HE'S INSANE. HE IS DANGEROUS. YOU ARE HIS STRENGTH.

YOUR SILENCE IMPLIES CONSENT

WHO IS THE REAL GOD?

You're in the army now: could Israeli orthodox Jews lose their exemption from military service?

Middle East Matters - France 24.


THEY DON'T HAVE TO FIGHT. THEY JUST CALL AND GOD DOES THE FIGHTING. RIGHT?

 

IF YOU WANT THE TRUTH ABOUT "GOD" AND WHO GOD FAVOURS, ARE YOU READY TO FACE REALITY?

 

COME WITH ME TO A MAJOR CANADIAN HOSPITAL. COME WITH ME TO THE CANCER WARD. OPEN YOUR EYES.

 

I SEE MANY ORTHODOX MEN AND WOMEN - THE LONG BLACK ROBES, THE TZITZES, THE PAIS.

 

I SEE WOMEN IN SARIS AND PANT SUITS, DOCTORS, NURSES AND TECHNICIANS AND PATIENTS WEARING THE VEIL. SOME OLDER PATIENTS WEARING THE BLACK HIJABS AND BURKAS.

 

I SEE BLACK, BROWN, WHITE, NATIVE AMERICAN AND ASIAN FACES, MANY IN WHEELCHAIRS.

 

I HEAR FRENCH, ENGLISH, MANDARIN, PUNJABI, FARSI, GERMAN, YIDDISH, HEBREW, ITALIAN, GREEK, RUSSIAN AND SOME LANGUAGES I CAN'T QUITE RECOGNIZE  - SOME ARE READING THEIR HOLY BOOKS. ALMOST EVERYONE IS FIDDLING WITH A SMART PHONE,

 

THEY ARE ALL FIGHTING FOR THEIR LIVES AGAINST CANCER.

 

SO TELL ME, WHY DOESN'T GOD SPARE HIS FAVOURED CHILDREN? WHY ARE WE ALL PRAYING FOR THE FRENCH, ENGLISH, JEWISH, MUSLIM, CHRISTIAN, CHINESE, ARAB AND IRANIAN DOCTORS TO SAVE OUR LIVES?

 

BY THE WAY - I AM A JEW AND A CHRISTIAN AND MY PRECIOUS ONCOLOGIST IS A FRENCH CANADIAN AND A DEVOUT CHRISTIAN. WE ARE ALL PRAYING - AND HOPING.

 

APPARENTLY GOD DOESN'T PLAY FAVOURITES.

THE CRIMES OF EVANGELICALS AND OTHERS WHO PRETEND TO SPEAK FOR GOD.


http://phylliscartersjournal.blogspot.ca/2017/02/the-crimes-of-evangelicals.html

http://phylliscartersjournal.blogspot.ca/2017/12/the-crimes-of-evangelicals.html

http://phylliscartersjournal.blogspot.ca/2018/01/in-jesus-name-i-would-support-hitler.html.

TRUMP IS SIGNALLING HIS NAZI BASE TO COMMIT MURDER

President Donald Trump on Monday night reportedly told evangelical Christian leaders there would be "violence" if Republicans lost their majority in Congress as a result of November's midterm elections.

 

Trump suggested Democrats would "quickly" and "violently" overturn gains he's made for conservative Christians, according to excerpts of the closed-door meeting obtained by NBC News.

 

"You're one election away from losing everything that you've got," Trump said, according to the NBC News report. "The level of hatred, the level of anger is unbelievable." Trump apparently went on to say that the midterm elections were not only a referendum on him.

 

If Republicans were to lose big to Democrats, Trump reportedly said: "They will overturn everything that we've done and they'll do it quickly and violently, and violently. There's violence. When you look at Antifa and you look at some of these groups - these are violent people."

