Air Force General Joseph L. Lengyel, Chief of the National Guard Bureau
19. Air Force General Lori Robinson, Commander, Northern Command and NORAD
20. Patrick M. Shanahan, Deputy Secretary of Defense
21. Navy Admiral Harry Harris, Commander, U.S. Pacific Command
22. Air Force General Darren W McDew, Commander, U.S. Transportation Command
23. U.S. Coast Guard Vice Admiral Karl Schultz, Commander, Atlantic Area

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/fb-5600721/TRUMP-PARADES-GENERALS-OVAL-OFFICE.html

#14055470 at 2021-07-05 00:19:57 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #17786: Happy Birthday USA - MJ12 Larpers SEETHING Edition

>>14055307
Here is a high res pic and text names.

i would like to know how many are gone.
POTUS is pointing down and has a shit eating grin.
the small pic floating around with X's is sauceless and too small to read.
1. Army General Curtis Scaparrotti, Commander, U.S. European Command and NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe
2. Army General Mark Milley, U.S. Army Chief of Staff
3. Marine Corps General Robert Neller, Commandant of the Marine Corps
4. U.S. Coast Guard Admiral Paul Zukunft, Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard
5. Navy Admiral Kurt W. Tidd, Commander, U.S. Southern Command
6. Army General Raymond A Thomas, Commander, US Special Operations Command
7. Marine Corps General Thomas D. Waldhauser, Commander, U.S. Africa Command
8. Air Force General Paul Selva, Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
9. Marine Corps General Joseph Dunford, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
10. Defense Secretary James Mattis
11. President Donald Trump
12. Vice President Mike Pence
13. Navy Admiral Michael Rodgers, Director of the National Security Agency
14. Navy Admiral John Richardson, Chief of Naval Operations
15. Army General Joseph Votel, Commander, U.S. Central Command
16. Air Force General David Goldfein, Air Force Chief of Staff
17. Air Force General John E Hyten, Commander, US Strategic Command
18. Air Force General Joseph L. Lengyel, Chief of the National Guard Bureau
19. Air Force General Lori Robinson, Commander, Northern Command and NORAD
20. Patrick M. Shanahan, Deputy Secretary of Defense
21. Navy Admiral Harry Harris, Commander, U.S. Pacific Command
22. Air Force General Darren W McDew, Commander, U.S. Transportation Command
23. U.S. Coast Guard Vice Admiral Karl Schultz, Commander, Atlantic Area

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/fb-5600721/TRUMP-PARADES-GENERALS-OVAL-OFFICE.html

#13970966 at 2021-06-24 10:44:53 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #17682: Late Night, Morning Light Edition

>>13967544 pb
>https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/06/read-mao-tse-tung-read-karl-marx-read-lenin-chairman-us-joint-chiefs-staff-mark-milley/

Milley and Trump have formed a close and personal friendship since the early days of the Trump administration, the primary reason why Milley was chosen as Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman by President Trump instead of choosing the recommendation of Secretary of Defense James Mattis and the Chairman General Joseph Dunford, Air Force Chief of Staff General David L. Goldfein.

Should White Military Hat Patriots condemn White Rage MAGA hat Patriots?

#13932209 at 2021-06-18 18:50:41 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #17635: The 'Rent Free' Edition

Here's How Much the Pentagon Has Spent So Far to Treat Transgender Troops

The Pentagon has spent $15 million in the past five years to treat 1,892 transgender troops, including $11.5 million for psychotherapy and $3.1 million for surgeries, according to Defense Department data provided to Military.com

Of the 243 gender reassignment surgeries performed on military personnel since 2016, 50 took place between Jan. 1, 2016 and Dec. 31, 2017, and 193 occurred from Jan. 1, 2018 to Dec. 31, 2019 – the two years after President Donald Trump announced via Twitter that he would bar transgender individuals from serving in the U.S. military.

According to the Defense Health Agency, the surgeries were performed in military health facilities and included removal of breasts or testicles, hysterectomies and labiaplasty – creation of or reshaping the flesh around a vagina.

The total number of transgender persons serving in the armed forces across all three components active-duty, Reserve and National Guard is not known as not all likely have sought treatment.

But as of May, 1,892 military personnel have been diagnosed and treated for gender dysphoria, including 726 Army soldiers, 576 Navy sailors, 449 Air Force airmen and 141 Marines, according to DHA spokesman Peter Graves.

The Palm Center, a public policy think tank that focuses on LGBT issues, estimated in 2018 that 14,707 transgender troops serve in the U.S. armed forces, including nearly 9,000 on active duty and 5,727 in the reserves.

In 2016, then-Defense Secretary Ash Carter announced that transgender people already serving in the military would be allowed to serve openly and transgender individuals were allowed to enlist as of July 1, 2017.

Trump announced via tweet in July 2017 that planned to ban transgender people from serving in the U.S. military, saying he consulted with military leaders and military experts before deciding that DoD did not need to be "burdened with the tremendous medical costs and disruption that transgender in the military would entail."

A policy was released by then-Secretary of Defense James Mattis in 2018 that prohibited individuals diagnosed with gender dysphoria from serving, with exceptions. It also said that transgender persons who didn't have the gender dysphoria defined as extreme anxiety or distress that may accompany a person's desire to be the opposite gender could serve, but only in their birth gender.

A number of lawsuits were filed over the policy, which was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in January 2019.

President Joe Biden reversed the policy on his fifth day in office, Jan. 25, 2021.

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2021/06/18/heres-how-much-pentagon-has-spent-so-far-treat-transgender-troops.html

#13608289 at 2021-05-07 23:01:54 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #17233: Late Lunch Ebake Edition

House Republican Conference Chair Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) - who is facing possible ouster from her leadership position next week - quietly orchestrated a Washington Post op-ed by 10 living former defense secretaries cautioning that then-President Trump might attempt to politicize the military, according to a report.
Th op-ed, published three days before the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, was signed by Trump's former Defense Secretary James Mattis, as well as Cheney's father, former Vice President Dick Cheney, and fellow ex-Pentgagon chiefs Ashton Carter, William Cohen, Mark Esper, Robert Gates, Chuck Hagel, Leon Panetta, William Perry and Donald Rumsfeld.

https://nypost.com/2021/05/07/pal-says-liz-cheney-planned-anti-trump-op-ed-by-10-defense-secretaries/

#13391848 at 2021-04-09 17:54:14 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #16964: Call To Twitter #HunterBiden && #HuntersLaptop Edition

Biden To Boost Already Bloated Pentagon Budget With Proposed $715 Billion

Despite progressive lawmakers in his own party long demanding a serious reduction in the Pentagon's notoriously bloated budget, President Biden on Friday is expected to request a whopping $715 billion for the Pentagon for fiscal year 2022.

This is a slight increase from the prior year as Politico noted late Thursday in reporting the news: the Pentagon budget topline to be presented to lawmakers represents "a roughly 1.5% increase in defense spending from the current year's [$704 billion] level, making it effectively an inflation-adjusted budget boost."

However, it's a slight decrease from what Trump had reportedly planned to propose for this next fiscal year, which was $722 billion.

According to Bloomberg Government:

A $715 billion discretionary top-line would amount to a decrease of about 0.4% in real terms, adjusting for inflation from this year's enacted appropriations of about $704 billion. That's in contrast to a push for 3% to 5% real annual increases in national security spending endorsed by then-Defense Secretary James Mattis in 2017.

As for the aforementioned progressive pushback, they are pointing to the astounding waste that in the reality has little to do with defending the American people, but more to do with handing out huge contracts and fattening up the military-industrial complex.

A statement from the public interest advocate Public Citizen said it best in calling out Biden's Pentagon budget as a "tribute to the power of the military-industrial complex."

"There are hundreds of billions of dollars to be saved by appropriate cuts to the Pentagon budget," Weissman added. "What is most important for the FY22 budget is that it be smaller than FY21, in order to signal that we are finally moving in the right direction and shifting resources from the Pentagon to investments in people."

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/biden-boost-already-bloated-pentagon-budget-proposed-715-billion

#13278723 at 2021-03-23 01:56:35 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #16821: Biden has more Problems North than Down South Edition

Nagging Data Points

There's an 8'x 10? white board visible to me at all times labeled "earworm?", I cannot erase it yet because it forces me to remind myself to keep looking at data-points to discover the origin. Those who have followed CTH for years know these nagging issues stick with me, and I cannot let them go until they are reconciled.

That was the case with the 2012 election and Mitt Romney... how did that primary shape that way when Newt Gingrich was crushing the field until Florida.

It took two years, until I found the origin of the splitter strategy (2014 RNC winter convention) - and that made all the political data reconcile. This is an example of nagging stuff that balances history; because ultimately if we don't know the accurate history -sometimes at a very granular level- we cannot prevent or avoid repeating mistakes in the future.

The COVID-19 narrative held four primary benefits. Without COVID weaponized we would not see:

(1) Mail-in ballots. The origination material of the 2020 fraud.
(2) Breaking down of alliance-minded gathering and assemblies. COVID blocked group gatherings to discuss what was around us and stopped us from recognizing the scale of our assembly. COVID also took down faith-based leadership and church assembly when it was needed most.
(3) Spending packages that were really blue state bailouts justified under the auspices of COVID relief.
(4) Government providing the crisis solution (and all the ramifications therein).

We also know in hindsight, the 2016 presidential transition team carried an unknown motive. Who was it that recommended: Dan Coats (ODNI), Michael Atkinson (ICIG), James Mattis (DoD), Dana Boente (NSD then FBI counsel). Who was the one steering these placements from inside the transition team?

Who was in charge of the transition team and also in charge of the COVID task force?

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2021/03/22/nagging-data-points/

#13247036 at 2021-03-18 03:17:27 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #16780: Biden too Busy Napping Edition

>>13247031
>>13246902

cont:

Unfortunately for our troops, the new president doesn't seem to care how his social experimentation affects our actual warfighting. Unlike Donald Trump, who insisted the military study the comprehensive effects of such a policy, Joe Biden from the so-called "party of science" has not asked for any updated information. In fact, he claimed this morning that opening the doors to transgenderism "does not have any meaningful negative impact on the Armed Forces" and "minimal" effect on "readiness and health care costs."

That's interesting, since the findings of then-Secretary James Mattis in 2018 were that the Obama administration had to ignore stacks of research to justify the change. After wading through 21 months of actual fallout, the DOD believed that introducing this type of gender chaos into the military presented a "considerable risk" to its "effectiveness and lethality." The memo does a great job dismantling the flawed and outdated RAND study that both Presidents Obama and Biden have used to prop up their decision. After almost two years of seeing the real impact on troops, the DOD argued that RAND had "mischaracterize[d] or overstate[d] the reports on which it rests its conclusions" (p. 39). "In fact," officials write, "the RAND study itself repeatedly emphasized the lack of quality data on these issues and qualified its conclusions accordingly" – a fact the Biden administration hasn't bothered to mention.

"Military standards are high for a reason," Secretary Mattis wrote in the report, "the trauma of war, which all service members must be prepared to face, demands physical, mental, and moral standards that will give all service members the greatest chance to survive their ordeal with their bodies, minds, and moral character intact. The Department would be negligent to sacrifice those standards for any cause."

Back in 2016, when Barack Obama first injected gender confusion into the ranks, the result was absolute chaos. Instead of making our troops more effective, efficient, and deadly, commanders were retrofitting bathrooms, ordering sensitivity trainings, rewriting health care policies, and worrying how to combat the low morale. At the time, FRC's Peter Sprigg warned that it could cost taxpayers up to $3.7 billion over the next 10 years for medical costs and lost deployment time – more than enough, we pointed out, to buy a Navy destroyer. And like a destroyer, this decision is equally capable of sinking our military's mission.

Even after Donald Trump overturned the policy, taxpayers were forced to make a huge investment in the Left's social petri dish, sinking well over $8 million into treatments, hormones, and surgeries for the handful of transgender-identifying troops who were grandfathered in. By 2019, the Defense Department announced that it had redirected funds from salaries, equipment, and trainings for 22,992 psychotherapy visits, 9,321 hormone prescriptions, and a whopping 161 surgeries (ranging from hysterectomies and breast augmentation to "male reproductive" construction). Surgeries alone racked up $2 million – an average of $12,422 a servicemember. And that was with the Trump ban in place! Imagine how much Americans will be spending when Biden opens the ranks to this all-expenses-paid gender nonsense for four full years!

FRC's Lt. General (Ret.) Jerry Boykin could only shake his head at the reversal. "This has everything to do with President Biden's LGBT agenda – and nothing to do with military readiness, which should always be the Pentagon's first consideration."

While America faces rising threats from around the world, it's obvious that Joe Biden is only interested in using our military to fight one war: the culture's.

#12930603 at 2021-02-15 05:24:31 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #16504: The 'Ghosts of Shadilay!' Edition

>>12930588

yep

Mattis failed to disclose role with global consultant tied to China in bombshell column

Nov 25, 2020

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/nov/25/James-Mattis-failed-disclose-his-role-consultant-t/

#12868079 at 2021-02-09 13:59:03 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #16426: Impeach A GEOTUS At Your Own Peril Edition

Rep. Bob Wittman on Lloyd Austin: 'What Is the Definition of Extremism?'
Robert Kraychik8 Feb 2021

Good Question: is it when liberals try to cancel and destroy your life when you don't agree with them?

Breitbart News Senior Editor-at-Large Joel Pollak asked Rep. Rob Wittman (R-VA) about Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin's claim that "extremism in the military" necessitates a 60-day "stand down" order across the armed services to address.

Last week, Austin issued a military-wide order for commanders to spend the next 60 days discussing "extremism" with military personnel.

"I'm very concerned about Lloyd Austin," Pollak stated on SiriusXM's Breitbart News Sunday. "He got a waiver from Congress just like James Mattis did. ... Lloyd Austin said some really astonishing things in his confirmation hearing. He talked about enemies within the military, and now we're going pause military operations over the next 60 days to make sure that there are no extremists, and by this, they mean extremists on the right within the military."

Pollak continued, "The military is the most diverse institution in America, so I don't know why they think they're going find a bunch of white supremacists in the military. I think it's kind of a Democratic prejudice against the armed forces and law enforcement in general."

"I'm very concerned about Lloyd Austin," Pollak added, "I don't think he's doing a good job. I think he's doing a terrible job. I wish I shared your confidence, but to come in and say your first act is going to be this political purge of the military - I understand getting rid of people like Major [Nidal] Hassan, Islamic extremists, and if you've got information on white supremacists in the military, get them out - but we're going to pause our military readiness of our entire force to ferret out people who might have had some reservations about the November 3rd election? I think this is crazy."

Austin thinks a frog meme is extreme and subversive, so there's that

https://www.breitbart.com/radio/2021/02/08/rep-bob-wittman-on-lloyd-austin-what-is-the-definition-of-extremism/

#12776439 at 2021-01-31 07:37:38 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #16308: More Coming? Edition

>>12775654 pb
I was just thinking about him yesterday.

Scott Bennett "Shell Game"

SHELL GAME:

The Betrayal and Cover-Up by the U.S. Government of the
Union Bank of Switzerland-Terrorist Threat Finance Connection
To Booz Allen Hamilton and U.S. Central Command

A Whis tleblowing Report
to the United States Congress

Submitted by

Scott Bennett, 2LT, United States Army (Reserve)
11th Psychological Operations Battalion
To The Department of Defense Inspector General

DATE: Memorial Day, May 27, 2013

OFFICIAL COMMUNICATION TO CONGRESS
AND REQUEST FOR SPECIAL HEARING AND INVESTIGATION

Copyright 2013
All Rights Reserved

parts may be reproduced without the express permission of the author.

UNCLASSIFIED

COMTENTS

WHISTLEBLOWING REPORT DISCLOSURE
PRESS RELEASE: SYNOPSIS
PROEM (i)
INTRODUCTION (ii)

CONSPIRACY AND COVER-UP (2)

UNION BANK OF SWITZERLAND- BRAD BIRKENFELD-BOOZ ALLEN HAMILTON (5)
U.S. CENTRAL COMMAND-TERRORIST THREAT FINANCE-BOOZ ALLEN (5)

JOINT INTERAGENCY OPERATIONS CENTER/ JOINT INTERAGENCY GROUP (9)

INTELLIGENCE SHARING: FAILURE OR COVER-UP? (10)

BUREAUCRATIC DYSFUNCTIONALITY (10)

CONSPIRACY, TORTURE, AND BETRAYAL (12)

BENGHAZI, LIBYA ATTACK PREDICTED (15)

KILL THE MESSENGER (16)

VIOLATION OF '1870 POSSE COMITATUS ACT' (16)

UNION BANK OF SWITZERLAND-BRAD BIRKENFELD INTELLIGENCE (22)
WIKILEAKS: SUPPORTING DOCUMENTATION (24)

STATE DEPARTMENT COORDINATOR FOR COUNTERTERRORISM (S/CT) (25)
U.S. SPECIAL OPERATIONS COMMAND (25)

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE-CIA ASSASINATION ATTEMPT? (25)
'VVoVEDWARD SNOWDEN DISCOVERIES (25.5)

NATIONAL COUNTERTERRORISM CENTER (NCTC) (26)

MIKE MCGONNELL, DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENGE-BOOZ ALLEN HAMILTON (26)
SENATOR CARL LEVIN: ARMED SERVICES AND INVESTIGATIONS COMMITTEE (25)
LETTER TO GENERAL James Mattis, COMMANDER U.S. CENTCOM (29)
$104 MILLION DOLLAR PAY-OFF TO BIRKENFELD FOR REMAINING SILENT (30)
LETTER TO GENERAL JEFF JACOBS, COMMANDER, USACAPOC, (30)

LETTER TO INSPECTOR GENERAL, LYNNE HALBROOKS, DEPARTMENT OF DEFENS (30)

LETTERS TO CONGRESS: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE, COMMITTEES (31) '

LETTERS TO THE MEDIA (32)

FALLING -INTO THE ABYSS (35)

AN ARMY OFFICER'S DUTY TO COUNTRY (42)

A CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER TO THE UNITED STATES (51)

CONSTITUTIONAL OATH: "AGAINST ALL ENEMIES, FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC " (52)
DONALD RUMSFELD AND GENERAL DICK MEYERS (53)
BENGHAZI ATTACKS (53)

INSIDE THE HEART AND MIND OF A MUSLIM TERRORIST (55)
BRADLEY MANNING: THE HIDDEN STORY (57)
THE ART OF PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE (61)

PARASITE DEFENSE CONTRACTORS AND THE BUSINESS OF WAR (63)
"TORMENTS OF THE GRAVE": DEFEATING THE MUSLIM IDEA OF MARTYRDOM (65)
. BRAD BIRKENFELD–AN AMERICAN PATRIOT (67)

BIRKENFELD 'S MISSING INTELLIGENCE AND MUZZLING BY DEPT. OF JUSTICE (68)
A WOMAN'S LAMENT (69)

CONNECTION TO PRESIDENT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA, UNION BANK OF SWITZERLAND,
AND ATTORNEY GENERAL ERIC HOLDER AND ASSISTANT A.G- LANNY BREUER (73)
ABDULLAH AZZIZ: TERRORIST THREAT FINANCE CONNECTIONS (74)
REQUEST FOR OFFICIAL CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATION, HEARINGS (75)
EPILOGUE: BRAVEHEART (76)

DISCLOSURE

This is a "whis tleblower" report to the American people.
It has already been sent to the military, the Congress, the
Courts, and the media. It's purpose is to inform minds, inspire
hearts , and save lives–those of our servicemen, our allies , and
our civilians–and our nation' s future.

I am an American soldier, and Army Officer, and I write this
in obedience to my sworn oath to "support and defend the Constitution
of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic ."

In this case, I am defending against domestic enemies giving
"aide and comfort" to the foreign terrorist enemy by not utilizing
key financial intelligence relating to terrorist finance networks
and operations; and thereby committing treason (as defined by
Article 3, section 3 of the U.S. Constitution) against the people
of the United States of America.

Citi2ens–of America and our international coalition of
allies–are encouraged to call and write the U.S. House of
Representatives, the U.S. Senate, and the media, to demand that
Congressional hearings be held to investigate the matter, provide
an explanation, and hold all parties accountable.

The following is a true story.

https://archive.org/stream/pdfy-nuxY0nNOAtmL3H70/Shell%20Game_djvu.txt

#12497752 at 2021-01-13 12:50:21 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #15956: The Source E-Bake Edition

Putting the pic and names in the same post to make things easier and for those who want to screen cap. Might mean something in the futue, who knows.

1. Army General Curtis Scaparrotti, Commander, U.S. European Command and NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe

2. Army General Mark Milley, U.S. Army Chief of Staff

3. Marine Corps General Robert Neller, Commandant of the Marine Corps

4. U.S. Coast Guard Admiral Paul Zukunft, Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard

5. Navy Admiral Kurt W. Tidd, Commander, U.S. Southern Command

6. Army General Raymond A Thomas, Commander, US Special Operations Command

7. Marine Corps General Thomas D. Waldhauser, Commander, U.S. Africa Command

8. Air Force General Paul Selva, Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

9. Marine Corps General Joseph Dunford, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

10. Defense Secretary James Mattis

11. President Donald Trump

12. Vice President Mike Pence

13. Navy Admiral Michael Rodgers, Director of the National Security Agency

14. Navy Admiral John Richardson, Chief of Naval Operations

15. Army General Joseph Votel, Commander, U.S. Central Command

16. Air Force General David Goldfein, Air Force Chief of Staff

17. Air Force General John E Hyten, Commander, US Strategic Command

18. Air Force General Joseph L. Lengyel, Chief of the National Guard Bureau

19. Air Force General Lori Robinson, Commander, Northern Command and NORAD

20. Patrick M. Shanahan, Deputy Secretary of Defense

21. Navy Admiral Harry Harris, Commander, U.S. Pacific Command

22. Air Force General Darren W McDew, Commander, U.S. Transportation Command

23. U.S. Coast Guard Vice Admiral Karl Schultz, Commander, Atlantic Area

#12497715 at 2021-01-13 12:44:26 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #15955: Shitposting Enabled Edition

>>12497670
1. Army General Curtis Scaparrotti, Commander, U.S. European Command and NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe

2. Army General Mark Milley, U.S. Army Chief of Staff

3. Marine Corps General Robert Neller, Commandant of the Marine Corps

4. U.S. Coast Guard Admiral Paul Zukunft, Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard

5. Navy Admiral Kurt W. Tidd, Commander, U.S. Southern Command

6. Army General Raymond A Thomas, Commander, US Special Operations Command

7. Marine Corps General Thomas D. Waldhauser, Commander, U.S. Africa Command

8. Air Force General Paul Selva, Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

9. Marine Corps General Joseph Dunford, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

10. Defense Secretary James Mattis

11. President Donald Trump

12. Vice President Mike Pence

13. Navy Admiral Michael Rodgers, Director of the National Security Agency

14. Navy Admiral John Richardson, Chief of Naval Operations

15. Army General Joseph Votel, Commander, U.S. Central Command

16. Air Force General David Goldfein, Air Force Chief of Staff

17. Air Force General John E Hyten, Commander, US Strategic Command

18. Air Force General Joseph L. Lengyel, Chief of the National Guard Bureau

19. Air Force General Lori Robinson, Commander, Northern Command and NORAD

20. Patrick M. Shanahan, Deputy Secretary of Defense

21. Navy Admiral Harry Harris, Commander, U.S. Pacific Command

22. Air Force General Darren W McDew, Commander, U.S. Transportation Command

23. U.S. Coast Guard Vice Admiral Karl Schultz, Commander, Atlantic Area

#12464430 at 2021-01-11 15:10:36 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #15913: Weâ€™re Going to FIGHT LIKE HELL Edition

>>12464373

I have no such misconceptions. I am fully aware of 1861. I'm also fully aware that those who have the power to correct this, POTUS and loyal Americans in the Dept of Defense - military and civilian - have not been negligent in their duties. They have seen this coming and prepared for it. Those who remain in position to subvert the coming action will be routed out, swiftly.
See, e.g., Chris Krebs, Marc Esper, James Mattis, etc. Expect more to follow.
It's called the Chain of Command.
Guess who sits atop it? Hint - A Patriot of the highest order. And there are plenty below that rank, too.

#12457947 at 2021-01-11 04:32:31 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #15904: America, Home Of The Free Because Of The Brave Edition

>>12457874
Mattis is a bad dog

Mattis failed to disclose role with global consultant tied to China in bombshell column

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/nov/25/James-Mattis-failed-disclose-his-role-consultant-t/

#12388480 at 2021-01-08 01:27:25 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #15814: Our Movement Is About REPLACING A Failed Government Edition

MAGA Patriots:There will be no dress rehearsals.

MORE DISGRACEFUL TRAITORS IN AMERICA HAVE SURFACED

Ashton Carter (Obama)
Dick Cheney (Bush 41)
William Cohen (Clinton)
Mark Esper (Trump)
Robert Gates (Bush 43 and Obama)
Chuck Hagel (Obama)
James Mattis (Trump)
Leon Panetta (Obama)
William Perry (Clinton)
Donald Rumsfeld (Ford and Bush 43)

The Globalists (Known traitors, ALL) are coming out of the woodwork.

Republican lawmakers are oblivious to the fact that Democrats manufactured millions of votes to take control of the American people.

President Trump knows exactly what is at stake with this stolen election plus president Trump doesn't like getting cheated and neither do 75 million Trump supporters.

MAGA Patriots are specialized ex military and trained to handle situations that are beyond the capabilities of ordinary law enforcement forces because of the level of violence - or risk of violence - involved.

CLARIFICATION:CODE REDis a call to action by president Trump directly to the MAGA Patriots to defend our country from foreign and domestic terrorists.

There was foreign and domestic interference in our 2020 elections and the proof is all over the place.

The Election Was Clearly Stolen From President Trump.

Ex Military MAGA patriots will serve at the pleasure of the president as supplemental presidential law enforcement when called into action.CODE RED

MAGA Patriots: This ain't your grandpa's revolution. This is an advanced high tech military operation using expert analysis and in-depth operational expertise, handling sensitive political issues and providing unmatched cyber security practical on-the-ground protection, mission support, logistics and other capabilities that cannot be discussed. We Can See You

MAGA Patriots Must Be Prepared For Dirty Combat Tactics.

MAGA Ex Military under presidential authority will be equipped with automatic and specialized firearms, including submachine guns, assault rifles, riot shotguns, sniper rifles, riot guns, riot control agents, tear gas, smoke, and stun grenades. In addition, they may use specialized equipment including heavy body armor, ballistic shields, entry tools, armored vehicles, thermal and night vision devices, and motion detectors for covertly determining the positions of anyone trying to breach president Trump's location.

MAGA PATRIOTS DO NOT SUPPORT:
Looting.
Rioting.
Antifa Terrorists.
BLM Terrorists.
Harassing Police Officers.
Non-Peaceful Protesting.
Promotion Of Civil Unrest.
Burning Of Public Or Private Properties.

ATTN:MAGA Patriots are law abiding tax paying citizens and we respect our police officers and will follow military rules of engagement during mission CODE RED.

Disclaimer:8Kun administration has no association with this post and OP is only passing on vital information, OP is not a gun owner or a political activists and is not associated with any political groups.

#12380418 at 2021-01-07 18:38:19 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #15804: Pre-planned Speech Crackdown On Patriots & POTUS Underway Edition

Ex-Pentagon Chief Mattis Says Trump Will 'Be Left a Man Without a Country' for Capitol Violence

James Mattis resigned from his post as secretary of defence in late 2018 after disagreeing with Trump's Syria withdrawal plans. In late 2020, the president called Mattis the "world's most overrated general" and said he "should have fired him sooner" after the former Marine Corps general urged Joe Biden to abandon Trump's "America First" strategy.

Former Pentagon chief James "Mad Dog" Mattis has issued a scathing attack against President Donald Trump, blaming him for Wednesday's violence at the US Capitol, which saw protesters storming the compound and seizing the Senate chamber as Congress moved to formally certify the Electoral College results confirming Biden's victory.

"Today's violent assault on our Capitol, an effort to subjugate American democracy by mob rule, was fomented by Mr. Trump. His use of the Presidency to destroy trust in our election and to poison our respect for fellow citizens has been enabled by pseudo political leaders whose names will live in infamy as profiles in cowardice," Mattis said in a press statement late on Wednesday.

"Our Constitution and our Republic will overcome this stain and We the People will come together again in our never-ending effort to form a more perfect Union, while Mr. Trump will deservedly be left a man without a country," the retired general suggested.

Mattis' remarks were echoed by former Trump Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Joseph Dunford, who blamed the president for "setting the conditions" for Wednesday's violence by "undermin[ing] a peaceful transition in accordance with our Constitution" and called the events at the Capitol "an outrageous assault on our democracy."

Mark Esper, another former Trump secretary of defence, who was fired in November amid disagreements on the president's Iraq and Afghanistan withdrawal plans, called Wednesday's events "appalling and un-American" and added that he hoped the US military would "stay out of politics, and remain true to its sworn oath to support and defend the Constitution and the American people."

Vice President Mike Pence presides over a Joint session of Congress to certify the 2020 Electoral College results after supporters of President Donald Trump stormed the Capitol earlier in the day, on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S. January 6, 2021. Erin Schaff/Pool via REUTERS
© REUTERS / POOL
Pence, Not Trump, Made Call to Deploy National Guard Against Mob Storming Capitol, Media Claims
On Sunday, Esper, Mattis, former Vice President Dick Cheney, and others penned an op-ed in the Washington Post urging acting Defence Secretary Christopher Miller and his subordinates to refrain from "any political actions that undermine the results of the election or hinder the success of the new team."

Trump gave Miller Esper's job after expressing frustration with the Pentagon's stonewalling of his attempts to reduce US troop numbers overseas. In November, then outgoing US special representative for Syria Jim Jeffrey openly boasted about lying to Trump about the real troop numbers in Syria.

As for Mattis, Trump had quarrelled with the former defence secretary in November over an op-ed in Foreign Affairs magazine in which the retired general expressed hope that Biden would bin Trump's "America First" policy, suggesting that "in practice, 'America first' has meant 'America alone'." Trump responded to the criticism by saying he should have fired Mattis long before he did.

https://sputniknews.com/us/202101071081696333-ex-pentagon-chief-Mattis-says-trump-will-be-left-a-man-without-a-country-for-capitol-violence/

#12376254 at 2021-01-07 14:39:06 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #15798: 25th Amendment With 14 Days To Go? Reconcile Edition

MAGA Patriots:There will be no dress rehearsals.

MORE DISGRACEFUL TRAITORS IN AMERICA HAVE SURFACED

Ashton Carter (Obama)
Dick Cheney (Bush 41)
William Cohen (Clinton)
Mark Esper (Trump)
Robert Gates (Bush 43 and Obama)
Chuck Hagel (Obama)
James Mattis (Trump)
Leon Panetta (Obama)
William Perry (Clinton)
Donald Rumsfeld (Ford and Bush 43)

The Globalists (Known traitors, ALL) are coming out of the woodwork.

Republican lawmakers appear oblivious to the fact that Democrats manufacture millions of votes to take control of the American people.

President Trump knows exactly what is at stake with this stolen election plus president Trump doesn't like getting cheated and neither do 75 million Trump supporters.

MAGA Patriots are specialized ex military and trained to handle situations that are beyond the capabilities of ordinary law enforcement forces because of the level of violence - or risk of violence - involved.

CLARIFICATION:CODE REDis a call to action by president Trump directly to the MAGA Patriots to defend our country from foreign and domestic terrorists.

There was foreign and domestic interference in our 2020 elections and the proof is all over the place.

The Election Was Clearly Stolen From President Trump.

Ex Military MAGA patriots will serve at the pleasure of the president as supplemental presidential law enforcement when called into action.CODE RED

MAGA Patriots: This ain't your grandpa's revolution. This is an advanced high tech military operation using expert analysis and in-depth operational expertise, handling sensitive political issues and providing unmatched cyber security practical on-the-ground protection, mission support, logistics and other capabilities that cannot be discussed. We Can See You

MAGA Patriots Must Be Prepared For Dirty Combat Tactics.

MAGA Ex Military under presidential authority will be equipped with automatic and specialized firearms, including submachine guns, assault rifles, riot shotguns, sniper rifles, riot guns, riot control agents, tear gas, smoke, and stun grenades. In addition, they may use specialized equipment including heavy body armor, ballistic shields, entry tools, armored vehicles, thermal and night vision devices, and motion detectors for covertly determining the positions of anyone trying to breach president Trump's location.

MAGA PATRIOTS DO NOT SUPPORT:
Looting.
Rioting.
Antifa Terrorists.
BLM Terrorists.
Harassing Police Officers.
Non-Peaceful Protesting.
Promotion Of Civil Unrest.
Burning Of Public Or Private Properties.

ATTN:MAGA Patriots are law abiding tax paying citizens and we respect our police officers and will follow military rules of engagement during mission CODE RED.

Disclaimer:8Kun administration has no association with this post and OP is only passing on vital information, OP is not a gun owner or a political activists and is not associated with any political groups.

#12375443 at 2021-01-07 13:42:52 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #15797: The Day After The Reichstag Fire Edition

MAGA Patriots:There will be no dress rehearsals.

MORE DISGRACEFUL TRAITORS IN AMERICA HAVE SURFACED

Ashton Carter (Obama)
Dick Cheney (Bush 41)
William Cohen (Clinton)
Mark Esper (Trump)
Robert Gates (Bush 43 and Obama)
Chuck Hagel (Obama)
James Mattis (Trump)
Leon Panetta (Obama)
William Perry (Clinton)
Donald Rumsfeld (Ford and Bush 43)

The Globalists (Known traitors, ALL) are coming out of the woodwork.

Republican lawmakers appear oblivious to the fact that Democrats manufacture millions of votes to take control of the American people.

President Trump knows exactly what is at stake with this stolen election plus president Trump doesn't like getting cheated and neither do 75 million Trump supporters.

MAGA Patriots are specialized ex military and trained to handle situations that are beyond the capabilities of ordinary law enforcement forces because of the level of violence - or risk of violence - involved.

CLARIFICATION:CODE REDis a call to action by president Trump directly to the MAGA Patriots to defend our country from foreign and domestic terrorists.

There was foreign and domestic interference in our 2020 elections and the proof is all over the place.

The Election Was Clearly Stolen From President Trump.

Ex Military MAGA patriots will serve at the pleasure of the president as supplemental presidential law enforcement when called into action.CODE RED

MAGA Patriots: This ain't your grandpa's revolution. This is an advanced high tech military operation using expert analysis and in-depth operational expertise, handling sensitive political issues and providing unmatched cyber security practical on-the-ground protection, mission support, logistics and other capabilities that cannot be discussed. We Can See You

MAGA Patriots Must Be Prepared For Dirty Combat Tactics.

MAGA Ex Military under presidential authority will be equipped with automatic and specialized firearms, including submachine guns, assault rifles, riot shotguns, sniper rifles, riot guns, riot control agents, tear gas, smoke, and stun grenades. In addition, they may use specialized equipment including heavy body armor, ballistic shields, entry tools, armored vehicles, thermal and night vision devices, and motion detectors for covertly determining the positions of anyone trying to breach president Trump's location.

MAGA PATRIOTS DO NOT SUPPORT:
Looting.
Rioting.
Antifa Terrorists.
BLM Terrorists.
Harassing Police Officers.
Non-Peaceful Protesting.
Promotion Of Civil Unrest.
Burning Of Public Or Private Properties.

ATTN:MAGA Patriots are law abiding tax paying citizens and we respect our police officers and will follow military rules of engagement during mission CODE RED.

Disclaimer:8Kun administration has no association with this post and OP is only passing on vital information, OP is not a gun owner or a political activists and is not associated with any political groups.

#12363949 at 2021-01-07 02:35:28 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #15782: Traitors Have President Trump Surrounded, Stupid Bastards Edition

Former presidents, Republican allies turn on Donald Trump after US violence

The world is reacting with fury and distress after the US Capitol riot - with former presidents and Mr Trump's old allies joining in the condemnation.

Social media has been awash with criticism, with a number of former presidents and Mr Trump's old Republican allies joining the condemnation.

Former President Barack Obama, who peacefully left the White House for Donald Trump in 2016, described the events in the Capitol today as "a moment of great dishonour and shame" but admitted it wasn't a surprise.

Here's my statement on today's violence at the Capitol. pic.twitter.com/jLCKo2D1Ya
- Barack Obama (@BarackObama) January 7, 2021

Former President George W. Bush also released a lengthy statement, describing the riot as "sickening and heartbreaking".

Former President George Bush: "I am appalled by the reckless behavior of some political leaders since the election and by the lack of respect shown today for our institutions, our traditions, and our law enforcement." pic.twitter.com/WWE2D0KBOs
- Republicans for Joe Biden 🇺🇸 (@RepsForBiden) January 6, 2021

Bill Clinton also weighed in, levelling the entirety of the blame at Mr Trump and claiming he "lit the match".

The match was lit by Donald Trump and his most ardent enablers, including many in Congress, to overturn the results of an election he lost.

The election was free, the count was fair, the result is final. We must complete the peaceful transfer of power our Constitution mandates.
- Bill Clinton (@BillClinton) January 7, 2021

If that's who we really are, we must reject today's violence, turn the page, and move forward together-honoring our Constitution, remaining committed to a government of the people, by the people, and for the people.
- Bill Clinton (@BillClinton) January 7, 2021

Hillary Clinton, who lost the 2016 election to Donald Trump, described the people who stormed the Capitol as "domestic terrorists".

Today, domestic terrorists attacked a foundation of our democracy: the peaceful transfer of power following free elections.

We must reestablish the rule of law and hold them accountable.

Democracy is fragile. Our leaders must live up to their responsibility to protect it.
- Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) January 6, 2021

Jeb Bush, the former Governor of Florida and the younger brother of former President George W. Bush, called on Mr Trump to "go home to Florida".

The President has provoked the disgusting events at the Capitol today. He has gone from creating chaos to inciting insurrection. Mr. President, accept your defeat, go home to Florida and let our elected officials do their jobs and rebuild confidence in our democracy.
- Jeb Bush (@JebBush) January 7, 2021

Former White House Communications Director Alyssa Farah, who assisted Mr Trump in his campaign, begged people to accept the election result.

Dear MAGA- I am one of you. Before I worked for @realDonaldTrump, I worked for @MarkMeadows & @Jim_Jordan & the @freedomcaucus. I marched in the 2010 Tea Party rallies. I campaigned w/ Trump & voted for him. But I need you to hear me: the Election was NOT stolen. We lost.
- Alyssa Farah (@Alyssafarah) January 6, 2021

It's time to regroup, organize, & campaign for political leaders we believe in, and let our democracy work. It is NOT and NEVER will be a time for violence.

If you believe in America first, you believe in our Constitution, the rule of law, & our first principles.
- Alyssa Farah (@Alyssafarah) January 6, 2021

RELATED: Follow our live coverage of America in crisis

Former Defence Secretary James Mattis said Mr Trump and his allies would "live in infamy as profiles in cowardice".

James Mattis weighs in pic.twitter.com/tOW7o7iGru
- Evan Siegfried (@evansiegfried) January 7, 2021

Republican Senator Mitt Romney also didn't mince words, labelling the outgoing president as a "selfish man".

"We gather today due to a selfish man's injured pride and the outrage of his supporters whom he has deliberately misinformed for the past two months and stirred to action this very morning," Mr Romney said in a statement.

What happened at the U.S. Capitol today was an insurrection, incited by the President of the United States. https://t.co/NojKm86sZ2
- Senator Mitt Romney (@SenatorRomney) January 6, 2021

https://www.news.com.au/world/north-america/us-politics/us-capitol-world-reacts-as-trump-rioters-storm-the-building-to-stop-congress-certifying-joe-biden/news-story/110f7e9d25b29d474068a82af5c93fc7

MSM Narrative

#12331021 at 2021-01-05 21:34:36 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #15741: Georgia Don't Worry, We'll Scan The Votes Later Edition

MAGA Patriots:There will be no dress rehearsals.

MORE DISGRACEFUL TRAITORS IN AMERICA HAVE SURFACED

Ashton Carter (Obama)
Dick Cheney (Bush 41)
William Cohen (Clinton)
Mark Esper (Trump)
Robert Gates (Bush 43 and Obama)
Chuck Hagel (Obama)
James Mattis (Trump)
Leon Panetta (Obama)
William Perry (Clinton)
Donald Rumsfeld (Ford and Bush 43)

The Globalists (Known traitors, ALL) are coming out of the woodwork.

Republican lawmakers appear oblivious to the fact that Democrats manufacture millions of votes to take control of the American people.

President Trump knows exactly what is at stake with this stolen election plus president Trump doesn't like getting cheated and neither do 75 million Trump supporters.

MAGA Patriots are specialized ex military and trained to handle situations that are beyond the capabilities of ordinary law enforcement forces because of the level of violence - or risk of violence - involved.

CLARIFICATION:CODE REDis a call to action by president Trump directly to the MAGA Patriots to defend our country from foreign and domestic terrorists.

There was foreign and domestic interference in our 2020 elections and the proof is all over the place.

The Election Was Clearly Stolen From President Trump.

Ex Military MAGA patriots will serve at the pleasure of the president as supplemental presidential law enforcement when called into action.CODE RED

MAGA Patriots: This ain't your grandpa's revolution. This is an advanced high tech military operation using expert analysis and in-depth operational expertise, handling sensitive political issues and providing unmatched cyber security practical on-the-ground protection, mission support, logistics and other capabilities that cannot be discussed. We Can See You

MAGA Patriots Must Be Prepared For Dirty Combat Tactics.

MAGA Ex Military under presidential authority will be equipped with automatic and specialized firearms, including submachine guns, assault rifles, riot shotguns, sniper rifles, riot guns, riot control agents, tear gas, smoke, and stun grenades. In addition, they may use specialized equipment including heavy body armor, ballistic shields, entry tools, armored vehicles, thermal and night vision devices, and motion detectors for covertly determining the positions of anyone trying to breach president Trump's location.

MAGA PATRIOTS DO NOT SUPPORT:
Looting.
Rioting.
Antifa Terrorists.
BLM Terrorists.
Harassing Police Officers.
Non-Peaceful Protesting.
Promotion Of Civil Unrest.
Burning Of Public Or Private Properties.

ATTN:MAGA Patriots are law abiding tax paying citizens and we respect our police officers and will follow military rules of engagement during mission CODE RED.

Disclaimer:8Kun administration has no association with this post and OP is only passing on vital information, OP is not a gun owner or a political activists and is not associated with any political groups.

#12324149 at 2021-01-05 10:53:27 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #15732: Isaac Kappy Did Not Kill Himself Edition

MAGA Patriots:There will be no dress rehearsals.

Washington DC mayor is part of the coup and she's a black racist.

MORE DISGRACEFUL TRAITORS IN AMERICA HAVE SURFACED

Ashton Carter (Obama)
Dick Cheney (Bush 41)
William Cohen (Clinton)
Mark Esper (Trump)
Robert Gates (Bush 43 and Obama)
Chuck Hagel (Obama)
James Mattis (Trump)
Leon Panetta (Obama)
William Perry (Clinton)
Donald Rumsfeld (Ford and Bush 43)

The Globalists (Known traitors, ALL) are coming out of the woodwork.

Republican lawmakers appear oblivious to the fact that Democrats manufacture millions of votes to take control of the American people.

President Trump knows exactly what is at stake with this stolen election plus president Trump doesn't like getting cheated and neither do 75 million Trump supporters.

MAGA Patriots are specialized ex military and trained to handle situations that are beyond the capabilities of ordinary law enforcement forces because of the level of violence - or risk of violence - involved.

CLARIFICATION:CODE REDis a call to action by president Trump directly to the MAGA Patriots to defend our country from foreign and domestic terrorists.

There was foreign and domestic interference in our 2020 elections and the proof is all over the place.

The Election Was Clearly Stolen From President Trump.

Ex Military MAGA patriots will serve at the pleasure of the president as supplemental presidential law enforcement when called into action.CODE RED

MAGA Patriots: This ain't your grandpa's revolution. This is an advanced high tech military operation using expert analysis and in-depth operational expertise, handling sensitive political issues and providing unmatched cyber security practical on-the-ground protection, mission support, logistics and other capabilities that cannot be discussed. We Can See You

MAGA Patriots Must Be Prepared For Dirty Combat Tactics.

MAGA Ex Military under presidential authority will be equipped with automatic and specialized firearms, including submachine guns, assault rifles, riot shotguns, sniper rifles, riot guns, riot control agents, tear gas, smoke, and stun grenades. In addition, they may use specialized equipment including heavy body armor, ballistic shields, entry tools, armored vehicles, thermal and night vision devices, and motion detectors for covertly determining the positions of anyone trying to breach president Trump's location.

MAGA PATRIOTS DO NOT SUPPORT:
Looting.
Rioting.
Antifa Terrorists.
BLM Terrorists.
Harassing Police Officers.
Non-Peaceful Protesting.
Promotion Of Civil Unrest.
Burning Of Public Or Private Properties.

ATTN:MAGA Patriots are law abiding tax paying citizens and we respect our police officers and will follow military rules of engagement during mission CODE RED.

Disclaimer:8Kun administration has no association with this post and OP is only passing on vital information, OP is not a gun owner or a political activists and is not associated with any political groups.

#12313567 at 2021-01-04 20:38:16 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #15718: We Will Have Our Day In Congress II Edition

UCMJ applies:
(military is the only way)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/10-former-defense-secretaries-military-peaceful-transfer-of-power/2021/01/03/2a23d52e-4c4d-11eb-a9f4-0e668b9772ba_story.html#click=https://t.co/OmnxloHd4E
Opinion by Ashton Carter, Dick Cheney, William Cohen, Mark Esper, Robert Gates, Chuck Hagel, James Mattis, Leon Panetta, William Perry and Donald Rumsfeld
Jan. 3, 2021 at 2:00 p.m. PST
Ashton Carter, Dick Cheney, William Cohen, Mark Esper, Robert Gates, Chuck Hagel, James Mattis, Leon Panetta, William Perry and Donald Rumsfeld are the 10 living former U.S. secretaries of defense.

As former secretaries of defense, we hold a common view of the solemn obligations of the U.S. armed forces and the Defense Department. Each of us swore an oath to support and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic.

#12312783 at 2021-01-04 19:37:59 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #15717: We Will Have Our Day In Congress Edition

Dick Cheney Purportedly Behind Ex-Defence Secretaries' Open Letter to Trump's Pentagon Officials

The call of former heads of the Pentagon comes as President Donald Trump continues to deny his loss in the election and insists that massive electoral fraud took place in November.

Former Vice President and Secretary of Defence Dick Cheney was the mastermind behind the idea of 10 ex-Pentagon chiefs drafting an open letter calling for current military officials to abstain from taking part in any possible attempts of Donald Trump to overturn the election, one of the signatories, Clinton's Defence Secretary William Perry revealed.

"The idea for this statement actually originated from Vice President Cheney. Each of us swore an oath to support and defend the Constitution; that oath does not change according to party designation", Perry said in a tweet.

The 10 authors of the letter warned Pentagon's military that Trump's allegedly possible orders to challenge the November election results might take the country "into dangerous, unlawful and unconstitutional territory". They further warned the military that their actions, in this case, might have "grave consequences" for the country, while they might face criminal charges in the future.

The letter was signed, among other people, by two of Trump's former secretaries of defence, Mark Esper and James Mattis, both of whom POTUS fired.
In this Nov. 20, 2018, file photo, Ivanka Trump, the daughter of President Donald Trump, arrives for a ceremony to pardon the National Thanksgiving Turkey in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington
© AP Photo / Carolyn Kaster
'Vice' Director Opens Up on Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner Rushing Out of Dick Cheney Film

While Trump has indeed refused to concede in the election and continues to peddle the theory that the victory was stolen from him with the use of massive election fraud in several states, he did give a green light to the official transition process. The latter, however, encountered a hurdle as the Pentagon has stopped briefing Biden's transition team since the middle of December. The Pentagon claims the decision was mutually agreed upon, but Biden's team denies it and has demanded to resume the briefings.

https://sputniknews.com/us/202101041081647230-dick-cheney-purportedly-behind-ex-defence-secretaries-open-letter-to-trumps-pentagon-officials/

#12311481 at 2021-01-04 17:39:32 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #15715: Bowser Requesting NG Support Edition

>>12310886
Extraordinary My Ass

They are all Deep State civilian pol hacks with the exception of Mattis who I still believe is very much part of the Plan:

Dick Cheney, William Perry, Donald Rumsfeld, William Cohen, Robert Gates, Leon Panetta, Chuck Hagel, Ash Carter, James Mattis and Mark Esper.

#12310805 at 2021-01-04 16:44:39 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #15714: D5 Avalanche of Election Fraud Evidence Coming? Edition

MORE DISGRACEFUL TRAITORS OF AMERICA HAVE SURFACED

Ashton Carter (Obama)
Dick Cheney (Bush 41)
William Cohen (Clinton)
Mark Esper (Trump)
Robert Gates (Bush 43 and Obama)
Chuck Hagel (Obama)
James Mattis (Trump)
Leon Panetta (Obama)
William Perry (Clinton)
Donald Rumsfeld (Ford and Bush 43)

The Globalists (Known traitors, ALL) are coming out of the woodwork.

Kirkland
Los Alamos
White Sands
China Lake
Area51

MAGA Patriots are not gun slingers we have technology far beyond anyone's belief, Deep State the MAGA Patriots know where and when you take a shit so I would be extremely worried, MAGA Patriots don't even have to be in your state to make a strike.

Our fallen American heroes didn't die for nothing and election stealing means this is war.

…

#12310508 at 2021-01-04 16:19:14 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #15714: D5 Avalanche of Election Fraud Evidence Coming? Edition

#12310428 at 2021-01-04 16:10:26 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #15714: D5 Avalanche of Election Fraud Evidence Coming? Edition

#12310316 at 2021-01-04 16:00:14 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #15714: D5 Avalanche of Election Fraud Evidence Coming? Edition

#12310302 at 2021-01-04 15:59:07 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #15714: D5 Avalanche of Election Fraud Evidence Coming? Edition

#12310112 at 2021-01-04 15:41:53 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #15714: D5 Avalanche of Election Fraud Evidence Coming? Edition

#12309982 at 2021-01-04 15:31:13 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #15713: Assange Extradition Denied Edition

#12308993 at 2021-01-04 13:47:23 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #15712: Kappy Knew Edition

MAGA Patriots:There will be no dress rehearsals.

MORE DISGRACEFUL TRAITORS OF AMERICA HAVE SURFACED

Ashton Carter (Obama)
Dick Cheney (Bush 41)
William Cohen (Clinton)
Mark Esper (Trump)
Robert Gates (Bush 43 and Obama)
Chuck Hagel (Obama)
James Mattis (Trump)
Leon Panetta (Obama)
William Perry (Clinton)
Donald Rumsfeld (Ford and Bush 43)

The Globalists (Known traitors, ALL) are coming out of the woodwork.

Republican lawmakers appear oblivious to the fact that Democrats manufacture millions of votes to take control of the American people.

President Trump knows exactly what is at stake with this stolen election plus president Trump doesn't like getting cheated and neither do 75 million Trump supporters.

MAGA Patriots are specialized ex military and trained to handle situations that are beyond the capabilities of ordinary law enforcement forces because of the level of violence - or risk of violence - involved.

CLARIFICATION:CODE REDis a call to action by president Trump directly to the MAGA Patriots to defend our country from foreign and domestic terrorists.

There was foreign and domestic interference in our 2020 elections and the proof is all over the place.

The Election Was Clearly Stolen From President Trump.

Ex Military MAGA patriots will serve at the pleasure of the president as supplemental presidential law enforcement when called into action.CODE RED

MAGA Patriots: This ain't your grandpa's revolution. This is an advanced high tech military operation using expert analysis and in-depth operational expertise, handling sensitive political issues and providing unmatched cyber security practical on-the-ground protection, mission support, logistics and other capabilities that cannot be discussed. We Can See You

MAGA Patriots Must Be Prepared For Dirty Combat Tactics.

MAGA Ex Military under presidential authority will be equipped with automatic and specialized firearms, including submachine guns, assault rifles, riot shotguns, sniper rifles, riot guns, riot control agents, tear gas, smoke, and stun grenades. In addition, they may use specialized equipment including heavy body armor, ballistic shields, entry tools, armored vehicles, thermal and night vision devices, and motion detectors for covertly determining the positions of anyone trying to breach president Trump's location.

MAGA PATRIOTS DO NOT SUPPORT:
Looting.
Rioting.
Antifa Terrorists.
BLM Terrorists.
Harassing Police Officers.
Non-Peaceful Protesting.
Promotion Of Civil Unrest.
Burning Of Public Or Private Properties.

ATTN:MAGA Patriots are law abiding tax paying citizens and we respect our police officers and will follow military rules of engagement during mission CODE RED.

Disclaimer:8Kun administration has no association with this post and OP is only passing on vital information, OP is not a gun owner or a political activists and is not associated with any political groups.

#12308852 at 2021-01-04 13:28:04 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #15712: Kappy Knew Edition

#12308762 at 2021-01-04 13:13:10 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #15712: Kappy Knew Edition

Attn: OP is just has been passing on messages for years and Louis Xlll cognac does destrort my posts from time to time so Fuck Off.

MAGA Patriots:There will be no dress rehearsals.

MORE DISGRACEFUL TRAITORS OF AMERICA HAVE SURFACED

Ashton Carter (Obama)
Dick Cheney (Bush 41)
William Cohen (Clinton)
Mark Esper (Trump)
Robert Gates (Bush 43 and Obama)
Chuck Hagel (Obama)
James Mattis (Trump)
Leon Panetta (Obama)
William Perry (Clinton)
Donald Rumsfeld (Ford and Bush 43)

The Globalists (Known traitors, ALL) are coming out of the woodwork.

Republican lawmakers appear oblivious to the fact that Democrats manufacture millions of votes to take control of the American people.

President Trump knows exactly what is at stake with this stolen election plus president Trump doesn't like getting cheated and neither do 75 million Trump supporters.

MAGA Patriots are specialized ex military and trained to handle situations that are beyond the capabilities of ordinary law enforcement forces because of the level of violence - or risk of violence - involved.

CLARIFICATION:CODE REDis a call to action by president Trump directly to the MAGA Patriots to defend our country from foreign and domestic terrorists.

There was foreign and domestic interference in our 2020 elections and the proof is all over the place.

The Election Was Clearly Stolen From President Trump.

Ex Military MAGA patriots will serve at the pleasure of the president as supplemental presidential law enforcement when called into action.CODE RED

MAGA Patriots: This ain't your grandpa's revolution. This is an advanced high tech military operation using expert analysis and in-depth operational expertise, handling sensitive political issues and providing unmatched cyber security practical on-the-ground protection, mission support, logistics and other capabilities that cannot be discussed. We Can See You

MAGA Patriots Must Be Prepared For Dirty Combat Tactics.

MAGA Ex Military under presidential authority will be equipped with automatic and specialized firearms, including submachine guns, assault rifles, riot shotguns, sniper rifles, riot guns, riot control agents, tear gas, smoke, and stun grenades. In addition, they may use specialized equipment including heavy body armor, ballistic shields, entry tools, armored vehicles, thermal and night vision devices, and motion detectors for covertly determining the positions of anyone trying to breach president Trump's location.

MAGA PATRIOTS DO NOT SUPPORT:
Looting.
Rioting.
Antifa Terrorists.
BLM Terrorists.
Harassing Police Officers.
Non-Peaceful Protesting.
Promotion Of Civil Unrest.
Burning Of Public Or Private Properties.

ATTN:MAGA Patriots are law abiding tax paying citizens and we respect our police officers and will follow military rules of engagement during mission CODE RED.

Disclaimer:8Kun administration has no association with this post and OP is only passing on vital information, OP is not a gun owner or a political activists and is not associated with any political groups.

#12308720 at 2021-01-04 13:02:59 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #15712: Kappy Knew Edition

God Bless You President Trump For Leaving Us American People Behind.

MAGA Patriots:There will be no dress rehearsals.

MORE DISGRACEFUL TRAITORS OF AMERICA HAVE SURFACED

Ashton Carter (Obama)
Dick Cheney (Bush 41)
William Cohen (Clinton)
Mark Esper (Trump)
Robert Gates (Bush 43 and Obama)
Chuck Hagel (Obama)
James Mattis (Trump)
Leon Panetta (Obama)
William Perry (Clinton)
Donald Rumsfeld (Ford and Bush 43)

The Globalists (Known traitors, ALL) are coming out of the woodwork.

Republican lawmakers appear oblivious to the fact that Democrats manufacture millions of votes to take control of the American people.

President Trump knows exactly what is at stake with this stolen election plus president Trump doesn't like getting cheated and neither do 75 million Trump supporters.

MAGA Patriots are specialized ex military and trained to handle situations that are beyond the capabilities of ordinary law enforcement forces because of the level of violence - or risk of violence - involved.

CLARIFICATION:CODE REDis a call to action by president Trump directly to the MAGA Patriots to defend our country from foreign and domestic terrorists.

There was foreign and domestic interference in our 2020 elections and the proof is all over the place.

The Election Was Clearly Stolen From President Trump.

Ex Military MAGA patriots will serve at the pleasure of the president as supplemental presidential law enforcement when called into action.CODE RED

MAGA Patriots: This ain't your grandpa's revolution. This is an advanced high tech military operation using expert analysis and in-depth operational expertise, handling sensitive political issues and providing unmatched cyber security practical on-the-ground protection, mission support, logistics and other capabilities that cannot be discussed. We Can See You

MAGA Patriots Must Be Prepared For Dirty Combat Tactics.

MAGA Ex Military under presidential authority will be equipped with automatic and specialized firearms, including submachine guns, assault rifles, riot shotguns, sniper rifles, riot guns, riot control agents, tear gas, smoke, and stun grenades. In addition, they may use specialized equipment including heavy body armor, ballistic shields, entry tools, armored vehicles, thermal and night vision devices, and motion detectors for covertly determining the positions of anyone trying to breach president Trump's location.

MAGA PATRIOTS DO NOT SUPPORT:
Looting.
Rioting.
Antifa Terrorists.
BLM Terrorists.
Harassing Police Officers.
Non-Peaceful Protesting.
Promotion Of Civil Unrest.
Burning Of Public Or Private Properties.

ATTN:MAGA Patriots are law abiding tax paying citizens and we respect our police officers and will follow military rules of engagement during mission CODE RED.

Disclaimer:8Kun administration has no association with this post and OP is only passing on vital information, OP is not a gun owner or a political activists and is not associated with any political groups.

#12307215 at 2021-01-04 08:47:57 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #15710: Kappy Is In The Portal Edition

James Mattis sucks many Ding-a-lings.

#12307196 at 2021-01-04 08:46:02 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #15710: Kappy Is In The Portal Edition

Can anyone say war crimes.

Ashton Carter (Obama)
Dick Cheney (Bush 41)
William Cohen (Clinton)
Mark Esper (Trump)
Robert Gates (Bush 43 and Obama)
Chuck Hagel (Obama)
James Mattis (Trump)
Leon Panetta (Obama)
William Perry (Clinton)
Donald Rumsfeld (Ford and Bush 43)

The Globalists (Known traitors, ALL) are coming out of the woodwork.

Trump is clearly over the target.

#12306909 at 2021-01-04 08:13:42 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #15710: Kappy Is In The Portal Edition

MORE DISGRACEFUL TRAITORS OF AMERICA HAVE SURFACED

Ashton Carter (Obama)
Dick Cheney (Bush 41)
William Cohen (Clinton)
Mark Esper (Trump)
Robert Gates (Bush 43 and Obama)
Chuck Hagel (Obama)
James Mattis (Trump)
Leon Panetta (Obama)
William Perry (Clinton)
Donald Rumsfeld (Ford and Bush 43)

The Globalists (Known traitors, ALL) are coming out of the woodwork.

Trump is clearly over the target.

I would rather risk all out civil war than to allow these rotten traitors take the helm.

They will make our lives hell.

Americans, get ready to bring out the good stuff.

TRUMP IS OUR COMMANDER IN CHIEF

#12301204 at 2021-01-04 00:19:19 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #15702: What Is A Static VPN? Edition

>>12301123
>signed by Dick Cheney, James Mattis, Mark Esper, Leon Panetta, Donald Rumsfeld, William Cohen, Chuck Hagel, Robert Gates, William Perry and Ashton Carter

All Niggers
Unironically

#12301141 at 2021-01-04 00:16:16 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #15702: What Is A Static VPN? Edition

>>12301123
>The letter signed by Dick Cheney, James Mattis, Mark Esper, Leon Panetta, Donald Rumsfeld, William Cohen, Chuck Hagel, Robert Gates, William Perry and Ashton Carter
>>12301123
>they are all DOOMED
>>12301123
>they are all DOOMED
>>12301123
>they are all DOOMED
>>12301123
>they are all DOOMED
>>12301123
>they are all DOOMED
>>12301123
>they are all DOOMED
>>12301123
>they are all DOOMED
>>12301123
>they are all DOOMED

#12301123 at 2021-01-04 00:15:09 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #15702: What Is A Static VPN? Edition

The letter signed by Dick Cheney, James Mattis, Mark Esper, Leon Panetta, Donald Rumsfeld, William Cohen, Chuck Hagel, Robert Gates, William Perry and Ashton Carter amounts to a remarkable show of force against Trump's subversion efforts just days before Congress is set to count Electoral College votes.
"Our elections have occurred. Recounts and audits have been conducted. Appropriate challenges have been addressed by the courts. Governors have certified the results. And the electoral college has voted. The time for questioning the results has passed; the time for the formal counting of the electoral college votes, as prescribed in the Constitution and statute, has arrived," the group wrote.

https://twitter.com/CNNPolitics/status/1345879641668644871?s=19

they are all DOOMED

#12056817 at 2020-12-16 22:31:45 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #15392: BUNCH OF F***ERS Edition

>>12056790
1. Army General Curtis Scaparrotti, Commander, U.S. European Command and NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe

2. Army General Mark Milley, U.S. Army Chief of Staff

3. Marine Corps General Robert Neller, Commandant of the Marine Corps

4. U.S. Coast Guard Admiral Paul Zukunft, Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard

5. Navy Admiral Kurt W. Tidd, Commander, U.S. Southern Command

6. Army General Raymond A Thomas, Commander, US Special Operations Command

7. Marine Corps General Thomas D. Waldhauser, Commander, U.S. Africa Command

8. Air Force General Paul Selva, Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

9. Marine Corps General Joseph Dunford, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

10. Defense Secretary James Mattis

11. President Donald Trump

12. Vice President Mike Pence

13. Navy Admiral Michael Rodgers, Director of the National Security Agency

14. Navy Admiral John Richardson, Chief of Naval Operations

15. Army General Joseph Votel, Commander, U.S. Central Command

16. Air Force General David Goldfein, Air Force Chief of Staff

17. Air Force General John E Hyten, Commander, US Strategic Command

18. Air Force General Joseph L. Lengyel, Chief of the National Guard Bureau

19. Air Force General Lori Robinson, Commander, Northern Command and NORAD

20. Patrick M. Shanahan, Deputy Secretary of Defense

21. Navy Admiral Harry Harris, Commander, U.S. Pacific Command

22. Air Force General Darren W McDew, Commander, U.S. Transportation Command

23. U.S. Coast Guard Vice Admiral Karl Schultz, Commander, Atlantic Area

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/fb-5600721/TRUMP-PARADES-GENERALS-OVAL-OFFICE.html

#12041791 at 2020-12-15 21:48:42 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #15372: As The World Watches Edition

The list goes on. Ex-Secretary of Defense, William Cohen, a former Senator from Maine and a model of "Down East" sensibility, runs a consulting firm pushing business with the PRC. He just hired another ex-Defense Secretary, retired Marine General James Mattis. Say it ain't so. "About those Chinese concentration camps and PLA threats to kill American servicemen by the thousands, General?

"https://andmagazine.com/talk/2020/12/15/exposed-chinese-psyops-against-america-one-hell-of-a-success/

#11959089 at 2020-12-09 05:16:46 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #15267: Missouri Enters The Fight Edition

A member of the Democratic Party, he is ranked as one of the wealthiest members of the Senate, with a net worth of over $100 million.

Dem Senators Blumenthal, Tester Oppose Waiver for Biden Sec Def Confirmation
By ZACHARY EVANS
December 8, 2020 2:40 PM

https://www.nationalreview.com/news/dem-senators-blumenthal-tester-oppose-waiver-for-biden-sec-def-confirmation/

Senators Richard Blumenthal (D., Conn.) and Jon Tester (D., Mont.) told reporters on Tuesday that they would oppose a waiver for retired General Lloyd Austin to be confirmed as secretary of defense.

Austin retired in 2016, and the National Security Act of 1947 requires that former military personnel wait seven years before being appointed secretary in the president's cabinet. Because Joe Biden nominated Austin for defense secretary in his incoming administration, Congress must grant Austin a waiver in order to confirm the appointment.

However, Blumenthal, who sits on the Senate Armed Services Committee, indicated on Tuesday that he would be against such a waiver.

"I have a lot of respect and admiration for General Austin...but I believe that a waiver for the 7 year rule would contravene the basic principle that there should be civilian control of non-political military," Blumenthal told reporters. "That principle is essential to our democracy. That's the reason for the statute which I think has to be applied, unfortunately, in this instance."

Blumenthal voted against granting a waiver to former defense secretary James Mattis, President Trump's nominee for the position in 2017. Tester, another Democrat who opposed a waiver for Mattis, said he would also vote against a waiver for Austin.

"I love Mattis, I thought Mattis was a great secretary. And I think this guy [Austin] is gonna be a great secretary of Defense. I just think that we ought to look at the rules," Tester said.

#11808964 at 2020-11-27 18:42:52 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #15073:You Just Might Find You Get What You Need Edition

>>11808246 lb

High Profile Advisors removed from Pentagon

https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/11/25/pentagon-purges-leading-advisors-from-defense-policy-board/

Henry Kissinger
Madeleine Albright
J.D. Crouch II
Gary Roughead
Jane Harman
Rudy De Leon
Eric Cantor
David McCormick
Jamie Gorelick
Robert Joseph
Franklin Miller

James Mattis

https://policy.defense.gov/OUSDP-Offices/Defense-Policy-Board/

Which means:
NO MORE WARS FOR ISRAEL !

(And then, of course, Israel (MOS in coop with MEK) blows up an Iranian scientist in Tehran. How convenient…)

Time to clean this shit up.
In such a way it is NEVER going to happen again.

#11808346 at 2020-11-27 17:27:49 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #15072: Dominion Voting System was mandated by Governor Tom Wolf Editio

Pentagon Purges Leading Advisors From Defense Policy Board - Jaweb
By
Elmoudjaweb -
November 25, 2020

Several members of the top federal advisory committee to the U.S. Department of Defense have been suddenly pushed out, multiple U.S. officials told Foreign Policy, in what appears to be the outgoing Trump administration's parting shot at scions of the foreign-policy establishment.

The directive, which the Pentagon's White House liaison Joshua Whitehouse sent on Wednesday afternoon, removes 11 high-profile advisors from the Defense Policy Board, including former Secretaries of State Henry Kissinger and Madeleine Albright; retired Adm. Gary Roughead, who served as chief of naval operations; and a onetime ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, Jane Harman. Rudy De Leon, a former chief operating officer at the Pentagon once considered by then-Defense Secretary James Mattis for a high-level policy role, will also be ousted.

Also booted in today's sweep of the board, which is effective immediately, were former House Majority Leader Eric Cantor and David McCormick, a former Treasury Department undersecretary during the George W. Bush administration. Both had been added to the board by former Mattis in 2017. Jamie Gorelick, a Clinton administration deputy attorney general; Robert Joseph, a chief U.S. nuclear negotiator who convinced Libya to give up weapons of mass destruction; former Bush Deputy National Security Advisor J.D. Crouch II; and Franklin Miller, a former top defense official, have also been removed.

This story is based on interviews with three current and former officials. The Defense Department did not immediately respond to request for comment.
The board, overseen by the Pentagon's top policy official, the undersecretary of defense for policy, serves as a kind of in-house think tank on retainer for top military leaders, providing independent counsel and advice on defense policy. The Defense Policy Board includes former top military brass, secretaries of state, members of Congress, and other senior diplomats and foreign-policy experts. The status of two other members of the panel-or who would replace the ousted members-was not immediately clear.
Officials said that the Trump administration had long tried to remake the board with figures seen as loyal to the president-and outside of the Washington establishment-but had received pushback from recently ousted Defense Secretary Mark Esper and acting Undersecretary of Defense for Policy James Anderson, who sought to keep the board in place to allow for policy continuity. Both Esper and Anderson were removed earlier this month in a purge of Pentagon officials.
The White House had sought to add Scott O'Grady, a former Air Force fighter pilot shot down over Bosnia, to the board to prepare him to be nominated for a top Pentagon position, as well as former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, a close ally of President Donald Trump. The administration had also vetoed adding retired Adm. Eric Olson, a former U.S. Special Operations Command chief, and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, as well as Gordon England, a former deputy secretary of defense during the Bush administration, over perceived anti-Trump ties.
"If they get treated like that, then who is going to want to volunteer?" a former senior Trump administration official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Foreign Policy.
While the board has no tangible role inside the Pentagon in the policymaking process, it routinely advises senior military leadership on some of the top strategic national security threats facing the United States. The board convened in October for classified discussions on formulating a long-term strategy toward China and deterrence in space, according to a notice from the Federal Register. The meeting included briefings from the CIA, the Pentagon's Office of Net Assessment, and other senior Pentagon policy officials.

The composition of the board has faced scrutiny from some Republican foreign-policy analysts, who say the current members do not accurately reflect the views of the administration, including its hard-line views toward China, as the Washington Times reported in October. Given the criticism, it is unclear why the White House waited until the final months of Trump's tenure in the Oval Office to make changes to the Defense Policy Board.
Some members of the board, including Roughead, Albright, and Harman, were added to the board during the Obama administration in 2011.
The move follows a recent decision by Whitehouse, the liaison officer, to begin political-style vetting of nonpolitical experts and employees on loan from think tanks, an effort that had only extended to political appointees in the past.

https://elmoudjaweb.com/pentagon-purges-leading-advisors-from-defense-policy-board-jaweb/

#11807192 at 2020-11-27 15:21:16 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #15071: When Gilgamesh Did Bilderberg WIth Stacy Abrams In 2019 Edition

Schmidt and Defense Innovation Board…Did Schmidt bug the electronic vote? Pt2

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2020/10/01/bokhari-the-defense-innovation-board-may-just-be-a-google-lobbying-operation/

"Google stands to benefit" from the new strategy, said a former FCC official who spoke to Breitbart News. "As the ultimate tech giant with an army of lobbyists at their disposal, they are uniquely situated to make a sweetheart deal with the DoD, and then turn around and control the network."

In 2015, the Wall Street Journal wrote about Google's attempt to open up military spectrum.

The article noted that "The idea originated with a 2012 report by the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. Among the more than two-dozen authors were Google Chairman Eric Schmidt and [Preston] Marshall, a former DARPA researcher now employed by Google. Mr. Medin."

It further noted. "Since early 2013, more than any other company, Google has lobbied the Federal Communications Commission" to open up the spectrum. Now using Medin and Schmidt in key positions, Google is closer than ever to getting its wishes.

Schmidt and Medin have used the threat of China as a tool to lobby for the 5G strategy overhaul, despite their own company's checkered track record on China. In 2017, Google opened an artificial intelligence laboratory in China, saying "science has no borders." In 2018, it entered into a partnership with Chinese telecoms giant Huawei, now subject to U.S. sanctions over security concerns.

Schmidt and Medin were also able to retain their positions on the Defense Advisory Board, despite their own company's refusal to work with the U.S. military in Project Maven, a program to develop AI for use in military drones.'

In 2019, Rep. Mac Thornberry (R-TX), top Republican on the House Armed Services Committee, appointed Schmidt to the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence (NSCAI). Following this, Defense Secretary James Mattis also appointed Google Cloud AI head Andrew Moore to the commission.

And Schmidt retained his influential advisory post under the Trump administration, despite the fact that Schmidt worked overtime to elect Hillary Clinton in 2016 (even attending her election night party in New York City wearing a
"staff" badge), and the fact that Google is censoring pro-Trump media ahead of the 2020 election.

"Billionaire Tech Investor Peter Thiel believes Google should be investigated for treason. He accuses Google of working with the Chinese Government." @foxandfriends A great and brilliant guy who knows this subject better than anyone! The Trump Administration will take a look!

- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 16, 2019

Last year, Trump tweeted "Billionaire Tech Investor Peter Thiel believes Google should be investigated for treason. He accuses Google of working with the Chinese Government."@foxandfriends A great and brilliant guy who knows this subject better than anyone! The Trump Administration will take a look!"

Yet even as the President raised these concerns, Swamp creatures like Gen. Mattis and so-called Republicans like Rep. Thornberry were putting Google executives in key policy advisory positions. Much like the internet itself, Google's influence in the D.C. swamp seems impossible to escape.

Allum Bokhari is the senior technology correspondent at Breitbart News. His new book, #DELETED: Big Tech's Battle to Erase the Trump Movement and Steal The Election, which contains exclusive interviews with sources inside Google, Facebook, and other tech companies, is currently available for purchase.

#11807037 at 2020-11-27 15:04:54 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #15071: When Gilgamesh Did Bilderberg WIth Stacy Abrams In 2019 Edition

Several members of the top federal advisory committee to the U.S. Department of Defense have been suddenly pushed out, multiple U.S. officials told Foreign Policy, in what appears to be the outgoing Trump administration's parting shot at scions of the foreign-policy establishment.

The directive, which the Pentagon's White House liaison Joshua Whitehouse sent on Wednesday afternoon, removes 11 high-profile advisors from the Defense Policy Board, including former Secretaries of State Henry Kissinger and Madeleine Albright; retired Adm. Gary Roughead, who served as chief of naval operations; and a onetime ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, Jane Harman. Rudy De Leon, a former chief operating officer at the Pentagon once considered by then-Defense Secretary James Mattis for a high-level policy role, will also be ousted.

Also booted in today's sweep of the board, which is effective immediately, were former House Majority Leader Eric Cantor and David McCormick, a former Treasury Department undersecretary during the George W. Bush administration. Both had been added to the board by Mattis in 2017. Jamie Gorelick, a Clinton administration deputy attorney general; Robert Joseph, a chief U.S. nuclear negotiator who convinced Libya to give up weapons of mass destruction; former Bush Deputy National Security Advisor J.D. Crouch II; and Franklin Miller, a former top defense official, have also been removed.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/11/25/pentagon-purges-leading-advisors-from-defense-policy-board/

Is this anywhere else?

#11806068 at 2020-11-27 12:34:03 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #15069: We Have The Servers - Coomer Edition

https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/11/25/pentagon-purges-leading-advisors-from-defense-policy-board/

Pentagon Purges Leading Advisors From Defense Policy Board

It's unclear why the Trump administration waited until its final months to shake up the influential group of outside experts advising top Pentagon leaders.

everal members of the top federal advisory committee to the U.S. Department of Defense have been suddenly pushed out, multiple U.S. officials told Foreign Policy, in what appears to be the outgoing Trump administration's parting shot at scions of the foreign-policy establishment.

The directive, which the Pentagon's White House liaison Joshua Whitehouse sent on Wednesday afternoon, removes 11 high-profile advisors from the Defense Policy Board, including former Secretaries of State Henry Kissinger and Madeleine Albright; retired Adm. Gary Roughead, who served as chief of naval operations; and a onetime ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, Jane Harman. Rudy De Leon, a former chief operating officer at the Pentagon once considered by then-Defense Secretary James Mattis for a high-level policy role, will also be ousted.

Also booted in today's sweep of the board, which is effective immediately, were former House Majority Leader Eric Cantor and David McCormick, a former Treasury Department undersecretary during the George W. Bush administration. Both had been added to the board by Mattis in 2017. Jamie Gorelick, a Clinton administration deputy attorney general; Robert Joseph, a chief U.S. nuclear negotiator who convinced Libya to give up weapons of mass destruction; former Bush Deputy National Security Advisor J.D. Crouch II; and Franklin Miller, a former top defense official, have also been removed.

This story is based on interviews with three current and former officials. In a statement late Wednesday, the Department of Defense confirmed the decision. "As part of long-considered changes, we can confirm that several members of the Department's Defense Policy Board have been removed," a defense official said. "We are extremely grateful for their dedicated service, commitment, and contributions to our national security. Future announcements for new members of the board will be made soon."
The board, overseen by the Pentagon's top policy official, the undersecretary of defense for policy, serves as a kind of in-house think tank on retainer for top military leaders, providing independent counsel and advice on defense policy. The Defense Policy Board includes former top military brass, secretaries of state, members of Congress, and other senior diplomats and foreign-policy experts. The status of two other members of the panel-or who would replace the ousted members-was not immediately clear.

Officials said that the Trump administration had long tried to remake the board with figures seen as loyal to the president-and outside of the Washington establishment-but had received pushback from recently ousted Defense Secretary Mark Esper and acting Undersecretary of Defense for Policy James Anderson, who sought to keep the board in place to allow for policy continuity. Both Esper and Anderson were removed earlier this month in a purge of Pentagon officials.

The White House had sought to add Scott O'Grady, a former Air Force fighter pilot shot down over Bosnia, to the board to prepare him to be nominated for a top Pentagon position, as well as former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, a close ally of President Donald Trump. The administration had also vetoed adding retired Adm. Eric Olson, a former U.S. Special Operations Command chief, and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, as well as Gordon England, a former deputy secretary of defense during the Bush administration, over perceived anti-Trump ties.

"If they get treated like that, then who is going to want to volunteer?" a former senior Trump administration official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Foreign Policy.

While the board has no tangible role inside the Pentagon in the policymaking process, it routinely advises senior military leadership on some of the top strategic national security threats facing the United States. The board convened in October for classified discussions on formulating a long-term strategy toward China and deterrence in space, according to a notice from the Federal Register. The meeting included briefings from the CIA, the Pentagon's Office of Net Assessment, and other senior Pentagon policy officials.

#11803439 at 2020-11-27 05:15:04 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #15066:The Camp David Edition

>>11803431

Some of the evidence of election crimes contained in both of these massive cases filed in US Federal Courts, this report notes, were heard yesterday during a hearing convened by a group of Pennsylvania legislators-election crimes so shocking it caused these lawmakers and assembled citizens to gasp in horror, all of whom were further stunned when Trump Campaign attorney Rudy Giuliani presented the beyond shocking evidence that Pennsylvania sent out 1.8-million mail in ballots, but counted 2.5-million mail in ballots to give socialist leader Biden his supposed victory-election crime evidence that after being presented then saw leftist social media giant Twitter banning the campaign account of Pennsylvania Senator Doug Mastriano because he convened this hearing-though coming much sooner than later, are election crime evidence cases that will be heard by those like US District Judge Gregory Van Tatenhove, who yesterday slapped down the socialist Democrat Party governor of Kentucky telling him "No! You do not have the constitutional right to shut down religious schools"-and ultimately will be election crime cases ruled on by the United States Supreme Court, that yesterday took a sledgehammer and battered all of the socialist Democrat Party tyrants closing churches, mosques and synagogues-and in writing for the majority opinion in this case that is now law, saw Justice Neil Gorsuch angrily stating: "It is time - past time - to make plain that, while the pandemic poses many grave challenges, there is no world in which the Constitution tolerates color-coded executive edicts that reopen liquor stores and bike shops but shutter churches, synagogues, and mosques…So, at least according to the Governor, it may be unsafe to go to church, but it is always fine to pick up another bottle of wine, shop for a new bike, or spend the afternoon exploring your distal points and meridians…Who knew public health would so perfectly align with secular convenience?"

With socialist-globalist leader Hillary Clinton having ordered Biden before the election to never concede defeat, this report concludes, because President Trump is doing the exact same thing, it now sees leftist MSNBC host Rachel Maddow calling for everyone contesting this election to be jailed before such a thing as contesting an election becomes a "new normal"-lunacy matched by fired and disgraced former US Marine General James Mattis, who is calling on socialist leader Biden to eliminate "America First" from the national security strategy-an elimination strategy leaving unanswered whose military forces would then protect America from its enemies-but does make perfect sense for what America is being turned into, with this being best evidenced by socialist Democrat Party leader Governor Phil Scott of Vermont, who just ordered his State's school children to narc on their families' Thanksgiving activities-and in turning children into spies for the state against their own parents, fulfills the warning given by George Orwell in his book Nineteen Eighty-Four of how despotic tyrannically ruled nations are created-though these new American children spies will never hear about Orwell's warning, because the British National Library has now put him on their list of shame because his great-great grandfather owned slaves-but in viewing American today, one can see those who are still sane, such as Trump Campaign lawyer Jenna Ellis, who compares Biden picking a cabinet to those playing fantasy football, and the gambling bookmakers in Las Vegas, whose just published article about says everything one needs to know in its headline "Las Vegas Oddsmakers STILL Not Paying Out for Biden Victory - Gamblers More Honest than Garbage Dump Media".

http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index3403.htm

Automatic trigger in 3

#11801287 at 2020-11-27 02:08:37 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #15063: Comfy Thanksgiving Edition

>>11801146
>James Talent
Jim Talent
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Jim Talent
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United States Senator
from Missouri
In office
November 23, 2002 - January 3, 2007
Preceded by Jean Carnahan
Succeeded by Claire McCaskill
Chair of the House Small Business Committee
In office
January 3, 1997 - January 3, 2001
Preceded by Jan Meyers
Succeeded by Don Manzullo
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Missouri's 2nd district
In office
January 3, 1993 - January 3, 2001
Preceded by Joan Horn
Succeeded by Todd Akin
Member of the Missouri House of Representatives
from the 92nd district
In office
January 9, 1985 - January 6, 1993
Preceded by Donna Ann Coleman
Succeeded by David Klarich
Personal details
Born October 18, 1956 (age 64)
Des Peres, Missouri, U.S.
Political party Republican
Spouse(s) Brenda Lee Lyons ?(m. 1984)?
Children 3
Education Washington University (BA)
University of Chicago (JD)
James Matthes Talent (born October 18, 1956) is an American politician and former U.S. Senator from Missouri. He is a Republican and resided in the St. Louis area while serving in elected office. He identifies with the conservative wing of the Republican Party, being outspoken on judicial appointments, abortion, flag burning, and defense issues.

After serving for eight years in the U.S. House of Representatives and then working as a lobbyist, he was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2002, defeating Democrat Jean Carnahan in a special election to complete the term to which Carnahan's husband, Mel, had been elected posthumously in 2000.[1] In the Democratic wave of November 2006, Talent lost his re-election bid to Claire McCaskill, 50% to 47%.

Talent, a senior adviser to Mitt Romney's 2008 presidential campaign,[2] served as a member of Romney's 2012 Economic Policy Team during the 2012 Presidential Election.[3] Talent is a distinguished Fellow at the Heritage Foundation.[4] He is also a co-chairman at Mercury, a Washington D.C. lobbying firm.[5] Following Donald Trump's victory in the 2016 presidential election, Talent was rumored to be on the short list for United States Secretary of Defense,[6] a position ultimately offered to James Mattis.

#11801201 at 2020-11-27 01:58:50 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #15063: Comfy Thanksgiving Edition

>>11801115 ssauce
https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/11/25/pentagon-purges-leading-advisors-from-defense-policy-board/
p administration's parting shot at scions of the foreign-policy establishment.

The directive, which the Pentagon's White House liaison Joshua Whitehouse sent on Wednesday afternoon, removes 11 high-profile advisors from the Defense Policy Board, including former Secretaries of State Henry Kissinger and Madeleine Albright; retired Adm. Gary Roughead, who served as chief of naval operations; and a onetime ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, Jane Harman. Rudy De Leon, a former chief operating officer at the Pentagon once considered by then-Defense Secretary James Mattis for a high-level policy role, will also be ousted.

Also booted in today's sweep of the board, which is effective immediately, were former House Majority Leader Eric Cantor and David McCormick, a former Treasury Department undersecretary during the George W. Bush administration. Both had been added to the board by Mattis in 2017. Jamie Gorelick, a Clinton administration deputy attorney general; Robert Joseph, a chief U.S. nuclear negotiator who convinced Libya to give up weapons of mass destruction; former Bush Deputy National Security Advisor J.D. Crouch II; and Franklin Miller, a former top defense official, have also been removed.

This story is based on interviews with three current and former officials. In a statement late Wednesday, the Department of Defense confirmed the decision. "As part of long-considered changes, we can confirm that several members of the Department's Defense Policy Board have been removed," a defense official said. "We are extremely grateful for their dedicated service, commitment, and contributions to our national security. Future announcements for new members of the board will be made soon."
The board, overseen by the Pentagon's top policy official, the undersecretary of defense for policy, serves as a kind of in-house think tank on retainer for top military leaders, providing independent counsel and advice on defense policy. The Defense Policy Board includes former top military brass, secretaries of state, members of Congress, and other senior diplomats and foreign-policy experts. The status of two other members of the panel-or who would replace the ousted members-was not immediately clear.

Officials said that the Trump administration had long tried to remake the board with figures seen as loyal to the president-and outside of the Washington establishment-but had received pushback from recently ousted Defense Secretary Mark Esper and acting Undersecretary of Defense for Policy James Anderson, who sought to keep the board in place to allow for policy continuity. Both Esper and Anderson were removed earlier this month in a purge of Pentagon officials.

The White House had sought to add Scott O'Grady, a former Air Force fighter pilot shot down over Bosnia, to the board to prepare him to be nominated for a top Pentagon position, as well as former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, a close ally of President Donald Trump. The administration had also vetoed adding retired Adm. Eric Olson, a former U.S. Special Operations Command chief, and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, as well as Gordon England, a former deputy secretary of defense during the Bush administration, over perceived anti-Trump ties.

"If they get treated like that, then who is going to want to volunteer?" a former senior Trump administration official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Foreign Policy.

While the board has no tangible role inside the Pentagon in the policymaking process, it routinely advises senior military leadership on some of the top strategic national security threats facing the United States. The board convened in October for classified discussions on formulating a long-term strategy toward China and deterrence in space, according to a notice from the Federal Register. The meeting included briefings from the CIA, the Pentagon's Office of Net Assessment, and other senior Pentagon policy officials.

#11799297 at 2020-11-26 22:36:03 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #15061: Absolutely and Completely Comfefe Edition

Mattis didn't disclose ties to China-boosting firm in column slamming Trump's 'America First' policy

Mattis denounced Trump's foreign policy in a column written with three coauthors.

In an online column denouncing President Trump's "America First" policy that includes measures regarding Beijing, ex-Defense Secretary James Mattis did not disclose his affiliation with an organization that fosters international business deals with communist China.

As coauthor with three other writers in a Nov. 23 Foreign Affairs column, Mattis did not mention that he works for the The Cohen Group consulting firm. Nor did he challenge China's tough talk against U.S. policies regarding Taiwan, nor the strict economic retaliation Beijing levied against Australia.

Instead, Mattis criticized Trump administration policies toward Beijing. Such policies, touted by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, are not in line with The Cohen Group's approach toward international business dealings with Beijing.

"China is a market of enormous opportunity and complexity," the group states on its website, adding that the group's China Practice "has a solid record of success with professionals in offices in Beijing, Tianjin and Washington, DC."

The Cohen Group is run by another former Defense Secretary. William Cohen, who has been involved with China since 1978, when he went there to meet with Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping, according to the organization.

"Since then, he has been a constant presence in the U.S.-China relationship, including commercial development and security cooperation," the organization states, noting that Cohen serves on the Board of Directors of the U.S.-China Business Council.

Mattis joined The Cohen Group in 2019 as a senior counselor.

Mattis was among a group of retired four-star officers who drew criticism earlier this year for denigrating Trump in a series of articles, tweets, and other commentary.

https://justthenews.com/accountability/political-ethics/Mattis-didnt-disclose-ties-china-boosting-firm-column-slamming

#11798723 at 2020-11-26 21:40:04 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #15060: Thanksgiving Special Edition

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/nov/25/James-Mattis-failed-disclose-his-role-consultant-t/

Mattis failed to disclose
role with global consultant
tied to China in bombshell column
Washington Times, by Rowan Scarborough

#11790863 at 2020-11-26 04:26:45 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #15050:Roscoe B Davis MOAB Edition

Et tu, mad dog?

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/nov/25/James-Mattis-failed-disclose-his-role-consultant-t/

Firing squad or electric chair today, sir?

#11785283 at 2020-11-25 21:25:43 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #15043: FLYNN UNLEASHED

i'd like to hear anons' theories on Mattis' position:

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/robert-spencer/2020/11/24/Mattis-hopes-biden-wont-put-america-first-n1170533

Mattis Hopes Biden Won't Put America First
BY ROBERT SPENCER NOV 24, 2020 3:12 PM ET

(AP Photo/Robert Burns)
It's an odd statement coming from anyone who was ever in the U.S. government. President Trump's former Defense Secretary James Mattis has declared, in a Foreign Affairs op-ed co-written with establishment foreign policy wonk Kori Schake, that he hopes a Biden administration won't put America first. He didn't say which country he thought a president of the United States should put first instead.

Mattis and Schake wrote: "In January, when President Joe Biden and his national security team begin to reevaluate U.S. foreign policy, we hope they will quickly revise the national security strategy to eliminate 'America first' from its contents, restoring in its place the commitment to cooperative security that has served the United States so well for decades."

This was so important, they asserted, because "in practice, 'America first' has meant 'America alone.' That has damaged the country's ability to address problems before they reach U.S. territory and has thus compounded the danger emergent threats pose."

