RedSpawn

Here you go.....start from the top....down. http://www.bridgebase.com/forums/topic/76754-analyse-this/#

I have reviewed the 1st PBS article and it says the CIA approved Bush's speech giving the ultimatum to Saddam Hussein in 2003. It also says the CIA was one of the several advisers to the President on the Iraq WMD matter and war military strategy, but it doesn't suggest or intimate the tailoring of intelligence estimates to the President's whims. I will review the remaining links in a few moments. Don't overlook the possibility of monetary hegemony and the American petrodollar imperialism as an underlying reason for the march towards the Iraq War. MrAce has a separate forum topic dedicated to this and it is quite provocative. See link below: http://www.monetary.org/was-the-iraqi-shift-to-euro-currency-to-real-reason-for-war/2010/12 http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/the_big_idea/2006/10/that_axis_of_evil.html

Wow! Lottery as your 401(k) retirement plan.....who would've thought? http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/business/lottery-win-is-retirement-plan-for-34-of-poll-respondents-1.2517046

Seriously, why is personal finance a required class in high school in only 4 states? One would think that personal finance classes would be a curriculum requirement. Financial literacy is a lifesaving skill EVERY high school graduate needs to get through this thing called LIFE regardless of chosen occupation or life path. http://business.time.com/2013/10/10/why-we-want-but-cant-have-personal-finance-in-schools/

And the heavy price America paid in human lives and fiat currency for the politicization of the intelligence communities during that time period.

Umm, Winston, please provide a source for this assertion. This is too big to let it stand on the faith of your own word. The CIA doesn't have a parent agency in the federal government hierarchy so it doesn't have to surrender to the President's whims though it must work with the President as a team on matters of national security and defense. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Intelligence_Agency https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_agencies_of_the_United_States_government

Federal grand juries get carte blanche; they don't need probable cause just merely a suspicion of a crime being committed. Sad, but true. UGH!

Correction: Normally the Rights to Financial Privacy Act (RFPA) would apply to a run-of-the-mill, plain-vanilla subpoena; however, for every rule there is an exception. And the RFPA has exceptions. <_< And of course, the exception IS the federal grand jury subpoena. UGH! Federal grand juries get broad investigative powers that pre-empt the Fourth Amendment and normal legal standards for procuring evidence. Federal grand juries do not need probable cause, they can investigate matters with merely a suspicion of a crime being committed. They get a legal short-cut! Source: http://m.wallerlaw.com/portalresource/lookup/wosid/cp-base-4-60904/media.name=/What%20to%20Do%20When%20a%20Client%20Receives%20a%20Federal%20Grand%20Jury%20Subpoena.pdf Source: http://federalevidence.com/pdf/LitPro/GrandJury/Grand_Jury_Manual.pdf Source: https://www.justice.gov/usam/usam-9-11000-grand-jury#9-11.142 Source: http://federalevidence.com/pdf/LitPro/GrandJury/Grand_Jury_Manual.pdf

Agreed, so when will we have a viable, fully electable 3rd party separate from the blue/red paradigm we are currently ensnared in?

Yes and 13 Western intelligence sources confirmed Iraq (Saddam Hussein) had weapons of mass destruction and yet all 13 of them were wrong on the matter which lead to an extended war campaign costing approx. US $1 trillion and loss of lives--all built on faulty intelligence. Read George Bush's speech giving the ultimatum to Iraq before we went to war. Our confidence and resolve in this matter was compelling, but we were wrong on so many levels. Our mindset changed since 09/11 and our need to respond militarily and get revenge for that day of infamy took precedence over our need to get our facts right. http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/wariniraq/gwbushiraq31703.htm http://static.neatorama.com/images/2006-11/iraq-civil-war.gif How do we know that the same intelligence sources have gotten their facts right THIS time especially when no governmental authority has examined the breached DNC server? Confirmation bias is REAL and very expensive and afflicts intelligence agencies too! http://media.economist.com/sites/default/files/cf_images/GA/2006w28/AxisofEvil.jpg

http://freebeacon.com/politics/congress-demands-investigation-obama-admin-meddling-foreign-elections/ https://spectator.org/obamas-meddling-in-foreign-elections-six-examples/ https://www.scribd.com/mobile/document/341866712/Lee-Inhofe-Letter-to-Secretary-Tillerson#from_embed ==> official letter from U.S. Senate about our potential foreign election meddling in Macedonia. Gauntlet dropped. Let the investigations begin and the subpoenas for banking records flow. Follow the money.