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-violence-gop-loses-midterm-elections-control-of-house-2018-8

THE CRIMES OF EVANGELICALS AND OTHERS WHO PRETEND TO SPEAK FOR GOD.

http://phylliscartersjournal.blogspot.ca/2017/02/the-crimes-of-evangelicals.html

http://phylliscartersjournal.blogspot.ca/2017/12/the-crimes-of-evangelicals.html

http://phylliscartersjournal.blogspot.ca/2018/01/in-jesus-name-i-would-support-hitler.html

TRUMP COMMITTING A "FANTASTIC JOB" FOR PUERTO RICO

THE INSANE PRESIDENT'S FANTASY

ABOUT

3,000 DEAD HUMAN BEINGS

AMERICA'S TRAGIC MISTAKE

TRUMP HAS ABSOLUTE CONTEMPT FOR CANADIANS

President Trump is suddenly cozying up to Mexico on trade

President Trump's announcement of the latest developments in the NAFTA negotiations with Mexico on Monday was short on specifics, but the fuzziest bit is Canada's place in a trilateral trade deal that has been renegotiated by just two of the parties.

When he was finally connected with Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto, Trump was long on superlatives and praise for the new deal, promising it will be "very special" for American farmers and manufacturers.

But apart from a pledge to give NAFTA an "elegant" new name - Trump suggested the "U.S.-Mexico Trade Agreement" - the president was rather short on specifics.

The biggest changes resulting from the U.S.-Mexican trade negotiations involve the automotive sector. 

The fuzziest bit, however, is Canada's place in a trilateral trade deal that has been renegotiated by just two of the parties.

In his Oval Office remarks, Trump suggested that he is indifferent as to whether Canada signs on, talking about how much money the U.S. could make from a tariff on Canadian-produced cars, and again referencing Ottawa's "300 per cent" duty on U.S. dairy products.

But Pena Nieto had already reached out to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to ask that Canada rejoin the U.S. and Mexico in talks this week, and he reiterated that request to Trump in this morning's conference call.

"It is our wish, Mr. President, that now Canada will also be able to be incorporated in all this," Pena Nieto said via a translator.


https://www.cbc.ca/news/thenational/national-today-newsletter-nafta-us-mexico-iran-sanctions-1.4800110.

Trump has absolute contempt for Canada and Canadians. We must never kiss Trump's assets. Canada is a far more civilized and free and decent nation than the one he now owns. Never bow to dictators like the lunatic, Donald Trump. Let us hope that sanity returns to America and decent people find ways to erase even the memory of America's Tragic Mistake.

HOW PUBLIC OFFICIALS MURDER THE INNOCENT

Her First Day In Kindergarten Became The Day Of Her Funeral

By Barry Goldstein

 

August 21, 2018

 

The day scheduled for Mikayla's first day in kindergarten instead became the day of her funeral. 

 

This avoidable tragedy occurred because her father was a dangerous abuser who knew the best way to hurt Mikayla's mother was to kill Mikayla. Mikayla died because too many public officials minimized the risk because they did not have the knowledge or training necessary to protect domestic violence victims. The custody court evaluator said there was no need to protect Mikayla from her abusive father because his threats to kill her mother had nothing to do with Mikayla's safety. The custody court appointed mediator refused to help saying he knew people with more serious problems. Ultimately the judge gave the father the access he needed to kill Mikayla.

 

The court system that has failed to integrate fundamental scientific research to help protect children has a fundamental misconception of the contested custody cases they are dealing with. Most cases are settled more or less amicably. These involve good parents who do not pose a danger to the children. The problem is the 3.8% of cases that require trial and often much more.

 

Custody court professionals have been taught to treat these as "high conflict" cases by which they mean the parents are angry with each other and act out in ways that hurt the child. This has led them to invoke a variety of practices and programs to encourage the parents to improve communications and cooperate in parenting the child. The research is clear, a large majority of these cases are really domestic violence cases involving the most dangerous abusers; fathers who believe the mother had no right to leave and so they are entitled to do anything necessary to regain control.

 

The courts' misconception means they are pressuring victims and children to cooperate with their abusers instead of requiring abusers to change their behavior if they want a relationship with the child.

 

Catastrophic Consequences

Mikayla would want you to know that her murder was not a rare exception.  In the past ten years over 600 children involved in contested custody cases have been murdered by parents, mostly abusive fathers. 

 

Dr. Dianne Bartlow interviewed judges and court administrators in the communities where these tragedies occurred.  The judges interviewed tended to be the most interested and knowledgeable about domestic violence which is why they took the time to be interviewed. They were asked what reforms the court had created in response to the tragedy. The shocking response was none because they all assumed the local murder was an exception. This is the kind of mistake courts make when they are unfamiliar with current research.