This is rancid, insidious hogwash. Trump's travel bans, which Biden has pledged to repeal on his first day in office, are designed to prevent problems from reaching U.S. territory. Biden's repeal of them will only make Americans more vulnerable. Also, Trump's America First policy was not "America alone" by any means: the U.S. was instrumental in concluding peace deals between Israel and three of its Arab Muslim neighbors, deals that John Kerry, who will soon be back in a position of power, assured us back in 2016 would be absolutely impossible. Trump has also demanded more responsibility from our allies, asking them to pay more for their own defense.

The only way in which Trump's America First policy meant "America alone" was insofar as it broke from the internationalist arrangements that have been in place since the end of World War II, to which Mattis and Schake refer as "the commitment to cooperative security that has served the United States so well for decades."

But if a "commitment to cooperative security" doesn't involve being able to put one's national interests first, how is it good for the people of that nation? That question doesn't apply just to America.

In reality, the president's primary job is clear from the oath of office that every president recites in order to assume office, and it isn't to provide "cooperative security" for other countries in the world, or free health care for illegal aliens, or to make sure that Somalia and Afghanistan aren't riven by civil war, or to make sure America is "diverse." It is simply this: "I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."

Or, to put it even more simply, as Rating America's Presidents: An America-First Look at Who Is Best, Who Is Overrated, and Who Was An Absolute Disaster explains, the primary job of the president of the United States is to put America first.

Nonetheless, this point is hotly controverted. Trump stated it clearly in his inaugural address on January 20, 2017: "From this day forward, a new vision will govern our land. From this moment on, it's going to be America First... We will seek friendship and goodwill with the nations of the world - but we do so with the understanding that it is the right of all nations to put their own interests first."

That was one of the reasons why the elites have hated him with such burning intensity, and had to get him out of office. Someone has to pay for that "cooperative security," and someone has to be paid, and that means that Trump was threatening some extremely wealthy and powerful interests.

The internationalist elite has reasserted its hegemony and beaten back a serious challenge. And it is not a good sign that in spiking the football after that victory, Mattis makes it abundantly clear that "cooperating with like-minded nations" means putting their interests before our own. No responsible national leader should do that, but of course soon, if the Left's quest for open borders is successful, nations themselves will be a thing of the past, at least in Europe and North America, as the all-encompassing, authoritarian technostate moves inexorably closer to being put into place

#11781838 at 2020-11-25 17:22:49 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #15038: Collect Notables or Bake Edition

America for sale !

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/nov/25/James-Mattis-failed-disclose-his-role-consultant-t/

A media-celebrated Foreign Affairs column this week by former Defense Secretary James Mattis blasting President Trump's "America First" theme did not disclose that Mr. Mattis holds a senior position at The Cohen Group, which dedicates itself to making business deals in communist China.

Mr. Trump's get-tough approach toward China - tariffs and prohibitions on Beijing's cyber products -is generally counter to The Cohen Group's objective of bringing China and U.S. companies together in multi-million dollar deals.

The Cohen Group, founded by former Defense Secretary William Cohen and staffed by a number of former high-ranking government and military leaders, has two of its four overseas offices in China.

Mr. Mattis is identified in his column as a former defense secretary and fellow at the Hoover Institution, but not as a senior counselor at The Cohen Group global consulting firm in Washington.

#11764028 at 2020-11-24 11:05:05 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #15016: Fought The Good Fight Finished The Race And Kept The Faith Edition

>>11764013
https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2020/11/23/James-Mattis-joe-biden-must-eliminate-america-first-from-u-s-foreign-policy/

#11763925 at 2020-11-24 10:48:04 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #15016: Fought The Good Fight Finished The Race And Kept The Faith Edition

https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2020/11/23/James-Mattis-joe-biden-must-eliminate-america-first-from-u-s-foreign-policy/

James Mattis: Joe Biden Must Eliminate 'America First' from U.S. Foreign Policy

#11761249 at 2020-11-24 04:27:03 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #15012: What a Mess, So annoyed Edition

Notables are NOT endorsements
#15012
>>11761225 Joe M , We are in the midst of a Second Revolutionary War
>>11761179 WTF??? Collecting your DNA? Is Covid a ploy to grab your DNA?
>>11761154 Ohio Gov. DeWine Vows to Veto Bill Stripping His 'Ultimate' COVID Powers
>>11761093 James Mattis: Joe Biden Must Eliminate 'America First' from U.S. Foreign Policy
>>11761120, >>11761046, POTUS What does GSA being allowed to preliminarily work with the Dems have to do with continuing to pursue our various cases on what will go down as the most corrupt election in American political history? We are moving full speed ahead. Will never concede to fake ballots & "Dominion".
>>11760997 Lin Wood
>>11760977 Corn & Cob coms to anons...kek
>>11760841 This pops up before you can "like" a POTUS tweet!!
>>11760808 Q drop breathe (Cap) 1 hour version
>>11760790 NASA hopes China shares data obtained during Chang'e lunar mission with scientists
>>11760782 Anon theory
>>11760773 Archaeologist claims to have found the home where Jesus Christ spent his early days in Nazareth
>>11760753 , >>11760768, Catherine Herridge NEW FLYNN Letter to AG Barr from Senators Chuck Grassley + SenRonJohnson alleges FBI link between Flynn case + a "Miles Taylor"
>>11760739 Beautiful Black Sky
>>11760738 Lin Wood tweet and subpoena
>>11760734 Check it out Anons- Kek
>>11760727 Prince of Camelot, Patriot, People Magazine's Sexiest Man Alive is Alive
>>11760709 Philly Faces New Lawsuit After Shutting Down Gun-Carry Permit Proces
>>11760699 , >>11761060, PF
>>11760683 Hamdi v Rumsfeld
>>11760670 Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell in quarantine at federal jail in NYC after possible coronavirus exposure
>>11760668 Feinstein vows to not seek chairmanship in US Senate following SCOTUS hearing blowback
>>11760634 Mayor Rudy Giuliani /Lou Dobbs: The Michigan attorney general doesn't care if Democrats steal an election
>>11760620 Cooperate With China Or World War 3: Kissinger
>>11760557 GSA Executive Mentioned Threats to Her, Her Family, and Employees
>>11760545 Dominion CEO Admits In Testimony: Machines Rely On Chinese Parts From 'Screen Interface Down To Chip Level'
>>11760541 Hunter Biden #HardDrivefromHell leaks on half chan
>>11760522 , >>11761235, (cap) Roger Stone on the record saying Bill Gates/Microsoft created the software for Dominion to steal votes
#15012

#11761214 at 2020-11-24 04:24:23 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #15012: What a Mess, So annoyed Edition

Q Research General #15013: Will never concede to fake ballots & "Dominion" Edition

Notables are NOT endorsements
Check em' missed anything or needs removing?
Dough: >>11760491
@ 640

>>11761179 WTF??? Collecting your DNA? Is Covid a ploy to grab your DNA?
>>11761154 Ohio Gov. DeWine Vows to Veto Bill Stripping His 'Ultimate' COVID Powers
>>11761093 James Mattis: Joe Biden Must Eliminate 'America First' from U.S. Foreign Policy
>>11761120, >>11761046, POTUS What does GSA being allowed to preliminarily work with the Dems have to do with continuing to pursue our various cases on what will go down as the most corrupt election in American political history? We are moving full speed ahead. Will never concede to fake ballots & "Dominion".
>>11760997 Lin Wood
>>11760977 Corn & Cob coms to anons...kek
>>11760841 This pops up before you can "like" a POTUS tweet!!
>>11760808 Q drop breathe (Cap) 1 hour version
>>11760790 NASA hopes China shares data obtained during Chang'e lunar mission with scientists
>>11760782 Anon theory
>>11760773 Archaeologist claims to have found the home where Jesus Christ spent his early days in Nazareth
>>11760753 , >>11760768, Catherine Herridge NEW FLYNN Letter to AG Barr from Senators Chuck Grassley + SenRonJohnson alleges FBI link between Flynn case + a "Miles Taylor"
>>11760739 Beautiful Black Sky
>>11760738 Lin Wood tweet and subpoena
>>11760734 Check it out Anons- Kek
>>11760727 Prince of Camelot, Patriot, People Magazine's Sexiest Man Alive is Alive
>>11760709 Philly Faces New Lawsuit After Shutting Down Gun-Carry Permit Proces
>>11760699 , >>11761060, PF
>>11760683 Hamdi v Rumsfeld
>>11760670 Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell in quarantine at federal jail in NYC after possible coronavirus exposure
>>11760668 Feinstein vows to not seek chairmanship in US Senate following SCOTUS hearing blowback
>>11760634 Mayor Rudy Giuliani /Lou Dobbs: The Michigan attorney general doesn't care if Democrats steal an election
>>11760620 Cooperate With China Or World War 3: Kissinger
>>11760557 GSA Executive Mentioned Threats to Her, Her Family, and Employees
>>11760545 Dominion CEO Admits In Testimony: Machines Rely On Chinese Parts From 'Screen Interface Down To Chip Level'
>>11760541 Hunter Biden #HardDrivefromHell leaks on half chan
>>11760522 Roger Stone on the record saying Bill Gates/Microsoft created the software for Dominion to steal votes
#15012

#11761093 at 2020-11-24 04:14:30 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #15012: What a Mess, So annoyed Edition

James Mattis: Joe Biden Must Eliminate 'America First' from U.S. Foreign Policy

Former Secretary of Defense James Mattis declared in an article in Foreign Affairs on Monday that the "America First" foreign policy had damaged national security, and called on Joe Biden to "eliminate 'America first'" from U.S. strategy.

Mattis resigned in December 2018, citing policy disagreements with the president, who had just ordered a troop drawdown in Syria. In his resignation letter, Mattis said that the U.S. needed to do more to show "respect" to American allies.

In October 2018, then-Secretary Mattis gave a speech in which he said that "when we talk about America first, it's not America alone."

In his new article, however, Mattis says the opposite, calling for the "end of America First":

The United States today is undermining the foundations of an international order manifestly advantageous to U.S. interests, reflecting a basic ignorance of the extent to which both robust alliances and international institutions provide vital strategic depth. In practice, "America first" has meant "America alone." That has damaged the country's ability to address problems before they reach U.S. territory and has thus compounded the danger emergent threats pose.

...

In January, when President Joe Biden and his national security team begin to reevaluate U.S. foreign policy, we hope they will quickly revise the national security strategy to eliminate "America first" from its contents, restoring in its place the commitment to cooperative security that has served the United States so well for decades. The best strategy for ensuring safety and prosperity is to buttress American military strength with enhanced civilian tools and a restored network of solid alliances-both necessary to achieving defense in depth. The pandemic should serve as a reminder of what grief ensues when we wait for problems to come to us.

Mattis also says that while the greatest threat America faces today comes from China, the U.S. should seek greater peace, not confrontation. He calls for cooperation with China "in areas of overlapping interests, such as pandemic response, climate change, and nuclear security."

In June, Mattis gave a statement to The Atlantic in which he called Trump a threat to the Constitution, comparing him to a Nazi and repeating false claims that Trump had used the military to clear peaceful protesters from Lafayette Square.

https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2020/11/23/James-Mattis-joe-biden-must-eliminate-america-first-from-u-s-foreign-policy/

The Butcher of Fallujah
https://mltoday.com/the-butcher-of-fallujah/

#11628875 at 2020-11-13 18:48:41 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #14847: Eyes On POTUS At 4PM Edition

House Democrats Warn Biden Against Hiring SecDef With Arms Industry Ties

Biden's top pick sits on the board of a defense firm and has a long history of pushing for US intervention around the world

Two progressive House Democrats penned a letter to Joe Biden, urging him not to appoint someone to the position of secretary of defense who has previously worked in the weapons industry. The letter was released Thursday by Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA) and Rep. Mark Pocan (D-WI).

"Respectfully, and in full agreement with your past statements, we write to request that the next secretary of defense have no prior employment history with a defense contractor," the letter reads. The lawmakers used President Trump's previous Pentagon chiefs as examples of the revolving door between the arms industry and Pentagon leaders.

Former Secretary of Defense Mark Esper, who was fired this week, worked for Raytheon before joining the Trump administration. Patrick Shanahan, former acting secretary, worked for Boeing for over 30 years before joining the Pentagon as deputy secretary of defense in 2017. Trump's first Pentagon chief, James Mattis, served on the board of General Dynamics.

"Additionally, nearly half of all senior Defense Department officials are connected to military contractors," the lawmakers wrote. "Despite President Trump's boast that he would 'drain the swamp' and hire 'only the best people,' he has continually failed to do so."

Michele Flournoy is said to be the frontrunner for the position of secretary of defense in the Biden administration. Flournoy has deep ties with the arms industry and currently serves on the board of the defense firm Booz Allen Hamilton.

Flournoy worked in the Pentagon under the Clinton administration and the Obama administration. In 2007, Flournoy co-founded the Center for a New American Security (CNAS), a hawkish think tank that receives hefty contributions from weapons makers, major corporations, and the US government.

In 2016, Flournoy co-authored a CNAS report titled "Expanding American Power" with a group of hawks, including neoconservative Robert Kagan. The paper called for arms shipments to Ukraine, threats to Iran, increased military spending, and escalations in Syria and Iraq.

According to The New York Times, Jeh Johnson is also in the running to be Biden's Pentagon chief. Johnson served as the secretary of homeland security from 2013 to 2017 and currently sits on the board of Lockheed Martin.

https://news.antiwar.com/2020/11/12/house-democrats-warn-biden-against-hiring-secdef-with-arms-industry-ties/

#11599073 at 2020-11-11 23:52:18 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #14809: Thank You For Your Service Edition

Douglas Macgregor Installed At The Pentagon

The (likely brief) ascent of the retired colonel is part of a broader post-election shakeup at DoD.

Douglas Macgregor, President Trump's nominee to be ambassador to Germany, was installed at the Pentagon as senior advisor on Wednesday, as part of a broader post-election shakeup.

His retention by President Trump was first reported by Axios, and confirmed to me by Macgregor on Wednesday. It is a show of force from an embattled White House. In recent days, Trump has "terminated" Secretary of Defense Mark Esper, Mark Tomb and other figures. There is considerable speculation that Trump will fire CIA director Gina Haspel next. Haspel met with Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday night, in a summit with an undisclosed agenda.

Trump's shakeup is the latest in an administration defined by them. He tore through his political staff in 2017- dispensing with Reince Priebus, Steve Bannon, Sean Spicer and Anthony Scaramucci. He convulsed his national security and legal apparatuses in 2018 and 2019- installing Mike Pompeo and John Bolton over Rex Tillerson and H.R. McMaster, and firing the generally-revered James Mattis, while replacing longtime loyalist Jeff Sessions with Matthew Whitaker, and later, William Barr.

Trump had a notorious flameout with Bolton, and in recent weeks, has complained Barr has been recalcitrant in going after the administration's political enemies. Scaramucci and Bolton said, in no uncertain terms, that Trump should not be re-elected. Mattis and former chief of staff John Kelly rebuked the president during the general election; Mattis said Trump had made a "mockery of the Constitution"; Kelly proclaimed that Trump was "the most flawed person" he had ever met. Only Scaramucci - with his administration tenure, by far, the most short-lived - formally backed Biden, however.

Still, there are some slivers of evidence this shuffle could be significant, especially with the specter of President-elect Biden haunting the administration. Macgregor is on the record as favoring full withdrawal from Afghanistan. Trump's previously-announced choice to be envoy to Kabul also has publicly favored withdrawal. "The president is taking back control of DOD. It's a rebirth of foreign policy. This is Trump foreign policy," a U.S. official claimed to The Intercept's Lee Fang. Between the lines, it would be part and parcel with a strategy to hamstring the almost-certain, incoming Democratic administration. Trump could be going full realist on Afghanistan, while at the same time delivering the coup de grace - an assault of further sanctions - in four years of undeterred belligerence toward the Iranian regime.

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/state-of-the-union/douglas-macgregor-installed-at-the-pentagon/

#11598494 at 2020-11-11 23:15:07 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #14808: Would You Like To Know More? Edition

1/2
Doubt we will ever get a def ID on [P]
Keep thinking about the following 'cuz muh autism
So, Ima just gonna leave it here.

>Ike first to call out [MIC] DS
vid related
>MIC [Pentagon] long history of fuckery (way too much to list)
https://nworeport.me/2020/07/14/ex-vp-of-major-military-contractor-dyncorp-sr-pentagon-official-guilty-for-child-sex-abuse/
https://www.collective-evolution.com/2020/06/18/child-porn-discovered-on-department-of-defense-pentagon-computers-the-latest-updates/

1130
>>1003248
>Check the dates. Pentagon kills LIFELONG project same day Facebook is formed.
Finder of this should apply to NSA.
Q

3821
Who was the 17th Director of the NSA?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/pentagon-and-intelligence-community-chiefs-have-urged-obama-to-remove-the-head-of-the-nsa/2016/11/19/44de6ea6-adff-11e6-977a-1030f822fc35_story.html
Q

4310
"The heads of the Pentagon and the nation's intelligence community have recommended to President Obama that the director of the National Security Agency, Adm. Michael S. Rogers, be removed.

4415
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/06/James-Mattis-denounces-trump-protests-militarization/612640/
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2020/06/02/senior-military-leaders-being-called-to-testify-to-congress-about-george-floyd-protest-response/
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense-national-security/pentagon-distances-itself-from-trump-on-crowd-control-laments-murder-of-floyd
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/06/04/revolt-generals/
Riot [coordination] in select safe-zone cities [D] control mayor(s) [allow] staged event allow former-active brass assertion of 'Unconstitutional' 'Threat to Constitution' _Mutiny
public optics 'staging' underway.
ALERT readiness: severe-critical
Q

4640 (Q response to pic related, note Pentagon & JCS)
Interesting change of events.
Weekly [false] attacks + whistleblower(s) [false].
[1st [Vindman] coord [] [whistleblower] false narrative insert Ukraine [Biden deflect] returning to the news [legal]]?
[] backroom prep [2nd whistleblower]?
[] backroom prep [3rd whistleblower] _NATSEC?
Pentagon [ 1-4] backroom prep _dry run campaign [refusal]?
USD(I)_JCS [2]
Refusal to concede narr?
Challenge legally battleground [4].
Ballot harvest [4] [illegally] [CA -1].
Everything at stake.
Win by any means necessary.
Plan accordingly [November].
Q

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chairman_of_the_Joint_Chiefs_of_Staff
>The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (CJCS) is the highest-ranking and most senior military officer in the United States Armed Forces[2] and is the principal military advisor to the president, the National Security Council,[3] the Homeland Security Council,[3] and the secretary of defense.[3][4]
>Joseph Dunford: October 1, 2015 - September 30, 2019

998
>>884833
The "Chair" serves the Master.
Who is the Master?
P = C.
Q

133
Hard to swallow.
Important to progress.
Who are the puppet masters?
House of Saud (6+++) - $4 Trillion+
Rothschild (6++) - $2 Trillion+
Soros (6+) - $1 Trillion+
Focus on above (3).
Public wealth disclosures - False.
Many governments of the world feed the 'Eye'.
Think slush funds (feeder).
Think war (feeder).

1/2

#11594021 at 2020-11-11 18:07:07 (UTC+1)
Q Rsearch General #14802: Ebaked Again

>>11593243
https://www.flickr.com/photos/whitehouse/37993205464/

President Donald Trump, joined by U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis, participates in a Memorial Day Ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia | May 29, 2017 (Official White House Photo by D. Myles Cullen)

#11591685 at 2020-11-11 15:19:53 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #14800: They Called It Dominion Edition

>>11591657
President Donald Trump, joined by U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis, participates in a Memorial Day Ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia | May 29, 2017 (Official White House Photo by D. Myles Cullen)

#11590188 at 2020-11-11 12:45:05 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #14798: Through The Darkest Of The Night Anons Shine The Light Edition

>>11590138
>>11590138

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5600495/Trump-parades-generals-destroyer-loaded-cruise-missiles-arrives-Syrian-coast.html

Next to POTUS and Pence is "Defense Secretary James Mattis"

#11561355 at 2020-11-09 19:52:53 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #14761: Lawsuit Monday Edition

https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2020/11/09/exclusive-esper-on-his-way-out-says-he-was-no-yes-man/

As had long been expected, President Donald Trump fired Defense Secretary Mark Esper on Monday, cutting short what would have otherwise been his final months at the Pentagon, in anticipation of President-elect Joe Biden's transition in January.

Speaking to Military Times in an exclusive interview on Nov. 4, Esper confirmed that he never had any intention of quitting, and though he expected the other shoe to drop, he didn't have a good read on when.

"So what I'm trying to do is, kind of, share my views and perspectives while they're still fresh," he said.

Dubbed "Yesper" by his critics, including the president, he takes umbrage with the idea that he has been anyone's "yes man."
"My frustration is I sit here and say, 'Hm, 18 Cabinet members. Who's pushed back more than anybody?' Name another Cabinet secretary that's pushed back," he said. "Have you seen me on a stage saying, 'Under the exceptional leadership of blah-blah-blah, we have blah-blah-blah-blah?' "

Like retired Marine Gen. James Mattis before him, Esper gave off the distinct aura of someone trying to be the adult in the room, the last line of defense between the world's most powerful military and a commander in chief who saw it as a political bludgeon.

Following his testimony in Trump's impeachment proceedings, concern flared that the administration might try to retaliate against now-retired Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, who had been a Ukraine expert at the National Security Council.
Months after his February testimony, something appeared amiss, as the Army's expected colonel promotion list had still not dropped. Vindman's camp alleged that someone in the chain of command was holding it up, though behind the scenes, both Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy and Esper had signed off.
"You know, the Army had done all its due diligence on him. He was qualified for promotion. They asked me, you know, what to do," he said. "I said, if he's qualified for promotion, do the right thing, put him on the list. I endorse it. We'll just let the chips fall where they might."

Then he had his first public break with the president, who had ordered active-duty troops from Fort Bragg, North Carolina, to assemble outside the D.C. area in case they were needed to put down violent protests.
"The option to use active-duty forces in a law enforcement role should only be used as a matter of last resort, and only in the most urgent and dire of situations," Esper said, strongly countering the president's threatening message. "We are not in one of those situations now. I do not support invoking the Insurrection Act."

The president was reportedly furious.

"I was really concerned that that continued talk about Insurrection Act was going to take us in a direction, take us into a really dark direction," Esper said. "And I wanted to make clear what I thought about the situation as secretary of defense and the role of the active-duty forces. And to kind of break the fever, if you will, because I thought that was just a moment in history where … if somebody doesn't stand up now and say something and kind of push the pause button, then … it could spiral."

#11346919 at 2020-10-29 20:11:24 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #14492: E-Bake To Victory Edition

New York Times' Miles Taylor Op-Ed Shows Everything Wrong With Anonymous Sources

If The New York Times was willing to lie about its anonymous source for their high-profile information operation, imagine the lies they're willing to tell about all the other anonymous sources they use.

Two years after the New York Times published an op-ed from what they described as an anonymous, principled conservative "senior administration official," it turned out to have been written by a low-level bureaucrat who later worked for tech giant Google and gave money to far-left Democrats.

Miles Taylor revealed he was the author of the highly hyped op-ed headlined "I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration." He claimed to secretly work to thwart Trump's policy goals as the elected president of the United States.

While constitutional scholars worried about implications of such unaccountable thwarting of the will of the people, most media focused instead on identifying who "Anonymous" was. The New York Times assured readers that when it said "senior administration official," it meant someone "in the upper echelon of an administration."
Not A Senior Administration Official

People took seriously the New York Times' claim that the anonymous writer was in the upper echelon of an administration. In "13 people who might be the author of The New York Times op-ed," CNN followed the New York Times' lead by offering the names of actual senior administration officials, such as Don McGahn, Dan Coats, Kellyanne Conway, Kirstjen Nielsen, John Kelly, Jeff Sessions, James Mattis, Nikki Haley, Jared Kushner, and Ivanka Trump. Chris Cillizza also suggested it might be Fiona Hill or Melania Trump.

He also wrote of the Times, "They aren't publishing an anonymous op-ed from just anyone in the Trump administration. They especially aren't publishing one that alleges a near-coup ... If some midlevel bureaucrat in the Trump administration comes to the Times - or has an intermediary reach out to the Times - asking to write a piece like this one without their name attached to it, the answer would be an immediate 'no.'" He added:

Given all of that, it's telling that the Times was willing to extend the cloak of anonymity to this author - especially, again, because of the stakes and the target. This is not a decision made lightly. That the decision was made to publish it should tell you that this isn't some disgruntled mid-to-upper manager buried in the bureaucracy. This is a genuine high-ranking official. A name most people who follow politics - and maybe some who don't - would recognize. The Times simply wouldn't do what it did for anything short of a major figure in Trump world.

https://thefederalist.com/2020/10/29/new-york-times-miles-taylor-op-ed-shows-everything-wrong-with-anonymous-sources/

#11073866 at 2020-10-14 22:53:34 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #14162: Dem Peach Mint Debacle Goes All In Edition

>>11073824

All the usual suspects

Mar 19, 2019 -How Elizabeth Holmes convinced powerful men like Henry Kissinger, James Mattis, and George Shultz to sit on the board of now disgraced blood-testing startup Theranos

https://archive.vn/w8WWg

Paywalled:https://www.businessinsider.com/theranos-former-board-members-henry-kissinger-george-shultz-James-Mattis-2019-3

#11073799 at 2020-10-14 22:49:25 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #14162: Dem Peach Mint Debacle Goes All In Edition

>>11073256
What about the board?

https://www.businessinsider.com/theranos-former-board-members-henry-kissinger-george-shultz-James-Mattis-2019-3

Holmes' board going into the scandal included an unusual roster of names for a healthcare startup, with leaders who had more experience in politics and government than healthcare.

The list included:

George Shultz, former US secretary of state
Gary Roughead, a retired US Navy admiral
William Perry, former US secretary of defense
Sam Nunn, a former US senator
James Mattis, a retired US Marine Corps general who went on to serve as President Donald Trump's secretary of defense
Richard Kovacevich, the former CEO of Wells Fargo
Henry Kissinger, former US secretary of state
William Frist, a heart and lung transplant surgeon and former US senator
William H. Foege, former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Riley P. Bechtel, chairman of the board of the Bechtel Group Inc. at the time.

Holmes served as chairman of the board, and Balwani served on the board as well.

#11035853 at 2020-10-12 12:08:46 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #14115: Q-Minded Mornings Edition

>>11035811
Do we know of Trump letting theses replacements Obama installed go? I just saw Mattis on this lists still holding out hope

List Of Military Elite Purged
And Fired Under Obama

Compiled By General Paul Vallely
3-17-14

Here is the list of our military elite who have been purged or fired under Obama:
Commanding Generals fired:

· General John R. Allen-U.S. Marines Commander International Security Assistance Force [ISAF] (Nov 2012)
· Major General Ralph Baker (2 Star)-U.S. Army Commander of the Combined Joint Task Force Horn in Africa (April 2013)
· Major General Michael Carey (2 Star)-U.S. Air Force Commander of the 20th US Air Force in charge of 9,600 people and 450 Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (Oct 2013)
· Colonel James Christmas-U.S. Marines Commander 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit & Commander Special-Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force Crisis Response Unit (July 2013)
· Major General Peter Fuller-U.S. Army Commander in Afghanistan (May 2011)
· Major General Charles M.M. Gurganus-U.S. Marine Corps Regional Commander of SW and I Marine Expeditionary Force in Afghanistan (Oct 2013)
· General Carter F. Ham-U.S. Army African Command (Oct 2013)
· Lieutenant General David H. Huntoon (3 Star), Jr.-U.S. Army 58th Superintendent of the US Military Academy at West Point, NY (2013)
· Command Sergeant Major Don B Jordan-U.S. Army 143rd Expeditionary Sustainment Command (suspended Oct 2013)
· General James Mattis-U.S. Marines Chief of CentCom (May 2013)
· Colonel Daren Margolin-U.S. Marine in charge of Quantico's Security Battalion (Oct 2013)
· General Stanley McChrystal-U.S. Army Commander Afghanistan (June 2010)
· General David D. McKiernan-U.S. Army Commander Afghanistan (2009)
· General David Petraeus-Director of CIA from September 2011 to November 2012 & U.S. Army Commander International Security Assistance Force [ISAF] and Commander U.S. Forces Afghanistan [USFOR-A] (Nov 2012)
· Brigadier General Bryan Roberts-U.S. Army Commander 2nd Brigade (May 2013)
· Major General Gregg A. Sturdevant-U.S. Marine Corps Director of Strategic Planning and Policy for the U.S. Pacific Command & Commander of Aviation Wing at Camp Bastion, Afghanistan (Sept 2013)
· Colonel Eric Tilley-U.S. Army Commander of Garrison Japan (Nov 2013)
· Brigadier General Bryan Wampler-U.S. Army Commanding General of 143rd Expeditionary Sustainment Command of the 1st Theater Sustainment Command [TSC] (suspended Oct 2013)

Commanding Admirals fired:
· Rear Admiral Charles Gaouette-U.S. Navy Commander John C. Stennis Carrier Strike Group Three (Oct 2012)
· Vice Admiral Tim Giardina(3 Star, demoted to 2 Star)-U.S. Navy Deputy Commander of the US Strategic Command, Commander of the Submarine Group Trident, Submarine Group 9 and Submarine Group 10 (Oct 2013)

https://rense.com/general96/listof.html

#11010618 at 2020-10-10 10:10:29 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #14084: TURN IN TO IT! Edition

>>11010617
Meanwhile, the United States' deep domestic fractures have hamstrung its ability to protect itself and its allies. Consider what happened after the Obama administration painstakingly built an international coalition to force Iran to the negotiating table, including winning the reluctant participation of China and Russia, and then secured a historic agreement to stop Iran's nuclear program. Trump abruptly renounced the agreement. Now, predictably, Iranian centrifuges are spinning, Tehran is exploring a new alliance with Beijing, and the international sanctions regime is shattered. It's a frustrating, self-inflicted wound and a reminder of the costs of inconstancy.

The problem is not always too much change; in some areas, it's too little. The overmilitarization of U.S. foreign policy is a bad habit that goes all the way back to the days when President Dwight Eisenhower warned of "the military-industrial complex." Many generals understand what James Mattis told Congress when he led U.S. Central Command: "If you don't fund the State Department fully, then I need to buy more ammunition ultimately." But many politicians are too afraid of being attacked as soft on defense to listen. So they pile mission after mission on the Pentagon and authorize ballooning military budgets while starving civilian agencies. And, it's important to emphasize, for decades, right-wing ideological resistance has blocked crucial investments in American diplomacy and development abroad and American innovation at home-from foreign aid budgets to domestic infrastructure and R & D spending.

#10894418 at 2020-10-03 01:17:34 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13944: Pop Corn Friday Edition

It Needs to Be Asked: Is President Trump Safe from the Military Deep State at Walter Reed Hospital?

Is President Trump going to be safe in the Walter Reed Military Hospital? Who will protect him from the Deep State and his enemies in the military?

We've reported repeatedly on the rolling coup. The Deep State jumps from one crisis to another and attempts to remove this great President from office one way or another. The military was the next part of the coup.

We noted a couple weeks ago that the next option in the 'rolling coup' appeared to be coming from the military. We discussed this and more with Former Marine Helicopter Pilot, career JAG Officer and Chief of the Army Criminal Law Division, Col. Richard Black, (USA Ret.).

Col. Richard H. Black, (USA Ret.) has a storied history. He explained to us that he flew 269 combat missions as a helicopter pilot in Vietnam. He also fought on the ground with the First Marine Division and was wounded with both of his radio men killed during an attack. Col. Black later went to law school and was a career Judge Advocate Officer (JAG) and eventually became the Chief of the Army Criminal Law Division in the Office of the Judge Advocate General at the Pentagon.

The colonel played a key role in deploying troops to quell the LA riots in 1992 and is well versed in the Insurrection Act as a result. He also served for 20 years as a member of the Virginia General Assembly where he spent time in both the Virginia House and the Senate. Colonel Black shared:

What appears to be going on is a concerted effort among some of the top generals and defense department officials to undermine the credibility of the President, to undermine his ability to deal with the violence that's plaguing the cities of America today. And, there is a level of arrogance and independence among the military that I have never seen in my lifetime and I think it's reaching dangerous proportions.

There are very top leaders of the effort and General James Mattis is one and General Colin Powell is another one and they are working together with an array of Generals who are not in my view being responsive to their oath of office and even to the requirements of the Uniform Code of Military Justice.

https://youtu.be/9NrhUugDmIY
https://youtu.be/6tEeKeyc890
https://youtu.be/Ag1tPXnBnzQ

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/10/needs-asked-president-trump-safe-military-deep-state-walter-reed-hospital/

#10882493 at 2020-10-02 09:38:21 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13928: Twatter Libs Meltdown in Amharic Edition

America Locked in Cold War With China
Former Navy Secretary Says
Virginia Allen / @Virginia_Allen5 / October 02, 2020
Former Navy Secretary J. William Middendorf says America has entered a new cold war with China.

Middendorf, author of the new book "The Great Nightfall: How We Win the New Cold War," joins the show to explain the threat that China poses to America's interests. Middendorf, a member of The Heritage Foundation's Board of Trustees since 1989, also outlines what the U.S. military must do to be prepared to stand against our adversaries.

"The Daily Signal Podcast" is available on Ricochet, Apple Podcasts, Pippa, Google Play, and Stitcher. All of our podcasts may be found at DailySignal.com/podcasts. If you like what you hear, please leave a review. You also may leave us a message at 202-608-6205 or write us at letters@dailysignal.com.Enjoy the show!

Virginia Allen: I am joined by the former secretary of the Navy, William Middendorf. Sir, thank you so much for being here today. We really appreciate it.

J. William Middendorf: Well, thank you very much.

Allen: Your bio is incredibly impressive. You served as the United States ambassador to the Netherlands before becoming the secretary of the Navy in the mid-1970s.

You also headed the CIA transition team for then-incoming President Ronald Reagan. And you served as the U.S. representative to the European Economic Community, now known as the European Union. We could go on and on about all of the various roles that you've served in.

You've also authored a number of books, including your latest, "The Great Nightfall: How We Win the New Cold War." And you were serving in the Navy and positions of leadership in the American government, really all throughout the Cold War. Do you mind just taking a few minutes to tell us a little bit about what that was like to be serving on the front lines during the Cold War?

Middendorf: I was mainly in the shipbuilding side of that. Of course, the secretary of the Navy's job is to provide the material and weapons and recruit the men and women for the Navy. So during the Cold War, I sponsored long lead time ships and planes that were needed to win the Cold War. Long lead time is about 10 years.

So, to build any weapon system, we began production on a Trident submarine, which is the Ohio-class submarine, which carries the CBM nuclear warhead, long-range nuclear warhead. It was the final shield of America, 70% of our entire nuclear arsenal was deployed on them.

We also started the Aegis Missile program, building a fleet of 60 ships, the early work class cruisers with advanced radar that could detect advanced weapon systems from the Soviet Union and shoot them down.

And then finally, we built the F-18 advanced aerial attack fighter. Ten years later, they were front and center at the apagoge of the Cold War and [with them], along with advanced weapons developed by the Air Force and Army, we were able to win the Cold War. The Soviets had to stand down.

Based on that experience, I wrote the book "The Great Nightfall: How We Win the New Cold War," which is basically against China. China ... is building some very advanced weapons systems and they pose a threat today that's exponentially greater than the threat we faced at the end of the first Cold War.

Allen: Can you tell us a little bit more specifically about that threat? Because I think many Americans, we view China as a threat, certainly economically, certainly technology-wise. But specifically, how is China a threat to America militarily?

Middendorf: Several ways, both conventional and unconventional warfare. Their Navy now exceeds ours. They have built 350 ships and ours is 293. Most people are not aware of that. And they're building their certain force carriers and they're proposing a fifth carrier, which will be nuclear.

The missile capabilities they have are very advanced. They and the Russians have developed hypersonic cruise missiles, 4,000 mile. And we have no defense. As [former] Secretary [of Defense James] Mattis said, "We have no defense against these." This could be a checkmate in a serious altercation. They built some very competent advanced submarines and anti-submarine warfare capabilities.

In addition to that, they've gone heavily into nonconventional warfare systems, the EMP threat, the electromagnetic pulse threat to America is vital because we lay naked, so to speak, as they set off a nuclear blast a couple of 100 miles over Omaha.

It would incapacitate most of our electrical grid for many months. And the Defense Department a few years ago said that we would lose 80% of the population in six or eight months before that could be fully repaired. We're working hard to correct that imbalance, but we're not there yet.
MORE AT LINK - TO BE CONTINUED:
https://www.dailysignal.com/2020/10/02/america-locked-in-cold-war-with-china-former-navy-secretary-says/

#10841885 at 2020-09-29 22:41:58 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13875: God Woke Us For A Reason So Let's DewEet! Edition

https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Trump-and-Biden-get-evites-as-Al-Smith-Dinner-15604428.php

US & WORLD // NEWS

Trump and Biden get evites as Al Smith Dinner goes virtual

Sep. 28, 2020 Updated: Sep. 28, 2020 5:44 p.m.

NEW YORK (AP) - President Donald Trump is expected to be in virtual attendance Thursday as New York City's annual Al Smith Dinner moves mostly online because of the coronavirus pandemic, organizers said.

Trump has accepted an invitation to return to the dinner for the first time in four years. Organizers said they anticipate his Democratic rival, Joe Biden, will attend as well.

But Biden's campaign hasn't confirmed he will attend the event.

The white-tie Al Smith Dinner, which raises funds for Catholic Charities, is usually held at a Manhattan hotel on the third Thursday in October. A scaled down, in-person event for 50 people at a public garden in the Bronx was scrapped after state officials raised virus safety concerns.

This year's virtual dinner will originate from multiple locations, with Cardinal Timothy Dolan presiding from the Sheen Center for Thought & Culture in Manhattan and opera singer Nadine Sierra performing the National Anthem from St. Patrick's Cathedral.

The event is named for former New York Gov. Alfred E. Smith, a Democrat and the first Roman Catholic to be nominated for president by a major party in 1928. He was handily defeated by Herbert Hoover.

John F. Kennedy was the first Roman Catholic elected president when he defeated Richard Nixon in 1960. Biden would be the second if he defeats Trump.

Organizers say this year's Al Smith Dinner will be dedicated to essential workers who helped save lives and keep the city running during the worst of the pandemic. Typically, when then event is held in an election year, it's meant to promote collegiality and good humor among political rivals, organizers said.

Trump last attended the dinner in 2016, when he drew jeers for attacking Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton as "corrupt" and accusing her of "pretending not to hate Catholics." At that event, Trump and Clinton were seated in the same row, with just Dolan between them.

Last year's keynote speaker, U.S. Secretary of Defense James Mattis, joked about Trump calling him "the world's most overrated general."

"I'm honored to be considered that by Donald Trump because he also called Meryl Streep an overrated actress," Mattis said. "So I guess I'm the Meryl Streep of generals, and frankly that sounds pretty good to me."

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=alfred+smith+trump&atb=v225-1&iax=images&ia=images
Imagine what this years will sound like Biden and Trump?

#10833926 at 2020-09-29 13:34:34 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13865: EPIC Tuesday Begins Edition

>>10826708
THE COHEN GROUP ( Military Industrial Complex ?)

PRACTICE GROUPS
Aerospace & Defense
Biotechnology & Pharmaceutical
CFIUS, FOCI & Industrial Security
China
Energy & Resources
Financial Services & Investment
Health Care & Life Sciences
Homeland Security
Information Technology, Telecommunications & Technology
International Trade & Agriculture
Property & Real Estate
Strategic Communications & Message Development
Transportation & Logistics

Employees of the Cohen Group
include former senior U.S. government officials and staffers from the White House,
the State Department, the Defense Department, the Commerce Department, and Congress.
- James Mattis, former Secretary of Defense and Commander of US Central Command
- Marc Grossman, former Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, United States Ambassador to Turkey
- Joseph Ralston, former United States Air Force general, NATO Supreme Allied Commander, Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
- R. Nicholas Burns, former Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, United States Ambassador to Greece
- William Zarit, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce, Minister for Commercial Affairs at the US Embassy in Beijing
- Jeffrey Davidow, former United States Ambassador to Zambia, United States Ambassador to Venezuela, United States Ambassador to Mexico [7]
- Paul J. Kern, former United States Army general, Commander of the Army Materiel Command, Senior Adviser for Army Research, Development and Acquisition
- James Loy, former United States Coast Guard admiral, Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security, Administrator of the Transportation Security Administration, Commandant of the Coast Guard
- Harry Raduege, former United States Air Force lieutenant general, Director of the Defense Information Systems Agency, Commander of the Joint Task Force-Global Network Operations
- George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen[8], former Secretary General of NATO and United Kingdom Secretary of State for Defence
- Joseph Yakovac, former United States Army lieutenant general, Director of the Army Acquisition Corps and Military Deputy to the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics and Technology
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#10826014 at 2020-09-28 21:27:18 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13856: Barsoomian Zoom In Edition

>>10826011
Part 4.
Secretary William Cohen appeared before the Senate Armed Services Committee on January 12th to introduce the nominee for Secretary of Defense, retired General James Mattis. General Mattis served as Executive Secretary to Secretary Cohen when he served as Defense Secretary from 1997-2001.

Ambassador Nick Burns met with the Minister of Finance of India, Shri Arun Jaitley, during a recent trip to New Delhi and Mumbai, India.

Secretary William Cohen meets with Chinese Vice Premier Wang Yang and US Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker on the margins of the US-China Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade Dialogue in Washington, DC.

Secretary William Cohen meets with the Minister of Defense of South Korea, Minister Han Min-goo, to discuss the current US-Korea relationship. Minister Han was in Washington for annual consultations with the US government.

Secretary William Cohen meets with Ambassador Ahn Ho-Young, Assemblyman Won Yoo-Chul and Assemblyman Lee In-Young who serve on the Intelligence and Foreign Affairs Committees and are prominent South Korean National Assembly members from both parties, in order to discuss US-Korean relations.

General Paul Kern and Ambassador Michael Corbin meet with the Assistant Minister of Defense of Saudi Arabia, Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Mohammed Al-Ayeesh.

William Zarit and Joseph Benkert meeting with the Vice Chairwoman of the State Owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of China, Madame Huang Danhua.

Ambassador Marc Grossman meets the Minister of Defense of India, The Honorable Shri Manohar Parrikar, during his recent visit to Washington, DC.

Secretary William Cohen and the Caribbean Baseball Initiative's Lou Schwechheimer present a picture of Jackie Robinson to Dr. Lonnie Bunch, Director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture.

Secretary William Cohen meets with Guangzhou Party Secretary Ren Xuefeng.

Secretary William Cohen meets with Guangzhou Party Secretary Ren Xuefeng.

Secretary William Cohen delivers his annual lecture at Nankai University in Tianjin, China.

Secretary William Cohen visits Nankai University in Tianjin, China.

Secretary William Cohen attends a meeting on the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement with President Barack Obama, former Secretary of State James Baker, former Secretary of State Colin Powell, and other former cabinet officials.

Secretary William Cohen hosts UK First Sea Lord Admiral Sir Philip Jones, UK Second Sea Lord Vice Admiral Jonathan Woodcock, US Chief of Naval Operations John Richardson, and the National President of the US Navy League, Mr. Skip Witunski, at the Navy League Sea-Air-Space Exposition.

Secretary William Cohen hosts the UK Secretary of State for Defense, Rt. Hon. Michael Fallon MP, for a speech on British defense and security policy.

Secretary William Cohen attends the 2016 Boao Forum for Asia in Hainan, China.

Secretary William Cohen attends a meeting on the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement with President Barack Obama and other former cabinet officials.

Secretary William Cohen and Ambassador Michael Corbin meet with Saudi Arabia's Minister of Finance Ibrahim Abdulaziz Al-Assaf.

Secretary William Cohen meets with Mohammed Al-Mady, CEO of Military Industries Corporation in Saudi Arabia.

Ambassador Jeffrey Davidow participates in a panel discussion on Cuba with Miguel Fraga, First Secretary at the Embassy of Cuba in the U.S., and Mark Wells, Director of the Office of Cuban Affairs at the US Department of State.

General Joseph Ralston participates in a panel discussion on Arctic issues.

Ambassador R. Nicholas Burns speaks at the DLA Piper Real Estate Summit.

Secretary William Cohen meets with Tianjin Acting Party Secretary Huang Xingguo.

Secretary William Cohen meets with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang.

Secretary William Cohen meets with Chinese Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli.

Secretary William Cohen, then Vice Chairman of the US-China Business Council, meets with former Chinese Vice Premier and current head of China's Central Commission for Discipline Inspection Wang Qishan.

Secretary William Cohen joins former US Secretaries of Defense at an event hosted by the National Committee for US-China Relations.

#10826011 at 2020-09-28 21:27:01 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13856: Barsoomian Zoom In Edition

>>10826000
Part 3.
Secretary William Cohen meets with the Head of China's Central Commission for Discipline Inspection Wang Qishan.

Secretary William Cohen joins Zhang Gaoli and other senior delegates at the 2017 China Development Forum.

General Joe Ralston met with the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, on the margins of the 2017 IDEX conference in the U.A.E..

Secretary William Cohen met with US Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis on the margins of the Munich Security Conference in Germany. Credit: Office of the US Secretary of Defense

Secretary William Cohen attended Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis' swearing in ceremony at the Pentagon.

Secretary William Cohen attended Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis' swearing in ceremony at the Pentagon.

Secretary William Cohen met with Captain Adbulhakim Albadir, Assistant President for Safety, Security & Air Transport at the Saudi Arabian General Authority for Civil Aviation during a recent trip to Saudi Arabia.

Secretary William Cohen met with H.H. Prince Turki bin Saud bin Mohammed Al-Saud, President of King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology during a recent trip to Saudi Arabia.

Secretary William Cohen appeared before the Senate Armed Services Committee on January 12th to introduce the nominee for Secretary of Defense, retired General James Mattis. General Mattis served as Executive Secretary to Secretary Cohen when he served as Defense Secretary from 1997-2001.

#10823950 at 2020-09-28 19:21:26 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13853: CF/Haiti Comin Up Edition

DLA Piper has a strategic alliance with The Cohen Group, a business consulting firm, to help clients identify and achieve global business and strategic opportunities. The Cohen Group's sector experience includes, but is not limited to:

Aerospace and defense
Biotechnology and pharmaceutical
Financial services
Energy and natural resources
Homeland security
Information technology, telecommunications and technology
International trade and agriculture
Property and real estate
Strategic communications and message development
Transportation and logistics
Specific client services include:

Advice and assistance - Strategic advice to corporate leadership and hands-on assistance in marketing, regulatory affairs and related matters. These advisory services include:
Providing insights on developments and trends to provide a competitive advantage by exploiting opportunities and avoiding pitfalls
Opening and sustaining lines of communication with political, business and financial leaders who could affect success in the market and assisting the client to build and enhance its own network of relationships in the market
Identifying and assessing potential markets and analyzing the political, legal and regulatory factors that will affect the ability to successfully enter and operate in the market
Business development - Hands-on assistance to grow revenue and profits, working closely with the client's team to identify and actively pursue opportunities..
Transactions - Deal sourcing and capital raising activities through all stages to successful deal closure. These transactional services include:
Working with clients seeking acquisition targets, strategic partners or divestiture opportunities by identifying attractive purchase targets or potential buyers
Conducting thorough company due diligence, providing in-depth analysis of your competitive strengths within the market in question, drawing upon The Cohen Group's strong knowledge base and wealth of contacts in many sectors
The Cohen Group is led by:

Secretary William Cohen, former US Secretary of Defense, Senator and Congressman
General Joseph Ralston, former NATO Supreme Allied Commander and Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Ambassador Marc Grossman, former Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs and US Ambassador to Turkey
Ambassador Nicholas Burns, former Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs and US Ambassador to NATO and Greece
Lt. General Ed Cardon, former commander of Army Cyber Command
Ambassador Jeff Davidow, former Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere and US Ambassador to Mexico, Venezuela and Zambia
Sir Angus Houston, former Chief of the Australian Defense Force and Chief of the Australian Air Force
General Paul Kern, former Commander of the US Army Materiel Command and the Senior Adviser for Army Research, Development and Acquisition
Admiral James Loy, former Deputy Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security and Commandant of the US Coast Guard
General James Mattis, former Secretary of Defense and Commander of US Central Command
Lt. General Harry Raduege, former Director of the US Defense Information Systems Agency and Commander of the Joint Task Force Global Network Operations
Dave Rank, former Acting US Ambassador to China
Lord George Robertson, former NATO Secretary General and the UK Defense Minister
General Curtis Scaparrotti, former Supreme Allied Commander, Europe and Commander, US Forces Korea
Ambassador Arun Singh, former Indian Ambassador to the United States, France, and Israel
Lt. General Joe Yakovac, former Director of the US Army Acquisition Corps and Military Deputy to the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics and Technology
William Zarit, former Minister for Commercial Affairs at the US Embassy in Beijing and Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce

These leaders collaborate with and are supported by a seasoned team which has spent many years at the most senior levels of The White House, Congress, and US agencies including the Defense Department and State Department, the governments of the United Kingdom, Australia, India and China, and the private sector.
The Cohen Group has offices in Washington, USA; London, UK; Beijing, China; Tianjin, China; Delhi, India; Brisbane, Australia; and Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

https://www.dlapiper.com/en/us/aboutus/in-the-united-states/the-cohen-group/

#10823848 at 2020-09-28 19:12:40 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13853: CF/Haiti Comin Up Edition

#10724019 at 2020-09-20 20:38:10 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13725: Running Red Answers Corruption Edition

==White House building in Washington
Canadian Woman Suspected of Sending Ricin Package to Trump==

The Canadian national police force said that they have been cooperating with the FBI after it was discovered that the letters originated in Canada.

Intelligence officials suspect a Canadian woman of sending packages containing poison ricin to the White House, according to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP).

A spokesperson for the RCMP said earlier that the initial information suggests that the letter originated in Canada and confirmed it was assisting the FBI in the investigation.

The identity of the suspect has not been released yet.

"Canadian law enforcement is working closely with their US counterparts. As this is an active investigation, we cannot comment further", said Mary-Liz Power, the chief spokeswoman for Canada's Minister of Public Safety Bill Blair.

On Saturday, law enforcement intercepted a "suspicious" envelope as it arrived at a government facility that screens mail addressed to the White House and President Trump. Two tests were conducted, confirming the presence of the deadly poison, media reported.

Federal agents, Secret Service, and US Postal Inspection Service are now trying to detect if any other poisonous packages were sent to public officials, but the FBI said that at the moment, there is no known threat to public safety.

This is not the first time a poisonous package has been sent to US officials: in 2018, a Navy veteran from Utah was charged with sending mailings containing ricin to President Trump and then-Defence Secretary James Mattis.

https://sputniknews.com/us/202009201080519954-canadian-woman-suspected-of-sending-ricin-package-to-trump/

#10723972 at 2020-09-20 20:32:43 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13724: Spiritual Warfare Edition

canadian woman suspected

https://sputniknews.com/us/202009201080519954-canadian-woman-suspected-of-sending-ricin-package-to-trump/

The Canadian national police force said that they have been cooperating with the FBI after it was discovered that the letters originated in Canada.

Intelligence officials suspect a Canadian woman of sending packages containing poison ricin to the White House, according to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP).

A spokesperson for the RCMP said earlier that the initial information suggests that the letter originated in Canada and confirmed it was assisting the FBI in the investigation.

The identity of the suspect has not been released yet.

Federal agents, Secret Service, and US Postal Inspection Service are now trying to detect if any other poisonous packages were sent to public officials, but the FBI said that at the moment, there is no known threat to public safety.

This is not the first time a poisonous package has been sent to US officials: in 2018, a Navy veteran from Utah was charged with sending mailings containing ricin to President Trump and then-Defence Secretary James Mattis.

#10721621 at 2020-09-20 16:50:12 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13721: Kamaltoe Admin Front and Center Edition

Reports: Authorities Intercept Package Containing Ricin Mailed to the White House

Law enforcement agents intercepted a package addressed to the White House containing the toxic poison ricin earlier this week according to CNN and the New York Times.

The package was addressed to President Donald Trump.

A facility outside the White House typically screens all mail before it is delivered to the White House.

An official speaking to theNew York Times said the letter is believed to have been sent from Canada

An attempt to mail ricin to President Trump was also intercepted in October 2018.

William Clyde Allen, a former Naval officer was arrested by the FBI for mailing ricin filled letters to Secretary of Defense James Mattis, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John Richardson, and FBI Director Chris Wray.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/09/19/reports-authorities-intercept-package-containing-ricin-mailed-to-the-white-house-addressed-to-trump/

#10670898 at 2020-09-16 19:09:40 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13656: $$$$$$$$$$$ Evil and corruption @ highest levels Edition

Damascus Slams Trump Administration As "Rogue" & "Outlaw" Following Recent Comment On Assad

Damascus has slammed the U.S. over President Donald Trump's former plans to assassinate President Bashar al-Assad, accusing Washington of following the same methods as terrorist groups.

Trump revealed in a recent interview with Fox News that he had considered assassinating al-Assad in 2017 after reports of an alleged chemical attack. He was, however, persuaded not to go with the idea by senior US military officials, including former Secretary of Defense James Mattis.

A source in Syria's Foreign Ministry told the Syrian Arab News Agency on September 16 that Trump's statement showed the level to which the thinking and political behavior of the US administration had declined.

"Trump's recognition of such step affirms that the US administration is a rogue and outlaw state and follows the same method of the terrorist organizations of killing and liquidation without any consideration to the principles or any legal, human, or ethical rules with the aim of achieving its interests in the region," the source said.

In 2018, Trump denied claims by veteran journalist Bob Woodward that he had ordered the assassination of President al-Assad. Woodward covered the issue in his book "Fear: Trump in the White House."

The U.S. cut its ties with Damascus after the 2011 uprising. Washington played a key role in backing anti-government armed groups and even carried out attacks on the Syrian military.

Nevertheless, this is the first time the U.S. officially acknowledges plans to assassinate the Syrian President. Such a move would have amounted to a war crime.

https://southfront.org/damascus-slams-trump-administration-as-rogue-outlaw-following-recent-comment-on-assad/

#10658462 at 2020-09-15 19:03:40 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13640: Peace Is The Prize Edition

Trump Says He 'Would Have No Problem' With Selling US Weapons, Including F-35s, to Gulf States

Until now, the US has had a policy of not selling advanced weapons to the Gulf countries that could undermine the military edge of its long-term ally Israel in the region.

US President Donald Trump has stated that he would have no issue with selling modern US-made weapons to the Gulf countries, instead of selling them exclusively to Israel in the region. His statement comes in the wake of Israel striking two peace deals with Gulf countries, the UAE and Bahrain, in a matter of weeks, purportedly clearing the way for Abu Dhabi's long-cherished desire to buy F-35 fighters, EA-18G Growler jets, and Reaper drones.

"They're very wealthy countries for the most part. I personally would have no problem with it. Some people do, they say […] maybe they go to war", Trump said.

POTUS went on to clarify that he is specifically ready to sell the latest fifth-generation stealth fighter jet, the F-35, noting that such an opportunity would mean "tremendous jobs at home". Speaking about the Arab World, the president added on a side note that he had "had a shot" at "taking out" Syrian President Bashar Assad, but chose not to do so due to opposition to the move from then Defence Secretary James Mattis.
Pelosi Raises Concerns Regarding F-35 Sale, Israel's Peace Deal With UAE

US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi later commented on the idea of selling F-35 fighter jets to the Gulf states, specifically to the UAE, noting that the Congress would want to evaluate the consequences of a possible sale. She namely stressed that the Congress would want to ensure that Israel retains its military edge in the Middle East after such a sale.

"As we learn more about the full details of both agreements, questions remain [...] The US Congress, on a bipartisan basis, will be watching and monitoring to ensure that Israel can maintain its qualitative military edge in the region", Pelosi said.

The speaker went on to comment on the peace agreement between Israel and the UAE, which is set to be signed later on Tuesday, noting that it's "critically important" to understand the details of Tel Aviv's vow to suspend the extension of its sovereignty over certain areas of the West Bank.

https://sputniknews.com/us/202009151080464643-trump-says-he-would-have-no-problem-with-selling-us-weapons-to-gulf-states/

#10657368 at 2020-09-15 17:24:05 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13638: Histroric ME Peace Deals Edition

Trump says he wanted to ASSASSINATE Assad, blames ex-defense chief Mattis for staying his hand

US President Donald Trump has claimed he wanted to "take out" Syrian President Bashar Assad in 2017 but was deterred by then-Defense Secretary James Mattis - after previously denying an assassination was even discussed.

"I would have rather taken [Assad] out," Trump told Fox & Friends on Tuesday, insisting "I had him all set," but "Mattis didn't want to do it."

The admission flies in the face of Trump's 2018 claim during a White House briefing that the suggestion of killing Assad was "never even discussed." Journalist Bob Woodward reported in his 2018 book Fear that Trump was itching to have the Syrian leader assassinated after an alleged chemical weapons attack in 2017 - a claim Trump denounced as "total fiction."

During the Fox & Friends interview, however, Trump said it was Mattis who stayed his hand, calling the 'Mad Dog' general "highly overrated" even as he claimed he didn't regret not having Assad killed.

I could've lived either way with [the proposed assassination]. But I had a shot to take him out if I wanted, and Mattis was against it.

"Mattis was against most of that stuff," Trump told the channel.

The president went on to blame Mattis for "not doing the job in Syria or Iraq with respect to ISIS [Islamic State / ISIL]," claiming the US "took out 100 percent of ISIS" as well as the terrorist group's leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, but only after Trump "fired" the general.

He also appeared to lump in Iranian Major General Qassem Soleimani with the terrorist group, calling him "the biggest of them all" and bragging about his assassination by airstrike. While the Baghdadi killing was widely praised, the murder of Soleimani - the leader of Iran's elite Quds Force - was internationally condemned for its potential to further destabilize the Middle East.

https://www.rt.com/news/500763-trump-Mattis-assad-assassination/

#10640085 at 2020-09-14 03:54:51 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13616: "I'LL BE WITH YOU ALL THE WAY" : The After Rally Edition

https://www.britannica.com/biography/James-Mattis

Congress confirmed Mattis by a 98-1 vote. Always found that odd…

Who floated Mattis for Sec of Def to POTUS?

#10622537 at 2020-09-12 22:50:50 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13593: New Baker Edition Edition

Woodward Accidentally Exposed Plot To FORCIBLY REMOVE President Trump!
September 11, 2020

One of the things we do not do as a country is overthrow our leaders as if we are some third world backwater country.
However, it seems that with President Trump, there have been a lot of people paid off in relation to folks trying their darndest to get him out of office illegally.
The message is clear... Outsiders who are intent on cleaning out the swamp, best not run for president.

Leftist narrative engineer Bob Woodward, in trying to make the case that Secretary of Defense, General James Mattis was concerned about Donald Trump's "fitness" for office, inadvertently exposed Gen. Mattis' seditious suggestion.

Woodward wrote... "Mattis quietly went to Washington National Cathedral to pray about his concern for the nation's fate under Trump's command and, according to Woodward, told Coats, "There may come a time when we have to take collective action" since Trump is "dangerous. He's unfit."
Let that sink in for a moment.

Secretary of Defense Mattis is talking to then-Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats about taking "collective action" to remove an elected President.
It seems that President Trump's stated intentions to extract the United States from decades of endless wars... wars our military leadership have no apparent desire to win... wars being conducted without any clear U.S. national security interests... was at the core of military leadership's angst.

Upon their retirements, generals have come to count on transitioning to the cushy, high-paying jobs from the military-industrial complex for their past fealty to those company's bottom lines.

Without war, and the depletion of inventories of expensive munitions and armaments that stem from combat - necessary and unnecessary, those generals become less attractive to defense contractors. Even among generals, follow the money to best understand their motives.

Four years into his presidency, President Trump has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts on the Korean Peninsula, to bring peace between Pakistan and India, and for his efforts in the Middle East. Less war, more peace... and the generals are unhappy and want Trump removed.

https://threepercenternation.com/2020/09/11/holy-cow-woodward-accidentally-exposed-plot-to-forcibly-remove-president-trump

#10622148 at 2020-09-12 22:11:37 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13593: New Baker Edition Edition

>>10622112

>When There are No Consequences for Anything | Kunstler

And now, like a fever building to climax, comes the news right out-front that the Democratic Party intends to foment insurrection if the election goes against them. They're supporting the coming siege of Lafayette Square set to kick off fifty days of "protest" across from the White House beginning Sept 17 as a warm-up for anarchy in the streets across the nation following the Nov 3 vote. Behind us is the summer of riots, arson, and looting, and who paid to support all that? Who paid for flying Antifa and BLM personnel from city to city, feeding and housing them, paying for their "commercial-grade" fireworks, pallets of bricks, gas masks, lasers, bullhorns, black riot outfits? Why is it hard to find out who bought the plane tickets, booked the hotels? Months have gone by since all that started. Is someone in the DOJ following the money? And following their communications (especially considering the crimes against property they've committed)?

Why is Christopher Wray still director of the FBI? Why is Bruce Ohr still collecting a paycheck from the DOJ? Why is Eric Ciaramella still keeping a seat warm at the CIA? What exactly was US Attorney John Huber doing for two years? Why is Mark Esper still running the Pentagon? Why is General James Mattis not facing a military court of inquiry for proposing a coup against the president? Why is Federal Judge Emmet Sullivan still defying the DOJ's motion to dismiss the case against General Flynn? Why is it taking years to resolve the legal issues around Julian Assange while he rots in jail? Where exactly does William Barr stand with all this? And is it possible that John Durham's efforts to unravel the giant hairball of sedition begins-and-ends with one lame guilty plea of petty fall-guy Kevin Clinesmith?

It may sound paranoid, but I feel compelled to ask: is Barack Obama running some kind of shadow government from his Kalorama fortress -that is, issuing suggestions (or instructions) to scores of loyal high officials in federal agencies for opposing and undermining everything the current president attempts to do - such as Mr. Trump's executive order this week to cease and desist the depraved "critical race theory" and "white privilege" struggle sessions run all over DC by obscenely highly-paid "diversity-and-inclusion" consultants? And what role is Hillary Clinton playing behind-the-scenes these pre-election days, since her foundation is so heavily invested in the DNC, and she is issuing directives on subverting the election through a complicit news media?

How on earth can responsible adults pretend that the empty shell of Joe Biden is a plausible candidate for president? What will Joe do in the two scheduled debates without his teleprompter or an earpiece? He can't possibly perform without them (and barely even with them, it appears lately). When was the last time Joe Biden took impromptu questions from reporters? When has he stood before a crowd of actual voters, not live-action-role-players picked by his handlers? Who is trying to hustle the USA out of existence and what are you going to do to stop them?

#10617535 at 2020-09-12 15:03:10 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13587: Smack the Shills Editiion

>>10617437
The Obama administration's inexplicable mishandling of Marine Gen. James Mattis

Word on the national security street is that General James Mattis is being given the bum's rush out of his job as commander of Central Command, and is being told to vacate his office several months earlier than planned. Why the hurry? Pentagon insiders say that he rubbed civilian officials the wrong way - not …

Word on the national security street is that General James Mattis is being given the bum's rush out of his job as commander of Central Command, and is being told to vacate his office several months earlier than planned.

Why the hurry? Pentagon insiders say that he rubbed civilian officials the wrong way - not because he went all "mad dog," which is his public image, and the view at the White House, but rather because he pushed the civilians so hard on considering the second- and third-order consequences of military action against Iran. Some of those questions apparently were uncomfortable. Like, what do you do with Iran once the nuclear issue is resolved and it remains a foe? What do you do if Iran then develops conventional capabilities that could make it hazardous for U.S. Navy ships to operate in the Persian Gulf? He kept saying, "And then what?"

Inquiry along these lines apparently was not welcomed - at least in the CENTCOM view. The White House view, apparently, is that Mattis was too hawkish, which is not something I believe, having seen him in the field over the years. I'd call him a tough-minded realist, someone who'd rather have tea with you than shoot you, but is happy to end the conversation either way.

Presidents should feel free to boot generals anytime they want, of course - that's our system, and one I applaud. But ousting Mattis at this time, and in this way, seems wrong for several reasons:

TIMING: If Mattis leaves in March, as now appears likely, that means there will be a new person running CENTCOM just as the confrontation season with Iran begins to heat up again.

CIVIL-MILITARY SIGNALS: The message the Obama Administration is sending, intentionally or not, is that it doesn't like tough, smart, skeptical generals who speak candidly to their civilian superiors. In fact, that is exactly what it (and every administration) should want. Had we had more back in 2003, we might not have made the colossal mistake of invading Iraq.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2013/01/18/the-obama-administrations-inexplicable-mishandling-of-marine-gen-James-Mattis-2/

Asked too many real world questions about the bullshit Iran deal, apparently.

#10617493 at 2020-09-12 14:57:53 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13587: Smack the Shills Editiion

>>10617473
That they do and it often extracts a great price save on their career…

https://www.globalresearch.ca/did-defense-secretary-James-Mattis-commit-war-crimes-in-iraq/5607347

#10617359 at 2020-09-12 14:37:33 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13587: Smack the Shills Editiion

Funny, all the Mattis worshipers seem to have shut the fuck up lately.

https://thepoliticalinsider.com/James-Mattis-is-caught-suggesting-potential-military-coup-against-trump/?fbclid=IwAR1z0EutnXMW4bpvE9XhECMTSwPebCod3pjTS-tHnTY_RRdm5hJH5fV8Uao

#10606634 at 2020-09-11 20:15:42 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13573: Arson Call Intensifies/FEDS Edition

Interview with Retired Former Chief of the Army Criminal Law Division, Col. Richard Black, Warning of Military Generals Undermining President Trump

Is the next option in the 'rolling coup' coming from the military? We discuss this and more with Former Marine Helicopter Pilot, career JAG Officer and Chief of the Army Criminal Law Division, Col. Richard Black, (USA Ret.).

Col. Richard H. Black, (USA Ret.) has a storied history. He explained to us that he flew 269 combat missions as a helicopter pilot in Vietnam. He also fought on the ground with the First Marine Division and was wounded with both of his radio men killed during an attack. Col. Black later went to law school and was a career Judge Advocate Officer (JAG) and eventually became the Chief of the Army Criminal Law Division in the Office of the Judge Advocate General at the Pentagon.

The colonel played a key role in deploying troops to quell the LA riots in 1992 and is well versed in the Insurrection Act as a result. He also served for 20 years as a member of the Virginia General Assembly where he spent time in both the Virginia House and the Senate. Colonel Black shared:

What appears to be going on is a concerted effort among some of the top generals and defense department officials to undermine the credibility of the President, to undermine his ability to deal with the violence that's plaguing the cities of America today. And, there is a level of arrogance and independence among the military that I have never seen in my lifetime and I think it's reaching dangerous proportions.

There are very top leaders of the effort and General James Mattis is one and General Colin Powell is another one and they are working together with an array of Generals who are not in my view being responsive to their oath of office and even to the requirements of the Uniform Code of Military Justice.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/09/exclusive-interview-retired-former-chief-army-criminal-law-division-col-richard-black-warning-military-generals-undermining-president-trump/

#10590308 at 2020-09-10 17:35:21 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13552: Haz Been Brennan Haz Anons Attention Edition

I am surprised by the amount of anons who believe Mattis is swamp. Like General James Mattis wasn't POTUS' first Secretary of Defense or anything.

President Trump's transition was a VERY CRITICAL period of time, perhaps the most treacherous of all given what we now know about the Obama Administration's plans.

Consider the state of the world when POTUS took office. Syria, NK, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, South America and so on.

Do you REALLY think POTUS would select a member of the swamp to defend our nation's interest? To me, that is absurd. It's just an absurd position for anyone with any experience in this fight.

I'm sure there are military/veterans who are the fence right now. All I'm saying is think logically.

"Military planning at its finest."
"Why does POTUS surround himself with Generals?"
"Was Trump ask to run for POTUS?"
"Why"
"By who?"

#10590298 at 2020-09-10 17:33:16 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13552: Haz Been Brennan Haz Anons Attention Edition

Bob Woodward: General James Mattis Plotted Overthrow of U.S. Government...

According to a pre-release excerpt from the Washington Post Bob Woodward writes about a discussion between General James Mattis and Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats about a plot to overthrow the elected government of the United States.

[...] "Mattis quietly went to Washington National Cathedral to pray about his concern for the nation's fate under Trump's command and, according to Woodward, told Coats, "There may come a time when we have to take collective action" since Trump is "dangerous. He's unfit." (read more)

What do you call a conversation between the Defense Secretary and the head of the U.S. intelligence apparatus where they are talking about taking "collective action" to remove an elected President? That's called sedition.... A seditious conspiracy.

As alarming as that sounds on its face, this actually aligns with our own previous research into key military leadership, the joint chiefs, and their corrupt intent to overthrow the elected government. Readers will remember when we noted this very issue after Lt. Col Alexander Vindman compromised his position yet was not removed by his command structure within the Pentagon.

NOVEMBER 2019 - [...] For emphasis let me repeat a current fact that is being entirely overlooked. Despite his admitted usurpation of President Trump policy, Vindman was sent back to his post in the NSC with the full support of the United States Department of Defense.

The onus of action to remove Vindman from the NSC does not just lay simply at the feet of the White House and National Security advisor Robert O'Brien; and upon whose action the removal of Vindman could be positioned as political; the necessary, albeit difficult or perhaps challenging, obligation to remove Lt. Col Vindman also resides purposefully with the Dept. of Defense.

The Pentagon could easily withdraw Vindman from his position at the National Security Council; yet, it does not.... and it has not. WHY?

There is a code within the military whereby you never put your leadership into a position of compromise; ie. "never compromise your leadership". In this example, President Trump cannot remove Vindman from the White House NSC advisory group due to political ramifications and appearances...

The Joint Chiefs certainly recognize this issue; it is the very type of compromise they are trained to remove. Yet they do nothing to remove the compromise. They do nothing to assist.

Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman was the majority (#1) source for the material CIA operative Eric Ciaramella used in a collaborative effort to remove President Trump from office. Let me make this implication crystal clear:
The United States Military is collaborating with the CIA to remove a U.S. President from office.

Do you see the issue now?

The Pentagon has done nothing, absolutely nothing, to countermand this implication/reality.

The Joint Chiefs of Staff have done nothing, absolutely nothing, to diminish the appearance of, nor deconstruct the agenda toward, the removal of President Trump.

Mr. President, do I have your attention?

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/09/09/bob-woodward-general-James-Mattis-plotted-overthrow-of-u-s-government/

#10589633 at 2020-09-10 16:08:29 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13551: Cuties My Ass! Pedos Gone Too Far! Edition

"Mattis quietly went to Washington National Cathedral to pray about his concern for the nation's fate under Trump's command and, according to Woodward, told Coats, "There may come a time when we have to take collective action" since Trump is "dangerous. He's unfit."
What do you call a conversation between the Defense Secretary and the head of the U.S. intelligence apparatus where they are talking about taking "collective action" to remove an elected President? That's called sedition.... A seditious conspiracy.
As alarming as that sounds on its face, this actually aligns with our own previous research into key military leadership, the joint chiefs, and their corrupt intent to overthrow the elected government. Readers will remember when we noted this very issue after Lt. Col Alexander Vindman compromised his position yet was not removed by his command structure within the Pentagon.
NOVEMBER 2019 - […] For emphasis let me repeat a current fact that is being entirely overlooked. Despite his admitted usurpation of President Trump policy, Vindman was sent back to his post in the NSC with the full support of the United States Department of Defense.
The onus of action to remove Vindman from the NSC does not just lay simply at the feet of the White House and National Security advisor Robert O'Brien; and upon whose action the removal of Vindman could be positioned as political; the necessary, albeit difficult or perhaps challenging, obligation to remove Lt. Col Vindman also resides purposefully with the Dept. of Defense.
The Pentagon could easily withdraw Vindman from his position at the National Security Council; yet, it does not.... and it has not. WHY?
There is a code within the military whereby you never put your leadership into a position of compromise; ie. "never compromise your leadership". In this example, President Trump cannot remove Vindman from the White House NSC advisory group due to political ramifications and appearances…
The Joint Chiefs certainly recognize this issue; it is the very type of compromise they are trained to remove. Yet they do nothing to remove the compromise. They do nothing to assist.
Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman was the majority (#1) source for the material CIA operative Eric Ciaramella used in a collaborative effort to remove President Trump from office. Let me make this implication crystal clear:
The United States Military is collaborating with the CIA to remove a U.S. President from office.
Do you see the issue now?
The Pentagon has done nothing, absolutely nothing, to countermand this implication/reality.
The Joint Chiefs of Staff have done nothing, absolutely nothing, to diminish the appearance of, nor deconstruct the agenda toward, the removal of President Trump.
Mr. President, do I have your attention?

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/woodward-book-exposes-general-James-Mattis-plot-overthrow-us-government

#10589200 at 2020-09-10 15:20:52 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13550: [They] Will Let You Burn Edition

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/woodward-book-exposes-general-James-Mattis-plot-overthrow-us-government

According to a pre-release excerpt from the Washington Post Bob Woodward writes about a discussion between General James Mattis and Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats about a plot to overthrow the elected government of the United States.
What do you call a conversation between the Defense Secretary and the head of the U.S. intelligence apparatus where they are talking about taking "collective action" to remove an elected President? That's called sedition.... A seditious conspiracy.

As alarming as that sounds on its face, this actually aligns with our own previous research into key military leadership, the joint chiefs, and their corrupt intent to overthrow the elected government. Readers will remember when we noted this very issue after Lt. Col Alexander Vindman compromised his position yet was not removed by his command structure within the Pentagon.

NOVEMBER 2019 - […] For emphasis let me repeat a current fact that is being entirely overlooked. Despite his admitted usurpation of President Trump policy, Vindman was sent back to his post in the NSC with the full support of the United States Department of Defense.

The onus of action to remove Vindman from the NSC does not just lay simply at the feet of the White House and National Security advisor Robert O'Brien; and upon whose action the removal of Vindman could be positioned as political; the necessary, albeit difficult or perhaps challenging, obligation to remove Lt. Col Vindman also resides purposefully with the Dept. of Defense.

The Pentagon could easily withdraw Vindman from his position at the National Security Council; yet, it does not.... and it has not. WHY?

There is a code within the military whereby you never put your leadership into a position of compromise; ie. "never compromise your leadership". In this example, President Trump cannot remove Vindman from the White House NSC advisory group due to political ramifications and appearances…

The Joint Chiefs certainly recognize this issue; it is the very type of compromise they are trained to remove. Yet they do nothing to remove the compromise. They do nothing to assist.

Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman was the majority (#1) source for the material CIA operative Eric Ciaramella used in a collaborative effort to remove President Trump from office. Let me make this implication crystal clear:
The United States Military is collaborating with the CIA to remove a U.S. President from office.

Do you see the issue now?

The Pentagon has done nothing, absolutely nothing, to countermand this implication/reality.

The Joint Chiefs of Staff have done nothing, absolutely nothing, to diminish the appearance of, nor deconstruct the agenda toward, the removal of President Trump.

Mr. President, do I have your attention?

(Full Outline)

Between 2013 & 2016, James Mattis was on the board of Therano, a healthcare tech startup that provided fraudulent blood testing that swindled $10B from investors.

The now-défunt Therano founder & CEO Elizabeth Holmes has been indicted with 11 counts.https://t.co/K7q0ph306d
- BenTallmadge (@BenKTallmadge) June 4, 2020

Another retired General slams Trump: Stink tank Brookings President John Allen warns of 'descent into illiberalism'-

Trillions of dollars had been pissed away in third world hellholes, had these generals ever won a war before?https://t.co/jGeDzsaOHb
- BenTallmadge (@BenKTallmadge) June 4, 2020

Additionally, Bob Woodward points to Vice President Mike Pence as the whisperer who made sure President Trump blindly nominated officials who could facilitate his removal. Remember, Dan Coats came into the ODNI position from his role within the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI).

The SSCI was at the center of the legislative effort to remove President Trump. It was from the SSCI that Security Director James Wolfe was instructed to deliver a series of intelligence leaks against President Trump. The same SSCI who retained the fraudulent premise of the Trump-Russia collusion narrative.

[...] "Woodward describes Coats's experience as especially tortured. Coats, a former senator from Indiana, was recruited into the administration by Vice President Pence, and his wife is quoted as recalling a dinner at the White House when she interacted with Pence.

"I just looked at him, like, how are you stomaching this?" Marsha Coats said, according to Woodward. "I just looked at him like, this is horrible. I mean, we made eye contact. I think he understood. And he just whispered in my ear, 'Stay the course.'?" (link)

Donald John Trump is the first DC outsider we have ever elected to become President of the United States. The scale of what has been revealed merely by his presence is rather jaw-dropping…

#10589107 at 2020-09-10 15:07:43 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13550: [They] Will Let You Burn Edition

http://www.trumptwitterarchive.com/archive

search in trump tweet archives on 'woodward'

Sep 10, 2020 08:02:50 AM
Bob Woodward had my quotes for many months. If he thought they were so bad or dangerous, why didn't he immediately report them in an effort to save lives? Didn't he have an obligation to do so? No, because he knew they were good and proper answers. Calm, no panic! [Twitter for iPhone]
Sep 9, 2020 08:00:19 PM
For years Fake stories and investigations, then the phony Russia, Russia, Russia HOAX, next Ukraine and the failed Impeachment, now the crummy Atlantic Magazine's MADE UP STORY, and lastly, the political hit job by rapidly fading Bob Woodward and his boring book. It never ends! [Twitter for iPhone]
Aug 29, 2020 10:35:33 AM
..Even whether it's dumb warmongers like John Bolton, social pretenders like Bob Woodward, who never has anything good to say, or an unstable niece, who was now rightfully shunned, scorned and mocked her entire life, and never even liked by her own very kind & caring grandfather! [Twitter for iPhone]
Aug 14, 2020 11:17:46 AM
…The Bob Woodward book will be a FAKE, as always, just as many of the others have been. But, believe it or not, lately I've been getting lots of GREAT books! [Twitter for iPhone]
Oct 6, 2019 06:05:39 PM
Good job, I must say, by Bob Woodward on "Deface the Nation." The CBS no name host(ess), and other guest, Peter Baker of The Failing New York Times, were totally biased, boring and wrong (as usual), but Woodward was cool, calm and interesting. Thank you Bob! [Twitter for iPhone]
Apr 22, 2019 06:34:41 PM
RT @drudgefeed: Woodward: Investigate FBICIA Handling of 'Garbage' Dossier… https://t.co/Py5AwZpRfy [Twitter for iPhone]
Sep 10, 2018 07:36:53 AM
"It is mostly anonymous sources in here, why should anyone trust you? General Mattis, General Kelly said it's not true." @SavannahGuthrie @TODAYshow Bob Woodward is a liar who is like a Dem operative prior to the Midterms. He was caught cold, even by NBC. [Twitter for iPhone]
Sep 10, 2018 07:11:37 AM
RT @realDonaldTrump: The Woodward book is a scam. I don't talk the way I am quoted. If I did I would not have been elected President. These... [Twitter for iPhone]
Sep 10, 2018 06:46:35 AM
"I'm taking this book with a grain of salt & everyone should do the same. Multiple sources, but almost every one of them has come out and discredited the claims made by Woodward. You cannot take this book too seriously." Katelyn Caralle, Washington Examiner [Twitter for iPhone]
Sep 10, 2018 06:22:29 AM
The Woodward book is a Joke - just another assault against me, in a barrage of assaults, using now disproven unnamed and anonymous sources. Many have already come forward to say the quotes by them, like the book, are fiction. Dems can't stand losing. I'll write the real book! [Twitter for iPhone]
Sep 7, 2018 06:32:32 AM
The Woodward book is a scam. I don't talk the way I am quoted. If I did I would not have been elected President. These quotes were made up. The author uses every trick in the book to demean and belittle. I wish the people could see the real facts - and our country is doing GREAT! [Twitter for iPhone]
Sep 4, 2018 10:35:30 PM
"Secretary Mattis Nukes Woodward Allegations" https://t.co/H5bPjsVXNb [Twitter for iPhone]
Sep 4, 2018 10:32:16 PM
Jim Mattis Calls Woodward Book 'Fiction': 'Product of Someone's Rich Imagination' https://t.co/HGMDiH98nx via @BreitbartNews [Twitter for iPhone]
Sep 4, 2018 10:01:43 PM
The already discredited Woodward book, so many lies and phony sources, has me calling Jeff Sessions "mentally retarded" and "a dumb southerner." I said NEITHER, never used those terms on anyone, including Jeff, and being a southerner is a GREAT thing. He made this up to divide! [Twitter for iPhone]
Sep 4, 2018 06:18:08 PM
The Woodward book has already been refuted and discredited by General (Secretary of Defense) James Mattis and General (Chief of Staff) John Kelly. Their quotes were made up frauds, a con on the public. Likewise other stories and quotes. Woodward is a Dem operative? Notice timing? [Twitter for iPhone]
Jan 15, 2017 03:04:38 PM
Thank you to Bob Woodward who said, "That is a garbage document…it never should have been presented…Trump's right to be upset (angry)… [Twitter for Android]
Mar 1, 2013 03:04:44 PM
Only the Obama WH can get away with attacking Bob Woodward. [Twitter Web Client]
Feb 25, 2013 03:28:22 PM
Must read column by Bob Woodward explaining how Obama pushed for sequestration & promised no tax increase http://t.co/JIqUIuQE09 [Twitter Web Client]
Sep 28, 2012 02:30:23 PM
Sean's interview with Bob Woodward on @hannityshow was very interesting–Woodward was great. http://t.co/XfqXZyBh [Twitter Web Client]

#10588918 at 2020-09-10 14:42:59 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13550: [They] Will Let You Burn Edition

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/woodward-book-exposes-general-James-Mattis-plot-overthrow-us-government

Any truth to this article?

#10588344 at 2020-09-10 13:03:03 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13549: As The West Burns So Does Yellow Journalism Edition

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/09/09/James-Mattis-warned-intellligence-chief-collective-action-may-be-required-against-trump/

#10588290 at 2020-09-10 12:53:06 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13549: As The West Burns So Does Yellow Journalism Edition

>>10588270
I don't trust Woodward. However if true the DOD should act now. Furthermore Mattis would make a statement on this allegation if untrue. We'll see. Even BC made a formal statement when accused of going to the Island.

The Woodward book claims Mattis said, "There may come a time when we have to take collective action" against Trump.

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/09/09/bob-woodward-general-James-Mattis-plotted-overthrow-of-u-s-government/

#10588287 at 2020-09-10 12:52:56 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13549: As The West Burns So Does Yellow Journalism Edition

>>10588254
>>10588202
>>10588202

-recalling theranos is some kind of god…would be interesting to know…
-wasn't theranos the bad guy in the lastest guardians movie?

https://www.vox.com/2018/3/16/17124288/Mattis-theranos-board-trump

"Secretary of Defense James Mattis is implicated in one of the largest business scandals of the past decades, described by the Securities and Exchange Commission as an "elaborate, years-long fraud" through which Theranos, led by CEO Elizabeth Holmes and president Ramesh "Sunny" Balwani, "exaggerated or made false statements about the company's technology, business, and financial performance."

Basically, their biotech startup was founded on the promise of faster, cheaper, painless blood tests. But their technology was fake.

Mattis not only served on Theranos's board during some of the years it was perpetrating the fraud after he retired from US military service, but he earlier served as a key advocate of putting the company's technology (technology that was, to be clear, fake) to use inside the military while he was still serving as a general. Holmes is settling the case, paying a $500,000 fee and accepting various other penalties, while Balwani is fighting it out in court."

#10588285 at 2020-09-10 12:52:32 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13549: As The West Burns So Does Yellow Journalism Edition

>>10588254
John McCone not McCain
https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/collection/john-mccone-director-central-intelligence-1961-1965
>>10588245
https://www.businessinsider.com/theranos-former-board-members-henry-kissinger-george-shultz-James-Mattis-2019-3

#10588273 at 2020-09-10 12:49:41 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13549: As The West Burns So Does Yellow Journalism Edition

>>10588193
>Mattis may be the first domino to drop
On Mattis note, decided to research a bit about Hussein firing Mattis.

Trump lashed back. the fake news is so retarded with their spin

TRUMP: "Probably the only thing Barack Obama & I have in common is that we both had the honor of firing Jim Mattis,the world's most overrated General." - tweet Wednesday.

article on Hussein Firing
https://archive.is/Tflj1#selection-8287.132-8287.254
Mattis made famous in Iraq the phrase, "No better friend, no worse enemy."The Obama White House should keep that in mind.

The Obama administration's inexplicable mishandling of Marine Gen. James Mattis

By Thomas E. Ricks
January 18, 2013

Word on the national security street is that General James Mattis is being given the bum's rush out of his job as commander of Central Command, and is being told to vacate his office several months earlier than planned.
Why the hurry?Pentagon insiders say that he rubbed civilian officials the wrong way- not because he went all "mad dog," which is his public image, and the view at the White House, but rather because he pushed the civilians so hard on considering the second- and third-order consequences of military action against Iran. Some of those questions apparently were uncomfortable. Like, what do you do with Iran once the nuclear issue is resolved and it remains a foe? What do you do if Iran then develops conventional capabilities that could make it hazardous for U.S. Navy ships to operate in the Persian Gulf? He kept saying, "And then what?"
Inquiry along these lines apparently was not welcomed - at least in the CENTCOM view. The White House view, apparently, is that Mattis was too hawkish, which is not something I believe, having seen him in the field over the years. I'd call him a tough-minded realist, someone who'd rather have tea with you than shoot you, but is happy to end the conversation either way.
Presidents should feel free to boot generals anytime they want, of course - that's our system, and one I applaud. But ousting Mattis at this time, and in this way, seems wrong for several reasons:
TIMING: If Mattis leaves in March, as now appears likely, that means there will be a new person running CENTCOM just as the confrontation season with Iran begins to heat up again.
CIVIL-MILITARY SIGNALS: The message the Obama Administration is sending, intentionally or not, is that it doesn't like tough, smart, skeptical generals who speak candidly to their civilian superiors. In fact, that is exactly what it (and every administration) should want. Had we had more back in 2003, we might not have made the colossal mistake of invading Iraq.
SERVICE RELATIONS: The Obamites might not recognize it, but they now have dissed the two Marine generals who are culture heroes in today's Corps: Mattis and Anthony Zinni. The Marines have long memories. I know some who are still mad at the Navy for steaming away from the Marines left on Guadalcanal. Mattis made famous in Iraq the phrase,"No better friend, no worse enemy." The Obama White House should keep that in mind.
I'm still a fan of President Obama. I just drove for two days down the East Coast listening to his first book, and enjoyed it enormously. But I am at the point where I don't trust his national security team. They strike me as politicized, defensive and narrow. These are people who will not recognize it when they screw up, and will treat as enemies anyone who tells them they are doing that. And that is how things like Vietnam get repeated. Harsh words, I know. But I am worried.

#10588245 at 2020-09-10 12:45:03 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13549: As The West Burns So Does Yellow Journalism Edition

>>10588202
>>10588231
>Theranos board members
>James Mattis
>Henry Kissinger
>George Shultz
>Riley Bechtel

Was NoName or NoNames dad on the Theranos board? I can look but if you are in the data just check…

#10588202 at 2020-09-10 12:38:42 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13549: As The West Burns So Does Yellow Journalism Edition

>>10581582 pb
Theranos board members
James Mattis
Henry Kissinger
George Shultz
Riley Bechtel

Last weekend, the legendary California Democrat wrote about a dinner invitation he received from former Secretary of State George Shultz and his wife Charlotte. In his San Francisco Chronicle column, Brown revealed that former Secretary of State and National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger attended the private dinner along with Michael Bloomberg, California Governor Jerry Brown (and his wife Anne), Tom Steyer, California gubernatorial candidate Gavin Newsom (and his wife Jennifer), and San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee (and his wife Anita).
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2017/08/05/ex-sf-mayor-willie-brown-suggests-gop-for-policy-estab-wants-trump-impeached/

>>10588077

#10587877 at 2020-09-10 11:26:46 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13549: As The West Burns So Does Yellow Journalism Edition

#13547
>>10586454 Q Used Sydney Powell's Image
>>10586482 Pervert: NY Gynecologist Accused of Sexual Assault by Andrew Yang's Wife, Dozens of Others Has Been Arrested (Breaking 911)
>>10586498 TOTALITARIANISM The New Funk & Wagnalls Encyclopedia Definition (Literature)
>>10586513, >>10586744, >>10586807 Joint team effort!! WSP, Fife Pd and Puyallup PD just arrested a 36yr old Puyallup resident. He was caught in the median on SR-167@ Meridian setting a fire! He is currently on his way to jail! Great job everybody! (KomoNews\Twitter\Kiro7)
>>10586519 Rudy Giuliani's Common Sense: TAMPERED EVIDENCE: McCloskey's Walk Rudy Giuliani Through What Really Happened | Ep. 67 (Youtube)
>>10586570 "Why I chose to tackle Obama's sexuality": An interesting read. . .
>>10586670 Excellent and important notables from some 6 or 8 hours ago: ex-NSC Staffer: The Color Revolution is Here, Coup Offensives to Expect Before Nov. 3
>>10586745 BOLSHEVISM The New Funk & Wagnalls Encyclopedia Definition
>>10586751 "War games." Experts held 'war games' on the Trump vs. Biden election. Their finding? Brace for a mess
>>10586782 Self Immolation a practice of the Occult, and of Nationals abroad. (Ancient-Origins.net)
>>10586784 Remembering 9-11 and events surrounding it
>>10586823 Re: 9th Circuit creating a new fourth amendment notice requirement for surveillance practices [US rights {c} surveillance] (reason.com)
>>10586870 FOX on Westside Wildfires
>>10586884, >>10586897 According to a pre-release excerpt from the Washington Post Bob Woodward writes about a discussion between General James Mattis and Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats about a plot to overthrow the elected government of the United States. (Conservative Treehouse.com)
>>10586887 Bolshevik in thenews. Then and Now (Pedia & Independent)
>>10586923 No news on arsonists?
>>10586988, >>10587128 Joseph Kernan (2017-) Under Secretary of Defense for Intel Joint Chief of Staff (2)
>>10587056 Jerusalem Post Tweets: "The anti-#ISIS coalition command has been given to a new general, as tensions with #Iran and #Russia are rising in the Middle East"
>>10587149 #13547

Previously Collected Notables
>>10586316 #13546, >>10587149 #13547
>>10584047 #13543, >>10584802 #13544, >>10585636 #13545
>>10581888 #13540, >>10582545 #13541, >>10583297 #13542
>>10579429 #13537, >>10580226 #13538, >>10580987 #13539
>>10577139 #13534, >>10577926 #13535, >>10578688 #13536

Notables Aggregators: https://wearethene.ws & https://qnotables.com

#10587522 at 2020-09-10 09:47:29 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13548: Midnight Sun Burns HOT Over Cali Wildfires "Source"! Edition

>>10585289 pb
>>10585385 pb
>Bob Woodward: General James Mattis Plotted Overthrow of U.S. Government

also, what Mattis would do as part of a natsec sting against coats.

i suspect Mattis is the john galt of the counter coup and it's glorious to watch from a safe distance.