 

Even worse, the same mistakes that lead to child murders more often expose children to domestic violence and child sexual abuse.  Most of these children survive but are silenced by the abusers so the courts usually are unaware of the harm they caused. Our courts make these mistakes in the most dangerous cases because standard practices tilt courts towards denying and minimizing true reports of abuse.

 

Critical Scientific Research

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention produced groundbreaking medical research concerning adverse childhood experiences (ACE).  The fundamental finding is that children exposed to domestic violence, child abuse and other trauma will live shorter lives and suffer a lifetime of health and social problems.  Most of the harm is caused not from the immediate physical injuries that courts tend to focus on, but living with fear that causes the worst kind of stress.

 

Our present level of cancer, heart disease, diabetes, mental illness, crime, substance abuse, suicide and other health and social problems is based on the long tolerance of behavior that would now be called domestic violence and child abuse.  Courts could lower the frequency of these scourges by protecting children from abusers. In most of these dangerous cases the courts minimize the harm, as the professionals who failed Mikayla did, because they are unfamiliar with this research.

 

The Saunders' Study comes from the U.S. Justice Department and was designed to consider the knowledge of domestic violence possessed by evaluators, judges and lawyers.  Saunders' found that many of the standard practices work poorly for children. Many and probably most court professionals do not have the specific knowledge needed to recognize and respond to domestic violence custody cases.  These unqualified professionals tend to focus on the myth that mothers often make false reports and unscientific alienation theories. The tragic result is that the courts often fail to recognize true reports of abuse and therefore cannot protect children like Mikayla.

 

Ironically, a bogus alienation theory that was concocted not from research but only from personal experience, beliefs and biases of a psychiatrist who made many statements encouraging sex between adults and children has been given more influence over court decisions than peer reviewed research from highly respected organizations.

 

The Safe Child Act Is the Solution.

The Safe Child Act is a comprehensive plan based on the current scientific research that most courts have failed to integrate.  The Safe Child Act would require courts to treat the health and safety of children as the first priority in all custody and visitation decisions.  Mikayla's court did not know how to recognize the health and safety risks so they focused on less important issues with devastating consequences. The legislation would require courts to integrate current scientific research like ACE and Saunders.  Although courts could and should already be doing this, by relying on the same small group of experts, many of whom have a financial interest in supporting wealthy abusers, many judges never learn about this information.

 

The Safe Child Act would also encourage a multi disciplinary approach that includes domestic violence advocates and child sexual abuse experts.  Present practices were adopted in the 1970s when no research was available. Courts turned to mental health professionals based on popular assumptions that domestic violence was caused by mental illness, substance abuse and the actions of the victim.  We now know the original assumptions were wrong. Psychologists, psychiatrists and social workers are experts in mental illness and psychology and that can be useful in many cases. A mental health degree does not provide expertise in domestic violence, child sexual abuse or medical issues.  Present practices are the equivalent of relying on a general practitioner when a patient has cancer or heart disease. The Saunders' research supports use of a multi disciplinary approach.

 

The Safe Child Act will require an early hearing in abuse cases that is limited to abuse issues.  Abusers would be prevented from distracting attention with less important, and often false issues. This would not create a serious burden in the court system because it covers a small percentage of all cases.  If the abuse reports are confirmed, the research demonstrates the safe parent should have custody and the abuser should be limited initially to supervised visits. This means that cases that now take many months or years would be resolved in a few hours and children would be better protected. This practice would save courts and parents enormous time and resources.

 

Judges and other court professionals would be required to obtain training based on current scientific research and would also need to learn to abandon the widespread misinformation they have repeatedly heard throughout their careers. States would provide additional funding for domestic violence agencies so they can take a larger role in training court professionals about domestic violence. The money would also be used to train advocates to serve as expert witnesses so this expertise would be available in individual cases.

 

Conclusion

Mikayla's case would have been so easy if the Safe Child Act could have been in place. The court would have been aware they were dealing with a particularly dangerous abuser. They could have focused on changing his behavior instead of asking the mother and daughter to accommodate his abuse. There would be no mediation with a dangerous abuser because that increases the risk. The court professionals would know how to recognize the risk and could avoid minimizing the danger.

 

I learned long ago that the worst sentences in our language start with "what might have been."  I hope the tragically short life of Mikayla means something to legislators who can pass the Safe Child Act.  Mikayla had a greatness about her and like most young children possessed unlimited potential. Until the court gave a dangerous abuser unprotected access.  We will never know what Mikayla might have accomplished. Years later, her mother, Leigh Block bears the unspeakable pain and sorrow to share Mikayla's story.  She does it because she continues to be inspired by her little girl. She does it because she doesn't want other mothers to suffer the way she has.

 

The public does not have a high regard for politicians, but in most cases our public officials originally were drawn to public service because they wanted to make the world a better place.  I think we can define this as a place where it is safe for girls like Mikayla to live a full life. I usually focus on facts and statistics and research. Today I am leaning on the emotion of Mikayla's story and playing on the emotions of my readers.  I do that because I would rather you shed tears from a murder many years ago than from one tomorrow. I am deeply touched that my friend, Leigh Block is so dedicated to passing the Safe Child Act because she knows this is what Mikayla needed all those years ago.

JUSTICE FOR VICTIMS OF PEDOPHILES - START WITH CASTRATION

Abolish the Statutes of Limitation for sexual assault and rape.

A grand jury report has just revealed that more than 300 "predator priests" from six dioceses in Pennsylvania have sexually abused thousands of children over the past eight decades. But because of the statute of limitations law in Pennsylvania, charges have only been filed against two priests. The rest will get away with raping and sexually assaulting little boys and girls under the protection of church officials.
    

In Pennsylvania alone, victims over 18 have 12 years to report that they were sexually assaulted or raped. Victims under 18 who were born before August 27, 2002 have 12 years after their 18th birthday to report. And victims under 18 born after August 27, 2002 have 32 years after their 18th birthday to report.

Statutes of limitations on rape and sexual assaults are a predator's best friend and a victim's worst nightmare. An overwhelming amount of sexual violence - an estimated 63% - goes unreported and a pervasive rape culture is responsible.

As we work to reduce the impact of social silencing mechanisms, we must eliminate laws that bar many sexual assault survivors from seeking the justice they deserve.

The election to the highest office in our country of Donald J. Trump - a known sexual predator - cast a great shadow over justice for survivors of sexual assault. It is incumbent upon us all, now more than ever, to take real action to show the most vulnerable people that we stand with them. 

HOW MUCH LONGER WILL HUMANITY LET THIS MONSTER LIVE?

Syrian President Bashar al Assad has committed just about every war crime under international law. His worst atrocities involve banned chemical weapons. This past February, we brought you this story, about one of those massacres. It is hard to watch, and it is not for small children, but the story is important to see because chemical assaults have now become routine in Syria with 200 reportedly occurring over seven years. In November, Syria's ally, Russia, shut down the United Nations investigation into who is responsible. But our investigation continued. We found a number of witnesses to a nerve gas attack that happened on April 4, 2017.

 

"Some people were fainting completely unconscious. There were cases of trembling and convulsions, foam coming out of the respiratory tract and mouth. Some people appeared to be already dead."

The images were shot by a Syrian Civil Defense volunteer. So many victims fell at once, first responders used fire hoses to wash them. There was a chance, a small one, that stripping contaminated clothes and dowsing the skin might save a life. These are the people of a small farming town called Khan Shaykhun.  They fell after a warplane dropped a bomb nearby. They're civilians. There's no military target here. But the village does lie in territory held by rebels fighting against the dictatorship of Bashar al-Assad.

 

 SYRIAN CIVIL DEFENSE

What is striking is the number of children. Inhaling just a hint of the gas overwhelmed their nervous systems. All of their nerves fired at the same time, muscles seized, and paralyzed lungs left their last breath stuck in their throats.

 

The civil defense worker with the camera is repeating the name of the village—Khan Shaykhun, Khan Shaykhun—as though he feared the atrocity itself might be washed away and forgotten.

 

Edmond Mulet: Very early in the morning, between 6:30 and 7:00 in the morning on the 4th of April-airplanes were flying around and over Khan Shaykhun.

 

Edmond Mulet led the investigation of chemical attacks in Syria for the United Nations and the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons.