#10587149 at 2020-09-10 08:15:06 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13547: ChiFiDi Being Investigated......Edition

>>10586975
UberDope Memes as Usual EC.
>>10587046, >>10587049
Kek… Freedy doesn't like to be mistaken for others…
>>10587062 ;)
>>10587104, >>10587113
Damn if that's legit Big Mike's really puttin himeself out there. God Blessem
>>10587142 Hawaii?

Can anons stop for a second and think "Now why would alllll of this shit be happening in sleepy ass parts of America and the world if shit isnt really being uncovered?"!

Q's Latest Post

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>>10586529 ---------------- Highly coordinated [funded] _domestic terrorism. (Cap: >>10586827)

Notables Are NOT Endorsements!

Notables Update @ 700
#13547
>>10586454 Q Used Sydney Powell's Image
>>10586482 Pervert: NY Gynecologist Accused of Sexual Assault by Andrew Yang's Wife, Dozens of Others Has Been Arrested (Breaking 911)
>>10586498 TOTALITARIANISM The New Funk & Wagnalls Encyclopedia Definition (Literature)
>>10586513, >>10586744, >>10586807 Joint team effort!! WSP, Fife Pd and Puyallup PD just arrested a 36yr old Puyallup resident. He was caught in the median on SR-167@ Meridian setting a fire! He is currently on his way to jail! Great job everybody! (KomoNews\Twitter\Kiro7)
>>10586519 Rudy Giuliani's Common Sense: TAMPERED EVIDENCE: McCloskey's Walk Rudy Giuliani Through What Really Happened | Ep. 67 (Youtube)
>>10586570 "Why I chose to tackle Obama's sexuality": An interesting read. . .
>>10586670 Excellent and important notables from some 6 or 8 hours ago: ex-NSC Staffer: The Color Revolution is Here, Coup Offensives to Expect Before Nov. 3
>>10586745 BOLSHEVISM The New Funk & Wagnalls Encyclopedia Definition
>>10586751 "War games." Experts held 'war games' on the Trump vs. Biden election. Their finding? Brace for a mess
>>10586782 Self Immolation a practice of the Occult, and of Nationals abroad. (Ancient-Origins.net)
>>10586784 Remembering 9-11 and events surrounding it
>>10586823 Re: 9th Circuit creating a new fourth amendment notice requirement for surveillance practices [US rights {c} surveillance] (reason.com)
>>10586870 FOX on Westside Wildfires
>>10586884, >>10586897 According to a pre-release excerpt from the Washington Post Bob Woodward writes about a discussion between General James Mattis and Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats about a plot to overthrow the elected government of the United States. (Conservative Treehouse.com)
>>10586887 Bolshevik in thenews. Then and Now (Pedia & Independent)
>>10586923 No news on arsonists?
>>10586988, >>10587128 Joseph Kernan (2017-) Under Secretary of Defense for Intel Joint Chief of Staff (2)
>>10587056 Jerusalem Post Tweets: "The anti-#ISIS coalition command has been given to a new general, as tensions with #Iran and #Russia are rising in the Middle East"

FRESH VICTORY IN JESUS!

>>10586976
>>10586976
>>10586976
>>10586976

#10586965 at 2020-09-10 07:28:41 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13548: Midnight Sun Burns HOT Over Cali Wildfires "Source"! Edition

#13545
>>10584916 , >>10584959, >>10585087 Court Filings: Joseph Rosenbaum was charged with 11 counts of Child Molestation
>>10584928 , >>10585205 Kelli Ward: Joe Biden and Mark Kelly Enriched Themselves Through China's Communist Party
>>10585234 , >>10585251, >>10585274 Mark Kelly Silent on Firm's Windfall From Chinese Tech Giant Tencent
>>10585472 , >>10585495, >>10585522 Mark Kelly's wife, Gabby Giffords dig
>>10584945 Kelli Ward: Threads to pull
>>10585331 Fresh POTUS
>>10585592 Stars and Stripes: Why is Fort Hood the Army's Most Crime-Ridden Post?
>>10585446 Pelosi warns London there will be 'absolutely no chance' of UK-US trade deal if it violates Brexit protocol on Northern Ireland
>>10585426 3 People Charged For Assaulting Police Officers During Portland Riots. Mostly peaceful "protests"
>>10585419 FISA Court Tells FBI Spying Program Violates Rules on Protecting Citizen Privacy Rights, But it Can Carry On
>>10585289 , >>10585385 Bob Woodward: General James Mattis Plotted Overthrow of U.S. Government
>>10585214 Video refresh: Admiral Mike Rogers, honoring General Mike Flynn
>>10585186 , >>10585426, >>10585490, >>10585510 Are Antifa and BLM lighting the fires on the west coast?
>>10585048 , >>10585075, >>10585111, >>10585157, >>10585328 Anon on POTUS saying the CV was airborne: Connects to LA mil helos
>>10585018 , >>10585088 Anons connect POTUS tweets to Q posts
>>10585044 Nissan Begins First Dollar Bond Sale Since 1999 Alliance
>>10584970 Rico Brazil connected to 12 companies: Dig on Reuter's possible RICO Comms re pb >>10584631
>>10584946 Eric Trump: Google manipulating image search results for 'mob' and 'mobs'
>>10584899 , >>10585417 UM-Dearborn apologizes for segregating cafe event by race after public outcry
>>10585636 #13545

#13544
>>10584748 More digs on Keith Alexander
>>10584522 , >>10584564, >>10584617 Amazon names ex-NSA chief Keith Alexander to its board' - Snowden connects?
>>10584688 Amazon's new board member Keith Alexander founded IronNet Cybersecurity
>>10584631 RICO Comms from Reuters?
>>10584742 Fresh POTUS
>>10584664 Tucker Carlson: Chris Cuomo coached Michael Cohen to give successful CNN interview
>>10584610 , >>10584657 MP4: Trump says I'm a Qleader for this country or Cheerleader !?!
>>10584588 JPMorgan dismisses employees for misuse of COVID-19 relief funds
>>10584583 SpreadSheet and Off-Site Galleries Updated
>>10584550 Hunter Biden's Chinese Firm Helped Buy Out Michigan Automotive Company to Create Jobs Overseas
>>10584537 Here come the whistleblowers: "Top DHS officials changed intel to fit POTUS' comments"
>>10584525 'Great celebration': UAE and Israel to meet at White House to sign historic deal
>>10584479 Scavino's 'sensitive content' tweets & videos
>>10584436 Q post censored on Fascist book
>>10584399 Lindsey Graham Convinced POTUS to Sit with Bob Woodward for His New Anti-Trump Book
>>10584376 Bishop Mark S. Grenon & Bishop Joseph T. Grenon update from JAIL
>>10584279 , >>10584286 Hashtags analysis for Wednesday 9/9
>>10584227 New filing: Letter filed by Dershowitz to modify the Maxwell protective order
>>10584217 Puget Sound & Pacific Northwest. More than 330,000 acres burned in Washington in 24 hours
>>10584178 POTUS on Hannity: WH Green - Castle Green
>>10584157 Notable Jaack Flynn tweet mentions Karli's Q
>>10584144 , >>10584473 Video of Phoenix Oregon: Are leftwing Terrorists lighting State on fire?
>>10584141 Refresh from the weekend: Gen. Flynn socializes with prolific Q supporter @WhalesWarrior
>>10584802 #13544

#10586964 at 2020-09-10 07:28:29 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13548: Midnight Sun Burns HOT Over Cali Wildfires "Source"! Edition

Global Announcements
>>10582798 Memefarmer announces resignation. Mega has removed the Meme Warehouse. Need another anon to torch
>>10533308 FBI Confirms QAnon Group Not A 'Terrorist Threat' - UPDATED

Notables are NOT endorsements
#13547
>>10586454 Q Used Sydney Powell's Image
>>10586482 Pervert: NY Gynecologist Accused of Sexual Assault by Andrew Yang's Wife, Dozens of Others Has Been Arrested
>>10586498 TOTALITARIANISM The New Funk & Wagnalls Encyclopedia Definition (Literature)
>>10586513, >>10586744, >>10586807 Joint team effort!! WSP, Fife Pd and Puyallup PD just arrested a 36yr old Puyallup resident. He was caught in the median on SR-167@ Meridian setting a fire! He is currently on his way to jail! Great job everybody! (KomoNews\Twitter\Kiro7)
>>10586519 Rudy Giuliani's Common Sense: TAMPERED EVIDENCE: McCloskey's Walk Rudy Giuliani Through What Really Happened | Ep. 67 (Youtube)
>>10586570 "Why I chose to tackle Obama's sexuality": An interesting read. . .
>>10586670 Excellent and important notables from some 6 or 8 hours ago: ex-NSC Staffer: The Color Revolution is Here, Coup Offensives to Expect Before Nov. 3
>>10586745 BOLSHEVISM The New Funk & Wagnalls Encyclopedia Definition
>>10586751 "War games." Experts held 'war games' on the Trump vs. Biden election. Their finding? Brace for a mess
>>10586782 Self Immolation a practice of the Occult, and of Nationals abroad. (Ancient-Origins.net)
>>10586784 Remembering 9-11 and events surrounding it
>>10586823 Re: 9th Circuit creating a new fourth amendment notice requirement for surceillance practices [US rights {c} surveillance] (reason.com)
>>10586870 FOX on Westside Wildfires
>>10586884, >>10586897 According to a pre-release excerpt from the Washington Post Bob Woodward writes about a discussion between General James Mattis and Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats about a plot to overthrow the elected government of the United States. (Conservative Treehouse.com)
>>10586887 Bolshevik in thenews. Then and Now (Pedia & Independent)
>>10586923 No news on arsonists?

#13546 Notetaker Much Appreciated
>>10586022 Carlos Osweda's thoughtful tw^tter thread on Q & other #Maga
>>10586162 Mile Markers of Tyranny: Losing Our Freedoms on the Road from 9/11 to Covid-19 (from Patriot Act on....)
>>10586114 Prominent Disney Stakeholder Calls Company's Embrace Of China 'Wildly Offensive,' Demands Answers
>>10586095 AG Barr Says There 'Could Be' More Charges In Durham Probe (DailyCaller)
>>10586057 Left 'secretly preps' for violent unrest if Biden loses
>>10586013 Vid on Biden's audience in Mich.....what audience??? (really, for KEKS)
>>10585960 POTUS Schedule for THURSDAY September 10, 2020 (7pm remarks from MICH)
>>10585958 Are arson attacks connected to ISIS? (July 28)
>>10585902, >>10585941, >>10585989 Helifags hovering
>>10585815 Tom Hanks accused of getting special treatment after returning to Australia amid coronavirus quarantine
>>10585805 Sundance on Woodward/Mattis
>>10585798 US Army: Plotting points
>>10585785, >>10585791, >>10585845, >>10585865 New Scavino: "Kentucky! #MAGA" (plus US flag on barn)
>>10585770 How does Tw^atter allow Portland antifa free reign? (@PDXActionMedics)
>>10585769 Gov Cuomo: it's a "fact" that POTUS caused the Covid outbreak in NY
>>10585754 Three people dead in Bear Fire (Butte Co, CA)
>>10585717 Red Pill Nation multistream
>>10585703 "Raped when 14? Star Trek star goes up against Kevin Spacey in court!" (German sauce)
>>10585696, >>10585711 Must watch Jason Whitlock clips on Tucker tonight - major redpills
>>10585652, >>10585710, >>10585716 Rochester NY protest updates
>>10585688 Baking class tomorrow @7pm ET
>>10585640 Twitter permanently suspends QAnon account belonging to friend of Scott Morrison for 'harmful activity'
>>10585590 Fires along the I-5 corridor - SAME location as proposed bullet train from LA to Washington state
>>10586316 #13546

#10586955 at 2020-09-10 07:26:40 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13547: ChiFiDi Being Investigated......Edition

>>10586939 refer to img.

Q's Latest Posts

Thursday 09.10.2020
>>10586529 ---------------- Highly coordinated [funded] _domestic terrorism. (Cap: >>10586827)

Notables Are NOT Endorsements!

Notables Update @Baker baking. has to shit. self firm if baker does not return in time
#13547
>>10586454 Q Used Sydney Powell's Image
>>10586482 Pervert: NY Gynecologist Accused of Sexual Assault by Andrew Yang's Wife, Dozens of Others Has Been Arrested
>>10586498 TOTALITARIANISM The New Funk & Wagnalls Encyclopedia Definition (Literature)
>>10586513, >>10586744, >>10586807 Joint team effort!! WSP, Fife Pd and Puyallup PD just arrested a 36yr old Puyallup resident. He was caught in the median on SR-167@ Meridian setting a fire! He is currently on his way to jail! Great job everybody! (KomoNews\Twitter\Kiro7)
>>10586519 Rudy Giuliani's Common Sense: TAMPERED EVIDENCE: McCloskey's Walk Rudy Giuliani Through What Really Happened | Ep. 67 (Youtube)
>>10586570 "Why I chose to tackle Obama's sexuality": An interesting read. . .
>>10586670 Excellent and important notables from some 6 or 8 hours ago: ex-NSC Staffer: The Color Revolution is Here, Coup Offensives to Expect Before Nov. 3
>>10586745 BOLSHEVISM The New Funk & Wagnalls Encyclopedia Definition
>>10586751 "War games." Experts held 'war games' on the Trump vs. Biden election. Their finding? Brace for a mess
>>10586782 Self Immolation a practice of the Occult, and of Nationals abroad. (Ancient-Origins.net)
>>10586784 Remembering 9-11 and events surrounding it
>>10586823 Re: 9th Circuit creating a new fourth amendment notice requirement for surceillance practices [US rights {c} surveillance] (reason.com)
>>10586870 FOX on Westside Wildfires
>>10586884, >>10586897 According to a pre-release excerpt from the Washington Post Bob Woodward writes about a discussion between General James Mattis and Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats about a plot to overthrow the elected government of the United States. (Conservative Treehouse.com)
>>10586887 Bolshevik in thenews. Then and Now (Pedia & Independent)
>>10586923 No news on arsonists?

#10586884 at 2020-09-10 07:10:21 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13547: ChiFiDi Being Investigated......Edition

According to a pre-release excerpt from the Washington Post Bob Woodward writes about a discussion between General James Mattis and Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats about a plot to overthrow the elected government of the United States.
[...] "Mattis quietly went to Washington National Cathedral to pray about his concern for the nation's fate under Trump's command and, according to Woodward, told Coats, "There may come a time when we have to take collective action" since Trump is "dangerous. He's unfit." (read more)

What do you call a conversation between the Defense Secretary and the head of the U.S. intelligence apparatus where they are talking about taking "collective action" to remove an elected President? That's called sedition.... A seditious conspiracy.

As alarming as that sounds on its face, this actually aligns with our own previous research into key military leadership, the joint chiefs, and their corrupt intent to overthrow the elected government. Readers will remember when we noted this very issue after Lt. Col Alexander Vindman compromised his position yet was not removed by his command structure within the Pentagon.

NOVEMBER 2019 - [...] For emphasis let me repeat a current fact that is being entirely overlooked. Despite his admitted usurpation of President Trump policy, Vindman was sent back to his post in the NSC with the full support of the United States Department of Defense.

The onus of action to remove Vindman from the NSC does not just lay simply at the feet of the White House and National Security advisor Robert O'Brien; and upon whose action the removal of Vindman could be positioned as political; the necessary, albeit difficult or perhaps challenging, obligation to remove Lt. Col Vindman also resides purposefully with the Dept. of Defense.

The Pentagon could easily withdraw Vindman from his position at the National Security Council; yet, it does not.... and it has not. WHY?

There is a code within the military whereby you never put your leadership into a position of compromise; ie. "never compromise your leadership". In this example, President Trump cannot remove Vindman from the White House NSC advisory group due to political ramifications and appearances...

The Joint Chiefs certainly recognize this issue; it is the very type of compromise they are trained to remove. Yet they do nothing to remove the compromise. They do nothing to assist.

Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman was the majority (#1) source for the material CIA operative Eric Ciaramella used in a collaborative effort to remove President Trump from office. Let me make this implication crystal clear:

The United States Military is collaborating with the CIA to remove a U.S. President from office.
Do you see the issue now?

The Pentagon has done nothing, absolutely nothing, to countermand this implication/reality.

The Joint Chiefs of Staff have done nothing, absolutely nothing, to diminish the appearance of, nor deconstruct the agenda toward, the removal of President Trump.

Mr. President, do I have your attention?

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/09/09/bob-woodward-general-James-Mattis-plotted-overthrow-of-u-s-government/

#10586334 at 2020-09-10 05:31:30 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13547: ChiFiDi Being Investigated......Edition

Global Announcements
>>10582798 Memefarmer announces resignation. Mega has removed the Meme Warehouse. Need another anon to torch
>>10533308 FBI Confirms QAnon Group Not A 'Terrorist Threat' - UPDATED

Notables are NOT endorsements

#13546 Notetaker Much Appreciated
>>10586022 Carlos Osweda's thoughtful tw^tter thread on Q & other #Maga
>>10586162 Mile Markers of Tyranny: Losing Our Freedoms on the Road from 9/11 to Covid-19 (from Patriot Act on....)
>>10586114 Prominent Disney Stakeholder Calls Company's Embrace Of China 'Wildly Offensive,' Demands Answers
>>10586095 AG Barr Says There 'Could Be' More Charges In Durham Probe (DailyCaller)
>>10586057 Left 'secretly preps' for violent unrest if Biden loses
>>10586013 Vid on Biden's audience in Mich.....what audience??? (really, for KEKS)
>>10585960 POTUS Schedule for THURSDAY September 10, 2020 (7pm remarks from MICH)
>>10585958 Are arson attacks connected to ISIS? (July 28)
>>10585902, >>10585941, >>10585989 Helifags hovering
>>10585815 Tom Hanks accused of getting special treatment after returning to Australia amid coronavirus quarantine
>>10585805 Sundance on Woodward/Mattis
>>10585798 US Army: Plotting points
>>10585785, >>10585791, >>10585845, >>10585865 New Scavino: "Kentucky! #MAGA" (plus US flag on barn)
>>10585770 How does Tw^atter allow Portland antifa free reign? (@PDXActionMedics)
>>10585769 Gov Cuomo: it's a "fact" that POTUS caused the Covid outbreak in NY
>>10585754 Three people dead in Bear Fire (Butte Co, CA)
>>10585717 Red Pill Nation multistream
>>10585703 "Raped when 14? Star Trek star goes up against Kevin Spacey in court!" (German sauce)
>>10585696, >>10585711 Must watch Jason Whitlock clips on Tucker tonight - major redpills
>>10585652, >>10585710, >>10585716 Rochester NY protest updates
>>10585688 Baking class tomorrow @7pm ET
>>10585640 Twitter permanently suspends QAnon account belonging to friend of Scott Morrison for 'harmful activity'
>>10585590 Fires along the I-5 corridor - SAME location as proposed bullet train from LA to Washington state
>>10586316 #13546

#13545
>>10584916 , >>10584959, >>10585087 Court Filings: Joseph Rosenbaum was charged with 11 counts of Child Molestation
>>10584928 , >>10585205 Kelli Ward: Joe Biden and Mark Kelly Enriched Themselves Through China's Communist Party
>>10585234 , >>10585251, >>10585274 Mark Kelly Silent on Firm's Windfall From Chinese Tech Giant Tencent
>>10585472 , >>10585495, >>10585522 Mark Kelly's wife, Gabby Giffords dig
>>10584945 Kelli Ward: Threads to pull
>>10585331 Fresh POTUS
>>10585592 Stars and Stripes: Why is Fort Hood the Army's Most Crime-Ridden Post?
>>10585446 Pelosi warns London there will be 'absolutely no chance' of UK-US trade deal if it violates Brexit protocol on Northern Ireland
>>10585426 3 People Charged For Assaulting Police Officers During Portland Riots. Mostly peaceful "protests"
>>10585419 FISA Court Tells FBI Spying Program Violates Rules on Protecting Citizen Privacy Rights, But it Can Carry On
>>10585289 , >>10585385 Bob Woodward: General James Mattis Plotted Overthrow of U.S. Government
>>10585214 Video refresh: Admiral Mike Rogers, honoring General Mike Flynn
>>10585186 , >>10585426, >>10585490, >>10585510 Are Antifa and BLM lighting the fires on the west coast?
>>10585048 , >>10585075, >>10585111, >>10585157, >>10585328 Anon on POTUS saying the CV was airborne: Connects to LA mil helos
>>10585018 , >>10585088 Anons connect POTUS tweets to Q posts
>>10585044 Nissan Begins First Dollar Bond Sale Since 1999 Alliance
>>10584970 Rico Brazil connected to 12 companies: Dig on Reuter's possible RICO Comms re pb >>10584631
>>10584946 Eric Trump: Google manipulating image search results for 'mob' and 'mobs'
>>10584899 , >>10585417 UM-Dearborn apologizes for segregating cafe event by race after public outcry
>>10585636 #13545

#10586078 at 2020-09-10 04:51:25 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13546: Charge On, Midnight Riders Edition

James Mattis Warned Intellligence Chief: 'Collective Action' May Be Required Against Trump

Former Defense Secretary James Mattis reportedly once warned a top United States intelligence official that "collective action" might be required to stem President Donald Trump's "dangerous" behavior in the White House, according to a new book by the Washington Post's Bob Woodward.

In his new book on the Trump administration-titled, Rage-Woodward reveals the inner machinations and grumblings of former White House officials, like James Mattis and ex-Director ofnNational Intelligence Dan Coats. According to the book, which was widely excerpted by the Post on Wednesday, Mattis was particularly concerned about Trump's leadership in 2017 during a standoff with North Korea over its missile tests:

Mattis quietly went to Washington National Cathedral to pray about his concern for the nation's fate under Trump's command and, according to Woodward, told Coats, "There may come a time when we have to take collective action" since Trump is "dangerous. He's unfit."

In a separate conversation recounted by Woodward, Mattis told Coats, "The president has no moral compass," to which the director of national intelligence replied: "True. To him, a lie is not a lie. It's just what he thinks. He doesn't know the difference between the truth and a lie."

The revelations regarding Mattis's suggestion to Coats of taking "collective action" against Trump quickly drew attention on social media, with some comparing the discussion to "spit-balling a presidential coup."

Just casually spit-balling a presidential coup at church... https://t.co/KT7iKUk12p

- Max Abrahms (@MaxAbrahms) September 9, 2020

Jim Mattis, the coup plotter?

The Woodward book claims Mattis said, "There may come a time when we have to take collective action" against Trump.

If true, the country has been under attack since 2016. But not by the Russians. pic.twitter.com/Ub0P6XSdkB

- BDW (@BryanDeanWright) September 9, 2020

Although the context of Mattis's discussion with Coats is still unclear, the former defense official has increasingly become an opponent of his one-time White House boss. Since leaving the administration in January 2019, Mattis has lambasted the president over disagreements on both foreign policy and domestic affairs.

In June of this year, the former defense secretary claimed that Trump was going against constitutional norms in his handling of the protests and riots that have swept the country since George Floyd's death in police custody.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/09/09/James-Mattis-warned-intellligence-chief-collective-action-may-be-required-against-trump/

#10585805 at 2020-09-10 04:06:03 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13546: Charge On, Midnight Riders Edition

>>10585289(pb)

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/09/09/bob-woodward-general-James-Mattis-plotted-overthrow-of-u-s-government/

link down previous notable

over target

#10585636 at 2020-09-10 03:39:50 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13545: Plan Accordingly [November]Edition

#10585569 at 2020-09-10 03:32:49 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13546: Charge On, Midnight Riders Edition

Global Announcements
>>10582798 Memefarmer announces resignation. Mega has removed the Meme Warehouse. Need another anon to torch
>>10533308 FBI Confirms QAnon Group Not A 'Terrorist Threat' - UPDATED

Notables are NOT endorsements

#13545
>>10584916 , >>10584959, >>10585087 Court Filings: Joseph Rosenbaum was charged with 11 counts of Child Molestation
>>10584928 , >>10585205 Kelli Ward: Joe Biden and Mark Kelly Enriched Themselves Through China's Communist Party
>>10585234 , >>10585251, >>10585274 Mark Kelly Silent on Firm's Windfall From Chinese Tech Giant Tencent
>>10585472 , >>10585495, >>10585522 Mark Kelly's wife, Gabby Giffords dig
>>10584945 Kelli Ward: Threads to pull
>>10585331 Fresh POTUS
>>10585532 Stars and Stripes: Why is Fort Hood the Army's Most Crime-Ridden Post?
>>10585446 Pelosi warns London there will be 'absolutely no chance' of UK-US trade deal if it violates Brexit protocol on Northern Ireland
>>10585426 3 People Charged For Assaulting Police Officers During Portland Riots. Mostly peaceful "protests"
>>10585419 FISA Court Tells FBI Spying Program Violates Rules on Protecting Citizen Privacy Rights, But it Can Carry On
>>10585289 , >>10585385 Bob Woodward: General James Mattis Plotted Overthrow of U.S. Government
>>10585214 Video refresh: Admiral Mike Rogers, honoring General Mike Flynn
>>10585186 , >>10585426, >>10585490, >>10585510 Are Antifa and BLM lighting the fires on the west coast?
>>10585048 , >>10585075, >>10585111, >>10585157, >>10585328 Anon on POTUS saying the CV was airborne: Connects to LA mil helos
>>10585018 , >>10585088 Anons connect POTUS tweets to Q posts
>>10585044 Nissan Begins First Dollar Bond Sale Since 1999 Alliance
>>10584970 Rico Brazil connected to 12 companies: Dig on Reuter's possible RICO Comms re pb >>10584631
>>10584946 Eric Trump: Google manipulating image search results for 'mob' and 'mobs'
>>10584899 , >>10585417 UM-Dearborn apologizes for segregating cafe event by race after public outcry
>>10585556 #13545

#13544
>>10584748 More digs on Keith Alexander
>>10584522 , >>10584564, >>10584617 Amazon names ex-NSA chief Keith Alexander to its board' - Snowden connects?
>>10584688 Amazon's new board member Keith Alexander founded IronNet Cybersecurity
>>10584631 RICO Comms from Reuters?
>>10584742 Fresh POTUS
>>10584664 Tucker Carlson: Chris Cuomo coached Michael Cohen to give successful CNN interview
>>10584610 , >>10584657 MP4: Trump says I'm a Qleader for this country or Cheerleader !?!
>>10584588 JPMorgan dismisses employees for misuse of COVID-19 relief funds
>>10584583 SpreadSheet and Off-Site Galleries Updated
>>10584550 Hunter Biden's Chinese Firm Helped Buy Out Michigan Automotive Company to Create Jobs Overseas
>>10584537 Here come the whistleblowers: "Top DHS officials changed intel to fit POTUS' comments"
>>10584525 'Great celebration': UAE and Israel to meet at White House to sign historic deal
>>10584479 Scavino's 'sensitive content' tweets & videos
>>10584436 Q post censored on Fascist book
>>10584399 Lindsey Graham Convinced POTUS to Sit with Bob Woodward for His New Anti-Trump Book
>>10584376 Bishop Mark S. Grenon & Bishop Joseph T. Grenon update from JAIL
>>10584279 , >>10584286 Hashtags analysis for Wednesday 9/9
>>10584227 New filing: Letter filed by Dershowitz to modify the Maxwell protective order
>>10584217 Puget Sound & Pacific Northwest. More than 330,000 acres burned in Washington in 24 hours
>>10584178 POTUS on Hannity: WH Green - Castle Green
>>10584157 Notable Jaack Flynn tweet mentions Karli's Q
>>10584144 , >>10584473 Video of Phoenix Oregon: Are leftwing Terrorists lighting State on fire?
>>10584141 Refresh from the weekend: Gen. Flynn socializes with prolific Q supporter @WhalesWarrior
>>10584802 #13544

#10585556 at 2020-09-10 03:32:01 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13545: Plan Accordingly [November]Edition

#10585385 at 2020-09-10 03:13:09 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13545: Plan Accordingly [November]Edition

>>10585289

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/09/09/bob-woodward-general-James-Mattis-plotted-overthrow-of-u-s-government/

#10585327 at 2020-09-10 03:08:37 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13545: Plan Accordingly [November]Edition

Updated Notes

#13545
>>10584916 , >>10584959, >>10585087 Court Filings: Joseph Rosenbaum was charged with 11 counts of Child Molestation
>>10585289 Bob Woodward: General James Mattis Plotted Overthrow of U.S. Government
>>10585214 Video refresh: Admiral Mike Rogers, honoring General Mike Flynn
>>10585186 Antifa and BLM lighting the fires on the west coast?
>>10585048 , >>10585075, >>10585111, >>10585157 Anon on POTUS saying the CV was airborne: Connects to LA mil helos
>>10585018 , >>10585088 Anons connect POTUS tweets to Q posts
>>10585044 Nissan Begins First Dollar Bond Sale Since 1999 Alliance
>>10584970 Rico Brazil connected to 12 companies: Dig on Reuter's possible RICO Comms re pb >>10584631
>>10584946 Eric Trump: Google manipulating image search results for 'mob' and 'mobs'
>>10584945 Kelli Ward: Threads to pull
>>10585234 , >>10585251, >>10585274 Mark Kelly Silent on Firm's Windfall From Chinese Tech Giant Tencent
>>10584928 , >>10585205 Kelli Ward: Joe Biden and Mark Kelly Enriched Themselves Through China's Communist Party
>>10584899 University of Michigan-Dearborn apologizes for segregating cafe event by race after public outcry

We got a baker for nb?

#10585289 at 2020-09-10 03:04:17 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13545: Plan Accordingly [November]Edition

Good expose of Mattis and his sedition

Bob Woodward: General James Mattis Plotted Overthrow of U.S. Government...
Sundance Conservative Treehouse

According to a pre-release excerpt from the Washington Post Bob Woodward writes about a discussion between General James Mattis and Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats about a plot to overthrow the elected government of the United States.

[...] "Mattis quietly went to Washington National Cathedral to pray about his concern for the nation's fate under Trump's command and, according to Woodward, told Coats,"There may come a time when we have to take collective action" since Trump is "dangerous. He's unfit."(read more)

What do you call a conversation between the Defense Secretary and the head of the U.S. intelligence apparatus where they are talking about taking "collective action" to remove an elected President? That's called sedition.... A seditious conspiracy.

As alarming as that sounds on its face, this actually aligns with our own previous research into key military leadership, the joint chiefs, and their corrupt intent to overthrow the elected government. Readers will remember when we noted this very issue after Lt. General Alexander Vindman compromised his position yet was not removed by his command structure within the Pentagon.

NOVEMBER 2019 - [...] For emphasis let me repeat a current fact that is being entirely overlooked. Despite his admitted usurpation of President Trump policy, Vindman was sent back to his post in the NSC with the full support of the United States Department of Defense.

The onus of action to remove Vindman from the NSC does not just lay simply at the feet of the White House and National Security advisor Robert O'Brien; and upon whose action the removal of Vindman could be positioned as political; the necessary, albeit difficult or perhaps challenging, obligation to remove Lt. Col Vindman also resides purposefully with the Dept. of Defense.

The Pentagon could easily withdraw Vindman from his position at the National Security Council; yet, it does not.... and it has not. WHY?

There is a code within the military whereby you never put your leadership into a position of compromise; ie. "never compromise your leadership". In this example, President Trump cannot remove Vindman from the White House NSC advisory group due to political ramifications and appearances...

The Joint Chiefs certainly recognize this issue; it is the very type of compromise they are trained to remove. Yet they do nothing to remove the compromise. They do nothing to assist.

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/09/09/bob-woodward-general-James-Mattis-plotted-overthrow-of-u-s-government/

https://archive.is/wip/p4bJu

#10585145 at 2020-09-10 02:49:57 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13545: Plan Accordingly [November]Edition

"What do you call a conversation between the Defense Secretary and the head of the U.S. intelligence apparatus where they are talking about taking "collective action" to remove an elected President? That's called sedition.... A seditious conspiracy."

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/09/09/bob-woodward-general-James-Mattis-plotted-overthrow-of-u-s-government/

#10580755 at 2020-09-09 21:39:52 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13539: Panic In DC? Not Potus Edition

>>10580691
>>10580691
>James Mattis is linked to a massive corporate fraud and nobody wants to talk about it
Yeah. Some of us pointed this out, but the Mattis shill brigades attacked it.
Wasn't worth fighting hard, it was obvious at the time POTUS couldn't stand the asshole.

#10580691 at 2020-09-09 21:33:29 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13539: Panic In DC? Not Potus Edition

>>10580292
James Mattis is linked to a massive corporate fraud and nobody wants to talk about it
Better let a scandal slide than risk a nuclear war.

https://www.vox.com/2018/3/16/17124288/Mattis-theranos-board-trump

Secretary of Defense James Mattis is implicated in one of the largest business scandals of the past decades, described by the Securities and Exchange Commission as an "elaborate, years-long fraud" through which Theranos, led by CEO Elizabeth Holmes and president Ramesh "Sunny" Balwani, "exaggerated or made false statements about the company's technology, business, and financial performance."

Basically, their biotech startup was founded on the promise of faster, cheaper, painless blood tests. But their technology was fake.

Mattis not only served on Theranos's board during some of the years it was perpetrating the fraud after he retired from US military service, but he earlier served as a key advocate of putting the company's technology (technology that was, to be clear, fake) to use inside the military while he was still serving as a general. Holmes is settling the case, paying a $500,000 fee and accepting various other penalties, while Balwani is fighting it out in court.

Nobody on the board is being directly charged with doing anything. But accepting six-figure checks to serve as a frontman for a con operation is the kind of thing that would normally count as a liability in American politics.

But nobody wants to talk about it. Not just Trump and his co-partisans in Congress; the Democratic Party opposition is also inclined to give Mattis a pass. Everyone in Washington is more or less convinced that his presence in the Pentagon is the only thing standing between us and possible nuclear Armageddon.

#10580546 at 2020-09-09 21:18:08 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13539: Panic In DC? Not Potus Edition

>>10580468
What are the odds that Mattis is GAY???
https://heavy.com/news/2018/12/James-Mattis-wife-married/
How does Blackmail work???

#10579329 at 2020-09-09 19:16:22 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13537: DeFace the DePress'd Edition

Mattis told Coats Trump is 'dangerous,' 'unfit': Woodward book

Former Defense Secretary James Mattis told then-Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats that President Trump was "dangerous" and "unfit," according to excerpts from Bob Woodward's upcoming book "Rage."

Mattis, who left the White House at the end of 2018 over differences on defense strategy with the president, warned Coats that "there may come a time when we have to take collective action" against Trump, according to excerpts of the Woodward book reported upon by The Washington Post,

The Post did not say if Woodward's book clarified what kind of "collective action" Mattis was referencing.

In a separate conversation, Mattis said, "The president has no moral compass," to which Coats responded, "True. To him, a lie is not a lie. It's just what he thinks. He doesn't know the difference between the truth and a lie."

Mattis, one of the few Cabinet secretaries who had support from both Republicans and Democrats during his time in the Trump administration, announced in December 2018 he was resigning after disagreements with the president over policies in Syria and Europe.

He has generally kept his thoughts about Trump to himself, but criticized the president as dividing the country over the summer after Trump said he wanted to use the military against protesters following the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.

The former Pentagon chief, initially seen as someone who might serve as a check on Trump, was believed to have disagreed with Trump's decision to draw down troops in Syria and his relationship with NATO allies, which have been characterized by demands they step up contributions to their shared defense.

Mattis wrote in his resignation letter that his "core belief" is that U.S. strength is "inextricably linked with the strength of our unique and comprehensive system of alliances and partnerships."

"My views on treating allies with respect and also being clear-eyed about both malign actors and strategic competitors are strongly held and informed by over four decades of immersion in these issues," Mattis wrote. "We must do everything possible to advance an international order that is most conducive to our security, prosperity and values, and we are strengthened in this effort by the solidarity of our alliances."

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/515673-Mattis-told-coats-trump-is-dangerous-unfit-woodward-book

Mattis is a war criminal

#10578434 at 2020-09-09 17:52:53 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13536: Kayleigh Presser Is On Edition

>>10578389
>1. Former Secretary of Defense James Mattis contemplated taking "collective action" against the president

#10578389 at 2020-09-09 17:49:24 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13536: Kayleigh Presser Is On Edition

>>10578179

Moar on Bob Woodward

5 Stunning Revelations from Bob Woodward's Blockbuster New Book on Trump

Excerpts from veteran Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward's upcoming book on President Donald Trump's administration, Rage, is due for release on September 15. New excerpts unveiled by The Washington Post on Wednesday provided a peek at the contents. Here are five of the most stunning.

1. Former Secretary of Defense James Mattis contemplated taking "collective action" against the president
Wood writes that Mattis - who served as secretary of Defense from January 2017 to January 2019 - contemplated taking "action" against Trump after traveling to Washington National Cathedral to pray during tensions with North Korea, allegedly telling Office of National Intelligence Director Dan Coats that Trump was "dangerous" and "unfit," adding, "There may come a time when we have to take collective action." Mattis allegedly told Coats in a separate conversation, "The president has no moral compass." Coats replied, "True. To him, a lie is not a lie. It's just what he thinks. He doesn't know the difference between the truth and a lie."
2. Intelligence Director Dan Coats believed Putin "had something" on Trump
Coats - who served in his position from March 2017 to August 2019 - allegedly believed Russian leader Vladimir Putin "had something" on Trump, because he could see "no other explanation" for his behavior.
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3. Woodward obtained 25 new "love letters" between Trump and Kim Jong Un
Woodward obtained 27 "love letters" - 25 of which have never been reported - exchanged between Trump and North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un. Kim refers to Trump in the letters as "Your Excellency," and once wrote that meeting Trump again would be "reminiscent of a scene from a fantasy film." He added the "deep and special friendship between us will work as a magical force."
4. Trump called the coronavirus "deadly" while saying the opposite in public because he wanted to "play it down"
"This is deadly stuff," Trump told Woodward in a February 7 interview, speaking in reference to the coronavirus. "You just breathe the air and that's how it's passed. And so that's a very tricky one. That's a very delicate one. It's also more deadly than even your strenuous flu." He downplayed the virus more than a month later, writing on Twitter on March 9: "So last year 37,000 Americans died from the common Flu. It averages between 27,000 and 70,000 per year. Nothing is shut down, life & the economy go on. At this moment there are 546 confirmed cases of CoronaVirus, with 22 deaths. Think about that!" He told Woodward in a March 19 interview that he was "playing it down" to avoid creating panic. "I wanted to always play it down. I still like playing it down, because I don't want to create a panic."
5. Jared Kushner believes that reading Alice in Wonderland is helpful to understanding Trump
The president's adviser and son-in-law, Jared Kushner said four books help in providing insight into Trump's mindset, including Alice in Wonderland. Quoting the novel's Cheshire Cat, Kushner said: "If you don't know where you're going, any path will get you there."
https://www.mediaite.com/news/5-stunning-revelations-from-bob-woodwards-blockbuster-new-book-on-trump/

#10547674 at 2020-09-06 18:14:49 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13497: Attacks Will Only Intensify Edition

DHS Leaker Who Sabotaged ICE Raids Strikes Again With Memos Declaring White Supremacists "Greatest Terror Threat"

Politico managed to find several draft copies of an annual threat assessment prepared by the Department of Homeland Security, all of which used "similar" language to describe white supremacists as "the deadliest domestic terror threat facing the US". Unsurprisingly, the reporters later explained that all three drafts stemmed from an order given by former acting secretary Kevin McAleenan during the brief period before he was ousted in favor of Chad Wolf, nominated by Trump to drop the "acting" from his title of "Acting Homeland Security Secretary".

For those who don't remember McAleenan, he was pushed out like his predecessor, Secretary Kirstjen Nielson, after he was caught leaking details of upcoming 'ICE Raids' to the Washington Post, as we reported during June 2019. The Washington Examiner, which initially outed McAleenan as the leaker, reportedly did so "deliberately" in an attempt to stymie the raids, a central tenant of his boss's immigration policy.

Like many other former Trump Administration officials (most notably, former chief of staff John Kelly and secretary of defense Gen. James Mattis), McAleenan has apparently found a way to keep attacking and undermining the administration. Releasing damaging documents and other stories from theit time in the administration has become one popular method of doing - as James Comey calls it - "one's civic duty" to "protect democracy" from the first Republican president to win the electoral college, but not the popular vote, since - checks notes - George W Bush.

McAleenan didn't act alone. He apparently had help from notorious James Comey crony and "LawFare" blogger Ben Wittes, a notable voice in the anti-Trump movement. Politico identified him as the source of the leaked memos. We feel it's safe to assume Wittes obtained the memos from McAleenan.

Notably, none of the documents reviewed by Politico referenced any threat posed by Antifa, which President Trump back in May labeled a "Domestic Terrorist Organization". However, two of the drafts, which - keep in mind, were probably written some time early last year - did refer to the possibility of extremist groups hijacking peaceful protests by exploiting "social grievances".

We must concede, McAlennan was pretty much spot on with that last one.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/dhs-leaker-who-sabotaged-ice-raids-strikes-again-memos-declaring-white-supremacists

#10525922 at 2020-09-04 15:24:46 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13470: Edison Didn't Invent No Light Bulb Edition

>>10525871
He literally sat on the board of Theranos, while the CEO, Elizabeth Holmes was trying to get the DOD to buy her fake medical equipment.

In May 2016 members of the Theranos board of directors were:[126]

Elizabeth Holmes, founder and CEO
Riley Bechtel, former Bechtel Group CEO
David Boies, a founder and the chairman of Boies Schiller Flexner
William Foege, former director CDC
Richard Kovacevich, former Wells Fargo CEO and chairman
James Mattis, later U.S. Secretary of Defense
Fabrizio Bonanni, former executive vice president of Amgen

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theranos

#10522513 at 2020-09-04 04:07:35 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13466: Rally Afterparty Edition

>>10522411
>James Mattis Denounces President Trump, Describes Him as a Threat to the Constitution

but…but…muh military hero, muh holy oath

#10522411 at 2020-09-04 03:58:43 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13466: Rally Afterparty Edition

"Mattis" now trending on Twitter

James Mattis Denounces President Trump, Describes Him as a Threat to the Constitution

In an extraordinary condemnation, the former defense secretary backs protesters and says the president is trying to turn Americans against on

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/06/James-Mattis-denounces-trump-protests-militarization/612640/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

Statement from Mattis

In Union There Is Strength

I have watched this week's unfolding events, angry and appalled. The words "Equal Justice Under Law" are carved in the pediment of the United States Supreme Court. This is precisely what protesters are rightly demanding. It is a wholesome and unifying demand-one that all of us should be able to get behind. We must not be distracted by a small number of lawbreakers. The protests are defined by tens of thousands of people of conscience who are insisting that we live up to our values-our values as people and our values as a nation.

When I joined the military, some 50 years ago, I swore an oath to support and defend the Constitution. Never did I dream that troops taking that same oath would be ordered under any circumstance to violate the Constitutional rights of their fellow citizens-much less to provide a bizarre photo op for the elected commander-in-chief, with military leadership standing alongside.

From the July/August 2020 issue: History will judge the complicit

We must reject any thinking of our cities as a "battlespace" that our uniformed military is called upon to "dominate." At home, we should use our military only when requested to do so, on very rare occasions, by state governors. Militarizing our response, as we witnessed in Washington, D.C., sets up a conflict-a false conflict-between the military and civilian society. It erodes the moral ground that ensures a trusted bond between men and women in uniform and the society they are sworn to protect, and of which they themselves are a part. Keeping public order rests with civilian state and local leaders who best understand their communities and are answerable to them.

James Madison wrote in Federalist 41 that "America united with a handful of troops, or without a single soldier, exhibits a more forbidding posture to foreign ambition than America disunited, with a hundred thousand veterans ready for combat." We do not need to militarize our response to protests. We need to unite around a common purpose. And it starts by guaranteeing that all of us are equal before the law.

Eliot A. Cohen: America's generals must stand up to Trump

Instructions given by the military departments to our troops before the Normandy invasion reminded soldiers that "The Nazi slogan for destroying us...was 'Divide and Conquer.' Our American answer is 'In Union there is Strength.'" We must summon that unity to surmount this crisis-confident that we are better than our politics.

Donald Trump is the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American people-does not even pretend to try. Instead he tries to divide us. We are witnessing the consequences of three years of this deliberate effort. We are witnessing the consequences of three years without mature leadership. We can unite without him, drawing on the strengths inherent in our civil society. This will not be easy, as the past few days have shown, but we owe it to our fellow citizens; to past generations that bled to defend our promise; and to our children.

From the June 2020 issue: We are living in a failed state

We can come through this trying time stronger, and with a renewed sense of purpose and respect for one another. The pandemic has shown us that it is not only our troops who are willing to offer the ultimate sacrifice for the safety of the community. Americans in hospitals, grocery stores, post offices, and elsewhere have put their lives on the line in order to serve their fellow citizens and their country. We know that we are better than the abuse of executive authority that we witnessed in Lafayette Square. We must reject and hold accountable those in office who would make a mockery of our Constitution. At the same time, we must remember Lincoln's "better angels," and listen to them, as we work to unite.

Only by adopting a new path-which means, in truth, returning to the original path of our founding ideals-will we again be a country admired and respected at home and abroad.

#10444624 at 2020-08-28 00:45:28 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13366: Incoming - LAND OF GREATNESS Edition

>>10444559
>https://boards.4chan.org/pol/thread/274601280

Interesting proposed timeline

QRD
>deep state intends for Biden to win even if he loses
>Biden has dementia
>this election will essentially be the last you see of Biden – deep fakes after the election
>we must put Trump in the White House, or risk the destruction of our people

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PUZZLE PIECE 1: LEFTISTS ARE HELLBENT ON A BIDEN PRESIDENCY, EVEN IF IT MEANS CIVIL WAR

Biden says military will escort Trump from White House
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGZs2UrTrAk [Embed]
Pelosi says military will "fumigate" Trump from White House (and also says she's 2nd in line to the president, showing her true intention)
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlH156c_nXw [Embed]
DNC hosts "wargame" wherein Podesta (playing Biden's role) refuses to concede election in face of Trump victory; DNC forces Biden delegates anyway; House names Biden president; Trump and Senate do not acknowledge presidency; California, Oregon, Washington secede from USA; and military coup operations ensues
>https://www.breitbart.com/2020-election/2020/08/02/democrats-war-game-for-election-includes-west-coast-secession-possible-civil-war-john-podesta/
Globalist plant military leaders publicly criticize sitting president for the first time in history, and undermine him at every opportunity
>https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/06/04/James-Mattis-george-floyd-protesters-trump-fighting-many-fronts/3143094001/
>https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-s-church-photo-op-took-defense-secretary-esper-gen-n1222391
>https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/07/20/esper-defense-yes-man-reputation-370248
>https://ktvz.com/politics/2020/08/18/tensions-between-esper-and-trump-are-out-in-the-open-again-this-time-by-tweet/
>https://www.nbcnews.com/news/military/colin-powell-s-criticism-means-four-ex-chairmen-joint-chiefs-n1227101

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PUZZLE PIECE 2: LEFTISTS KNOW THEY'LL LOSE A CIVIL WAR, SO THEY WILL DO EVERYTHING THEY CAN TO "WIN" OUTRIGHT

The left would rather avoid a civil war, because they can't win. This is why they will instead engage in election fraud on a massive scale (even more election fraud than usual) through mail in ballots.

Critical to avoiding the civil war (and their certain doom) is making Biden seem like he's not a shuffling zombie. Tough sell. The dementia is starting to hit him hard.
Hence, the following:

Biden's official twitter released an obvious deep fake last night
>https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1298697722304888833
This morning, Pelosi said that Biden shouldn't do any debates
>https://www.nbcnews.com/video/pelosi-says-biden-shouldn-t-debate-trump-90735685783
Biden echoed Pelosi's statement on debates, and implies that he may not debate if the commission doesn't do what he wants
>https://www.msnbc.com/andrea-mitchell-reports/watch/joe-biden-reacts-to-pelosi-s-comments-on-debating-with-trump-90737733641

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***
***
PUZZLE PIECE 3: AFTER THE ELECTION, BIDEN WILL BE PUT ON ICE

The dems are going to shoot Biden's shot now. Joe Biden has dementia. He cannot speak at length without making a complete fool of himself. To combat this, his handlers pump him full of stimulants (likely amphetamines) before lengthy public appearances. His 180 degree switch to semi-competent speaking capacity at the end of the DNC is self-evident.

However, Biden's body can't keep this up for 4 years. He'll die.
Deep state doesn't want him dead, because a man with dementia, decades of blackmail, and a family dependent upon corruption is the perfect puppet.

But his body can handle a brief binge right before the election, and then very rarely after the election (if his mind is still salvageable by that point).

After the election, Biden will rarely if ever appear publicly. You will only see him on deep fakes either by himself or surrounded by deep state operatives. All of us who point out the deep fake now will look like fools for trying to point it out again. Or at least we would if we didn't already see through their stupid plan.

If you ever do see Biden in public, it'll be very briefly, or on the rare occasion where he has to deliver the State of the Union high off his ass.
And if his mind is too far gone, then they'll just 25th amendment away his authority and give it to Kamala, who Biden has already forecasted is ready to be president day one.
>https://www.fox26houston.com/news/shes-ready-to-do-this-job-on-day-1-joe-biden-introduces-kamala-harris-as-running-mate

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***
***
FINAL PIECE: ANON! IT'S THE APOCALYPSE! WHAT DO WE DO!?

Trump must win the election by such a landslide that the plans for coup are infeasible. Force these orcs back into the shadows.

We win by:
(1) voting
(2) strength in numbers: the counter-psyop
(3) redpilling everybody you know
(4) watchdogging the election to minimize fraud

#10281203 at 2020-08-14 03:15:44 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13158: The 'Development' Edition

>>10281191
>James Mattis
>18

R

#9967389 at 2020-07-15 11:48:51 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12755: Wonky Kun Wednesday Edition

>>9967135 LB
Theranos Board members in 2016:
Elizabeth Holmes, founder and CEO
Riley Bechtel, former Bechtel Group CEO
David Boies, a founder and the chairman of Boies Schiller Flexner
William Foege, former director CDC
Richard Kovacevich, former Wells Fargo CEO and chairman
James Mattis, later U.S. Secretary of Defense
Fabrizio Bonanni, former executive vice president of Amgen

#9904186 at 2020-07-09 12:43:22 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12674: Thursday Felonious Follies Edition

>>9903168 Report - CIA Kept giving Intel to Russia, Got nothing in return

CIA give bad info so Russia no respond

Eminem DOES look like James Mattis but so does Eric from 90 day fiancé so can anyone give a real link or motive Mattis and Eminem would share?

#9903743 at 2020-07-09 11:34:48 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12674: Thursday Felonious Follies Edition

>>9903720
not bitch ass James Mattis

#9835952 at 2020-07-03 04:02:02 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12589: Have faith in humanity Edition

Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes' fraud case: Mattis, Kissinger, Murdoch are possible witnesses

Witnesses can testify on former romance between Holmes and firm president

A host of high-profile figures including former U.S. Secretary of Defense James Mattis and former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger could be called to testify in the criminal fraud trial of Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes, a newly released court filing says.

The two men's service on the board of the failed Palo Alto blood-testing startup put them among possible witnesses named in a letter from federal prosecutors to Holmes' legal team, which was filed as an exhibit in court this week. Another former Defense Secretary, William Perry, is also on the list, as are former U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz, former U.S. Senators Sam Nunn and William Frist, as well as Robert Shapiro, a lawyer on the team that successfully defended O.J. Simpson against murder charges.

Another prominent lawyer who was also on the board, David Boies, could also be called as a witness, according to the letter, dated April 3 and filed Tuesday. As witnesses, the ex-members of the board would be called to address "False and misleading representations made to Theranos's Board of Directors," according to the letter.

Media magnate Rupert Murdoch, owner of the Wall Street Journal, where reporter John Carreyrou's reporting set off the Theranos scandal, could also be called to testify. His name is listed under the category of people who could discuss alleged "threatening, influencing, or vilifying" of journalists in response to negative Theranos coverage.

The letter also contains a category of people who would testify about "Concealing the romantic relationship between Holmes and Balwani from investors and others." To discuss the former relationship, prosecutors may call Mattis, Kissinger, Perry, Shultz, Frist and others, the letter said.

Stanford University dropout Holmes, charged with a dozen felony fraud counts, is in U.S. District Court proceedings in San Jose, with her trial set to start this fall, pandemic permitting. Prosecutors allege she and her co-accused, former Theranos president Sunny Balwani, knew their blood-testing machines had accuracy problems, despite promises they could conduct a full range of tests using a few drops of blood. The government claims the pair misled investors and business partners, and defrauded doctors and "many hundreds" of patients. Holmes and Balwani have denied the allegations, with lawyers for Holmes arguing in a December court filing that the government's case was "unconstitutionally vague" and lacked specific claims of misrepresentation.

Further claims of vagueness were made by her legal team in response to the April 3 letter, which also listed many documents produced through the evidence-discovery process that prosecutors said they may use as exhibits in the trial. The letter "did not identify the particular acts Ms. Holmes supposedly committed and continued to rely on vague themes," her lawyers said in a court filing Tuesday.

"It did not disclose what evidence the government would introduce outside its case in chief. And it did not provide any explanation of which particular acts the hundreds of witness statements and the thousands of pages of discovery it identified would support."

https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/07/02/theranos-founder-elizabeth-holmes-fraud-case-Mattis-kissinger-murdoch-are-possible-witnesses/

#9743415 at 2020-06-25 17:09:56 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12472: Watching the D Party Con Burn Edition

#12469
Baker Change
>>9741801 Seattle mayor says it's time to end CHOP/CHAZ and the leaders say it's time to go home! (and by 'home', they mean another city)
>>9741695 all assets deployed: Why it might be time to finally replace 'The Star-Spangled Banner' with a new national anthem
>>9741670 worth eyes: interdasting info on Parlor
>>9741659, >>9741756, >>9741775, >>9741813 planefag reporting
>>9741539, >>9741760 Articulate patriot nails it with the red pills.
>>9741500 Guardian hit piece on QAnon: Down the rabbit hole: how QAnon conspiracies thrive on Facebook
>>9741499 Wray: I Have Disciplined and Terminated People Involved in FISA Abuse
>>9741428 (continued from lb) Strong Cities Network DIGG
>>9741323 This is how they "fight" racism. This experiment has been weaponized. The Blue Eyes & Brown Eyes Exercise
>>9741301 High levels of arsenic found in US Whole Foods' bottled water brand
>>9741290 Wisconsin governor activates National Guard after night of violence, 2 statues toppled
>>9741259 U.S. 'contact tracing' falters despite Democrat push for more funds
>>9741249 that was fast: Wirecard collapses owing creditors $4 billion
>>9741220 anon nom: [DS] plotlines laid bare/You are watching a movie
>>9741189 FBI Dir Wray singled out Beijing as the biggest threat to the United States, revealing that the agency currently has more than 2,000 active investigations
>>9741154 LEO on the front lines: i wouldn't have this kind of restraint.
>>9741834 #12469

#12468
>>9740375, >>9740397 How the President's historic child welfare executive order will strengthen our foster care system
>>9740382 1600 Daily: Your daily summary of news, events, and updates.
>>9740393 Africa's first participation in a COVID-19 vaccine trial started Wednesday as nervous volunteers received injections
>>9740395 The People's General, Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn Breaks with Mattis, McChrystal & Kelly: "We Must Defeat Socialism"
>>9740433 New Allegations Assert Assange Conspired With "Anonymous" Affiliated Hackers, Among Others
>>9740488 A meaty issue: California tries to override the commerce clause
>>9740491 Top Zoom Investor Funded Chinese Communist Party-Linked Artificial Intelligence Program
>>9740512 Criminals announce time and place they will tear down Abraham Lincoln statue in DC
>>9740521 U.S. Marshals told to prepare to help protect monuments nationwide as Trump targets people who vandalize structures during protests
>>9740532, >>9740555 Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt News Round Up: Early AM Edition
>>9740542 The London school that tried to end racism: Year 7 pupils are divided into mixed race 'affinity groups' for a TV experiment - but white pupils 'are terrified they could ruin their lives by saying the wrong thing'
>>9740562 Consumer Reports finds harmful levels of arsenic in Whole Foods' bottled water… Again.
>>9740573 Black Lives Matter Leader: 'If This Country Doesn't Give Us What We Want, Then We Will Burn Down This System' (VIDEO)
>>9740586 MUST WATCH: GOP Senator Tim Scott Goes Off on Democrats For Blocking His Police Reform Bill
>>9740601 Bill Gates and Microsoft have been banned in Russia.
>>9740541 Via the use of 'fake' pens that use ink that one can use a cigarette lighter to erase. BRING YOUR OWN PEN.
>>9740635, >>9740716 Indian fighter jets have roared over a flashpoint Himalayan region as part of a show of strength even as China again accused India of provoking the border clash earlier this month that killed at least 20 soldiers.
>>9740684 IBM is promoting Chelsea Clinton and The Clinton Foundation
>>9740769 About Q #4510: This is the Oath of Office for the US Senate (and Sheriffs, per 5 U.S. Code § 3331), not military enlistment or appointment.
>>9740875 Anon nom: Strong Traitor cities article.
>>9740908 Canned meat is having a moment.
>>9740931 The Russian Ministry of Natural Resources has supported the liberalization of companies' access to the Arctic shelf, which was proposed earlier
>>9740936 FBI director says the bureau is looking into possible foreign influence in George Floyd protests
>>9740941 The United States imposed sanctions Wednesday on five Iranian ship captains who delivered oil to Venezuela, as Washington ratcheted up pressure on President Nicolas Maduro, whose government it considers illegitimate.
>>9740953 South Korea and the United States on Thursday reaffirmed their commitment to defending "the hard-fought peace" on the divided peninsula as the allies marked the 70th anniversary of the outbreak of the Korean War.
>>9740974 Former Defense Secretary General James Mattis has encouraged citizens in his hometown to be cowards.
>>9741013 WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange sought to recruit hackers at conferences in Europe and Asia who could provide his anti-secrecy website with classified information
>>9741026 Jussie's co-conspirators think they have a shot at getting a pass.
>>9741047 #12468

#9742638 at 2020-06-25 15:26:03 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12471: [Barry Setero] In The KillBox Edition

#12468
>>9740375, >>9740397 How the President's historic child welfare executive order will strengthen our foster care system
>>9740382 1600 Daily: Your daily summary of news, events, and updates.
>>9740393 Africa's first participation in a COVID-19 vaccine trial started Wednesday as nervous volunteers received injections
>>9740395 The People's General, Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn Breaks with Mattis, McChrystal & Kelly: "We Must Defeat Socialism"
>>9740433 New Allegations Assert Assange Conspired With "Anonymous" Affiliated Hackers, Among Others
>>9740488 A meaty issue: California tries to override the commerce clause
>>9740491 Top Zoom Investor Funded Chinese Communist Party-Linked Artificial Intelligence Program
>>9740512 Criminals announce time and place they will tear down Abraham Lincoln statue in DC
>>9740521 U.S. Marshals told to prepare to help protect monuments nationwide as Trump targets people who vandalize structures during protests
>>9740532, >>9740555 Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt News Round Up: Early AM Edition
>>9740542 The London school that tried to end racism: Year 7 pupils are divided into mixed race 'affinity groups' for a TV experiment - but white pupils 'are terrified they could ruin their lives by saying the wrong thing'
>>9740562 Consumer Reports finds harmful levels of arsenic in Whole Foods' bottled water… Again.
>>9740573 Black Lives Matter Leader: 'If This Country Doesn't Give Us What We Want, Then We Will Burn Down This System' (VIDEO)
>>9740586 MUST WATCH: GOP Senator Tim Scott Goes Off on Democrats For Blocking His Police Reform Bill
>>9740601 Bill Gates and Microsoft have been banned in Russia.
>>9740541 Via the use of 'fake' pens that use ink that one can use a cigarette lighter to erase. BRING YOUR OWN PEN.
>>9740635, >>9740716 Indian fighter jets have roared over a flashpoint Himalayan region as part of a show of strength even as China again accused India of provoking the border clash earlier this month that killed at least 20 soldiers.
>>9740684 IBM is promoting Chelsea Clinton and The Clinton Foundation
>>9740769 About Q #4510: This is the Oath of Office for the US Senate (and Sheriffs, per 5 U.S. Code § 3331), not military enlistment or appointment.
>>9740875 Anon nom: Strong Traitor cities article.
>>9740908 Canned meat is having a moment.
>>9740931 The Russian Ministry of Natural Resources has supported the liberalization of companies' access to the Arctic shelf, which was proposed earlier
>>9740936 FBI director says the bureau is looking into possible foreign influence in George Floyd protests
>>9740941 The United States imposed sanctions Wednesday on five Iranian ship captains who delivered oil to Venezuela, as Washington ratcheted up pressure on President Nicolas Maduro, whose government it considers illegitimate.
>>9740953 South Korea and the United States on Thursday reaffirmed their commitment to defending "the hard-fought peace" on the divided peninsula as the allies marked the 70th anniversary of the outbreak of the Korean War.
>>9740974 Former Defense Secretary General James Mattis has encouraged citizens in his hometown to be cowards.
>>9741013 WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange sought to recruit hackers at conferences in Europe and Asia who could provide his anti-secrecy website with classified information
>>9741026 Jussie's co-conspirators think they have a shot at getting a pass.
>>9741047 #12468

Previously Collected Notables
>>9739559 #12466, >>9740297 #12467,
>>9737175 #12463, >>9737845 #12464, >>9738723 #12465
>>9734701 #12460, >>9735575 #12461, >>9736403 #12462

Notables Aggregators: https://wearethene.ws & https://qnotables.com

#9741852 at 2020-06-25 13:36:16 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12470: Flynn About To Be Unleashed Edition

#9741161 at 2020-06-25 11:05:34 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12469: The 'Cue The Benny Hill Music...' Edition

#12468 FINAL, >>9740326
>>9740375, >>9740397 How the President's historic child welfare executive order will strengthen our foster care system
>>9740382 1600 Daily: Your daily summary of news, events, and updates.
>>9740393 Africa's first participation in a COVID-19 vaccine trial started Wednesday as nervous volunteers received injections
>>9740395 The People's General, Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn Breaks with Mattis, McChrystal & Kelly: "We Must Defeat Socialism"
>>9740433 New Allegations Assert Assange Conspired With "Anonymous" Affiliated Hackers, Among Others
>>9740488 A meaty issue: California tries to override the commerce clause
>>9740491 Top Zoom Investor Funded Chinese Communist Party-Linked Artificial Intelligence Program
>>9740512 Criminals announce time and place they will tear down Abraham Lincoln statue in DC
>>9740521 U.S. Marshals told to prepare to help protect monuments nationwide as Trump targets people who vandalize structures during protests
>>9740532, >>9740555 Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt News Round Up: Early AM Edition
>>9740542 The London school that tried to end racism: Year 7 pupils are divided into mixed race 'affinity groups' for a TV experiment - but white pupils 'are terrified they could ruin their lives by saying the wrong thing'
>>9740562 Consumer Reports finds harmful levels of arsenic in Whole Foods' bottled water… Again.
>>9740573 Black Lives Matter Leader: 'If This Country Doesn't Give Us What We Want, Then We Will Burn Down This System' (VIDEO)
>>9740586 MUST WATCH: GOP Senator Tim Scott Goes Off on Democrats For Blocking His Police Reform Bill
>>9740601 Bill Gates and Microsoft have been banned in Russia.
>>9740541 Via the use of 'fake' pens that use ink that one can use a cigarette lighter to erase. BRING YOUR OWN PEN.
>>9740635, >>9740716 Indian fighter jets have roared over a flashpoint Himalayan region as part of a show of strength even as China again accused India of provoking the border clash earlier this month that killed at least 20 soldiers.
>>9740684 IBM is promoting Chelsea Clinton and The Clinton Foundation
>>9740769 About Q #4510: This is the Oath of Office for the US Senate (and Sheriffs, per 5 U.S. Code § 3331), not military enlistment or appointment.
>>9740875 Anon nom: Strong Traitor cities article.
>>9740908 Canned meat is having a moment.
>>9740931 The Russian Ministry of Natural Resources has supported the liberalization of companies' access to the Arctic shelf, which was proposed earlier
>>9740936 FBI director says the bureau is looking into possible foreign influence in George Floyd protests
>>9740941 The United States imposed sanctions Wednesday on five Iranian ship captains who delivered oil to Venezuela, as Washington ratcheted up pressure on President Nicolas Maduro, whose government it considers illegitimate.
>>9740953 South Korea and the United States on Thursday reaffirmed their commitment to defending "the hard-fought peace" on the divided peninsula as the allies marked the 70th anniversary of the outbreak of the Korean War.
>>9740974 Former Defense Secretary General James Mattis has encouraged citizens in his hometown to be cowards.
>>9741013 WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange sought to recruit hackers at conferences in Europe and Asia who could provide his anti-secrecy website with classified information
>>9741026 Jussie's co-conspirators think they have a shot at getting a pass.
>>9741061 Q4494 W connection with Q4518
>>9741067 Swiss investigate corruption in DRC within Glencore International AG
>>9741069 Discussion on Programming; Dragonfly
>>9741104 China has released a list of Chinese names for 50 new underwater features in the East China Sea
>>9741047 #12468

#9741130 at 2020-06-25 10:58:59 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12469: The 'Cue The Benny Hill Music...' Edition

#12468
>>9740375, >>9740397 How the President's historic child welfare executive order will strengthen our foster care system
>>9740382 1600 Daily: Your daily summary of news, events, and updates.
>>9740393 Africa's first participation in a COVID-19 vaccine trial started Wednesday as nervous volunteers received injections
>>9740395 The People's General, Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn Breaks with Mattis, McChrystal & Kelly: "We Must Defeat Socialism"
>>9740433 New Allegations Assert Assange Conspired With "Anonymous" Affiliated Hackers, Among Others
>>9740488 A meaty issue: California tries to override the commerce clause
>>9740491 Top Zoom Investor Funded Chinese Communist Party-Linked Artificial Intelligence Program
>>9740512 Criminals announce time and place they will tear down Abraham Lincoln statue in DC
>>9740521 U.S. Marshals told to prepare to help protect monuments nationwide as Trump targets people who vandalize structures during protests
>>9740532, >>9740555 Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt News Round Up: Early AM Edition
>>9740542 The London school that tried to end racism: Year 7 pupils are divided into mixed race 'affinity groups' for a TV experiment - but white pupils 'are terrified they could ruin their lives by saying the wrong thing'
>>9740562 Consumer Reports finds harmful levels of arsenic in Whole Foods' bottled water... Again.
>>9740573 Black Lives Matter Leader: 'If This Country Doesn't Give Us What We Want, Then We Will Burn Down This System' (VIDEO)
>>9740586 MUST WATCH: GOP Senator Tim Scott Goes Off on Democrats For Blocking His Police Reform Bill
>>9740601 Bill Gates and Microsoft have been banned in Russia.
>>9740541 Via the use of 'fake' pens that use ink that one can use a cigarette lighter to erase. BRING YOUR OWN PEN.
>>9740635, >>9740716 Indian fighter jets have roared over a flashpoint Himalayan region as part of a show of strength even as China again accused India of provoking the border clash earlier this month that killed at least 20 soldiers.
>>9740684 IBM is promoting Chelsea Clinton and The Clinton Foundation
>>9740769 About Q #4510: This is the Oath of Office for the US Senate (and Sheriffs, per 5 U.S. Code § 3331), not military enlistment or appointment.
>>9740875 Anon nom: Strong Traitor cities article.
>>9740908 Canned meat is having a moment.
>>9740931 The Russian Ministry of Natural Resources has supported the liberalization of companies' access to the Arctic shelf, which was proposed earlier
>>9740936 FBI director says the bureau is looking into possible foreign influence in George Floyd protests
>>9740941 The United States imposed sanctions Wednesday on five Iranian ship captains who delivered oil to Venezuela, as Washington ratcheted up pressure on President Nicolas Maduro, whose government it considers illegitimate.
>>9740953 South Korea and the United States on Thursday reaffirmed their commitment to defending "the hard-fought peace" on the divided peninsula as the allies marked the 70th anniversary of the outbreak of the Korean War.
>>9740974 Former Defense Secretary General James Mattis has encouraged citizens in his hometown to be cowards.
>>9741013 WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange sought to recruit hackers at conferences in Europe and Asia who could provide his anti-secrecy website with classified information
>>9741026 Jussie's co-conspirators think they have a shot at getting a pass.
>>9741061 Q4494 W connection with Q4518
>>9741067 Swiss investigate corruption in DRC within Glencore International AG
>>9741069 Discussion on Programming; Dragonfly
>>9741104 China has released a list of Chinese names for 50 new underwater features in the East China Sea
#12468

#9741058 at 2020-06-25 10:41:14 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12469: The 'Cue The Benny Hill Music...' Edition

Global Announcements
>>9698938 Announcing a new resource for bakers and anons
>>9650176 BO: The index page limit was changed to 15 from 25 at the suggestion of CM about this time last year because of performance issues on the website.

Notables are NOT endorsements

#12468
>>9740375, >>9740397 How the President's historic child welfare executive order will strengthen our foster care system
>>9740382 1600 Daily: Your daily summary of news, events, and updates.
>>9740393 Africa's first participation in a COVID-19 vaccine trial started Wednesday as nervous volunteers received injections
>>9740395 The People's General, Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn Breaks with Mattis, McChrystal & Kelly: "We Must Defeat Socialism"
>>9740433 New Allegations Assert Assange Conspired With "Anonymous" Affiliated Hackers, Among Others
>>9740488 A meaty issue: California tries to override the commerce clause
>>9740491 Top Zoom Investor Funded Chinese Communist Party-Linked Artificial Intelligence Program
>>9740512 Criminals announce time and place they will tear down Abraham Lincoln statue in DC
>>9740521 U.S. Marshals told to prepare to help protect monuments nationwide as Trump targets people who vandalize structures during protests
>>9740532, >>9740555 Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt News Round Up: Early AM Edition
>>9740542 The London school that tried to end racism: Year 7 pupils are divided into mixed race 'affinity groups' for a TV experiment - but white pupils 'are terrified they could ruin their lives by saying the wrong thing'
>>9740562 Consumer Reports finds harmful levels of arsenic in Whole Foods' bottled water… Again.
>>9740573 Black Lives Matter Leader: 'If This Country Doesn't Give Us What We Want, Then We Will Burn Down This System' (VIDEO)
>>9740586 MUST WATCH: GOP Senator Tim Scott Goes Off on Democrats For Blocking His Police Reform Bill
>>9740601 Bill Gates and Microsoft have been banned in Russia.
>>9740541 Via the use of 'fake' pens that use ink that one can use a cigarette lighter to erase. BRING YOUR OWN PEN.
>>9740635, >>9740716 Indian fighter jets have roared over a flashpoint Himalayan region as part of a show of strength even as China again accused India of provoking the border clash earlier this month that killed at least 20 soldiers.
>>9740684 IBM is promoting Chelsea Clinton and The Clinton Foundation
>>9740769 About Q #4510: This is the Oath of Office for the US Senate (and Sheriffs, per 5 U.S. Code § 3331), not military enlistment or appointment.
>>9740875 Anon nom: Strong Traitor cities article.
>>9740908 Canned meat is having a moment.
>>9740931 The Russian Ministry of Natural Resources has supported the liberalization of companies' access to the Arctic shelf, which was proposed earlier
>>9740936 FBI director says the bureau is looking into possible foreign influence in George Floyd protests
>>9740941 The United States imposed sanctions Wednesday on five Iranian ship captains who delivered oil to Venezuela, as Washington ratcheted up pressure on President Nicolas Maduro, whose government it considers illegitimate.
>>9740953 South Korea and the United States on Thursday reaffirmed their commitment to defending "the hard-fought peace" on the divided peninsula as the allies marked the 70th anniversary of the outbreak of the Korean War.
>>9740974 Former Defense Secretary General James Mattis has encouraged citizens in his hometown to be cowards.
>>9741013 WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange sought to recruit hackers at conferences in Europe and Asia who could provide his anti-secrecy website with classified information
>>9741026 Jussie's co-conspirators think they have a shot at getting a pass.
>>9741047 #12468

#9741047 at 2020-06-25 10:38:42 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12468: The 'Class Action Lawsuits Coming' Edition

NotablesareNOTendorsements

#12468 FINAL, >>9740326
>>9740375, >>9740397 How the President's historic child welfare executive order will strengthen our foster care system
>>9740382 1600 Daily: Your daily summary of news, events, and updates.
>>9740393 Africa's first participation in a COVID-19 vaccine trial started Wednesday as nervous volunteers received injections
>>9740395 The People's General, Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn Breaks with Mattis, McChrystal & Kelly: "We Must Defeat Socialism"
>>9740433 New Allegations Assert Assange Conspired With "Anonymous" Affiliated Hackers, Among Others
>>9740488 A meaty issue: California tries to override the commerce clause
>>9740491 Top Zoom Investor Funded Chinese Communist Party-Linked Artificial Intelligence Program
>>9740512 Criminals announce time and place they will tear down Abraham Lincoln statue in DC
>>9740521 U.S. Marshals told to prepare to help protect monuments nationwide as Trump targets people who vandalize structures during protests
>>9740532, >>9740555 Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt News Round Up: Early AM Edition
>>9740542 The London school that tried to end racism: Year 7 pupils are divided into mixed race 'affinity groups' for a TV experiment - but white pupils 'are terrified they could ruin their lives by saying the wrong thing'
>>9740562 Consumer Reports finds harmful levels of arsenic in Whole Foods' bottled water… Again.
>>9740573 Black Lives Matter Leader: 'If This Country Doesn't Give Us What We Want, Then We Will Burn Down This System' (VIDEO)
>>9740586 MUST WATCH: GOP Senator Tim Scott Goes Off on Democrats For Blocking His Police Reform Bill
>>9740601 Bill Gates and Microsoft have been banned in Russia.
>>9740541 Via the use of 'fake' pens that use ink that one can use a cigarette lighter to erase. BRING YOUR OWN PEN.
>>9740635, >>9740716 Indian fighter jets have roared over a flashpoint Himalayan region as part of a show of strength even as China again accused India of provoking the border clash earlier this month that killed at least 20 soldiers.
>>9740684 IBM is promoting Chelsea Clinton and The Clinton Foundation
>>9740769 About Q #4510: This is the Oath of Office for the US Senate (and Sheriffs, per 5 U.S. Code § 3331), not military enlistment or appointment.
>>9740875 Anon nom: Strong Traitor cities article.
>>9740908 Canned meat is having a moment.
>>9740931 The Russian Ministry of Natural Resources has supported the liberalization of companies' access to the Arctic shelf, which was proposed earlier
>>9740936 FBI director says the bureau is looking into possible foreign influence in George Floyd protests
>>9740941 The United States imposed sanctions Wednesday on five Iranian ship captains who delivered oil to Venezuela, as Washington ratcheted up pressure on President Nicolas Maduro, whose government it considers illegitimate.
>>9740953 South Korea and the United States on Thursday reaffirmed their commitment to defending "the hard-fought peace" on the divided peninsula as the allies marked the 70th anniversary of the outbreak of the Korean War.
>>9740974 Former Defense Secretary General James Mattis has encouraged citizens in his hometown to be cowards.
>>9741013 WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange sought to recruit hackers at conferences in Europe and Asia who could provide his anti-secrecy website with classified information
>>9741026 Jussie's co-conspirators think they have a shot at getting a pass.
#12468

Save notes for next bred anons!

#9741025 at 2020-06-25 10:31:35 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12468: The 'Class Action Lawsuits Coming' Edition

NotablesareNOTendorsements

#12468 @650, >>9740326
>>9740375, >>9740397 How the President's historic child welfare executive order will strengthen our foster care system
>>9740382 1600 Daily: Your daily summary of news, events, and updates.
>>9740393 Africa's first participation in a COVID-19 vaccine trial started Wednesday as nervous volunteers received injections
>>9740395 The People's General, Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn Breaks with Mattis, McChrystal & Kelly: "We Must Defeat Socialism"
>>9740433 New Allegations Assert Assange Conspired With "Anonymous" Affiliated Hackers, Among Others
>>9740488 A meaty issue: California tries to override the commerce clause
>>9740491 Top Zoom Investor Funded Chinese Communist Party-Linked Artificial Intelligence Program
>>9740512 Criminals announce time and place they will tear down Abraham Lincoln statue in DC
>>9740521 U.S. Marshals told to prepare to help protect monuments nationwide as Trump targets people who vandalize structures during protests
>>9740532, >>9740555 Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt News Round Up: Early AM Edition
>>9740542 The London school that tried to end racism: Year 7 pupils are divided into mixed race 'affinity groups' for a TV experiment - but white pupils 'are terrified they could ruin their lives by saying the wrong thing'
>>9740562 Consumer Reports finds harmful levels of arsenic in Whole Foods' bottled water… Again.
>>9740573 Black Lives Matter Leader: 'If This Country Doesn't Give Us What We Want, Then We Will Burn Down This System' (VIDEO)
>>9740586 MUST WATCH: GOP Senator Tim Scott Goes Off on Democrats For Blocking His Police Reform Bill
>>9740601 Bill Gates and Microsoft have been banned in Russia.
>>9740541 Via the use of 'fake' pens that use ink that one can use a cigarette lighter to erase. BRING YOUR OWN PEN.
>>9740635, >>9740716 Indian fighter jets have roared over a flashpoint Himalayan region as part of a show of strength even as China again accused India of provoking the border clash earlier this month that killed at least 20 soldiers.
>>9740684 IBM is promoting Chelsea Clinton and The Clinton Foundation
>>9740769 About Q #4510: This is the Oath of Office for the US Senate (and Sheriffs, per 5 U.S. Code § 3331), not military enlistment or appointment.
>>9740875 Anon nom: Strong Traitor cities article.
>>9740908 Canned meat is having a moment.
>>9740931 The Russian Ministry of Natural Resources has supported the liberalization of companies' access to the Arctic shelf, which was proposed earlier
>>9740936 FBI director says the bureau is looking into possible foreign influence in George Floyd protests
>>9740941 The United States imposed sanctions Wednesday on five Iranian ship captains who delivered oil to Venezuela, as Washington ratcheted up pressure on President Nicolas Maduro, whose government it considers illegitimate.
>>9740953 South Korea and the United States on Thursday reaffirmed their commitment to defending "the hard-fought peace" on the divided peninsula as the allies marked the 70th anniversary of the outbreak of the Korean War.
>>9740974 Former Defense Secretary General James Mattis has encouraged citizens in his hometown to be cowards.
>>9741013 WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange sought to recruit hackers at conferences in Europe and Asia who could provide his anti-secrecy website with classified information

#9740978 at 2020-06-25 10:18:36 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12468: The 'Class Action Lawsuits Coming' Edition

>>9740974 Former Defense Secretary General James Mattis has encouraged citizens in his hometown to be cowards.

#9740974 at 2020-06-25 10:17:22 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12468: The 'Class Action Lawsuits Coming' Edition

OAN Newsroom
UPDATED 1:50 PM PT - Wednesday, June 24, 2020
Former Defense Secretary General James Mattis has encouraged citizens in his hometown to continue wearing face masks amid the pandemic.
In a new public service announcement video, he urged those in Richland, Washington to continue taking precautions to limit the spread of the coronavirus.
During the video, he pulled down his bandana and addressed his audience as his "neighbors." He has suggested mask wearing is "a community effort," since the virus "won't go away on its own."

https://www.oann.com/gen-Mattis-releases-psa-video-urging-people-to-wear-face-masks/

#9694744 at 2020-06-21 13:53:04 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12409: A Father's Morning & Remember The Fatherless Edition

If Q is, in fact, military intelligence to any degree whatsoever, then General James Mattis would have had to have known and authorized. As such, any daylight between him and Trump would be theatrics.

The question is why? Is it because the Left needs a perceived ally adjudicating the tribunals? Treason charges are brought by congress - thus never going to happen. Is that why this will be handled by the military?

Seem like a stretch?

#9628131 at 2020-06-16 02:34:40 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12323: Bring On The Night Edition

Laura Logan names former Generals and Admirals waging coordinated information warfare against POTUS

A Fox News reporter just blew the whistle on this military plot to remove Trump

Donald Trump is facing an unprecedented assault to deny him a second term.

But one form of opposition is leaving Trump and his supporters stunned.

And now a Fox News reporter just blew the whistle on this military plot to remove Trump.

In recent days, multiple former military officers spoke out against Donald Trump and demanded he be removed from office.

Retired Admiral William McRaven, Retired Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Martin Dempsey, Retired Marine General John Allen, and former Secretary of Defense James Mattis also publicly attacked the President and shattered the American norm that the military stayed out of domestic politics.

Fox News reporter Lara Logan said these former Generals and Admirals were waging coordinated information warfare against President Trump.

Logan cited Allen specifically for ties to the left-wing Brookings Institute.

"He's head of a think tank now that is constantly taking shots and waging information warfare against the president for the election, and you can map it out. New America is one of the organizations, the Lincoln Project - that's a whole bunch of Republicans who are running attack ads and pushing out a constant, constant stream of anti-Trump propaganda," she said.

Logan also claimed the other former military commanders were connected to the McChrystal group which is linked to a Democrat SuperPAC.

"And all of these people, and many of them connected with the McChrystal Group and Gen. Stanley McChrystal - who has made no secret of the fact that he's partnered with an organization called Defeat Disinfo, which is a Democratic SuperPAC, and they want you to think they are defeating disinformation, but actually what they're doing is propagating it, and they don't even hide it," Logan added.

In the interview, Logan delivered one final warning.

Logan explained that these former military officers waging information warfare against the President would not leave the election results to chance.

"What [intelligence sources] see is an information warfare campaign that is designed to set the stage to ensure that the election delivers the results that they want, if they wait that long . . . what they're doing is creating the problem, civil unrest, civil disturbance, in which they can be the solution," Logan concluded.

I suggest a Patriot Reminder of thier OATHS to The CONSTITUTION to thier subordinates, superiors, and POTUS everyday where ever and when ever you can!

https://voat.co/v/QRV/3876775
http://archive.is/wip/RdwkC

#9612382 at 2020-06-14 18:13:07 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12303: We Are Sticking With Greatness Edition

CNN's Tapper: Trump Wants to Continue to Honor 'Dead Racist Losers'

Sunday on CNN's "State of the Union," host Jake Tapper commented on President Donald Trump's desire to leave military bases named after Confederate leaders.

Tapper said, "It has been a rough period for President Trump and military leaders with his former Defense Secretary, retired Marine General James Mattis assailing him for diving the country. A sentiment given an Amen by Trump's former chief of staff, retired Marine Colonel John Kelly, not to mention criticism from General Colin Powell, Admiral Bill McRaven, General Martin Dempsey, General John Allen, Admiral Mike Mullen."

He continued, "The president and his supporters have had plenty of nasty things to say about these men who have served our country, of course, no need to report them, you have access to Twitter. There is one group of generals, however, that the president is standing firm with, dead, racist losers. More specifically, the Confederate commanders, after whom ten Army bases are currently named. Days ago, the Pentagon said they want to begin a bipartisan conversation about renaming these ten bases, but the president shut it down - he wants to continue to honor them."

After detailing the backgrounds of some of the Confederate leaders' bases are named for, Tapper said, "Four of these forts were named in the 1910s, six were named in the 1940s. These bases were not named after the Civil War and an attempt at national reconciliation, they were named in the 20th century as a way of honoring the racist lost cause that the generals fought. The keyword in that phrase, lost. They lost, and rightfully so, their cause was immoral."

White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany arguing that the bases should not be renamed asked hypothetically where does it end. That's a fine question, and I don't have an answer. Washington and Jefferson had slaves, though their careers were not built on fighting for the right to own slaves. In other words, they're honored despite the hideous parts of their histories, not because of the hideous parts of their histories. But before we talk about where this all ends, it does not take much moral clarity to understand that a good place to start would be for the United States to stop honoring traitors and terrorists."

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2020/06/14/cnns-tapper-trump-wants-to-continue-to-honor-dead-racist-losers/

#9556023 at 2020-06-10 02:38:37 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12231: Shills Shillin' Hard Edition

Some sauce on General Mattis…

http://www.cohengroup.net/our-people/James-Mattis

#9551216 at 2020-06-09 21:42:27 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12224: Killary Twat Vocal Today Edition

Buchanan: Mattis turned libtard

https://www.theledger.com/opinion/20200607/patrick-j-buchanan-liberal-mush-from-mad-dog

EX Defense Secretary General James Mattis says of the events of the last 10 days that have shaken the nation as it has not been shaken since 1968:

"We must not be distracted by a small number of lawbreakers."

Is "a small number of lawbreakers" an apt description of wilding mobs who have showered cops with bottles, bricks and rocks in 40 cities, looted stores in the hundreds, torched police cars, and injured dozens of Secret Service personnel defending the White House?

Is "a small number of lawbreakers" the way a patriot would describe anti-American anarchists who desecrated the Lincoln Memorial, the World War II Memorial on the Mall and the Korean War Memorial and tried to burn down the Church of the Presidents in Lafayette Square?

Was the sacking of Georgetown, Rodeo Drive in LA, 5th Avenue in New York and 40 city centers, the work of a few "lawbreakers"?

Is that a good description of the people who gravely wounded that cop in Las Vegas and shot four cops and murdered that retired black police chief in St. Louis?

The protesters, says Mattis, are "demanding Equal Justice Under Law." This is a "wholesome and unifying demand - that all of us should get behind."

But what does the general think of the methods and means the "protesters" have used - the massive civil disobedience, the blocking of streets, the vilification of police, the contempt for curfews. What does the general think of protesters who provide moral cover for insurrection?

"Donald Trump is the first president who does not try to unite the American people," says Mattis. Trump "doesn't even pretend to try. Instead he tries to divide us."

But it was not Trump who divided America in this racial crisis.

The nation was united in revulsion at the criminal cruelty that led to George Floyd's death. The nation was united in backing an enraged people's right to protest that atrocity.

What divided America were the methods and means protesters began using in the first hours of the Minneapolis riot - the attacks on cops with bottles, bricks and Molotov cocktails.

In Mattis' statement, one finds not a word of sympathy or support for the police bearing the brunt of mob brutality for defending the communities they serve, while defending the constitutional right of the protesters to curse them as racist and rogue cops.

"Keeping public order rests with civilian state and local leaders who best understand their communities and are answerable to them," not to the military, says the general.

Correct. But what happens when mobs run wild to where a governor of New York is denouncing the NYPD for failing to protect the city from anarchy and is threatening to replace the mayor for failing to put down the insurrection.

In July 1967, the 82nd Airborne was sent into Detroit to put down the riot. In 1968, there were federal troops in D.C. to stop the rioting in the wake of Dr. King's assassination. In the violent protests of the Nixon era, U.S. airborne troops were brought into the basement of the Executive Office Building.

The general quotes James Madison: "America united with a handful of troops, or without a single soldier exhibits a more forbidding posture to foreign invaders than an America disunited."

And how, General, did that work out for Madison when the "foreign invaders" arrived in Maryland in August 1814, marched up Bladensburg Road, and burned the Capitol and White House and Alexandria, while "Little Jimmy" fled out the Brookville Road?

If memory serves, it was Gen. Andrew Jackson and the troops he pulled together for the Battle of New Orleans who defeated the British and saved the Union.

"Society cannot exist," wrote Edmund Burke, "unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere; and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.

"It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters."

That is where we are now. Society and civilization are on the line.

If mob tactics are now how we change laws and alter public policy, the democratic republic is dead and we have gone full Third World.

Some of us do not believe America is a racist society or that the nation's police, numbering a million men and women, are shot through with anti-black racism.

Some of us believe the police are the last line of defense we have against that "small number of lawbreakers" Mattis tells us are no problem.

Did the general actually produce this pile of mush that reads like something out of Ramsey Clark in the 1960s?

My guess: Mattis, an obedient servant of President Trump for two years, has been persuaded that the wind is blowing the other way and his "place in history" demands that he get himself on the correct side.

The general has just defected to the resistance.

#9545697 at 2020-06-09 13:46:31 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12217: For the Trillionth Time: Freddy Can't Bake Edition

Army to consider changing names of forts named after Confederate generals

WASHINGTON - Defense Secretary Mark Esper and Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy signaled their willingness to discuss scrapping Confederate names on forts across the country, Army Col. Sunset Belinsky said Monday evening.