 

Edmond Mulet: We have these airplanes flying; these bombed launched. More than, 100 people were killed. More than 200 people were affected, mainly children and women

 

The emergency response was coordinated by the famed White Helmets, civil defense volunteers, supervised by Mustafa al-Haj Yousef.

 

Mustafa al-Haj Yousef: Some people were fainting completely unconscious. There were cases of trembling and convulsions, foam coming out of the respiratory tract and mouth. Some people appeared to be already dead.

 

He counted the bodies of more than 30 children.

 

Mustafa al-Haj Yousef: There were young children. I was treating them, but it was already over. The doctor who was with us there said: 'Leave them, they're dead.' Young children, three months, four months, five months, some two years old.

 

The day before the attack, warplanes bombed local hospitals, ensuring a longer trip to medical care. White Helmet volunteers loaded those still gasping onto a truck -- with 30 miles to go to reach one of the nearest surviving hospitals, where Dr. Abdulhai Tennari was working.

 

Dr. Abdulhai Tennari: There were patients who had lost consciousness. Patients suffering from shortness of breath. People were doing CPR. There were many children, women, the elderly. Every age. From the very first minute, we were positive that the gas that was used was sarin.

 

Sarin nerve gas was invented in a Nazi program. In 1997, sarin and other chemical weapons were banned by international law.

 

Scott Pelley: Tell me about some of the patients from that day that are still in your mind.

 

Dr. Abdulhai Tennari: The case that affected me the most was one where there were two girls who were five and six years old. They seemed to be sisters. They were brought to the hospital and I started doing CPR right away, but it was clear that the two girls had died hours ago. 

Dr. Mamoun Morad told us:

 

Dr. Mamoun Morad: A boy arrived gasping for breath, with foam coming out of his mouth and with pinpoint pupils. We washed the boy. We washed and we washed and we washed. We gave him what treatment we could, and tried to resuscitate him but he didn't make it.

 

Scott Pelley: Weren't you concerned about being exposed yourself?

 

Dr. Mamoun Morad: The situation is more desperate than I can describe. There are no words. It was like Judgment Day, the Apocalypse. You just can't even describe the scene, can't even begin to scratch the surface of explaining what happened. We didn't have any protective equipment for gas.

 

Scott Pelley: You're feeling the effects of this even now?

 

Dr. Mamoun Morad: Yes. My voice. Do you hear my voice?

 

The Khan Shaykhun attack drew immediate retaliation from the Trump administration, which fired 59 cruise missiles into a Syrian airbase. But only hours later, according to doctors and witnesses, the Syrian dictatorship dropped another banned chemical weapon, a chlorine bomb. The worst of the chemical attacks came in 2013, when 1,400 civilians were killed by sarin near Damascus. In response, the U.S. and Russia pressed Syria to hand over its chemical weapons. 1,400 tons of poisons were destroyed. So the attack on Khan Shaykhun should not have been possible. The head of the U.N. investigation, Edmond Mulet, told us the Syrians had an explanation.

 

 

Edmond Mulet: The Syrians have been claiming since the very beginning that this incident in Khan Shaykhun was staged. It was something that was created by the opposition, by the rebels, by the terrorists in order to blame the Syrian government. They claimed that the bomb that created the crater was an IED, an improvised explosive device, that was placed on the surface of the-- of the road-- of the asphalt that morning, that IED contained sarin and that's how it was released, but it did not come from an aerial bomb.

 

Evidence at Khan Shaykhun was gathered by the White Helmets. Chemical attacks have become so common that advanced equipment and training are being provided by an international charity called Mayday Rescue. 

 

Mohammad Kayal: We collected samples from the body of the missile, and a soil sample. We also took a sample from the clothes of the affected, as well as animal samples, a cat, a pigeon. We took hair as well.

 

And, the samples were all positive for sarin.

 

Scott Pelley: Why was it so important to you to document what happened in the village?

 

Mohammad Kayal: Our job is to be humanitarians. The goal of the strike was to target civilians. It didn't target fighters on the front. We must document a chemical strike such as this one, so we can show the entire world.

 

 

We spoke to the U.N.'s Edmond Mulet about three hours before he lost his job. Russia, the Syrian dictatorship's chief ally, ended Mulet's investigation with a veto in the security council. Russia called his investigation's results "very disappointing."

 

Scott Pelley: Who's using the sarin?