They are open to having a bi-partisan dialogue on the renaming bases, according to Belinsky. The Army has 10 posts named after Confederate generals across the south, including major installations at Fort Bragg in North Carolina, Fort Benning in Georgia and Fort Hood in Texas.

McCarthy, a former Army Ranger, indicated his willingness to discuss the change after weeks of protests that have spread across the country following the death of George Floyd, a black man in Minneapolis who pleaded for his life as a white police officer knelt on his neck.

The Army has resisted calls in the past to change names on the installations named after officers who rebelled and fought against the United States in the Civil War.

But times and attitudes are swiftly evolving as the nation heads into its second week of protests following Floyd's death, calls for police reforms grow and locations across the country announce plans to take down or remove Confederate memorials.

McCarthy himself and the military as a whole became embroiled in controversy surrounding police and National Guard response to protesters last week in Washington, DC. McCarthy oversees National Guard units in Washington because it does not have a governor.

McCarthy acknowledged Sunday that National Guard soldiers were involved in the eviction of mostly peaceful protesters from Lafayette Square prior to President Trump's appearance at a nearby church. Esper and Army Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, accompanied Trump.

No Guardsmen used force on the protesters, McCarthy said. Another incident involving National Guard helicopters buzzing protesters in another part of Washington is under investigation, he said. The Pentagon came close to ordering federal troops to confront protesters, according to McCarthy.

The incident prompted several former high-ranking Pentagon officials to warn that the military was being drawn into a politics, risking a constitutional crisis. Former Defense Secretary James Mattis blasted Trump, saying he sought to divide not unite Americans.

Within days, senior military officials acknowledged racial inequities in the military. Before the Lafayette Square incident, USA Today reported that young black airmen were twice as likely to face punishment their white counterparts.

McCarthy acknowledged the racial division in a letter to soldiers and civilians on June 3.

"Our ability to defend this country from all enemies, foreign and domestic, is founded

upon a sacred trust with the American people," McCarthy said. "Racial division erodes that trust."

Last week, the Marine Corps banned the display of the Confederate Battle Flag.

The Navy operates a guided-missile cruiser, the USS Chancellorsville, named after a battle the Confederates won over the United States.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/army-consider-changing-names-forts-012404219.html

#9541399 at 2020-06-09 03:22:02 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12212: Rallies Not Riots Edition

==List Of Military Elite Purged
And Fired Under Obama==

Compiled By General Paul Vallely
3-17-14
>rense.com/general96/listof.html
Here is the list of our military elite who have been purged or fired under Obama:
Commanding Generals fired:

· General John R. Allen-U.S. Marines Commander International Security Assistance Force [ISAF] (Nov 2012)
· Major General Ralph Baker (2 Star)-U.S. Army Commander of the Combined Joint Task Force Horn in Africa (April 2013)
· Major General Michael Carey (2 Star)-U.S. Air Force Commander of the 20th US Air Force in charge of 9,600 people and 450 Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (Oct 2013)
· Colonel James Christmas-U.S. Marines Commander 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit & Commander Special-Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force Crisis Response Unit (July 2013)
· Major General Peter Fuller-U.S. Army Commander in Afghanistan (May 2011)
· Major General Charles M.M. Gurganus-U.S. Marine Corps Regional Commander of SW and I Marine Expeditionary Force in Afghanistan (Oct 2013)
· General Carter F. Ham-U.S. Army African Command (Oct 2013)
· Lieutenant General David H. Huntoon (3 Star), Jr.-U.S. Army 58th Superintendent of the US Military Academy at West Point, NY (2013)
· Command Sergeant Major Don B Jordan-U.S. Army 143rd Expeditionary Sustainment Command (suspended Oct 2013)
· General James Mattis-U.S. Marines Chief of CentCom (May 2013)
· Colonel Daren Margolin-U.S. Marine in charge of Quantico's Security Battalion (Oct 2013)
· General Stanley McChrystal-U.S. Army Commander Afghanistan (June 2010)
· General David D. McKiernan-U.S. Army Commander Afghanistan (2009)
· General David Petraeus-Director of CIA from September 2011 to November 2012 & U.S. Army Commander International Security Assistance Force [ISAF] and Commander U.S. Forces Afghanistan [USFOR-A] (Nov 2012)
· Brigadier General Bryan Roberts-U.S. Army Commander 2nd Brigade (May 2013)
· Major General Gregg A. Sturdevant-U.S. Marine Corps Director of Strategic Planning and Policy for the U.S. Pacific Command & Commander of Aviation Wing at Camp Bastion, Afghanistan (Sept 2013)
· Colonel Eric Tilley-U.S. Army Commander of Garrison Japan (Nov 2013)
· Brigadier General Bryan Wampler-U.S. Army Commanding General of 143rd Expeditionary Sustainment Command of the 1st Theater Sustainment Command [TSC] (suspended Oct 2013)

Commanding Admirals fired:
· Rear Admiral Charles Gaouette-U.S. Navy Commander John C. Stennis Carrier Strike Group Three (Oct 2012)
· Vice Admiral Tim Giardina(3 Star, demoted to 2 Star)-U.S. Navy Deputy Commander of the US Strategic Command, Commander of the Submarine Group Trident, Submarine Group 9 and Submarine Group 10 (Oct 2013)

#9538957 at 2020-06-08 23:58:17 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12209: It's Just Another Panic Monday Edition

#12205
>>9535974, >>9536034, >>9536071, >>9536133, >>9536276, >>9536321 PF updates
>>9536595 US Navy Big Return to Subic Bay Naval base in the Philippines?
>>9536541, >>9536561 This the complete nexus of the BLM/Antifa riots communications network on Telegram
>>9536478 Amid Small Business Carnage, Fed Expands Eligibility Of Main Street Lending Program
>>9536331 Bonnie Pointer of The Pointer Sisters has died aged 69
>>9536311 Antifa insurgency countered
>>9536246 DJTJr: You can't make this stuff up anymore
>>9536234 The US Soccer Federation is considering a repeal of a policy requiring national team players to stand during the National Anthem
>>9536225 Kayleigh vs AOC For the keks!
>>9536197 Trump to restart MAGA rallies this month despite coronavirus
>>9536047 Trump issues huge warning to world governments to respect religious freedom
>>9536007 Putin Slaps Netanyahu, Sells 6 MiG-29 Fighter Jets to Syria - Far Superior to Israel's F-16s
>>9535993 List of attendees at White House Law Enforcement Roundtable
>>9535926 BREAKING: Portland Police Chief resigns following #GeorgeFloyd protests, Lieutenant Chuck Lovell, a black man, will be the next chief of police
>>9535892 SDNY responds to Prince Andrew's statement regarding his desire for cooperation.
>>9535870 Mayor de Blasio: 'We Do Not Want ICE In This City'
>>9535844 Trump Is a Threat to the Constitution? Shocking to hear it from the likes of Gen. James Mattis and Gen. Colin Powell.
>>9535789 Netanyahu hires Breitbart reporter Aaron Klein as new adviser
>>9535742 US arms control envoy says will have talks on nuclear arms with Russian senior diplomat
>>9535731 Hillary Clinton Calls Trump a "Failure," Suggests Trump Supporters Don't Have a "Beating Heart"
>>9535715 Historic Court Case - The Fluoride Cover Up Will Soon Be Exposed
>>9535695 Germany won't sanction Israel over annexation
>>9536605 #12205

Previously Collected Notables
>>9535909 #12204
>>9533475 #12201, >>9534252 #12202, >>9535020 #12203
>>9531137 #12198, >>9531951 #12199, >>9532707 #12200
>>9528829 #12195, >>9529620 #12196, >>9530319 #12197
>>9526540 #12192, >>9527302 #12193, >>9528161 #12194
Notables Aggregators: https://wearethene.ws & https://qnotables.com

#9538147 at 2020-06-08 22:49:21 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12208: They Ain't Smart Enough To Run, Bummer Edition

Global Announcements
>>9502804 HRC FBI Mail Digs, >>9503200, >>9504111
Klausutis/Scarborough diggz https://pastebin.com/FFB6n1VG

DC Live Streams: >>9514324, >>9513675, >>9513697, >>9502052, >>9502349, >>9502360, >>9502852
>>9502855, >>9502856, >>9503587, >>9512469, >>9512697

DC Surveillance Tools:
>>9502289 Bus tracker for arrivals in Washington DC
>>9502398 D.C. traffic cams down now
>>9501918 Train tracker for DC area

Notables
are not endorsements

#12207
>>9537621 planefaggin
>>9537966 NBC Medical Contributor down for the protests and increaing stress on our health
>>9537833 Durkan orders SPD officers to turn on body cameras at protests
>>9537788 Crowdstrike Holdings, Inc Chairman of Board sold: $7.05m-June 4
>>9537764 Study finds security vulnerabilities in online voting tool used in multiple states
>>9537723 @EstperDoD We're ready.
>>9537638 'Dangerous to demonize police': Barr opposes efforts to defund or abolish the police
>>9537614 BREAKING: Army official says @SecArmy is open to re-naming Army bases (like Fort Bragg) named after confederate Generals
>>9537518 Sessions twats with Omar
>>9537476 Floyd's fam calls UN to disarm US police
>>9538142 #12207

#12206 Notes by 8kun exclusive d'oh, much thanqs!
>>9536657 anon reminds on 13th,14th 15th amendment
>>9536723 moar on Michael Ebbert of RED development-previous notable
>>9536768 FSB detains three crime ring members, seizes 35 kilograms of cocaine in Moscow-tass.com
>>9536795 US-Led Coalition Plane Overshoots Landing, Crashes Into Barrier at Iraq's Taji Airbas-sputnikInt.com
>>9536802 Factory Burned In Floyd Riots Will Leave Minneapolis, Owner Says-dailycaller.com
>>9536839 POTUS Supporter and Conservative YouTuber Is Kicked out of George Floyd Unity Rally after Admitting to Being a POTUS Supporter-gatewaypundit.com
>>9536863 Former NYC Police Commissioner Warns 600 Cops On Verge Of Quitting As Mayor Vows To Cut Funding
>>9536873 Washington National Cathedral report corroborates allegations of staff sexual misconduct against 16 students-anglican.ink from 2019
>>9536895, >>9536915 CNN Anchor Chris Cuomo Mistakenly Appears Naked in Wife's Yoga Video-ooops! sputnik
>>9536975 Top Dems punt on 'defund the police' question-foxnews
>>9537005, >>9536858, >>9536790, >>9537143 Genoa's 2020 'Rolli Days' Will be a Digital Showcase of its UNESCO Heritage
>>9537074 Trump Says He Does Not Support Mayors Reallocating Police Funding-epochtimes
>>9537133 DoD Twat hmmmmm.... Alice Springs
>>9537214 North Korea to cut off all inter-Korea communication lines - Yonhap B911
>>9537220 Black Twitter users mock Dems for donning kente cloth: 'Don't treat Africans like we're children'-foxnews
>>9537222 George Floyd's Family Asks United Nations to Disarm Police in U.S.-breitbart
>>9537388 #12206

#12205
>>9535974, >>9536034, >>9536071, >>9536133, >>9536276, >>9536321 PF updates
>>9536595 US Navy Big Return to Subic Bay Naval base in the Philippines?
>>9536541, >>9536561 This the complete nexus of the BLM/Antifa riots communications network on Telegram
>>9536478 Amid Small Business Carnage, Fed Expands Eligibility Of Main Street Lending Program
>>9536331 Bonnie Pointer of The Pointer Sisters has died aged 69
>>9536311 Antifa insurgency countered
>>9536246 DJTJr: You can't make this stuff up anymore
>>9536234 The US Soccer Federation is considering a repeal of a policy requiring national team players to stand during the National Anthem
>>9536225 Kayleigh vs AOC For the keks!
>>9536197 Trump to restart MAGA rallies this month despite coronavirus
>>9536047 Trump issues huge warning to world governments to respect religious freedom
>>9536007 Putin Slaps Netanyahu, Sells 6 MiG-29 Fighter Jets to Syria - Far Superior to Israel's F-16s
>>9535993 List of attendees at White House Law Enforcement Roundtable
>>9535926 BREAKING: Portland Police Chief resigns following #GeorgeFloyd protests, Lieutenant Chuck Lovell, a black man, will be the next chief of police
>>9535892 SDNY responds to Prince Andrew's statement regarding his desire for cooperation.
>>9535870 Mayor de Blasio: 'We Do Not Want ICE In This City'
>>9535844 Trump Is a Threat to the Constitution? Shocking to hear it from the likes of Gen. James Mattis and Gen. Colin Powell.
>>9535789 Netanyahu hires Breitbart reporter Aaron Klein as new adviser
>>9535742 US arms control envoy says will have talks on nuclear arms with Russian senior diplomat
>>9535731 Hillary Clinton Calls Trump a "Failure," Suggests Trump Supporters Don't Have a "Beating Heart"
>>9535715 Historic Court Case - The Fluoride Cover Up Will Soon Be Exposed
>>9535695 Germany won't sanction Israel over annexation
>>9536605 #12205

#9537416 at 2020-06-08 22:03:40 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12207: We're Gettin Our Power Back, Can You Feel It? Edition

Global Announcements
>>9502804 HRC FBI Mail Digs, >>9503200, >>9504111
Klausutis/Scarborough diggz https://pastebin.com/FFB6n1VG

DC Live Streams: >>9514324, >>9513675, >>9513697, >>9502052, >>9502349, >>9502360, >>9502852
>>9502855, >>9502856, >>9503587, >>9512469, >>9512697

DC Surveillance Tools:
>>9502289 Bus tracker for arrivals in Washington DC
>>9502398 D.C. traffic cams down now
>>9501918 Train tracker for DC area

Notables
are not endorsements

#12206 Notes by 8kun exclusive d'oh, much thanqs!
>>9536657 anon reminds on 13th,14th 15th amendment
>>9536723 moar on Michael Ebbert of RED development-previous notable
>>9536768 FSB detains three crime ring members, seizes 35 kilograms of cocaine in Moscow-tass.com
>>9536795 US-Led Coalition Plane Overshoots Landing, Crashes Into Barrier at Iraq's Taji Airbas-sputnikInt.com
>>9536802 Factory Burned In Floyd Riots Will Leave Minneapolis, Owner Says-dailycaller.com
>>9536839 POTUS Supporter and Conservative YouTuber Is Kicked out of George Floyd Unity Rally after Admitting to Being a POTUS Supporter-gatewaypundit.com
>>9536863 Former NYC Police Commissioner Warns 600 Cops On Verge Of Quitting As Mayor Vows To Cut Funding
>>9536873 Washington National Cathedral report corroborates allegations of staff sexual misconduct against 16 students-anglican.ink from 2019
>>9536895, >>9536915 CNN Anchor Chris Cuomo Mistakenly Appears Naked in Wife's Yoga Video-ooops! sputnik
>>9536975 Top Dems punt on 'defund the police' question-foxnews
>>9537005, >>9536858, >>9536790, >>9537143 Genoa's 2020 'Rolli Days' Will be a Digital Showcase of its UNESCO Heritage
>>9537074 Trump Says He Does Not Support Mayors Reallocating Police Funding-epochtimes
>>9537133 DoD Twat hmmmmm.... Alice Springs
>>9537214 North Korea to cut off all inter-Korea communication lines - Yonhap B911
>>9537220 Black Twitter users mock Dems for donning kente cloth: 'Don't treat Africans like we're children'-foxnews
>>9537222 George Floyd's Family Asks United Nations to Disarm Police in U.S.-breitbart
>>9537388 #12206

#12205
>>9535974, >>9536034, >>9536071, >>9536133, >>9536276, >>9536321 PF updates
>>9536595 US Navy Big Return to Subic Bay Naval base in the Philippines?
>>9536541, >>9536561 This the complete nexus of the BLM/Antifa riots communications network on Telegram
>>9536478 Amid Small Business Carnage, Fed Expands Eligibility Of Main Street Lending Program
>>9536331 Bonnie Pointer of The Pointer Sisters has died aged 69
>>9536311 Antifa insurgency countered
>>9536246 DJTJr: You can't make this stuff up anymore
>>9536234 The US Soccer Federation is considering a repeal of a policy requiring national team players to stand during the National Anthem
>>9536225 Kayleigh vs AOC For the keks!
>>9536197 Trump to restart MAGA rallies this month despite coronavirus
>>9536047 Trump issues huge warning to world governments to respect religious freedom
>>9536007 Putin Slaps Netanyahu, Sells 6 MiG-29 Fighter Jets to Syria - Far Superior to Israel's F-16s
>>9535993 List of attendees at White House Law Enforcement Roundtable
>>9535926 BREAKING: Portland Police Chief resigns following #GeorgeFloyd protests, Lieutenant Chuck Lovell, a black man, will be the next chief of police
>>9535892 SDNY responds to Prince Andrew's statement regarding his desire for cooperation.
>>9535870 Mayor de Blasio: 'We Do Not Want ICE In This City'
>>9535844 Trump Is a Threat to the Constitution? Shocking to hear it from the likes of Gen. James Mattis and Gen. Colin Powell.
>>9535789 Netanyahu hires Breitbart reporter Aaron Klein as new adviser
>>9535742 US arms control envoy says will have talks on nuclear arms with Russian senior diplomat
>>9535731 Hillary Clinton Calls Trump a "Failure," Suggests Trump Supporters Don't Have a "Beating Heart"
>>9535715 Historic Court Case - The Fluoride Cover Up Will Soon Be Exposed
>>9535695 Germany won't sanction Israel over annexation
>>9536605 #12205

#9536626 at 2020-06-08 21:00:46 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12206: Message For Killary n Co.: Pray for Mil Tribunal before Patriots Edition

Global Announcements
>>9502804 HRC FBI Mail Digs, >>9503200, >>9504111
Klausutis/Scarborough diggz https://pastebin.com/FFB6n1VG

DC Live Streams: >>9514324, >>9513675, >>9513697, >>9502052, >>9502349, >>9502360, >>9502852
>>9502855, >>9502856, >>9503587, >>9512469, >>9512697

DC Surveillance Tools:
>>9502289 Bus tracker for arrivals in Washington DC
>>9502398 D.C. traffic cams down now
>>9501918 Train tracker for DC area

Notables
are not endorsements

#12205
>>9535974, >>9536034, >>9536071, >>9536133, >>9536276, >>9536321 PF updates
>>9536595 US Navy Big Return to Subic Bay Naval base in the Philippines?
>>9536541, >>9536561 This the complete nexus of the BLM/Antifa riots communications network on Telegram
>>9536478 Amid Small Business Carnage, Fed Expands Eligibility Of Main Street Lending Program
>>9536331 Bonnie Pointer of The Pointer Sisters has died aged 69
>>9536311 Antifa insurgency countered
>>9536246 DJTJr: You can't make this stuff up anymore
>>9536234 The US Soccer Federation is considering a repeal of a policy requiring national team players to stand during the National Anthem
>>9536225 Kayleigh vs AOC For the keks!
>>9536197 Trump to restart MAGA rallies this month despite coronavirus
>>9536047 Trump issues huge warning to world governments to respect religious freedom
>>9536007 Putin Slaps Netanyahu, Sells 6 MiG-29 Fighter Jets to Syria - Far Superior to Israel's F-16s
>>9535993 List of attendees at White House Law Enforcement Roundtable
>>9535926 BREAKING: Portland Police Chief resigns following #GeorgeFloyd protests, Lieutenant Chuck Lovell, a black man, will be the next chief of police
>>9535892 SDNY responds to Prince Andrew's statement regarding his desire for cooperation.
>>9535870 Mayor de Blasio: 'We Do Not Want ICE In This City'
>>9535844 Trump Is a Threat to the Constitution? Shocking to hear it from the likes of Gen. James Mattis and Gen. Colin Powell.
>>9535789 Netanyahu hires Breitbart reporter Aaron Klein as new adviser
>>9535742 US arms control envoy says will have talks on nuclear arms with Russian senior diplomat
>>9535731 Hillary Clinton Calls Trump a "Failure," Suggests Trump Supporters Don't Have a "Beating Heart"
>>9535715 Historic Court Case - The Fluoride Cover Up Will Soon Be Exposed
>>9535695 Germany won't sanction Israel over annexation
>>9536605 #12205

#12204
>>9535129, >>9535152, >>9535238 planefaggin
>>9535773 Potus twat/cap
>>9535701 The President must immediately reopen Lafayette Square to the public.
>>9535697 Gold futures finish higher on expectations for continued central bank stimulus
>>9535659,>>9535668, >>9535752 Potus: ...Crooked Hillary Clinton in 2016. They are called SUPPRESSION POLLS, and are put out to dampen enthusiasm
>>9535612 Facebook accused of blocking Palestinian activists' accounts
>>9535536 Three Rioters Arrested For Allegedly Tracking Cops to Their Homes And Firebombing Their Cars
>>9535534, >>9535549 Horror as child abuse dungeon where 'unimaginable' acts filmed found in Germany
>>9535474 Biden with Floyd fam
>>9535470 #ObamaGate WE NEED TO ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS!
>>9535408 EU plans to step up fight against child sex abuse/Jakarta
>>9535397 CEOs Bank Big Bonuses As Oil Companies Go Bankrupt
>>9535369 Naval Academy alumni board member resigns in shame after accidentally live streaming on Facebook during racist rant to his wife about Black Lives Matter
>>9535350 Kamehameha Day (June 11, a state holiday in Hawai'i)
>>9535321 #Seattle suspect is Nikolas Fernandez & he is Latino. According to witness, driver Fernandez was chased by mob.
>>9535260 June 10 two year delta, Q 1441-1448
>>9535215 Germany: Police use water cannons to disperse BLM protesters
>>9535210 MN AG Ellison refused to release vid of accused cops body cam
>>9535202 Farage: 'Black Lives Matter Is a Dangerous, Marxist Organisation Hell-Bent on Anarchy'n
>>9535188 From 1869 to 1935, The first black senators were ALL Republicans.
>>9535164 Belgium: BLM 'protesters' riot and loot stores in Brussels
>>9535108 New Zealand prime minister declares: Coronavirus 'eliminated,' time to reopen everything
>>9535083 Central Bankers Gone Wild: It's a New Era at the Fed/Austrians
>>9535076 George Floyd public viewing vid
>>9535071 Prince Andrew claims he's been TRYING TO HELP in Epstein probe
>>9535055 Presser slides
>>9535909 #12204

#9536605 at 2020-06-08 20:59:09 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12205: Treason Is the Reason for our Season Edition

#9536508 at 2020-06-08 20:48:35 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12205: Treason Is the Reason for our Season Edition

#12205
>>9535974, >>9536034, >>9536071, >>9536133, >>9536276, >>9536321 PF updates
>>9536478 Amid Small Business Carnage, Fed Expands Eligibility Of Main Street Lending Program
>>9536331 Bonnie Pointer of The Pointer Sisters has died aged 69
>>9536311 Antifa insurgency countered
>>9536246 DJTJr: You can't make this stuff up anymore
>>9536234 The US Soccer Federation is considering a repeal of a policy requiring national team players to stand during the National Anthem
>>9536225 Kayleigh vs AOC For the keks!
>>9536197 Trump to restart MAGA rallies this month despite coronavirus
>>9536047 Trump issues huge warning to world governments to respect religious freedom
>>9536007 Putin Slaps Netanyahu, Sells 6 MiG-29 Fighter Jets to Syria - Far Superior to Israel's F-16s
>>9535993 List of attendees at White House Law Enforcement Roundtable
>>9535926 BREAKING: Portland Police Chief resigns following #GeorgeFloyd protests, Lieutenant Chuck Lovell, a black man, will be the next chief of police
>>9535892 SDNY responds to Prince Andrew's statement regarding his desire for cooperation.
>>9535870 Mayor de Blasio: 'We Do Not Want ICE In This City'
>>9535844 Trump Is a Threat to the Constitution? Shocking to hear it from the likes of Gen. James Mattis and Gen. Colin Powell.
>>9535789 Netanyahu hires Breitbart reporter Aaron Klein as new adviser
>>9535742 US arms control envoy says will have talks on nuclear arms with Russian senior diplomat
>>9535731 Hillary Clinton Calls Trump a "Failure," Suggests Trump Supporters Don't Have a "Beating Heart"
>>9535715 Historic Court Case - The Fluoride Cover Up Will Soon Be Exposed
>>9535695 Germany won't sanction Israel over annexation
#12205

#9536213 at 2020-06-08 20:18:37 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12205: Treason Is the Reason for our Season Edition

>>9536188
Notables so far

>>9535974, >>9536034, >>9536071, >>9536133 PF updates
>>9536047 Trump issues huge warning to world governments to respect religious freedom
>>9536007 Putin Slaps Netanyahu, Sells 6 MiG-29 Fighter Jets to Syria - Far Superior to Israel's F-16s
>>9535993 List of attendees at White House Law Enforcement Roundtable
>>9535926 BREAKING: Portland Police Chief resigns following #GeorgeFloyd protests, Lieutenant Chuck Lovell, a black man, will be the next chief of police
>>9535892 SDNY responds to Prince Andrew's statement regarding his desire for cooperation.
>>9535870 Mayor de Blasio: 'We Do Not Want ICE In This City'
>>9535844 Trump Is a Threat to the Constitution? Shocking to hear it from the likes of Gen. James Mattis and Gen. Colin Powell.
>>9535789 Netanyahu hires Breitbart reporter Aaron Klein as new adviser
>>9535742 US arms control envoy says will have talks on nuclear arms with Russian senior diplomat
>>9535731 Hillary Clinton Calls Trump a "Failure," Suggests Trump Supporters Don't Have a "Beating Heart"
>>9535715 Historic Court Case - The Fluoride Cover Up Will Soon Be Exposed
>>9535695 Germany won't sanction Israel over annexation

#9535844 at 2020-06-08 19:40:24 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12205: Treason Is the Reason for our Season Edition

Trump Is a Threat to the Constitution? Really, General Mattis?

The accusation that President Trump in some way threatens the Constitution is the most disgusting expression of hypocrisy that I have heard in nearly half a century of journalism-no exceptions. It is so monstrously false that it is shocking to hear it from the likes of Gen. James Mattis and Gen. Colin Powell.

A conspiracy to drive Donald Trump from office through lies, leaks and larceny began before he took office and continues to the present day. Alleged collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia was an outrageous hoax. The spurious charges against Gen. Mike Flynn have been exposed as a concoction of FBI officials working for the Hillary Clinton camp. The entire disgusting business has been a lie of whole cloth from the outset. And it constitutes the most grievous threat to the US Constitution in our lifetimes-in fact, since the Confederate insurrection of 1861. A clique of bureaucrats and politicians conspired with the major media to frame the president of the United States, with the objective of nullifying the will of the American people as expressed in the free and fair of election of November 2016.

And now Gen. James Mattis and Gen. Colin Powell have the effrontery to call President Trump a threat to the Constitution. Said Mattis: "When I joined the military, some 50 years ago, I swore an oath to support and defend the Constitution. Never did I dream that troops taking that same oath would be ordered under any circumstance to violate the constitutional rights of their fellow citizens."

Violate constitutional rights? How? George H. W. Bush sent 4,000 soldiers and marines into Los Angeles in 1992 to suppress riots that ensued on the acquittal of police officers in the Rodney King case. The elder President Bush used the same authority-the 1807 Insurrection Act-that President Trump cited. No-one ever accused Bush of violating the Constitution for deploying troops. How did President Trump violate the Constitution by warning that he would deploy troops if state and local governments failed to protect life and property?

There are plenty of legitimate grounds to criticize Trump's policies as well as his abrasive style. But we are well past that. The issue boils down to whether a self-appointed elite of universities, corporations, think-tanks and major media outlets has the right to rule us, or whether the American people have the right to decide who will sit in the Oval Office. I'm an always-Trumper not because I agree with the president about everything-although I agree with most of what he does and proposes-but because the survival of American democracy and the integrity of the Constitution are at stake.

The putschists and coup-plotters in the liberal Establishment, aided and abetted by seditious Republican turncoats, are a gang of yellow-bellied, backstabbing, bushwacking, dry-gulching, reprobates. It's sad that a man like Gen. Mattis, who served his country with distinction, has joined this gang. It's legitimate to disagree with the president about the use of the military for riot control; the military, after all, is designed to inflict mayhem on our enemies, not control civil disturbances. But to claim that Trump threatens the Constitution is hypocrisy, when the threat to the Constitution comes from the conspiracy to bring Trump down.

https://pjmedia.com/columns/david-p-goldman/2020/06/08/trump-is-a-threat-to-the-constitution-really-general-Mattis-n507290

#9535569 at 2020-06-08 19:05:05 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12204: BIDEN was for the police before he was against them FLIP FLOP Edition

>>9535339
Noticed You Conveniently Left this Out…

https://stillnessinthestorm.com/2020/06/benjamin-fulford-june-8th-2020-huge-victory-for-humanity-as-khazarian-mafias-long-planned-666-revolution-fizzles/

For those of you who still think that U.S. President Donald Trump is responsible for the rescue of the Republic of the United States of America, please remember that as a businessman he was bailed out by the Rothschilds each time he went bankrupt. This is a matter of public record. Also, his son in law is the Satanic 666 5th Avenue Jared Kushner who has been trying to mark of the beast microchip everybody. Please check the facts for yourself.

In any case, Trump's attempt to use the military to shoot down civilians caused a long overdue Pentagon revolt against his rule. "The 11 retired 4-stars who criticized Trump for using the military to suppress protests," were retaking the Trump presidency, Pentagon sources say. "Led by Generals James Mattis and John Kelly with former Joint Chiefs of Staff chairmen Mike Mullen and Marty Dempsey these onward Christian soldiers are declaring jihad against the Zionists and raising their profile at a critical time prior to the global currency reset," the sources add.

#9531033 at 2020-06-08 08:57:08 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12198: The Opposite of TYB Edition

US protests: Colin Powell, other military leaders speak out in 'unprecedented' numbers against Donald Trump
A staggering number of senior military leaders in the US, including four-star generals and admirals, have spoken out against Donald Trump.

Another high profile military leader in the United States has come out against President Donald Trump over his handling of the protests against racial discrimination and police brutality across the country.

Retired four-star army general Colin Powell, a registered Republican, served as chairman of the joint chiefs of staff under presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton, then as secretary of state under president George W. Bush.

Speaking to CNN today, Gen Powell added his voice to the growing chorus of criticism against Mr Trump from high profile generals and admirals.

That long list of military brass now includes Mr Trump's former secretary of defence, General James Mattis; the President's former White House chief of staff, General John Kelly; the former commander of US forces in Afghanistan, General John Allen; the former chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, Admiral Mike Mullen; another former chairman, General Richard Myers; the former boss of US Special Operations Command, Admiral William McRaven; former CIA director General Mike Hayden; and the former supreme allied commander of NATO, Admiral James Stavridis.

Gen Powell went further than most of them, saying he could not possibly vote to re-elect Mr Trump later this year, even though the President is a member of his own party.

Instead, he will vote for the Democratic Party's nominee, former vice president Joe Biden.

https://www.news.com.au/finance/work/leaders/us-protests-colin-powell-other-military-leaders-speak-out-in-unprecedented-numbers-against-donald-trump/news-story/8425a6485619b9fc8749adff4f0af1f1

This only strengthens POTUS' position, kek.
Sleepers outing themselves left and right.
November is in the bag.

#9507826 at 2020-06-06 21:53:53 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12168: RIP Jared Esquibel Harless Edition

==The Senate votes 90-8 to confirm Army Secretary Mark Esper as secretary of Defense. He succeeds James Mattis, who stepped down in December 2018.
Senate Confirms Mark Esper As Defense Secretary, 90-8

www.c-span.org/video/?c4809274/senate-confirms-mark-esper-defense-secreta...

#9506915 at 2020-06-06 21:04:59 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12167: Do You See What Is Happening? Edition

This is Mark Esper, the Gulf War Army veteran and defense lobbyist who Trump has tapped to lead the Pentagon
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/photos/this-is-mark-esper-the-gulf-war-army-veteran-and-defense-lobbyist-who-trump-has-tapped-to-lead-the-pentagon/ss-AADmgxs

Mark T. Esper became the acting secretary of defense on Monday after former acting Secretary of Defense Patrick M. Shanahan stepped down from his post, citing family concerns.
Esper is the former secretary of the Army, and was a lobbyist for the weapons manufacturer Raytheon.
Esper attended West Point with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
Visit Business Insider's hompage for more stories.
Who is Mark Esper, the man President Donald Trump has tapped to lead the Pentagon after retired Gen. James Mattis' departure in December and Patrick Shanahan's abrupt resignation last week?
Esper comes to the position after the failed nomination of Patrick Shanahan, who Trump had picked to take over after Mattis resigned over Trump's announcement that he would pull troops from Syria. Shanahan withdrew his nomination last week after his confirmation hearing was stalled for months, and in the midst of a potential conflict with Iran.
Esper is the second acting defense secretary in six months, and will leave his post as secretary of the Army. Trump has nominated Ryan McCarthy, the under secretary of the Army to take Esper's place in the Army's top post, according to The New York Times.

#9506814 at 2020-06-06 20:58:42 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12167: Do You See What Is Happening? Edition

>>9506807

For one to grasp the full significance of this Executive Order, this report explains, they should known that "online platforms" include every mainstream media outlet in the United States, not just those run by social media tech giants-and by asserting that they "are profiting from and promoting the aggression and disinformation spread by foreign governments", specifically to "provide direct benefits to the Chinese military"-and when joined by Attorney General Barr now asserting that "We are also seeing foreign actors playing all sides to exacerbate the violence"-places this extraordinary action made by President Trump firmly within the confines of the Department of Defense Law of War Manual-an over 1,200-page legal document that says "journalists may not directly participate in hostilities without also losing civilian status"-states: "A person may only be considered a spy when, (1) acting clandestinely or under false pretenses, (2) in the zone of operations of a belligerent, (3) he or she obtains, or endeavors to obtain, information, (4) with the intention of communicating it to the hostile party"-and strictly forbids under penalty of treason anyone from "providing or relaying information of immediate use in combat operations".

With "combat operations" currently underway in the United States itself, this report details, any American journalist deciding to "participate in hostilities" by reporting on US military troop movements and/or actions risks "losing civilian status"-and who would further be considered as spies whose treasonous crime would be "communicating it to the hostile party"-most particularly because "the zone of operations of a belligerent" is in America itself, where socialist revolutionaries are attempting to overthrow the government-with the truth and reality of this being known to many top former US military leaders, who are now crying out alarms of what they know is about to happen, though being very circumspect in what they say, lest they be branded as traitors, too-and whom include:

Former Obama-Clinton Regime top military official Joint Chiefs Chairman Admiral Mike Mullins-who in his just published screed titled "I Cannot Remain Silent" says: "Our fellow citizens are not the enemy, and must never become so".

Former Defense Secretary of President Trump, and top Obama Clinton Regime endless war military leader General James Mattis openly denouncing Trump and describing him as a threat to the constitution.

Former White House chief of staff for President Trump, and another top Obama Clinton Regime endless war military leader, General John Kelly calling Trump "nasty" and "confused".

#9504675 at 2020-06-06 18:39:36 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12164: Lynn, Me Boogie.. Edition

Donald Trump's former chief of staff John Kelly joins the generals' mutiny saying 'I agree' with Jim Mattis, warning 'the president is never a dictator' and questioning his 'character and ethics'

John Kelly, the retired general who served as Donald Trump's chief of staff, joined the list of high-profile military officers criticizing the president, suggesting people should at a person's 'character' and 'ethics' before voting for them.

'I think we need to look harder at who we elect. I think we should look at people that are running for office and put them through the filter: What is their character like? What are their ethics?' Kelly, told Anthony Scaramucci, former White House communications director, during a live-streamed interview for a conference.

'The separation of powers is very very important,' he said. 'No president ever is a dictator or a king.'

Kelly also said he agreed with Jim Mattis, the former defense secretary and retired general who rebuked Trump for dividing the country instead of bringing people together.
'I agree with him,' Kelly said.

'There is a concern, I think an awful big concern, that the partisanship has gotten out of hand, the tribal thing has gotten out of hand,' he noted. 'He's quite a man, Jim Mattis, and for him to do that tells you where he is relative to the concern he has for our country.'

Kelly defended Trump's former defense secretary on Thursday after Mattis publicly criticized the president's handling of the nationwide protests.
He also shot down Trump's claim that he fired Mattis in 2018.

'The president did not fire him. He did not ask for his resignation,' Kelly asserted in a Washington Post interview Thursday afternoon. 'The president has clearly forgotten how it actually happened or is confused.
'The president tweeted a very positive tweet about Jim until he started to see on Fox News their interpretation of his letter. Then he got nasty. Jim Mattis is an honorable man,' Kelly said.

Trump shot back Thursday night in a pair of tweets.
'John Kelly didn't know I was going to fire James Mattis, nor did he have any knowledge of my asking for a letter of resignation. Why would I tell him, he was not in my inner-circle, was totally exhausted by the job, and in the end just slinked away into obscurity. They all want to come back for a piece of the limelight!,' the president wrote.

Kelly, meanwhile, didn't sound positive about his time as White House chief of staff, where he tried to bring some military order and discipline to the West Wing.

'He'll either fire you and try to find a lackey who will tell you what he wants to hear, or will push so hard that you decide to leave,' he told Scaramucci of Trump.

Scaramucci - 'the Mooch' - spent 10 days as White House director of communications, which ended in Kelly firing him, and has now become a resolute Republican critic of the president.
Mattis submitted his resignation in late December 2018, and stayed on until after the New Year, amid reports of rising tensions between the Defense secretary and president.
Although Mattis had remained largely silent about his former boss, on Wednesday he released a statement criticizing Trump's handling of protests that have erupted across the country following the killing of George Floyd at the hands of a white police officer.

Mattis accused Trump of deliberately trying to divide Americans and likened his actions to the rhetoric of Nazis to 'divide and conquer.'

More
http://www.yourdestinationnow.com/2020/06/donald-trumps-former-chief-of-staff.html

#9503691 at 2020-06-06 17:27:43 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12163: Invest In What You Love Edition

>>9503662
"Obama fires James Mattis without even a phone call"
Yeah, I'm buying this Mattis bad guy bullshit like you'd buy my snot on a rainy day.

#9500712 at 2020-06-06 12:57:13 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12159: We Shall Fear No Evil Edition

>>9500584
>"Donald Trump is the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American people-does not even pretend to try. Instead, he tries to divide us." -General James Mattis

Oh suuuure, because Hussein calling us"BITTER CLINGERS"was really meant to "unite" us?
Fuck that lying Dog!

#9500619 at 2020-06-06 12:47:19 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12159: We Shall Fear No Evil Edition

>>9500584
>James Mattis
<Donald Trump is the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American people-does not even pretend to try. Instead he tries to divide us. We are witnessing the consequences of three years of this deliberate effort. We are witnessing the consequences of three years without mature leadership.

#9500584 at 2020-06-06 12:44:18 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12159: We Shall Fear No Evil Edition

"Donald Trump is the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American people-does not even pretend to try. Instead, he tries to divide us." -General James Mattis

#9492767 at 2020-06-05 23:27:59 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12149: God Bless President Trump . WRWY Edition

>>9492702

List Of Military Elite Purged
And Fired Under Obama

Compiled By General Paul Vallely
3-17-14

Here is the list of our military elite who have been purged or fired under Obama:
Commanding Generals fired:

· General John R. Allen-U.S. Marines Commander International Security Assistance Force [ISAF] (Nov 2012)
· Major General Ralph Baker (2 Star)-U.S. Army Commander of the Combined Joint Task Force Horn in Africa (April 2013)
· Major General Michael Carey (2 Star)-U.S. Air Force Commander of the 20th US Air Force in charge of 9,600 people and 450 Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (Oct 2013)
· Colonel James Christmas-U.S. Marines Commander 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit & Commander Special-Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force Crisis Response Unit (July 2013)
· Major General Peter Fuller-U.S. Army Commander in Afghanistan (May 2011)
· Major General Charles M.M. Gurganus-U.S. Marine Corps Regional Commander of SW and I Marine Expeditionary Force in Afghanistan (Oct 2013)
· General Carter F. Ham-U.S. Army African Command (Oct 2013)
· Lieutenant General David H. Huntoon (3 Star), Jr.-U.S. Army 58th Superintendent of the US Military Academy at West Point, NY (2013)
· Command Sergeant Major Don B Jordan-U.S. Army 143rd Expeditionary Sustainment Command (suspended Oct 2013)
· General James Mattis-U.S. Marines Chief of CentCom (May 2013)
· Colonel Daren Margolin-U.S. Marine in charge of Quantico's Security Battalion (Oct 2013)
· General Stanley McChrystal-U.S. Army Commander Afghanistan (June 2010)
· General David D. McKiernan-U.S. Army Commander Afghanistan (2009)
· General David Petraeus-Director of CIA from September 2011 to November 2012 & U.S. Army Commander International Security Assistance Force [ISAF] and Commander U.S. Forces Afghanistan [USFOR-A] (Nov 2012)
· Brigadier General Bryan Roberts-U.S. Army Commander 2nd Brigade (May 2013)
· Major General Gregg A. Sturdevant-U.S. Marine Corps Director of Strategic Planning and Policy for the U.S. Pacific Command & Commander of Aviation Wing at Camp Bastion, Afghanistan (Sept 2013)
· Colonel Eric Tilley-U.S. Army Commander of Garrison Japan (Nov 2013)
· Brigadier General Bryan Wampler-U.S. Army Commanding General of 143rd Expeditionary Sustainment Command of the 1st Theater Sustainment Command [TSC] (suspended Oct 2013)

Commanding Admirals fired:
· Rear Admiral Charles Gaouette-U.S. Navy Commander John C. Stennis Carrier Strike Group Three (Oct 2012)
· Vice Admiral Tim Giardina(3 Star, demoted to 2 Star)-U.S. Navy Deputy Commander of the US Strategic Command, Commander of the Submarine Group Trident, Submarine Group 9 and Submarine Group 10 (Oct 2013)

Naval Officers fired: (All in 2011)
· Captain David Geisler-U.S. Navy Commander Task Force 53 in Bahrain (Oct 2011)
· Commander Laredo Bell-U.S. Navy Commander Naval Support Activity Saratoga Springs, NY (Aug 2011)
· Lieutenant Commander Kurt Boenisch-Executive Officer amphibious transport dock Ponce (Apr 2011)

1/2

#9492362 at 2020-06-05 23:05:01 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12148: Have Faith In HumanityEdition

>>9492185
I think it was a threat. If you look at the content of the segment it specifically brings up "CONDEMNING TRUMP," the traitorous local leaders, James Mattis, the defunding of police, etc. Plus there's "How change will be enacted."

#9491949 at 2020-06-05 22:40:26 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12148: Have Faith In HumanityEdition

>>9491870
George Floyd propoganda found in James Mattis wikipedia page

This is not fit and proper encyclopedia material. It opinion and tripe.'

George Floyd protests
See also: George Floyd protests

On June 3, 2020, Mattis issued a statement to The Atlantic in which he criticized Trump's response to the George Floyd protests. He wrote that Trump is "the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American people", that America is "witnessing the consequences of three years without mature leadership", and concluded by calling for accountability for "those in office who would make a mockery of our Constitution."[136][137][138]

Since his retirement, Mattis had been guarded when asked to reflect on Trump or military matters, saying he didn't want to detract from the troops. He changed his position after becoming "angry and appalled" about the events leading up to the violent treatment of noncombative protesters near the White House on June 1 for the purpose of a photo op for Trump at the church across Lafayette Square.[137]

Trump responded by Twitter that evening that he "felt great" he had previously asked Mattis to resign, and he didn't like much about Mattis or his "leadership style" and was "Glad he is gone!"[139]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Mattis

#9490805 at 2020-06-05 21:18:40 (UTC+1)
Q Research #12146: Operators active. Pray. Edition

The Madness of James Mattis

Thanks to Mattis and company, Trump's purported desire to withdraw from fruitless Middle Eastern wars has been stifled, the result being business as usual for the military-industrial-complex and national security state. And why not? Since resigning his post, Mattis has burst through the "revolving door" of the arms industry, reclaiming his seat on the board of the fifth largest defense contractor, General Dynamics. Albert Einstein famously (and perhaps apocryphally) said, "The definition of nsanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result." He might just as easily have been describing the career of James Mattis, who has been proven wrong again and again and again, from Iraq to Afghanistan to Syria.

Mattis also attended the 2015 Bilderberg meeting.

https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-madness-of-James-Mattis/

#9490704 at 2020-06-05 21:10:36 (UTC+1)
Q Research #12146: Operators active. Pray. Edition

>>9490636
Original Theranos Board of Directors.

George Shultz, former US secretary of state
Gary Roughead, a retired US Navy admiral
William Perry, former US secretary of defense
Sam Nunn, a former US senator
James Mattis, a retired US Marine Corps general who went on to serve as President Donald Trump's secretary of defense
Richard Kovacevich, the former CEO of Wells Fargo
Henry Kissinger, former US secretary of state
William Frist, a heart and lung transplant surgeon and former US senator
William H. Foege, former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Riley P. Bechtel, chairman of the board of the Bechtel Group Inc. at the time.

#9490678 at 2020-06-05 21:08:30 (UTC+1)
Q Research #12146: Operators active. Pray. Edition

>>9490566
Former Defense Secretary General James Mattis and some White House employees were directly aware of and monitoring a team working to launch a Mattis Republican primary campaign against President Donald Trump in the 2020 election, according to documents obtained by Big League Politics and statements from the organizers who put the team together.
"My job was to see what his pathway to the White House would look like," Travis Snyder told Big League Politics in a series of interviews, referring to General Mattis. "There was a very small team."
Snyder, a twenty-five year-old Indiana-based political consultant whom insiders say is close to Vice President Mike Pence, ran point on the operation, which Mattis and others were keeping track of.
Snyder also confirmed that the group polled Mike Pence's chances to run against Trump, and found that Pence had no chance.
"I oversaw early states polling, putting together possible running mates," Snyder said.
"I did not work with the fundraising team. I solely looked at what his path to the nomination would look like, and then his pathway to the White House," Snyder said, declining to name the donors to the effort or the main person organizing it.
Running mate prospects included Nikki Haley and Dan Crenshaw.
"Nikki Haley was polled. Jackie Walorski, Mitch Daniels. There were regional smaller named people like Staff Sergeant Johnny Joe Jones" but Jones did not have the name ID, Snyder said.
"Dan Crenshaw was polled as a VP nominee in the event that Mattis" ran, Snyder said.
"General Mattis was aware of the effort," Snyder confirmed. "He knew of the team, who exactly brought the team together."

https://nationalfile.com/evidence-Mattis-plotted-to-run-a-primary-campaign-against-trump-in-2020/

#9487395 at 2020-06-05 17:24:15 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12142: Obama Wears Orange for (gun victims) Gitmo Dress Rehearsal? Edition

'You Lost Me': Retired Marine Criticizes Mattis Over Letter About Lafayette Park Protesters

Retired Marine CPT John M. Dowd lashed out at former Defense Secretary James Mattis in a letter shared Thursday by President Donald Trump.

Dowd, a former Marine Corps Judge Advocate and former attorney to President Trump, was responding to Mattis' comments attacking the president as divisive and criticizing his plan to potentially use the military to quell nationwide unrest over the death of George Floyd.

"We are witnessing the consequences of three years of this deliberate effort," Mattis told The Atlantic, arguing that Trump was the most divisive president in his lifetime. "We are witnessing the consequences of three years without mature leadership. We can unite without him, drawing on the strengths inherent in our civil society. This will not be easy, as the past few days have shown, but we owe it to our fellow citizens; to past generations that bled to defend our promise; and to our children."

"I thought this letter from respected retired Marine and Super Star lawyer, John Dowd, would be of interest to the American People. Read it!" Trump tweeted in response.

"I slept on your statement and woke up appalled and upset," Dowd's letter began. "You lost me. Never dreamed you would let a bunch of hack politicians use your good name and reputation - earned with the blood and guts of young Marines."

https://dailycaller.com/2020/06/04/retired-marine-cpt-john-m-dowd-Mattis-lafayette-park-protesters/

#9478864 at 2020-06-05 04:00:41 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12132: The 'Q posts, and breds just fly...' Edition

Murkowski, Mattis criticism ratchets up pressure on GOP over Trump

Criticism of President Trump from former Defense Secretary James Mattis and Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) is ratcheting up pressure on other Republicans to push back on the president's handling of nationwide civil unrest.

Mattis, who is as close as anyone to being universally respected on Capitol Hill, called out Trump on Wednesday for what he called the president's lack of a "mature leadership" and accused him for intentionally trying to divide the nation.

Murkowski said she thought Mattis's words were "true and honest and necessary and overdue" and suggested that it might embolden other Republicans who privately disagree with the president's often controversial tone and conduct to speak out.

"When I saw Gen. Mattis's comments yesterday I felt like perhaps we're getting to the point where we can be more honest with the concerns we might hold internally and have the courage of our convictions to speak up," she said.

Murkowski also admitted to "struggling" to decide whether to support Trump's reelection even though she pledged to "continue to work with him" and "continue to work with this administration."

The statement, made to reporters shortly before a noontime vote, exploded like a bombshell in the Senate and immediately became the top story of the day.

Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah), a frequent critic of the president who voted for his impeachment, wouldn't go so far as to comment on Mattis's statement when asked about it by reporters and instead praised the former general as "a person of extraordinary integrity and sacrifice" and "a patriot who has sound judgment and capacity."

After Murkowski's endorsement of Mattis's critique became headline news, Romney told reporters that his "letter was stunning and powerful."

Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio), who has sought to keep his focus on legislation and not get caught up in Trump's controversies, on Thursday as he was leaving the Capitol stepped up his criticism of the president's tone in recent days.

"I think the president has done a pretty good job on his prepared remarks because he has condemned what happened," Portman told reporters. "He has applauded the peaceful demonstrations, his prepared remarks, and he has condemned the violence.

"But [it's] his tone and words kind of in between those more formal presentations that have not unified people," he said.

Asked whether the president should shift his tone, he said, "Yeah, I do."

"I think he's probably getting that message from a lot of people," he added.

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/501253-murkowski-Mattis-criticism-ratchets-up-pressure-on-gop-over-trump

#9477859 at 2020-06-05 03:05:25 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12131: The Red Lines Edition

Mattis' RESIGNATION LETTER FROM 2018

Have a read:

Dear Mr. President:
I have been privileged to serve as our country's 26th Secretary of Defense which has allowed me to serve alongside our men and women of the Department in defense of our citizens and our ideals.
I am proud of the progress that has been made over the past two years on some of the key goals articulated in our National Defense Strategy: putting the Department on a more sound budgetary footing, improving readiness and lethality in our forces, and reforming the Department's business practices for greater performance. Our troops continue to provide the capabilities needed to prevail in conflict and sustain strong U.S. global influence.
One core belief I have always held is that our strength as a nation is inextricably linked to the strength of our unique and comprehensive system of alliances and partnerships. While the US remains the indispensable nation in the free world, we cannot protect our interests or serve that role effectively without maintaining strong alliances and showing respect to those allies. Like you, I have said from the beginning that the armed forces of the United States should not be the policeman of the world. Instead, we must use all tools of American power to provide for the common defense, including providing effective leadership to our alliances. NATO's 29 democracies demonstrated that strength in their commitment to fighting alongside us following the 9-11 attack on America. The Defeat-ISIS coalition of 74 nations is further proof.
Similarly, I believe we must be resolute and unambiguous in our approach to those countries whose strategic interests are increasingly in tension with ours. It is clear that China and Russia, for example, want to shape a world consistent with their authoritarian model - gaining veto authority over other nations' economic, diplomatic, and security decisions - to promote their own interests at the expense of their neighbors, America and our allies. That is why we must use all the tools of American power to provide for the common defense.
My views on treating allies with respect and also being clear-eyed about both malign actors and strategic competitors are strongly held and informed by over four decades of immersion in these issues. We must do everything possible to advance an international order that is most conducive to our security, prosperity and values, and we are strengthened in this effort by the solidarity of our alliances.
Because you have the right to have a Secretary of Defense whose views are better aligned with yours on these and other subjects, I believe it is right for me to step down from my position. The end date for my tenure is February 28, 2019, a date that should allow sufficient time for a successor to be nominated and confirmed as well as to make sure the Department's interests are properly articulated and protected at upcoming events to include Congressional posture hearings and the NATO Defense Ministerial meeting in February. Further, that a full transition to a new Secretary of Defense occurs well in advance of the transition of Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in September in order to ensure stability Within the Department.
I pledge my full effort to a smooth transition that ensures the needs and interests of the 2.15 million Service Members and 732,079 DoD civilians receive undistracted attention of the Department at all times so that they can fulfill their critical, round-the-clock mission to protect the American people.
I very much appreciate this opportunity to serve the nation and our men and women in uniform

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/12/20/politics/James-Mattis-resignation-letter-doc/index.html

#9476559 at 2020-06-05 01:57:48 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12129: Strawberry Moon Situation Room Edition

>>9476385
>>9476385
>John Kelly didn't know I was going to fire James Mattis
>he was not... ...in my inner-circle,

WOW, POTUS Chief of Staff was "NOT in his inner-circle"?
Holy boom, boom, booms! lmao
I never like or trusted Kelly, Mattis, McMasters or Rex Tillerson!
When THEY are used to having power, than meet the one that TRULY wields that power, it's a bitter pill to swallow!
Kelly has something to do with the Patent office if IIRC.
Shady af and a lot of other corrupt mfers are in on the patent corruption in this country!

#9476385 at 2020-06-05 01:51:29 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12129: Strawberry Moon Situation Room Edition

Best movie ever made.
Hilarious!

"The president did not fire him. He did not ask for his resignation," said Kelly. "The president has clearly forgotten how it actually happened or is confused. The president tweeted a very positive tweet about Jim until he started to see on Fox News their interpretation of his letter. Then he got nasty. Jim Mattis is a honorable man."

https://www.mediaite.com/news/john-kelly-torpedos-trumps-claim-of-firing-James-Mattis-hes-clearly-forgotten-how-it-actually-happened/

"John Kelly didn't know I was going to fire James Mattis, nor did he have any knowledge of my asking for a letter of resignation. Why would I tell him, he was not… …in my inner-circle, was totally exhausted by the job, and in the end just slinked away into obscurity. They all want to come back for a piece of the limelight!"

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1268683083852779520

#9475656 at 2020-06-05 01:19:18 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12128: Long Live Our Constitutional Republic Edition

>>9475218 LB
He was a decoy all right.
https://flagandcross.com/exposed-former-secdef-James-Mattis-had-dinner-with-amazon-before-10b-contract-awarded/

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/06/17/questions-swirling-amazon-contract-complicate-acting-defense-secretarys-future/
Jun 17, 2019
It was secret because the Defense Department originally blacked out, or redacted, from the itinerary the name of the Amazon executive with whom Mattis held a dinner in London claiming national security reasons even though there was no national security reason whatsoever to withhold from the public the identity of the Amazon executive

#9474742 at 2020-06-05 00:34:28 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12127: ALERT Readiness: Severe-Critical Edition

Global Announcements
Klausutis/Scarborough diggz https://pastebin.com/FFB6n1VG

Notables
are not endorsements

#12126
>>9474005 Al Sharpton announces march on Washington on anniversary of MLK 'I Have a Dream' speech August 28th
>>9474009 More POTUS trolling Murkowski: "Get any candidate ready, good or bad, I don't care, I'm endorsing. If you have a pulse, I'm with you!"
>>9474019 Clown-Led "Hacktivists" Anonymous starting twitter war against Q + anons: "Troops are requested" to target #Qanon #WWG1WGA
>>9474094 Skyking Explanation of EAM
>>9474103 Will "The Tweet" trigger POTUS's removal from Twitter?
>>9474083 Surgisphere: governments and WHO changed Covid-19 policy based on suspect data from tiny US company
>>9474159 What Aren't Minnesota's Democratic Leaders Telling Us?
>>9474160 Journal article on masks: Universal Masking in Hospitals in the Covid-19 Era
>>9474287 Russia will never initiate use of nuclear weapons, Kremlin says
>>9474288 How to sign up for EAS text alerts if you don't have a smartphone
>>9474333 Epic image of live DC sky from Tucker
>>9474406 10th Mountain Division only one of its size in the US military to receive intense specialized training for fighting in mountainous and arctic conditions.
>>9474484 PF reports
>>9474490 EAM = coalition of underground leftist movements?
>>9474724 #12126

#12125
>>9473242 Good parenting: when mom finds out you are Antifa (video)
>>9473317, >>9473382 Child cries out in terror as rioters launch bricks & rocks through walkway glass at children's hospital then turn on her fathers car parked nearby (video)
>>9473346, >>9473422 PF reports including GTMO call sign
>>9473347, >>9473358 SYRIA UPDATE
>>9473389 New POTUS on police groups breaking with Biden, "his handlers" kek
>>9473459 Moar POTUS trolling: Few people know where they'll be in two years from now, but I do, in the Great State of Alaska campaigning against Senator Lisa Murkowski.
>>9473559 Castle_Rock dig from 1984: schoolteacher worked with U.S. officials to smuggle guns to Pakistan. History repeating?
>>9473595 Donald Trump: Radical Left Wants to 'Defund the Police'
>>9473617 What's up with Grassley? Sen. Grassley places hold on two Trump nominees in standoff over inspector general firings
>>9473667 Anon's theory on Castle Lock vs Castle Rock
>>9473709 Planefag identifies flight carrying Michael White back to the US
>>9473746,>>9473815, >>9473836 EAM (Emergency Action Message) = preformatted message that directs nuclear-capable forces to execute specific Major Attack Options (MAOs) or Limited Attack Options (LAOs) in a nuclear war
>>9473773 Castle Rock coincidences
>>9473797 COMMS OF STRENGTH: POTUS tweets photos of him in room full of United States Secret Service agents
>>9473804, >>9473828 Anon's timeline of Rosenstein in the early years
>>9473944 #12125

#12124
>>9472532 Senators on their knees. America's enemies are laughing at us.
>>9472543 BREAKING: Rod Rosenstein worked with Andrew Weissman in 3 cases related to the sales of URANIUM to RUSSIA
>>9472550 POTUS: I thought this letter from respected retired Marine and Super Star lawyer, John Dowd, would be of interest to the American People. Read it!
>>9472582 Reminder: Billionaire George Soros spent $33MILLION bankrolling Ferguson demonstrators to create 'echo chamber' and drive national protests
>>9472605 Video of Black Patriot naming the real enemy: globalism
>>9472618 How not to red-pill.
>>9472640 Anon points out Q filename 2078 + Q#2078 on No Name's successor
>>9472703 Minn. city council president: We are going to dismantle the Minneapolis Police Department and replace it with a transformative new model of public safety.
>>9472714 4 days later + counting: @jack/twitter refuses to take down threats of assassination against the President of the United States of America
>>9472782 New POTUS on low-flying helicopter pilots vs. anarchists et al
>>9472704 James Woods tweet of video of Soros bragging at Davos 2020 that if the economy is destabilized, it will destroy Trump.
>>9472973 Moderna Therapeutics, Inc. (developing CV treatment) CFO sold: $14.05m-June 2, CFO bailing effective June 8th
>>9472847 Text of letter from John Dowd to James Mattis
>>9473081, >>9473174 PF reports
>>9473126 New POTUS on John Kelly
>>9473142 Anon on unemployment fraud: file this under "how to funnel money to Deep State operations"
>>9473201 #12124

Previously Collected Notables
>>9472452 #12123
>>9471314 #12120, >>9470929 #12121, >>9471693 #12122
>>9471252 #12117, >>9471284 #12118, >>9471307 #12119
>>9471050 #12114, >>9471164 #12115, >>9471199 #12116
Notables Aggregators: https://wearethene.ws & https://qnotables.com

#9474507 at 2020-06-05 00:25:15 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12126: CASTLE_ROCK EAM Edition

>>9474380
baker caps articles 1-3 #4 paywalled not capped
>https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/06/James-Mattis-denounces-trump-protests-militarization/612640/

>https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2020/06/02/senior-military-leaders-being-called-to-testify-to-congress-about-george-floyd-protest-response/

>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense-national-security/pentagon-distances-itself-from-trump-on-crowd-control-laments-murder-of-floyd

#9474443 at 2020-06-05 00:23:16 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12126: CASTLE_ROCK EAM Edition

>>9474380
>https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/06/James-Mattis-denounces-trump-protests-militarization/612640/
>
>https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2020/06/02/senior-military-leaders-being-called-to-testify-to-congress-about-george-floyd-protest-response/
>
>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense-national-security/pentagon-distances-itself-from-trump-on-crowd-control-laments-murder-of-floyd
>
>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/06/04/revolt-generals/

#9474380 at 2020-06-05 00:20:42 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12126: CASTLE_ROCK EAM Edition

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/06/James-Mattis-denounces-trump-protests-militarization/612640/
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2020/06/02/senior-military-leaders-being-called-to-testify-to-congress-about-george-floyd-protest-response/
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense-national-security/pentagon-distances-itself-from-trump-on-crowd-control-laments-murder-of-floyd
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/06/04/revolt-generals/
Riot [coordination] in select safe-zone cities [D] control mayor(s) [allow] staged event allow former-active MIL brass assertion of 'Unconstitutional' 'Threat to Constitution' _Mutiny
MSM public optics 'staging' underway.
ALERT readiness: severe-critical
Q

#9473974 at 2020-06-05 00:02:32 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12126: CASTLE_ROCK EAM Edition

Global Announcements
Klausutis/Scarborough diggz https://pastebin.com/FFB6n1VG

Notables
are not endorsements

#12125
>>9473242 Good parenting: when mom finds out you are Antifa (video)
>>9473317, >>9473382 Child cries out in terror as rioters launch bricks & rocks through walkway glass at children's hospital then turn on her fathers car parked nearby (video)
>>9473346, >>9473422 PF reports including GTMO call sign
>>9473347, >>9473358 SYRIA UPDATE
>>9473389 New POTUS on police groups breaking with Biden, "his handlers" kek
>>9473459 Moar POTUS trolling: Few people know where they'll be in two years from now, but I do, in the Great State of Alaska campaigning against Senator Lisa Murkowski.
>>9473559 Castle_Rock dig from 1984: schoolteacher worked with U.S. officials to smuggle guns to Pakistan. History repeating?
>>9473595 Donald Trump: Radical Left Wants to 'Defund the Police'
>>9473617 What's up with Grassley? Sen. Grassley places hold on two Trump nominees in standoff over inspector general firings
>>9473667 Anon's theory on Castle Lock vs Castle Rock
>>9473709 Planefag identifies flight carrying Michael White back to the US
>>9473746,>>9473815, >>9473836 EAM (Emergency Action Message) = preformatted message that directs nuclear-capable forces to execute specific Major Attack Options (MAOs) or Limited Attack Options (LAOs) in a nuclear war
>>9473773 Castle Rock coincidences
>>9473797 COMMS OF STRENGTH: POTUS tweets photos of him in room full of United States Secret Service agents
>>9473804, >>9473828 Anon's timeline of Rosenstein in the early years
>>9473944 #12125

#12124
>>9472532 Senators on their knees. America's enemies are laughing at us.
>>9472543 BREAKING: Rod Rosenstein worked with Andrew Weissman in 3 cases related to the sales of URANIUM to RUSSIA
>>9472550 POTUS: I thought this letter from respected retired Marine and Super Star lawyer, John Dowd, would be of interest to the American People. Read it!
>>9472582 Reminder: Billionaire George Soros spent $33MILLION bankrolling Ferguson demonstrators to create 'echo chamber' and drive national protests
>>9472605 Video of Black Patriot naming the real enemy: globalism
>>9472618 How not to red-pill.
>>9472640 Anon points out Q filename 2078 + Q#2078 on No Name's successor
>>9472703 Minn. city council president: We are going to dismantle the Minneapolis Police Department and replace it with a transformative new model of public safety.
>>9472714 4 days later + counting: @jack/twitter refuses to take down threats of assassination against the President of the United States of America
>>9472782 New POTUS on low-flying helicopter pilots vs. anarchists et al
>>9472704 James Woods tweet of video of Soros bragging at Davos 2020 that if the economy is destabilized, it will destroy Trump.
>>9472973 Moderna Therapeutics, Inc. (developing CV treatment) CFO sold: $14.05m-June 2, CFO bailing effective June 8th
>>9472847 Text of letter from John Dowd to James Mattis
>>9473081, >>9473174 PF reports
>>9473126 New POTUS on John Kelly
>>9473142 Anon on unemployment fraud: file this under "how to funnel money to Deep State operations"
>>9473201 #12124

#12123
>>9471757 UCLA Professor: People Have No Choice But to Riot
>>9471770 Re: Floyd/Chauvin club past history of police reports
>>9471788 Riot deaths ignored by major networks; watchdog finds 99.3% of protest coverage focused elsewhere
>>9471797, >>9472033, >>9472147 PF reports
>>9471891 Anon connecting dots
>>9471901 Satanists are now openly taking part in these "protests".
>>9471909 Feds investigating 'command and control' of violent protests
>>9472050 James Wood confirming shills/trolls out in force today
>>9472104 Graham (Senate Judiciary Committee) postpones Russia probe subpoena vote "as tensions boil over"
>>9472101 Senate Homeland Security Committee authorizes Russia probe subpoenas on an 8-6 vote
>>9472159 The Minneapolis Parks and Recreation Board unanimously votes to end relationship with the Minneapolis Police Department
>>9472162 Utah Guard Sends Green Berets to DC to Assist in Civil Unrest Response
>>9472136 Wannabe commies attack African American officer
>>9472202 Anon on Pelosi's hypocrisy
>>9472234 Navy Veteran Michael White on His Release From Iran: 'I Want to Thank President Trump'
>>9472083, >>9472264 Anons dig into Derek Chauvin and George Floyd's names + cabal's false flag naming conventions
>>9472089, >>9472270 Reminder: Q3692 Operators are standing by (CF + Gitmo)
>>9472320, >>9472335 New DJT on the return of former American hostage Michael White
>>9472332 DJT: YOU DON'T BURN CHURCHES IN AMERICA!
>>9472452 #12123

Previously Collected Notables
>>9471314 #12120, >>9470929 #12121, >>9471693 #12122
>>9471252 #12117, >>9471284 #12118, >>9471307 #12119
>>9471050 #12114, >>9471164 #12115, >>9471199 #12116
Notables Aggregators: https://wearethene.ws & https://qnotables.com

#9473321 at 2020-06-04 23:29:15 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12125: We Are Fighting For Our Survival Edition

>>9473271
Leon Panetta praises "tough general" James Mattis

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/leon-panetta-praises-tough-general-James-Mattis-donald-trump/

#9473220 at 2020-06-04 23:22:50 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12125: We Are Fighting For Our Survival Edition

Global Announcements
Klausutis/Scarborough diggz https://pastebin.com/FFB6n1VG

Notables
are not endorsements

#12124
>>9472532 Senators on their knees. America's enemies are laughing at us.
>>9472543 BREAKING: Rod Rosenstein worked with Andrew Weissman in 3 cases related to the sales of URANIUM to RUSSIA
>>9472550 POTUS: I thought this letter from respected retired Marine and Super Star lawyer, John Dowd, would be of interest to the American People. Read it!
>>9472582 Reminder: Billionaire George Soros spent $33MILLION bankrolling Ferguson demonstrators to create 'echo chamber' and drive national protests
>>9472605 Video of Black Patriot naming the real enemy: globalism
>>9472618 How not to red-pill.
>>9472640 Anon points out Q filename 2078 + Q#2078 on No Name's successor
>>9472703 Minn. city council president: We are going to dismantle the Minneapolis Police Department and replace it with a transformative new model of public safety.
>>9472714 4 days later + counting: @jack/twitter refuses to take down threats of assassination against the President of the United States of America
>>9472782 New POTUS on low-flying helicopter pilots vs. anarchists et al
>>9472704 James Woods tweet of video of Soros bragging at Davos 2020 that if the economy is destabilized, it will destroy Trump.
>>9472973 Moderna Therapeutics, Inc. (developing CV treatment) CFO sold: $14.05m-June 2, CFO bailing effective June 8th
>>9472847 Text of letter from John Dowd to James Mattis
>>9473081, >>9473174 PF reports
>>9473126 New POTUS on John Kelly
>>9473142 Anon on unemployment fraud: file this under "how to funnel money to Deep State operations"
>>9473201 #12124

#12123
>>9471757 UCLA Professor: People Have No Choice But to Riot
>>9471770 Re: Floyd/Chauvin club past history of police reports
>>9471788 Riot deaths ignored by major networks; watchdog finds 99.3% of protest coverage focused elsewhere
>>9471797, >>9472033, >>9472147 PF reports
>>9471891 Anon connecting dots
>>9471901 Satanists are now openly taking part in these "protests".
>>9471909 Feds investigating 'command and control' of violent protests
>>9472050 James Wood confirming shills/trolls out in force today
>>9472104 Graham (Senate Judiciary Committee) postpones Russia probe subpoena vote "as tensions boil over"
>>9472101 Senate Homeland Security Committee authorizes Russia probe subpoenas on an 8-6 vote
>>9472159 The Minneapolis Parks and Recreation Board unanimously votes to end relationship with the Minneapolis Police Department
>>9472162 Utah Guard Sends Green Berets to DC to Assist in Civil Unrest Response
>>9472136 Wannabe commies attack African American officer
>>9472202 Anon on Pelosi's hypocrisy
>>9472234 Navy Veteran Michael White on His Release From Iran: 'I Want to Thank President Trump'
>>9472083, >>9472264 Anons dig into Derek Chauvin and George Floyd's names + cabal's false flag naming conventions
>>9472089, >>9472270 Reminder: Q3692 Operators are standing by (CF + Gitmo)
>>9472320, >>9472335 New DJT on the return of former American hostage Michael White
>>9472332 DJT: YOU DON'T BURN CHURCHES IN AMERICA!
>>9472452 #12123

Previously Collected Notables
>>9471314 #12120, >>9470929 #12121, >>9471693 #12122
>>9471252 #12117, >>9471284 #12118, >>9471307 #12119
>>9471050 #12114, >>9471164 #12115, >>9471199 #12116
>>9463146 #12111, >>9463924 #12112, >>9471117 #12113
>>9460896 #12108, >>9462673 #12109, >>9462789 #12110
Notables Aggregators: https://wearethene.ws & https://qnotables.com

#9473201 at 2020-06-04 23:21:54 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12124: When The Country Falls Into Chaos, Patriotism Is Born Edition

#12124
>>9472532 Senators on their knees. America's enemies are laughing at us.
>>9472543 BREAKING: Rod Rosenstein worked with Andrew Weissman in 3 cases related to the sales of URANIUM to RUSSIA
>>9472550 POTUS: I thought this letter from respected retired Marine and Super Star lawyer, John Dowd, would be of interest to the American People. Read it!
>>9472582 Reminder: Billionaire George Soros spent $33MILLION bankrolling Ferguson demonstrators to create 'echo chamber' and drive national protests
>>9472605 Video of Black Patriot naming the real enemy: globalism
>>9472618 How not to red-pill.
>>9472640 Anon points out Q filename 2078 + Q#2078 on No Name's successor
>>9472703 Minn. city council president: We are going to dismantle the Minneapolis Police Department and replace it with a transformative new model of public safety.
>>9472714 4 days later + counting: @jack/twitter refuses to take down threats of assassination against the President of the United States of America
>>9472782 New POTUS on low-flying helicopter pilots vs. anarchists et al
>>9472704 James Woods tweet of video of Soros bragging at Davos 2020 that if the economy is destabilized, it will destroy Trump.
>>9472973 Moderna Therapeutics, Inc. (developing CV treatment) CFO sold: $14.05m-June 2, CFO bailing effective June 8th
>>9472847 Text of letter from John Dowd to James Mattis
>>9473081, >>9473174 PF reports
>>9473126 New POTUS on John Kelly
>>9473142 Anon on unemployment fraud: file this under "how to funnel money to Deep State operations"

#9473197 at 2020-06-04 23:21:46 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12124: When The Country Falls Into Chaos, Patriotism Is Born Edition

DJT

The problem with asking for someone to give you a letter of resignation, which you do as a courtesy to help them save face, is that it is then harder to say you fired them. I did fire James Mattis. He was no good for Obama, who fired him also, and was no good for me!

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1268684040334446593

#9473126 at 2020-06-04 23:17:59 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12124: When The Country Falls Into Chaos, Patriotism Is Born Edition

DJT

John Kelly didn't know I was going to fire James Mattis, nor did he have any knowledge of my asking for a letter of resignation. Why would I tell him, he was not…

…in my inner-circle, was totally exhausted by the job, and in the end just slinked away into obscurity. They all want to come back for a piece of the limelight!

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1268683083852779520

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1268683085136224257

#9473038 at 2020-06-04 23:13:36 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12124: When The Country Falls Into Chaos, Patriotism Is Born Edition

Notables
>>9472532 Senators on their knees. America's enemies are laughing at us.
>>9472543 BREAKING: Rod Rosenstein worked with Andrew Weissman in 3 cases related to the sales of URANIUM to RUSSIA
>>9472550 POTUS: I thought this letter from respected retired Marine and Super Star lawyer, John Dowd, would be of interest to the American People. Read it!
>>9472582 Reminder: Billionaire George Soros spent $33MILLION bankrolling Ferguson demonstrators to create 'echo chamber' and drive national protests
>>9472605 Video of Black Patriot naming the real enemy: globalism
>>9472618 How not to red-pill.
>>9472640 Anon points out Q filename 2078 + Q#2078 on No Name's successor
>>9472703 Minn. city council president: We are going to dismantle the Minneapolis Police Department and replace it with a transformative new model of public safety.
>>9472714 4 days later + counting: @jack/twitter refuses to take down threats of assassination against the President of the United States of America
>>9472782 New POTUS on low-flying helicopter pilots vs. anarchists et al
>>9472704 James Woods tweet of video of Soros bragging at Davos 2020 that if the economy is destabilized, it will destroy Trump.
>>9472973 Moderna Therapeutics, Inc. (developing CV treatment) CFO sold: $14.05m-June 2, CFO bailing effective June 8th
>>9472847 Text of letter from John Dowd to James Mattis

#9473025 at 2020-06-04 23:12:55 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12124: When The Country Falls Into Chaos, Patriotism Is Born Edition

>>9473010
good and biting letter to James Mattis
Tweeted out by POTUS DJT
Baker Notable
>>9472820

#9473010 at 2020-06-04 23:11:58 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12124: When The Country Falls Into Chaos, Patriotism Is Born Edition

>>9472820
good and biting letter to James Mattis
Baker Notable

#9472783 at 2020-06-04 23:00:18 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12124: When The Country Falls Into Chaos, Patriotism Is Born Edition

As former military I have to say what General James Mattis did yesterday was utterly disgusting. I used to respect the man, but now all I have for him is venomous contempt.

I despise you General James Mattis !
You are of the same cloth as General Benedict Arnold.
TRAITOR
SELLOUT
ENEMY

#9468338 at 2020-06-04 19:02:46 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #11218: Two Terms, It's Happening Edition

James Mattis, fuck you. fuck FUCKING you, goddamed traitor.

#9467995 at 2020-06-04 18:40:48 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #11218: Two Terms, It's Happening Edition

A small part of a great article

Thanks to Mattis and company, Trump's purported desire to withdraw from fruitless Middle Eastern wars has been stifled, the result being business as usual for the military-industrial-complex and national security state. And why not? Since resigning his post, Mattis has burst through the "revolving door" of the arms industry, reclaiming his seat on the board of the fifth largest defense contractor, General Dynamics. Albert Einstein famously (and perhaps apocryphally) said, "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result." He might just as easily have been describing the career of James Mattis, who has been proven wrong again and again and again, from Iraq to Afghanistan to Syria.

By refusing to question the Marjah operation, or Obama's Afghan "surge" in general, Mattis betrayed the very ground-pounders by whom he was so inspired. A more honorable figure, a true adult in the room, would have asked what we were doing there in the first place.

Author:
Maj. Danny Sjursen
Maj. Danny Sjursen is a retired U.S. Army officer and former history instructor at West Point. He served tours with reconnaissance units in Iraq and Afghanistan…

Link;
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-madness-of-James-Mattis/

#9462877 at 2020-06-04 10:44:44 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12111: Ghosted II; The Need Notables Edition

>>9462857
https://legalinsurrection.com/2018/05/James-Mattis-awarded-honorary-degree-from-institute-of-world-politics/

#9462641 at 2020-06-04 09:27:39 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12111: Ghosted II; The Need Notables Edition

regarding Jeff Sessions and James Mattis:

Optics important

they would attack both like they do with Barr if they would not engage in public (staged) misunderstandings.

trust the plan!

#9460212 at 2020-06-04 03:55:38 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12108: Silent Night, Holy Night, All is Calm (so far) Edition

Don't know if all of you would call this sauce, but here is a link to a story (old) about James Mattis and other big names on the board of Theranos.

I don't know how to copy and paste with this device. Hope second screen cap is good enough.

#9459932 at 2020-06-04 03:37:25 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12107: No More Looters and Rioters, Take 'Em Down! Edition

>>9459700
>>9459691

https://www.businessinsider.com/theranos-former-board-members-henry-kissinger-george-shultz-James-Mattis-2019-3

#9459901 at 2020-06-04 03:35:00 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12107: No More Looters and Rioters, Take 'Em Down! Edition

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbFIWTS5K0A

Obviously Mattis' fall-out with Q+ is kayfabe, I guess to ensure that the sheep will see the protagonists in the upcoming tribunals as non-partisan.

But I have to say he certainly is an oddball.
His past connection to Theranos for instance, the stuff Rich Higgins talked about today on twitter and getting a Soros award in 2010.

"General James Mattis, General Stephan Abrial The 2010 Atlantic Council awards dinner at the Ritz Carlton Hotel Washington, DC"

https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-general-James-Mattis-general-stephan-abrial-the-2010-atlantic-council-38694747.html

https://www.businessinsider.com/theranos-former-board-members-henry-kissinger-george-shultz-James-Mattis-2019-3?r=DE&IR=T

#9459799 at 2020-06-04 03:27:52 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12107: No More Looters and Rioters, Take 'Em Down! Edition

>>9459681
>>9459725
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/06/James-Mattis-denounces-trump-protests-militarization/612640/?fbclid=IwAR3aITXroyH5Sza-HeD7sLf87DX9sG75Upwdr3Cj8lnZz6jN_a2B8TtCbhw

#9459256 at 2020-06-04 02:50:35 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12106: Anons Bring Home The Bacon - The Hoooah Edition

>>9459131
Original board included:

Former U.S. Secretary of State George P. Shultz
William Perry (former U.S. Secretary of Defense)
Henry Kissinger (former U.S. Secretary of State)
Sam Nunn (former U.S. Senator)
Bill Frist (former U.S. Senator and heart-transplant surgeon)
Gary Roughead (Admiral, USN, retired)
James Mattis (General, USMC)
Richard Kovacevich (former Wells Fargo Chairman and CEO)
Riley Bechtel (chairman of the board and former CEO at Bechtel Group)

In 2016, it was changed to:

Elizabeth Holmes, founder and CEO
Riley Bechtel, former Bechtel Group CEO
David Boies, a founder and the chairman of Boies Schiller Flexner
William Foege, former director CDC
Richard Kovacevich, former Wells Fargo CEO and chairman
James Mattis, later U.S. Secretary of Defense
Fabrizio Bonanni, former executive vice president of Amgen

#9459232 at 2020-06-04 02:48:51 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12106: Anons Bring Home The Bacon - The Hoooah Edition

Gen. Mattis says he's 'angry and appalled' at Trump's response to protests

President Trump's former Secretary of Defense James Mattis, who resigned last year, spoke out against his ex-boss for the first time Wednesday, saying he is "angry and appalled" at the White House's response to the protests over the death of George Floyd.

"When I joined the military, some 50 years ago, I swore an oath to support and defend the Constitution," Mattis said in a statement emailed to reporters. "Never did I dream that troops taking that same oath would be ordered under any circumstance to violate the Constitutional rights of their fellow citizens - much less to provide a bizarre photo op for the elected commander-in-chief, with military leadership standing alongside."

He continued: "Donald Trump is the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American people - does not even pretend to try. Instead he tries to divide us. We are witnessing the consequences of three years of this deliberate effort. We are witnessing the consequences of three years without mature leadership."

https://news.yahoo.com/gen-Mattis-says-hes-angry-and-appalled-at-trumps-response-to-protests-223332160.html

#9458649 at 2020-06-04 02:07:57 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12106: Anons Bring Home The Bacon - The Hoooah Edition

One would think trump would have learned by now that the lists of prospective replacements they shove in front of him to fill vacancies in his administration are all people that have been carefully chosen to obstruct whatever he's doing.

https://www.axios.com/James-Mattis-trump-protests-f325f239-17f1-4795-b6a4-0ab1587ad210.html

#9458632 at 2020-06-04 02:06:21 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12105: The 'Seldom Brought Home The Bacon' Edition

One would think trump would have learned by now that the lists of prospective replacements to fill vacancies in his administration are all people that have been carefully chosen to obstruct whatever he's doing.

https://www.axios.com/James-Mattis-trump-protests-f325f239-17f1-4795-b6a4-0ab1587ad210.html

#9457877 at 2020-06-04 01:15:42 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12104: Welcome To The People's Republic Of ChYna Edition

Mattis was a walking conflict of interest.

https://www.politico.com/blogs/donald-trump-administration/2017/01/James-Mattis-defense-disclosures-233331

#9457677 at 2020-06-04 01:02:59 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12104: Welcome To The People's Republic Of ChYna Edition

'…
"Donald Trump is the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American people-does not even pretend to try. Instead, he tries to divide us," Mattis writes. "We are witnessing the consequences of three years of this deliberate effort. We are witnessing the consequences of three years without mature leadership. We can unite without him, drawing on the strengths inherent in our civil society. This will not be easy, as the past few days have shown, but we owe it to our fellow citizens; to past generations that bled to defend our promise; and to our children."

He goes on to contrast the American ethos of unity with Nazi ideology. "Instructions given by the military departments to our troops before the Normandy invasion reminded soldiers that 'The Nazi slogan for destroying us ... was "Divide and Conquer." Our American answer is "In Union there is Strength."' We must summon that unity to surmount this crisis-confident that we are better than our politics."

…'
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/06/James-Mattis-denounces-trump-protests-militarization/612640/

#9457119 at 2020-06-04 00:28:33 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12104: Welcome To The People's Republic Of ChYna Edition

Global Announcements
Klausutis/Scarborough diggz https://pastebin.com/FFB6n1VG

Notables
are not endorsements

#12103
>>9456854 LE Official: Antifa planned anti-government insurgency for months
>>9456759 Pelosi surrounded by guards as she walks among protesters
>>9456682 , >>9456733 PDF: FM 3-19.15 Civil Disturbance Operations
>>9456697 Snapchat: Snap Inc CEO sold $27.91m-June 1
>>9456674 Looking for a video with a couple of white kids and 20 black college kids?
>>9456652 , >>9456715, >>9456737, >>9456752 Planes circle NY with "Welcome to the Federal state of China" flag
>>9456625 , >>9456691 Video: Further military troops deploy into DC
>>9456624 NBC News Praises 'Good Samaritan' Who Hid Rioters Breaking Curfew From Cops
>>9456601 Chinese troops carry out infiltration drills in #Tibet amid #India border dispute
>>9456524 , >>9456888 On St Louis not prosecuting looters and rioters - Soros connected
>>9456507 , >>9456510 Issues highlight how Graham's Senate hearings are a DS cover op
>>9456480 , >>9456512 DJT JR tweet: China Joe
>>9456471 , >>9456607, >>9456607, >>9456510 Planefag Reports
>>9456453 , >>9456503, >>9456553, >>9456573 Re counterfeit bills in Minnesota
>>9456397 Recon report on Discord Inc
>>9456385 LA City Council members aim to reduce $100 million+ in LAPD funding
>>9456417 , >>9456455, >>9456552, >>9456798, >>9456857 Protests Updates
#12103

#12102
>>9456231 New tactics being deployed
>>9456243 Madeleine McCann: German paedophile with multiple convictions identified as suspect
>>9456181 Obama called 'slave' by Qatar's ex Emir in leaked Gaddafi recording
>>9455988 , >>9456011 D5 Military Cyber Tools: deceive, degrade, deny, disrupt & destroy
>>9455915 , >>9456021 2016 Video Refresh: General Flynn: "Don't forget the Q"
>>9455909 Crowdstrike Holdings, Inc sold by CFO and President Field Ops.: $18.76m-June 1
>>9455897 Bognet Wins Crowded GOP Primary
>>9455833 New Brennan tweet
>>9456013 , >>9456030, >>9456106 New evidence re 'George Floyd was a hit' II
>>9455825 , >>9455844, >>9455853, >>9455856 New evidence re 'George Floyd was a hit' I
>>9455821 How can the virus tell?! Protests SAFE from CV but anti-lockdown protests are NOT
>>9455798 George Floyd Diggz: Where is Theo?
>>9455786 The UN weighs in on the US protests
>>9455777 Professors Around the Country Offer Assistance and Support to Rioters
>>9455746 More on Mattis' comments
>>9455723 Epstein news: Judge poised to dismiss effort to unseal
>>9455717 White House says Esper is SecDef 'as of right now'
>>9455681 NYC Police Union President: 'We Are Losing the City'
>>9455687 Missouri AG says Soros-backed prosecutor released all protesters from jail
>>9455650 Obama Gives a Speech on Race Relations As Far Left Riots Consume the Nation
>>9455635 The people who killed the dog in Memphis, anons were looking for earlier
>>9455725 , >>9455971 DC Protest Live Streams
>>9455649 , >>9455727, >>9455727 Las Vegas protests - 3 arrested - Diggz
>>9456451 #12102

#12101
>>9455529 Minneapolis City Council Member Phillipe Cunningham Dig
>>9455503 Steve Hilton: Director Redfield must be fired as I've said for months
>>9455405 , >>9455383, >>9455448 Bill Clinton held up the Bible
>>9455433 , >>9455469 Appeals court mulls making Hillary Clinton testify on emails
>>9455218 , >>9455251 Online viewer numbers during Hussien's shout out to rioters?
>>9455200 WHO to resume HCQ trial
>>9455158 Mail-In votes discarded, never counted in Baltimore Election due to error
>>9455096 Snapchat will stop promoting President Trump's posts
>>9455065 Video: Keyleigh McEnany's Press Briefing today
>>9454985 , >>9455086 James Mattis denounces President Trump. Tribunals soon?
>>9454976 US joins lawsuit against AECOM alleging false claims re hurricane relief
>>9454947 Police arrested 36 for rioting and looting in St. Louis this week
>>9454923 The Debate Now: Does The Coronavirus Still Even Exist?
>>9454887 , >>9455485 George Floyd diggz
>>9454883 , >>9454926, >>9455120 Planefag Reports
>>9454860 Rocky Mount to remove 103-year-old Confederate monument
>>9454857 Breitbart: Tom Cotton on Insurrection Act
>>9454803 , >>9454859, >>9454865, >>9455051 Reactions to Rosenstein news
>>9455516 , >>9455491, >>9455537 Protest Updates II
>>9454884 , >>9454886, >>9454919, >>9455192, >>9455303 Protest Updates I
>>9455572 #12101

Previously Collected Notables
>>9456312 #12099, >>9454758 #12100,
>>9451710 #12096, >>9452431 #12097, >>9453293 #12098
>>9450175 #12094, >>9450921 #12095, >>9450921 #12095
>>9447869 #12091, >>9448643 #12092, >>9449386 #12093
>>9445562 #12088, >>9446541 #12089, >>9447049 #12090

Notables Aggregators: https://wearethene.ws & https://qnotables.com

#9456321 at 2020-06-03 23:39:37 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12103: The 'Where Art Theo?' Edition

Notables
are not endorsements

#12102
>>9456231 New tactics being deployed
>>9456243 Madeleine McCann: German paedophile with multiple convictions identified as suspect
>>9456181 Obama called 'slave' by Qatar's ex Emir in leaked Gaddafi recording
>>9455988 , >>9456011 D5 Military Cyber Tools: deceive, degrade, deny, disrupt & destroy
>>9455915 , >>9456021 2016 Video Refresh: General Flynn: "Don't forget the Q"
>>9455909 Crowdstrike Holdings, Inc sold by CFO and President Field Ops.: $18.76m-June 1
>>9455897 Bognet Wins Crowded GOP Primary
>>9455833 New Brennan tweet
>>9456013 , >>9456030, >>9456106 New evidence re 'George Floyd was a hit' II
>>9455825 , >>9455844, >>9455853, >>9455856 New evidence re 'George Floyd was a hit' I
>>9455821 How can the virus tell?! Protests SAFE from CV but anti-lockdown protests are NOT
>>9455798 George Floyd Diggz: Where is Theo?
>>9455786 The UN weighs in on the US protests
>>9455777 Professors Around the Country Offer Assistance and Support to Rioters
>>9455746 More on Mattis' comments
>>9455723 Epstein news: Judge poised to dismiss effort to unseal
>>9455717 White House says Esper is SecDef 'as of right now'
>>9455681 NYC Police Union President: 'We Are Losing the City'
>>9455687 Missouri AG says Soros-backed prosecutor released all protesters from jail
>>9455619 Trump's latest re-election video, geared towards urban voters. Looks good!
>>9455650 Obama Gives a Speech on Race Relations As Far Left Riots Consume the Nation
>>9455635 The people who killed the dog in Memphis, anons were looking for earlier
>>9455725 , >>9455971 DC Protest Live Streams
>>9455649 , >>9455727, >>9455727 Las Vegas protests - 3 arrested - Diggz
>>9456294 #12102

#12101
>>9455529 Minneapolis City Council Member Phillipe Cunningham Dig
>>9455503 Steve Hilton: Director Redfield must be fired as I've said for months
>>9455405 , >>9455383, >>9455448 Bill Clinton held up the Bible
>>9455433 , >>9455469 Appeals court mulls making Hillary Clinton testify on emails
>>9455218 , >>9455251 Online viewer numbers during Hussien's shout out to rioters?
>>9455200 WHO to resume HCQ trial
>>9455158 Mail-In votes discarded, never counted in Baltimore Election due to error
>>9455096 Snapchat will stop promoting President Trump's posts
>>9455065 Video: Keyleigh McEnany's Press Briefing today
>>9454985 , >>9455086 James Mattis denounces President Trump. Tribunals soon?
>>9454976 US joins lawsuit against AECOM alleging false claims re hurricane relief
>>9454947 Police arrested 36 for rioting and looting in St. Louis this week
>>9454923 The Debate Now: Does The Coronavirus Still Even Exist?
>>9454887 , >>9455485 George Floyd diggz
>>9454883 , >>9454926, >>9455120 Planefag Reports
>>9454860 Rocky Mount to remove 103-year-old Confederate monument
>>9454857 Breitbart: Tom Cotton on Insurrection Act
>>9454803 , >>9454859, >>9454865, >>9455051 Reactions to Rosenstein news
>>9455516 , >>9455491, >>9455537 Protest Updates II
>>9454884 , >>9454886, >>9454919, >>9455192, >>9455303 Protest Updates I
>>9455572 #12101

#12100 Baker change
>>9454681 17! Trump campaign statement on Snapchat | Donald J. Trump for President
>>9454622 Social justice means beating the hell out of a disabled man
>>9454611 Pompeo Tweets Pic Hosting 'Wanted' Chinese Dissidents & Tiananmen Survivors
>>9454550 Google facing $5 billion lawsuit for tracking 'private' internet use
>>9454517 New vid on DJT YT channel: Healing Not Hate
>>9454427 Hussein's Community Policing Town Hall: Ford Foundation diggz
>>9454308 NYPD chief 'outraged' at Gov. Cuomo for 'sitting in his office'
>>9454286 Planefag Reports
>>9454278 Antifa Attempt To Riot In California Suburb Goes Awry
>>9454239 , >>9454268 Project Veritas to expose Antifa
>>9454236 Anon on shadow presidency
>>9454205 POTUS tweet misspelling - the missing 'Y'?
>>9454151 Video: Jesse Waters - George Floyd - It was a hit
>>9454144 Results from yesterday's DC Presidential Primary
>>9454125 NJ governor admits COVID-19 double standard
>>9454112, >>9454137 Addressing a Former President of the United States
>>9454758 #12100

Previously Collected Notables
>>9456312 #12099,
>>9451710 #12096, >>9452431 #12097, >>9453293 #12098
>>9450175 #12094, >>9450921 #12095, >>9450921 #12095
>>9447869 #12091, >>9448643 #12092, >>9449386 #12093
>>9445562 #12088, >>9446541 #12089, >>9447049 #12090

Notables Aggregators: https://wearethene.ws & https://qnotables.com

#9456074 at 2020-06-03 23:24:45 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12102: Reactions To Rosenstein Edition

From 2018 but relevant regarding Mattis
Mar 16, 2018, 9:00am EDT

James Mattis is linked to a massive corporate fraud and nobody wants to talk about it

https://www.vox.com/2018/3/16/17124288/Mattis-theranos-board-trump

Secretary of Defense James Mattis is implicated in one of the largest business scandals of the past decades, described by the Securities and Exchange Commission as an "elaborate, years-long fraud"…

Mattis not only served on Theranos's board during some of the years it was perpetrating the fraud after he retired from US military service, but he earlier served as a key advocate of putting the company's technology (technology that was, to be clear, fake) to use inside the military while he was still serving as a general…

Nobody on the board is being directly charged with doing anything. But accepting six-figure checks to serve as a frontman for a con operation is the kind of thing that would normally count as a liability in American politics….