 

Edmond Mulet: Only the Syrian government.

 

Scott Pelley: How do you know that?

 

Edmond Mulet: Well, the investigations we have conducted have proven that the sarin that has been used in Syria has come from the original stockpile that was produced and created and distilled by the Syrian government some years ago. We have been able to determine and compare what had been used in the field recently in Syria with the original stockpile, and they matched completely.

 

Scott Pelley: Does anyone else in that theatre of war possess sarin gas, to your knowledge?

 

Edmond Mulet: No. No, nobody else. Because it's so difficult to produce, you need very sophisticated and big laboratories to do that. The manipulation of the sarin is extremely complicated. It's extremely volatile. One single drop here right now would be killing everybody in this studio immediately. So, it's not anybody that can do that.

 

 

One question not answered by the U.N. investigation was 'why.' Why resort to a war crime? To find out we traveled into the province where Khan Shaykhun is located. Idlib province, largely controlled by an Islamist extremist group, Hai'yat Tahrir al-Sham.

 

Here we found the dictatorship had used conventional bombs against hospitals and schools, in addition to the nerve gas in the neighborhoods.

 

So what's the point of using the world's most grotesque weapon on civilians, on children? This is a refugee camp in rebel-occupied territory inside Syria and there are hundreds of them, they dot the landscape. Millions of Syrians have been forced from their homes. The Assad dictatorship is essentially clearing out any part of the country that it cannot control. Bombing the hospitals kills the here and now. Bombing the schools kills the future and dropping sarin suffocates whatever might have been left of hope.

 

We found Abu Hassan in a refugee camp with his family, at least what remained of his family. He lost two adult sons and a grandson in the gas at Khan Shaykhun.

 

Abu Hassan: My son, they brought him to a hospital in Turkey and he died. His brother, who came to rescue us, well he got dizzy, collapsed and he died. My grandson also died.

 

His wife, Um Hassan told us:

 

Um Hassan: My sons were young and these are their children. What was the fault of these children to live without a father? What was their fault?

 

Scott Pelley: How do you explain this to these children?

 

Um Hassan: What can we tell them? This one was injured with us. I told [one] your father is dead. He said: "Don't tell me dad is dead! Don't say that dad is dead!" But, what can we tell them, how can they understand? We have a neighbor, poor woman, her children, her grandchildren.  All 12 in the house died, not a single one lived, not a single one.

 

 

Edmond Mulet: This is a crime against humanity using chemical weapons. if we allow this to happen in Syria, this might happen somewhere else and if impunity prevails and people can carry out doing these things without any consequences, this might give ideas to others and I've said this to the Russians. This will happen in many of your own Republics in the future if you don't help to put an end to this right now.

 

But, impunity does prevail. Bashar al-Assad will soon win the war. He may remain president or step down in the course of negotiations, but, either way, victors never face judgment. Still, even without a war crimes trial, the evidence will remain indelible.

 

Produced by Nicole Young and Katie Kerbstat.
CBS NEWS

DONALD TRUMP IN DEBT TO PUTIN FOR DECADES

Author Craig Unger talked about his new book, 'House of Trump, House of Putin,' Trump's historical ties to Russia, and how the American president and Putin "are bound by more than just an authoritarian streak" in an interview Wednesday night with CNN's Don Lemon.

 

The KGB and its current form, the FSB, have been "partnering with Donald Trump" for over 20 years, according to Unger. He said the president has been laundering money for the Russians and the Soviet Union before that. Unger said the best way to launder money is real estate.

 

"Trump says he has no contacts with Russia. I found 59 people and -- who were in a meeting between Trump and Russia. And I traced them over the years. And I found not just hundreds of millions, perhaps billions of dollars in money laundering from the Russian mafia using Trump properties," he reported.

 

 

 

"They approached him as a powerful businessman, and that was sort of it," Unger said of the Soviets. "And I believe it started out as laundering money. When the Soviet Union crumbled, there were enormous amounts of flight capital that needed to be laundered. And what is the best way to launder money? It is through real estate."

 

DON LEMON, CNN: So President Trump made a move today that wouldn't be out of place in a dictatorship, revoking the security clearance of a prominent critic. But my next guest claims Vladimir Putin and President Trump are bound by more than just an authoritarian streak. Joining me now is journalist Craig Unger, the Author of the book, "House of Trump, House of Putin: the Untold Story of Donald Trump and the Russian Mafia."