James Mattis profited off helping Theranos perpetrate a fraud…

#9455746 at 2020-06-03 23:04:27 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12102: Reactions To Rosenstein Edition

'We Can Unite Without Him': Former Defense Secretary Slams Trump as Threat to US Constitution

Former US Secretary of Defense James Mattis slammed US President Donald Trump on Wednesday, accusing him of threatening the US Constitution.

"I have watched this week's unfolding events, angry and appalled," Mattis wrote in a blistering statement to The Atlantic.

"The words 'Equal Justice Under Law' are carved in the pediment of the United States Supreme Court. This is precisely what protesters are rightly demanding. It is a wholesome and unifying demand - one that all of us should be able to get behind. We must not be distracted by a small number of lawbreakers," he added.

He also accused the president of dividing Americans and pitting them against each other.

"Donald Trump is the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American people - does not even pretend to try. Instead, he tries to divide us. We are witnessing the consequences of three years of this deliberate effort. We are witnessing the consequences of three years without mature leadership. We can unite without him, drawing on the strengths inherent in our civil society. This will not be easy, as the past few days have shown, but we owe it to our fellow citizens; to past generations that bled to defend our promise; and to our children," Mattis added.

He also contrasted the Nazi ideology to Americans values of unity and cooperation.

"Instructions given by the military departments to our troops before the Normandy invasion reminded soldiers that 'The Nazi slogan for destroying us ... was "Divide and Conquer." Our American answer is 'In Union there is Strength.'" We must summon that unity to surmount this crisis - confident that we are better than our politics."

He also commented on the of violence against peaceful protesters on Monday night so that Trump could walk to and take a photo in front of the St. John's Episcopal Church in Washington, DC.

"When I joined the military, some 50 years ago," he wrote, "I swore an oath to support and defend the Constitution. Never did I dream that troops taking that same oath would be ordered under any circumstance to violate the Constitutional rights of their fellow citizens - much less to provide a bizarre photo op for the elected commander-in-chief, with military leadership standing alongside."

The former defense secretary also stressed the importance of only using the military on "very rare occasions."

"We must reject any thinking of our cities as a 'battlespace' that our uniformed military is called upon to 'dominate.' At home, we should use our military only when requested to do so, on very rare occasions, by state governors. Militarizing our response, as we witnessed in Washington, DC, sets up a conflict - a false conflict - between the military and civilian society. It erodes the moral ground that ensures a trusted bond between men and women in uniform and the society they are sworn to protect, and of which they themselves are a part. Keeping public order rests with civilian state and local leaders who best understand their communities and are answerable to them," Mattis noted.

Trump on Monday said he would deploy US military to states that don't use the National Guard in sufficient numbers to dominate the streets as protests against police brutality rage across America.

https://sputniknews.com/us/202006031079511901-we-can-unite-without-him-former-defense-secretary-slams-trump-as-threat-to-us-constitution-/

Did James Mattis Commit War Crimes?
Retired Gen. James Mattis earned the nickname "Mad Dog" for leading U.S. Marines into battle in Fallujah, Iraq, in April 2004. In that assault, members of the Marine Corps, under Mattis' command, shot at ambulances and aid workers. They cordoned off the city, preventing civilians from escaping. They posed for trophy photos with the people they killed.
MORE
https://www.globalresearch.ca/did-defense-secretary-James-Mattis-commit-war-crimes-in-iraq/5607347

#9455692 at 2020-06-03 23:00:12 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12102: Reactions To Rosenstein Edition

>https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/06/James-Mattis-denounces-trump-protests-militarization/612640

Baker,

NOTABLE

James Mattis Denounces President Trump, Describes Him as a Threat to the Constitution

Mattis IS GAY AF and anyone that doesn't know that is a cat4 retest. He's not honest, he's a fucking commie and he's been blackmailed to hell and back. WHO IS THE RETARD SHEEP that asked me for SAUCE? You want pics? Are you insane. Anyone that knows shit all about the military knows that YOU DO NOT MAKE IT IN RANK WITHOUT A WIFE. There's a reason for that. Can you fucking GUESS WHAT IT IS?

Mattis is a traitor-we all know it-you retards literally cheered for a traitor. Same with Kelly.

FLYNN is not a traitor-those two are fucking traitors. Mattis is a traitor. Wait for Kelly to back him up.

WAKE THE FUCK UP.

#9455580 at 2020-06-03 22:52:06 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12102: Reactions To Rosenstein Edition

Global Announcements
Klausutis/Scarborough diggz https://pastebin.com/FFB6n1VG

Notables
are not endorsements

#12101
>>9455529 Minneapolis City Council Member Phillipe Cunningham Dig
>>9455503 Steve Hilton: Director Redfield must be fired as I've said for months
>>9455405 , >>9455383, >>9455448 Bill Clinton held up the Bible
>>9455433 , >>9455469 Appeals court mulls making Hillary Clinton testify on emails
>>9455218 , >>9455251 Online viewer numbers during Hussien's shout out to rioters?
>>9455200 WHO to resume HCQ trial
>>9455158 Mail-In votes discarded, never counted in Baltimore Election due to error
>>9455096 Snapchat will stop promoting President Trump's posts
>>9455065 Video: Keyleigh McEnany's Press Briefing today
>>9454985 , >>9455086 James Mattis denounces President Trump. Tribunals soon?
>>9454976 US joins lawsuit against AECOM alleging false claims re hurricane relief
>>9454947 Police arrested 36 for rioting and looting in St. Louis this week
>>9454923 The Debate Now: Does The Coronavirus Still Even Exist?
>>9454887 , >>9455485 George Floyd diggz
>>9454883 , >>9454926, >>9455120 Planefag Reports
>>9454860 Rocky Mount to remove 103-year-old Confederate monument
>>9454857 Breitbart: Tom Cotton on Insurrection Act
>>9454803 , >>9454859, >>9454865, >>9455051 Reactions to Rosenstein news
>>9455516 , >>9455491, >>9455537 Protest Updates II
>>9454884 , >>9454886, >>9454919, >>9455192, >>9455303 Protest Updates I
#12101

#12100 Baker change
>>9454681 17! Trump campaign statement on Snapchat | Donald J. Trump for President
>>9454622 Social justice means beating the hell out of a disabled man
>>9454611 Pompeo Tweets Pic Hosting 'Wanted' Chinese Dissidents & Tiananmen Survivors
>>9454550 Google facing $5 billion lawsuit for tracking 'private' internet use
>>9454517 New vid on DJT YT channel: Healing Not Hate
>>9454427 Hussein's Community Policing Town Hall: Ford Foundation diggz
>>9454308 NYPD chief 'outraged' at Gov. Cuomo for 'sitting in his office'
>>9454286 Planefag Reports
>>9454278 Antifa Attempt To Riot In California Suburb Goes Awry
>>9454239 , >>9454268 Project Veritas to expose Antifa
>>9454236 Anon on shadow presidency
>>9454205 POTUS tweet misspelling - the missing 'Y'?
>>9454151 Video: Jesse Waters - George Floyd - It was a hit
>>9454144 Results from yesterday's DC Presidential Primary
>>9454125 NJ governor admits COVID-19 double standard
>>9454112, >>9454137 Addressing a Former President of the United States
>>9454758 #12100

#12099
>>9453570, >>9453599 planefaggin
>>9453733 Feds investigating whether criminal actors exerting 'command and control' over unrest as bricks thrown at cops
>>9453663 London rioting has started.
>>9453624 Defense Secretary Mark Esper Says He Was Not Aware He Was Accompanying Trump to St. John's for a 'Photo Op'
>>9453604 Looters in Manhattan Pulled Up to Store in $300,000 Rolls Royce SUV to Clean Out Store
>>9453520 Minnesota's attorney general warns that while all four officers involved in the death of George Floyd are now charged, convicting them "will be hard"
>>9453374 Defense Secretary Mark Esper has reversed decision to return active-duty troops deployed near DC to home bases, Army secretary tells AP.
>>9453348 TikTok influencers are covering themselves in their own feces to support #BlackOutTuesday
#12099

#12098
>>9452978 Market Report
>>9452685 Full Vid of NG taking the Knee.
>>9452632 Deutsche anons check in
>>9452598 Murder Investigation Against German in Madeleine McCann Case
>>9452541 Ex-Baltimore mayor, once convicted of embezzlement, now favorite to fill seat of mayor convicted of fraud
>>9453293 #12098

Previously Collected Notables
>>9451710 #12096, >>9452431 #12097,
>>9450175 #12094, >>9450921 #12095, >>9450921 #12095
>>9447869 #12091, >>9448643 #12092, >>9449386 #12093
>>9445562 #12088, >>9446541 #12089, >>9447049 #12090

Notables Aggregators: https://wearethene.ws & https://qnotables.com

#9455572 at 2020-06-03 22:51:46 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12101: What Does Waters Know? The 'George Floyd Was A Hit' Edition

#12101
>>9455529 Minneapolis City Council Member Phillipe Cunningham Dig
>>9455503 Steve Hilton: Director Redfield must be fired as I've said for months
>>9455405 , >>9455383, >>9455448 Bill Clinton held up the Bible
>>9455433 , >>9455469 Appeals court mulls making Hillary Clinton testify on emails
>>9455218 , >>9455251 Online viewer numbers during Hussien's shout out to rioters?
>>9455200 WHO to resume HCQ trial
>>9455158 Mail-In votes discarded, never counted in Baltimore Election due to error
>>9455096 Snapchat will stop promoting President Trump's posts
>>9455065 Video: Keyleigh McEnany's Press Briefing today
>>9454985 , >>9455086 James Mattis denounces President Trump. Tribunals soon?
>>9454976 US joins lawsuit against AECOM alleging false claims re hurricane relief
>>9454947 Police arrested 36 for rioting and looting in St. Louis this week
>>9454923 The Debate Now: Does The Coronavirus Still Even Exist?
>>9454887 , >>9455485 George Floyd diggz
>>9454883 , >>9454926, >>9455120 Planefag Reports
>>9454860 Rocky Mount to remove 103-year-old Confederate monument
>>9454857 Breitbart: Tom Cotton on Insurrection Act
>>9454803 , >>9454859, >>9454865, >>9455051 Reactions to Rosenstein news
>>9455516 , >>9455491, >>9455537 Protest Updates II
>>9454884 , >>9454886, >>9454919, >>9455192, >>9455303 Protest Updates I

#9455472 at 2020-06-03 22:46:03 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12101: What Does Waters Know? The 'George Floyd Was A Hit' Edition

>>9455086
>https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/06/James-Mattis-denounces-trump-protests-militarization/612640
If true
Execute Mattis
Execure Espar as well

#9455423 at 2020-06-03 22:42:48 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12101: What Does Waters Know? The 'George Floyd Was A Hit' Edition

Updated Notables

>>9455218 , >>9455251 Online viewer numbers during Hussien's shout out to rioters?
>>9455200 WHO to resume HCQ trial
>>9455158 Mail-In votes discarded, never counted in Baltimore Election due to error
>>9455096 Snapchat will stop promoting President Trump's posts
>>9455065 Video: Keyleigh McEnany's Press Briefing today
>>9454985 , >>9455086 James Mattis denounces President Trump. Tribunals soon?
>>9454976 US joins lawsuit against AECOM alleging false claims re hurricane relief
>>9454947 Police arrested 36 for rioting and looting in St. Louis this week
>>9454923 The Debate Now: Does The Coronavirus Still Even Exist?
>>9454887 George Floyd diggz
>>9454883 , >>9454926, >>9455120 Planefag Reports
>>9454860 Rocky Mount to remove 103-year-old Confederate monument
>>9454857 Breitbart: Tom Cotton on Insurrection Act
>>9454803 , >>9454859, >>9454865, >>9455051 Reactions to Rosenstein news
>>9454884 , >>9454886, >>9454919, >>9455192, >>9455303 Protest Updates

#9455369 at 2020-06-03 22:39:38 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12101: What Does Waters Know? The 'George Floyd Was A Hit' Edition

>>9455086
>https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/06/James-Mattis-denounces-trump-protests-militarization/612640

Baker,
NOTABLE

James Mattis Denounces President Trump, Describes Him as a Threat to the Constitution

#9455162 at 2020-06-03 22:28:21 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12101: What Does Waters Know? The 'George Floyd Was A Hit' Edition

>>9455092
>James Mattis Denounces Trump as a Threat to the Constitution

#9455095 at 2020-06-03 22:25:04 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12101: What Does Waters Know? The 'George Floyd Was A Hit' Edition

"All assets deployed"

James Mattis Denounces President Trump, Describes Him as a Threat to the Constitution

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/06/James-Mattis-denounces-trump-protests-militarization/612640/

#9455092 at 2020-06-03 22:24:55 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12101: What Does Waters Know? The 'George Floyd Was A Hit' Edition

James Mattis Denounces Trump as a Threat to the Constitution buff.ly/370kqkp via @TheAtlantic

https://twitter.com/defenseone/status/1268306659434287106?s=21

#9455086 at 2020-06-03 22:24:43 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12101: What Does Waters Know? The 'George Floyd Was A Hit' Edition

BOOM
Are we getting closer to MIL Tribunals?
Optics are important.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/06/James-Mattis-denounces-trump-protests-militarization/612640

#9455067 at 2020-06-03 22:23:38 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12101: What Does Waters Know? The 'George Floyd Was A Hit' Edition

Notables at 200
All in so far?

>>9454985 James Mattis denounces President Trump
>>9454976 US joins lawsuit against AECOM alleging false claims re hurricane relief
>>9454947 Police arrested 36 for rioting and looting in St. Louis this week
>>9454923 The Debate Now: Does The Coronavirus Still Even Exist?
>>9454887 George Floyd diggz
>>9454883 , >>9454926 Planefag Reports
>>9454860 Rocky Mount to remove 103-year-old Confederate monument
>>9454857 Breitbart: Tom Cotton on Insurrection Act
>>9454803 , >>9454859, >>9454865 Reactions to Rosenstein news
>>9454884 , >>9454886, >>9454919 Protest Updates

#9455007 at 2020-06-03 22:21:06 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12101: What Does Waters Know? The 'George Floyd Was A Hit' Edition

>>9454985

James Mattis was a tool for use at the time he was used.

If you haven't noticed, Trump has turned making his enemies do his bidding into an art form.

#9454985 at 2020-06-03 22:19:46 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12101: What Does Waters Know? The 'George Floyd Was A Hit' Edition

What the fuck?

James Mattis Denounces President Trump, Describes Him as a Threat to the Constitution

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/06/James-Mattis-denounces-trump-protests-militarization/612640/

#9454897 at 2020-06-03 22:13:28 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12101: What Does Waters Know? The 'George Floyd Was A Hit' Edition

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/06/James-Mattis-denounces-trump-protests-militarization/612640/

Dog lost his bark

#9170376 at 2020-05-14 16:27:06 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #11737: #HillaryKnew #ObamaGate Edition

Not sure who pushed for Dan Coats to become DNI, but Pence sure did push to keep him on.

https://splinternews.com/mike-pence-reportedly-begged-dni-dan-coats-not-to-quit-1833571918

You know that work friend you have who you can vent to about the angering interactions with your boss, especially when you're close to losing it and quitting altogether, but who also happens to be the assistant manager and keeps telling you that he'll talk to the guy for you and that you should just ride it out until things get better?

Vice President Mike Pence is definitely that shitty friend, and he has been to multiple people within the Trump administration. He's particularly aligned himself, however, with Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats, a former Republican congressman and senator from Pence's home state of Indiana. And reportedly, Pence has begged Coats to stay on no matter how many reasons their own boss, President Donald Trump, gives Coats not to.

According to a report from NBC News, Pence convinced Coats to stay in the Trump administration until at least the summer after Trump's decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria, current and former officials told the outlet. Coats reportedly sided with Defense Secretary James Mattis on the policy, according to NBC News, but didn't know what to do after Mattis' resignation. Pence then convinced Coats to stay on for longer, arguing that another top national security official's resignation following Mattis' would look very bad for the president.

#9170233 at 2020-05-14 16:19:09 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #11737: #HillaryKnew #ObamaGate Edition

The Hawks Are Winning
H.R. McMaster and James Mattis are steering the Trump administration away from "America First."

Looking at left leaning Snippets:

Optimistic observers like Wall Street Journal columnist Gerald Seib have found hope in the ascendance of National Security Adviser (and Army Lt. Gen.) H.R. McMaster, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, and Defense Secretary James Mattis. Others have taken comfort in the more mature structure and process established by McMaster at the National Security Council. These moves matter, and will likely help reduce the drama within the White House around national security matters. But the ascendance of the likes of McMaster and Mattis may also create a more hawkish administration, one driven by establishment aides who favor the use of force and for whom "America First" means something completely different than it does to Bannon or his minions. On Feb. 20, Trump picked McMaster to replace Flynn. Shortly thereafter, McMaster began to make changes at the NSC by moving key deputies around to build a trusted team. Later, he ejected Bannon from regular membership and succeeded in pushing out K.T. McFarland from the crucial deputy position.

At the same time, Defense Secretary James Mattis began to unfurl the appointments of key policy aides to help steer the Pentagon. Tillerson traveled across the world as the nation's chief diplomat, earning criticism but also solidifying his grasp on the department and its far-flung outposts. Having been confirmed on March 15, former Indiana Sen. Dan Coats settled in as director of national intelligence alongside CIA Director Mike Pompeo. These experienced operators stepped into the policy vacuum left by a vague presidential campaign (what, exactly, does it mean to "Make America Great Again" in the foreign policy context?) and Bannon's missteps. In turn, Trump would increasingly come to rely on them for their advice, guidance, and support.

Consider the team. McMaster, a senior Army general, has kept his political cards close in keeping with the professional ethic of a military officer. However, in his writing, he has called for a more aggressive U.S. foreign policy, particularly with respect to Russia, China and Iran. Mattis is famously hawkish on Iran and Middle Eastern issues, with decades of experience fighting wars (or planning to fight them) in the Middle East. Tillerson doesn't bring a long resume on military matters, but in his work as Exxon Mobil's CEO, he illustrated realpolitik in action. At the CIA, Pompeo brings an aggressive stance towards ISIS as well as to other threats like Russia and Iran.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2017/04/h-r-mcmaster-and-James-Mattis-are-steering-trump-away-from-america-first.html

#9169786 at 2020-05-14 15:55:27 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #11737: #HillaryKnew #ObamaGate Edition

>>9169185 (lb)

Pence has kept Dan Coats from quitting, and kept Trump from firing Coats
March 26, 2019

WASHINGTON - The rustic's intelligence leader used to be at the verge of resigning on the finish of final 12 months over his frustrations with President Donald Trump however used to be talked out of it by means of his closest best friend within the management, Vice President Mike Pence, consistent with present and previous senior management officers.

A number of the tensions the officers mentioned have marred the connection between the president and Director of Nationwide Intelligence Dan Coats: Trump driven Coats to seek out proof that former President Barack Obama wiretapped him; he demanded Coats publicly criticize the U.S. intelligence neighborhood as biased; and he accused Coats of being in the back of leaks of categorized knowledge. Extra just lately Trump additionally fumed to aides after Coats publicly defended the significance of the North Atlantic Treaty Group in countering Russia's aggression, officers mentioned.

However the tipping level for Coats got here in December with Trump's abrupt resolution to withdraw all U.S. troops from Syria, and the contentious departure of former Protection Secretary James Mattis after protesting the coverage, consistent with the present and previous officers. The vp, who has again and again performed the function of envoy between Trump and Coats, satisfied his longtime Indiana good friend to stick till a minimum of this summer season, the officers mentioned.
Director of Nationwide Intelligence Dan Coats testifies on international threats throughout a Senate Intelligence Committee listening to on Capitol Hill on Feb. 13, 2018.Saul Loeb / AFP - Getty Pictures document

In a similar way, every time Trump is souring at the DNI he privately calls "Mister Rogers" - as a result of he would possibly not put in force a directive or has left the impact he thinks the president is irrational - Pence has inspired Trump to stay with Coats, consistent with the present and previous officers….

https://theusbreakingnews.com/pence-has-kept-dan-coats-from-quitting-and-kept-trump-from-firing-coats/

#9169673 at 2020-05-14 15:44:01 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #11736: Patriots Are In Control Edition

>>9169077

Mike Pence Reportedly Begged DNI Dan Coats Not to Quit Trump Administration

https://splinternews.com/mike-pence-reportedly-begged-dni-dan-coats-not-to-quit-1833571918

According to a report from NBC News, Pence convinced Coats to stay in the Trump administration until at least the summer after Trump's decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria, current and former officials told the outlet. Coats reportedly sided with Defense Secretary James Mattis on the policy, according to NBC News, but didn't know what to do after Mattis' resignation. Pence then convinced Coats to stay on for longer, arguing that another top national security official's resignation following Mattis' would look very bad for the president.

Pence has reportedly smoothed many patches between Trump and Coats, often "encouraging [Coats] to continue the work he's doing and reiterating that he has the support of the White House," while encouraging Trump to keep Coats on. Here's just a small summary of the conflicts between the president and the DNI, from NBC News:

#9169478 at 2020-05-14 15:31:55 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #11736: Patriots Are In Control Edition

>>9169304
Mike Pence Reportedly Begged DNI Dan Coats Not to Quit Trump Administration

Vice President Mike Pence is definitely that shitty friend, and he has been to multiple people within the Trump administration. He's particularly aligned himself, however, with Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats, a former Republican congressman and senator from Pence's home state of Indiana. And reportedly, Pence has begged Coats to stay on no matter how many reasons their own boss, President Donald Trump, gives Coats not to.

According to a report from NBC News, Pence convinced Coats to stay in the Trump administration until at least the summer after Trump's decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria, current and former officials told the outlet. Coats reportedly sided with Defense Secretary James Mattis on the policy, according to NBC News, but didn't know what to do after Mattis' resignation. Pence then convinced Coats to stay on for longer, arguing that another top national security official's resignation following Mattis' would look very bad for the president.

https://splinternews.com/mike-pence-reportedly-begged-dni-dan-coats-not-to-quit-1833571918

#9152773 at 2020-05-13 11:26:56 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #11715: The 'Stand And Deliver!' Edition

>>9152738

Scorecard for the tribunals attached

TRUMP PARADES HIS GENERALS IN THE OVAL OFFICE

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/fb-5600721/TRUMP-PARADES-GENERALS-OVAL-OFFICE.html

There were 23 in total and not a single passion patch

1. Army General Curtis Scaparrotti, Commander, U.S. European Command and NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe

2. Army General Mark Milley, U.S. Army Chief of Staff

3. Marine Corps General Robert Neller, Commandant of the Marine Corps

4. U.S. Coast Guard Admiral Paul Zukunft, Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard

5. Navy Admiral Kurt W. Tidd, Commander, U.S. Southern Command

6. Army General Raymond A Thomas, Commander, US Special Operations Command

7. Marine Corps General Thomas D. Waldhauser, Commander, U.S. Africa Command

8. Air Force General Paul Selva, Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

9. Marine Corps General Joseph Dunford, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

10. Defense Secretary James Mattis

11. President Donald Trump

12. Vice President Mike Pence

13. Navy Admiral Michael Rodgers, Director of the National Security Agency

14. Navy Admiral John Richardson, Chief of Naval Operations

15. Army General Joseph Votel, Commander, U.S. Central Command

16. Air Force General David Goldfein, Air Force Chief of Staff

17. Air Force General John E Hyten, Commander, US Strategic Command

18. Air Force General Joseph L. Lengyel, Chief of the National Guard Bureau

19. Air Force General Lori Robinson, Commander, Northern Command and NORAD

20. Patrick M. Shanahan, Deputy Secretary of Defense

21. Navy Admiral Harry Harris, Commander, U.S. Pacific Command

22. Air Force General Darren W McDew, Commander, U.S. Transportation Command

23. U.S. Coast Guard Vice Admiral Karl Schultz, Commander, Atlantic Area

#9111147 at 2020-05-10 18:41:14 (UTC+1)
Q Reearch General #11661: Happy Mothers Day, Q Team! Edition

tomorrow

DLA Piper announces leadership webinar with General James Mattis and Ambassador Nick Burns

PR NewswireMay 6, 2020, 12:36 PM CDT
NEW YORK, May 6, 2020 /PRNewswire/ – As part of its ongoing webinar series covering the impacts of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), DLA Piper is pleased to announce that the firm will hold a complimentary webinar, "Looking forward: COVID-19 and its implications for global economies and international cooperation,"
with The Cohen Group on May 11, 2020

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/dla-piper-announces-leadership-webinar-173600418.html

#8895570 at 2020-04-23 14:17:32 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #11387: E-Bake Fight Against the Gore Posters Edition

Recent tensions with America's foes are nothing new, but
COVID-19 could cause miscalculation and conflict
Shawn Snow
50 minutes ago

"U.S. Navy Amphibious assault ship America, left, sails with Royal Australian Navy guided-missile frigate HMAS Parramatta , Arleigh-Burke class guided missile destroyer Barry and Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser Bunker Hill (CG 52). (Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Nicholas Huynh/ Navy)
As COVID-19 continues to create the perception of global chaos we're all living in the 1989 Billy Joel hit song "We Didn't Start the Fire" - the reality is tensions with traditional American foes have always been smoldering.

As COVID-19 has impacted U.S. readiness and even sidelined the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt, there's a brewing perception that America's adversaries Russia, China and Iran are taking advantage of the chaos to prod American military weakness as the U.S. stumbles during COVID-19.

But a former U.S. defense official and other analysts say recent aggression by America's adversaries is nothing new and fit a pattern of behavior established over the years. There is, however, fear the virus could cause miscalculation leading to a broader conflict.

"It's just a continuation of kind of what's been going on for some time," said Mike Jones, who served as U.S. Central Command chief of staff in 2011 under then-commander James Mattis. "I don't think this is brand new."

On April 19 there was an "unprofessional" and "unsafe" intercept of a U.S. Navy P-8A Poseidon over the Mediterranean Sea, the Navy announced. It was the second intercept of a P-8 over the same waters in less than a week - though the Navy deemed the first incident as safe and professional."

moar:
https://www.navytimes.com/flashpoints/2020/04/23/recent-tensions-with-americas-foes-are-nothing-new-but-covid-19-could-cause-miscalculation-and-conflict/

#8753135 at 2020-04-11 01:32:56 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #11206: The public will learn the truth Edition

>>8753074
In May 2016 members of the Theranos board of directors were:[124]

Elizabeth Holmes, founder and CEO
Riley Bechtel, former Bechtel Group CEO
David Boies, a founder and the chairman of Boies Schiller Flexner
William Foege, former director CDC
Richard Kovacevich, former Wells Fargo CEO and chairman
James Mattis, later U.S. Secretary of Defense
Fabrizio Bonanni, former executive vice president of Amgen

#8399763 at 2020-03-13 13:40:25 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #10753: Friday the 13th AYPsyOpsABTU Edition

Pentagon seeks to reconsider parts of $10B cloud contract given to Microsoft over Amazon
By Emily Birnbaum and Marty Johnson - 03/13/20 08:01 AM EDT

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/487394-pentagon-seeks-to-reconsider-parts-of-10b-cloud-contract-given-to-microsoft

The Pentagon on Thursday said it hopes to reevaluate its decision to award a $10 billion cloud-computing contract to Microsoft over Amazon, court documents filed late Thursday show.

The surprising announcement is only the latest twist in a years-long saga over the lucrative contract, and it could signal a potential victory for Amazon, which is suing to halt or overhaul the contract after it was awarded to Microsoft last year.

Amazon claims the process was improperly influenced by President Trump, who publicly and privately indicated that he did not want the contract to go to Amazon, which is owned by a frequent target of the president's criticism, Jeff Bezos.

In the U.S. Court of Federal Claims filings on Thursday, the Pentagon asked a federal judge for "120 days to reconsider certain aspects of the challenged agency decision."

"DoD does not intend to conduct discussions with offerors or to accept proposal revisions with respect to any aspect of the solicitation other than price scenario," the filing reads.

In a statement, an Amazon Web Services spokesman celebrated the decision. "We are pleased that the DoD has acknowledged 'substantial and legitimate' issues that affected the JEDI award decision, and that corrective action is necessary," the spokesperson said.

The Court of Federal Claims case has attracted significant attention over Amazon's inflammatory allegations about Trump, who reportedly said he wanted to "screw Amazon" by keeping the contract away from his rival's company. Amazon has asked the court to depose Trump as well as Defense Secretary Mark Esper and former Defense Secretary James Mattis.

But the bulk of Amazon's argument relies on the technical details of the deal, as the tech giant claims the Pentagon unfairly changed how it was evaluating the award at the eleventh hour.

The Pentagon says it wants to reassess the technical details around its original evaluation, particularly around pricing.

"A remand here is in the interests of justice because it will provide the agency with an opportunity to reconsider the award decision at issue in light of AWS's allegations, this Court's opinion, and any new information gathered during the proposed remand," the filing reads.

While the DOD's request is a success for Amazon, the government said in the filing that Amazon plans to object to the motion, which focuses mainly on technical details and does not address the political interference issue. Amazon's objection would likely function as an accountability mechanism to ensure the Pentagon broadens the scope of its reevaluation and sticks to what it hopes to do.

The cloud-computing contract, called Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI), is currently on hold after the Court of Federal Claims judge ordered the Pentagon to halt work on it until the case is resolved.

Industry watchers were stunned by the Pentagon's decision to award the contract to Microsoft last October, pointing out that Amazon seemed to be best-positioned to take on the task given its substantial work with the CIA. But Microsoft is also a popular cloud-computing partner for the federal government and the Pentagon has maintained that the company was simply best-equipped to create the DOD's cloud infrastructure.

Microsoft has maintained that the Pentagon made the right decision. But the federal judge overseeing the case said earlier this month that Amazon is "likely to succeed on the merits" of one of its main arguments, saying the Pentagon erred in how it evaluated prices for competing proposals from the two tech companies.

#8285454 at 2020-02-29 20:50:10 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #10607: Anons Wear Many Hats Edition

Guy Snodgrass is anonymous, many people have pinpointed him, Mattis's speechwriter came out the other day, saying "now this is what Trump
Should do next, on daily caller 2/25/20

https://dailycaller.com/2020/02/25/exclusive-James-Mattis-white-house-aide-guy-snodgrass-taliban-peace-plan/

Mattis Speechwriter The "Anonymous" Author Of "A Warning"?
Via TGP, it seems that The New Republic has outed Guy Snodgrass, speechwriter for Jim "Moderate Dog" Mattis, as 'Anonymous'–the "senior official" who first wrote the early "resistance" Op-ed for the NYT and now has a supposed "tell all" book out called "A Warning." It seems Snodgrass isn't denying it, just not commenting. Read more at the link, but here's the quote from TNR:

"Reading Snodgrass's Pentagon memoir, Holding the Line, the clues to Anonymous's identity are apparent. As in A Warning, the sentences and paragraphs are pithy and punchy. Every chapter in both books begins with an inspiring but not cliched quotation from an historic figure. Many passages in both books are remarkably similar: the ordeal of conducting a Pentagon briefing for Trump; national security staffers exchanging appalled asides about Trump's conduct of foreign policy via Twitter; and the arguments for why American alliances strengthen national security and immigration policy shouldn't be based on building a border wall. In particular, both books stress that, when briefed about international alliances, Trump derails discussions by griping about how allies are stiffing the United States, from allegedly miserly NATO contributions to ostensibly one-sided trade policies."

http://meaninginhistory.blogspot.com/2019/11/Mattis-speechwriter-anonymous-author-of.html?m=1

James Mattis Doesn't Want You to Read This Book

Trump's former defense secretary has excoriated the author of a new tell-all book.

Dan Spinelli
DAN SPINELLI
Reporter
Bio

Chip Somodevilla/Getty

After James Mattis flew across the country nearly three years ago to interview with Donald Trump for the Secretary of Defense post, the retired Marine Corps general was sure he had flunked the test. "I certainly won't be hearing back from those guys," Mattis later recalled to his staff in one of many memorable meetings documented by Guy Snodgrass, his chief speechwriter and the author of Holding the Line: Inside Trump's Pentagon with Secretary Mattis. During the interview, Mattis "disagreed with the president-elect on every one of the main points that he raised." That conflict "presaged a fundamental chasm, one that would only widen with time," Snodgrass wrote.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/10/James-Mattis-doesnt-want-you-to-read-this-book/

#8242831 at 2020-02-25 12:26:30 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #10553: Tava in the morning Edition

Note Snodgrass the writer of NYTs article? The woman recently supposedly named has not been confirmed, interesting. I think you guys named this person early on

UPDATED: The Purge Continues
With Impeachment Theater in his rear view mirror and with Dems obsessing over their own incompetence and fractiousness–not to mention the public's basic lack of interest–Trump seems to feel free to purge key elements of his administration of Obama era holdovers. The Washington Examiner reports–Bigger than Vindman: Trump scrubs 70 Obama holdovers from NSC:
-President Trump is making good on his promises
Many were loaners from other agencies and have been sent back. Others left government work.
-"This month, we will complete the right-sizing goal Ambassador O'Brien outlined in October, and in fact, may exceed that target by drawing down even more positions," John Ullyot, the NSC's senior director for strategic communications, told Secrets.
-This is progress. OTOH, it's best to bear in mind that Obama era holdovers aren't the only problem. Consider: Ciaramella and Misko (and some other Obama holdovers) left the NSC before Impeachment Theater began. They kept in touch with what was going on in the White House through communications with … Trump's own people! Yes, John Bolton, who brought the Vindman twins into the NSC. We also know that before that other Trump appointees–McMaster comes to mind–carried out purges against people Michael Flynn had brought in. So Draining the Swamp is a bit more complicated than just ousting Obama holdovers.
-Also, this morning Joe diGenova announced on radio:
-"I am told that soon there will someone else leaving the White House, who wrote that article [see below]. Apparently they have identified 'anonymous' and we were told that - Victoria and I were at dinner with a senior government official last week - and we were told that by this person they have, in fact, identified 'anonymous.'"
-Unfortunately he also said he didn't want to burn his source by naming "Anonymous." This is the original article from September 5, 2018:
I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration
-I work for the president but like-minded colleagues and I have vowed to thwart parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations.
-Which once against shows that Obama holdovers aren't the only or, perhaps, biggest problem.
-UPDATE: diGenova's claim may not be news–unless Anonymous is someone other than the chief speechwriter for former SecDef Jim "Moderate Dog" Mattis. As commenter Mike Sylwester notes, this story has been "out there" for a while–unless its someone different or they've simply confirmed the identity. According to the NYPost in November, 2019:
-A former speechwriter for President Bill Clinton said he believes the anonymous writer of a scathing New York Times op-ed and tell-all book about the Trump administration is the chief speechwriter for former Defense Secretary James Mattis.
-David Kusnet, writing in The New Republic on Monday, said he compared the writing styles of "A Warning," which was published on Nov. 19, with former Pentagon aide Guy Snodgrass' memoir "Holding the Line," which was published in October.
Kusnet said by reading the two works, the "clues to Anonymous's identity are apparent."
-"As in 'A Warning,' the sentences and paragraphs are pithy and punchy. Every chapter in both books begins with an inspiring but not cliched quotation from an historic figure," Kusnet writes in making his case that Snodgrass is Anonymous.
-"Many passages in both books are remarkably similar: the ordeal of conducting a Pentagon briefing for Trump; national security staffers exchanging appalled asides about Trump's conduct of foreign policy via Twitter; and the arguments for why American alliances strengthen national security and immigration policy shouldn't be based on building a border wall," he continued.
Snodgrass, a 43-year-old retired naval aviator and Top Gun instructor, tweeted "the swirl continues..." and linked to a copy of the New Republic article.
Kusnet said that while some of what Anonymous wrote in "A Warning" appears to disqualify Snodgrass, other qualities mark him as the author.
"Snodgrass checks three boxes: He can write. He knows and cares about national security - a major theme of 'A Warning.' And, to borrow from his description of Mattis, he is 'a badass' who eventually offended his hero and won a pre-publication battle with the Pentagon over the release of 'Holding the Line,'" Kusnet wrote.
Snodgrass did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Kusnet's supposition.
-I covered that back then: Mattis Speechwriter The "Anonymous" Author Of "A Warning"? but forgot. We'll see.

http://meaninginhistory.blogspot.com/2020/02/the-purge-continues.html?m=1

#8184122 at 2020-02-19 16:37:30 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #10477: Iwo Jima Remembered Edition

Top Pentagon policy official involved in certifying Ukraine aid steps down

John Rood, the undersecretary of defense for policy, has lost the support of senior national security leadership and has been asked to step down, a source familiar with the matter told CNN on Wednesday. Rood was involved in certifying to Congress that Ukraine was eligible to receive $250 million in security assistance. The certification undercut the argument the Trump administration made for withholding the aid.

Shortly after President Trump spoke with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on July 25, Rood emailed Secretary of Defense Mark Esper to fill him in on an upcoming meeting '"to discuss the President's concern about endemic corruption in Ukraine and his reported view that US should cease providing security assistance," according to emails. "Placing a hold on security assistance at this time would jeopardize this unique window of opportunity and undermine our defense priorities with a key partner in the strategic competition with Russia,"' he wrote in one of the emails. Rood joined the administration in early 2018, working under then-Defense Secretary James Mattis. He has also served in several policy positions at the Pentagon in prior administrations and as an analyst for the CIA.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/top-pentagon-policy-official-involved-in-certifying-ukraine-aid-steps-down

https://www.defense.gov/Our-Story/Biographies/Biography/Article/1418413/john-c-rood/

#8096573 at 2020-02-10 23:28:05 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #10364: AF1 Wheels Down in NH! Rally On! Edition

Why ask mad dog about the cloud?

(CNN)Amazon has asked a federal court for permission to get testimony from President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Mark Esper as part of its ongoing protest over the Defense Department's handling of a multibillion-dollar cloud computing contract, according to a court filing unsealed Monday.
The document also seeks permission to depose former Defense Secretary James Mattis and what he may have known about Trump's attitude toward the contract, known as the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure….

https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/10/tech/amazon-trump-defense-contract/

#8094928 at 2020-02-10 20:45:05 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #10362: Be Loud and Be Heard! Edition

Global Announcements
>>7993702 New bakers/note-takers: plz tag notables & other key info to dough post
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Notables
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#10361
>>8094741 Rally Tonight! NH 7p
>>8094711 OAN We've reported in past that Schiff's staffers flew to Ukraine paid for by (bad-news) Atlantic Council...This thread expands a full range of questions.
>>8094635, >>8094517, >>8094794 Soros Voting Machines, Election Rigging, Shaddow App, POTUS' Comms & Q
>>8094404, >>8094439 Deutsche Bank to issue at least $1 billion in AT1 securities
>>8094386, >>8094730 Potus twat with cap
>>8094297, >>8094416 OSCAR Ratings Hit All-time Low
>>8094214 SPREADSHEET IS UPDATED to Q post >>8093281
>>8094212, >>8094240, >>8094378, >>8094468, >>8094560 Fly Eyes
>>8094885#10361

#10360
>>8094025 Q even mentions Scott Free and Q+ together in post 2565. They line up because of where they are on the QClock.
>>8094056 Fly Eyes
>>8093874 Rolling Stone allows posts to show images, Ready your meme cannons!
>>8093861 pic/bio of lying dog-faced pony soldier
>>8093737 Jeff Bezos sold $4.07b in AMZN equity-Jan 31-Feb5
>>8093705, >>8093762 WH twat: Under President @realDonaldTrump, we have moved thousands of transnational gang members OUT of American communities
>>8093654 DOJ Confirms Giuliani Providing Evidence In Ukraine Investigation
>>8093575 Boats Ahoy
>>8093531 BOOMs en route
>>8093498 Potus twat with cap
>>8093467, >>8093676 The @StateDept and @USAID FY 2021 budget will position us to continue to advance the Trump Administration's foreign policy agenda
>>8093440 University Dean Among Over a Dozen Nabbed In Child Sex Sting
>>8094096 #10360

#10359
>>8093125 Call to Dig Romania Biden
>>8093075 Wall Update
>>8093063, >>8092740, >>8092817 Q caps
>>8092984 Q review How do you introduce evidence into an investigation (legally)?
>>8092905 New DOJ Prosecutor Timothy Shea Submits Motions In Flynn Case
>>8092849, >>8092896, >>8092922 Qpic analysis
>>8092832, >>8092948 Fly Eyes
>>8092718, >>8092793, >>8092631, >>8092668, >>8092684, >>8092717 Q post IP analysis
>>8092702 At least 3 people shot at Walmart Supercenter in Arkansas, police say
>>8092681, >>8092690, >>8092724, >>8092788, >>8092827, >>8092868 Moar Chinese buyouts
>>8093325 #10359

#10358
>>8092530, >>8092550 Who do the Chinese own diggz 2016
>>8092430, >>8092486 Fly Eyes
>>8092205, >>8092228 , >>8092235, >>8092270, >>8092331 Ukraine investigative docs on Schiff/Biden/Burisma/NABU
>>8092189 Moar on NSC downsizing, stats
>>8092076 FF John Roberts, things to listen for in speech tonight, anon quoted
>>8092057 WELCOME TO CONSERVATIVE UNIVERSITY free online courses
>>8091984 Trump Rally Phoenix, AZ Wed. 7p MST, 9p EST
>>8091956, >>8091975 Amazon revealed that it wants to depose President Trump, Defense Secretary Esper and former Defense Secretary James Mattis as part of its case protesting the contract.
>>8091883, >>8091960, >>8092245, >>8092262, >>8092284 Barr presser, DOJ checking RUDY Giuliani Info, DOJ indicts 4 Chinese hackers for Equifax data breach/Official indictment docs on 4 Chinese Military breachers
>>8091853 FBI doesn't talk about open investigations/Biden
>>8092560 #10358

Previously Collected Notables
>>8090249 #10355, >>8091063 #10356, >>8091760 #10357
>>8087171 #10351, >>8087951 #10352, >>8088724 #10353, >>8090520 #10354
>>8084026 #10347, >>8084822 #10348. >>8085596 #10349, >>8086370 #10350

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#8094143 at 2020-02-10 19:39:31 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #10361: Lying Dog-Faced Pony Soldier or New Baker Girl? Edition

Global Announcements
>>7993702 New bakers/note-takers: plz tag notables & other key info to dough post
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Notables
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#10360
>>8094025 Q even mentions Scott Free and Q+ together in post 2565. They line up because of where they are on the QClock.
>>8094056 Fly Eyes
>>8093874 Rolling Stone allows posts to show images, Ready your meme cannons!
>>8093861 pic/bio of lying dog-faced pony soldier
>>8093737 Jeff Bezos sold $4.07b in AMZN equity-Jan 31-Feb5
>>8093705, >>8093762 WH twat: Under President @realDonaldTrump, we have moved thousands of transnational gang members OUT of American communities
>>8093654 DOJ Confirms Giuliani Providing Evidence In Ukraine Investigation
>>8093575 Boats Ahoy
>>8093531 BOOMs en route
>>8093498 Potus twat with cap
>>8093467, >>8093676 The @StateDept and @USAID FY 2021 budget will position us to continue to advance the Trump Administration's foreign policy agenda
>>8093440 University Dean Among Over a Dozen Nabbed In Child Sex Sting
>>8094096 #10360

#10359
>>8093125 Call to Dig Romania Biden
>>8093075 Wall Update
>>8093063, >>8092740, >>8092817 Q caps
>>8092984 Q review How do you introduce evidence into an investigation (legally)?
>>8092905 New DOJ Prosecutor Timothy Shea Submits Motions In Flynn Case
>>8092849, >>8092896, >>8092922 Qpic analysis
>>8092832, >>8092948 Fly Eyes
>>8092718, >>8092793, >>8092631, >>8092668, >>8092684, >>8092717 Q post IP analysis
>>8092702 At least 3 people shot at Walmart Supercenter in Arkansas, police say
>>8092681, >>8092690, >>8092724, >>8092788, >>8092827, >>8092868 Moar Chinese buyouts
>>8093325 #10359

#10358
>>8092530, >>8092550 Who do the Chinese own diggz 2016
>>8092430, >>8092486 Fly Eyes
>>8092205, >>8092228 , >>8092235, >>8092270, >>8092331 Ukraine investigative docs on Schiff/Biden/Burisma/NABU
>>8092189 Moar on NSC downsizing, stats
>>8092076 FF John Roberts, things to listen for in speech tonight, anon quoted
>>8092057 WELCOME TO CONSERVATIVE UNIVERSITY free online courses
>>8091984 Trump Rally Phoenix, AZ Wed. 7p MST, 9p EST
>>8091956, >>8091975 Amazon revealed that it wants to depose President Trump, Defense Secretary Esper and former Defense Secretary James Mattis as part of its case protesting the contract.
>>8091883, >>8091960, >>8092245, >>8092262, >>8092284 Barr presser, DOJ checking RUDY Giuliani Info, DOJ indicts 4 Chinese hackers for Equifax data breach/Official indictment docs on 4 Chinese Military breachers
>>8091853 FBI doesn't talk about open investigations/Biden
>>8092560 #10358

Previously Collected Notables
>>8090249 #10355, >>8091063 #10356, >>8091760 #10357
>>8087171 #10351, >>8087951 #10352, >>8088724 #10353, >>8090520 #10354
>>8084026 #10347, >>8084822 #10348. >>8085596 #10349, >>8086370 #10350

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#8093782 at 2020-02-10 19:08:07 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #10360: Q Dropping Bombs! Edition

The nest Hoax?
Amazon wants to depose Trump in challenge over $10B Pentagon contract
"AWS seeks leave to notice the depositions of seven individuals who were instrumental in the JEDI source selection and played pivotal roles in the ultimate JEDI Contract award," AWS said in a court document that was unsealed Monday. Those individuals are Trump, former Defense Secretary James Mattis, current Defense Secretary Mark Esper, DoD Chief Information Officer Dana Deasy, and other individuals whose names were redacted.
In a statement to Fox News, an AWS spokesperson implied that Trump specifically blocked Amazon from getting the lucrative deal due to personal issues.
"President Trump has repeatedly demonstrated his willingness to use his position as President and Commander in Chief to interfere with government functions - including federal procurements - to advance his personal agenda," the statement said, questioning whether Trump "should be allowed to use the budget of the DoD to pursue his own personal and political ends."
In court filings, AWS said that Trump has a "well-documented personal animus towards" Amazon, CEO Jeff Bezos, and the Bezos-owned Washington Post. AWS claims that Trump once ordered Mattis to "screw Amazon" out of the contract.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/amazon-wants-to-depose-trump-in-challenge-over-10b-pentagon-contract

#8093399 at 2020-02-10 18:43:02 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #10360: Q Dropping Bombs! Edition

Global Announcements
>>7993702 New bakers/note-takers: plz tag notables & other key info to dough post
Anons, plz no jpegs, tx

Notables
are not endorsements

#10359
>>8093125 Call to Dig Romania Biden
>>8093075 Wall Update
>>8093063, >>8092740, >>8092817 Q caps
>>8092984 Q review How do you introduce evidence into an investigation (legally)?
>>8092905 New DOJ Prosecutor Timothy Shea Submits Motions In Flynn Case
>>8092849, >>8092896, >>8092922 Qpic analysis
>>8092832, >>8092948 Fly Eyes
>>8092718, >>8092793, >>8092631, >>8092668, >>8092684, >>8092717 Q post IP analysis
>>8092702 At least 3 people shot at Walmart Supercenter in Arkansas, police say
>>8092681, >>8092690, >>8092724, >>8092788, >>8092827, >>8092868 Moar Chinese buyouts
>>8093325 #10359

#10358
>>8092530, >>8092550 Who do the Chinese own diggz 2016
>>8092430, >>8092486 Fly Eyes
>>8092205, >>8092228 , >>8092235, >>8092270, >>8092331 Ukraine investigative docs on Schiff/Biden/Burisma/NABU
>>8092189 Moar on NSC downsizing, stats
>>8092076 FF John Roberts, things to listen for in speech tonight, anon quoted
>>8092057 WELCOME TO CONSERVATIVE UNIVERSITY free online courses
>>8091984 Trump Rally Phoenix, AZ Wed. 7p MST, 9p EST
>>8091956, >>8091975 Amazon revealed that it wants to depose President Trump, Defense Secretary Esper and former Defense Secretary James Mattis as part of its case protesting the contract.
>>8091883, >>8091960, >>8092245, >>8092262, >>8092284 Barr presser, DOJ checking RUDY Giuliani Info, DOJ indicts 4 Chinese hackers for Equifax data breach/Official indictment docs on 4 Chinese Military breachers
>>8091853 FBI doesn't talk about open investigations/Biden
>>8092560 #10358

#10357
Baker Change
>>8091709, >>8091712 NV Dem Party just hired paid buttigieg organizer to be 'voter protection director'
>>8091647 SENATE JUDICIARY NOMINEES AND UPCOMING SCHEDULE
>>8091614 States use Catholic clergy abuse lists to screen applicants
>>8091595 FOR SALE Approximately 4,041.58424932 bitcoin
>>8091589 Merkel Successor Unexpectedly Resigns As CDU Leader In Latest Shock To Germany's Political Establishment
>>8091571 Four Members of China's Military Indicted for Massive Equifax Breach
>>8091534 (FBN Live:) Bill Barr holds a press conference on a cyber-related enforcement action
>>8091427, >>8091454, >>8091572 (continued from lb) biden water island digg
>>8091421, >>8091431 PSA Amber Alert issued for two Texas children believed to be in grave danger
>>8091377, >>8091111 Good morning from Guantanamo's Camp Justice. Q Post #3849. Dual Meaning?
>>8091353, >>8091372, >>8091464 New DJT twat (and retwat) bun w/CAPs:
>>8091308, >>8091090 Schumer asks watchdogs to investigate whistleblower retaliation after Trump purges impeachment witnesses
>>8091251 Bigger than Vindman: Trump scrubs 70 Obama holdovers from NSC
>>8091221 Dead man walk'n: Former Richland attorney sentenced to more than 7 years in child molestation case
>>8091161, >>8091205, >>8091269, >>8091473 renoting from wknd: anon calls to digg on Biden Romania connection
>>8091151 Kellyanne Conway asked whether more 'heads will roll' after Vindman, Sondland ousters
>>8091140, >>8091171, >>8091201, >>8091220 anon calls for pizzagate twatter meme blast
>>8091123, >>8091176, >>8091197, >>8091415, >>8091514, >>8091727 planefag reporting
>>8091109 WaPo hits 5.0 TDS. So much losing.
>>8091760 #10357

Previously Collected Notables
>>8090249 #10355, >>8091063 #10356

>>8087171 #10351, >>8087951 #10352, >>8088724 #10353, >>8090520 #10354
>>8084026 #10347, >>8084822 #10348. >>8085596 #10349, >>8086370 #10350

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#8092588 at 2020-02-10 17:41:13 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #10359: Putting the Spin on Bezos Edition

Global Announcements
>>7993702 New bakers/note-takers: plz tag notables & other key info to dough post
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#10358
>>8092530, >>8092550 Who do the Chinese own diggz 2016
>>8092430, >>8092486 Fly Eyes
>>8092205, >>8092228 , >>8092235, >>8092270, >>8092331 Ukraine investigative docs on Schiff/Biden/Burisma/NABU
>>8092189 Moar on NSC downsizing, stats
>>8092076 FF John Roberts, things to listen for in speech tonight, anon quoted
>>8092057 WELCOME TO CONSERVATIVE UNIVERSITY free online courses
>>8091984 Trump Rally Phoenix, AZ Wed. 7p MST, 9p EST
>>8091956, >>8091975 Amazon revealed that it wants to depose President Trump, Defense Secretary Esper and former Defense Secretary James Mattis as part of its case protesting the contract.
>>8091883, >>8091960, >>8092245, >>8092262, >>8092284 Barr presser, DOJ checking RUDY Giuliani Info, DOJ indicts 4 Chinese hackers for Equifax data breach/Official indictment docs on 4 Chinese Military breachers
>>8091853 FBI doesn't talk about open investigations/Biden
>>8092560 #10358

#10357
Baker Change
>>8091709, >>8091712 NV Dem Party just hired paid buttigieg organizer to be 'voter protection director'
>>8091647 SENATE JUDICIARY NOMINEES AND UPCOMING SCHEDULE
>>8091614 States use Catholic clergy abuse lists to screen applicants
>>8091595 FOR SALE Approximately 4,041.58424932 bitcoin
>>8091589 Merkel Successor Unexpectedly Resigns As CDU Leader In Latest Shock To Germany's Political Establishment
>>8091571 Four Members of China's Military Indicted for Massive Equifax Breach
>>8091534 (FBN Live:) Bill Barr holds a press conference on a cyber-related enforcement action
>>8091427, >>8091454, >>8091572 (continued from lb) biden water island digg
>>8091421, >>8091431 PSA Amber Alert issued for two Texas children believed to be in grave danger
>>8091377, >>8091111 Good morning from Guantanamo's Camp Justice. Q Post #3849. Dual Meaning?
>>8091353, >>8091372, >>8091464 New DJT twat (and retwat) bun w/CAPs:
>>8091308, >>8091090 Schumer asks watchdogs to investigate whistleblower retaliation after Trump purges impeachment witnesses
>>8091251 Bigger than Vindman: Trump scrubs 70 Obama holdovers from NSC
>>8091221 Dead man walk'n: Former Richland attorney sentenced to more than 7 years in child molestation case
>>8091161, >>8091205, >>8091269, >>8091473 renoting from wknd: anon calls to digg on Biden Romania connection
>>8091151 Kellyanne Conway asked whether more 'heads will roll' after Vindman, Sondland ousters
>>8091140, >>8091171, >>8091201, >>8091220 anon calls for pizzagate twatter meme blast
>>8091123, >>8091176, >>8091197, >>8091415, >>8091514, >>8091727 planefag reporting
>>8091109 WaPo hits 5.0 TDS. So much losing.
>>8091760 #10357

#10356
>>8090942 In Dutch court, fugitive Ghosn fights for document release
>>8090931, >>8090952 Biden - Water Island Digz cont.
>>8090642 Good thread on Twatter about (Documentary) Chris (Cornell) and Chester
>>8090781, >>8090822 Two-dozen U.S. Marines human trafficking/smuggling crimes
>>8090828, >>8090943 DJT: Poll Numbers / missing "are" analysis
>>8090671, >>8090968 DJT: (added 9 Points) / Fake News
>>8090608, >>8090984 DJT: Manchester / "Fried" analysis
>>8090580 Breitbart twat on irony of Obama's role re Oscar-winning documentary
>>8090492 Amsterdam women intimidated on the street-but it's not ok to say by whom ("immigrants")
>>8090488 Obamas-produced film 'American Factory' wins Best Documentary Oscar
>>8090481 US to exempt Iraq from sanctions against Iran, Iraqi officials say
>>8090472 Cherokee Nation Becomes First American Tribe to Send Heirloom Seeds to Global Seed Vault in Norway
>>8090428, >>8090474 Virginia Giuffre twat re Epstein backup plan
>>8090423 Seth Rich murder cover ups and misconduct by FBI
>>8090390, >>8090405 Sara Carter twat on 'cleaning house' (WH clean?)
>>8090429, >>8090434, >>8090449, >>8090468 Moar on "Surveillance"
>>8090370, >>8090384, >>8090396, >>8090403 POTUS' "Surveillance" > "Survailence" misspelling leads to 2 year delta drop
>>8090325 British storm CIARA brings gales & flooding across the UK
>>8091063 #10356

Previously Collected Notables
>>8090249 #10355,
>>8087171 #10351, >>8087951 #10352, >>8088724 #10353, >>8090520 #10354
>>8084026 #10347, >>8084822 #10348. >>8085596 #10349, >>8086370 #10350

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#8092560 at 2020-02-10 17:36:39 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #10358: Monday Forecast: Mostly Shilly with Squalls of PAIN Edition

#8092558 at 2020-02-10 17:36:15 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #10358: Monday Forecast: Mostly Shilly with Squalls of PAIN Edition

#10358
>>8092530, >>8092550 Who do the Chinese own diggz 2016
>>8092430, >>8092486 Fly Eyes
>>8092205, >>8092228 , >>8092235, >>8092270, >>8092331 Ukraine investigative docs on Schiff/Biden/Burisma/NABU
>>8092189 Moar on NSC downsizing, stats
>>8092076 FF John Roberts, things to listen for in speech tonight, anon quoted
>>8092057 WELCOME TO CONSERVATIVE UNIVERSITY free online courses
>>8091984 Trump Rally Phoenix, AZ Wed. 7p MST, 9p EST
>>8091956, >>8091975 Amazon revealed that it wants to depose President Trump, Defense Secretary Esper and former Defense Secretary James Mattis as part of its case protesting the contract.
>>8091883, >>8091960, >>8092245, >>8092262, >>8092284 Barr presser, DOJ checking RUDY Giuliani Info, DOJ indicts 4 Chinese hackers for Equifax data breach/Official indictment docs on 4 Chinese Military breachers
>>8091853 FBI doesn't talk about open investigations/Biden
#10358

#10357
Baker Change
>>8091709, >>8091712 NV Dem Party just hired paid buttigieg organizer to be 'voter protection director'
>>8091647 SENATE JUDICIARY NOMINEES AND UPCOMING SCHEDULE
>>8091614 States use Catholic clergy abuse lists to screen applicants
>>8091595 FOR SALE Approximately 4,041.58424932 bitcoin
>>8091589 Merkel Successor Unexpectedly Resigns As CDU Leader In Latest Shock To Germany's Political Establishment
>>8091571 Four Members of China's Military Indicted for Massive Equifax Breach
>>8091534 (FBN Live:) Bill Barr holds a press conference on a cyber-related enforcement action
>>8091427, >>8091454, >>8091572 (continued from lb) biden water island digg
>>8091421, >>8091431 PSA Amber Alert issued for two Texas children believed to be in grave danger
>>8091377, >>8091111 Good morning from Guantanamo's Camp Justice. Q Post #3849. Dual Meaning?
>>8091353, >>8091372, >>8091464 New DJT twat (and retwat) bun w/CAPs:
>>8091308, >>8091090 Schumer asks watchdogs to investigate whistleblower retaliation after Trump purges impeachment witnesses
>>8091251 Bigger than Vindman: Trump scrubs 70 Obama holdovers from NSC
>>8091221 Dead man walk'n: Former Richland attorney sentenced to more than 7 years in child molestation case
>>8091161, >>8091205, >>8091269, >>8091473 renoting from wknd: anon calls to digg on Biden Romania connection
>>8091151 Kellyanne Conway asked whether more 'heads will roll' after Vindman, Sondland ousters
>>8091140, >>8091171, >>8091201, >>8091220 anon calls for pizzagate twatter meme blast
>>8091123, >>8091176, >>8091197, >>8091415, >>8091514, >>8091727 planefag reporting
>>8091109 WaPo hits 5.0 TDS. So much losing.
>>8091760 #10357

#8092405 at 2020-02-10 17:14:35 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #10358: Monday Forecast: Mostly Shilly with Squalls of PAIN Edition

>>8092398
Notables

>>8092205, >>8092228 , >>8092235, >>8092270, >>8092331 Ukraine investigative docs on Schiff/Biden/Burisma/NABU
>>8092189 Moar on NSC downsizing, stats
>>8092076 FF John Roberts, things to listen for in speech tonight, anon quoted
>>8092057 WELCOME TO CONSERVATIVE UNIVERSITY free online courses
>>8091984 Trump Rally Phoenix, AZ Wed. 7p MST, 9p EST
>>8091956, >>8091975 Amazon revealed that it wants to depose President Trump, Defense Secretary Esper and former Defense Secretary James Mattis as part of its case protesting the contract.
>>8091883, >>8091960, >>8092245, >>8092262, >>8092284 Barr presser, DOJ checking RUDY Giuliani Info, DOJ indicts 4 Chinese hackers for Equifax data breach/Official indictment docs on 4 Chinese Military breachers
>>8091853 FBI doesn't talk about open investigations/Biden
#10358

#8092321 at 2020-02-10 17:03:02 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #10358: Monday Forecast: Mostly Shilly with Squalls of PAIN Edition

>>8092313
Notables

>>8092205, >>8092228 , >>8092235, >>8092270 Ukraine investigative docs on Schiff/Biden/Burisma/NABU
>>8092189 Moar on NSC downsizing, stats
>>8092076 FF John Roberts, things to listen for in speech tonight, anon quoted
>>8092057 WELCOME TO CONSERVATIVE UNIVERSITY free online courses
>>8091984 Trump Rally Phoenix, AZ Wed. 7p MST, 9p EST
>>8091956, >>8091975 Amazon revealed that it wants to depose President Trump, Defense Secretary Esper and former Defense Secretary James Mattis as part of its case protesting the contract.
>>8091883, >>8091960, >>8092245, >>8092262, >>8092284 Barr presser, DOJ checking RUDY Giuliani Info/Official indictment docs on 4 Chinese Military breachers
>>8091853 FBI doesn't talk about open investigations/Biden
#10358

#8092161 at 2020-02-10 16:38:35 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #10358: Monday Forecast: Mostly Shilly with Squalls of PAIN Edition

>>8092154
Notables

>>8092076 FF John Roberts, things to lisen for in speech tonight, anon quoted
>>8092057 WELCOME TO CONSERVATIVE UNIVERSITY free online courses
>>8091984 Trump Rally Phoenix, AZ Wed. 7p MST, 9p EST
>>8091956, >>8091975 Amazon revealed that it wants to depose President Trump, Defense Secretary Esper and former Defense Secretary James Mattis as part of its case protesting the contract.
>>8091853 FBI doesn't talk about open investigations/Biden
#10358

#8091956 at 2020-02-10 16:10:15 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #10358: Monday Forecast: Mostly Shilly with Squalls of PAIN Edition

AMZN Moves To Depose Trump In Lawsuit Over $10 Billion 'JEDI' Contract

For AMZN's dominant cloud-computing platform AWS, winning a $10 billion contract to overhaul the IT systems of the American military seemed like a walk in the park. Their clear dominance in the field would make Amazon's competitors' for the contract into guaranteed also-rans. This would be a breeze. A layup. A cinch.

Unfortunately, that's not quite how it all went down. And now AMZN is throwing the equivalent of a corporate temper tantrum as it seeks to 'rectify' the DoJ's decision, which it maintains was made for political reasons (given Trump's well-known beef with Washington Post owner and AMZNfounder Jeff Bezos).

In court documents unsealed on Monday, Amazon revealed that it wants to depose President Trump, Defense Secretary Esper and former Defense Secretary James Mattis as part of its case protesting the contract.

NEW: AMZN says it wants to depose President Trump and Defense Secretary Esper as part of its JEDI contracting protest, according to documents unsealed in court today.

AMZN also says it wants to depose former Defense Secretary Mattis.
- Brian Fung (@b_fung) February 10, 2020

Amazon recognizes that deposing a president might present "unique circumstances," but its lawyers are clearly focused on trying to uncover evidence that Trump personally intervened in the awarding of the contract, using his influence to sway it toward Microsoft, which, ironically, was argued to be the less political pick by lawmakers who opposed the AMZN bid.

Here are the topics AWS wants to cover in the deposition of Trump. See the footnote: "AWS recognizes that a deposition of a sitting President of the United States presents unique circumstances..." pic.twitter.com/YBAQbHMqhU
- Brian Fung (@b_fung) February 10, 2020

Trump and his two defense secretaries are among seven people that AMZN wishes to depose as part of its lawyers' discovery efforts.

While other individuals can testify about specific conversations he had with them individually, President Trump is the only individual who can testify about the totality of his conversations and the overall message he conveyed," according to the filings. "Morover, President Trump has unique knowledge about whether he had other, previously undisclosed conversations with individuals not previously identified, and who therefore do not appear on the deposition list."

In a statement to CNBC, AMZN said "the preservation of public confidence in the nation's procurement process requires discovery and supplementation of the administrative record…"

"President Trump has repeatedly demonstrated his willingness to use his position as President and Commander in Chief to interfere with government functions - including federal procurements - to advance his personal agenda. The preservation of public confidence in the nation's procurement process requires discovery and supplementation of the administrative record, particularly in light of President Trump's order to 'screw AMZN.' The question is whether the President of the United States should be allowed to use the budget of the DoD to pursue his own personal and political ends."

The White House declined to comment to CNBC, and the White House reportedly refused to comment, as did the DoJ.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/amazon-moves-depose-trump-lawsuit-over-10-billion-jedi-contract

Go right ahead. Another strategy that will backfire spectacularly.

#7976214 at 2020-01-31 11:40:34 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #10108: Big Peach Mint Vote Pray Anons! Edition

>>7976168
UraniumOne -→ RosAtom
RosAtom -→ Joint Defense Contractors.
[ISIS]
A great reason for Russian and American cooperation.
Islamic Terrorism = Cover for "Peacekeeping"

Why did Eric accompany Joe Biden to Ukraine before the coup?
Why did Biden's son try to join the Navy?
What Navy Ship did POTUS supposedly "not want to see" on his trip to Japan?
Why was the Secretary of the Navy kicked out after Eddie Gallagher's release?
Why did Secretary of the Navy Richard Spencer talk to MSNBC after?
Why did James Mattis talk to MSNBC after he was fired?

Why was the CIA going after Islamic Terrorism leadership while our military created areas for Halliburton and other Oil Companies to get contracts?

How does Hunter Biden get an Oil Contract after a "coup" in a country his father happened to have been visiting in an industry he doesn't work in?

Heroes by David Bowie.

#7731088 at 2020-01-06 14:17:14 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9894: Moar and Moar Are Awakening. Be Ready. Edition

Article a few days old, but didn't find it in qresear.ch archives

Barack Obama welcomed leader of US embassy attack to the White House: Iran's 'point man' in Baghdad Hadi al-Amiri was hosted in the Oval Office in 2011 - eight years before he orchestrated siege in Iraq
The leader of an Iran-backed US embassy siege in Baghdad was welcomed to the White House by Barack Obama eight years ago before becoming Tehran's 'point man' in Iraq.
Hadi al-Amiri was Iraq's minister of transport under then-Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and stood in the Oval Office as part of Maliki's delegation on a visit to the White House in December 2011.

On Tuesday, al-Amiri was among those leading the charge against the US embassy in Baghdad when it was stormed and set alight by pro-Iran militants. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo shared a photograph of Amiri amid the rioters, condemning him as an 'Iranian proxy,' and calling those shoulder-to-shoulder with him 'terrorists.'
The head of a leading pro-Iran Shia faction, Amiri exerts great power within Iraq's state-sanctioned Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) and was highlighted by Pompeo among three other men as the ringleaders of the siege.
The ease with which Amiri and these other commanders breezed through the heavily fortified 'Green Zone' has alarmed US officials, who have noted their militia's increased presence around diplomatic buildings in recent weeks.

A former guerrilla fighter who fought for Tehran in the Iran-Iraq War, Amiri has been accused of terrorism against the US, of helping Iran to ship arms to Bashar al-Assad in Syria and has been pictured bowing before the Islamic Republic's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

The transport minister from 2010 until 2014, Amiri's guerrilla past fighting on Tehran's side during the vicious Iran-Iraq War remained clear even in the seemingly innocuous government position.
He was allegedly acting on the orders of the fearsome IRGC Major General Qassem Suleimani by allowing Iranian jets to fly weapons to the Syrian regime during Bashar al-Assad's brutal crackdown on his own people.
Amiri denied this, but told The New Yorker five years ago: 'I love Qassem Suleimani! … He is my dearest friend.'

General James Mattis told the magazine that without allies like Amiri in the Iraqi government, Assad's government would have collapsed in the early years of the Syrian Civil War.

Amiri has since re-taken his role at the helm of the Badr Corps, which was previously the military wing of the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI), and which is made up of thousands of pro-Iranian former officers and soldiers who fled Saddam Hussein's reign.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7844623/Barack-Obama-welcomed-leader-embassy-attack-White-House.html

#7608081 at 2019-12-24 11:03:45 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9733: Almost Ebake Edition

it was all a farce:

Theranos even included "interpretive notes" on what my health data meant and information on where my blood samples were analyzed, in the spirit of transparency. (spirit of transpaency - KEK!)

https://www.businessinsider.com/i-tried-theranos-2015-10#it-took-me-all-of-30-seconds-to-create-a-login-from-my-dashboard-i-could-browse-the-test-menu-find-a-wellness-center-location-or-download-the-theranos-mobile-app-25

Mattis, joined Theranos in 2013 immediately after retiring from a long career of military service that concluded with a stint leading CENTCOM, the US combatant command that is responsible for, among other things, Afghanistan.

Mattis (who, obviously, has no expertise in medical testing) pushed for the military to use Theranos technology, but it was never used because it didn't work.

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/8/31/20839873/James-Mattis-book-theranos

Elizabeth Holmes, the founder of the now-defunct biotech unicorn Theranos, will face trial in federal court next summer with penalties of up to 20 years in prison and millions of dollars in fines.

https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/28/theranos-founder-elizabeth-holmes-to-stand-trial-in-2020/

anon's question would be, with all those military contacts did Theranos
get access to GI medical records and/or DNA?

https://www.benjaminkrauselaw.com/about-benjamin-krause/

https://www.disabledveterans.org/2018/04/10/unrepentant-shulkin-second-europe-trip-planned-vatican-wife/

"The invitation was for Vatican Conference on Regenerative Medicine in Rome involving genomics and VA's research on the topic. The Vatican wanted Shulkin to speak. Shulkin orchestrated another European trip for 10 days for him, his wife, and three security personnel to attend the 3-day conference and then travel around."

"A few things jumped into my mind on this."

"First, why would Shulkin keep his trip scheduled after all the blowback from his previous trip? Second, why is the Vatican holding a conference on genomics? Third, how many other trips like this are going on with VA personnel that we do not know about?"

#7467404 at 2019-12-09 22:39:24 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9550:Rolling in Popcorn Shift!! Edition

>>7467281
Fake news

Amazon and Microsoft are at war over a $10 billion opportunity to build the U.S. military its first "war cloud" computing system. Whilst once considered an early favourite of the Pentagon back in 2017, allegations of secret meetings between company executives and the Pentagon may have jeopardised Amazon's chances of sealing the deal.

A cloud strategy document unveiled by the Defence Department last year called for replacing the military's "disjointed and stove-piped information systems" with a commercial cloud service "that will empower the warfighter with data and is critical to maintaining our military's technological advantage."

Artificial Intelligence technology would be utilised by JEDI to increase the speed of its war planning and fighting capabilities with Lt. Gen. Bradford Shwedo saying JEDI's computing capabilities could help the U.S. analyse data collected from surveillance aircraft, predict when equipment needs maintenance, and speed up communications if fibre and satellite connections go down.

For years, Amazon Web Services has been the industry leader in moving businesses and other institutions onto its cloud; but Microsoft's Azure cloud platform (like Google) is now becoming more and more prevalent in corporate and government settings.

Previously, there appeared to be a problem with Amazon's bid for the $10 billion JEDI Pentagon contract after it was found that an ex-Amazon employee was instrumental in writing the procurement specifications. That employee then left to once again work for Amazon, creating the perception of a conflict of interest.

Now further meetings in 2017 between Defence Secretary Jim Mattis and an Amazon executive, as well as another meeting between Mattis and CEO Jeff Bezos have surfaced. Last year, rivals Oracle and IBM lodged formal protests, arguing against the decision to award the Pentagon's bid to a single vendor. Sen. Chuck Grassley, Iowa Republican, said that the bidding process should be started over.

Oracle have taken their case to the Court of Federal Claims, including evidence of e-mails showing conflict of interest between Amazon and the government. Amazon dismisses Oracle's claims as exaggerations, and "tabloid sensationalism".

https://mspoweruser.com/secret-meetings-between-jeff-bezos-and-James-Mattis-throws-10-bn-amazon-jedi-contract-in-doubt/

#7410236 at 2019-12-02 06:37:00 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9477: The Spirit of America is Shining in the WH NEW Edition

>>7410180
List of Bilderberg attendees and CFR members in President Trump's cabinet 1/2

John P. Abizaid, Ambassador to Saudi Arabia (Individual CFR member)

Elliott Abrams, Special Envoy on Venezuela (Individual CFR member)

James H. Baker, Director of the Office of Net Assessment (Bilderberg attendee)

Barbara Barrett, Secretary of the Air Force (Individual CFR member, Bilderberg attendee)

David Bohigian, Executive Vice President of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (Individual CFR member)

John Bolton, National Security Advisor (Individual CFR member)

Dan R. Brouillette, Deputy Secretary of Energy (Individual CFR member)

Elaine Chao, United States Secretary of Transportation (CFR Individual member)

Richard Clarida, Vice Chairman of the Federal Reserve (CFR Individual member)

Jay Clayton, Chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission (CFR corporate member)

Gary Cohn, Director of the National Economic Council (CFR corporate member)

Paul Dabbar, Under Secretary of Energy for Science, (Individual CFR member)

Jamie Dimon, Member of Strategic and Policy Forum (CFR corporate member)

Jim Donovan, Deputy Treasury Secretary (CFR corporate member)

Mark T. Esper, Acting Secretary of Defense, Secretary of the Army, (Individual CFR member, CFR corporate member)

Larry Fink, Member of Strategic and Policy Forum (CFR corporate member)

Christopher A. Ford, Assistant Secretary for International Security and Nonproliferation (Individual CFR member)

James S. Gilmore III, United States Ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (Individual CFR member)

Lisa Gordon-Hagerty, National Security Advisor (Individual CFR member, Bilderberg attendee)

Neil M. Gorsuch, Supreme Court Justice (Individual CFR member)

Harry B. Harris Jr., Ambassador to South Korea (Individual CFR member)

Vice Admiral Robert S. Harward, National Security Advisor (declined appointment) (CFR corporate member)

Kevin Hassett, Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers (CFR fellow traveler)

Robert Wood "Woody" Johnson IV, United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom (Individual CFR member)

Kenneth I. Juster, Ambassador to India (Individual CFR member)

Robert Kadlec, Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services (Preparedness and Response), (Individual CFR member)

Lawrence Kudlow, Director of the National Economic Council (Individual CFR member)

Jared Kushner, Senior Advisor to the President (Bilderberg attendee)

Christopher Landau, Ambassador to Mexico (Individual CFR member)

Robert Lighthizer, United States Trade Representative (Individual CFR member)

David R. Malpass, World Bank (Individual CFR member)

James Mattis, Secretary of Defense (Bilderberg attendee)

K.T. McFarland, Deputy National Security Adviser (Individual CFR member)

Brent McIntosh, Undersecretary for international affairs, Department of the Treasury and General Counsel of the Department of the Treasury (Individual CFR member)

Linda McMahon, Administrator of the Small Business Administration (CFR corporate member)

Army Lt. General Herbert Raymond "H. R." McMaster, National Security Advisor (Individual CFR member, Bilderberg attendee)

#7394772 at 2019-11-29 18:41:03 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9457: MSM Propping Up The London Bridge Edition

Swamp Creature Unmasked: Anonymous Author who Attacked Trump in Op-ed FOUND! His Identity is SHOCKING!

If a guy answers a direct yes or no question with 'I have no comment at this time' then you can be fairly sure of the answer.

People who are not the author of a book attacking Donald Trump, for instance, would simply say "no", would they not?

It looks like yet another swamp creature has been exposed.

Well, well, well... Another swamp creature has identified himself and his name is Guy Snodgrass.
Here's more from The Daiy Wire:

A new article from The New Republic suggests that former Pentagon aide Guy Snodgrass, who wrote speeches for Defense Secretary James Mattis, may have been the anonymous author of the infamous New York Times op-ed attacking President Donald Trump and the author of the new book "A Warning."

David Kusnet, a former speech writer for former President Bill Clinton, wrote at The New Republic:

Reading Snodgrass's Pentagon memoir, Holding the Line, makes the clues to Anonymous's identity apparent. As in A Warning, the sentences and paragraphs are pithy and punchy. Every chapter in both books begins with an inspiring but not cliché quotation from a historic figure. Many passages in the books are remarkably similar: the ordeal of conducting a Pentagon briefing for Trump; national security staffers exchanging appalled asides about Trump's conduct of foreign policy via Twitter; and the arguments for why American alliances strengthen national security and why immigration policy shouldn't be based on building a border wall. In particular, both books stress that, when briefed about international alliances, Trump derails discussions by griping about how allies are stiffing the U.S., from allegedly miserly NATO contributions to ostensibly one-sided trade policies.

Fox News' Trace Gallagher pressed Snodgrass about the matter during an interview on the network, noting that Snodgrass tweeted out a link to The New Republic and wrote: "The swirl continues..."

"If you look at the article, the author, David Kusnet, pretty much hits all the high points, I mean he makes a very good case," Gallagher said. "The question is, are you anonymous?"

"Great question, as you mentioned, I have a book out right now with my name on it called 'Holding The Line,' Snodgrass said. "I do appreciate that The New Republic said the writing was excellent across both books, but if I was going to make an announcement like that I would come into the studio with you in New York City."

"So you are not denying that you are Anonymous," Gallagher pressed.

"I just heard this reporting as I was coming over to the studio, I got invited on to talk about national security," Snodgrass replied. "There is a lot to talk about there."

"Why not just deny it outright? You said you just heard about it on your way to the studio but you sent out the tweet today not really denying it," Gallagher continued.

"It's the latest in a long series of D.C. parlor games, not unique to this point in time, it's been going on for decades," Snodgrass responded.

https://www.dcclothesline.com/2019/11/29/swamp-creature-unmasked-anonymous-author-who-attacked-trump-in-op-ed-found-his-identity-is-shocking/

#7371725 at 2019-11-25 20:49:31 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9428: projectdcomms less than 10 Edition

TYB @lawyer4laws
A new article alleges that former Secretary of Defense James Mattis' chief speechwriter Guy Snodgrass is the "Anonymous" official who wrote a book blasting President Donald Trump.

#7371678 at 2019-11-25 20:42:11 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9427: You'll Never Walk Alone Again Edition

@lawyer4laws
A new article alleges that former Secretary of Defense James Mattis' chief speechwriter Guy Snodgrass is the "Anonymous" official who wrote a book blasting President Donald Trump.

#7370295 at 2019-11-25 17:35:26 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9426: It's so good to be home -- Emergency Bake Edition

>>7370261
List Of Military Elite Purged
And Fired Under Obama

Compiled By General Paul Vallely
3-17-14

Here is the list of our military elite who have been purged or fired under Obama:
Commanding Generals fired:

· General John R. Allen-U.S. Marines Commander International Security Assistance Force [ISAF] (Nov 2012)
· Major General Ralph Baker (2 Star)-U.S. Army Commander of the Combined Joint Task Force Horn in Africa (April 2013)
· Major General Michael Carey (2 Star)-U.S. Air Force Commander of the 20th US Air Force in charge of 9,600 people and 450 Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (Oct 2013)
· Colonel James Christmas-U.S. Marines Commander 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit & Commander Special-Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force Crisis Response Unit (July 2013)
· Major General Peter Fuller-U.S. Army Commander in Afghanistan (May 2011)
· Major General Charles M.M. Gurganus-U.S. Marine Corps Regional Commander of SW and I Marine Expeditionary Force in Afghanistan (Oct 2013)
· General Carter F. Ham-U.S. Army African Command (Oct 2013)
· Lieutenant General David H. Huntoon (3 Star), Jr.-U.S. Army 58th Superintendent of the US Military Academy at West Point, NY (2013)
· Command Sergeant Major Don B Jordan-U.S. Army 143rd Expeditionary Sustainment Command (suspended Oct 2013)
· General James Mattis-U.S. Marines Chief of CentCom (May 2013)
· Colonel Daren Margolin-U.S. Marine in charge of Quantico's Security Battalion (Oct 2013)
· General Stanley McChrystal-U.S. Army Commander Afghanistan (June 2010)
· General David D. McKiernan-U.S. Army Commander Afghanistan (2009)
· General David Petraeus-Director of CIA from September 2011 to November 2012 & U.S. Army Commander International Security Assistance Force [ISAF] and Commander U.S. Forces Afghanistan [USFOR-A] (Nov 2012)
· Brigadier General Bryan Roberts-U.S. Army Commander 2nd Brigade (May 2013)
· Major General Gregg A. Sturdevant-U.S. Marine Corps Director of Strategic Planning and Policy for the U.S. Pacific Command & Commander of Aviation Wing at Camp Bastion, Afghanistan (Sept 2013)
· Colonel Eric Tilley-U.S. Army Commander of Garrison Japan (Nov 2013)
· Brigadier General Bryan Wampler-U.S. Army Commanding General of 143rd Expeditionary Sustainment Command of the 1st Theater Sustainment Command [TSC] (suspended Oct 2013)

Obama's Military Coup Purges 197 Officers In Five Years

Defense: What the president calls "my military" is being cleansed of any officer suspected of disloyalty to or disagreement with the administration on matters of policy or force structure, leaving the compliant and fearful.

https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/197-military-officers-purged-by-obama/

#7282535 at 2019-07-31 22:16:31 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9317: Better Fear The Reaper Edition

US:

https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2019/07/31/the-pentagons-top-two-jobs-are-finally-filled/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=Socialflow+MIL

The Pentagon's top two jobs are finally filled

Deputy Defense Secretary David Norquist took his oath on Wednesday afternoon, according to a Pentagon release, following his confirmation by the Senate on Tuesday evening.

Defense Secretary Mark Esper was sworn in on July 23, making him the first official confirmed in that role since former Defense Secretary James Mattis resigned in December.

Esper, previously the Army secretary, ascended to the acting defense secretary role in late June, then returned to the Army for a week in July following his nomination. The Senate voted 90-8 to confirm him.

With the top two civilian officials at the Pentagon now in place, the services are waiting on a vote to confirm the next vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Air Force Gen. John Hyten, now head of U.S. Strategic Command, appeared before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday.

If confirmed, he will join Army Gen. Mark Milley, who was confirmed as the chairman in an 89-1 Senate vote on Thursday, in the military's top uniformed jobs.

PIECES ARE GETTING INTO THEIR PLACES, FAGS!!

#7223191 at 2019-07-28 01:51:57 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9241: Q drop When do Treason Trials Begin! Edition

>>7223133
Obama Fires Top General Without Even a Phone Call

President Barack Obama fired General James Mattis, the head of Central Command, without even calling the general to let him know he was being replaced.

"I am told that General Mattis was travelling and in a meeting when an aide passed him a note telling him that the Pentagon had announced his replacement as head of Central Command. It was news to him – he hadn't received a phone call or a heads-up from anyone at the Pentagon or the White House," Thomas E. Ricks reports.

Pentagon insiders say that he rubbed civilian officials the wrong way – not because he went all "mad dog," which is his public image, and the view at the White House, but rather because he pushed the civilians so hard on considering the second- and third-order consequences of military action against Iran. Some of those questions apparently were uncomfortable. Like, what do you do with Iran once the nuclear issue is resolved and it remains a foe? What do you do if Iran then develops conventional capabilities that could make it hazardous for U.S. Navy ships to operate in the Persian Gulf? He kept saying, "And then what?"

There is also a belief that Mattis and Obama differed on Iran. "A particular point of disagreement was what to do about mischief Iran is exporting to other countries. Mattis is indeed more hawkish on this than the White House was," writes Ricks in yet another post.

"National Security Advisor Tom Donilon in particular was irked by Mattis's insistence on being heard. I cringe when I hear about civilians shutting down strategic discussions. That is exactly what the Bush administration did in late 2002 when generals persisted in questioning whether it was wise to invade Iraq. That led to what some might call a fiasco."
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/weekly-standard/obama-fires-top-general-without-even-a-phone-call

EAT SHIT

#7147579 at 2019-07-23 17:53:44 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9145: Shills playin in the dough! Butthurt! ANONS say MAKE IT RAIN KEK! Edition

Secret meetings between Jeff Bezos and James Mattis throws $10 bn Amazon JEDI contract in doubt

https://mspoweruser.com/secret-meetings-between-jeff-bezos-and-James-Mattis-throws-10-bn-amazon-jedi-contract-in-doubt/

#7144303 at 2019-07-23 11:35:41 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9140: EBake Edition

>>7144204
This was/is a huge clue:

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2018/12/20/defense-secretary-James-Mattis-retire-end-february-trump-says.html

Mattis Resigns Following Trump's Syria Withdrawal Order

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis resigned Thursday, seemingly in protest of President Donald Trump's orders to withdraw from Syria and an "America First" policy that appears to discount the value of allies and local partnered forces fighting alongside U.S. troops.

#7144204 at 2019-07-23 11:12:59 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9140: EBake Edition

>>7144158
everyone 5:5?

Mattis COMPED

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1153444627573280768

https://www.dailywire.com/news/48463/defense-secretary-Mattis-had-secret-dinner-amazon-ryan-saavedra

Defense Secretary James Mattis will step down before 2019, President Donald Trump announced in a tweet on Sunday. Deputy Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan will lead the Pentagon as acting secretary effective Jan. 1.

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/12/23/Mattis-trump-defense-shanahan-1074509

#7067476 at 2019-07-17 13:26:44 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9043: Sometimes the Memes Just Write Themselves Edition

https://freebeacon.com/politics/warren-clashes-with-esper-over-raytheon-work/

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) aggressively questioned Secretary of Defense nominee Mark Esper Tuesday over the ethical implications of his prior lobbying for Raytheon, the defense giant with ties to Warren.

Warren, a leading 2020 presidential candidate, lit into Esper during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing over his prior Raytheon work and concluded he shouldn't be confirmed.

"Will you commit not to work for or get paid by any defense contractor for at least four years after your government service?" Warren asked.

"No, senator, I will not," Esper said.

Warren accused Esper of acting in his own financial interests rather than those of the U.S., leading Esper to deliver a forceful response.

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"I went to war for this country; I served overseas for this country," he said. "I've stepped down from jobs that paid me well more than what I was [making] anywhere else, and each time, it was to serve the public good and to serve the young men and women of our armed services. I think the presumption is, for some reason, anybody who comes from the business or corporate world is corrupt."

Warren said Esper wasn't willing to avoid conflicts of interest, grumbling, "this is outrageous," as her questioning session concluded.

Warren also blistered Esper for not extending a recusal from Raytheon matters past this fall. Acting Secretary Patrick Shanahan elected to recuse himself from matters involving his former employer Boeing. Esper said his situation with Raytheon was different and that he would follow the recommendation of Pentagon ethics professionals not to recuse himself.

Warren grew impatient, cutting him off from explaining further and saying she would take it as a "yes, you are unwilling to make that commitment." The two also argued over a waiver Esper could receive that would allow him to weigh in on matters involving Raytheon and not violate any ethics pledges: Warren said such a waiver would be "corruption, plain and simple."

Warren Says Pentagon Pick Esper Must 'Clear Any Ethics Cloud'
Mark Esper, President Donald Trump's nominee for defense secretary, must do more "to clear any ethics cloud" from his seven years as Raytheon Co.'s top lobbyist, according to Senator Elizabeth Warren.

Warren released a plan in May to crack down on corporate lobbying influence at the Pentagon, but her Senate career has shown consistent delivery on behalf of defense giants like Raytheon and General Dynamics.

Raytheon is headquartered in Warren's home state, and it is one of the largest employers in Massachusetts. Warren spoke by phone to Raytheon chief executive William Swanson during her first campaign in 2012 about the potential effects of sequestration's automatic budget cuts, and the company reported having a "positive relationship" with her after she took office.

Federal Election Commission filings showed Raytheon executive Pamela Wickham gave $1,250 to Warren's presidential campaign in the second quarter of 2019.

Esper, the current Secretary of the Army, was officially nominated this week to permanently head the Pentagon. James Mattis, President Donald Trump's first Secretary of Defense, stepped down in December.

Sen. Rick Scott (R., Fla.) criticized Warren for her questioning later on, telling Esper it seemed like she was searching for a viral moment for her presidential campaign.

When is the useless POS going to be brought up on charges for…..

HER TIME AT THE CFPB??????????

LYING ON HER HARVARD EMPLOYMENT APPLICATION??????

LYING ON OKLAHOMA PAPERWORK????

#7015248 at 2019-07-12 18:34:13 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8976:So many digs! Deep digs! Fees good man! Edition

Oracle Loses Critical Lawsuit Alleging Pentagon & Amazon Colluded Over $10B 'War Cloud' Contract

Oracle shares tumbled on Friday after the networking giant lost a critical court case against the Pentagon and Amazon. The loss will allow the DoD to proceed with awarding a $10 billion contract to one of the two finalists - a group that includes Amazon and Microsoft.

Ever since the Pentagon named Amazon a finalist for the contract, critics have accused Amazon and the Pentagon of conflicts of interest, claiming that Amazon effectively secured the extremely lucrative project before the bidding even began. Earlier this week, WSJ publicized new evidence showing that senior Amazon executives met with senior DoD officials, including then-Defense Secretary James Mattis, to discuss the project before the bidding even began.

The Pentagon has already delayed its decision on who will get the contract to build the Pentagon's new "war cloud" infrastructure, known as the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure, or JEDI. And some suspected that the decision would be delayed yet again due to the court challenge.

Finishing JEDI is expected to take up to a year, making the winner of the contract a de facto long-term partner with the Pentagon and a major military contractor in their own right.

The computing project would store and process vast amounts of classified data, allowing the Pentagon to use artificial intelligence to speed up its war planning and fighting capabilities.

The court ruled in favor of the DoD and Amazon, saying Oracle had not met certain criteria when bids were due.

The JEDI decision is due next month, and the Pentagon confirmed that Microsoft and Amazon are the final two contenders.

At this point, if AWS gets the contract, the company and the DoD will be dogged by these suspicion, which could hurt Amazon's chances. Despite Jeff Bezos's highly visible feud with President Trump, it appears his company is still the front-runner to win the contract.

On May 24, Oracle filed an updated complaint with the US Court of Federal Claims alleging that the procurement process for JEDI had been rife with conflicts of interest.

Oracle alleged that at least two Amazon employees, Deap Ubhi (who was also briefly employed at the Pentagon before returning to Amazon) and Anthony DeMartino, improperly influenced the process to favor AWS at the expense of other competitors. Oracle claims these men helped influence the Pentagon's decision to structure JEDI as a 'winner-take-all' contract, ensuring that Amazon, the cloud computing industry leader, would win the entire $10 billion. These claims have caught the attention of some lawmakers, who have started looking into the bidding.

At this point, it seems just as likely that the contract could go to Microsoft. That would be a major blow for AWS's market leader status, and could impact the company's revenue guidance and, ultimately, its share price. But Amazon is still the industry leader, and its lobbying efforts clearly ran pretty deep.

Bezos might still be able to pull it off, and in the process, gain access to the largest repository of classified defense-related intelligence this country has ever seen.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-07-12/oracle-loses-critical-lawsuit-alleging-pentagon-amazon-colluded-over-10b-war-cloud

#7014054 at 2019-07-12 17:09:13 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8974: Dig Anons! It's coming no matter what! Edition

Oracle Loses Critical Lawsuit Alleging Pentagon & Amazon Colluded Over $10B 'War Cloud' Contract

Oracle shares tumbled on Friday after the networking giant lost a critical court case against the Pentagon and Amazon. The loss will allow the DoD to proceed with awarding a $10 billion contract to one of the two finalists - a group that includes Amazon and Microsoft.

Ever since the Pentagon named Amazon a finalist for the contract, critics have accused Amazon and the Pentagon of conflicts of interest, claiming that Amazon effectively secured the extremely lucrative project before the bidding even began. Earlier this week, WSJ publicized new evidence showing that senior Amazon executives met with senior DoD officials, including then-Defense Secretary James Mattis, to discuss the project before the bidding even began.
The Pentagon has already delayed its decision on who will get the contract to build the Pentagon's new "war cloud" infrastructure, known as the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure, or JEDI. And some suspected that the decision would be delayed yet again due to the court challenge.

Finishing JEDI is expected to take up to a year, making the winner of the contract a de facto long-term partner with the Pentagon and a major military contractor in their own right.

The computing project would store and process vast amounts of classified data, allowing the Pentagon to use artificial intelligence to speed up its war planning and fighting capabilities.

The court ruled in favor of the DoD and Amazon, saying Oracle had not met certain criteria when bids were due.

The JEDI decision is due next month, and the Pentagon confirmed that Microsoft and Amazon are the final two contenders.

At this point, if AWS gets the contract, the company and the DoD will be dogged by these suspicion, which could hurt Amazon's chances. Despite Jeff Bezos's highly visible feud with President Trump, it appears his company is still the front-runner to win the contract.

On May 24, Oracle filed an updated complaint with the US Court of Federal Claims alleging that the procurement process for JEDI had been rife with conflicts of interest.

Oracle alleged that at least two Amazon employees, Deap Ubhi (who was also briefly employed at the Pentagon before returning to Amazon) and Anthony DeMartino, improperly influenced the process to favor AWS at the expense of other competitors. Oracle claims these men helped influence the Pentagon's decision to structure JEDI as a 'winner-take-all' contract, ensuring that Amazon, the cloud computing industry leader, would win the entire $10 billion. These claims have caught the attention of some lawmakers, who have started looking into the bidding.

At this point, it seems just as likely that the contract could go to Microsoft. That would be a major blow for AWS's market leader status, and could impact the company's revenue guidance and, ultimately, its share price. But Amazon is still the industry leader, and its lobbying efforts clearly ran pretty deep.

Bezos might still be able to pull it off, and in the process, gain access to the largest repository of classified defense-related intelligence this country has ever seen.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-07-12/oracle-loses-critical-lawsuit-alleging-pentagon-amazon-colluded-over-10b-war-cloud
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/ORCL?p=ORCL&.tsrc=fin-srch

#6981082 at 2019-07-10 15:34:00 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8931: Bacon wrapped Q Drops Edition

Former DOD Secretary Mattis Met With Amazon Exec Involved In A $10 Billion Program
https://dailycaller.com/2019/07/08/amazon-dod-James-Mattis/

#6830281 at 2019-06-24 13:58:47 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8735: Monday Forecast Shilly Start with Justice Incoming Edition

Exclusive: Leaked Trump vetting docs
https://www.axios.com/leaked-donald-trump-vetting-docs-hbo-6ce3cd26-1eb9-4da8-b15e-47b56020aef7.html

Nearly 100 internal Trump transition vetting documents leaked to "Axios on HBO" identify a host of "red flags" about officials who went on to get some of the most powerful jobs in the U.S. government.

Why it matters: The massive trove, and the story behind it, sheds light on the slap-dash way President Trump filled his cabinet and administration, and foreshadowed future scandals that beset his government.

Behind the scenes: In the chaotic weeks after Trump's surprise election victory, Trump fired Chris Christie as the head of his transition. The team that took over - which V.P. Mike Pence helmed - outsourced the political vetting of would-be top officials to the Republican National Committee.

We obtained the political vetting forms that Trump and his senior aides were given for Ben Carson, Dan Coats, Betsy DeVos, Gary Cohn, Don McGahn, Elaine Chao, John Kelly, James Mattis, John Bolton, Mick Mulvaney, Nikki Haley, Rex Tillerson, Rick Perry, Robert Lighthizer, Ryan Zinke, Scott Pruitt, and many others.

The RNC researchers identified some striking "Red Flags."

The first red flag for Rex Tillerson, who became Trump's first Secretary of State, was about Russia. "Tillerson's Russia ties go deep," it read.
One red flag for Fox News host Laura Ingraham, considered for White House press secretary: "Ingraham said people should wear diapers instead of sharing bathrooms with transgender people."
One heading in the document about Kris Kobach, in the running for Homeland Security Secretary, listed "white supremacy" as a vulnerability. It cited accusations from past political opponents that he had ties to white supremacist groups.

The vetting team often put these denigrations at the top of the documents. A source with direct knowledge told me many of these documents were handed to Trump; he knew about the insults, and picked the insulters anyway.

Nikki Haley, who became Trump's U.N. ambassador, had a note that she'd said Trump is everything "we teach our kids not to do in kindergarten."
Ryan Zinke, who became Interior Secretary, had described Trump as "un-defendable."
Rick Perry, Energy Secretary, had voluminous vetting concerns: "Perry described Trumpism as a 'toxic mix of demagoguery, mean-spiritedness, and nonsense that will lead the Republican Party to perdition,'" the vetters noted.

#6823616 at 2019-06-23 16:55:48 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8727: Summer Solstice 2019 In The Can Edition

>>6823527
Mattis' official SecDef portrait shows him sheathing his knife hand in his pocket.

https://taskandpurpose.com/James-Mattis-portrait

I want to know what's written on his tie…

#6782987 at 2019-06-18 22:42:08 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8676: Spirit of 76. The Pre Rally Bread Edition

Corruption: Defense Secretary James Mattis made secret $10B no-bid Pentagon contract with Amazon

fellowshipo ftheminds.com /corruption-defense-secretary-James-Mattis-made-secret-10b-pentagon-deal-with-amazon

#6781171 at 2019-06-18 19:00:38 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8673: Rally Day Full Steam Ahead Edition

Acting SecDef Shanahan Withdraws Nomination To Replace Mattis

In a surprise announcement that prompted speculation about whether Shanahan himself knows this yet, President Trump tweeted Tuesday afternoon that acting SecDef Patrick Shanahan was withdrawing his name from consideration to take the job on a full-time basis.

Instead, Trump will appoint Mark Thomas Esper, the Secretary of the Army, to become the first full-time successor to James Mattis, who left in December.

Acting Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan, who has done a wonderful job, has decided not to go forward with his confirmation process so that he can devote more time to his family….
- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 18, 2019

….I thank Pat for his outstanding service and will be naming Secretary of the Army, Mark Esper, to be the new Acting Secretary of Defense. I know Mark, and have no doubt he will do a fantastic job!
- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 18, 2019

Esper is an American politician and corporate executive who has been Secretary of the Army since 2017.

Prior to this, he served as vice president of government relations at Raytheon. Notably, the FBI is still in the middle of Shanahan's background check, and has reportedly been investigating violent disputes involving Shanahan and his wife and son that date back nine years.

Shanahan discussed these incidents in an interview with WaPo on Monday and Tuesday.

Shanahan spoke publicly about the incidents in interviews with The Washington Post on Monday and Tuesday.

"Bad things can happen to good families…and this is a tragedy, really," Shanahan said. Dredging up the episode publicly, he said, "will ruin my son's life."

In November 2011, Shanahan rushed to defend his then 17-year-old son, William Shanahan, in the days after the teenager brutally beat his mother. The attack had left Shanahan's ex-wife unconscious in a pool of blood, her skull fractured and with internal injuries that required surgery, according to court and police records.

Two weeks later, Shanahan sent his ex-wife's brother a memo arguing that his son had acted in self-defense.

"Use of a baseball bat in self-defense will likely be viewed as an imbalance of force," Shanahan wrote. "However, Will's mother harassed him for nearly three hours before the incident."

Details of the incidents have started to emerge in media reports about his nomination, including a USA Today report Tuesday about the punching incident in 2010.

Specifically, Shanahan's wife was arrested after punching him in the face, and his son was arrested after a separate incident in which he hit his mother with a baseball bat.

Shanahan has said that the public disclosure of these incidents would re-traumatize his family.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-06-18/acting-secdef-shanahan-withdraws-nomination-replace-Mattis

#6781145 at 2019-06-18 18:58:01 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8673: Rally Day Full Steam Ahead Edition

>>6781142

After months of unexplained delays, Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan stepped down Tuesday before his formal nomination ever went to the Senate, citing a "painful" family situation that would hurt his children and reopen "wounds we have worked years to heal."

President Donald Trump announced Shanahan's departure in a tweet, and said that Army Secretary Mark Esper would be the new acting Pentagon chief.

"It is unfortunate that a painful and deeply personal family situation from long ago is being dredged up and painted in an incomplete and therefore misleading way in the course of this process," Shanahan said in a statement. "I believe my continuing in the confirmation process would force my three children to relive a traumatic chapter in our family's life and reopen wounds we have worked years to heal. Ultimately, their safety and well-being is my highest priority."

He provided no other details.

But as a result of that situation, Shanahan said, he asked to be withdrawn from the nomination process and he resigned from his previous post as deputy defense secretary. He said he would work on an "appropriate transition" but it wasn't clear how quickly he will leave the job.

In his tweet, Trump simply said that Shanahan had done "a wonderful job" but would step aside to "devote more time to his family."

And, in noting Esper's move, Trump added, "I know Mark, and have no doubt he will do a fantastic job!"

Officials were meeting Tuesday to determine transition plans.

The post atop the Pentagon has not been filled permanently since Gen. James Mattis retired in January following policy differences with Trump.

Trump announced in May that he would nominate Shanahan but the formal nomination process in the Senate had been inexplicably delayed

Shanahan, a former Boeing executive, has been leading the Pentagon as acting secretary since Jan. 1, a highly unusual arrangement for arguably the most sensitive Cabinet position.

In his tenure at the department he's had to deal with a wide array of international hotspots, ranging from missile launches by North Korea to the sudden shift of military ships and aircraft to the Middle East to deal with potential threats from Iran.

Shanahan, 56, had extensive of experience in the defense industry but little in government. In more than four months as the acting secretary, he focused on implementing the national defense strategy that was developed during Mattis' tenure and emphasizes a shift from the resources and tactics required to fight small wars against extremist groups to what Shanahan calls "great power" competition with China and Russia.

#6780944 at 2019-06-18 18:19:14 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8673: Rally Day Full Steam Ahead Edition

Pat Shanahan out as Pentagon chief after domestic violence allegations

President Trump announced that acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan has withdrawn himself from consideration to lead the Pentagon. Secretary of the Army Mark Esper will be taking his place as acting secretary. The announcement came after details were published of a 2010 violent domestic dispute with his then-wife Kimberley Jordinson that was investigated by the FBI for his background check.

Shanahan and Jordinson both claimed to the police in 2010 that they had been punched by the other. Shanahan has said he "never laid a hand on" her. His wife was arrested after the incident and she was charged with domestic violence. In a 2011 incident, his son, then aged 17, was alleged to have beaten Shanahan's ex-wife with a baseball bat.

"Acting Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan, who has done a wonderful job, has decided not to go forward with his confirmation process so that he can devote more time to his family," Trump said via Twitter. "I thank Pat for his outstanding service and will be naming Secretary of the the Army, Mark Esper, to be the new Acting Secretary of Defense. I know Mark, and have no doubt he will do a fantastic job!"

Shanahan, 56, took over as acting secretary on Jan. 1 following the departure of former Secretary of Defense James Mattis. The senate confirmed his nomination as deputy secretary of defense in July 2017 with a 92-7 vote. Prior to entering public service, Shanahan was an executive with Boeing, one of the nation's largest defense contractors, where he had a thirty year career. Esper, 54, is a West Point graduate and retired Army lieutenant colonel who spent time in the defense industry prior to taking over as secretary of the army in November 2017.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense-national-security/pat-shanahan-out-as-pentagon-chief-after-domestic-dispute-allegations

Copy of Police Report Shanahan Family obtained by Kevin Johnson
https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/6155997/10-300566-GO-Redacted.pdf
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USA Today Hit Piece
FBI examining 2010 domestic fight involving acting defense secretary Shanahan; accounts differ on aggressor
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/06/18/defense-secretary-fbi-patrick-shanahan-wife-domestic-violence-altercation/1470811001/

Note: This has a bad stench to it..someone wanted him gone

#6724987 at 2019-06-11 13:03:25 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8600: Some Kind of Strange Bread Edition

>>6724976
He received a recommendation from then-Defense Sec. James Mattis for his application.

https://dailycaller.com/2019/06/10/reince-priebus-navy-reserve/

#6638535 at 2019-05-31 19:49:27 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8488: E-ish Bake Edition

Quit dissing millennials, says retired admiral who led U.S. special operations forces
http://archive.is/jmgNg
https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/politics/fl-ne-trump-critic-navy-admiral-mcraven-20190531-etzrh4bkvvaihkyglans2ea2am-story.html
Retired Admiral William H. McRaven speaks at the Forum Club of the Palm Beaches luncheon on Friday at the Kravis Center in West Palm Beach.
William McRaven has seen some of the darkest aspects of humanity but remains optimistic about the future and especially about the much-maligned millennial generation.

"The good I have seen far outweighs the evil. So if you have any worries, if you have any worries about the current state of affairs, if you worry about where we're going as a nation, if you worry about what's going to happen as a world, we have great men and women who are coming up behind us," McRaven said Friday.

McRaven, a retired four-star admiral whose final assignment was commander of all U.S. special operations forces, spoke Friday at the Forum Club of the Palm Beach, part of the promotional tour for his second book, "Sea Stories." He's also author of the earlier best-seller "Make Your Bed."

The Forum Club is a gathering of the Palm Beach County business, political and legal establishments. But McRaven, who's at times been an outspoken critic of President Donald Trump, steered clear of politics during his 30-minute speech and a short question-and-answer session.

McRaven, who served on the National Security Council staff under President George W. Bush and as a top military commander under President Barack Obama, said "both men had great integrity and character." He said he didn't agree with either one on every decision.

"Here's the issue with being in the military. As long as the order is a legal offer, then you are obliged to follow that order," he said. "If you don't want to follow that order, it is easy: you resign."

He said that is what happened with Trump's defense secretary - "my great friend" James Mattis. Once Mattis concluded he could no longer support his commander in chief, he resigned.

In his 37 years as a Navy SEAL, McRaven oversaw the raid that led to the death of Osama bin Laden, the terrorist behind the Sept. 11, 2001, attack on the U.S., and he commanded the forces that captured Saddam Hussein, the former Iraqi leader, and rescued Captain Richard Phillips, captain of the container ship captured by Somali pirates.

He's seen the "worst of humanity," he said, including Iraqi torture house and the results of Taliban "hit teams"

McRaven said Obama made a "courageous decision" in ordering the raid that went after bin Laden, because it wasn't certain it would work or even that bin Laden was the person located by U.S. intelligence.

"Irrespective of your politics, you would have been very proud of the way the president and his national security team approached this," he said. There was never discussion of the politics of what would happen if the raid had gone wrong, McRaven said. "People were just trying to do the right thing. They were just trying to do the right thing for the country."

In the past, McRaven has faulted Trump for calling the press the "enemy of the people," humiliating the U.S. in the world and dividing the country.

McRaven, who commanded many service members and served as chancellor of the University of Texas System from 2015 to 2018, said people who denigrate millennials are wrong. Millennials are part of the generation that became young adults early in the 21st Century.

"I am one of the biggest fans of the millennials you'll ever meet, and I think that surprises people," he said. "I hear this talk about the millennials, they're pampered and they're entitled and they're soft. And I'm quick to point out you have never seen them in a fire fight in Afghanistan.

"This is a great generation, and anybody who worries about the future of this country, spend a little time with these young kids and you really won't worry about that much anymore," McRaven said.

#6602694 at 2019-05-27 19:51:10 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8442: Victory Sounds in UK and Europe Edition

Months before resigning as defense secretary, James Mattis plotted to challenge President Trump in 2020 GOP primary

https://fellowshipoftheminds.com/months-before-resigning-as-defense-secretary-James-Mattis-plotted-to-challenge-president-trump-in-2020-gop-primary

#6598673 at 2019-05-27 03:55:16 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8437: Massive Victory for EU Conservative Nationalists Edition

Mad Dog Mattis was here in Seattle yesterday dedicating a new Veteran's Memorial.

Thank you Veterans, for your service and sacrifices.

Former US defense secretary speaks at dedication ceremony for new Vietnam Veterans Memorial Park

By: Patranya Bhoolsuwan
Updated: May 25, 2019 - 9:27 PM

Former Defense Secretary James Mattis was in town today for the dedication ceremony of the new Vietnam Veterans Memorial Park at the Museum of Flight in Tukwila.

Mattis, a retired Marine general, is from Richland Washington. He spoke to a huge crowd at this ceremony in Tukwila, most of them veterans and their families.

"Today we are proud to pay respect and reminded that the freedom we often take for granted was never free," said Mattis.

The centerpiece of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Park is the iconic B-52 bomber, recently restored after sitting for decades at Paine Field in Everett.

The 200,000-pound aircraft was transported to Tukwila piece by piece last summer to be part of this permanent exhibit.

"It's very emotional and very rewarding to see the B-52 recognized," said 70-year-old Randy Wimmer who served as a navigator during the Vietnam War.

He and his wife traveled from their home in North Dakota to be at this ceremony this Memorial Day weekend.

"It's well worth it. We are humbled by their experience," said Wimmer.

A bronze statue of an airman was also unveiled today at the park, representing all those who returned from combat.

The American flag folded under his arm stood for those who did not.

There is also a tribute wall honoring those who served.

The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Park is free of charge to the public.

Also, the Museum of Flight will be free this Memorial Day weekend for veterans and active military members.

https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/former-us-defense-secretary-speaks-at-dedication-ceremony-for-new-vietnam-veterans-memorial-park/952414979

#6559302 at 2019-05-22 17:36:24 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8387: Wednesday Winning Edition

Shanahan orders new restrictions on sharing of military operations with Congress: report

Acting Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan has ordered new restrictions on how the Pentagon shares information about international military operations with Congress, according to an internal memo obtained by The Washington Post.

The May 8 document lists criteria for when Defense Department officials are allowed to provide congressional offices or committees with information regarding operational plans and orders, according to the newspaper.

The memo comes amid criticism from Capitol Hill that the Trump administration is withholding information to impede a slate of oversight probes in the House. Some lawmakers have also expressed concerns that the Defense Department is becoming too involved in President Trump's immigration policy, according to the Post

"Congress oversees the Department of Defense; but with this new policy, the department is overstepping its authority by presuming to determine what warrants legislative oversight," Reps. Adam Smith (D-Wash.) and Mac Thornberry (R-Tex.), the chair and ranking Republican of the House Armed Services Committee, told the Post.

The Pentagon hit back at the criticism, saying the new policy is intended to increase transparency between the Pentagon and Congress.

"In establishing this policy, Secretary Shanahan seeks to increase transparency and information-sharing with Congress. Under his direction, the Department of Defense has been engaging with the Senate and House Armed Services Committees to develop a process for providing Congress with access to plans and operational orders, including Executive Orders. This policy establishes such a process. Previously, no such policy existed," Joe Buccino, a spokesman for Shanahan, said in a statement to The Hill.

The memo, which was reportedly shared widely within the Pentagon but was sent to key lawmakers after inquiries from The Post, lists six guidelines for information sharing with Capitol Hill.

The document orders military officials and political appointees to determine whether a congressional request "contains sufficient information to demonstrate a relationship to the legislative function" and urges officials to provide a summary briefing instead of the requested plan or order itself.

It also gives responsibility for evaluating congressional requests to the undersecretary of defense for policy, often a political appointee. Officials across the Pentagon previously responded to requests on an ad hoc basis.

The memo appears to arise from worries that lawmakers could leak military plans, calling on officials to evaluate "whether the degree of protection from unauthorized disclosure that Congress will afford to the plan is equivalent to that afforded" by the Pentagon, according to The Post.

The memo "seems to be another way in which they can claim that they don't need to respond to legitimate inquiry of Congress," Sen. Jack Reed, the ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, told the Post.

"From what I can glean from the memorandum basically they can use any factor they want to say no and they can make a determination what they think we need to do our job," he continued. "I think we're better positioned to determine what we need to do our job."

An anonymous Pentagon official told The Post that the agency's officials had been worried about potential congressional interference in the formulation of military plans, what the Defense Department considers to be an executive branch function. The official added that Congress had been most interested in Special Operations activities, which are highly sensitive and have produced significant public backlash in recent years.

Shanahan is due to appear in an upcoming confirmation hearing in front of the Senate after Trump nominated him to be Secretary of Defense, a position Shanahan has taken on an Acting basis after the resignation of James Mattis.

https://thehill.com/policy/defense/445025-shanahan-orders-new-restrictions-on-sharing-of-military-information-with

#6559222 at 2019-05-22 17:28:48 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8387: Wednesday Winning Edition

EXCLUSIVE: General Mattis Planned Primary Run Against Trump, Pence Was Also Considered, Nikki Haley Was Tested As Running Mate

If this is true the fukkery was everywhere.

Former Defense Secretary General James Mattis and some White House employees were directly aware of a team working to launch a Mattis Republican primary campaign against President Donald Trump in the 2020 election, according to documents obtained by Big League Politics and statements from the organizers who put the team together.

"My job was to see what his pathway to the White House would look like," Travis Snyder told Big League Politics in a series of interviews, referring to General Mattis. "There was a very small team."

Snyder, a twenty-five year-old Indiana-based political consultant whom insiders say is close to Vice President Mike Pence, ran point on the operation, which Mattis and others were keeping track of.

Snyder also confirmed that the group polled Mike Pence's chances to run against Trump, and found that Pence had no chance.

"I oversaw early states polling, putting together possible running mates," Snyder said.

"I did not work with the fundraising team. I solely looked at what his path to the nomination would look like, and then his pathway to the White House," Snyder said, declining to name the donors to the effort or the main person organizing it.

Running mate prospects included Nikki Haley and Dan Crenshaw.

"Nikki Haley was polled. Jackie Walorski, Mitch Daniels. There were regional smaller named people like Staff Sergeant Johnny Joe Jones" but Jones did not have the name ID, Snyder said.

"Dan Crenshaw was polled as a VP nominee in the event that Mattis" ran, Snyder said.

"General Mattis was aware of the effort," Snyder confirmed. "He knew of the team, who exactly brought the team together."

"There are people who currently serve in the White House who knew that the team was coming together," Snyder said, noting that "This group is no longer active."

Snyder tried to put together a team of consultants to assist in the effort.

Alex Rountree, a conservative consultant, was approached about being part of the team, but wanted nothing to do with it. Rountree identifies Snyder as being "good family friends with Pence" and being an adviser to Jackie Walorski, the congresswoman in Pence's old district.

more…

https://bigleaguepolitics.com/exclusive-general-Mattis-planned-primary-run-against-trump-pence-was-also-considered-nikki-haley-was-tested-as-running-mate/

#6549276 at 2019-05-21 08:05:11 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8374: Transparency Edition

'Diplomacy is the key, not war' in US-Iran tension
Set up an alliance of all nations to contain Iran's bad behavior, says Mattis in Abu Dhabi
https://gulfnews.com/uae/diplomacy-is-the-key-not-war-in-us-iran-tension-says-former-us-defense-secretary-James-Mattis-1.1558373775992

#6506252 at 2019-05-15 18:48:44 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8320: Wednesday Winning Edition

From Boeing to E-Ring: Shanahan is Industry's Man in the Pentagon

Trump's nominee for secretary of defense could be the ultimate fox in the henhouse.

WASHINGTON - John McCain is looking down on Washington and he is definitely not smiling.

The late senator had very little in common with the anti-interventionist principles of this magazine, but in the brighter moments of his 35-year career in Congress, he was the Senate's most vociferous watchdog of Pentagon waste and contractor malfeasance. His grilling of military brass in this area was legendary, and his willingness to dress down an E-Ring four star or civilian executive in front of the C-Span cameras makes today's congressional slobbering before the military high-hats look pathetic, and sad.

That's why he would be all the more crushed to see how the Blob is apparently prepared to confirm a recent senior executive at Boeing-the second largest contractor in the entire federal government-to the role of secretary of defense. Deputy Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan, who McCain, suffering at the time from brain cancer, suggested might be the fox guarding the henhouse, has been idling in the interim SecDef role since James Mattis just before Christmas. Now that a Pentagon Inspector General's report has quietly cleared him of charges that he was putting his thumb on the scales for billions of dollars of new work for Boeing, President Donald Trump announced Thursday that he will officially nominate Shanahan for the role of Pentagon chief, starting the clock on Senate confirmation.

This has raised the hackles of defense reformers who always saw Shanahan's presence at the DoD as the highest form of contempt: even by Washington standards, they see this as is a bald display of industry influence on the levers of power and, ultimately, U.S. national security policy.

"Having promised to change nothing, to simply extend the massive spending policies initiated by Mattis, Mr. Shanahan is sure to be confirmed," charged retired U.S. Army colonel and defense analyst Douglas Macgregor in an interview with TAC. "Keeping the money flowing without interruption is the sine qua non for success in the Senate Armed Services Committee."

Critics point out that Shanahan has never been anything but a company man. His only experience in military and defense issues was as a program executive of contracts that sink billions of American taxpayer dollars each year into bloated weapons systems and increase shareholder value.

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/from-boeing-to-e-ring-shanahan-is-industrys-man-at-the-pentagon/

#6486912 at 2019-05-13 12:46:14 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8295: BOOM TIME Edition

>>6481266
Reminder who was on the Board of Theranos with Elizabeth Holmes

From its incorporation in 2003 until 2018, Holmes was the company's chief executive officer.

She recruited Channing Robertson, a chemical-engineering professor at Stanford, to be a technical advisor and the company's first board member during its early years.

Holmes' then-boyfriend Sunny Balwani, a software engineer whom Holmes had met during high school, joined the company as its president and chief operating officer in 2009.[109]

In July 2011, Holmes was introduced to former U.S. Secretary of State George P. Shultz, who joined the Theranos board of directors that month.[110]

Over the next three years, Shultz helped to introduce almost all the outside directors on the "all-star board,

" which included William Perry (former U.S. Secretary of Defense),

Henry Kissinger (former U.S. Secretary of State),

Sam Nunn (former U.S. Senator),

Bill Frist (former U.S. Senator and heart-transplant surgeon),

Gary Roughead(Admiral, USN, retired)

=James Mattis (General, USMC)==

Richard Kovacevich (former Wells Fargo Chairman and CEO) and

Riley Bechtel(chairman of the board and former CEO at Bechtel Group).[110][111][112] The board was criticized for consisting "mainly of directors with diplomatic or military backgrounds."[24]

In April 2016, Theranos announced its medical advisory board which included past presidents or board members of the American Association for Clinical Chemistry.[113] Members were invited to review the company's proprietary technologies and advise on the integration into clinical practice.[113] The board included past presidents or board members of

the American Association for Clinical Chemistry such as Susan A. Evans,

William Foege, former director U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC),

David Helfet, director of the Orthopedic Trauma Service at the Hospital for Special Surgery and professors,

Ann M. Gronowski, Larry J. Kricka, Jack Ladenson, Andy O. Miller and Steven Spitalnik.[114][115]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theranos

#6456603 at 2019-05-09 21:45:33 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8256: Rosenstein Sent Off A Hero Edition

Patrick Shanahan has been tapped for Defense Secretary, replacing General Mattis.

After more than four months as acting U.S. defense secretary, the longest anyone has served in that position, Patrick Shanahan has been formally nominated to become President Donald Trump's permanent Pentagon chief. Shanahan will replace James Mattis, who resigned in December over Trump's decision-since reversed-to pull all U.S. troops out of Syria.

"Based on his outstanding service to the country and his demonstrated ability to lead, President Trump intends to nominate Patrick M. Shanahan to be the Secretary of Defense," said White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders in a statement on Thursday. "Acting Secretary Shanahan has proven over the last several months that he is beyond qualified to lead the Department of Defense, and he will continue to do an excellent job."

https://www.newsboard.us/post/replacement-for-general-Mattis-announced-10129032?pid=1308514638#post1308514638

#6365491 at 2019-04-30 01:39:49 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8139: Bye Bye RR Edition

Mattis ignored orders from Trump, White House on North Korea, Iran: report

Former Defense Secretary James Mattis declined to carry out orders from President Trump or otherwise limited his options in various attempts to prevent tensions with North Korea, Iran and Syria from escalating, The New Yorker reported Monday, the latest account of Trump's own officials trying to check his worst instincts.
"The president thinks out loud. Do you treat it like an order? Or do you treat it as part of a longer conversation? We treated it as part of a longer conversation," a former senior national security official told The New Yorker.
"We prevented a lot of bad things from happening."
In 2017, following a series of North Korean ballistic missile tests, Trump ordered the Pentagon to begin removing the spouses and children of military personnel from South Korea, where the U.S. military has a base. An administration official told the magazine that "Mattis just ignored" the order.

In another instance in the fall of 2017, as White House officials were planning a private meeting at Camp David to develop military options for a possible conflict with North Korea, Mattis allegedly stopped the gathering from happening. He ignored a request from then-national security adviser H.R. McMaster to send officers and planners, according to a former senior administration official.
The accounts, included in a profile of national security adviser John Bolton, reveal that the former Marine Corps general routinely sought to downplay any potential conflicts across the globe.
Mattis resigned from his Pentagon position last December, one day after Trump announced that he would withdraw troops from Syria, a decision Mattis opposed.

https://thehill.com/policy/defense/441240-Mattis-ignored-orders-from-trump-white-house-on-north-korea-iran-report

#6269657 at 2019-04-22 03:43:49 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8017: Re Read Crumbs The Q Edition

>>6269651

reposting b/c typo

Mattis met with Bezos while Sec of Defense

Amazon.com, Inc.'s Web Services (AWS) unit has been the engine behind the company's spectacular recent performance, with operating income of $7.2 billion last year, up 68% year-over-year and accounting for 59% of Amazon's total operating income. The near-consensus cadre of bullish analysts (48 out of 50 tracked by Bloomberg have a "buy" rating on Amazon) call for more of the same. But will an ongoing government kerfuffle derail the AWS miracle?

Last Wednesday, the Department of Defense (DoD) cleared itself of wrongdoing following an internal investigation into the forthcoming award of the $10 billion cloud computing Joint Enterprise Defense Initiative (JEDI) program. Yet the Pentagon's self-exoneration was not comprehensive, as Bloomberg noted that: "The investigation uncovered evidence of unethical conduct that will be referred to the DoD inspector general for a separate review."

The JEDI contract has been hotly contested among some of the largest cloud-computing companies in the U.S., and for good reason. The winner-take-all award has been narrowed to two contenders, AWS and Microsoft Corp. According to an updated timeline issued by a Federal judge Tuesday, the JEDI mandate will be awarded sometime after mid-July.

With the stakes high, Uncle Sam's corporate suitors are pulling no punches. In December, recently-eliminated Oracle Corp. filed suit with U.S. Court of Federal Claims asserting that the JEDI process has been marred by conflicts of interest. The suit alleges that a pair of Amazon-connected former DoD staffers unduly influenced the proceedings in favor of AWS. One of whom, Deap Ubhi, worked in business development at AWS from 2014 to 2016 before joining the DoD, during which period he continued to praise Amazon from his Twitter account (including tweeting "once an Amazonian, always an Amazonian" in January 2017) while criticizing Oracle, Alphabet, Inc.'s Google and other Silicon Valley firms.

According to an April 5 report by The Capitol Forum, in January 2017 Ubhi lamented missing a conference call between Defense Department officials and AWS personnel, writing via email: "I am ex-AWS, and would have liked to have been on the call." Eight months later, when acting as the DoD's lead JEDI project manager, Ubhi asked DoD higher-ups to name him "the point of contact for all industry conversations." After reportedly recusing himself from the JEDI procurement process in late October, Ubhi left the DoD, returning to AWS in November 2017.

In March, the Federal News Network reported that the FBI is involved in the DoD inspector general investigation, potentially signaling "some sort of wrongdoing involving DoD civilian personnel and/or DoD procurement procedures."

In addition to Ubhi, other former DoD officials have seen their actions around JEDI come under scrutiny. In August, Vanity Fair reported that Sally Donnelly, a former senior advisor to Secretary of Defense James Mattis from January 2017 to March 2018, "sold her stake in [consulting firm] SBD Advisors, LLC for $1.17 million two days before she went to work for Mattis." But Donnelly continued to receive payments from the company, which counted Amazon as an active client. Two weeks after Donnelly left the Pentagon, SBD was purchased by C5 Capital, "a private equity firm with direct ties to Amazon."

Anthony DeMartino, Donnelly's colleague at SBD, who was also named in the Oracle lawsuit, likewise consulted for Amazon before moving to the DoD to serve as Mattis' deputy chief of staff.

The close proximity of Donnelly and DeMartino to the Secretary of Defense was a favorable development for AWS, as The Capitol Forum reported on March 15 that Mattis "expressed interest in meeting with Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos at a dinner" with Donnelly in early 2017, according to emails received via a Freedom of Information Act request. Mattis and Bezos met in Seattle in August 2017.

As controversy over JEDI continues to swirl, another government agency pivots away from the winner-take-all format. On March 22, the CIA unveiled a new Commercial Cloud Enterprise (C2E) initiative, in which the agency disclosed plans to use "multiple commercial cloud vendors that can provide" necessary services.

#6269651 at 2019-04-22 03:43:06 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8017: Re Read Crumbs The Q Edition

Matties met with Bezos while Sec of Defense

Amazon.com, Inc.'s Web Services (AWS) unit has been the engine behind the company's spectacular recent performance, with operating income of $7.2 billion last year, up 68% year-over-year and accounting for 59% of Amazon's total operating income. The near-consensus cadre of bullish analysts (48 out of 50 tracked by Bloomberg have a "buy" rating on Amazon) call for more of the same. But will an ongoing government kerfuffle derail the AWS miracle?

Last Wednesday, the Department of Defense (DoD) cleared itself of wrongdoing following an internal investigation into the forthcoming award of the $10 billion cloud computing Joint Enterprise Defense Initiative (JEDI) program. Yet the Pentagon's self-exoneration was not comprehensive, as Bloomberg noted that: "The investigation uncovered evidence of unethical conduct that will be referred to the DoD inspector general for a separate review."

The JEDI contract has been hotly contested among some of the largest cloud-computing companies in the U.S., and for good reason. The winner-take-all award has been narrowed to two contenders, AWS and Microsoft Corp. According to an updated timeline issued by a Federal judge Tuesday, the JEDI mandate will be awarded sometime after mid-July.

With the stakes high, Uncle Sam's corporate suitors are pulling no punches. In December, recently-eliminated Oracle Corp. filed suit with U.S. Court of Federal Claims asserting that the JEDI process has been marred by conflicts of interest. The suit alleges that a pair of Amazon-connected former DoD staffers unduly influenced the proceedings in favor of AWS. One of whom, Deap Ubhi, worked in business development at AWS from 2014 to 2016 before joining the DoD, during which period he continued to praise Amazon from his Twitter account (including tweeting "once an Amazonian, always an Amazonian" in January 2017) while criticizing Oracle, Alphabet, Inc.'s Google and other Silicon Valley firms.

According to an April 5 report by The Capitol Forum, in January 2017 Ubhi lamented missing a conference call between Defense Department officials and AWS personnel, writing via email: "I am ex-AWS, and would have liked to have been on the call." Eight months later, when acting as the DoD's lead JEDI project manager, Ubhi asked DoD higher-ups to name him "the point of contact for all industry conversations." After reportedly recusing himself from the JEDI procurement process in late October, Ubhi left the DoD, returning to AWS in November 2017.

In March, the Federal News Network reported that the FBI is involved in the DoD inspector general investigation, potentially signaling "some sort of wrongdoing involving DoD civilian personnel and/or DoD procurement procedures."

In addition to Ubhi, other former DoD officials have seen their actions around JEDI come under scrutiny. In August, Vanity Fair reported that Sally Donnelly, a former senior advisor to Secretary of Defense James Mattis from January 2017 to March 2018, "sold her stake in [consulting firm] SBD Advisors, LLC for $1.17 million two days before she went to work for Mattis." But Donnelly continued to receive payments from the company, which counted Amazon as an active client. Two weeks after Donnelly left the Pentagon, SBD was purchased by C5 Capital, "a private equity firm with direct ties to Amazon."

Anthony DeMartino, Donnelly's colleague at SBD, who was also named in the Oracle lawsuit, likewise consulted for Amazon before moving to the DoD to serve as Mattis' deputy chief of staff.

The close proximity of Donnelly and DeMartino to the Secretary of Defense was a favorable development for AWS, as The Capitol Forum reported on March 15 that Mattis "expressed interest in meeting with Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos at a dinner" with Donnelly in early 2017, according to emails received via a Freedom of Information Act request. Mattis and Bezos met in Seattle in August 2017.

As controversy over JEDI continues to swirl, another government agency pivots away from the winner-take-all format. On March 22, the CIA unveiled a new Commercial Cloud Enterprise (C2E) initiative, in which the agency disclosed plans to use "multiple commercial cloud vendors that can provide" necessary services.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-04-19/unexpected-scandal-threatens-cripple-amazon

#6252642 at 2019-04-20 15:11:16 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7995: Saturday Morning Edition

An Unexpected Scandal Threatens To Cripple Amazon

Amazon.com, Inc.'s Web Services (AWS) unit has been the engine behind the company's spectacular recent performance, with operating income of $7.2 billion last year, up 68% year-over-year and accounting for 59% of Amazon's total operating income. The near-consensus cadre of bullish analysts (48 out of 50 tracked by Bloomberg have a "buy" rating on Amazon) call for more of the same. But will an ongoing government kerfuffle derail the AWS miracle? Last Wednesday, the Department of Defense (DoD) cleared itself of wrongdoing following an internal investigation into the forthcoming award of the $10 billion cloud computing Joint Enterprise Defense Initiative (JEDI) program. Yet the Pentagon's self-exoneration was not comprehensive, as Bloomberg noted that: "The investigation uncovered evidence of unethical conduct that will be referred to the DoD inspector general for a separate review."

The JEDI contract has been hotly contested among some of the largest cloud-computing companies in the U.S., and for good reason. The winner-take-all award has been narrowed to two contenders, AWS and Microsoft Corp. According to an updated timeline issued by a Federal judge Tuesday, the JEDI mandate will be awarded sometime after mid-July. With the stakes high, Uncle Sam's corporate suitors are pulling no punches. In December, recently-eliminated Oracle Corp. filed suit with U.S. Court of Federal Claims asserting that the JEDI process has been marred by conflicts of interest. The suit alleges that a pair of Amazon-connected former DoD staffers unduly influenced the proceedings in favor of AWS. One of whom, Deap Ubhi, worked in business development at AWS from 2014 to 2016 before joining the DoD, during which period he continued to praise Amazon from his Twitter account (including tweeting "once an Amazonian, always an Amazonian" in January 2017) while criticizing Oracle, Alphabet, Inc.'s Google and other Silicon Valley firms.

According to an April 5 report by The Capitol Forum, in January 2017 Ubhi lamented missing a conference call between Defense Department officials and AWS personnel, writing via email: "I am ex-AWS, and would have liked to have been on the call." Eight months later, when acting as the DoD's lead JEDI project manager, Ubhi asked DoD higher-ups to name him "the point of contact for all industry conversations." After reportedly recusing himself from the JEDI procurement process in late October, Ubhi left the DoD, returning to AWS in November 2017. In March, the Federal News Network reported that the FBI is involved in the DoD inspector general investigation, potentially signaling "some sort of wrongdoing involving DoD civilian personnel and/or DoD procurement procedures." In addition to Ubhi, other former DoD officials have seen their actions around JEDI come under scrutiny. In August, Vanity Fair reported that Sally Donnelly, a former senior advisor to Secretary of Defense James Mattis from January 2017 to March 2018, "sold her stake in [consulting firm] SBD Advisors, LLC for $1.17 million two days before she went to work for Mattis." But Donnelly continued to receive payments from the company, which counted Amazon as an active client. Two weeks after Donnelly left the Pentagon, SBD was purchased by C5 Capital, "a private equity firm with direct ties to Amazon."

Anthony DeMartino, Donnelly's colleague at SBD, who was also named in the Oracle lawsuit, likewise consulted for Amazon before moving to the DoD to serve as Mattis' deputy chief of staff. The close proximity of Donnelly and DeMartino to the Secretary of Defense was a favorable development for AWS, as The Capitol Forum reported on March 15 that Mattis "expressed interest in meeting with Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos at a dinner" with Donnelly in early 2017, according to emails received via a Freedom of Information Act request. Mattis and Bezos met in Seattle in August 2017.

As controversy over JEDI continues to swirl, another government agency pivots away from the winner-take-all format. On March 22, the CIA unveiled a new Commercial Cloud Enterprise (C2E) initiative, in which the agency disclosed plans to use "multiple commercial cloud vendors that can provide" necessary services. An anonymity-seeking, D.C.-based source believes that the CIA's move might suggest wider government dissatisfaction with AWS, which commanded 46% of worldwide public cloud infrastructure market share as of year-end 2017 according to the International Data Corporation.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-04-19/unexpected-scandal-threatens-cripple-amazon

#6252003 at 2019-04-20 13:54:22 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7994: Principle Conclusion Edition

Amazon, DOD, C_A, Collusion.
Lawsuit for contract awards.

The suit alleges that a pair of Amazon-connected former DoD staffers unduly influenced the proceedings in favor of AWS. One of whom, Deap Ubhi, worked in business development at AWS from 2014 to 2016 before joining the DoD, during which period he continued to praise Amazon from his Twitter account (including tweeting "once an Amazonian, always an Amazonian" in January 2017) while criticizing Oracle, Alphabet, Inc.'s Google and other Silicon Valley firms.

According to an April 5 report by The Capitol Forum, in January 2017 Ubhi lamented missing a conference call between Defense Department officials and AWS personnel, writing via email: "I am ex-AWS, and would have liked to have been on the call." Eight months later, when acting as the DoD's lead JEDI project manager, Ubhi asked DoD higher-ups to name him "the point of contact for all industry conversations." After reportedly recusing himself from the JEDI procurement process in late October, Ubhi left the DoD, returning to AWS in November 2017.

In March, the Federal News Network reported that the FBI is involved in the DoD inspector general investigation, potentially signaling "some sort of wrongdoing involving DoD civilian personnel and/or DoD procurement procedures."

In addition to Ubhi, other former DoD officials have seen their actions around JEDI come under scrutiny. In August, Vanity Fair reported that Sally Donnelly, a former senior advisor to Secretary of Defense James Mattis from January 2017 to March 2018, "sold her stake in [consulting firm] SBD Advisors, LLC for $1.17 million two days before she went to work for Mattis." But Donnelly continued to receive payments from the company, which counted Amazon as an active client. Two weeks after Donnelly left the Pentagon, SBD was purchased by C5 Capital, "a private equity firm with direct ties to Amazon."

Anthony DeMartino, Donnelly's colleague at SBD, who was also named in the Oracle lawsuit, likewise consulted for Amazon before moving to the DoD to serve as Mattis' deputy chief of staff.

The close proximity of Donnelly and DeMartino to the Secretary of Defense was a favorable development for AWS, as The Capitol Forum reported on March 15 that Mattis "expressed interest in meeting with Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos at a dinner" with Donnelly in early 2017,

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-04-19/unexpected-scandal-threatens-cripple-amazon

#6160942 at 2019-04-13 07:10:34 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7878: Dirty Cops, Bad People, Dirty Attempted Coup Edition

I identify as a Q Drop.

Bye bye FAGGOTS!!!………

Transgender military ban goes into effect

WASHINGTON - The Pentagon's controversial policy banning transgender recruits from joining the military went into effect on Friday.

The Pentagon says the new policy does not affect transgender troops currently serving in the armed forces, a contention that's strongly denied by advocates, who point to the potential for discrimination and harassment.

The ban blocks individuals who have been diagnosed with a condition known as gender dysphoria from joining. Transgender individuals can serve, but only if they meet the standards of the sex they were assigned at birth.

The Pentagon says the policy doesn't block transgender individuals from service, but advocates say it is designed to operate as a comprehensive ban on their presence. Current military leaders have testified to Congress that transgender troops have not affected cohesion, while retired military leaders have decried the policy as misguided and damaging.
'Bigoted'

"It's a bigoted policy. It has not one shred of evidence behind it," Ray Mabus, a former secretary of the Navy, told CNN. "In fact, all the evidence goes the other way. It goes against the basic American notion that it should be about what you can do and not who you are. ... To do this to patriots who are willing to serve - not only willing, but eager to serve, who have raised their hands and said send me - weakens our democracy and seriously weakens our military."

Anthony Kurta, a Pentagon official acting for the deputy under secretary of personnel and readiness, told reporters Friday that "the department will continue to treat all individuals with dignity and respect, and every service member is able to express their gender identity. DOD will take no action solely based on gender identity."

The policy, signaled when President Donald Trump tweeted a call for a blanket ban in 2017, still faces lower court challenges, but the Supreme Court ruled in a 5-4 January order that it could go forward. The justices took no stand on the legality of the ban.

Aaron Belkin, director of the Palm Center, a think thank that researches gender and the military, said that "the policy stigmatizes all trans people. ... The way the policy will play out on the ground - this will be a green light to commanders who are transphobic," putting the estimated 14,700 trans members of the military at a disadvantage and forcing many to stay in the closet.
Public opposes the policy

Most Americans oppose the policy, according to a Quinnipiac University poll.

That poll found 70% believe transgender people should be allowed to serve in the military. The only listed group that disagreed were Republicans, with 50% saying they shouldn't be allowed and 40% in favor.

Most transgender persons are now disqualified from military service, except:

- Service members who have been stable for three years in their biological sex prior to joining the military - meaning 36 months after surgery and after ending hormone treatments.

- Service members diagnosed with "gender dysphoria" after joining the military can stay in the military if they don't require a change of gender and remain deployable. Gender dysphoria involves a conflict between a person's physical or assigned gender and the gender with which the person identifies, according to the American Psychiatric Association.

- Service members who were diagnosed with gender dysphoria before the effective date of the policy can still serve and receive medical treatment.

- Transgender persons without a gender dysphoria diagnosis or history can serve in their birth sex.
Case by case

The Defense Department can issue waivers on a case-by-case basis.

Kurda said Friday that the policy originated in 2017 when "service leadership" approached then-Defense Secretary James Mattis and "expressed some readiness reservations."

Over a series of hearings by the Senate Armed Services Committee in 2018, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, now a Democratic presidential candidate, asked the chiefs of staff of the Army, Marine Corps, Navy and Air Force about the issue of transgender troops.

All four said they saw no negative effects from transgender personnel serving.

"I have received precisely zero reports of issues of cohesion, discipline, morale and all those sorts of things," Army Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Milley said at one of the hearings.

Mabus said the case being made against transgender troops has been recycled several times through history.
History repeats itself

https://wgntv.com/2019/04/12/pentagon-transgender-ban-goes-into-effect/

#6041704 at 2019-04-04 04:40:03 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7727: The Epic Meme Warfare Edition

"James Mattis Joining Hoover Institution to Increase Stanford University's Overall Lethality"

"Former Defense Secretary James Mattis is joining Stanford University's Hoover Institution in California as of May 1, a university news release says."

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/James-Mattis-joining-hoover-institution-increase-stanford-university%E2%80%99s-overall-lethality

#5975566 at 2019-03-30 08:17:40 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7642: End of the Week Wrapup Edition

3310
Q is a Direct Threat To Their Controlled Narrative
Q
!!mG7VJxZNCI
29 Mar 2019 - 2:57:28 PM
Threat to Controlled Narrative.
Other than POTUS, can you name a group more attacked than 'Q' by the FAKE NEWS media.
Multiple tactics deployed including framing for crimes (think bridge, mob boss, etc etc).
DESPERATION.
Reconcile using logic.
THINK FOR YOURSELF.
DIVIDERS will FAIL.
Q

Bombshell New Allegations (OF COMPLETE FALSE NARRATIVE FAKE NEWS): Kushner Appears to be Extorting Qatari Government

While America's attention has been focused primarily on the Mueller report, over the course of the last several weeks, a story that likely isn't clearly captured in the Mueller report has been building steam. For well over a year now, there has been speculation about Jared Kushner's security clearance, as well as his meetings and ties with various leaders within the Middle East. Now it appears as if this speculation is becoming a full-blown scandal.

Last week on KrassenCast we spoke to Vicky Ward, an investigative journalist and author of the new book Kushner Inc. Since then, Ward, who has been investigating ties that Kushner has had with the Saudis, Emiratis and Qataris, has come across new information that appears to imply that the president's son-in-law may be extorting the nation of Qatar. HillReporter has also been in contact with several sources with ties to the Qatari government, which also help confirm some of the information that Ward has provided. Ward made another appearance today on KrassenCast, in Episode 12, that is now available on iTunes, Youtube. and Google Play

It all started back in April of 2017, after Jared Kushner's father, Charles Kushner, met with the Qatari finance minister at the St. Regis Hotel in New York City.

"Charles Kushner asked for $1 billion according to someone in that meeting, to whom I have spoken. The Qataris turned Charles Kushner down because the deal was a bad deal," Ward explained to KrassenCast.

The deal she is talking about was in regards to a building owned by Kushner Properties located at 666 5th Ave. At the time, the company was headed towards a foreclosure of the property as a balloon payment came due in January of 2019. According to some sources, the revenue from the building only covered approximately 50% of the mortgage payment.

Ward then went on to explain the shocking details of what happened next, according to Qatari officials:

"What I have learned is that in the ensuing month [May 2017] before the US visit to Riyadh, Jared Kushner got on a plane and flew to Doha, the Qatari capital, and he reamed the Qatari ruling family, the al-Thanis, for not doing the deal with his father... They began to feel that he was indirectly threatening their sovereignty. The next thing they know, when they show up to the summit in Riyadh, the Emir, the ruler of Qatar, arrives with an entourage, but his entourage is suddenly cut off from him, and not allowed into the summit at the same time by the Saudis, which he felt was a move to deliberately make him look weak. You have to remember during this summit, Jared and Ivanka go off for a cozy secret unmonitored dinner with [Saudi Crown Prince] MBS. Nobody knows what they talked about," Ward explained to KrassenCast.

Just ten days later, against the advice of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Secretary of Defense James Mattis, the United States supported the Saudi and UAE-led blockade of Qatar. On June 6, 2017 President Trump shockingly supported the blockade of a key US ally in the region, forcing many within his own Administration and the GOP to question the move publicly.

"What the Qataris found was not just a blockade. There were Saudi [and] Emerati troops on their border," Ward explained to KrassenCast. "What they interpreted this as, was Jared Kushner basically saying, 'if you don't pay my father and pay off this building, look what's going to happen. We're going to, I'm going to, the Americans are going to sanction an invasion of your country.' Sources in the State Department say, yes, it's true; troops were on the border," Ward continued.

Nine months later, a Canadian company, Brookfield Partners, who the Qatari Investment Authority owns a $1.8 billion or 9% stake in, bailed out Kushner Properties, with a 99-year lease agreement for 666 5th Ave.

"They bail it out in a deal that makes absolutely no economic sense. They do a 99-year lease and they pay the entire 99-year lease up front. You don't need to be good at math, you don't need to be in the New York real estate community to understand how crazy that is," Ward told KrassenCast.

https://hillreporter.com/bombshell-new-allegations-kushner-appears-to-be-extorting-qatari-government-29169

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fNUgmRkAEg

#5901716 at 2019-03-26 14:28:05 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7550: Humble Pie Costs Double Edition

Mike Pence Reportedly Begged DNI Dan Coats Not to Quit Trump Administration

According to a report from NBC News, Pence convinced Coats to stay in the Trump administration until at least the summer after Trump's decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria, current and former officials told the outlet. Coats reportedly sided with Defense Secretary James Mattis on the policy, according to NBC News, but didn't know what to do after Mattis' resignation. Pence then convinced Coats to stay on for longer, arguing that another top national security official's resignation following Mattis' would look very bad for the president.

Pence has reportedly smoothed many patches between Trump and Coats, often "encouraging [Coats] to continue the work he's doing and reiterating that he has the support of the White House," while encouraging Trump to keep Coats on.

https://splinternews.com/mike-pence-reportedly-begged-dni-dan-coats-not-to-quit-1833571918

#5880824 at 2019-03-25 15:05:01 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7523: Dark Stain On American Journalism Edition

>>5880801
https://www.voltairenet.org/article165373.html
https://www.voltairenet.org/article141799.html
The U.S. Atlantic Council - leading NATO support association - presented its annual awards at a prestigious gala dinner in Washington on 28 April 2010.
The guests included Mikheil Saakashvili (President of Georgia), Aleksander Kwa?niewski (former President of Poland), José-Maria Aznar (former Spanish Prime Minister), more than fifty ambassadors and some one hundred Generals, including Brent Scowcroft (former National Securita Adviser) and Mike Muller (Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff). Former President George H. Bush could not make the trip and addressed the gathering via video.
Awards were presented jointly to Generals Stéphane Abrial (France) and James Mattis (USA) for their role in paving the way for France's full re-entry into NATO and in securing France's engagement in Afghanistan. On receiving the distinction, General Abrial (former Military Chief of Staff under Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin) scoffed at General de Gaulle's pride, while General Mattis saluted President Sarkozy's decision to turn away from Gaullist policies.
Josef Ackermann, Chairman of the Deutsche Bank, was presented the Business Leadership Award for having stabilized the financial markets after the September 11 attacks and for his role in the recovery of the capitalist system during the world financial crisis. The Swiss banker, who married a Finnish woman, had called for controlled globalization before leaving his country to become the CEO of a German bank and support the United States.
This year, the U.S. Atlantic Council introduced a novel award for humanitarian leadership to boost the new smart powerpolicy, i.e. using humanitarian aid to kindle pro-American sentiments. The award was given to rock singer Bono for having mobilized international public opinion behind poverty eradication in Africa. He was introduced to the audience by his friends Senator John McCain and General James Jones (current National Security Adviser). Everyone congratulated him on his excellent outreach achievements in conjunction with the Pentagon.
Last but not least, former President Bill Clinton was honoured for his international leadership that led in particular to NATO enlargement, the Dayton Accords dismantling Yugoslavia, and the negotiations to maintain Northern Ireland within the United Kingdom.

#5793897 at 2019-03-20 19:38:02 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7411: THIS IS NOT A GAME Edition

==anons=

On Monday night, HBO premiered The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley, Alex Gibney's eerie examination of the downfall of Theranos, the blood-testing startup founded by Stanford dropout Elizabeth Holmes at age 19.

The lionizing of Holmes and the extremely long leash Theranos was given to test its janky (at best) technology on actual living people are the catastrophes that happen when millennial influencer culture meets old-school male hubris. Take the clueless arrogance of Kendall Jenner's Pepsi commercial and imagine it as a "revolutionary" medical business espoused by PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON and financially backed by, of all people, war criminal HENRY KISSINGER, and you have something like Theranos.

Theranos' board of directors included former Secretary of State GEORGE SHULTZ (in one of the documentary's finest subplots, his grandson Tyler became one of the key Theranos whistleblowers), Oracle founder Larry Ellison, former Secretary of Defense James Mattis, and a number of others who had zero medical expertise.

https://slate.com/culture/2019/03/elizabeth-holmes-theranos-millennial-influencer-culture.html

#5754459 at 2019-03-18 17:24:35 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7360: A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words Edition

Rep. Ilhan Omar pens op-ed in support of two-state solution

In the wake of anti-Semitic statements for which she eventually apologized, Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., signaled support for an Israeli-Palestinian two-state solution in a Sunday editorial. The piece, published in the Washington Post, strikes a more moderate tone toward Middle East policy and Israel than that of comments and tweets the freshman congresswoman has made the past few months.

"I support a two-state solution, with internationally recognized borders, which allows for both Israelis and Palestinians to have their own sanctuaries and self-determination," Omar writes. "This has been official bipartisan U.S. policy across two decades." "When I criticize certain Israeli government actions in Gaza or settlements in the West Bank, it is because I believe these actions not only threaten the possibility of peace in the region - they also threaten the United States' own national security interests," she writes.

In the piece, Omar quotes President Trump's former defense secretary James Mattis saying, "The current situation between those two peoples is unsustainable." The congresswoman writes that the United States must also acknowledge the area as the "historical homeland of Palestinians." Without a state, she says, "the Palestinian people live in a state of permanent refugeehood and displacement. This, too, is a refugee crisis, and they, too, deserve freedom and dignity."

Omar recently drew controversy for tweeting that congressional support for Israel was "all about the Benjamins." She also said that supporters of the U.S. ally have dual allegiances. The statements drew condemnation across the board, leading to a Democratic resolution that was seen as a veiled rebuke of her comments. That resolution was later watered down to condemn all forms of racism. Sunday's piece was Omar's first op-ed since the comments. In it, she attempts to strike a mild, non-interventionist tone, arguing in favor of "an inclusive foreign policy" that focuses on "human rights, justice, and peace as the pillars of America's engagement in the world." She says that her vision for foreign policy is fewer troops abroad and less military engagement. "This means reorienting our foreign affairs to focus on diplomacy and economic and cultural engagement," Omar writes.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/rep-ilhan-omar-pens-op-ed-in-support-of-two-state-solution

#5639340 at 2019-03-12 14:50:08 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7212: Simpler Is Far Better Edition

https://www.oann.com/white-house-may-elevate-acting-positions/
According to White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders, some members of the administration may be seeing promotions in the near future. During a press briefing Monday, Sanders talked to reporters about White House officials holding acting titles.

President Trump picked Mick Mulvaney to serve as acting Chief of Staff in December, replacing General John Kelly. Later that month, the president picked Patrick Shanahan to serve as acting Defense Secretary, replacing General James Mattis.

Although she was vague, Sanders appeared to give credence to rumors both men may be elevated to a more permanent basis.

White House press secretary Sarah Sanders speaks during a press briefing at the White House, Monday, March 11, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

"I can tell you that the president has a great deal of respect for acting Defense Secretary Shanahan, he likes him, and when the president is ready to make an announcement on that front he certainly will," said Sanders.

This comes as the president has officially notified the Department of Interior that he is nominating David Bernhardt as secretary.

#5603275 at 2019-03-10 05:48:56 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7165: Patriots Have No Skin Color Edition

Old info (2011). Operation Earnest Voice (OEV)

The US military is developing software that will let it secretly manipulate social media sites by using fake online personas to influence internet conversations and spread (((pro-American))) propaganda. [replace pro-American with whatever you like]

Critics are likely to complain that it will allow the (((US military))) to create a false consensus in online conversations, crowd out unwelcome opinions and smother commentaries or reports that do not correspond with its own objectives. [replace US military with whatever you would like].

General James Mattis told the US Senate's armed services committees that OEV "supports all activities associated with degrading the enemy narrative, including web engagement and web-based product distribution capabilities".

According to a report by the inspector general of the US defence department in Iraq, OEV was managed by the multinational forces rather than Centcom.

Centcom confirmed that the $2.76m contract was awarded to Ntrepid, a newly formed corporation registered in Los Angeles.

This article was amended on 18 March 2011 to remove references to Facebook and Twitter, introduced during the editing process, and to add a comment from Centcom, received after publication, that it is not targeting those sites.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/mar/17/us-spy-operation-social-networks

Ntrepid = CIA

https://ntrepidcorp.com/people/profiles/leadership/

#5602681 at 2019-03-10 05:10:17 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7164: 145 Judges! Edition

Old info (2011). Operation Earnest Voice (OEV)

The US military is developing software that will let it secretly manipulate social media sites by using fake online personas to influence internet conversations and spread (((pro-American))) propaganda. [replace pro-American with whatever you like]

Critics are likely to complain that it will allow the (((US military))) to create a false consensus in online conversations, crowd out unwelcome opinions and smother commentaries or reports that do not correspond with its own objectives. [replace US military with whatever you would like].

General James Mattis told the US Senate's armed services committees that OEV "supports all activities associated with degrading the enemy narrative, including web engagement and web-based product distribution capabilities".

Centcom confirmed that the $2.76m contract was awarded to Ntrepid, a newly formed corporation registered in Los Angeles.

According to a report by the inspector general of the US defence department in Iraq, OEV was managed by the multinational forces rather than Centcom.

This article was amended on 18 March 2011 to remove references to Facebook and Twitter, introduced during the editing process, and to add a comment from Centcom, received after publication, that it is not targeting those sites.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/mar/17/us-spy-operation-social-networks

Ntrepid = CIA

https://ntrepidcorp.com/people/profiles/leadership/

#5560360 at 2019-03-07 19:02:54 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7110: Phone_wipe Edition

NSA-Cyber Command Chief Recommends No Split Until 2020

The commander of the nation's top military cybersecurity organizations, the National Security Agency and U.S. Cyber Command, has recommended they split from each other next year, Defense One has confirmed. That's another delay for an organizational change first planned for in 2016 and since slowed to allow officials time to sort out the authorities for the civilian agency and military command and ensure that both entities can perform well independently.

Gen. Paul Nakasone, who leads NSA and CYBERCOM, recommended to former Defense Secretary James Mattis last August that the split be put off until 2020, current and former intelligence officials told Defense One this week. Those officials believe the general's recommendation will be accepted by Pentagon leaders, though Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan's views are not known. A Pentagon spokesman said no official decision has been made. Previous reports have hinted at the timing without confirming a year. In December, Defense One filed a Freedom of Information Act request to the command for the information, which was denied on the basis that the information was "pre-decisional."

Nakasone told the Senate Armed Services Committee last month that the decision how to split the organizations "remains with the secretary."

Former Defense Secretary Ash Carter first floated the idea to split the agencies in 2016. They currently function under a "dual-hat arrangement": the four-star head of CYBERCOM also leads the NSA. In the 2017 National Defense Authorization Act, lawmakers authorized DOD to split CYBERCOM from the NSA and elevate it to be the nation's tenth unified combatant command, on par with Strategic Command, which controls nuclear weapons, and combatant commands for troops in various regions around the globe. The bill also authorized the creation of a new civilian director of NSA. But the split was only to occur if the defense secretary and chairman of the Joints Chiefs certified to Congress that the split would not hurt the command. Congress directed no timing for the split.

https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2019/03/nsa-cyber-command-chief-recommend-no-split-until-2020/155345/

#5451700 at 2019-03-01 20:21:37 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #6969: Carpet Bombs Are Effective Edition

>>4664721 very old post from 1/8/19
This was discussed back then. Marty Torrey was suggested to be a code name for the Mad Hatter, that being James Mattis. See digs from that day.

#5360246 at 2019-02-24 15:32:51 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #6851: POTUS Rolls Deep Edition

Supreme Court Makes Unanimous 9-0 Decision, Slams The Constitution Down On Corrupt States February 21, 2019 Martin
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The Supreme Court delivered a historic ruling on Wednesday and slammed the U.S. Constitution down hard on corrupt states.

The nation's highest court delivered a 9-0 ruling that states must adhere to the Constitution's ban on excessive fines, meaning states will be limited in their ability to impose certain fees and seize property.

The ruling is a major blow to corrupt states who were imposing daunting fines on people and seizing their property after an arrest.

Here's more from The Hill on the historic ruling:

In delivering the opinion of the court, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said the Eighth Amendment guards against abuses of the government's punitive or criminal law-enforcement authority, and that it extends to fines.

"This safeguard, we hold, is 'fundamental to our scheme of ordered liberty,' with 'deep roots in our history and tradition,'" she said, quoting Supreme Court precedent.

Ginsburg, who returned to the bench for oral arguments Tuesday for the first time since undergoing surgery in December, was joined in the ruling by Chief Justice John Roberts, Justices Stephen Breyer, Samuel Alito, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh. Justice Clarence Thomas filed an opinion concurring in the judgment.

The case centered on Tyson Timbs, who pleaded guilty in Indiana state court to dealing in a controlled substance and conspiracy to commit theft. When Timbs was arrested, police seized the Land Rover he had purchased, for $42,000, from an insurance policy he received when his father died.

The state then brought a civil forfeiture suit against Timbs for his vehicle because it had been used to transport heroin. The trial court denied the state's forfeiture request.

Since Timbs had recently purchased the vehicle for more than four times the maximum $10,000 monetary fine he can be charged for the drug conviction, the court said the forfeiture violated the Eighth Amendment.

The Indiana Supreme Court ultimately reversed that ruling, holding that the Excessive Fines Clause constrains only federal action and is inapplicable to state impositions.

The high court vacated that ruling Wednesday.

The Supreme Court has been on a roll lately.

Last month, the High Court delivered a massive 5-4 ruling in favor of President Donald Trump's transgender military ban.

On Tuesday, the Justices on the High Court didn't rule on the merits of the case, but held that the ban will go into effect while the lower courts work through appeals.

The four liberal Justices objected to the Trump administrations policy that banned most transgender people from serving in the U.S. military.

The policy was first announced by Trump in July 2017 and later confirmed by then-Secretary of Defense James Mattis last year.

While the policy is in effect, it blocks individuals who have been diagnosed with a condition known as gender dysphoria from serving.

The policy also indicates that individuals without the condition can serve in the armed forces, but only if they do so according to their biological sex.

In July 2017, Trump made the announcement via Twitter, indicating that numerous military leaders supported the decision and argued that some transgender individuals would not be capable of effectively doing their job in battle

https://ilovemyfreedom.org/supreme-court-makes-unanimous-9-0-decision-slams-the-constitution-down-on-corrupt-states/?utm_source=pushcrew&utm_medium=imf&utm_campaign=pushcrew&pushcrew_powered=1

#5281647 at 2019-02-20 12:50:06 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #6749: 'Oh, Recuse Me!' Edition

>>5281637
:o he waasss

Holmes was associated with many powerful and well-connected individuals who supported her.[16] The 12-member Theranos board included former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, former Secretary of Defense William Perry, former Secretary of State George Shultz, former Senators Sam Nunn and Bill Frist, former Navy Admiral Gary Roughead, former Marine Corps General James Mattis, and former CEOs Dick Kovacevich of Wells Fargo and Riley Bechtel of Bechtel.[61] Her high-profile private investors included media-mogul Rupert Murdoch, President Trump's Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, Walmart's Walton family, the billionaire Cox family of Cox Enterprises and Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim, all of whom lost tens to hundreds of millions of dollars each when the company folded.[62] Holmes was a supporter of Hillary Clinton during her 2016 run for president, and was on friendly terms with her daughter Chelsea Clinton.[63]

In some cases she had personal friendships. She often attended parties at George Shultz's house as a family friend.[16] Shultz's grandson Tyler Shultz, a recent college graduate, landed his first job at Theranos. Tyler was one of the whistleblowers who spoke to WSJ investigative reporter John Carreyrou about corruption in the company. On learning this, Holmes threatened through her lawyer David Boies to sue the Shultz family and bankrupt them if his grandson continued to talk.[16] George Shultz stayed loyal to Holmes and demanded his grandson cease talking to the Wall Street Journal.[16]

#5224524 at 2019-02-17 17:55:28 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #6675: eBake

Nomination Announced Hearings Received Confirmed Vote
Secretary of Agriculture
Sonny Perdue Jan 19, 2017 Mar 23, 2017 Mar 9, 2017 Apr 24, 2017 87-11 No. 112
Attorney General
Jeff Sessions Nov 18, 2016 Jan 10-11, 2017 Jan 20, 2017 Feb 8, 2017 52-47 No. 59
William Barr Dec 7, 2018 Jan 15-16, 2019 Jan 3, 2019 Feb 14, 2019 54-45 No. 24
Secretary of Commerce
Wilbur Ross Nov 30, 2016 Jan 18, 2017 Jan 20, 2017 Feb 27, 2017 72-27 No. 73
Secretary of Defense
James Mattis Dec 6, 2016 Jan 12, 2017 Jan 20, 2017 Jan 20, 2017 98-1 No.29
Secretary of Education
Betsy DeVos Nov 23, 2016 Jan 17, 2017 Jan 20, 2017 Feb 7, 2017 51-50 No. 54
Secretary of Energy
Rick Perry Dec 14, 2016 Jan 19, 2017 Jan 20, 2017 Mar 2, 2017 62-37 No. 79
Secretary of Health & Human Services
Tom Price Nov 29, 2016 Jan 18, 2017
Jan 24, 2017

Jan 20, 2017 Feb 10, 2017 52-47 No. 61
Alex Azar Nov 13, 2017 Nov 29, 2017
Jan 9, 2018

Nov 14, 2017
Jan 8, 2018

Jan 24, 2018

55-43 No. 21

Secretary of Homeland Security
John Kelly Dec 12, 2016 Jan 10, 2017 Jan 20, 2017 Jan 20, 2017 88-11 No. 30
Kirstjen Nielsen Oct 11, 2017 Nov 8, 2017 Oct 16, 2017 Dec 5, 2017 62-37 No. 305
Secretary of Housing & Urban Development
Ben Carson Dec 5, 2016 Jan 12, 2017 Jan 20, 2017 Mar 2, 2017 58-41 No. 77
Secretary of Interior
Ryan Zinke Dec 15, 2016 Jan 17, 2017 Jan 20, 2017 Mar 1, 2017 68-31 No. 75
David Bernhardt Feb 4, 2019
Secretary of Labor
Andrew Puzder1 Dec 8, 2016 Jan 20, 2017
R. Alexander Acosta Feb 16, 2017 Mar 22, 2017 Mar 7, 2017 Apr 27, 2017 60-38 No. 116
Secretary of State
Rex Tillerson Dec 13, 2016 Jan 11, 2017 Jan 20, 2017 Feb 1, 2017 56-43 No. 36
Mike Pompeo Mar 13, 2018 Apr 12, 2018 Mar 20, 2018 Apr 26, 2018 57-42 No. 84
Secretary of Transportation
Elaine Chao Nov 29, 2016 Jan 11, 2017 Jan 20, 2017 Jan 31, 2017 93-6 No. 35
Secretary of Treasury
Steve Mnuchin Nov 30, 2016 Jan 19, 2017 Jan 20, 2017 Feb 13, 2017 53-47 No. 63
Secretary of Veterans Affairs
David Shulkin Jan 11, 2017 Feb 1, 2017 Jan 20, 2017 Feb 13, 2017 100-0 No. 64
Ronny Jackson2 Mar 28, 2018 Apr 16, 2018
Robert Wilkie May 18, 2018 Jun 27, 2018 Jun 20, 2018 Jul 23, 2018 86-9 No. 163

1. Withdrawn Feb 28, 2017.
2. Withdrawn Jun 20, 2018.
For historic cabinet nomination information, see the

#5223255 at 2019-02-17 15:52:44 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #6674: Which Two Cabinet Members? Edition

>>5223206
>>5223229

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/sep/1/James-mad-dog-Mattis-retired-us-commander-rips-oba/

https://foreignpolicy.com/2013/01/18/the-obama-administrations-inexplicable-mishandling-of-marine-gen-James-Mattis-2/

https://www.westernjournal.com/trump-blasts-obama-ingloriously-firing-James-Mattis/

#5223206 at 2019-02-17 15:48:01 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #6674: Which Two Cabinet Members? Edition

In case people are still confused about Mattis….

"Outgoing Defense Secretary General James Mattis explored the possibility of a presidential run against Trump in 2020, according to a leaked NDA sent to multiple political consulting firms in May this year and exclusively obtained by The Gateway Pundit.

Sources with knowledge of the proposed Mattis presidential bid told The Gateway Pundit that the team exploring the possibility found that the odds were favorable for a run in 2020 - but at the time they determined that the optics of a Secretary of Defense campaigning against the same president he served under would not be ideal. This led them to conclude that 2024 would be a better option, unless things changed."

"An individual involved with the exploration of a run, who asked that their name be kept off the record, told Gateway that a Mattis run in 2020 was not off the table. The source said that if the Democrats push for impeachment before 2020, the Republicans would have an open primary - and that if that happened, there are "no demographics" that show Pence winning. In the event of impeachment, the consultant said Mattis would have a good chance."

"The source stressed that though they decided at the time that 2024 would be the best timing for a run, there is "a whole metric that changes" as DC is constantly moving and evolving. The source would not rule out that Mattis' recent resignation puts a 2020 run against Trump on the cards. "

NDA for his campaign exploration at link: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/12/exclusive-Mattis-considered-presidential-run-in-2020-according-to-leaked-nda-obtained-by-gateway-pundit/

#5184361 at 2019-02-15 07:02:20 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #6623: P-A-I-N Edition

It's Yang Versus Pence as U.S. and China Set to Rumble in Europe

February 14, 2019

(Bloomberg) – The U.S. and China are sending top-level hawks to Europe for what's shaping up as a showdown between the two powers at a key security conference as they vie for influence and technological dominance in one of the world's richest markets.

Politburo member Yang Jiechi will be the most senior Chinese official to attend Friday's Munich Security Conference since it began in 1963. He'll head the largest-ever delegation to what is – in essence - an annual get together of the U.S.-led transatlantic defense community.

Yang, a former ambassador to the U.S., is known for delivering diatribes on the status of Taiwan and other issues sensitive to Beijing. He is expected to push back against a U.S. campaign to exclude Chinese companies, in particular Huawei Technologies Co., from the construction of Europe's 5G mobile networks.

Huawei has become a lightning rod for the broader tussle between China and the U.S. for sway. The U.S. has repeatedly cited concerns about the telecoms giant being a "Trojan Horse" for Chinese security infiltration, while Beijing says the claims about Huawei are unfounded and a bid to contain China because it is seen as a threat to decades of U.S dominance. Running alongside the Huawei tensions is a trade war which, despite a short-term truce, still risks higher tariffs on Chinese goods.

A bipartisan U.S. delegation headed by Vice President Mike Pence is also expected to set records for its size at Munich, unless a fresh government shutdown emerges and keeps dozens of lawmakers at home.

In October, Pence shocked Beijing with a Cold War-style speech that accused an "Orwellian'' Chinese state of systematic cheating on trade rules, corporate espionage and intellectual property theft as it sought to control "90 percent of the world's advanced industries'' and achieve military dominance.

"It's a big moment, and quite worrying in terms of the symbolism,'' said Kerry Brown, a professor of Chinese studies at King's College London. He described the U.S.-China relationship as increasingly competitive and difficult to manage, because the two sides had fundamentally conflicting goals.

"The U.S. doesn't want to be displaced as number one in the world, and China is going to be number one,'' said Brown.

Although Munich is effectively home turf for U.S. leaders, Pence may have his work cut out for him. There is widespread concern in Europe over President Donald Trump's "America First" policies, especially since the departure of internationally-trusted officials who had promised to maintain U.S. foreign policy continuity - most recently James Mattis as Secretary of Defense in December.

"U.S. policy is increasingly looking like Trump's tweets,'' said the authors of a report issued by the event's organizers in advance of the Munich conference.

Read more: EU Weighs Sanctions Against Cyber Crimes Amid China Concerns

A Pew Research poll in the same report asked Britons, Canadians, French, Germans, Japanese and Russians whether they saw U.S. or Chinese power and influence as the greater threat; the U.S. was the bigger concern for all but Japan. That result was repeated when respondents were asked who they trusted to "do the right thing regarding world affairs" – Trump or President Xi Jinping.

With U.S-China trade talks in the balance – negotiators are in Beijing this week and Trump has indicated he may extend the March 1 deadline for higher tariffs – it's possible both sides will soften their rhetoric somewhat in Munich. Pence is expected to reiterate the administration's stance on China in his Munich speech this weekend.

Still, Chinese officials have in recent months become increasingly aggressive in rebutting criticism, and Yang is likely to take a hard line, at least in public, according to Shi Yinhong, a professor of international relations at Renmin University in Beijing. He said Yang would set out China's stance on security matters and listen to what other leaders have to say. But he warned not to hold out much hope for reconciliation.

"China and U.S. have entered a phrase of total tension," said Shi.

Secretary of State Michael Pompeo is double-teaming with Pence this week, touring central European capitals in an effort to shore up ties with neglected allies that in recent years have been courted by China and Russia.

(Moar In Article)

https://news.yahoo.com/u-china-set-rumble-europe-172227854.html

#5175281 at 2019-02-14 22:26:09 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #6611: Sequence Complete Edition

CFR Members And Bilderberg Attendees Appointed By Donald Trump (Taken from the CFR membership and Bilderberg participant lists)

Elliott Abrams, Special Envoy on Venezuela (individual CFR member)
John Bolton, National Security Advisor (individual CFR member)
Elaine Chao, United States Secretary of Transportation (CFR individual member)
Jay Clayton, Chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission (CFR corporate member)
Gary Cohn, Director of the National Economic Council (CFR corporate member)
Jamie Dimon, Member of Strategic and Policy Forum (CFR corporate member)
Jim Donovan, Deputy Treasury Secretary (CFR corporate member)
Larry Fink, Member of Strategic and Policy Forum (CFR corporate member)
Neil M. Gorsuch, Supreme Court Justice (individual CFR member)
Vice Admiral Robert S. Harward, National Security Advisor (declined appointment) (CFR corporate member)
Kevin Hassett, Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers (CFR fellow traveler)
Robert Wood "Woody" Johnson IV, United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom (individual CFR member)
Lawrence Kudlow, Director of the National Economic Council (individual CFR member)
Robert Lighthizer, United States Trade Representative (individual CFR member)
David R. Malpass, World Bank (individual CFR member)
James Mattis, Secretary of Defense (Bilderberg attendee)
K.T. McFarland, Deputy National Security Adviser (individual CFR member)
Linda McMahon, Administrator of the Small Business Administration (CFR corporate member)
Army Lt. General Herbert Raymond "H. R." McMaster, National Security Advisor (individual CFR member, Bilderberg attendee)
Jim McNerney, Member of Strategic and Policy Forum (CFR corporate member)
Steve Mnuchin, Secretary of the Treasury (CFR corporate member)
Indra Nooyi, Member of Strategic and Policy Forum (CFR corporate member, Bilderberg attendee)
Rick Perry, Secretary of Energy (Bilderberg attendee)
Dina Powell, Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategy (CFR corporate member)
Jerome Powell, Chairman of the Federal Reserve (CFR individual member)
Ginni Rometty, Member of Strategic and Policy Forum (CFR corporate member)
Wilbur Ross, Secretary of Commerce (Bilderberg attendee)
Anthony Scaramucci, Director of Communications (CFR individual and corporate member)
Stephen Schwarzman, Member of Strategic and Policy Forum (CFR corporate member)
Patrick Shanahan, Deputy Secretary of Defense (CFR corporate member)
Rex Tillerson, Secretary of State (CFR corporate member)
Jack Welch, Member of Strategic and Policy Forum (CFR corporate member)
Heather Ann Wilson, Secretary of the Air Force (individual CFR member)

https://chuckbaldwinlive.com/Articles/tabid/109/ID/3582/CFR-Members-Appointed-By-Donald-Trump-Taken-from-the-CFR-membership-lists.aspx

#5068244 at 2019-02-07 18:46:57 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #6472: Raise The Barr Edition

Challenge to Schitt. From Thomas wictor, the last couple of lines are very interesting

A Challenge for Adam Schiff
$10,000 to his Charity of Choice
by Thomas Wictor
Thu, February 7, 2019
Dear Congressman Schiff:

I've read your press release "Chairman Schiff Statement on House Intelligence Committee Investigation."

And I saw your tweet.

Now, in your press release, you say that you are going to investigate this:

(3) Whether any foreign actor has sought to compromise or holds leverage, financial or otherwise, over Donald Trump, his family, his business, or his associates;

(4) Whether President Trump, his family, or his associates are or were at any time at heightened risk of, or vulnerable to, foreign exploitation, inducement, manipulation, pressure, or coercion, or have sought to influence U.S. government policy in service of foreign interests;

By "foreign actor" and "foreign interests" you mean Russia. You're going to investigate the question of whether or not Russia has a hold on Trump.

Fine.

Here's the question that I want to ask you, Congressman Schiff.

If Russia has any kind of hold over Donald Trump, then why did Trump inflict on Russia the worst military defeat she has ever suffered at the hands of Americans?

It happened near Deir Ezzor, Syria, on February 7, 2018. A Russian assault battalion of 550 men armed with tanks and artillery attacked about 40 Americans, and we killed 200-300 and wounded 200-300. The Russians took 100 percent casualties.

Now, this was the worst military defeat Americans ever inflicted on the Russian empire, or the USSR, or the Russian Federation. When it comes to Russia in any form, Donald Trump is the American president who did the most damage militarily. General Patton would be proud of President Trump.

How was it possible for Trump to do this if he's vulnerable to Russian influence?

If you can give me a CREDIBLE answer, Congressman, I will donate $10,000 to the charity of your choice. Note: a CREDIBLE answer. In other words, it has to make sense. I must be able to diagram it.

Just to make sure we understand each other, the Russians who we killed were soldiers, not mercenaries. They're known as Ghost Soldiers.

"Officially, Russia is participating only in an air war over Syria with a small number of special forces on the ground. Moscow denies that its troops are involved in regular ground combat operations."

"However, in interviews with more than a dozen people with direct knowledge of these deployments, Reuters has established that Russian fighters are playing a more substantial role in ground combat than that the role the Kremlin says is being played by the regular Russian military."

Russia did this in Ukraine. The Little Green Men were said to not be Russian army.

In reality, those were men off the 76th Guards Air Assault Division.

"It should be noted the Pskov-based 76th Guards Air Assault Division was involved in the 2008 Russia-Georgia war, two Chechen wars as well as the annexation of Crimea in 2014. Its troops were also spotted in Donbas. In August 2014, president Vladimir Putin awarded the division with the Suvorov Order for 'successfull completion of combat missions'."

Not only did Trump inflict the worst American defeat on Russia EVER, it's clear that the Russians were misled. They thought the Americans would back off. Instead, the Russians were not only stopped, they were slaughtered. Gunships, bombers, and artillery pounded the Russians for three hours. They had long since ended their advance. The goal was to annihilate them, as James Mattis said.

If Trump is vulnerable to Russian influence, then how is it that Trump humiliated Vladimir Putin in a way never before done in the entire history of our country?

I await your answer, Congressman.

And one more question:

I saved the Web page on which you published your press release. In a file labeled "211.js" I found this:

u.SECRET_DOM_DO_NOT_USE_OR_YOU_WILL_BE_FIRED=r,u.SECRET_DOM_SERVER_DO_NOT_USE_OR_YOU_WILL_BE_FIRED=o,e.exports=u

Does this mean you're going be fired?

And what is it with secret servers? Didn't anybody learn anything from the 2016 elections?

#5053173 at 2019-02-06 14:51:29 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #6452: Ebake Edition

This One Book Will Tell You Everything You Need To Know About Acting SecDef Patrick Shanahan

You can learn about leaders from the books that inspire them. Former Defense Secretary James Mattis frequently turned to "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius to put things into perspective - both in combat and in the vipers nest known as Washington, D.C.

Now the torch has been passed to Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan, who looks to more recent history for leadership lessons. One book he often recommends "Freedom's Forge," about how American industry teamed up with the War Department during World War II to build more ships, planes, and tanks than Germany and Japan could possibly match.

"His views are all in there: his leadership philosophy, his ideas on establishing harmony across large organizations, and the way he compartmentalizes a broad problem set into identifiable, solvable chunks," said his spokesman Army Lt. Col. Joe Buccino.

Mattis wanted the U.S. military to become more lethal. Shanahan wants the Pentagon to become more productive, effective, and streamlined.

#5018161 at 2019-02-03 22:54:51 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #6407: KEEP OUT! Edition

>>5018124
>>5018135
Mattis, just another lifelong govt employee.

https://qz.com/1504394/why-James-Mattis-called-trump-a-threat-to-us-security/

Oh by the way

TRUMP FIRED HIS DUMB ASS

#4986230 at 2019-02-01 08:17:47 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #6366: These People Are SICK! Edition

James Mattis announced his resignation as President Donald Trump's Defense Secretary on December 20.
The four-star Marine general served in Trump's Cabinet for the first two years of his administration.
An intellectual man, he has amusing, enlightening, and often funny quotes.

Outgoing Defense Secretary James Mattis was legendary long before he agreed to join President Donald Trump's Cabinet.

The retired four-star general spent 44 years in the US Marine Corps, working his way up to Commander of US Central Command.

He's been called "Mad Dog" Mattis (a nickname he detests), "Warrior Monk" (because he's such an intellectual), and is beloved and respected by fellow Marines.