 

Good evening. Thank you for coming on.

 

CRAIG UNGER, AUTHOR: Thanks for having me, Don.

 

LEMON: So you make some shocking claims, suggesting that the Russians have been cultivating Donald Trump for decades. Explain that.

 

UNGER: Right. Well, I think it was a story of the greatest intelligence operation of our time, and it goes back more than 30 years. And I wanted to see how it began, and why it began, and I went back to 1984. And for the first time, you see a man, who's a member of the Russian mafia meet with Donald Trump in Trump Tower.

 

This is just after Trump Tower opened and it was the glitziest building in America. And he comes in and he buys five condos, paying all cash. And this is the first time Donald Trump properties have been used to launder money for the Russian mafia.

 

LEMON: OK. So you're saying his property is being used to launder money from the Russian mafia. And that's not what CNN is reporting. That's you're reporting and what you write in the book. But you draw a lot of the lines. Do you have any -- what proof of that do you have?

 

UNGER: Absolutely. Well, you know, Trump says he has no contacts with Russia. I found 59 people and -- who were in a meeting between Trump and Russia. And I traced them over the years. And I found not just hundreds of millions, perhaps billions of dollars in money laundering from the Russian mafia using Trump properties.

 

But you had criminals living in Trump Tower and the FBI was chasing mobsters. They found that oh, they weren't living in Brooklyn. They were living in Trump Tower. And this went on for more than 30 years. I found 59 people. And one of the key parts of this, one of the most important things that I want people to really understand is the Russian mafia is not like American mafia.

 

It's not like what you see in the Godfather. The Russian mafia is a state actor. Russia is often called a mafia state. And ahead of that -- so they are working for Russia, in much the same way the CIA...

 

(CROSSTALK)

 

LEMON: You said this is starting in 1984, right?

 

UNGER: Right.

 

LEMON: So it might seem farfetched to people that the Russians would run an operation that would survive the fall of the Soviet Union and it would go on, you know, for years after that. Are you giving them too much credit or are they that crafty?

 

UNGER: They are that crafty, the KGB. This started under the KGB, which is a precursor to the FSB. But as the Soviet Union was crumbling, the KGB made plans on how to survive the turmoil the Soviet Union was going through. And one of the ways they did that was they started huge corporations. And a number of those people were trading commodities.

 

But there were really veterans of the KGB. And now these people came alive again, and 20 years later, you see them partnering with Donald Trump.

 

LEMON: So but why would the Russians be interested. At least that early on in 2016, I think we sort of, you know, figured out why. He didn't like Hillary Clinton. He said he is (Inaudible) that he wanted Donald Trump to win. But why would they be interested in someone like Donald Trump, especially starting back as far as 1984.

 

UNGER: Well, back then he was just a businessman. They approached him as a powerful businessman, and that was sort of it. And I believe it started out as laundering money. When the Soviet Union crumbled, there were enormous amounts of flight capital that needed to be laundered. And what is the best way to launder money? It is through real estate.

 

And Donald Trump created an empire that became a money laundering machine. Trump Tower became a money laundering cathedral. This was his way of doing business, and it was a win-win situation. They saved him. He was $4 billion in debt at one point. And the Russian mafia came to his aid.

 

LEMON: So back in 1987, 1987, there was a lot of speculation that Donald Trump would run for President. As a matter of fact, he spent $100,000 of his own money. He was running ads in major newspapers, criticizing American foreign policy, saying that we spend too much money protecting our allies. Even back then, though, he was striking a tone that would be in line with Russian goals.

 

UNGER: Absolutely. And that came just after his very first trip to Russia. And I went back and tried to examine how that came about. And it was -- came about through Ambassador (Inaudible) who was then Ambassador to (Inaudible) of the United Nations. And he and his daughter just went up to Trump Tower. They didn't have an appointment.

 

This was very unusual in terms of protocol at that time. And they met with him. They flattered him. They said why don't you do the same kind of thing in Moscow. And they flew him over. And during that trip, I later talked to General Kalugin, who had been head of counter intelligence of the KGB. And General Kalugin told me that Trump had lots of fun with lots of women, and he was reasonably sure that the KGB had compromise from that visit in 1987.