Mattis also has some of the best quotes of any general around. Here are 17 of his best.

https://www.businessinsider.com/James-Mattis-quotes-2018-3

#4977444 at 2019-01-31 18:08:26 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #6355: Open Markets, Closed Borders Edition

So Mattis got a standing ovation from the likes of Cheney, Bezos, John Kerry, etc..

Former Defense Secretary James Mattis received a standing ovation Saturday at the annual black-tie Alfalfa Club dinner after delivering a speech in which he honored the troops and talked about the importance of the US' standing abroad, according to a source with knowledge of the event.

For the third year running, President Donald Trump skipped the annual event - but this year, so did the vice president as well as Trump's daughter Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner.

Vice President Mike Pence and his wife Karen as well as White House advisers Ivanka Trump and Kushner were all on the seating chart for the head table but didn't show at the event, attended by a who's who of prominent political and business leaders, according to the source.

CNN has reached out to both the White House and Pence's office for comment.

Mattis quit the administration in December and pointedly criticized the President in his resignation letter.

The rest of the evening was lighter in tone, with former Secretary of State John Kerry delivering a speech replete with jokes about official Washington and himself. Kerry, the outgoing president of the club - a mainstay of establishment Washington - handed over his leadership role to newly minted Utah GOP Sen. Mitt Romney at the black tie event.

"This is the only speech in Washington that hasn't been canceled by Nancy Pelosi," Kerry joked, according to CNN's source.

The person said the dinner was attended by major business figures including Jeff Bezos, Michael Bloomberg, Warren Buffett, Tim Cook, Bill Gates and Randall Stephenson, CEO of AT&T, which owns CNN parent company WarnerMedia.

Political figures at the dinner included former Vice President Dick Cheney and former Secretaries of State Henry Kissinger, George Shultz, James Baker, Madeleine Albright, Colin Powell and Rex Tillerson.

Aside from Mattis, Kerry and Romney, the list of speakers included Bezos as well as Chief Justice John Roberts and former Tennessee GOP Sen. Bill Frist.

Among those at the head table currently in the Trump administration were Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross and acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker. They sat alongside former administration officials Tillerson, Mattis and former White House chief of staff John Kelly - all of whom were ousted by Trump in the past year.

https://wtvr.com/2019/01/27/pence-ivanka-kushner-no-show-as-Mattis-gets-standing-ovation-at-elite-dc-dinner/

#4970440 at 2019-01-31 01:27:05 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #6346: Protect Life Edition

https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/432160/Who-is-winning-in-USA-Trump-or-Pelosi-Was-a-coup-averted-What
This stuff must really be screwing with the Ayatollahs head

Steele recently recommended to replace James Mattis as Secretary of Defense, is a former candidate for President in the USA (Reform Party, 2012) and the founder of #UNRIG, the Election Integrity movement in America. A prolific author he is also the top reviewer of non-fiction books in the English language, with over 2,500 reviews posted across 98 categories of literature.
Today he answers questions about the U.S. Government shut-down, the rumored coup attempt against President Donald Trump by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, and his forecast of near term political, legal, and economic changes in the USA.

Q. Doyle McManus, an established reporter for the Los Angeles Times, has just published an article "Nancy Pelosi is winning in her battle with Trump." Do you agree with his assessment?

Q. We have noticed a Twitter thread including a Twitter from Donna Brazille referring to "President Pelosi." Some in the USA are talking about a coup by Pelosi against Trump, to include an assassination attempt against both Trump and Vice President Michael Pence, such that Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi would become President. Your thoughts?

Q. What is your evaluation of the government shut-down, now the longest in history, with 800,000 U.S. government employees not receiving paychecks?

Q. There is a great deal of skepticism in Iran and we imagine elsewhere, about the military tribunals actually taking place. There is skepticism about the so-called 70,000 sealed indictments. What do you think is happening?

Q. What is next in the Trump Revolution as you call it in your Trump Revolution series?

Q. Will Donald Trump win re-election?

#4940733 at 2019-01-28 19:05:03 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #6307: Remembering The Challenger Edition

>>4940072
How to watch the White House press briefing today

What: White House press briefing
Date: Monday, Jan. 28, 2019
Time: Scheduled for 3:30 p.m. ET
Who: White House press secretary Sarah Sanders
Location: White House briefing room
Online stream: CBSN player above - in player above or on any mobile device https://www.cbsnews.com/live/

White House press secretary Sarah Sanders is holding a formal press briefing Monday, the first time she has fielded questions in the briefing room since before the government shutdown. The last time Sanders formally fielded questions from reporters in the briefing room was Dec. 18, 2018, four days before government funding lapsed and at a time when James Mattis was still the secretary of defense.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/watch-white-house-press-briefing-live-stream-first-since-shutdown-today-2019-01-28-live-updates/

#4927107 at 2019-01-27 13:34:02 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #6290: Media Trolling 4chan? Edition

Islamic State 2019: An Assessment

It was roughly a year ago that the Iraqi government of Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi announced the defeat of the Islamic State (IS) in Iraq by declaring that, "our heroic armed forces have now secured the entire length of the Iraq-Syria border." U.S. officials, while more circumspect, echoed similar sentiments. Former Secretary of Defense James Mattis, declared, "we sit here today at the end of 2017, the caliphate is on the run, we're breaking them."

A year later, despite continued progress in rolling back the last remnants of the territorial domain of Islamic State, the final defeat of IS seems less certain. Despite statements from the Trump White House that the Islamic State has been "obliterated," and is in in "its final throes," IS continues to show remarkable resiliency.

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2019/01/25/islamic-state-2019-assessment.html

#4922299 at 2019-01-27 02:07:17 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #6284: Awaiting the MSM to Report on POTUS_Schedule SOTU Announcement Edition

Interesting look at an article that might have been missed:
An Admiral Slammed The Shutdown-Can He Do That?

The Coast Guard commandant's viral video reminds us that senior military officers can speak out, carefully - and probably should do so more often.

On Wednesday, the commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard criticized the partial government shutdown in a video posted on social media. While addressed to his service's uniformed and civilian members, Adm. Karl Schultz's video quickly went viral, drawing public attention to the members of the Coast Guard who are continuing to work without pay - and to his implicit criticism of U.S. government leaders. One pundit called such an action by a uniformed officer "stunning."

It definitely is rare to see this type of video, but is it inappropriate? And, is it harmful for civil-military relations for senior military officers to comment on a political issue like this one? I don't think it is. In fact, uniformed officers can - and probably should - be more engaged in public than they have been over the last few years.

Although a number of retired general officers - including James Mattis, William McRaven, and Stanley McChrystal - have made headlines over the last few months, senior military leaders on active duty really haven't been in the news too frequently. The current Joint Chiefs chairman, Gen. Joe Dunford, has kept a historically low media profile during his tenure. This discreet media presence may be due at least partly to Mattis's own decision to hold few joint press conferences while defense secretary, but Gen. Dunford also seems to have actively avoided the press spotlight while focusing on building influence inside the Pentagon.

However, there are signs this approach could change. Since being announced as Dunford's prospective replacement, Gen. Mark Milley has been in the news on several occasions. While it is unclear exactly what approach Gen. Milley will take as Joint Chiefs chairman, there has been wide variation among his predecessors. Then-Gen. Martin Dempsey, for example, viewed himself as the "dash" in civil-military relations; he saw it as part of his job to bridge the civil-military gap and communicate publicly with elected leaders and the American public.

So which approach is right? Can active duty generals and admirals be more engaged in the public debate than they have been, and more importantly, should they? There is no definitive answer to these questions, but we can start by noting that civil-military norms certainly do not prohibit public engagement by senior military officers. There are significant risks in speaking out publicly, however, so they should choose carefully what topics to address and how to address them. Public engagement is an art, not a science.
Read more here…

https://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2019/01/admiral-slammed-shutdown-can-he-do/154389/

#4918190 at 2019-01-26 19:30:57 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #6279: Melania Trumps Telegraph Edition

Pentagon official says agency has saved $4.7B over two years

"Reform doesn't happen overnight," Lisa Hershman, the Pentagon's acting chief management officer (CMO) who is leading the charge, told ABC News in an interview released Saturday.
Hershman said the effort to streamline military spending is on track to save $6 billion this fiscal year. The Pentagon's first-ever audit in November helped identify parts of the department in need of fiscal reform, she noted.

A two-time former CEO, Hershman entered the role in an active capacity last year after former Defense Secretary James Mattis fired her predecessor, reportedly over frustration with his performance.
Hershman told ABC News that part of the streamlining effort revolves around increasing efficiency in information technologies, health care, the military's industrial supply chain, contract management and acquisitions.

https://thehill.com/policy/defense/budget-appropriations/427105-pentagon-official-says-agency-has-saved-47b-over-two

#4890624 at 2019-01-24 20:47:19 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #6243: The Senate Debate And Vote On The Wall And Opening Gov. Edition

Jan. 10 (UPI) – U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Thursday the United States is a "force for good in the Middle East," while criticizing former President Barack Obama for "self-inflicted American shame."

In a speech at American University in Cairo, Pompeo talked about current Middle East policy and how it differs from the Obama-era strategy.

"America is a force for good in the Middle East. Period," he said. "The age of self-inflicted American shame is over, and so are the policies that produced so much needless suffering."

Obama visited Egypt 10 years ago and promised the United States would close the Guantanamo Bay military prison in Cuba and stop torturing suspected terrorists. Pompeo said that was an era of timidity, when wishful thinking allowed violence to flourish in the region. He said the United States should have asserted itself when the circumstances called for it.

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"Remember: It was here, here in this city, another American stood before you," Pompeo said, referring to Obama. "He told you that radical Islamist terrorism doesn't stem from an ideology. He told you that 9/11 led my country to abandon its ideals – particularly in the Middle East. He told you that the United States and the Muslim world needed 'a new beginning.' The results of these misjudgments have been dire."

He also said the decisions "adversely affected the lives of hundreds of millions of people in Egypt and across the region."

Pompeo is visiting the Middle East this week to discuss U.S. policy in the region, including the planned withdrawal of U.S. troops in Syria ordered by President Donald Trump. The visit also included a meeting with Egyptian President Abdel Fatah el-Sisi and Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry.

RELATED Forces capture Americans fighting for Islamic State in Syria
The United States has sold Egypt $40 billion in arms and military equipment and $30 billion in economic assistance since 1980.

The longest trip of Pompeo's tenure as secretary of state already included stops in Iraq and Jordan. From Egypt, he will go to Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Oman and Kuwait.

Pompeo's trip to Iraq Wednesday included a meeting with Kurdish officials in the regional capital of Erbil. He said Washington remains committed to protecting Kurdish allies in Syria from Turkish aggression.

RELATED Turkey rejects U.S. call to protect Kurds in Syria
Turkish officials said Thursday they would not wait for U.S. troops to leave before launching attacks against YPG terror groups east of the Euphrates River.

"If the [withdrawal] is put off with ridiculous excuses like Turks are massacring Kurds, which do not reflect the reality, we will implement this decision," Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu told NTV channel. "We will decide on its timing and we will not receive permission from anyone."

The terrorists Turkey wants to target would be the Kurds who fought alongside the United States in Syria. On Tuesday, Erdogan said the ultimatum given by the Trump administration to guarantee the safety of Kurds was "unacceptable" and a "grave mistake."

Erdogan canceled a meeting with National Security Adviser John Bolton.

Still, Pompeo said Thursday that Erdogan assured him the Syrians would be protected and the U.S. withdrawal plan was intact.

"It's important that we do everything we can to make sure that those folks that fought with us are protected and Erdogan has made commitments, he understands that," Pompeo said. "He talked about terrorists being an existential threat, we acknowledged that there is a threat to Turkey from terrorists and we will be very supportive."

Trump's decision to pull U.S. troops out of Syria prompted Defense Secretary James Mattis to abruptly resign on New Year's Eve.

#4864722 at 2019-01-22 22:00:47 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #6210: Senate Debates Wall Funding Edition

ISIS Needs the US to Survive

"No war is over until the enemy says it's over," James Mattis, the former Marine Corps General and recently resigned secretary of state, is quoted as saying. "We may think it over, we may declare it over, but in fact, the enemy gets a vote." Mattis's statement was made in 2012, well before President Donald Trump, in a surprise announcement on December 19, declared victory over the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, better known as ISIS.

"We have defeated ISIS in Syria, my only reason for being there during the Trump Presidency," the president wrote. He later expanded on that sentiment in a video message, posted on Twitter. "Our boys, our young men and women, are coming home now," Trump noted. "We won."

https://russia-insider.com/en/isis-needs-us-survive/ri25975

#4860143 at 2019-01-22 14:41:05 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #6204: Code Name Qanon Edition

BREAKING: SUPREME COURT ALLOWS TRUMP TO TEMPORARILY ENFORCE TRANS BAN
9:39 AM 01/22/2019 | POLITICS
Kevin Daley | Supreme Court Reporter

The Supreme Court announced Tuesday that it will allow President Donald Trump to temporarily enforce an order barring transgender individuals from serving in the military.

As is typical of orders of this nature, the Court gave no reason for its decision, though Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan noted their dissent.

The Trump administration first petitioned the Supreme Court to decide directly on the legality of the trans-soldiers ban, after federal trial judges in California, Washington, D.C. and Washington state issued orders prohibiting its enforcement. The plaintiffs in those lawsuits argue the policy violates a range of constitutional rights including the First Amendment, equal protection, and due process.

The government said the Court's intervention was necessary because the lower court decision "require the military to maintain a policy that, in its own professional judgment, risks undermining readiness, disrupting unit cohesion, and weakening military effectiveness and lethality."

Subsequent to that request, the Department of Justice filed a second petition proposing an alternative: in the event the Court denied the first request, the administration suggested that the justices allow enforcement of the ban while litigation continues in the lower courts. The Court granted that request Tuesday.

The president abruptly announced on Twitter that the military would not permit trans personnel to serve in the military. Thereafter, former Defense Secretary James Mattis convened a panel of military experts to conduct an independent review of the subject. Their findings served as the basis of Mattis' February 2018 memo which implemented Trump's request.

That memo provides that individuals with a history of gender dysphoria - a clinical term referring to anxiety triggered by the conflict between one's biological sex and the gender with which they identify - may enlist provided they are willing to serve in their biological sex and have not suffered gender dysphoria for a continuous three year period prior to recruitment. Active personnel who are diagnosed with gender dysphoria may continue to serve provided they do so in their biological sex.

This is breaking news. This post will be updated

https://dailycaller.com/2019/01/22/supreme-court-trump-trans-ban/?utm_medium=push&utm_source=daily_caller&utm_campaign=push

#4839590 at 2019-01-21 00:18:26 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #6177: The Super Blood Wolf Moon Edition

Turkey ready to move into Kurdish-controlled Manbij 'without delay' - Erdogan to Trump
Published time: 21 Jan, 2019 00:05
Turkey is ready to take over Manbij, a Kurdish-controlled town in Syria, "without delay,"
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told the US leader, denouncing a suicide blast that had killed four US Americans as a provocation.
In a phone call late Sunday, Erdogan told President Donald Trump that the Turkish forces are poised to assume security functions in Manbij immediately. Erdogan argued that the terrorist attack last week that claimed the lives of four Americans, including two US troops, was a deliberate provocation aimed at forestalling the withdrawal of US forces from Syria, announced by Trump last month.

Two service members as well as a civilian and a contractor were killed after a bomb detonated inside a café in Manbij last Wednesday. On Saturday, Trump flew to the Dover Air Force Base in Delaware to attend a ceremony to receive the remains of four slain Americans and spoke with their relatives.

Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) claimed responsibility for the attack, prompting those opposed to the decision to again question its timing.

During the call, Erdogan extended his condolences to Trump. He reiterated that Ankara will not allow US-backed Kurdish YPG militia, which it considers an extension of Kurdistan's Workers' Party (PKK), undermine security in northeastern Syria.

Turkey views both ISIS and the YPG, a backbone of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), as terrorist organizations that must be annihilated and driven out of Turkish borders.

Erdogan had previously warned Trump against backtracking on his pledge to withdraw some 2,000 US forces out of Syria, arguing that otherwise it would mean that ISIS had won
Trump has taken heat both from the Democrats and from his own Republican party for abruptly announcing a pullout of troops following a call with Erdogan in December. Trump reportedly made the decision to leave Syria amidst the call with his Turkish counterpart to the complete shock of his advisers and military brass, sparking a chain of resignations, including that of US defense secretary James Mattis. Trump's promise to get out of Syria made Erdogan delay the planned operation to kick YPG units out of the area east of the Euphrates River.

However, Ankara hinted that its patience is wearing thin and might run out if the US forces linger.

"If the [pullout] is put off with ridiculous excuses like Turks are massacring Kurds, which do not reflect the reality, we will implement this decision," Turkish Foreign Ministry Mevlüt Çavu?o?lu said earlier this month.

The US military is currently working on security arrangements with the Turkish forces to create a buffer zone between Turkey and the Kurdish fighters. The Kurds, meanwhile, invited the Syrian government to take over and have reportedly begun to leave the area. Erdogan, however, denied that the Kurdish units abandoned Manbij, calling the invitation a "psyop."

READ MORE: Kurdish troops begin withdrawal from Syria's Manbij

Meanwhile, Trump faces growing pressure at home over his plans to extricate troops from Syria. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina), one of the most vocal critics of the move, warned on Saturday that the withdrawal can backfire and turn Syria into "Iraq on steroids."

https://www.rt.com/news/449295-turkey-manbij-kurds-takeover/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=RSS

#4836655 at 2019-01-20 19:45:02 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #6174: Bomb Attack in Colombia Edition

2 yr mark comprehensive list of resignations and firings. (not a complete list)

James Mattis (Resigned), Defence Secretary
WHEN: 20/12/2018

Ryan Zinke (pressured to resign), Secretary for the Interior
WHEN: 15/12/2018

John Kelly (Fired), White House Chief Of Staff
WHEN: 08/12/18

Mira Ricardel (Fired), Deputy National Security Advisor
WHEN: 14/11/18

Jeff Sessions (Fired), Attorney General
WHEN: 07/11/18

Nikki Haley (resigned), US ambassador to the United Nations
WHEN: 09/10/2018

Scott Pruitt (resigned), Environmental Protection Agency Administrator
WHEN: 05/07/2018

Ty Cobb (resigned), White House Special Counsel
WHEN: 02/05/2018

Thomas Homan (resigned), Acting Director of ICE
WHEN: 30/04/2018

Tom Bossert (Pressured to resign), Homeland Security adviser
WHEN: 10/04/2018

David Shulkin (Fired), Veteran affairs secretary
WHEN: 28/03/2018

HR McMaster (Fired), National Security Adviser
WHEN: 22/03/2018

Rex Tillerson (Fired), Secretary of State
WHEN: 13/03/2018

Andrew McCabe (Fired), FBI Deputy Director
WHEN: 17/03/2018

John McEntee (Fired), Aide
WHEN: 13/03/2018

Gary Cohen (Resigned), Director of the National Economic Council
WHEN: 06/03/2018

Hope Hicks (Resigned), White House communications director
WHEN: 29/02/2018

Josh Raffel (Resigned), Deputy communications director
WHEN: 27/02/2018

David Sorensen (Pressured to resign), Speechwriter
WHEN: 09/02/2018

Rob Porter (Pressured to resign), Staff secretary
WHEN: 08/02/2018

Brenda Fitzgerald (Pressured to resign), Centre For Disease Control director
WHEN: 31/01/2018

Taylor Weyeneth (Pressured to resign, then rehired), White House Office of National Drug Control Policy
WHEN: 25/01/2018

Omarosa Manigault (Pressured to resign), Director of communications for the WH Office of Public Liaison
WHEN: 12/12/2017

Dina Powell (Resigned), National Security Adviser
WHEN: 08/12/2017

Tom Price (Pressured to resign), Health and Human Services Secretary
WHEN: 30/09/2017

George Sifakis (Resigned), Director of the Office of Public Liaison
WHEN: 25/09/2017

William Bradford (Pressured to resign), Energy Department's Office of Indian Energy
WHEN: 31/08/2017

Carl Icahn (Resigned), Special adviser to the president on regulatory reform
WHEN: 18/08/2017

Sebastian Gorka (Pressured to resign), Deputy Assistant to the President
WHEN: 25/08/2017

Steve Bannon (Fired), Chief strategist
WHEN: 18/08/2017

Ezra Cohen-Watnick (Fired and rehired), Senior director for intelligence - National Security Council
WHEN: 02/08/2017

Elizabeth Southerland (Resigned), Senior official with the Environmental Protection Agency
WHEN: 01/08/2017

Anthony Scaramucci (Fired), White House communications Director
WHEN: 31/07/2017

Reince Priebus (Pressured to resign), Chief of Staff
WHEN: 28/07/2017

Derek Harvey (Fired), Senior director for the Middle East - National Security Council
WHEN: 27/07/2017

Michael Short (Pressured to resign), Assistant press secretary
WHEN: 25/07/2017

Sean Spicer (Resigned), Press secretary
WHEN: 21/07/2017

Rich Higgins (Fired), Director of strategic planning - National Security Council
WHEN: 21/07/2017

Mark Corallo (Resigned), Chief spokesman for President Trump's personal legal team
WHEN: 20/07/2017

Tera Dahl (Resigned), Deputy chief of staff - National Security Council
WHEN: 06/07/2017

Walter Shaub (Resigned), Ethics office
WHEN: 06/07/2017

Michael Dubke (Resigned), White House communications director
WHEN: 30/05/2017

John Thompson (Resigned), Census Bureau Director
WHEN: 09/05/2017

James Comey (Fired), FBI director
WHEN: 09/05/2017

Angella Reid (Fired), Chief Usher
WHEN: 05/05/2017

K. T. McFarland (Pressured to resign), Deputy National Security Adviser
WHEN: 09/04/2017

Katie Walsh (Resigned), Deputy Chief Of Staff
WHEN: 30/03/2017

Preet Bharara (Fired), US Attorney, NY southern district
WHEN: 11/03/2017

Michael Flynn (Pressured to resign), National Security Adviser
WHEN: 13/02/2017

Sally Yates (Fired), US Attorney General
WHEN: 31/01/2017

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news/everyone-who-been-fired-donald-12372954

#4804735 at 2019-01-18 14:43:42 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #6132: RBG on Ice Editon

Former U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, General James Mattis, and General John Kelly are running military tribunals with intelligence support from former NSA Director Admiral Mike Rogers and former Defense Intelligence Agency boss Mike Flynn.

#4801628 at 2019-01-18 05:50:20 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #6128: You Have A Front Row Seat Edition

@realDonaldTrump Tweet Decode: General Mattis Feinstein China Deception

G J M D F C N W H
GJM DF CN WH
Gen. James Mattis Diane Feinstein China White House

Between some of the letters, DF, there is a plaintext inline which provides some context about what is being discussed.

Analysis:
Gen. James Mattis
Diane Feinstein China White House
>was the product of bias and deception.
>from beginning to end >It was a Fake.

Mattis Bad

#4793766 at 2019-01-17 19:45:54 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #6118: Dust-Up in da House Edition

>>4793755
Fixated on collusion, Dems seeking (again) to subpoena interpreter present at Trump-Putin meeting

The paper quotes US Admiral James Stavridis, the former supreme allied commander of NATO, calling Trump's withdrawal whims "a geopolitical mistake of epic proportion."

"Even discussing the idea of leaving NATO - let alone actually doing so - would be the gift of the century for Putin," added Stavridis.

The Times goes on to divulge the media campaign coordination when it editorialized: "Now, the president's repeatedly stated desire to withdraw from NATO is raising new worries among national security officials amid growing concern about Mr Trump's efforts to keep his meetings with Mr Putin secret from even his own aides, and an FBI investigation into the administration's Russia ties."

Still another Times report this week reinforced the theme of Trump being a national security risk when it claimed that the president's Middle East policy of pulling troops out of Syria was "losing leverage" in the region. It again quoted Pentagon officials "voicing deepening fears" that Trump and his hawkish National Security Advisor John Bolton "could precipitate a conflict with Iran".

That's a bit hard to stomach: the Pentagon being presented as a voice of sanity and peace, keeping vigilance over a wrecking-ball president and his administration.

READ MORE: Twitter erupts after NYT reveals FBI probe into Trump-Russia links that lead... nowhere

But the New York Times, Washington Post and other anti-Trump corporate media have long been extolling the military generals who were formerly in the administration as "the adults in the room."

Generals H.R. McMaster, the former national security adviser, John Kelly, Trump's ex-chief of staff, and James Mattis, the former defense secretary until he was elbowed out last month by the president, were continually valorized in the US media as being a constraining force on Trump's infantile and impetuous behavior.

The absence of "the adults" seems to have prompted the US media to intensify their efforts to delegitimize Trump's presidency.

A new House of Representatives controlled by the Democratic Party has also invigorated calls for impeachment of Trump over a range of unsubstantiated accusations, Russian collusion being prime among them. But any impeachment process promises to be long and uncertain of success, according to several US legal and political authorities.

Such a tactic is fraught with risk of failing, no doubt due to the lack of evidence against Trump's alleged wrongdoing. A failed impeachment effort could backfire politically, increase his popularity, and return him to the White House in 2020.

Given the uncertainty of impeaching Trump, his political enemies, including large sections of the media establishment, seem to be opting for the tactic of characterizing him as a danger to national security, primarily regarding Russia. Trump doesn't have to be a proven agent of the Kremlin - a preposterous idea. Repeated portrayal of him as an incompetent unwitting president is calculated to be sufficient grounds for his ouster.

When the Washington Post editorial board urges a state of emergency to be invoked because of "Russian meddling in US elections", then the national mood is being fomented to accept a coup against Trump. The media's fawning over the Pentagon and state intelligence agencies as some kind of virtuous bastion of Reporting what the mainstream media won't:

https://www.rt.com/op-ed/448968-trump-media-ouster-risk/

#4760951 at 2019-01-15 06:38:00 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #6076: Every Scenario Planned For Edition

James Mattis punished by a superior.
Who is James Mattis subordinate to?
James Mattis Bad, A Globalist Servant!

#4712245 at 2019-01-11 17:43:41 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #6013: RIP Natalie Corona Edition

"We Don't Take Orders From Bolton": US Withdrawal From Syria Begins

Contrary to assurances from Trump's National Security Advisor, neocon John Bolton, and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who suggested earlier this week that US troops would remain in Syria for at least a little while longer, the Associated Press reported on Friday that the US has begun the process of removing the 2,000 soldiers based in northeastern Syria.

Citing information provided by activists with the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the withdrawal officially began Thursday night local time. A convoy of about 10 armored vehicles and some trucks left the town of Rmeilan into drove into Iraq. Col. Sean Ryan, spokesman for the coalition fighting the Islamic State group, later confirmed that the US has started "the process of our deliberate withdrawal from Syria."

Trump's abrupt decision last month to order US troops out of Syria angered former Defense Secretary James Mattis, who resigned over the decision, and stoked fears that Trump was abandoning the Kurds to a massacre by Turkish forces, who have vowed to pick up the slack in Syria when it comes to fighting ISIS.

"These have been folks that have fought with us and it's important that we do everything we can to ensure that those folks that fought with us are protected," Pompeo said of the Kurds while visiting Irbil, the capital of Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdistan region, after talks in Baghdad.

After launching a campaign of airstrikes against ISIS in 2014, President Obama deployed troops on the ground the following year to combat ISIS, which at the time controlled large swaths of northeastern Syria. Since then, the group has been beaten back, and now control only 1% of their former territory.

Initially, Trump had said the pullout would be complete within a matter of weeks, but plans became murky after the Pentagon requested four months to complete the withdrawal. Last night, the Wall Street Journal reported that the withdrawal would begin immediately.

Scores of ground troops are headed toward Syria to help move troops out, and a group of naval vessels headed by the amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge is headed to the region to back up troops at the vulnerable moment they are leaving the country, the officials said. The Kearsarge carries hundreds of Marines, helicopters and other aircraft.

"Nothing has changed," one defense official said. "We don't take orders from Bolton."

To account for shifts in plans, the military will stage the personnel and equipment needed for a possible withdrawal, rather than move the U.S. forces out. Troops tasked to help with the eventual withdrawal already are in the area, in places like Kuwait and al-Asad air base in western Iraq.

After expressing his immense displeasure with the US's walk-back of its withdrawal plans, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan - who recently resorted to threatening the US over their plans to linger in Syria - will no doubt be glad to hear about this.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-01-11/we-dont-take-orders-bolton-us-withdrawal-syria-begins

#4710762 at 2019-01-11 15:37:57 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #6011: Great Movie Edition

We Don't Take Orders From Bolton": US Withdrawal From Syria Begins

Contrary to assurances from Trump's National Security Advisor, neocon John Bolton, and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who suggested earlier this week that US troops would remain in Syria for at least a little while longer, the Associated Press reported on Friday that the US has begun the process of removing the 2,000 soldiers based in northeastern Syria. Citing information provided by activists with the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the withdrawal officially began Thursday night local time. A convoy of about 10 armored vehicles and some trucks left the town of Rmeilan into drove into Iraq. Col. Sean Ryan, spokesman for the coalition fighting the Islamic State group, later confirmed that the US has started "the process of our deliberate withdrawal from Syria."

Trump's abrupt decision last month to order US troops out of Syria angered former Defense Secretary James Mattis, who resigned over the decision, and stoked fears that Trump was abandoning the Kurds to a massacre by Turkish forces, who have vowed to pick up the slack in Syria when it comes to fighting ISIS. After launching a campaign of airstrikes against ISIS in 2014, President Obama deployed troops on the ground the following year to combat ISIS, which at the time controlled large swaths of northeastern Syria. Since then, the group has been beaten back, and now control only 1% of their former territory.

nitially, Trump had said the pullout would be complete within a matter of weeks, but plans became murky after the Pentagon requested four months to complete the withdrawal. Last night, the Wall Street Journal reported that the withdrawal would begin immediately. After expressing his immense displeasure with the US's walk-back of its withdrawal plans, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan - who recently resorted to threatening the US over their plans to linger in Syria - will no doubt be glad to hear about this.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-01-11/we-dont-take-orders-bolton-us-withdrawal-syria-begins

#4699706 at 2019-01-10 22:27:29 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #5997: Texas Roundtable Edition

US, Lockheed Kill Croatia's F-16 Deal With Israel

Croatia and Israel cancelled a deal for a dozen used Israeli F-16 aircraft on Thursday over issues about who would pay to uninstall Lockheed Martin's intellectual property on the aircraft - concerns voiced by the Trump administration.

Officials on both sides of the failed transaction confirmed the deal was dead following a meeting between officials in Zagreb. Israeli Director-General of the Ministry of Defense Udi Adam blamed the deal's breakdown on "problems that could not have been expected and are not under the control of the countries," according to a statement carried by the Jerusalem Post.

"Israel has officially informed us that it cannot get an approval from the United States for delivery of the planes to Croatia," Croatian Defense Minister Damir Krsticevic told reporters Thursday.

Problems arose over "who will pay for the conversion, because the US and its contractors Lockheed Martin have to do the work because they're the ones who own the technology and intellectual property... I'm not involved in the negotiations, and I don't think they [Israel and Croatia] have a choice, because this is intellectual property of Lockheed Martin, and they need to get [Lockheed Martin's] approval to do the transfer," US Ambassador to Croatia Robert Kohorst said in December.

Croatian media reports said US defense companies complained the aircraft had received Israeli upgrades, thus stripping Lockheed of the opportunity to modernize the planes and perform maintenance on them, according to Reuters.

The US State Department has contract rights and can prevent third-party transfers of the aircraft without its sanction. It's not clear if the State Department was responsible for telling the Israelis the deal is off or some other US government conduit.

Just last month, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo pinned the deal's potential breakdown on ex-Defense Secretary James Mattis, saying, "I'm in favor, but Defense Secretary Mattis is against [the sale] - it's him who is blocking it." But Mattis is no longer a member of the Cabinet. He resigned following Trump's announcement that the US would be withdrawing troops from Syria and has been replaced by Acting Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan.

https://sputniknews.com/world/201901111071380595-us-lockheed-kill-f-16-deal-croatia/

#4694511 at 2019-01-10 15:41:42 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #5990: Cryin' Chuck Edition

Turkey to launch attack against Kurds in Syria

Turkey's foreign minister said it will launch a military attack against US-allied Kurds in Syria even if the Trump administration delays withdrawing American troops from the war-torn country.

"If the [withdrawal] is put off with ridiculous excuses like Turks are massacring Kurds, which do not reflect the reality, we will implement this decision," Mevlut Cavusoglu told state media Thursday, according to the Associated Press.

Ankara considers the Kurdish forces in Syria that have been trained by and are assisting US troops in the fight against Islamic State militants to be linked to groups trying to create instability inside Turkey.

President Trump last month announced that he would pull out the 2,000 US troops in Syria, a controversial decision that led to the resignation of Defense Secretary James Mattis, who wrote that the commander-in-chief was abandoning US allies.

National Security adviser John Bolton, speaking in Israel on Sunday, said the administration would delay the withdrawal until Turkey assures the safety of Kurdish fighters and ISIS is defeated.
Earlier this week, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan refused to meet with Bolton during a trip to Ankara and said he is making a "serious mistake."

"Bolton has made a serious mistake and whoever thinks like this has also made a mistake. It is not possible for us to make compromises on this point," Erdogan said Tuesday in a speech to parliament.

He also doubled down on his recent threats to attack the Kurds.

"If they are terrorists, we will do what is necessary no matter where they come from," Erdogan said.

https://nypost.com/2019/01/10/turkey-to-launch-attack-against-kurds-in-syria/

#4628380 at 2019-01-06 18:22:43 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #5905: Who is 'really' managing her care? Edition

As Trump Orders US Out of Afghanistan, Notorious CIA-Backed Units Will Remain

Politicians and pundits alike have roundly criticized Donald Trump for stating he will pull our troops out of Syria and cut US forces in Afghanistan by half. James Mattis immediately resigned as secretary of defense, writing in a letter to Trump, "you have the right to have a Secretary of Defense whose views are better aligned with yours."

As the US military kills civilians in Syria and CIA-led Afghan forces continue to commit war crimes, it appears Trump is doing the right thing in pulling out military troops. But the CIA will remain and grow stronger after the US troops leave. "[A]s American military forces are set to draw down, the role of the Central Intelligence Agency is only likely to grow in importance," according to The New York Times.

On December 31, The Times described a CIA-sponsored Afghan strike force that operates "unconstrained by battlefield rules designed to protect civilians, conducting night raids, torture and killings with near impunity." In the article, journalist Mujib Mashal cites an October 2018 United Nations report that raised concern about "consistent, credible accounts of intentional destruction of civilian property, illegal detention and other abuses."

Mashal reports that the abuses by the CIA "are actively pushing people toward the Taliban" and when few US military troops remain, "the [CIA-led] strike forces are increasingly the way that a large number of rural Afghans experience the American presence." Indeed, Mohibullah, whose relative was killed when his home was attacked by a strike force, told The Times he saw "no difference between the CIA-sponsored force and the Islamic State if the result was to be attacked with no warning."

More
https://truthout.org/articles/as-trump-orders-us-out-of-afghanistan-notorious-cia-backed-units-will-remain/

#4626193 at 2019-01-06 15:12:03 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #5902: Just Dropped In To See What Condition My Edition Was In

Pentagon chief of staff Kevin Sweeney resigns

"I've decided the time is right to return to the private sector. It has been an honor to serve again alongside the men and women of the Department of Defense," Sweeney said in a short statement posted on the Department of Defense website late Saturday night.
A knowledgeable source told CNN's Jake Tapper that the White House forced Sweeney out. The source did not provide further information about the reason.

Sweeney, who retired as a rear admiral in 2014, served under former Defense Secretary James Mattis, who announced his resignation December 20 on the heels of President Donald Trump's plans to withdraw troops from Syria.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/06/politics/kevin-sweeney-resigns/index.html

#4621999 at 2019-01-06 05:05:57 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #5896: 2 Days Ahead Of Schedule Edition

The Department of Defense's chief of staff Rear Adm. Kevin Sweeney has resigned, according to a statement.

Sweeney said in a brief statement that he planned to return to the private sector, giving no reason for his departure. His exit comes just days after Secretary of Defense James Mattis, for whom Sweeney previously served, left the agency after announcing his resignation earlier in the month.

"After two years in the Pentagon, I've decided the time is right to return to the private sector. It has been an honor to serve again alongside the men and women of the Department of Defense," Sweeney said in his announcement.

His resignation also followed that of another top Mattis ally, Pentagon spokeswoman Dana White, who announced her resignation at the end of December.

"I appreciate the opportunity afforded to me by this administration to serve alongside Secretary Mattis, our Service members and all the civilians who support them. It has been my honor and privilege," White wrote on Twitter last month. "Stay safe and God bless."

Mattis's resignation was thought to be tied to the surprise announcement from President Trump regarding the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Syria, where coalition forces continue to battle elements of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) on the ground.

Trump's withdrawal of U.S. forces from Syria was also credited at the time with pushing the resignation of Brett McGurk, the president's top envoy to anti-ISIS coalition forces in the region.

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#4615152 at 2019-01-05 23:02:15 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #5887: What's Going On In Little Rock? Edition

>>4615118
>no sauce yet...we'll see

Pentagon chief of staff Kevin Sweene resigns

Department of Defense chief of staff Rear Adm. Kevin Sweeney has stepped down from his post.

"After two years in the Pentagon, I've decided the time is right to return to the private sector. It has been an honor to serve again alongside the men and women of the Department of Defense."
The big picture: Sweeney served as chief of staff to former Defense Secretary James Mattis, who resigned last month after President Trump's decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria. Pentagon spokesperson Dana White also announced her departure this week.

https://www.axios.com/pentagon-chief-of-staff-kevin-sweeney-resigns–5f6cd6e2-d33b-4a74-809c-32b0d43811f8.html

#4596230 at 2019-01-04 19:07:07 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #5863: Attacks are intensifying but Anons remain comfy Edition

Trump's Syria Withdrawal Enrages Pro-Israel Chickenhawks

The U.S. press, in its war against Trump, is pushing an illegal and unconstitutional invasion of Syria whose stated primary objective is to remove a terrorist organization which is already mostly gone - and a less frequently acknowledged goal of regime change for the legitimate government in Damascus and the expulsion of that government's principal allies... there is no way to "win" and no exit strategy.
That anyone would regard Boot and Nuland as objective authorities on the Middle East given their ultimate and prevailing loyalty to Israel has to be wondered at...

By Philip Giraldi, reposted from Unz Review

President Donald Trump's order to withdraw from Syria has been greeted, predictably, with an avalanche of condemnation culminating in last Thursday's resignation by Defense Secretary James Mattis. The Mattis resignation letter focused on the betrayal of allies, though it was inevitably light on details, suggesting that the Marine Corps General was having some difficulty in discerning that American interests might be somewhat different than those of feckless and faux allies like Israel and Saudi Arabia that are adept at manipulating the levers of power in Washington and in the media. Mattis clearly appreciates that having allies is a force multiplier in wartime but fails to understand that it is a liability otherwise as the allies create an obligation to go to war on their behalf rather than in response to any actual national interest.

The media was quick to line up behind Mattis. On Friday, The New York Times featured a lead editorial entitled "Jim Mattis was right" while neocon twitter accounts blazed with indignation. Prominent chickenhawk mouthpieces David Frum and Bill Kristol, among many others, tweeted that the end is nigh.

During the day preceding Mattis's dramatic announcement, the press went to war against the Administration over Syria and also regarding other reports that there would be troop reductions in Afghanistan. The following headline actually appeared on a Reuters online article the day after the announcement by the president: "In Syria retreat, Trump rebuffs top advisers and blindsides U.S. commanders." It would be difficult to imagine stuffing more bullshit into one relatively short sentence. "Retreat," "rebuffs" and "blindsides" are not words that are intended to convey any sort of even-handed assessment of what is occurring in U.S. policy towards the Middle East. They are instead meant to imply that "Hey, that moron in the White House has screwed up again!"

https://israelpalestinenews.org/syria-withdrawal-enrages-pro-israel-chickenhawks/

#4586905 at 2019-01-04 01:33:26 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #5851: Wailing Wall Edition

Former Democratic Senator Could Replace Mattis As Defense Secretary, Says Report

Former Democratic Virginia Sen. Jim Webb is reportedly being considered as a possible replacement for retiring Defense Secretary James Mattis. According to a report from The New York Times, Webb has been approached by representatives for both Vice President Mike Pence and acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney.

https://www.dailycaller.com/2019/01/03/jim-webb-replace-Mattis-defense-secretary-reports/

Leaving this here as I heard crap because sauce was NYT…here it is…retold…by dailycaller, from NYT

#4584876 at 2019-01-03 23:21:38 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #5848: Panic is Good Edition

>>4584332

What's this?

Former Democratic Virginia Sen. Jim Webb is reportedly being considered as a possible replacement for retiring Defense Secretary James Mattis.

According to a report from The New York Times, Webb has been approached by representatives for both Vice President Mike Pence and acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney.

Representatives for Vice President Mike Pence and Mick Mulvaney, the acting White House chief of staff, have reached out to Mr. Webb, one of the three officials said. Separately, a senior Defense Department official confirmed that Mr. Webb's name had been circulating at the White House. Those two and the third official all spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe the internal discussions.

Webb's vocal opposition to the Iraq war and former President Barack Obama's Iran Deal - along with his belief that China should be dealt with aggressively - seem to align him with much of President Donald Trump's foreign policy. He also fails to align with the more progressive Democrats on other key issues like climate change.

https://dailycaller.com/2019/01/03/jim-webb-replace-Mattis-defense-secretary-reports/

#4572991 at 2019-01-03 02:49:15 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #5833: We're Full Edition

Progressives Resist Ending the Wars

Liberal interventionists in the media want America's wars to continue forever. Last Thursday I actually turned on "PBS Newshour" with Judy Woodruff, which I never watch, but the other offerings on television were dismal, and I was flipping channels. She had on as guests her regular commentator Mark Shields and Michael Gerson of The Washington Post. Shields is a hardcore liberal and Gerson is a neoconservative longtime critic of Donald Trump, presumably filling in for regular PBS "conservative" David Brooks. The discussion was about Syria and the resignation of Secretary of Defense James Mattis.

Woodruff had had the pathologically ambitious Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) on earlier, which was a bullet I quite happily dodged. He reportedly said that Trump was "about to make a major blunder on Syria," aligning him with fellow Republican Sen. Lindsay Graham (S.C.), who said pretty much the same thing.

https://americanfreepress.net/progressives-resist-ending-the-wars/

#4566979 at 2019-01-02 18:59:35 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #5825: Low Gas Prices Edition

How is CBS News reporting what was said in the cabinet meeting BEFORE it is over?

President Trump, in a Cabinet meeting on the 12th day of a partial government shutdown that has no end in sight, said he'll keep the government shutdown "as long as it takes."

Mr. Trump, in a session with the Cabinet and reporters that lasted nearly two hours, gave few details on how he hopes to end the shutdown that has hundreds of thousands of federal employees furloughed or working without pay. The president told his Cabinet he thinks they can work with Democrats on border security, calling the border wall like a sieve and emphasizing the need for a wall. But it's unclear if he will take less than the $5 billion he wanted.

Mr. Trump also claimed he essentially "fired" former Secretary of Defense James Mattis. That's after the White House repeatedly insisted Mattis retired. Mattis' resignation letter was intensely critical of the president's military approach, and Mattis said the president deserves a defense secretary who views the world like he does.

The president also aired his grievances about troop withdrawals in the Middle East, the border wall, and incoming Sen. Mitt Romney, who wrote an op-ed criticizing the president Tuesday night.

Later in the Mr. Trump will meet with top Republicans and top Democrats in the Situation Room, in a closed-press conversation negotiating border security and the shutdown. Mr. Trump is demanding funding for his border wall, funding Democrats say they won't give him. That meeting is set for 3 p.m. The dynamics in Washington are shifting quickly, with Democrats taking control of the House officially on Thursday.

Meanwhile, the president has lashed out at incoming Republican Sen. Mitt Romney, who wrote a scathing op-ed claiming the president has failed to live up to the mantle of his office and has weakened America on the world stage.

"Here we go with Mitt Romney, but so fast! Question will be, is he a Flake? I hope not. Would much prefer that Mitt focus on Border Security and so many other things where he can be helpful. I won big, and he didn't. He s

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-meets-with-cabinet-as-shutdown-lingers-live-updates-today-1-2-2019/

#4564988 at 2019-01-02 15:59:46 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #5822: Lil Mitty is perpetually salty Edition

Pentagon Spokeswoman Follows Mattis Out of Trump Administration
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Chief Pentagon spokeswoman Dana White stepped down from her post on Monday, which was also the last day for Defense Secretary James Mattis.
Charles Summers Jr., the principal deputy assistant to the secretary of defense, has moved into the post of acting assistant to the secretary of defense for public affairs.
"I appreciate the opportunity afforded to me by this administration to serve alongside Secretary Mattis, our Service members and all the civilians who support them," White tweeted from her official account, which as of Tuesday showed the tweet as coming from Summers. "It has been my honor and privilege. Stay safe and God bless."
White also sent a farewell message to the Defense Department public affairs personnel, according to CNN, which said it obtained a copy of the message.
"It is with a heavy heart that I have submitted my letter of resignation to Secretary Mattis. I am grateful to the administration for giving me the opportunity to serve alongside Secretary Mattis, the brave men and women in uniform, and all of the civilians who support them," the message read.
White has been the target of the Defense Department's inspector general over internal personnel matters involving her use of department staff for personal matters.
The Washington Post said staff claimed they were required to pick up White's dry cleaning and her lunch. Other accusations claimed she forced staffers to pick up pharmacy items for her or work on paperwork connected to her mortgage.
This kind of use of others' time is a serious ethics issue, said one commentator.
"You could actually think of it as theft," said Kathleen Clark, a law professor at Washington University Law School, according to NBC. "You're essentially using, as though it belongs to you for your personal purposes, something of value to the government - your subordinate's time."
White was also accused of transferring staff members who complained about her, NBC reported.
White became the chief spokeswoman for the Pentagon in April 2017. She reported directly to Mattis.
Mattis ended his tenure Monday with a message to U.S. troops that encouraged them to "hold fast."
Patrick Shanahan, a former Boeing executive assumed the post of acting defense secretary as of Jan. 1.

https://www.westernjournal.com/pentagon-spokeswoman-follows-Mattis-trump-administration/

#4564206 at 2019-01-02 14:36:08 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #5821:The Missing Y Edition

Lots to dig on the McCain institute. Their annual Sedona Forum has had some interesting participants and speakers. Such as:

James Mattis
Secretary of Defense
U.S. Department of Defense

Yes, really.
Sauce: https://www.thesedonaforum.org/participants/

#4563793 at 2019-01-02 13:34:52 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #5821:The Missing Y Edition

>>4563786
The Mueller investigation will unveil evidence of Trump putting himself out to the highest bidder in return for campaign help and financing: Russians, Saudis, Emiratis, Qataris - there will be evidence that millions of foreign dollars illegally flowed into the Trump campaign coffers in 2016;

In other words, Trump basically said, "I'm for sale";

We may learn the source of the $66 million of his own money that Trump donated to his campaign in 2016. Was it a foreign entity who gave him the money as, in effect, an illegal pass-through?

Now that he has removed Secretary of Defense James Mattis, Trump can do what he tried in 2018: He will remove our troops from South Korea;

This is exactly what North Korea's leader, Kim Jong Un, and China and Russia want us to do;

Trump tried this last spring but Mattis and former chief of staff John Kelly talked him out of it; now, neither man remains to stop him;

This will provoke a crisis the likes of which we have never seen;

The GOP Senate will go nuts when this happens, as will the Pentagon and Japan;

This action may begin the breaking away of the 20 GOP senators it will take to remove Trump if the House impeaches, dooming the Trump presidency;

In June, the Democratic Party presidential race will begin to take shape when the first TV debates begin with perhaps two dozen candidates; no one yet can predict who will emerge as the 2020 nominee, but history is a guide here:

John Kennedy, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama all won the Democratic nomination in great part as a result of the energy, shoe leather, devotion and passion of an army of young people in the primaries. That phenomenon almost propelled Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) to an upset victory over Hillary Clinton in 2016. Who can harness the youth movement in 2020?

As of today, it looks like Rep. Beto O'Rourke (D-Texas) has that energy behind him and incredible online fundraising abilities; if he runs, he will begin as a formidable candidate in a field of well-known, older candidates (Sanders, Joe Biden, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Michael Bloomberg). That army of young people will be tempted to leave Sanders for O'Rourke - or their loyalties will split between the two, and that may open the door for someone unexpected to step forth;

With Trump forced to exit the scene in 2019, the post-Trump GOP will devolve into all-out reshuffling. The Trump hangover will bedevil the party, just as the immediate post-Nixon era did to the GOP in 1974. The 2020 Republican nomination fight will be even more brutal than the Democratic one;

With Trump disgraced, both political parties will search for a message and a messenger;

An unexpected candidate will seize the political center in 2020.
John LeBoutillier, a former Republican congressman from New York, co-hosts "Revolution - The Podcast," available on Soundcloud and iTunes.
(2/2)

#4557837 at 2019-01-02 01:19:19 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #5813: Far Too Long Edition

>>4557498
>The Sedona Connection
The Sedona Forum. And why you should pay attention!
"James Mattis, former CENTCOM Commander"

This is the "McCain Institute". Check out the guest list by year.

https://www.thesedonaforum.org/

#4556270 at 2019-01-01 23:10:38 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #5811: Buckle Up, It's Time Edition

>>4556207

Shell Game was sent to McChrystal and Mattis
>JSOC Commander Stanley McChrystal also failed to track the UBS connection

>We reasoned the best person to address the letter to would be Marine General James Mattis, Commander of U.S. Central Command.

https://archive.org/stream/pdfy-nuxY0nNOAtmL3H70/Shell%20Game_djvu.txt

#4555510 at 2019-01-01 22:07:26 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #5810: 1-01-19 Think Mirror Edition

Trump U-Turning on Syria Pullout?

Whether Pentagon forces stay or leave Syria, whether some stay, others redeployed cross-border to Iraq or elsewhere, Washington's regional and overall imperial agenda remains unchanged

In its 18th year, the AfPak war rages endlessly, a forever war, an unwinnable one with no prospect for resolving it any time in the foreseeable future. US strategy is all about waging it endlessly, not winning.

Syria is following the same pattern, war in its 8th year with no end in sight - despite Syrian forces regaining control over most of the country.

The Pentagon has a reported 18 bases in Syria, at least one more being constructed. Its commanders are highly unlikely to abandon them or leave key bases established in neighboring Iraq, including two new ones, an al-Rutbah base around 60 miles from the Syrian border.

US regional bases are used as platforms for warmaking. Pentagon troops are in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, and other countries as hostile invaders.

No US plans exist to turn a page for peace in the region or anywhere else. Washington's agenda features endless wars of aggression, part of its longstanding plan for global hegemony, ignoring the rule of law, mindless of the human toll.

Most of what's going on is unreported or misreported in the mainstream. Millions of post-9/11 casualties are of no consequences to militarists in charge of Washington's geopolitical agenda - peace and stability considered abhorrent notions.

Trump is captive to dark forces controlling him, a businessman/TV personality - ignorant about affairs of state.

Nothing he says is credible, time and again saying one thing, then doing something entirely different. Will he U-turn on announced troop withdrawals from Syria and Afghanistan?

Regime hardliners, congressional leaders, and Pentagon commanders strongly oppose the idea. According to Bloomberg News, neocon Senator Lindsey Graham said the following after meeting with Trump privately:
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Powerful U.S. forces work against pullout of troops from Syria
This often happens throughout history, when the core beliefs of a country promulgated by elites are challenged - and in the case of the U.S., it is both Republican and Democratic elites. The dismay at the retirement of Secretary of Defense James Mattis indicates the many battles ahead for a rebalancing of U.S. foreign policy.

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Trump Slows Syria Pullout: Military Given Four Months to Withdraw

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#4553262 at 2019-01-01 19:14:23 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #5807: New Year Justice

Trump fires back at McChrystal: 'Known for big, dumb mouth'

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President Trump on Tuesday lashed out at retired Gen. Stanley McChrystal with a string of personal attacks after the former leader of U.S. operations in Afghanistan called the president "immoral" and dishonest.

The president said former President Obama fired McChrystal "like a dog" while quoting a tweet from Fox News host Laura Ingraham that shared a post from a conservative website founded by her that recapped McChrystal's weekend comments.

" 'General' McChrystal got fired like a dog by Obama. Last assignment a total bust. Known for big, dumb mouth. Hillary lover!" Trump tweeted on New Year's Day.

The retired four-star Army general said on ABC's "This Week" that he would not work for the Trump administration if asked, citing the president's dishonesty.

"It's important for me to work for people who I think are basically honest, who tell the truth as best they know it," McChrystal said.

"I don't think he tells the truth," he added.

McChrystal has previously been critical of Trump's policies and rhetoric.

He has questioned Trump's decision to send troops to the southern border and has expressed concern over the president's repeated criticism of former military leaders, such as retired Adm. William McRaven.

The president in November derided McRaven, who oversaw the mission that killed Osama bin Laden, as a "Hillary Clinton fan."

Trump used the same line of attack on McChrystal on Tuesday. McChrystal has in the past praised Clinton's work as secretary of State, but had stopped short of formally endorsing her presidential bid against Trump in 2016.

McChrystal led U.S. forces in Afghanistan from 2009 to 2010. He resigned after critical remarks he made about Vice President Joe Biden and other civilian leaders were published in Rolling Stone.

Trump is currently in search of a full-time Defense secretary after James Mattis resigned, effective Tuesday. Mattis's resignation came after Trump announced plans to withdraw U.S. forces from Syria.

Trump appointed Patrick Shanahan as acting Defense secretary.

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/423400-trump-slams-mcchrystal-amid-criticism-from-retired-general

#4542313 at 2019-01-01 01:47:45 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #5793: Throughout the Ages Edition

>>4542304

The United States administration has reportedly blocked a $500 million arms deal between Israel and Croatia after Outgoing Defense Secretary James Mattis rejected a request from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for the sale of 12 F-16 fighter jets.

"For reasons we don't fully understand, the Americans hardened their conditions and, apparently, we misread their position on the deal. Practically, the F-16 deal with Croatia is dead and we don't think it is possible to get an agreement that will reconcile the U.S. conditions and the Croatian demands in the tender," Barak Ravid of Israel's Channel 10 news reported on Axios news portal Thursday.

"Netanyahu called Mattis two weeks ago - before the latter's resignation - and asked him to soften the U.S. terms for the deal. Mattis told Netanyahu he had gone a long way for Israel on several issues but couldn't show any flexibility regarding this deal," Ravid reported.

Netanyahu considered calling Marilyn Hewson, the president and CEO of Lockheed Martin, which manufactures the jets, to ask for help in getting the deal approved but ultimately decided it was a lost cause, the report stated quoting an unnamed Israeli Official as saying to the journalist.
http://www.defenseworld.net/news/23964/US_Blocks_Israel_Croatia_F_16_Fighter_Jet_Deal

#4529791 at 2018-12-31 02:54:33 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #5777: Trips Of Truth Edition

'We Must Not Accept Amoral Leadership' Corrupt Comey Attacks President Trump in Late Night Tweet

Fired FBI Director James Comey took another shot at President Trump Sunday night in a tweet - without saying the President's name.

"We must not accept or be numb to amoral leadership. Thankful for patriots across the political spectrum who are speaking out," Comey said in a tweet Sunday night.

It appears James Comey was referring to both James Mattis and John Kelly, two people who jabbed President Trump after announcing their retirement.

Outgoing Secretary of Defense James Mattis took a shot at President Trump in his resignation letter - Mattis resigned after President Trump announced he will be withdrawing troops from Syria.

"Because you have the right to have a Secretary of Defense whose views are better aligned with yours on these and other subjects, I believe it is right for me to step down from my position," Mattis said in his resignation letter.

White House Chief of Staff General John Kelly also recently stepped down from his position after multiple reports claimed he didn't often see eye-to-eye with the President.

John Kelly jabbed Trump on his way out on immigration and said that there will be no border wall, MSN reported.

"To be honest, it's not a wall," Kelly said.

"The president still says 'wall' - oftentimes frankly he'll say 'barrier' or 'fencing,' now he's tended toward steel slats. But we left a solid concrete wall early on in the administration, when we asked people what they needed and where they needed it."

Comey completely corrupted the FBI during his tenure as director - he has no room to talk about leadership.

James Comey shouldn't be tweeting, he should be in prison for corruption and leaking classified memos to the media.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/12/we-must-not-accept-amoral-leadership-corrupt-comey-attacks-president-trump-in-late-night-tweet/

#4525578 at 2018-12-30 21:25:30 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #5771: NGO Researchers Edition

Trump Scores, Breaks Generals' 50-Year War Record

His national security team had been trying to box him in like every other president. But he called their bluff.

The mainstream media has attacked President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria as impulsive, blindsiding his own national security team. But detailed, published accounts of the policy process over the course of the year tell a very different story. They show that senior national security officials and self-interested institutions have been playing a complicated political game for months aimed at keeping Trump from wavering on our indefinite presence on the ground in Syria.

The entire episode thus represents a new variant of a familiar pattern dating back to Vietnam in which national security advisors put pressure on reluctant presidents to go along with existing or proposed military deployments in a war zone. The difference here is that Trump, by publicly choosing a different policy, has blown up their transparent schemes and offered the country a new course, one that does not involve a permanent war state.

The relationship between Trump and his national security team has been tense since the beginning of his administration. By mid-summer 2017, Defense Secretary James Mattis and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs General Joseph Dunford had become so alarmed at Trump's negative responses to their briefings justifying global U.S. military deployments that they decided to do a formal briefing in "the tank," used by the Joint Chiefs for meetings at the Pentagon.

But when Mattis and Dunford sang the praises of the "rules-based, international democratic order" that has "kept the peace for 70 years," Trump simply shook his head in disbelief.

By the end of that year, however, Mattis, Dunford, and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo believed they'd succeeded in getting Trump to use U.S. troops not only to defeat Islamic State but to "stabilize" the entire northeast sector of Syria and balance Russian and Iranian-sponsored forces. Yet they ignored warning signs of Trump's continuing displeasure with their vision of a more or less permanent American military presence in Syria.

In a March rally in Ohio ostensibly about health care reform, Trump suddenly blurted out, "We're coming out of Syria, like, very soon. Let the other people take care of it now. Very soon-very soon we're coming out."

Then in early April 2018, Trump's impatience with his advisors on Syria boiled over into a major confrontation at a National Security Council meeting, where he ordered them unequivocally to accept a fundamentally different Syria deployment policy.

https://www.globalresearch.ca/trump-scores-breaks-generals-50-year-war-record/5664260

#4523396 at 2018-12-30 18:32:33 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #5768: Watch Meeting Edition

Retired Gen. McChrystal: Trump Lies, Is Immoral

Retired Gen. Stanley McChrystal delivered an unflinching rebuke of President Donald Trump, saying he doesn't think the president "tells the truth" - and that he's immoral.

In an interview aired Sunday on ABC News' "This Week," McChrystal, said the resignation letter of Defense Secretary James Mattis ought to give Americans "pause."

"We ought to ask what kind of commander in chief he had that Jim Mattis that, you know, the good Marine, felt he had to walk away," he said.

McChrystal said he'd ask a future nominee "to look in the mirror and ask them if they can get comfortable enough with President Trump's approach to governance, how he conducts himself, with his values and with his world view, to be truly loyal to him as a commander in chief and going forward."

"If there's too much of a disconnect, then I would tell him, I think it's - it would be a bad foundation upon which to try to build a successful partnership with that job," he added.

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Retired Gen. Stanley McChrystal delivered an unflinching rebuke of President Donald Trump, saying he doesn't think the president "tells the truth" - and that he's immoral.

In an interview aired Sunday on ABC News' "This Week," McChrystal, said the resignation letter of Defense Secretary James Mattis ought to give Americans "pause."

"We ought to ask what kind of commander in chief he had that Jim Mattis that, you know, the good Marine, felt he had to walk away," he said.

McChrystal said he'd ask a future nominee "to look in the mirror and ask them if they can get comfortable enough with President Trump's approach to governance, how he conducts himself, with his values and with his world view, to be truly loyal to him as a commander in chief and going forward."

"If there's too much of a disconnect, then I would tell him, I think it's - it would be a bad foundation upon which to try to build a successful partnership with that job," he added.

For himself, he said he'd say "no" if asked to join the administration.

"I think it's important for me to work for people who I think are basically honest, who tell the truth as best they know it," he said, adding about Trump: "I don't think he tells the truth."

Pressed on if he thought Trump is immoral, McChrystal replied: "I think he is."

"Everyone has to make their own judgment," he said. "But what I would ask every American to do is, again, stand in front of that mirror and say, 'what are we about? Am I really willing to throw away or ignore some of the things that people do that are - are pretty unacceptable, normally, just because they accomplish certain other things that we might like?'

"If we want to be governed by someone we wouldn't do a business deal with because their - their background is so shady, if we're willing to do that, then that's in conflict with who I think we are. And so I think it's necessary at those times to take a stand."

"Everyone has to make their own judgment," he said. "But what I would ask every American to do is, again, stand in front of that mirror and say, 'what are we about? Am I really willing to throw away or ignore some of the things that people do that are - are pretty unacceptable, normally, just because they accomplish certain other things that we might like?'

"If we want to be governed by someone we wouldn't do a business deal with because their - their background is so shady, if we're willing to do that, then that's in conflict with who I think we are. And so I think it's necessary at those times to take a stand."

https://www.newsmax.com/politics/mcchrystal-trump-lies-immoral/2018/12/30/id/896301/

#4515403 at 2018-12-30 03:38:59 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #5758: No Russian Collusion (once again) Edition

U.S. Forces Withdraw From Afghanistan. Secret Negotiations with the Taliban. "Huge Political Change on the Horizon"

Reporting from Kabul, December 27, 2018. The announcement of withdrawal of the US forces from Syria and then Afghanistan was truly incredible to many US allies in the Middle East and Afghanistan. Although, some believe that Trump pulled the forces out to add a victory on his presidential track record to win a vote for himself and his party in the upcoming presidential election, this is not true especially about Afghanistan which tells a different story. Part of America's presence in Syria was driven by Israeli interests such as containment of Iranian influence and the decision has infuriated Tel Aviv.

Since months, the US has been working to recast Afghan policy and the withdrawal of 7,000 troops from the total 14,000 is not a sudden decision, but part of a new agenda which is already noticeable in the recent US movements in Afghanistan.

President Trump's apparently abrupt and insistent decision to remove boots from Syria and Afghanistan that met with reactions, pleas and even resignations from US lawmakers and Generals indicates that the chief decision-making panel is behind the doors to whom Trump only serve as a speaker because unlike common sense, Trump is a nonentity to decide all by himself. The Pentagon before and under James Mattis has defended military presence both in Syria and Afghanistan.

The US has its nine mega bases legalized across Afghanistan and it will keep a few thousand noncombatant soldiers there, as it has already halted or wound down the combat operations.

https://www.globalresearch.ca/u-s-forces-withdraw-from-afghanistan-secret-negotiations-with-the-taliban-huge-political-change-on-the-horizon/5663985

#4511013 at 2018-12-29 06:20:52 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #5753: (((The Triggering))) Edition

INTERESTING HEADLINE

US Troops Pullout May Shed Light on Coalition's War Crimes in Syria

The withdrawal of US troops from Syria may reveal the war crimes of the international coalition committed in the war-torn country, in particular, during the operation to liberate the city of Raqqa, a military-diplomatic source said.

"The upcoming withdrawal of US military personnel from Syria will most likely shed light on numerous war crimes committed by the 'international coalition' during the so-called fight against the Islamic State* terrorist group. First of all, this concerns, of course, the much hyped liberation of Raqqa in October 2017, which has transformed into a 'ghost city' as a result of carpet bombings by coalition aircraft", the source said.

Following the announcement of US plans to withdraw troops from Syria, the militants operating in Al-Tanf are making constant attempts to force their way out of the area to adjacent regions of the country and even to neighbouring Jordan, a military-diplomatic source said.

"After the announcement of the imminent withdrawal of the US military, the entire 'hive' of the militants there... was set in motion. Almost every day, the militants attempt to break through from there not only to the territory controlled by Damascus in Syria, but also to Jordan", the source said.

The source added that the heavy smoke around the Rukban refugee camp in Al-Tanf could indicate that the militants are burning the corpses of refugees, who have perished from hunger and diseases due to the shortage of humanitarian aid supplies.

Earlier in December, US media reported that Trump had ordered the Pentagon to develop a plan to withdraw about half of the 14,000 US troops in Afghanistan, coinciding with the president's announcement that 2,000 American forces would be pulled out of Syria.

The Syria withdraw decision prompted the resignation of US Defence Secretary James Mattis and Brett McGurk, the US special presidential envoy for the global coalition to defeat the Daesh* terrorist group.

https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201812291071085623-us-syria-withdrawal-coalition/

#4495500 at 2018-12-28 05:05:28 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #5733: Future Unlocks Past Edition

The Mattis Dilemma

The resignation letter of Secretary of Defense James Mattis that was published last Thursday revealed much of the Deep State mindset that has produced the foreign policy catastrophes of the past seventeen years. Mattis, an active duty general in the Marine Corps who reportedly occasionally reads books, received a lot of good press during his time at Defense, sometimes being referred to as "the only adult in the room" when President Donald Trump's national security and foreign policy team was meeting. Conveniently forgotten are Mattis comments relating to how to "Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet." His sobriquet in the Corps was "Mad Dog." In the media firestorm that has followed upon General Mattis's resignation, he has been generally lauded as a highly experienced and respected leader who has numerous friends on both sides of the aisle in Congress. Of course, the press coverage should be taken with a grain of salt as it is designed less to praise Mattis and more to get at Trump over the decision to leave Syria, which is being assailed by both neoliberals and neoconservatives who believe that war is the health of the state.

The arguments against the Trump decisions to depart from Syria and downsize in Afghanistan are contrived for the most part and based on the premise that American intervention in places that Washington deems not to be sufficiently promoting democracy, rule of law and free trade is a good thing. Peter Ford, former British Ambassador to Syria, put it nicely when discussing the reaction in the media: "Trump's critics...will have the vapors about 'losing ground to Russia', 'making Iran's day', and 'abdicating influence,' but their criticism is ill-founded. Contrary to their apparent belief, the US does not have a God-given right to send its forces anywhere on the planet it deems fit. Withdrawal will see the US in one respect at least follow the international rules-based system we are so fond of enjoining on others, and will therefore be a victory of sorts for upholders of international law."

The central argument of the Mattis resignation letter that is being cited by critics relates to Washington's relationship with the rest of the world and is framed as a failure by President Trump to understand who are friends and who are enemies. General Mattis does indeed hold views that were shaped by four decades of experience, but most of it was bad and produced wrong conclusions about America's place in the world. The Cold War was essentially a bi-polar conflict pitting two adversaries that had the ability to destroy all life on the planet. It generated a Manichean viewpoint on good vs. evil that did not reflect reality which was succeeded by a global war on terror declared by Washington that also exploited the good and evil paradigm. Mattis was a product of that kind of thinking, which was also fueled by the concept of American exceptionalism, which saw the United States as the proper promoter and enforcer of universal values. There is, of course, another viewpoint, which is that American blundering and use of force as a first option has, in fact, created the current dystopia. The United States is not currently venerated as a force for good, quite the opposite. Opinion polls suggest that Washington is overwhelmingly viewed negatively worldwide and it is perceived as being the nation most likely to start wars. That is not exactly what the nation's Founders envisioned back in 1783.

Trump is right about leaving Syria where nothing beyond prolonging the bloody conflict is being accomplished. Mattis is wrong about supporting "friends." For an educated man, he misreads history. The First World War and Second World War developed as they did because of alliances. Countries that appear friendly can exploit relationships with other more powerful nations that will have devastating results. Alliances should be temporary, coming and going based on the interests of the nations involved. In the Middle East, Israel and Saudi Arabia are not actually friends of the United States, and are engaged instead in manipulating Washington to suit their own purposes. Mattis does not understand that and sees a permanent state of war requiring the continued existence of NATO, for example, as a vehicle for deterrence and peace. It is neither. Its very existence depends on a perception of being threatened even where no threat exists, which has poisoned the relationship with Russia since the fall of communism. Worse still, that false perception of threat can lead to war and a global nuclear holocaust.

https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2018/12/27/the-Mattis-dilemma.html

#4484092 at 2018-12-27 11:05:48 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #5718: Anti-shill Logic Spray, Apply Liberally Edition

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Q Research General #5718: Anti-shill Logic Spray, Apply Liberally Edition

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#4479682 at 2018-12-27 01:20:44 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #5712: Saudi Struggle Edition

>>4479662

Trump indicates he won't rush to name Mattis replacement

President Trump indicated Wednesday that he was in no rush to name a permanent successor for Defense Secretary James Mattis, saying that the new acting Pentagon chief Patrick Shanahan "could be there for a long time."
The president made the remarks during a surprise visit to Iraq on Wednesday, according to Reuters.
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/422927-trump-indicates-he-wont-rush-to-name-Mattis-replacement

Sry for sucky first copypasta

#4479662 at 2018-12-27 01:19:14 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #5712: Saudi Struggle Edition

Trump indicates he won't rush to name Mattis replacement

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President Trump indicated Wednesday that he was in no rush to name a permanent successor for Defense Secretary James Mattis, saying that the new acting Pentagon chief Patrick Shanahan "could be there for a long time."
The president made the remarks during a surprise visit to Iraq on Wednesday, according to Reuters.

https://thehill.com/policy/defense/422927-trump-indicates-he-wont-rush-to-name-Mattis-replacement

#4474173 at 2018-12-26 16:52:55 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #5705: Hump, Pump, and Dump Day Edition

some shills for Mattis,
some shills against.
How unusual.

You think this is a court Martial? You're arguing about a serving officer. NOT a politician.
You are too INCOMPETENT to be division shilling on this board. You are to mediocre to start a mouse fight in a garbage can with a pile of poisoned corn.
The absolute state of our shills.
Meh. It's the bots won't do. At this stage they should have some of their more competent people trying to disrupt us and we get…

James Mattis bad like orange man

#4473612 at 2018-12-26 15:48:21 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #5704: Puzzling Events Edition

>>4473554
Retired Gen. James Mattis earned the nickname "Mad Dog" for leading U.S. Marines into battle in Fallujah, Iraq, in April 2004. In that assault, members of the Marine Corps, under Mattis' command, shot at ambulances and aid workers. They cordoned off the city, preventing civilians from escaping. They posed for trophy photos with the people they killed.

https://www.revealnews.org/article/did-defense-secretary-nominee-James-Mattis-commit-war-crimes-in-iraq/

#4469656 at 2018-12-26 04:09:13 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #5699: Those Who Shout The Loudest Edition

>>4468623 pb
Re: Mattis Resignation Letter & Christmas Letter
(Too soon to know what's really going on, but keep a close eye on this one - doesn't appear to be played out yet)

1. Mattis' resignation letter was impetuous, defiant, insubordinate–traits incompatible with a professional military leader (even a civilian one)

>But, Mattis did something else extraordinary, something that should quite seriously set off alarm bells for us all.
>As Donald Trump was tweeting… Mattis was ordering his aides to distribute 50 copies of his resignation letter throughout the highest echelons of the Pentagon.

2. This overt spiteful act to undermine the Commander-in-Chief is unforgivable … if one of Mattis' generals had done this to him, they would (likely) be sitting in Fort Leavenworth Kansas pending a Court Martial

[Can disagree with a superior, but never in public nor in front of subordinates and once commander makes a decision (even if you don't like it) you salute smartly and get on board with the plan…ingrained every single day of every military person's career]

3. The Christmas Letter (in conjunction with the resignation letter) kind of frightens me It has little/nothing to do with our deployed troops over the holidays.

keeping watch by night = message to Spec Ops?? (We own the night); regular US mil keeps watch 24/7/365, not just at night

in a world awash in change, you hold the line – what changes are awash? What line is being held? commies, terrorists, globalists, (or nationalists? :o )

Storm clouds loom - what storm clouds? Precipice of a kinetic war?

I've read hundreds of these letters from commanders and written dozens of them - this one is absolutely Bizarro … can't tell if he's saying thank you and your family for your sacrifice this holiday season or …you're about to engage in heavy combat…good luck, we're all counting on you … or is there another (hidden) meaning? [too soon to tell]

https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2018/12/21/1820758/-James-Mattis-didn-t-simply-resign-he-pulled-every-fire-alarm-at-the-Pentagon-on-the-way-out

#4469064 at 2018-12-26 03:07:24 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #5698: Ex Head of MOS: Trump was Russia's Candidate Edition

>>4468981
>>4468885

10 U.S. Code § 113 - Secretary of Defense

(a) There is a Secretary of Defense, who is the head of the Department of Defense, appointed from civilian life by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. A person may not be appointed as Secretary of Defense within seven years after relief from active duty as a commissioned officer of a regular component of an armed force.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/10/113

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New law not required for Mattis. Congressional waiver, granted by the House Armed Services Committee.

US Congress Passes Waiver for Mattis to Lead Pentagon

Jan 13, 2017
Congress on Friday passed historic legislation allowing retired US Marine Corps Gen. James Mattis to serve as the next defense secretary, overriding some Democrats who took a stand for civilian control of the military.

The move bypasses a law that mandates a seven-year "cooling off" period between military service and assuming the top civilian defense job. Mattis, 66, retired in 2013 after a 44-year military career and serving as commander of US Central Command.

The House voted 268-151, with mainly Republicans - and 36 Democrats - voting in favor. Many Democrats revolted after the Trump transition team backed Mattis out of his commitment to testify before the House Armed Services Committee on Thursday.

https://www.defensenews.com/breaking-news/2017/01/13/us-congress-passes-waiver-for-Mattis-to-lead-pentagon/

#4468885 at 2018-12-26 02:51:47 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #5698: Ex Head of MOS: Trump was Russia's Candidate Edition

I post this for transparency. I have a fairly bad history, involving a life or death situation where i did what needed to be done, but I am God's warrior in this fight and forever so Mattis may be of the same ilk as me. Remember oldfags were chosen!

Mattis has shown a callous disregard for human life, particularly civilians.

Retired marine General James Mattis, who retired from being the head of CENTCOM in 2013, has become known recently for his stance against what he calls "political Islam."

"Is political Islam in the best interest of the United States?" Mattis said at the far right-wing Heritage Foundation in 2015. "I suggest the answer is no, but we need to have the discussion. If we won't even ask the question, how do we even recognize which is our side in a fight?"

Another controversial aspect of his selection that much of the media is focusing on is the fact that in order to get the job, Mattis would need Congress to pass new legislation to bypass a federal law stating that it has to have been seven years since defense secretaries have been on active duty. Congress has only bypassed that law once in US history, and that occurred over 50 years ago.

More importantly, Mattis, known to some by the nickname of "Mad Dog," has shown a callous disregard for human life, particularly civilians, as evidenced by his behavior leading marines in Iraq, comments he made about enjoying fighting in Afghanistan because "it's fun to shoot some people. You know, it's a hell of a hoot," and myriad other problems.

https://www.alternet.org/2017/01/James-Mattis-war-criminal-i-experienced-his-attack-fallujah-firsthand/

#4467237 at 2018-12-25 23:23:15 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #5696: RBG Back To Work? Edition

>>4467167
Do you want to see what the swamp looks like?
Look up Jim Mattis financial disclosure to congress for SECDEF
$420k from hoover institute
$150k from theranos
$20k from goldman sachs
SWAMP
https://www.politico.com/blogs/donald-trump-administration/2017/01/James-Mattis-defense-disclosures-233331

#4467078 at 2018-12-25 23:03:01 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #5696: RBG Back To Work? Edition

Must be increasing numbers of newfags posting here.
It's been common knowledge, going back to at least 2016, that General Mattis was on the board of [Theranos] and subsequently resigned.
He has also been a member of (The Hoover Institute) think tank.
And we know he served under Hussein for a while.
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His loyalties and roles, good, bad or indifferent; will come out in the wash.
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I found it extremely helpful to do A LOT of digging → into the research already done by this (Qresearch-anon community) before I began to post: articles, sauce & analysis.
Tends to be a lot of "dead horse" beating habbening when stuff is just dropped willy nilly.
Thanks to all who seriously contribute. I benefit greatly even from some of the repetition.

Merry Christmas.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Mattis
https://www.hoover.org/profiles/James-Mattis

#4464995 at 2018-12-25 18:44:08 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #5693: A Merry Qsmas Edition

Ex-NATO Official Suspects Erdogan Blackmailed Trump Over US Exit From Syria

The remarks come after US President Donald Trump announced last week that Washington would be withdrawing its roughly 2,000-strong contingent of troops from Syria, since Daesh* has been defeated. Shortly after, the White House clarified that the decision does not mean the end of the US-led international coalition's fight against Daesh terrorists.

Donald Trump's move to withdraw US troops from Syria prompts speculation on whether Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan blackmailed his US counterpart into the decision, according to Wesley Clark, a former NATO commander.

In an interview with CNN, Clark specifically singled out the lack of "any strategic rationale for the decision", which he said prods people to ask why the move was made.

"People around the world are asking this and some of our friends and our allies in the Middle East are asking, did Erdogan blackmail the president? Was there a payoff or something? Why would a guy make a decision like this? Because all the recommendations were against it," Clark pointed out.

He claimed that Trump' decision may also raise questions over Washington's foreign policy.

"What does this say about the foreign policy of the United States? That we're not reliable? That we make strategic decisions based on no strategic logic? What kind of person is driving the helm? That's the issue," Clark noted.

His comments came a day after Trump tweeted that Erdogan informed him Turkey will "eradicate whatever is left" of Daesh in Syria.

"[...] And he is a man who can do it plus, Turkey is right 'next door.' Our troops are coming home!" Trump wrote.

The remarks followed a CNN report citing several Pentagon sources as saying last week that outgoing Defence Secretary James Mattis signed an order to withdraw US forces from Syria.

This coincided with Mattis writing a resignation letter, in which he stated that Trump has a right to have a secretary of defence "whose views are better aligned" with those of the US president.

Mattis announced his resignation last Thursday, a day after Trump decided to withdraw US troops from Syria, posting on Twitter that the United States had defeated the Daesh terrorist group in the Arab Republic.

In late March, Trump said the US would "very soon" withdraw its troops from Syria, though the Trump administration later explained it would be keeping forces in Syria until Daesh is defeated.

The US-led coalition continues to launch airstrikes on Daesh positions in Syria, in a campaign that was neither approved by the UN nor the Syrian government.

https://sputniknews.com/world/201812251070994904-erdogan-syria-us-troops-withdrawal/

#4462487 at 2018-12-25 12:54:46 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #5690: (Jingle) Bell of Freedom Edition

>>4462445
On December 25, 2018, a blogger named "Philip Giraldi" referenced General James Mattis, USMC, as a chickenhawk. A chicken hawk is a pedophile who fucks little boys.

#4455739 at 2018-12-24 23:08:28 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #5681: Bombs away. Merry Christmas. Q247 and Q1744 Edition

?List Of Military Elite Purged And Fired Under Obama, Compiled By General Paul Vallely?

Here is the list of our military elite who have been purged or fired under Obama…..

(((LONG/HUGE LIST)))

Notable…MSM and other pol's never said a peep.

-General James Mattis-U.S. Marines Chief of CentCom (May 2013)

…and there's 196 others!

https://www.google.com/amp/s/jhaines6.wordpress.com/2014/11/14/list-of-military-elite-purged-and-fired-under-obama-compiled-by-general-paul-vallely-3-17-14/amp/

#4450596 at 2018-12-24 14:50:25 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #5674: ebake

Top general on details of Trump's withdrawal plans: "I have no idea"

President Trump's sudden orders to withdraw troops from Syria and Afghanistan - and Defense Secretary James Mattis' subsequent resignation - have left even the most high-ranking U.S. military officials questioning what they should be telling their troops on the ground, the Wall Street Journal reports.
"I don't think anybody really knows exactly what's going to happen. I've read the same stuff in the newspaper you did, I have a little more knowledge than that, but not a whole lot more."
- Gen. Robert Neller, commandant of the Marine Corps.
The big picture: Military commanders have reportedly received "no timelines, hard numbers or orders" from the Pentagon - "Nothing formal, just tweets," said Navy Secretary Richard Spencer. One official told the Journal that the resignation of Mattis was "more devastating" than the withdrawal, while another said that the defense secretary's exit in late February would allow for "adequate continuity." This was, of course, before Trump revealed Sunday that Mattis would be forced out by Jan. 1.

https://www.axios.com/trump-syria-afghanistan-withdrawal-military-generals-confusion-f95d5100-fb62-4f4f-a590-3c7e1cbadb6b.html

#4445722 at 2018-12-24 03:11:45 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #5668: Digits Representin' Edition

>>4445483
WHY HASN'T TRUMP FIRED Mattis? (FLASHBACK)

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/03/23/James-Mattis-defense-secretary-how-to-succeed-in-trump-cabinet-without-getting-fired-217699

#4445632 at 2018-12-24 03:04:00 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #5668: Digits Representin' Edition

>>4445562
Bilderberg too! Fkn Globalist

James Mattis, Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University

The 2015 Bilderberg Conference took place between 11-14 June 2015 at the Interalpen-Hotel Tyrol in Telfs-Buchen, Austria

#4445394 at 2018-12-24 02:35:13 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #5668: Digits Representin' Edition

Defense Secretary James Mattis signs Syria withdrawal orders, official says

Outgoing Defense Secretary Jim Mattis has signed orders to pull all American troops out of Syria in the coming weeks, a senior defense official told Fox News on Sunday.

Pentagon officials refused to discuss specifics including the timeline citing operational security for the roughly 2,000 U.S. troops in Syria.

Plans were set in motion hours after President Trump declared the Islamic State terror network "defeated" in Syria in a tweet Wednesday and ordered all American diplomats and soldiers out of the country.

Continued @ sauce..
>https://www.foxnews.com/politics/defense-secretary-James-Mattis-signs-syria-withdrawal-orders

#4445072 at 2018-12-24 01:55:41 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #5667: KEK WILLS IT: Obama GTMO'd Edition

>>4445023
moar sauce FWIW:

Order to Withdraw US Forces from Syria Signed

A US defense official confirmed to CNN that "the execute order for Syria has been signed," while a second defense official told CNN that outgoing Defense Secretary James Mattis signed it.

https://fox40.com/2018/12/23/order-to-withdraw-us-forces-from-syria-signed/

#4444688 at 2018-12-24 01:16:30 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #5667: KEK WILLS IT: Obama GTMO'd Edition

>>4444651
Only active Military can partake in tribunals

https://www.newsweek.com/trump-describes-defense-secretary-James-Mattis-kind-democrat-1168832

#4443220 at 2018-12-23 23:02:12 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #5665: Is Mattis really comped? :/ Edition

>>4443189
Source Says
Outgoing Defense Secretary James Mattis signs order detailing the withdrawal of US troops from Syria, source tells CNN
https://twitter.com/cnnbrk/status/1076974276438315008

#4442386 at 2018-12-23 21:39:41 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #5664: No anon is lonely when you have a WW patriot fam this big Edition

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President Trump orders Defense Secretary James Mattis to leave immediately, names Patrick Shanahan as acting secretary
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Trump: Mattis is out as Defense secretary on Jan. 1
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WASHINGTON - Defense Secretary Jim Mattis will leave Jan. 1, rather than the previously announced resignation date of Feb. 28 because of policy disputes with President Donald Trump.

Mattis announced Thursday he was stepping down Feb. 28 because of disagreements with Trump ranging from Syria to global alliances and sparking deep anxiety among lawmakers about national security.

But Trump tweeted Sunday that Mattis would leave sooner. Trump named Patrick Shanahan, the deputy defense secretary, as acting secretary of defense.

https://www.ktvb.com/article/news/nation-now/president-trump-orders-defense-secretary-James-Mattis-to-leave-immediately-names-patrick-shanahan-as-acting-secretary/465-5d9fad11-7bd9-4260-aedc-cd35d9cba110

When your the king of firing people you get good at moving on with things (out with the old, in with the new), fast!

#4442180 at 2018-12-23 21:19:32 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #5663: Anons can play this game all day long Edition

>>4442175
>Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein said Sunday that Republicans are coming to a "much greater consensus" that President Trump is unfit to be president following the resignation of Defense Secretary James Mattis.

This is the narrative on all MSM, it's quite telling that they are shitting bricks about what is about to happen.

#4442175 at 2018-12-23 21:18:52 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #5663: Anons can play this game all day long Edition

Here we go again with this shit

Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein said Sunday that Republicans are coming to a "much greater consensus" that President Trump is unfit to be president following the resignation of Defense Secretary James Mattis.

Bernstein, appearing on CNN's "Reliable Sources," said there is concern that Trump is "unfit on psychological grounds" as well as unfit "because of his contempt for the law" and because of his "conduct of foreign policy."

"What the Mattis letter has done in a monumental way is to push Republicans into making some real judgments. They're talking to each other, there is coming to be a much greater consensus that he is unfit to be the President of the United States," Bernstein said.

"What the Mattis letter has done in a monumental way is to push Republicans into making some real judgments. They're talking to each other, there is coming to be a much greater consensus that he is unfit to be the President of the United States," @carlbernstein says of Trump. pic.twitter.com/oc0YAcZ1bz
- Reliable Sources (@ReliableSources) December 23, 2018

Mattis resigned last week from his position as Secretary of Defense following Trump's decision to remove U.S. troops from Syria. Mattis wrote in his resignation letter that Trump deserves a "a Secretary of Defense whose views are better aligned with yours."

He also expressed concern over Trump's views on traditional U.S. alliances.

"While the US remains the indispensable nation in the free world, we cannot protect our interests or serve that role effectively without maintaining strong alliances and showing respect to those allies," Mattis wrote in the letter.
https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/422678-bernstein-more-republicans-beginning-to-believe-trump-unfit-to

#4441039 at 2018-12-23 19:36:10 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #5662: "Chicken soup" for RBGEdition

Former National Security Adviser Susan Rice has penned a highly critical op-ed tearing into President Trump over foreign policy.

The piece, "The Threat in the White House," was published Sunday in the New York times and details what she calls "dangerous dysfunction" in the Trump administration.

In the op-ed, Rice writes that the U.S.'s national security decision-making process is "more broken" than at any time since 1947, when the National Security Act become law.

She writes that the president "does more to undermine American national security than any foreign adversary."

Rice, who worked under former President Barack Obama, points specifically to Trump's decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria, a move she called "reckless."

Defense Secretary James Mattis submitted his resignation the day after Trump's Syria move. Rice warns that Trump's decision is a blow to U.S. allies in the region.

"If our national security decision-making process were even minimally functional, there would have been a carefully devised plan to execute moves, including wrongheaded ones," she writes.

Trump tweeted on Sunday that the withdraw from Syria will be "slow & highly coordinated."

Rice in the op-ed goes on to accuse Trump's national security adviser, John Bolton, of cutting out key Defense officials from major decisions and leaving "crucial positions" vacant.

Rice adds that Trump "has dealt the death blow to effective policymaking."

"The president couldn't care less about facts, intelligence, military analysis or the national interest," she writes. "He refuses to take seriously the views of his advisers, announces decisions on impulse and disregards the consequences of his actions."
https://thehill.com/policy/international/422667-susan-rice-trump-doing-more-to-undermine-national-security-than-any

#4440805 at 2018-12-23 19:15:07 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #5662: "Chicken soup" for RBGEdition

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/defense-secretary-James-Mattis-to-retire-at-the-end-of-february-trump-says

#4440750 at 2018-12-23 19:09:54 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #5662: "Chicken soup" for RBGEdition

(lb)

>>4440678
>>4440693
>>4440694

House Armed Services Committee waiver granted

https://armedservices.house.gov/news/press-releases/thornberry-praises-committees-vote-support-waiver-Mattis

Jan 12, 2017 Press Release
WASHINGTON–Rep. Mac Thornberry (R-TX), Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, made the following comments after the Committee passed the waiver to allow retired Gen. James Mattis to serve as Secretary of Defense:

"Extraordinary times call for extraordinary leaders. That is why the Committee approved the exception that allows General Mattis to serve as Secretary of Defense. Ensuring there is no gap in the office is important to the safety and security of the United States. I have no doubt that the nation stands to benefit, once again, from the service of this extraordinary leader, thinker, and public servant."

8kun Midnight Riders Posts (6)

#177918 at 2023-12-18 04:18:33 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #943: Net slowed. Protections in place. EDITION

>>177917

Tuesday, August 29
President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump arrive in Corpus Christi, Texas, to meet with Texas Governor Greg Abbott, Texas Senators Ted Cruz and John Cornyn, and FEMA Administrator Brock Long to discuss Hurricane Harvey.[217] Trump later travels to the Texas Department of Public Safety's Emergency Operations Center in Austin, Texas, for further briefing.[218]
President Trump said in a statement that "all options are on the table", after North Korea conducts a mid-range missile launch which flies over Northern Japan.[219]
President Trump, in a phone call with Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, accepts Singapore's offer of the use of its Texas-based Chinook helicopters to assist in Hurricane Harvey disaster-relief efforts.[220]

President Trump with Senators John Cornyn and Ted Cruz

Wednesday, August 30
President Trump gives a speech in Springfield, Missouri, calling for tax reform.[221]
President Trump posts on Twitter that the U.S. has been paying North Korea "extortion money" and that "talking is not the answer".[222]
Vice President Pence in a speech to the West Virginia Chamber of Commerce's annual business summit called for tax overhaul reform, describing the current tax system as deleterious to employment and entrepreneurialism.[223]

President Trump in Springfield, Missouri

Thursday, August 31
The Trump administration announces a cut of 90% to the Affordable Care Act's advertising budget.[224]
Vice President Pence arrives in Corpus Christi, Texas, to survey the damage caused by Hurricane Harvey and meet with people affected by the storm.[225]
Energy Secretary Rick Perry authorizes the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to release oil supplies to combat fuel price spikes, due to the shutdown of oil refineries in Texas which were affected by Hurricane Harvey.[226]
President Trump will donate $1 million of his own funds to recovery efforts in Texas according to the White House.[227]
Defense Secretary James Mattis signs orders to deploy additional troops to Afghanistan as part of the Trump's new military strategy in the region.[228]

#117755 at 2022-01-30 23:05:15 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #605: the Quantum Entanglement of us all in this fight is infinite Edtion

Editorial: Admiral, I Am NOT Ready For War
John Konrad January 30, 2022

gCaptain has received first-hand reports that today the Pentagon began loading Military Sealift Command ships with tanks and heavy equipment. While we are unable to confirm the final destination of the cargo it is no secret that the situation is heating up in Ukraine. This leads to the question: Is the US Merchant Marine ready to wage war against a strong adversary like the Russian Navy?

The following article was written by our editor in 2019 but our ports are now at record levels of congestion and, in the opinion of our founder, the readiness of our nation's Merchant Marine has only deteriorated in the past year.

"It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war." -John F Kennedy

by Captain John Konrad (gCaptain) As has been the case before every major world conflict a majority of citizens believe that peace will persist indefinitely and, as a civilian myself, I tend to agree that a large scale war with a major superpower like China or Russia is unlikely. Regardless of my views, the United States Military is spending billions to prepare for war against China in the hopes that being fully prepared for war is the most effective means of preserving peace.

This article is not intended to support or speak out against the US military's efforts to prepare for a war against China and it is not to discuss the wisdom of my nation's military decisions. It is only written with one purpose. That purpose is to acknowledge two absolute facts today; that the US Military is preparing for war and I, an American merchant ship captain, am not ready.
What Is The US Merchant Marine

"The US Merchant Marine is in every war plan that I review, I guarantee you, because you're going to be the fourth arm of defense." Former US Secretary Of Defense James Mattis.

Members of today's United States Merchant Marine (USMM) do not wear uniforms, they do not cut their hair short, they are not active duty military and only a few are in the US Navy Reserve. They do not get veterans benefits, special privileges, government health care or retirement pay. They have no special right to carry weapons on land or enter most military bases without special permission. They are civilians.

Some members of the merchant marine wore uniforms while they attended maritime academies that must, by federal statute, follow military traditions. Others have never worn a uniform of any kind. Yet the importance of the merchant marine in past military successes is undeniable and all of today's military flag officers admit they play a central role in all future war plans.

But what is the Merchant Marine?

The truth is that despite having worn the uniform of a US Merchant Mariner in college, despite having been a proud member of the US Merchant Marine for over 20 years, and despite having risen to the rank of Captain... I'm still not sure what the Merchant Marine is. Yes, I have a strong understanding of its role in commerce and national defense, but I only have the foggiest of clues what the US Merchant Marine is.

As a journalist I have asked this very question (what is the US Merchant Marine?) to our nation's leadership, I have asked our Merchant Marine Veterans, award winning historians and the highest ranking us military officials. Each has answered my question with a slightly puzzled look and vague statements about our role in national defense.

In 1938 congress established the United States Maritime Service (USMS) to answer that question and established uniform standards, training requirements and structure. Those regulations still exist and the USMS lives on today. We have a Commandant, we have Admirals and Commodores, and we have our own service academy but not much else.

Am I a Captain in the US Merchant Marine? Absolutely! What is my role or rank in the US Maritime Service? Am I allowed to wear a uniform? If so, can I wear my navy medals on it? Do I salute? Does anyone salute me? Where do I report if war breaks out? Who at the USMS can I call with questions?

Answer: I haven't got a clue.

More:
https://gcaptain.com/editorial-admiral-i-am-not-ready-for-war/

#77518 at 2021-04-27 03:09:37 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #353: AZ Ballot Audit Underway (no MSM coverage) Edition

The coming clash: Why Iran will divide Europe from the United States
Europe must salvage the nuclear deal with Iran and step-up robust diplomacy with Teran on regional issues

Policy recommendations
European governments and the EU should safeguard the JCPOA and vigorously plan for contingencies should the US continue to backtrack on the nuclear deal. This should primarily focus on legal, political, and economic measures that can ringfence European companies from the enforcement of US secondary sanctions.
Europe should also pursue the political openings created by the nuclear deal to engage in tough diplomacy with Iran on non-nuclear issues. The most promising areas for tangible, albeit incremental, progress include: freedom of navigation in the Persian Gulf, reducing the violence in conflicts in Yemen and Syria, and lowering tensions in Iraqi Kurdistan.
The EU should facilitate dialogue with regional powers with the aim of creating greater transparency over ballistic missile capacities in the Middle East.
European countries and the EU should further nurture the channels they have developed with the Iranian leadership to help counterbalance the impact of Donald Trump's polarising narratives on regional developments.
Introduction
Donald Trump is not easy to get along with. On many global security issues, Europeans take very different approaches than the new American president. But perhaps nowhere is the difference more profound than on the question of Iran. Given the president's harsh rhetoric and his recent efforts to put that talk into practice, a transatlantic clash on the issue seems almost inevitable. European countries should prepare now to minimise the damage and preserve their strategic interests on non-proliferation and the pursuit of stability in the Middle East.
Trump wants to shift US policy on Iran towards aggressive containment and away from the diplomatic openings created by his predecessor. The primary focus of this shift is the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (the JCPOA), a multilateral nuclear accord to limit Iran's nuclear programme which Trump has called an "embarrassment" and "disastrous".[1] The US president has also consistently condemned Iran as a "fanatical regime" and "rogue nation", placed expansive travel restrictions on Iranian nationals, and urged other nations to isolate the country.[2] His administration has unambiguously sided with Iran's regional rival, Saudi Arabia, in addressing the conflicts in the Middle East.[3]
In October, the White House released a revised US strategy towards Iran, with a heavy focus on "neutralizing" Iran's "destabilizing influence and constraining its aggression" in the region.[4] Trump also decided to 'decertify' Iranian compliance with the JCPOA, meaning that he will not attest to Congress that Iran is abiding by the terms of the deal. In response, the heads of state and government of France, Germany, and the United Kingdom released a rare joint statement expressing concern at Trump's policy.[5] The process surrounding the nuclear deal has already strained transatlantic ties and, as the European Union foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini warned, reduced the credibility of the US as a partner for future European policy on Iran.[6]
The current trajectory not only endangers European non-proliferation goals, but it also heightens the risk of a nuclear arms race and further military escalation in Europe's backyard. Direct or indirect confrontation between American- and Iranian-backed forces across the Middle East will further fuel the regional conflicts, particularly in Iraq and Syria, that have already imposed heavy costs on Europe.
European leaders do share many of the concerns of the US with regard to Iran. But they take a strikingly different approach from the Trump administration to dealing with Iran. They consistently voice unanimous support for the JCPOA and broadly favour similar multilateral engagement to address outstanding areas of grievance with Iran.[7] European leaders have warned that ditching the nuclear deal, as Trump has threatened to do, would make it much harder to resolve other disagreements with Iran.[8] Moreover, some European officials privately say that isolating and excluding Iran from the international community may cause more hardline elements of the Iranian leadership to "take measures that further fuel regional instability".[9]
This paper looks at how the Trump administration will seek to implement this new Iran strategy and provides a comparison with the European approach. It outlines the consequences that are likely to follow from a more confrontational strategy toward Iran and examines the implications for European security interests.
It concludes that Europe should not only try to preserve the nuclear deal with Iran, it should also make contingency plans to salvage the relationship with Iran if the US defects. This includes taking measures to protect European banks and companies from US secondary sanctions. In the meantime, however, European governments need to demonstrate that the current diplomatic track can lead to progress on the issues of concern with Iran. They should do so by first leading on or at least encouraging negotiations on issues such as ensuring freedom of navigation in the Persian Gulf, de-escalating the wars in Yemen and Syria, and stabilising Iraq in the aftermath of the Islamic State group (ISIS). Europe will also need to find a pragmatic approach to addressing the concerns with Iran's ballistic missile programme. European capitals will need to maintain constructive channels with both Tehran and Washington, and resist pressure from the US to once again isolate Iran.
Europe's gradual opening to Tehran
A gradual process of confidence building and rapprochement has been underway between the EU and Iran for several years. A new round of nuclear negotiations began in 2013 at roughly the same moment that Iranian voters elected Hassan Rouhani as Iran's president. His administration shunned his predecessor's brash isolationism and anti-Western rhetoric. With the support of the Obama administration, the EU found the political space to thaw relations with Tehran by pursuing economic and political engagement.
The EU and European governments have responded positively to calls from the Rouhani administration to improve relations, and accelerated formerly dormant exchanges with Iran across government organs, parliament, judiciary, and the business sector. Since Iran's decade of isolation drew to an end in 2103, most EU countries have sent their foreign minister to Iran and officially received Iranian foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif. Shortly after the JCPOA was implemented in January 2016, Rouhani made his first high profile visits to Europe and in April 2016 the EU high representative Federica Mogherini travelled to Tehran with seven European commissioners with the aim of expanding EU-Iran relations. The EU's 'Iran Task Force', established in 2015, has led on European projects with Iran on nuclear safety, energy, educational exchanges, and EU officials have suggested that the European Investment Bank may operate in Iran in the future.10
Countless European trade delegations have visited Iran, with the EU reporting a 94 percent increase in Iran-EU trade in the first half of 2017 from the same period in 2016.[11]
As Mogherini has said, "Europe feels an interest and a responsibility to engage with Iran", and indeed a growing number of European governments believe that diplomacy with Iran can be an effective means of reducing the violence and instability in the Middle East.[12] But robust engagement with Iran on regional issues has yet to be seriously tested. Those who are fiercely critical of any diplomatic opening with Iran, such as Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu, argue that negotiations would only create greater space for Tehran to continue actions that destabilise the region.[13]
Republicans in Congress made similar criticisms when the Obama administration, together with European partners, began negotiations with Iran over its nuclear programme.[14] Yet, not only did the talks result in a deal that addressed the most critical security concerns of the West, Iran has also delivered on its commitments. Since this diplomatic process began, engaging rather than excluding Iran on regional issues has at times produced results that are in the mutual interest of the West and Iran. For example, a quiet political exchange between Iran and some European countries, together with local actors, contributed to easing Lebanon's political deadlock in 2016.[15] The US too has found it advantageous to work with Iran on certain regional issues, such as the anti-ISIS fight. In that case, the US-led forces and Iran have, through the Iraqi government in Baghdad, established a system for de facto military coordination.
However, relations between Europe and Iran remain far from normal. A combination of factors ranging from lingering distrust, mutual disappointment over the lack of progress, and their opposing stances on a number of regional issues have limited the rapprochement.
Divisions between Iran and Europe are on full display in Syria and Yemen where each has backed opposing sides. There are also deep disagreements related to Iran's support for non-state actors in the region, its arming of Hezbollah, and its position on Israel - and more recently concerns over Iran's expanding ballistic missile programme. In these areas, Europeans have generally worked with the US.
They have supported, for example, the Trump administration in its complaints to the United Nations about Iran's ballistic missile tests.[16]
Meanwhile, Iran is frustrated by the paltry level of European investment in the Iranian economy. Increased European investment is a critical piece of the Rouhani government's effort to attract an annual target of $50 billion in foreign direct investment and to boost job growth.[17] The easing of sanctions since the JCPOA has allowed for an uptick in trade, but Iranian policymakers and the business sector remain disappointed by the level of European investment in Iran.[18]
Financing for such investments is in short supply and most banks in Europe are sensitive to US politics on Iran given the high degree of exposure they have to the US market and regulators.[19] A handful of smaller and state-owned European banks, particularly those in Austria, Denmark, France, and Germany have provided financing for deals and investments in Iran, and some governments such as Denmark and Italy, have provided credit lines to support exports to Iran.[20] However, major European banks, whose financing is needed for longer-term and bigger investments inside Iran, have remained reluctant.[21]
Various expectations and preconditions mean that Europe and Iran risk mutual disappointment in their effort to improve relations. Tehran wants European capitals to do much more to encourage economic exchange, resolve the complex banking deadlock, and to oppose Trump's attacks on the JCPOA. Similarly, European governments want to see signs of good faith from Iran beyond the nuclear issue, such as less Iranian support to non-state actors and militia groups in the region, greater Iranian pressure on the Assad regime to accept political transition, and less frequent testing of Iranian ballistic missiles.[22] Their Iranian counterparts view such expectations as unrealistic, and at times naive, considering Iran's domestic politics and a regional environment that is increasingly hostile to Iranian interests.[23]
The clash with Trump
Over the past year, the E3 (the UK, France, and Germany) and the EU have firmly expressed to the US their continued commitment to the nuclear deal. They have made the case that the Trump administration would be isolated on the Iran issue if it chose to walk away from the JCPOA.[24] Some European governments have also said that the JCPOA's survival is a precondition for their cooperation with the Trump administration on other areas of Iran policy, notably regional issues.[25] They have attempted to persuade Trump that multilateral engagement on Iran is a more effective way to change Iranian calculations than a policy of containment.[26]
Although European capitals share many of the concerns of the US about Iran, Europe is quickly parting ways with the Trump administration over two fundamental issues. First, they disagree on what they are trying to achieve with Iran. Trump's statements on Iran move US policy aims towards efforts to weaken the Islamic Republic and perhaps to the idea of regime change.[27] The US secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, for example, effectively backed a regime change approach when he outlined that the administration would "work towards support of those elements inside of Iran that would lead to a peaceful transition of that government."[28] European governments, on the other hand, are hoping to see behavioural change from Iran in ways that promote European security interests and contribute to regional stability.
The second source of European-US differences over Iran relates to the tools used to achieve these goals. European governments are moving away from isolating Iran using containment and sanctions towards engaging the country using diplomatic and economic tools. The Trump administration has moved in the opposite direction, seeking to isolate Iran through political measures and tougher sanctions.
Perhaps the clearest example of this division occurred in May 2017. During Trump's visit to Riyadh, he called for all nations to isolate Iran. Within hours, the EU high representative together with other European leaders publicly congratulated the re-elected president, Hassan Rouhani, on his victory and expressed hope for further political opening with Iran.[29] Similarly, on the same day as Trump made his speech on the new US Iran strategy, the French president discussed with Rouhani a potential trip to Iran, which would be the first by a French head of state since Iran's 1979 revolution.[30] In parallel a number of giant European companies have ignored Trump's calls to refrain from doing business with Iran and instead announced new deals with their Iranian counterparts. [31]
Despite these European efforts, there is a broad tendency in Washington among both Democrats and Republicans to assume that European governments can be co-opted or coerced to follow US policy on Iran.[32] US observers believe that, when faced with a choice of doing business with Iran or facing economic US secondary sanctions, European governments and businesses will opt to preserve their US ties. They also tend to believe that, by threatening to adopt a confrontational position towards Iran - to include killing the nuclear deal, pushing for regime change, or even conducting limited military strikes against Iran - the US will coerce Europeans to come on board with less extreme policies, such as renegotiating the nuclear deal or demanding that Iran change its behaviour on regional files. In opposing Trump's policy towards Iran, European governments find themselves in the unusual position of being closer to Russia and China than to their traditional transatlantic partner.[33]
The US plan: Containment and rollback
Politics inside Washington has created a broad consensus in the Trump administration and Congress on the need to get tough on Iran with the ultimate objective of significantly weakening Iran's leadership.[34] In October, Trump outlined the new US Iran strategy that has at its heart an effort to derail the JCPOA, and to contain and confront Iran, leaving little political space for diplomacy.
Implementation of such goals, however, will be difficult. As administration officials admit, Iran's regional footing is stronger now than at any time since the start of the 2003 Iraq war and its ability to impose costs on the region and the US is also greater.[35] Given the new level of the challenge, the administration has had an often fierce debate on how precisely to confront Iran.[36] Currently, it appears that two broad factions have emerged: Donald Trump and everyone else.
(1) Donald Trump
The president has taken every opportunity to broadcast his animosity towards Iran. He has called for the country's international isolation and sought to pressure foreign companies not to do business with the country.[37] So far Trump has channeled his stated intention to get tough on Iran into attempts to dismantle or undermine the nuclear agreement.
There is little doubt that Trump seeks to undermine the Iran nuclear deal negotiated by his predecessor and world powers. Despite assessments by US generals and eight reports from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) that verify Iranian compliance, Trump claims that Iran is violating the "spirit" of the deal.[38] In his October speech, he outlined that he was willing to end US participation in the nuclear deal unless it was amended to extend the expiration dates of various Iranian obligations (the so called "sunset provisions") and to include tougher limitations on Iran's missile programme.[39]
On regional issues, Trump has already doubled down on US support to Saudi Arabia in its regional feud with Iran.[40] This stands in stark contrast to Obama's attempt to encourage greater accommodation and compromise between the two regional powers.[41] The US administration has also stepped up backing for the Saudi military campaign in Yemen, in part to weaken Iranian-allied Houthi forces.[42] Trump has sided with Saudi Arabia even where this has put the US at odds with other key regional allies such as Qatar.[43] This followed Trump's agreement to sell Saudi Arabia $110 billion in weapons, an agreement hailed by the White House as the single largest such deal in US history.[44]
(2) Everyone else
In contrast, some of Trump's cabinet members, including secretary of defence James Mattis, seem intent on moderating the president's pronouncements on Iran.[45] Moderation in this context means that, although this camp believes in increasing the pressure on Iranian regime, it also believes that retaining the JCPOA is the best way to do so.[46] It has reportedly pressed Trump to adhere to the nuclear deal to keep allies on board with pursuing a more active and aggressive pushback on Iran across the region.
The views on Iran of many of these military officers in Trump's cabinet are coloured by their own and the US military's experience with the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in Lebanon and Iraq.[47] The deep animosity towards the IRGC was reflected in the White House fact sheet on the US strategy towards Iran, which is heavily focused on countering the IRGC.[48] Close advisers to this camp say that they seek to avoid direct military confrontation, but that the US should support covert and overt military pushback against Iranian assets in the region. They tend to favour supporting Arab allies to engage in greater asymmetric warfare against the IRGC and Iranian-backed forces (in particular Hezbollah), together with placing greater economic sanctions on such entities.[49] As a former US official acknowledges, a similar approach was employed in small doses by the Obama administration, but the Trump administration seeks to make it a centrepiece of US policy.[50]
While supporting a more assertive posture against Iran, this camp wants to avoid losing focus on the Trump administration's priority of fighting ISIS. Senior US officials have reportedly cautioned against looser rules of engagement, which would allow US military commanders to respond more forcefully to the IRGC and Hezbollah forces in Iraq and Syria, out of concern that this would divert attention from the priority of fighting ISIS in the region.[51] There is also a willingness in this camp to engage with Iran where this serves US interests. Tillerson has indicated that he is open to diplomacy with Tehran.[52] In the Department of Defence, there is some support for establishing lines of deconfliction with Iran to avoid skirmishes between naval forces in the Persian Gulf.[53]
Overall, the moderates have swayed Trump to accept a subtler approach to dealing with Iran. Trump seems unwilling to deliver a deathblow to the nuclear deal. He has so far twice used his executive power to renew waivers of sanctions as required under the JCPOA. Instead, the October decision to decertify Iranian compliance with the JCPOA provides a face-saving way for Trump to look tough on Iran but to shift the immediate responsibility over the fate of the nuclear deal onto Congress.[54]
Yet, even if Trump is isolated, he is the president. It remains unclear if he is interested in renegotiating a better deal or simply aims to shut the door to all diplomacy with Iran. Even if Congress does not follow Trump's decertification of the JCPOA by ending the deal altogether, the US commitment to the agreement is likely to hang in the balance every three months when Trump must decide to re-waive US sanctions on Iran (with the next waiver deadline looming in January 2018). The unpredictability surrounding his position on the nuclear deal, even with his own cabinet members and closest allies, has essentially put the deal in limbo.[55]
As the battle over the nuclear deal between Trump and his cabinet rages on, the US and Iran have stepped up their shadow boxing in the Middle East. On several occasions, Iranian and US naval ships have narrowly avoided incidents in the Persian Gulf.[56] Their respective forces on the ground have clashed in Iraq and Syria,[57] and Iranian drones and US fighter jets have clashed in the air over the Middle East.[58] The Trump administration has sanctioned Iranian entities and persons involved with the ballistic missile programme and observers expect tougher Congressional sanctions on this issue in the coming year.[59]
All of this means that European governments should prepare for increasing tensions between Iran and the US.

https://ecfr.eu/publication/why_iran_will_divide_europe_from_the_united_states_7230/

Archive Link:
https://web.archive.org/web/20210427031002/https://ecfr.eu/publication/why_iran_will_divide_europe_from_the_united_states_7230/

#16062 at 2020-11-29 20:55:13 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #72: Lord Malloch-Brown is Goin' Down! Edition

>>16053

Pentagon Purges Leading Advisors From Defense Policy Board

Several members of the top federal advisory committee to the U.S. Department of Defense have been suddenly pushed out, multiple U.S. officials told Foreign Policy, in what appears to be the outgoing Trump administration's parting shot at scions of the foreign-policy establishment.

The directive, which the Pentagon's White House liaison Joshua Whitehouse sent on Wednesday afternoon, removes 11 high-profile advisors from the Defense Policy Board, including former Secretaries of State Henry Kissinger and Madeleine Albright; retired Adm. Gary Roughead, who served as chief of naval operations; and a onetime ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, Jane Harman. Rudy De Leon, a former chief operating officer at the Pentagon once considered by then-Defense Secretary James Mattis for a high-level policy role, will also be ousted.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/11/25/pentagon-purges-leading-advisors-from-defense-policy-board/

#15176 at 2020-11-26 01:17:00 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #68: ]RudyG[ On The Ride Edition

Well, well… "Mattis failed to disclose his role with global consultant tied to China in bombshell column" https://washingtontimes.com/news/2020/nov/25/James-Mattis-failed-disclose-his-role-consultant-t/ via
@washtimes

https://twitter.com/HeyTammyBruce/status/1331672849598308353?s=20

Article: Mattis failed to disclose his role with global consultant tied to China in bombshell column

A column this week by former Defense Secretary James N. Mattis that blasted President Trump's "America First" theme did not disclose that Mr. Mattis holds a senior position at the Cohen Group, a firm that dedicates itself to making business deals in China.

Mr. Trump's get-tough approach toward China - tariffs and prohibitions on Beijing's cyberproducts - is generally counter to the Cohen Group's objective of bringing Chinese and U.S. companies together in multimillion dollar deals.

The Cohen Group, founded by former Defense Secretary William Cohen and staffed by a number of former high-ranking government and military leaders, has two of its four overseas offices in China.
Mr. Mattis's Nov. 23 ForeignAffairs.com column was co-authored with three other national security experts, but it was his name that gave it weight in the news media. The article's thoughts resemble the Obama administration's China approach. It could be a window into how presumptive President-elect Joseph R. Biden pulls back from Mr. Trump's hardline.

Mr. Mattis is identified in his column as a former defense secretary and fellow at the Hoover Institution, but not as a senior counselor at the Cohen Group global consulting firm in Washington.

FUCK YOU Mattis….

#14264 at 2020-11-24 04:41:32 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #64: Truth is Potentially Harmful Edition

James Mattis: Joe Biden Must Eliminate 'America First' from U.S. Foreign Policy

by Joel B. Pollak23 Nov 2020

Former Secretary of Defense James Mattis declared in an article in Foreign Affairs on Monday that the "America First" foreign policy had damaged national security, and called on Joe Biden to "eliminate 'America first'" from U.S. strategy.

Mattis resigned in December 2018, citing policy disagreements with the president, who had just ordered a troop drawdown in Syria. In his resignation letter, Mattis said that the U.S. needed to do more to show "respect" to American allies.

https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2020/11/23/James-Mattis-joe-biden-must-eliminate-america-first-from-u-s-foreign-policy/

8chan/8kun QRB Posts (4)

#135771 at 2022-05-24 14:37:54 (UTC+1)
QRB General #919: Non-Binary Palindrome Edition

https://americanmind.org/salvo/ego-before-party/

Former Secretary of Defense Mark Esper has indulged in the worst of all Beltway traditions: the self-serving, post-government memoir. Based on initial reviews and press reports, the sanctimoniously titled A Sacred Oath embodies the worst instincts and bankrupt worldview of American foreign policy elites. Esper has promoted his book by relentlessly trashing his former boss as, among other things, a "threat to democracy" unfit to serve as President.

When nominated in 2019, Esper was a promising candidate for Secretary of Defense in a Trump Administration. In contrast to his immediate predecessor, acting secretary Patrick Shanahan, Esper looked the part and had only spent part (rather than all) of his previous professional career in the employ of a major defense contractor. As a veteran of the Army, Capitol Hill, and the Heritage Foundation-and a graduate of the Harvard Kennedy School-Esper was acceptable to the defense establishment. However, unlike previous secretary James Mattis, Esper was a longtime civilian who presumably did not see it as his mission to actively oppose President Trump's America First policies.

Esper's score-settling is likely borne of personal pique. President Trump fired Esper unceremoniously after rendering him a pariah in polite company-and perhaps less employable-by, among other things, enlisting the help of the Department of Defense (DOD) in responding to the riots that swept the country in summer 2020. Picking a fight with the former President still seems like an ungracious response to the man who elevated Esper from lobbyist to cabinet secretary in less than two years.

However, to the extent he's trying to engender goodwill with establishment institutions, Esper's approach to Oath is miscalculated. His headline-grabbing revelations have been dismissed by many on the left as "too little, too late"-"Why did you wait to put it in a book?" Stephen Colbert asked Esper-and will likely be soon forgotten altogether. More is expected from defectors than just a rehash of familiar gossip and complaints. If the trajectory of others who have trod this path is any guide, remaining useful to the anti-Trump cause will require a steady stream of commentary on a wide range of topics. Esper should be ready to opine on the impact of striking down Roe v. Wade on servicemember readiness, or join his ally, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley, in defending increasing wokeness at the Pentagon.

Assuming nobler motives, Esper makes the fundamental, yet all-too-common, error of setting up himself-rather than the duly elected President-as the definer and defender of American national security interests, and a "circuit breaker" against Trump's supposedly dangerous directives. A common trope in this regard is the refrain that "I took an oath to the Constitution, not the President." But it is that same sacred Constitution that invests in the President, not his unelected agents, "the executive power"-and designates him as Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces.

Through grave miscalculations in Iraq and elsewhere, the foreign policy establishment has squandered any entitlement to a presumption that they know better than the President, or the American people who elected him. One of Esper's supposedly sensational allegations is that President Trump wanted to use military force to "destroy the drug labs" in Mexico. But why is it not common sense to attack, by any means necessary, the source of a problem that substantially contributed to the more than 100,000 U.S. overdose deaths in 2021? The defense establishment refuses to accept that the unrestricted flow of drugs and people over the southern border is at least as urgent a national security priority as fomenting far-flung conflict in the Middle East or with Russia.

A fundamental dispute between President Trump and Esper was over the drawdown in Afghanistan. Mattis had quit publicly over withdrawing troops from Syria, and the DOD simply refused to give the Commander-in-Chief good options for ending America's longest war. Esper has claimed that he stayed on Secretary of Defense as long as he did out of fear his successor would be a "yes man."

In fact, Christopher Miller ably led Defense as acting secretary during the final two months of the Trump Administration. It was current Secretary Lloyd Austin who turned out be a "yes man" to the Biden White House's indefensible decision to close Bagram Air Base before withdrawing American troops from Afghanistan by a date certain-thereby conceding strategic defeat, surrendering a valuable counterterrorism platform, and triggering a humanitarian catastrophe.

Among the headlines following the Afghanistan debacle was one from the Army Times: "Army leadership: Afghanistan withdrawal not affecting readiness." It was unclear what the Army may be getting ready for, beyond losing more wars while combating "white rage" and pushing vaccine mandates. But so goes the bureaucratic logic of the modern military-industrial complex-now spending tens of billions of dollars on an undeclared proxy war with nuclear-armed Russia in Ukraine-which Secretary Esper defends, and President Trump dared question.

#123904 at 2022-01-30 23:07:18 (UTC+1)
QRB General #840: Truckers Leaven Cali, Headin To DC Edition

>>123903
Might want to keep an eye out for heavy lifters going to Norfolk, Elizabeth NJ area, San Diego

Editorial: Admiral, I Am NOT Ready For War
John Konrad January 30, 2022

gCaptain has received first-hand reports that today the Pentagon began loading Military Sealift Command ships with tanks and heavy equipment. While we are unable to confirm the final destination of the cargo it is no secret that the situation is heating up in Ukraine. This leads to the question: Is the US Merchant Marine ready to wage war against a strong adversary like the Russian Navy?

The following article was written by our editor in 2019 but our ports are now at record levels of congestion and, in the opinion of our founder, the readiness of our nation's Merchant Marine has only deteriorated in the past year.

"It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war." -John F Kennedy

by Captain John Konrad (gCaptain) As has been the case before every major world conflict a majority of citizens believe that peace will persist indefinitely and, as a civilian myself, I tend to agree that a large scale war with a major superpower like China or Russia is unlikely. Regardless of my views, the United States Military is spending billions to prepare for war against China in the hopes that being fully prepared for war is the most effective means of preserving peace.

This article is not intended to support or speak out against the US military's efforts to prepare for a war against China and it is not to discuss the wisdom of my nation's military decisions. It is only written with one purpose. That purpose is to acknowledge two absolute facts today; that the US Military is preparing for war and I, an American merchant ship captain, am not ready.
What Is The US Merchant Marine

"The US Merchant Marine is in every war plan that I review, I guarantee you, because you're going to be the fourth arm of defense." Former US Secretary Of Defense James Mattis.

Members of today's United States Merchant Marine (USMM) do not wear uniforms, they do not cut their hair short, they are not active duty military and only a few are in the US Navy Reserve. They do not get veterans benefits, special privileges, government health care or retirement pay. They have no special right to carry weapons on land or enter most military bases without special permission. They are civilians.

Some members of the merchant marine wore uniforms while they attended maritime academies that must, by federal statute, follow military traditions. Others have never worn a uniform of any kind. Yet the importance of the merchant marine in past military successes is undeniable and all of today's military flag officers admit they play a central role in all future war plans.

But what is the Merchant Marine?

The truth is that despite having worn the uniform of a US Merchant Mariner in college, despite having been a proud member of the US Merchant Marine for over 20 years, and despite having risen to the rank of Captain... I'm still not sure what the Merchant Marine is. Yes, I have a strong understanding of its role in commerce and national defense, but I only have the foggiest of clues what the US Merchant Marine is.

As a journalist I have asked this very question (what is the US Merchant Marine?) to our nation's leadership, I have asked our Merchant Marine Veterans, award winning historians and the highest ranking us military officials. Each has answered my question with a slightly puzzled look and vague statements about our role in national defense.

In 1938 congress established the United States Maritime Service (USMS) to answer that question and established uniform standards, training requirements and structure. Those regulations still exist and the USMS lives on today. We have a Commandant, we have Admirals and Commodores, and we have our own service academy but not much else.

Am I a Captain in the US Merchant Marine? Absolutely! What is my role or rank in the US Maritime Service? Am I allowed to wear a uniform? If so, can I wear my navy medals on it? Do I salute? Does anyone salute me? Where do I report if war breaks out? Who at the USMS can I call with questions?

Answer: I haven't got a clue.

More:
https://gcaptain.com/editorial-admiral-i-am-not-ready-for-war/

#72711 at 2021-07-15 21:41:39 (UTC+1)
QRB General #415: Legislatures Taking Back Their Power AZ Calls The Ball Edition

Donald J. Trump
Despite massive Voter Fraud and Irregularities during the 2020 Presidential Election Scam, that we are now seeing play out in very big and important States, I never threatened, or spoke about, to anyone, a coup of our Government. So ridiculous! Sorry to inform you, but an Election is my form of "coup," and if I was going to do a coup, one of the last people I would want to do it with is General Mark Milley. He got his job only because the world's most overrated general, James Mattis, could not stand him, had no respect for him, and would not recommend him. To me the fact that Mattis didn't like him, just like Obama didn't like him and actually fired Milley, was a good thing, not a bad thing. I often act counter to people's advice who I don't respect.

In any event, I lost respect for Milley when we walked together to St. John's Church (which was still smoldering from a Radical Left fire set the day before), side by side, a walk that has now been proven to be totally appropriate-and the following day Milley choked like a dog in front of the Fake News when they told him they thought he should not have been walking with the President, which turned out to be incorrect. He apologized profusely, making it a big story, instead of saying I am proud to walk with and protect the President of the United States. Had he said that, it would have all been over, no big deal, but I saw at that moment he had no courage or skill, certainly not the type of person I would be talking "coup" with. I'm not into coups!

In fact, around the same time Milley, in a conversation, was an advocate of changing all of the names of our Military Forts and Bases. I realized then, also, he was a much different person than I had hoped. I said to him, "spend more time thinking about China and Russia, and less time on being politically correct."

But never during my Administration did Milley display what he is showing now. He was not "woke." Actually, I don't believe he ever was, but the way I look at Milley, he's just a better politician than a general, trying to curry favor with the Radical Left and the absolute crazy people espousing a philosophy which will destroy our Country!

https://t.me/s/real_DonaldJTrump

#9366 at 2019-07-15 20:47:50 (UTC+1)
QRB General #12: BOOM Week Edition

>>9299
Richard Spencer becomes acting defense secretary while Mark Esper goes through Senate confirmation.
Navy Secretary Richard Spencer took the reins at the Pentagon on Monday, becoming the third acting defense secretary since January.

Spencer is expected to temporarily lead the Pentagon while the Senate considers Army Secretary Mark Esper's nomination to succeed James Mattis as defense secretary. The Senate officially received Esper's nomination on Monday.

"The senior team supporting the Office of the Secretary remains in place to ensure institutional continuity," Chief Pentagon spokesman Jonathan Hoffman said in a statement on Monday. "Notably, this includes David Norquist, the Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller)/Chief Financial Officer, who continues to perform the duties of the Deputy Secretary of Defense; the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Joseph Dunford; and Eric Chewning, the Chief of Staff for the Department of Defense.

"Additionally, Thomas Modly, Under Secretary of the Navy, is now performing the duties of the Secretary of the Navy. Ryan McCarthy is no longer performing the duties of the Secretary of the Army and is solely serving as Under Secretary of the Army."

Esper had been serving as acting defense secretary since June 24, but the Federal Vacancies Reform Act prevents him from continuing in an acting role once the Senate has received his nomination. For the time-being, he has reverted back to his old job as Army secretary.

On Monday, Spencer walked into the defense' secretary's E-Ring office on the Pentagon's third floor on Monday.

"Ladies and gentleman, how are we doing today?" Spencer asked reporters on the scene.

Before becoming Navy secretary on Aug. 3, 2017, Spencer served as an CH-46 helicopter pilot in the Marine Corps from 1976 until 1981, leaving the Corps as a captain, officials said.

During his tenure leading the Navy, Spencer denied claims from people claiming they were exposed to dangerous chemicals found in the drinking water at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, following a federal judge's December 2016 ruling that the Navy was not liable for damages.

Spencer has also staked his job on fixing the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford's electromagnetic weapons elevators. In January, Spencer told President Donald Trump that if all 11 of the Ford's elevators were not working by the end of the summer, Trump could fire him.

Only two of the Ford's weapons elevators are currently functional, said Navy spokesman Capt. Danny Hernandez. Work on the other nine elevators is expected to last beyond October, when the aircraft carrier leaves the shipyards.

Esper's confirmation hearing is scheduled for Tuesday. He replaced Patrick Shanahan as acting defense secretary after Shanahan withdrew from consideration as defense secretary amid media reports that he and his son had both been involved in violent altercations with his former wife.

Shanahan had served as acting defense secretary after Mattis resigned in December in protest of Trump's decision at the time to withdraw all U.S. troops from Syria. Trump subsequently reversed himself.

https://taskandpurpose.com/spencer-acting-defense-secretary

8chan/8kun QResearch AUSTRALIA Posts (6)

#16660664 at 2022-07-07 17:11:43 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #24: TRUMP CARD COMING Edition

#11414831 at 2020-11-02 23:23:23 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #11 - THE SILENT WAR CONTINUES Edition

#10 - Part 2
Australian Politics and Society - Part 2
>>10941290 Miranda Devine is a conservative Australian columnist and writer…As of early 2020, her columns appear in the New York Post
>>10941290 Coronavirus battle shows the bravery of President Trump: Devine - Miranda Devine - nypost.com
>>10941326 "Those who know Cardinal George Pell, the pope's honest former finance minister, always suspected he had been set up" - Miranda Devine
>>10960152 2020 race: Donald Trump on track to lose by a landslide - Cameron Stewart - theaustralian.com.au
>>10976399 US Embassy Canberra Twitter Thread: Ambassador Culvahouse will be sharing his outlook on the future of the #USwithAUS
>>10976399 "As long as the United States and Australia continue to work together, I am confidently optimistic about the future." - Ambassador Culvahouse
>>10976399 Transcript: Ambassador Culvahouse Speech - ASPI Indo-Pacific Leaders Dialogue - October 7, 2020
>>10976426 Video: Indo-Pacific Leaders Dialogue: The future of US-Australia relations - US Ambassador to Australia, Arthur B. Culvahouse Jr. - ASPICanberra
>>10977747 Secretary of State Michael Pompeo Tweet: Great to meet again with Australian Foreign Minister @MarisePayne…to discuss Quad cooperation
>>10977747 Foreign Minister Marise Payne Tweet: The #Quad is a diplomatic network with a positive agenda: a region governed by rules, not power

>>10979128 Awkward moment Scott Morrison confronts Leigh Sales over her 'irresponsible question' when she grills him about the US presidential election
>>10994627 National Australia Bank didn't maintain records of human traffickers until 2019
>>10994640 PDF: Parliament of Australia - Review Of The Four Major Banks - National Australia Bank - Anti-money laundering
>>11007426 SAS at war: Internal military investigation finds Ben Roberts-Smith may have threatened to shoot a fellow soldier in the back of the head
>>11008088 Freemasons NSW & ACT recruitment add in a local paper
>>11008922 ADF personnel warned about social media use after offensive Instagram account uncovered
>>11020501 US elections were changed for better (and worse) by the secret 'Australian ballot'
>>11034788 Trump needs to take fight up to Biden and land some punches - Joe Hockey - theaustralian.com.au
>>11035007, >>11035014 Democrat Barbara Bollier's praise of strict Australian gun laws roils Kansas Senate race
>>11048335 US election: Joe Biden in the White House would be good for us - Troy Bramston - theaustralian.com.au

>>11048472 Defence Minister Linda Reynolds Tweet: They operate in the shadows, but shed light that helps keep Australia safe - Defence Intelligence Organisation
>>11048507 Alarm as neo-Nazi group National Socialist Network expands to Adelaide
>>11063585 'An apocalyptic list': Home Affairs secretary Michael Pezzullo says climate change, pandemics warrant security rethink
>>11063601 Video: Securing Australia: In conversation with Michael Pezzullo - national security in an increasingly complex and interconnected world
>>11079845 Bruce Springsteen: 'If Trump wins I'm moving to Australia' - Poppy Reid - tonedeaf.thebrag.com - tonedeaf logo symbolism
>>11080248 Pacific Marines Tweet: The ninth iteration of @mrfdarwin has wrapped up in the Northern Territory of #Australia
>>11080248 Video: Colonel David Banning, Marine Rotational Force - Darwin Commanding Officer
>>11080293 Police won't charge ABC journalist over 'Afghan Files' stories
>>11098507 NBC Moderator Savannah Guthrie (born in Melbourne, Australia) hailed for keeping Trump in check at town hall
>>11098719 Video: Savannah Guthrie: Australian-born town hall moderator who held Trump to task, married to former Al Gore political operative Michael Feldman

>>11098850 Australian-born billionaire Rupert Murdoch Predicts a Landslide Win for Biden - THE GREAT OZ HAS SPOKEN
>>11099297 Video: Lowy Institute Live: In conversation with General James Mattis and Sir Angus Houston - https://qanon.pub/?q=Mattis
>>11099672 Australian Defence Force orders ban on destruction of evidence from Afghanistan war, as inquiry into alleged war crimes nears end
>>11100195 ASIO warns foreign spies are secretly 'cultivating politicians' across Australia
>>11100315 PDF: ASIO Annual Report 2019-20 "Parliament grants ASIO extraordinary powers, but those powers must always be exercised legally and ethically"
>>11100891 'Without peer': Top spy Nick Warner, Director-General of the Office of National Intelligence to retire this year
>>11112388 US election 2020: Voters are tired of Trump's catastrophic presidency - Troy Bramston - theaustralian.com.au
>>11125093 Murder and abduction claims have Rwandan Government accused of intimidating critics in Australia
>>11125850 Video: Australia One - Riccardo Bosi Talks To Sacha Stone
>>11134109 PDF: Bit-chute replacements for YouTube patriot accounts

#11413969 at 2020-11-02 22:41:21 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #10 - INFORMATION WARFARE Edition

#11099297 at 2020-10-16 06:08:51 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #10 - INFORMATION WARFARE Edition

Lowy Institute Live: In conversation with General James Mattis and Sir Angus Houston

On Thursday 15 October 2020, the Lowy Institute's Executive Director Dr Michael Fullilove hosted an in conversation event via live video stream with General James Mattis, one of America's most experienced and influential military leaders. General Mattis spoke about serving as US Secretary of Defense, his career as a US Marine, and the security challenge America faces from a rising China. They were joined by Sir Angus Houston, former Chief of the Australian Defence Force.

This event is part of the Lowy Institute's 'Australia's Security and the Rules-Based Order Project' and is supported by the Department of Defence's Strategic Policy Grants Program.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5Kkoz9Ybi0

https://www.lowyinstitute.org/news-and-media/multimedia/video/lowy-institute-live-conversation-general-James-Mattis-and-sir-angus

>https://qanon.pub/?q=Mattis

#9481930 at 2020-06-05 08:47:23 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #8 - WE ARE THE CURE Edition

Don't write America off, says Sinodinos

Australia's ambassador to the US, Arthur Sinodinos, says America is resilient and will bounce back from the present tumult.

Washington | Australians horrified by violent images out of the US should see them as democracy at work to effect change, Arthur Sinodinos, Canberra's top Washington envoy has urged.

In a wide-ranging interview, Mr Sinodinos said America was resilient and would bounce back from the present tumult, triggered by the police killing of black man George Floyd 10 days ago.

He also said he was confident the world's biggest economy would recover well from the COVID-19-induced collapse and that mounting calls for decoupling from China would create fresh opportunities for Australian companies and investors in the US.

Speaking as another dramatic day of protests and nationwide unrest unfolded across the US, the ambassador indicated he expected a turbulent five months in the lead-up to November 3, saying "presidential elections are always a wild ride - they're the greatest show on earth".

"I say to Australians that I understand why you would be concerned seeing those images - [but] it's not a full picture of how the country is going because clearly vast swaths of the country are not caught up in the same way," Mr Sinodinos told The Australian Financial Review on Thursday (AEST).

"That's not to take away from what is happening, particularly in some of the inner cities ... but to keep it in perspective."

America endured similar unrest in the late 1960s and early 1970s, which tested its institutions and democracy, Mr Sinodinos said, "and on every occasion the Americans have shown a great capacity to come through and demonstrate resilience".

His comment came as tens of thousands of protesters gathered in cities such as Los Angeles and Washington for a ninth straight night, and as President Donald Trump faced a withering condemnation of his handling of the crisis from James Mattis, his "angry and appalled" former defence secretary and widely respected retired military leader.

"Donald Trump is the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American people - does not even pretend to try," Mr Mattis wrote in the wake of Mr Trump's decision this week to order the violent removal by police and military of peaceful protesters outside his residence so he could stage a photo of himself holding a bible outside a church.

Mr Mattis, who resigned in disgust over what he regarded as America's abandonment of its allies in Syria in late 2018, has largely kept silent since. However, on Thursday Australian time, he described Mr Trump as a threat to the US Constitution.

"We are witnessing the consequences of three years without mature leadership. We can unite without him, drawing on the strengths inherent in our civil society," Mr Mattis said.

The extraordinary outburst was echoed by former President Barack Obama, again in a rare public intervention, who said the protests over the killing of George Floyd and ongoing coronavirus pandemic were the "kinds of epic changes ... in our country that are as profound as anything I have seen in my lifetime".

"I know enough about that history to say: 'There is something different here'," said Mr Obama, who compared America's 1960s protests with today's "far more representative cross section of America out on the streets, peacefully protesting. That didn't exist back in the 1960s, that kind of broad coalition."

Pressure valve in action

Mr Sinodinos, in his most extensive remarks since taking over as US ambassador from Joe Hockey in January, said he had been struck by how seriously Americans take their civil rights.

"This is a country where they value liberty and democracy, so in that sense the institutions are adapted for the fact that people will have their say, one way or the other," he said.

"And what is happening now is another of those pressure valves being relieved."

While it's too early to tell whether current events will catalyse lasting change for African Americans, "this is a society which is open and transparent and sometimes when you see democracy up close it's a bit like the old adage about the sausage machine: it doesn't look very nice," Mr Sinodinos said.

"But the fact of the matter is Americans are out there expressing themselves. They are sending a message. And the system, as it has always done here, and its democratic institutions are strong enough and adaptable enough and resilient enough to respond."

(continued)

https://www.afr.com/world/north-america/don-t-write-america-off-says-sinodinos-20200604-p54zdk

#7196599 at 2019-07-26 06:23:47 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #5 - Shill count HIGH Edition

Top US officials to visit Australia next week for talks with Morrison

New York: US President Donald Trump's top diplomat and his newly-installed defence chief will travel to Australia next week for meetings with Prime Minister Scott Morrison and other senior Australian politicians.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Secretary of Defence Mike Esper will lead the US delegation to Australia for the annual Australia-United States Ministerial Consultations (AUSMIN) in Sydney on Sunday, August 4.

The meetings are held every year between the two countries' top foreign affairs and defence officials, alternating between the US and Australia.

They come a month before Morrison travels to Washington DC, where he will receive a rare state dinner with Trump.

Foreign Minister Marise Payne, who was then defence minister, attended last year's talks in California alongside her predecessor Julie Bishop. This will be the first time Defence Minister Linda Reynolds has participated in the talks.

This year's event comes as tensions between the US and Iran continue to escalate and with the US and China about to re-open negotiations on trade.

"As part of his AUSMIN engagement, the secretary will participate in dialogues aimed at strengthening the Alliance, working shoulder-to-shoulder with Australia to meet global and transnational challenges, and safeguarding sovereignty in Pacific Island countries and Southeast Asia," US State Department spokeswoman Morgan Ortagus said.

"The secretary will also meet with Prime Minister Morrison to discuss continued collaboration on advancing our shared set of values, principles, and overlapping interests."

Pompeo, one of Trump's most trusted advisers, will also travel to Thailand and Micronesia on the trip.

Esper was only confirmed to the position this week by the US Senate, making this his first overseas trip since being appointed the permanent defence secretary.

He replaces James Mattis, who resigned just before Christmas because of policy disagreements with the President.

https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/top-us-officials-to-visit-australia-next-week-for-talks-with-morrison-20190726-p52axo.html

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#11780441 at 2020-11-25 15:34:56 (UTC+1)
Q Research Canada #10: A Week to Remember Edition

'Old A** Idiot': James Mattis' Call to End 'America First' Prompts Swift Backlash

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/11/24/James-Mattiss-call-to-end-america-first-prompts-swift-backlash-from-conservatives/

8chan/8kun QResearch JAPAN Posts (1)

#16619161 at 2022-07-06 11:28:54 (UTC+1)
Q Research Nihon/Japan #5 knowledge is POWER! Edition

#20943

>>16552764 For the keks: Clint Eastwood calls out Keith Olberman as a "parrot on cocaine"

>>16552812 RT: Drug lab busted at alleged NATO nuclear base

>>16552835 A spectacular rise and fall as Andrew Gillum faces federal indictment

>>16552992, >>16552994, >>16553269 Cassidy Hutchinson Interned @ the Trump White House in her senior year in College

>>16553182 House GOP: Cassidy Hutchinson was so "disgusted" by President Trump on January 6th that she wanted a job at Mar-a-Lago post-January 6th. Makes sense!

>>16553186 Please remember that 'Q' cannot endorse any candidate for partisan political office: doing so would be a violation of the Hatch Act

>>16553204 More Ukraine fake news?

>>16553252 Planefag: C-17 c/s 'PENCE62 on ADSB nr Moses Lake Washington, E-6B EMMER71 doing a tour of the Prairie states. Heading into Tinker AFB

>>16553290 #20943

#20942

>>16551890 Dr. Peter McCullough Drops Epic COVID Truth Bomb in Texas Senate HHS Testimony

>>16551938 Eric Trump: Happy to see this ridiculous story crumble

>>16552009, >>16552014 Donald J. Trump Truth Social: Various...

>>16552051 Californians to get 'inflation relief' payments

>>16552055 Election Night Livewire : Final Major Night of Primaries Before August Suggests Bigger Red Wave

>>16552076 Election Bun

>>16552190 Inside plush 'Disneyland' prison with GARDENING course where Ghislaine Maxwell's lawyer has requested she serve sentence and Ghislaine Maxwell wants to transfer from 'disgrace' US prison to 'far superior' UK one

>>16552230 Former Marine Gen. and Defense Secretary James Mattis married a physicist in a ceremony officiated by an Elvis impersonator Saturday in Las Vegas, according to reports.

>>16552221, >>16552251 Plane Faggin'

>>16552281, >>16552279 Scavino just thank PDJT for the ZERO DELTA. No Babyfist picture

>>16552270, >>16552301 Global Notable Nom:Jim explaining the reactivation of Tor and Salt Rotation

>>16552523 #20942

8chan/8kun QResearch SCOTLAND Posts (1)

#16677329 at 2022-07-08 15:35:44 (UTC+1)
Q Research Scotland #6: "Inquiring of the Inquiry" Edition

8chan/8kun QResearch SOUTH AFRICA Posts (1)

#20766568 at 2024-04-23 17:43:51 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #12: Joburg Blast and Highjacked Buildings Edition

>>20500683
>Amazon mogul Jeff Bezos (Pienaar's wife, Teresa Carlson, is a former vice-president of Amazon Web Services' worldwide public sector business).

>>20500713

Andr? Pienaar: "PENTAGON AUDIT FOUND CONNECTION BETWEEN Mattis-ERA DEFENSE DEPARTMENT AND AMAZON-LINKED BRITISH CONSULTANT"

https://theintercept.com/2021/06/14/pentagon-defense-department-amazon-Mattis/
June 14 2021, 4:40 p.m.
Excerpts

As the Defense Department eyed a $10 billion JEDI contract for tech giants, Mattis adviser Sally Donnelly hid financial ties to Andr? Pienaar, whose firm has done business with Amazon.

A CLOSER INSPECTION of a Pentagon audit last year shows that Sally Donnelly was serving as a senior adviser to former Defense Secretary James Mattis when she received more than $1 million in payments for her share of an Amazon consulting firm from British financier Andr? Pienaar - not from an American investor, as previously reported. One of those payments arrived the same month Pienaar and his partner, former Amazon executive Teresa Carlson, attended a dinner meeting with Donnelly and Mattis as the Pentagon was developing a $10 billion contract for cloud computing services that Amazon sought.

The Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure, or JEDI, contract has been subject to numerous investigations and lawsuits regarding the Pentagon's alleged preferential treatment of Amazon while drafting the solicitation and surprise decision to issue the $10 billion award to Microsoft in October 2019. Prospective bidders like Oracle were incensed that the solicitation's terms supposedly favored Amazon, while Amazon has argued that former President Donald Trump's contempt for Jeff Bezos and purported intervention in the program tipped the scale to Microsoft. The Bezos-owned company is currently challenging the JEDI contract in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, delaying the program so significantly that military services have begun pursuing their own cloud service agreements with Amazon, Microsoft, and others. The Defense Department may now decide to abandon the JEDI program altogether.

The revelation that Pienaar was the true buyer of Donnelly's 80 percent share of the consulting firm, SBD Advisors, was buried in an audit released last year by the Pentagon's inspector general into alleged ethical misconduct in the JEDI procurement. The audit has received little public attention despite adding a new twist in the myriad of ethical concerns surrounding the contract and a military-industrial complex that was made even more powerful by the pipeline of Trump-era defense officials to Donnelly's new firm, Pallas Advisors.

Pallas Advisors, which Donnelly founded in 2018 with Tony DeMartino, former deputy chief of staff to Mattis, who also worked as the managing director at SBD Advisors, has become a haven for Trump-era Defense Department officials. Former Navy Secretary Richard Spencer, Director of Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation Bob Daigle, Principal Deputy Chief Information Officer Essye Miller, and Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence Sue Gordon are all on staff or the firm's advisory board. Separately, President Joe Biden's Senate-confirmed Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security Ron Moultrie is a former Pallas Advisors board member.

Donnelly sold her majority share in SBD Advisors, which helped educate Amazon and other clients on the inner workings of the Pentagon, in January 2017, prior to joining Mattis in the Defense Department. (Donnelly had intimate knowledge of the Department of Defense as a result of her work in the early 2010s running the Washington office for Mattis, then head of U.S. Central Command.) It wasn't until the summer of 2018, shortly after Donnelly left the Pentagon to start Pallas Advisors, that a possible conflict of interest involving the payments from the sale came to light.

8chan/8kun CBTS Posts (6)

#234893 at 2018-01-03 17:46:19 (UTC+1)
CBTS General #278: Happy Days - New Years edition 2018

TRUMP meeting with TOP officials today. Waiting for them to finish lunch and give us some crumbs……

Wednesday, January 3, 2018

11:00 am || Receives his daily intelligence briefing
12:30 pm || Lunch with Vice President Mike Pence, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, and Secretary of Defense James Mattis

All times Eastern
Live stream of White House briefing at 3:00 pm

#160006 at 2017-12-23 22:42:46 (UTC+1)
CBTS General #186: Christmas Countdown Edition

General James Mattis to troops: "I don't have stress anymore. I create it."

It's happening!

#108089 at 2017-12-16 16:48:35 (UTC+1)
CBTS General #123

Here is the list of our military elite who have been purged or fired under Obama:
Commanding Generals fired:

· General John R. Allen-U.S. Marines Commander International Security Assistance Force [ISAF] (Nov 2012)
· Major General Ralph Baker (2 Star)-U.S. Army Commander of the Combined Joint Task Force Horn in Africa (April 2013)
· Major General Michael Carey (2 Star)-U.S. Air Force Commander of the 20th US Air Force in charge of 9,600 people and 450 Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (Oct 2013)
· Colonel James Christmas-U.S. Marines Commander 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit & Commander Special-Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force Crisis Response Unit (July 2013)
· Major General Peter Fuller-U.S. Army Commander in Afghanistan (May 2011)
· Major General Charles M.M. Gurganus-U.S. Marine Corps Regional Commander of SW and I Marine Expeditionary Force in Afghanistan (Oct 2013)
· General Carter F. Ham-U.S. Army African Command (Oct 2013)
· Lieutenant General David H. Huntoon (3 Star), Jr.-U.S. Army 58th Superintendent of the US Military Academy at West Point, NY (2013)
· Command Sergeant Major Don B Jordan-U.S. Army 143rd Expeditionary Sustainment Command (suspended Oct 2013)
· General James Mattis-U.S. Marines Chief of CentCom (May 2013)
· Colonel Daren Margolin-U.S. Marine in charge of Quantico's Security Battalion (Oct 2013)
· General Stanley McChrystal-U.S. Army Commander Afghanistan (June 2010)
· General David D. McKiernan-U.S. Army Commander Afghanistan (2009)
· General David Petraeus-Director of CIA from September 2011 to November 2012 & U.S. Army Commander International Security Assistance Force [ISAF] and Commander U.S. Forces Afghanistan [USFOR-A] (Nov 2012)
· Brigadier General Bryan Roberts-U.S. Army Commander 2nd Brigade (May 2013)
· Major General Gregg A. Sturdevant-U.S. Marine Corps Director of Strategic Planning and Policy for the U.S. Pacific Command & Commander of Aviation Wing at Camp Bastion, Afghanistan (Sept 2013)
· Colonel Eric Tilley-U.S. Army Commander of Garrison Japan (Nov 2013)
· Brigadier General Bryan Wampler-U.S. Army Commanding General of 143rd Expeditionary Sustainment Command of the 1st Theater Sustainment Command [TSC] (suspended Oct 2013)
More ....

#104177 at 2017-12-15 21:55:23 (UTC+1)
CBTS General #118: Follow The Crumbs Edition

Researching Bohemian Grove>Tony Blair>George Shutlz & Dame Charlotte Smith Mailliard Swig Shultz

Theranos Whistleblower Tells All On Intimidation And Coercion Tactics Employed To Silence Him

Nov 17, 2016 7:20 PM

2016 has not been too kind to Elizabeth Holmes, the Steve-Jobs wannabe in charge of fraudulent Theranos. She has thus far been banned for 2 years from operating labs, removed from hosting fundraisers for Hillary and lost her entire net worth. And now, the Wall Street Journal has published the "tell-all" story of the whistle-blower, 26 year old Tyler Shultz, who brought the the whole Theranos farce crashing down. It's a sordid tale complete with all the expected twists and turns of a Jason Bourne thriller including intimidation, coercion and private detectives.

Tyler Shultz is the grandson of George Shultz, 95, who was President Richard Nixon's Treasury and labor secretary and secretary of state for President Ronald Reagan, with whom he had a close relationship. The elder Shultz also happened to be a Theranos board member in 2013 when his grandson accepted a full time position there.

http://www.zerohedge.com /news/2016-11-17/theranos-whistleblower-tells-all

wiki:
As of May 2016, the Theranos board of directors were:[61]

Elizabeth Holmes, Founder and CEO
Riley Bechtel, former Bechtel Group CEO
David Boies, a founder and the chairman of Boies Schiller & Flexner
William Foege, former director U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Richard Kovacevich, former Wells Fargo CEO and chairman
James Mattis, retired USMC General
Fabrizio Bonanni, former executive vice president of Amgen

In December 2016, it was announced the Theranos management team would be restructured with the departing of Riley Bechtel. In January 2017 incoming Secretary of Defense nominee James Mattis resigned from the Theranos board. As of January 2017, the Theranos board of directors includes:[62]

Elizabeth Holmes, Founder and CEO
William Foege, former director U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Fabrizio Bonanni, former executive vice president of Amgen
Daniel Warmenhoven, former NetApp CEO, who replaced Riley Bechtel

It was also announced in November 2016 that the celebrity-studded "board of counselors" would be scrapped in January 2017.[63]

#31102 at 2017-12-04 08:14:50 (UTC+1)
CBTS #34 - Now it all starts to make sense! Edition

>>30928
done

>>30904
Who did POTUS meet with yesterday? (10.30.2017)
>This morning, the President Trump will receive his daily intelligence briefing, followed by a meeting with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. In the afternoon, the President will have lunch with Vice President Mike Pence and Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Later, the President will meet with Secretary of the Defense James Mattis.

How many MI generals were on the list to attend?
>This evening, the White House will welcome local students, military families, and community groups for an afternoon of Halloween festivities on the South Lawn.

source: https://www. whitehouse.gov/blog/2017/10/30/1600-daily-everything-white-house-103017
_
Why were certain rooms in the WH renovated?
>The work, which will be carried out by the General Service Administration (https://www. gsa.gov/) includes:
>cracked stairs, exterior electricity upgrades, power-washing, and resurfacing
>Upgrading the HVAC system, fixing leaks in the lower press area, renovating the kitchen of the Navy Mess.
>Painting and renovating to freshen up the colors and switching out curtains.
>Removing temporary stairs by the press briefing room.

source: http://www. housebeautiful.com/lifestyle/news/a9409/trump-white-house-renovation-details/
_

I think this whole post is talking about what leaders trump can trust and who can be tapped/recorded in certain rooms. I can't find anything on any meetings with military members, only some stuff on glider vehicles: https://www. reginfo.gov/public/do/eom12866SearchResults?pubId=&viewType=month&typeCd=C&searchCalendarDate=10/30/2017

#23191 at 2017-12-02 15:02:06 (UTC+1)
CBTS General #25

>>23091
also involved with a LOT of Arab militaries …

https://www.google.co.za/search?q=erik+prince+saudi+arabia

here are the highlights:

Erik Prince to Prince bin Zayed: The private military connection
www.alaraby.co.uk
Jul 7, 2017 - Erik Prince is back. He's not only pitching colonial capitalism in DC, but huckstering ex-SF-led armies of sepoys to wrest Afghanistan, Yemen and Libya, writes David Isenberg. Tags: Erik Prince, UAE, US, Yemen, James Mattis, Emiratis, CIA, Blackwater, Abu Dhabi, Saudi Arabia, Zayed al-Nahyan. In 2014 …

The UAE is 'employing' Blackwater to run its army
www.alaraby.co.uk
Jul 7, 2017 - R2 was founded in 2010 by a United States military contractor called Erik Prince, the same year the former US Navy SEAL officer moved to the UAE - and only months after he sold his stake in the 'controversial' mercenary firm, Blackwater. Four former Blackwater employees were convicted in 2014 for their …

Blackwater founder Erik Prince proposes privatizing Afghanistan war …
www.cbsnews.com
Aug 8, 2017 - Change in Saudi Arabia … The Trump administration is, however, considering a plan proposed by Blackwater founder Erik Prince to privatize a large portion of the U.S. effort in Afghanistan. Prince's plan would send about 5,000 private military contractors to replace U.S. troops helping the Afghan army.

Blackwater founder held secret Seychelles meeting to establish Trump Putin Back Channels …
www.washingtonpost.com
Apr 3, 2017 - Erik Prince met with a Russian close to the Kremlin in a meeting brokered by the United Arab Emirates. … Zayed met twice with Putin in 2016, according to Western officials, and urged the Russian leader to work more closely with the Emirates and Saudi Arabia - an effort to isolate Iran. At the time of the …

Blackwater Founder Forms Secret Army for Arab State - The New York …
www.nytimes.com
May 14, 2011 - In fact, they were soldiers for a secret American-led mercenary army being built by Erik Prince, the billionaire founder of Blackwater Worldwide, with $529 million from the oil-soaked sheikdom. Mr. Prince, who resettled here last year after his security business faced mounting legal problems in the United …

and there is this:

Notorious Mercenary Erik Prince Is Advising Trump From the Shadows

Blackwater founder Erik Prince wants Trump to revive the CIA's Phoenix assassination program.

https://theintercept.com/2017/01/17/notorious-mercenary-erik-prince-is-advising-trump-from-the-shadows/

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#49693 at 2021-01-04 00:19:13 (UTC+1)
Q Research Operation's War Room #9474 Trump Wins, Brace For Impact!Edition

The letter signed by Dick Cheney, James Mattis, Mark Esper, Leon Panetta, Donald Rumsfeld, William Cohen, Chuck Hagel, Robert Gates, William Perry and Ashton Carter amounts to a remarkable show of force against Trump's subversion efforts just days before Congress is set to count Electoral College votes.

"Our elections have occurred. Recounts and audits have been conducted. Appropriate challenges have been addressed by the courts. Governors have certified the results. And the electoral college has voted. The time for questioning the results has passed; the time for the formal counting of the electoral college votes, as prescribed in the Constitution and statute, has arrived," the group wrote.

https://twitter.com/CNNPolitics/status/1345879641668644871?s=19

they are all DOOMED LOL

#47439 at 2020-09-12 14:46:44 (UTC+1)
Q Research Operation's War Room #9471 Two, if by Sea Edition

#12206 at 2019-10-08 15:28:52 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9429 Who is Listening??? Edition

==Is Trump At Last Ending Our 'Endless Wars'?==
Pat Buchanan - October 8, 2019
https://www.unz.com/pbuchanan/is-trump-at-last-ending-our-endless-wars/

The backstage struggle between the Bush interventionists and the America-firsters who first backed Donald Trump for president just exploded into open warfare, which could sunder the Republican Party.

At issue is Trump's decision to let the Turkish army enter Northern Syria, to create a corridor between Syrian Kurds and the Turkish Kurds of the PKK, which the U.S. and Turkey regard as a terrorist organization.

[neocon talking points]

When, in December, Trump considered ordering all U.S. troops home from Syria, Defense Secretary James Mattis resigned in protest.

Behind this decision is Trump's exasperation at our NATO allies' refusal to take back for trial their own citizens whom we and the Kurds captured fighting for ISIS.

The U.S. has "pressed France, Germany, and other European nations, from which many captured ISIS fighters came, to take them back, but they ... refused," said a Sunday White House statement. "The United States will not hold them for what could be many years and great cost. ... Turkey will now be responsible for all ISIS fighters in the area captured over the past two years."

What are the arguments interventionists are using to insist that U.S. forces remain in Syria indefinitely?

If we pull out, says Graham, the Kurds will be forced, for survival, to ally themselves with Bashar Assad.

True, but the Kurds now occupy a fourth of Syria, and this is not sustainable. We have to consider reality. Assad, the Russians, Iranians and Hezbollah have won the war against the Sunni rebels we and our Arab friends armed and equipped.
We are told that the Kurds will be massacred by Turkey's President Recep Erdogan, who sees them as terrorist allies of the PKK.

But the Turks occupied the Syrian border west of the Euphrates and the Kurds withdrew without massacres. And how long must we stay in Syria to defend the Kurds against the Turks? Forever?

If we depart, ISIS will come back, says Cheney: "Terrorists thousands of miles away can and will use their safe-havens to launch attacks against America."

But al-Qaida and ISIS are in many more places today than they were when we intervened in the Middle East. Must we fight forever over there - to be secure over here? Why cannot Syria, Iraq, Iran, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States deal with ISIS and al-Qaida in their own backyard?

Why are ISIS and al-Qaida over there our problem over here?

"This will throw the region into further chaos," says Graham.

But if Trump's decision risks throwing the region into "further chaos," what, if not wholesale U.S. intervention, created the "present chaos"?

Consider. Today, the Taliban conduct more attacks and control much more territory than they did in all the years since we first intervened in 2001.

Sixteen years after we marched to Baghdad, protests against the Iraqi regime took hundreds of lives last week, and a spreading revolt threatens the regime.

Saudi Arabia is tied down and arguably losing the war it launched against the Houthi rebels in 2015. Iran or its surrogates, with a handful of cruise missiles and drones, just shut down half of the Saudi oil production.

Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is awakening to his nation's vulnerability and may be looking to negotiate with Tehran.

Among those objecting most loudly to an American withdrawal from the forever wars of the Middle East are those who were the most enthusiastic about plunging us in.

And, yes, there is a price to be paid for letting go of an empire, but it is almost always less than the price of holding on.

#2474 at 2019-09-10 23:43:23 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9417 Pepe - Solid as a Rock! Edition

>>2446
ok so who is standing next to potus

General Mattis

Steve Hilton: Gen. James Mattis goes from defending America to selling out America

Over the last week or so, Gen. James Mattis has been running around hawking his new book, but it was revealed on Sunday that he's planning to cash in on his government service in a much more swampy way.

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/steve-hilton-James-Mattis-swamp-lobbyist-cohen-group

#1537 at 2019-09-04 15:41:54 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9416 Ready to watch "The Stars"? Edition

NOT Q
>>1332 Payback for Today
>>1343 A unique Bridge
>>1344 Rep Robert Wallace Suicide EEC
>>1401 Ready to, "follow the stars?"

Baker Collected Notables
>>1309 (you) Anon Archives entirety of qmap offline
>>1310 Lighting it up US army twat.
>>1314 THE MATRIX WAS ABOUT JEWISH SUBVERS...
>>1315 /Our/National_Bird
>>1320 military-seeks-role-players-to-portray-injured-citizens-in-ny
>>1322 (you) Camp Century in Greenland Nuclear Powered
>>1324 Rudy Giuliani: 'Prosecutions Will Happen' Following Damning IG Report on Comey
>>1328 Murdered for speaking out
>>1331 Comey Attacks President Trump as a Narcissist
>>1336 (you) the-end-of-the-dollar-as-we-know-it
>>1339 (you) Rudy Giuliani: 'Prosecutions Will Happen' Following Damning IG Report on Comey
>>1341 (you) B-2 stealth bombers deploy to Europe for joint training
>>1342 (you) Millionaire Model agency Friend of Jeffrey Epstein - thought to Have Information - Has Disappeared
>>1345 The eye of hurricane Dorian.
>>1352 >>1353 >>1356 >>1523 Is MSM hyping the Dorian Storm?
>>1355 "North of 22 million" FACTS MATTER
>>1358 cataclysmic-shift-in-progress-unraveling-evil
>>1360 Researchers warn: New magnetic storm heading for Earth
>>1361 Before the Koch Bros, there where the Pews..
>>1363 (you) Are Anons Being Called to 08ch?
>>1365 >>1394 (you) DJT Tweets and Deletes
>>1375 /our/guy
>>1380 >>1382 >>1383 >>1384 >>1476 >>1513 Call To dig - Living Waters
>>1385 Iran not Rocking with their Rocket
>>1386 AOC wants to block ya
>>1387 Keystone last ditch effort - FAIL
>>1388 Notice anthing familiar? *Epstein Temple
>>1389 King and Cohen, along with Sen S. Collins network
>>1391 Anon Glad to be home
>>1393 >>1406 >>1408 Boat Down
>>1410 (you) Never Forget! John Kasich Says John McCain Was "PUT TO DEATH"??!!!
>>1411 >>1412 >>1413 >>1419 >>1420 Anon CTD - Truth Aquatics >Truth
>>1421 (you) Baker finds Auto Archive Extension
>>1449 >>1450 (you) Anon Feels Alone
>>1459 (you) REP. OMAR DECLARES SUPPORT FOR TERRORIST FINANCIER'S COMPANY IN HER NATIVE SOMALIA
>>1466 (you) Department of Justice 'to propose quick executions for perpetrators of mass shootings'
>>1467 (you) WikiLeaks-Connected Hacker Called to Testify Before Grand Jury
>>1469 (you) Walmart plans to dramatically step back from ammunition sales
>>1474 (you) BO Reminder Dont Spam the Chan
>>1477 (you) Turkish Businessman Sentenced for Exporting Marine Equipment to Iran
>>1485 How to Trigger the Left
>>1501 Potus Tweet /POL/
>>1503 Trump administration raids military construction projects for border wall
>>1505 James Mattis tore into his former boss over his handling of foreign policy
>>1506 USDOJ OIG Inspector General Manual, Volumes I-VI
>>1508 u-s-blacklists-two-executives-for-alleged-oil-trade-with-north-korea
>>1510 Redacted Vs Unredacted
>>1511 the-unholy-alliance-between-george-soros-and-pope-francis/
>>1516 Google target of new U.S. antitrust probe by state attorneys general
>>1517 Facebook considers experimenting with hiding likes
>>1518 YouTube says harassment policy update coming soon, bans thousands of videos for hate speech (archive offline)
>>1519 Ted Cruz Accepts Alyssa Milano's Challenge to Debate Gun Violence

#1527 at 2019-09-04 15:33:41 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9415 Know Your Bunker Exits Edition

==NOT Q==
>>1332 Payback for Today
>>1343 A unique Bridge
>>1344 Rep Robert Wallace Suicide EEC
>>1401 Ready to, "follow the stars?"

Baker Collected Notables
>>1309 Anon Archives entirety of qmap offline
>>1310 Lighting it up US army twat.
>>1314 THE MATRIX WAS ABOUT JEWISH SUBVERS...
>>1315 /Our/National_Bird
>>1320 military-seeks-role-players-to-portray-injured-citizens-in-ny
>>1322 Camp Century in Greenland Nuclear Powered
>>1324 Rudy Giuliani: 'Prosecutions Will Happen' Following Damning IG Report on Comey
>>1328 Murdered for speaking out
>>1331 Comey Attacks President Trump as a Narcissist
>>1336 the-end-of-the-dollar-as-we-know-it
>>1339 Rudy Giuliani: 'Prosecutions Will Happen' Following Damning IG Report on Comey
>>1341 B-2 stealth bombers deploy to Europe for joint training
>>1342 Millionaire Model agency Friend of Jeffrey Epstein - thought to Have Information - Has Disappeared
>>1345 The eye of hurricane Dorian.
>>1352 >>1353 >>1356 >>1523 Is MSM hyping the Dorian Storm?
>>1355 "North of 22 million" FACTS MATTER
>>1358 cataclysmic-shift-in-progress-unraveling-evil
>>1360 Researchers warn: New magnetic storm heading for Earth
>>1361 Before the Koch Bros, there where the Pews..
>>1363 Are Anons Being Called to 08ch?
>>1365 >>1394 DJT Tweets and Deletes
>>1375 /our/guy
>>1380 >>1382 >>1383 >>1384 >>1476 >>1513 Call To dig - Living Waters
>>1385 Iran not Rocking with their Rocket
>>1386 AOC wants to block ya
>>1387 Keystone last ditch effort - FAIL
>>1388 Notice anthing familiar? *Epstein Temple
>>1389 King and Cohen, along with Sen S. Collins network
>>1391 Anon Glad to be home
>>1393 >>1406 >>1408 Boat Down
>>1410 Never Forget! John Kasich Says John McCain Was "PUT TO DEATH"??!!!
>>1411 >>1412 >>1413 >>1419 >>1420 Anon CTD - Truth Aquatics >Truth
>>1421 Baker finds Auto Archive Extension
>>1449 >>1450 Anon Feels Alone
>>1459 REP. OMAR DECLARES SUPPORT FOR TERRORIST FINANCIER'S COMPANY IN HER NATIVE SOMALIA
>>1466 Department of Justice 'to propose quick executions for perpetrators of mass shootings'
>>1467 WikiLeaks-Connected Hacker Called to Testify Before Grand Jury
>>1469 Walmart plans to dramatically step back from ammunition sales
>>1474 BO Reminder Dont Spam the Chan
>>1477 Turkish Businessman Sentenced for Exporting Marine Equipment to Iran
>>1485 How to Trigger the Left
>>1501 Potus Tweet /POL/
>>1503 Trump administration raids military construction projects for border wall
>>1505 James Mattis tore into his former boss over his handling of foreign policy
>>1506 USDOJ OIG Inspector General Manual, Volumes I-VI
>>1508 u-s-blacklists-two-executives-for-alleged-oil-trade-with-north-korea
>>1510 Redacted Vs Unredacted
>>1511 the-unholy-alliance-between-george-soros-and-pope-francis/
>>1516 Google target of new U.S. antitrust probe by state attorneys general
>>1517 Facebook considers experimenting with hiding likes
>>1518 YouTube says harassment policy update coming soon, bans thousands of videos for hate speech (archive offline)
>>1519 Ted Cruz Accepts Alyssa Milano's Challenge to Debate Gun Violence

>Final Bun Roll

#1505 at 2019-09-04 07:32:26 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9415 Know Your Bunker Exits Edition

Mattis Torches Obama, Biden for 'Ignoring Reality' When It Comes to Foreign Policy in New Book

Former Secretary of Defense James Mattis tore into his former boss over his handling of foreign policy in his new book released Tuesday.

Mattis blasted former President Barack Obama for his "failure" regarding foreign policy in his new book "Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead," saying that the time he spent overseeing Central Command (CENTCOM) under the former president ended with him seeing "strategic frustration."

https://truepundit.com/Mattis-torches-obama-biden-for-ignoring-reality-when-it-comes-to-foreign-policy-in-new-book/

endchan qrbunker Posts (2)

#157117 at 2025-07-29 12:56:00 (UTC+1)
QR Bunker General #482: Rouse Your Enemy Edition

>>157097, >>157098, >>157099, >>157100, >>157101, >>157102, >>157103, >>157104, >>157105, >>157106, >>157107, >>157108, >>157109, >>157110, >>157111, >>157112, >>157113, >>157114, >>157115, >>157116
TheIntelFrog @TheIntelFrog - Theoretical line of sight distance for USAF RQ-4B Globalhawk #AE4512 as FORTE10 over the Black Sea this morning covering the Russian Naval bases at Sevastopol and Nnovorossiysk.
https://x.com/TheIntelFrog/status/1949883446043771368

Intel Report Daily@TruthNinja316 - I'd like to direct @SergeiMillian, to this photo that I uncovered of Glenn Simpson at the Aspen Security Forum in 2017. This was the event that he allegedly just "ran into Adam Schiff".
**If you don't know Aspen Security Forum, take a look at their speakers and attendees (2014 through 2018): John Brennan, James Clapper, Sergey Kislyak, John Demers, James Comey, Rod Rosenstein, Robert Mueller, Evelyn Farkas, Lisa Monaco, John McCain, Antony Blinken, Daniel Coats, Samantha Vinograd, Mike Pompeo, John Kelly, HR McMaster, Mark Milley, Victoria Nuland, Will Hurd, Michael Chertoff, John McLaughlin, Keith Alexander, Kathleen Hicks, Michael Vickers, Paula Dobriansky, Bill Kristol, Glenn Simpson, Adam Schiff, Christopher Wray, John Bolton, James Mattis, Cofer Black, and MANY more including nearly ever media personality who reported on Russiagate.
@seanmdav
https://x.com/TruthNinja316/status/1949921982704996669

Internet Archive @internetarchive - What tech can people use right now to organize?
Find out at this week's DWeb Virtual Meetup.
Presentations, demos, and discussion on tools for mutual power
Wed, July 30
10 AM PT / 1PM ET / 19 CET
ONLINE
https://eventbrite.com/e/dweb-meetup-decentralized-tech-to-resist-authoritarianism-tickets-1510991800149
@GETDWeb #DecentralizedWeb
https://x.com/internetarchive/status/1949877897935606272

Jacob Helberg @jacobhelberg - The data doesn't lie. Tariffs are outperforming every "expert" prediction.
1) The Treasury is on course to reap almost $300B a year in new revenue, defying all prior long-term deficit projections.
2) Inflation is lower now than it was when President Trump took office. This strongly suggests foreign suppliers are absorbing the cost of the tariffs-not the end consumer.
https://x.com/jacobhelberg/status/1949847182300926200

Jamie Dyer @JamieDyer89 - Thank you Brian. I needed to hear this today.
Quote
Brian May @Sirbrianmay
As long as you are worried about what others think of you, you are owned by them. Only when you require no approval from outside yourself can you own yourself. One of the greatest freedoms is truly not caring what everyone else thinks of you. Bri
https://x.com/JamieDyer89/status/1949784151214662035

Jason Whitlock @WhitlockJason - Cincinnati Music Festival Brawl Greenlit Anti-White Racism | Jason Whitlock Harmony
https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1dRKZYdrNvNxB
https://x.com/WhitlockJason/status/1949871219932860621

JD Vance @JDVance - When you're spending hours working overtime away from your family, the federal government ought to keep its hand out of your pocket.
That's exactly what's going to happen thanks to President Trump's working family tax cuts #NoTaxOnOvertime
https://x.com/JDVance/status/1949888885401497798

JD Vance @JDVance - An extraordinary record of peace from the President of the United States
Quote
Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh
BREAKING: On halting wars, President Trump says, "I'm averaging about a war a month."
Literally the peace president.
"This would be 6. I've stopped 6 wars in the past [6 months]."
"I'm gonna call the 2 PMs and speak to them right after this meeting [Cambodia and Thailand]. That was gonna be a very nasty war."
The war has been STOPPED, again.
https://x.com/JDVance/status/1949833993442013341
== 21 ==

#107072 at 2022-11-19 04:33:00 (UTC+1)
QR Bunker General #283: Dumbocrats MUST distract from Epstein’s [8] Associate's Unsealment Edition

>>106883 (LB)
>Former [Theranos] CEO Elizabeth Holmes sentenced to more than 11 years in prison DIG WORTHY

Those bold face names tho...

"Davila ruled that the reasonable total loss from 10 investors, including ==Rupert Murdoch and Betsy Devos==, totals $121million. A restitution will take place in the future. "
(Wut? The Amway Queen not rich enough?)

=="While charming investors, Holmes managed to convince ex-US Defense Secretary James Mattis and two former U.S. Secretaries of State, Henry Kissinger and the late George Shultz to serve on the Theranos board.
Mattis testified against her during her trial, and Shultz's son blasted Holmes for concocting a scheme that played Shultz 'for the fool.'"==

(Mattis fails to notice HE is the fool too)

"Among the 137 letters submitted to the judge was one from Evans and ==Senator Cory Booker==, with Holmes surrounded by her team of nine lawyers in the federal courtroom.
Evans begged for mercy for his partner, citing the couple's young son and the baby on the way."
(Never fear, Sparticus is near)

Sauce: https://archive.ph/cmLYQ

Poor lil "too pretty for jail" Lizzie, all knocked up (twice) for no good reason OR the only mother to ever be jailed? What an entitled little princess, will she be roomies with Jizzie?

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Question: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/06/James-Mattis-denounces-trump-protests-militarization/612640/ https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2020/06/02/senior-military-leaders-being-called-to-testify-to-congress-about-george-floyd-protest-response/ https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense-national-security/pentagon-distances-itself-from-trump-on-crowd-control-laments-murder-of-floyd https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/06/04/revolt-generals/ Riot [coordination] in select safe-zone cities [D] control mayor(s) [allow] staged event allow former-active MIL brass assertion of 'Unconstitutional' 'Threat to Constitution' _Mutiny MSM public optics 'staging' underway. ALERT readiness: severe-critical

Answer: ARCHIVES: THE ATLANTIC: James Mattis Denounces President Trump, Describes Him as a Threat to the Constitution In an extraordinary condemnation, the former defense secretary backs protesters and says the president is trying to turn Americans against one another. JEFFREY GOLDBERG JUNE 3, 2020 https://archive.fo/EIS4w James Mattis, the esteemed Marine general who resigned as secretary of defense in December 2018 to protest Donald Trumpâ€™s Syria policy, has, ever since, kept studiously silent about Trumpâ€™s performance as president. But he has now broken his silence, writing an extraordinary broadside in which he denounces the president for dividing the nation, and accuses him of ordering the U.S. military to violate the constitutional rights of American citizens. MILITARY TIMES: Senior military leaders being called to testify to Congress about George Floyd protest response Leo Shane III , Joe Gould , and Aaron Mehta 6/4/20 https://archive.fo/ciqon Angry lawmakers will summon top Pentagon leaders to Capitol Hill next week to explain what role military personnel will play in responding to growing demonstrations of racial unrest in major U.S. cities and whether President Donald Trump have overstepped his authority as commander-in-chief. â€œ(The president) is talking about going to war with the citizens of the United States of America, and that is troubling,â€ said House Armed Services Committee Chairman Adam Smith, D-Wash., in a conference call with reporters on Tuesday. â€œI am very concerned about what potential role the US military could play in amplifying this misguided rhetoric â€¦ Talking about the United States of America as a battlespace is wrong." WASHINGTON EXAMINER: Pentagon distances itself from Trump on crowd control and laments 'murder' of George Floyd by Abraham Mahshie | June 03, 2020 11:03 AM https://archive.fo/VaEo8 Esper also distanced himself from Trump by saying he did not support using federal troops to quell protesters. â€œI do not support invoking the Insurrection Act,â€ he said. â€œThe option to use active-duty forces in a law enforcement role should only be used as a matter of last resort and only in the most urgent and dire situations. We are not in one of those situations now.â€ Esper admitted that he regretted describing the use of National Guard troops for â€œdominating the battlespaceâ€ in a leaked call Monday with the president and governors. â€œIn retrospect, I would use different wording,â€ he said, describing the military lexicon. â€œItâ€™s not a phrase focused on people, and certainly not our fellow Americans.â€ WASHINGTON POST: Revolt of the generals By Jennifer Rubin Opinion writer June 4, 2020 at 1:30 p.m. UTC https://archive.fo/D9zGA We do not yet know precisely why Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper publicly broke with President Trump on Wednesday, renouncing the use of the Insurrection Act as a means to deploy the military against civilian demonstrators. We can surmise, however, that Pentagon brass was finally fed up and prevailed upon Esper to speak out. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley, who had accompanied Trump on his march across Lafayette Square, put out a memo on June 2, which read like a not-very-subtle rebuke of Trumpâ€™s attempt to use the military to suppress protesters [...] James N. Miller, a former undersecretary of defense for policy, announced his resignation from the Science Defense Board in the pages of The Post and upbraided Esper [...] Gen. David Goldfein, the Air Force chief of staff, and Lt. Gen. Jay Silveria, superintendent of the Air Force Academy, also spoke up this week in support of the protests for racial justice, with Silveria directly repudiating use of violence against fellow Americans. In addition, Air Force Gen. Joseph L. Lengyel, who heads the National Guard Bureau, put out a statement Wednesday entitled â€œWe Must Do Better,â€ denouncing the racism that has resulted in the deaths of so many unarmed African Americans, urging Americans to listen and learn and reminding us, â€œEveryone who wears the uniform of our country takes an oath to uphold the Constitution and everything for which it stands.â€ He declared that if they are to uphold their oath as service personnel and â€œdecent human beingsâ€ they must uphold the oath. [...] Former defense secretary Jim Mattis blasted Trump for dividing America and accused him of unconstitutional action.]

Extra Answer: SCREENSHOT: https://postimg.cc/KkdqwP0s How else can you flush out the sleeper (traitors) in the military? The ones who have been waiting to turn on POTUS? If this is correct, it's a sign that the DS is all out of options. Because this is an option of last resort. Art. 94. (Â§ 894.) 2004 Mutiny or Sedition. (a) Any person subject to this code (chapter) whoâ€” (1) with intent to usurp or override lawful military authority, refuses, in concert with any other person, to obey orders or otherwise do his duty or creates any violence or disturbance is guilty of mutiny; (2) with intent to cause the overthrow or destruction of lawful civil authority, creates, in concert with any other person, revolt, violence, or other disturbance against that authority is guilty of sedition; (3) fails to do his utmost to prevent and suppress a mutiny or sedition being committed in his presence, or fails to take all reasonable means to inform his superior commissioned officer or commanding officer of a mutiny or sedition which he knows or has reason to believe is taking place, is guilty of a failure to suppress or report a mutiny or sedition. (b) A PERSON WHO IS FOUND GUILTY OF ATTEMPTED MUTINY, MUTINY, SEDITION, OR FAILURE TO SUPPRESS OR REPORT A MUTINY OR SEDITION SHALL BE PUNISHED BY DEATH OR SUCH OTHER PUNISHMENT AS A COURT-MARTIAL MAY DIRECT. U.S. military law requires obedience only to lawful orders. Disobedience to unlawful orders (see Superior orders) is the obligation of every member of the U.S. military, a principle established by the Nuremberg and Tokyo Trials following World War II and reaffirmed in the aftermath of the My Lai Massacre during the Vietnam War. However, a U.S. soldier who disobeys an order after deeming it unlawful will almost certainly be court-martialed to determine whether the disobedience was proper. In addition, simple refusal to obey is not mutiny, which requires collaboration or conspiracy to disobedience.

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Question: Why is this relevant?

Answer: James Mattis arrived at the Yokota Air Base in February 2017 during his first overseas trip as Secretary of Defense. Is the broadcast center for the American Forces Network Tokyo radio service. Discuss military operations and prep for a response to NK posturing and/or attack.

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Question: What is the common denominator in terms of military backgrounds close to POTUS?

Answer: All Generals Marines: John Kelly, James Mattis, Joseph Dunford

Extra Answer: Military Intelligence

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Question: Who did POTUS meet with yesterday?

Answer: Sessions, Mike Pence, Rex Tillerson, James Mattis. President Trumpâ€™s schedule for 10/30/17 11:00 AM Receive daily intelligence briefing â€“ Oval Office 11:30 AM Meet with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson â€“ Oval Office 12:30 PM Lunch with Vice President Mike Pence and Attorney General Jeff Sessions -Private Dining Room 3:30 PM Meet with Secretary of Defense James Mattis

Extra Answer: SCREENSHOT: https://postimg.cc/dk7BMfkG Ronna Romney McDaniel, Chairwoman of the RNC

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Trump Tweets (6)

2020-06-04 21:20:20 (UTC+1)

The problem with asking for someone to give you a letter of resignation, which you do as a courtesy to help them save face, is that it is then harder to say you fired them. I did fire James Mattis. He was no good for Obama, who fired him also, and was no good for me!

2020-06-04 21:16:32 (UTC+1)

John Kelly didn’t know I was going to fire James Mattis, nor did he have any knowledge of my asking for a letter of resignation. Why would I tell him, he was not...

2018-09-04 21:18:08 (UTC+1)

The Woodward book has already been refuted and discredited by General (Secretary of Defense) James Mattis and General (Chief of Staff) John Kelly. Their quotes were made up frauds, a con on the public. Likewise other stories and quotes. Woodward is a Dem operative? Notice timing?

2018-09-04 20:37:09 (UTC+1)

Statement from Secretary of Defense, James Mattis: https://t.co/OneaxKCneV

2017-11-28 21:12:01 (UTC+1)

Remarks from the Roosevelt Room with @SenateMajLdr Mitch McConnell, @SpeakerRyan and Secretary of Defense, General James Mattis. https://t.co/lZMqK5jBvh

2017-07-20 15:27:40 (UTC+1)

Departing The Pentagon after meetings with @VP Pence, Secretary James Mattis, and our great teams. #MAGAðŸ‡ºðŸ‡¸ https://t.co/5d1MSzhjQS

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James Mattis

2018-12-19: Retired as Defense Secretary from White House

Source: https://www.resignation.info

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Appointment Made: 2010-01-06 17:45:00

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