 

LEMON: Craig Unger, the book is House of Trump, House of Putin. Thank you so much for joining us. It's the untold story of Donald Trump and the Russian mafia. We appreciate it, sir. When we come back, President Trump revoked John Brennan's security clearance without consulting the CIA or his own Director of National Intelligence. And my next guest says, quote, his corrupt purpose is to silence dissent.


https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2018/08/16/craig_unger_untold_story_of_trump_russia_partnership_laundered_money_via_his_real_estate.html

 

GREEDY MEN ARE DESTROYING LIFE EVERYWHERE

John Knauss is with Hori Moke and 32 others.

THIS IMAGE SHOULD BE SEEN BY THE WHOLE WORLD

While magazines and TV chains report about the lives and love affairs of movie actors and actresses, football players and other celebrities, the Chief of the Kayapo tribe heard the worst news of his entire life:

Mrs. Dilma, the president of Brazil, has given her approval for the construction of an enormous hydroelectric central (the world's third largest one).

This means the death sentence for ALL the tribes living at the shores of the river because the barrage will flood more or less 988,421 acres of the forest. More than 40 000 natives will have to find other living surroundings where they will be able to survive. The destruction of the natural habitat, the deforestation and the disappearance of several species of plants and animals will be a fait accompli.

We know that a simple image is the equivalent of a thousand words, it shows the price to be paid for the "quality of life" of our so-called "modern comforts." There is no space in the world anymore for those who live differently. Everything has to be smoothed away, that everyone, in the name of globalization must lose his and her identity and way of living.

If this enrages you, I urge and implore you to "SHARE" this message to all your friends, relatives and acquaintances.

Thank you in the name of life, nature and biodiversity.

http://amazonwatch.org/take…/stop-the-belo-monte-monster-dam


This report was posted in March, 2013. Has anything changed?

5 Shares

THE FILTHY CRIMES OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH

"I was 40 years an insider in this church. I was 23 years in the religious life and 14 as a priest. So I saw it from the inside. I was sexually abused by three different men in the religious life. And I knew what was going on on the inside. And it was just abject corruption from the get-go. This church is a criminal enterprise, that actually covers up the massive sexual abuse of children for centuries." -

Former Catholic priest Bob Hoatson.

Democracy Now. PBS.

 

WE HEARD THESE STORIES WHEN I WAS A CHILD MORE THAN 50 YEARS AGO. IT COULD NOT HAVE HAPPENED IF MILLIONS OF FOOLS HAD NOT LET IT HAPPEN.

NO ONE IS TALKING NOW ABOUT ALL THE MURDERED BABIES BURIED SECRETLY BY THEIR NUN MOTHERS.

AMERICAN LOBSTERS

THE WATER IS HEATING UP. THE WALLS ARE CLOSING IN. YOUR  HUMAN RIGHTS ARE BEING SMOTHERED, CRUSHED ONE BY ONE.

DICTATOR TRUMP IS PUTTING HIS HENCHMEN IN ALL POSITIONS OF POWER AND ELIMINATING ANYONE WHO DARES TO THINK AND SPEAK THE TRUTH, ANYONE WHO CHALLENGES HERR DRUMPH,

AMERICA'S FREEDOMS ARE BEING SWALLOWED UP.

THE PEOPLE HAVE FORGOTTEN THE HOLOCAUST.

THESE ARE AMERICA'S FIRST DAYS OF DARKNESS AND DEATH.

PUTIN WILL RULE AMERICA. HIS PUPPET, TRUMP, MAY NOT LIVE TO ENJOY THE BITTER FRUIT OF HIS DEVIOUS EFFORTS.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/15/politics/john-brennan-security-clearance/index.html.

EVIL IN A NUT SHELL - THE WORST VILLAIN ON EARTH

Beyond Putin. Beyond Assad. Beyond Hitler.

This one will destroy Everything.

WE ALL KNOW HIS NAME.

AMERICA IS MURDERING CHILDREN. DO YOU CARE ?

From headlines: A U.S.-backed Saudi-led airstrike in Yemen has bombed a bus carrying a group of children, killing at least 43 civilians, mostly children under the age of ten

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Democracy Now!