How dare you suggest even the slightest appearance of impropriety about our foreign election meddling? We had noble intentions and acted in good faith and in the best interests of the affected people. {sarcasm included} See http://freebeacon.com/politics/congress-demands-investigation-obama-admin-meddling-foreign-elections/ https://spectator.org/obamas-meddling-in-foreign-elections-six-examples/ https://www.scribd.com/mobile/document/341866712/Lee-Inhofe-Letter-to-Secretary-Tillerson#from_embed ==> official letter from U.S. Senate about our potential foreign election meddling in Macedonia. American exceptionalism allows us to meddle in other countries' elections without expecting any chickens to come home to roost in our federal elections.

https://epic.org/privacy/rfpa/ Nope, under the Right to Financial Privacy Act of 1978 (RFPA), bank records are afforded federal protection unless it can be shown that the search warrant is needed for an act of international terrorism and that would fall under the USA Patriot Act. However, there is some interesting information about special inquiry judges under the state of Washington. The spirit of the law is that the prosecutor must notify the suspect through the subpoena so that he may have legal standing to challenge its reasonableness. Source: http://blogs.seattletimes.com/today/2014/12/washington-justices-to-consider-warrantless-searches/ Federal law provides protection of bank records under RFPA which was passed AFTER the US Supreme Court ruled that bank records weren't covered by the Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution since they were property in the custody of financial institutions and not of free Men. Congress was so alarmed by this ruling that they used their legislative powers to overturn it with RFPA.

Has he subpoenaed President Trump in this matter?

http://www.federalcriminallawyer.us/2010/10/15/seizure-of-bank-records-with-federal-search-warrant/ It says probable cause is needed for search warrants of bank records involving federal crimes. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_Laundering_Control_Act. Money laundering is a federal crime.

Correction: One was a Russian-American. More specifically, a Russian-American lobbyist whose activities and bank records we have yet to subpoena and vet. And still no one has answered how in the world a former Soviet military counterintelligence officer was granted American citizenship in the 1st place. And how is he allowed to be in Washington D.C. to influence politicians? Also, are we suggesting that Akhemtshin was under the control of the Russian government? Is he an American who now works on behalf of Russia as a "foreign" agent? Is he a spy? What exactly is he? http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/15/politics/who-is-rinat-akhmetshin/index.html

Mike, We can discuss the ideology of race, but we can't have a serious discussion about this notion until the United States acknowledges that it has consistently depended on a permanent underclass to subsidize and fuel the entrepreneurial spirit and growth of this nation. Through the institution of slavery, African-Americans were earmarked from the 1700's as a viable permanent underclass who were initially denied education, provided horrendous living conditions, denied any legal standing in courts since they were chattel property, and were provided leftover pig entrails as "nutritious food" for a day's work. America has to admit that up until the late 1860's, it was quite comfortable institutionalizing the subjugation of a group of people based solely on their skin color and legally requiring that they (and their children and their children's children) provide their labor FREE OF CHARGE for the greater economic prosperity of this nation. It took a CIVIL WAR to end slavery. Lincoln said he freed slaves to preserve the Union not for a higher moral reason such as all men are created equal (See quote at end of post). How long do you think it would take for the nation to change its deeply ingrained attitudes about these 'colored' people who were the cause of so much consternation, civil unrest, and war? First, it was slavery which provided America with a seemingly inexhaustible supply of FREE labor to build the nation (and cultivate plantations) from the late 1700's up to the Civil War. Then in the South, after Reconstruction, you had 100 years of Jim Crow and persistent segregation to protest the federal government freeing slave labor and meddling with the political structure of sanctioned slavery and racism in the South. How dare the federal government reclassify chattel property (slaves with no legal standing in court) and grant them second-class citizenship and a chance at the American dream? Once the sovereign federal government sanctioned this peculiar institution for almost 100 years and also sanctioned 2nd class citizen of African-Americans for another 100 years between 1860's to 1960's, exactly what type of mindset would one expect the larger society to have about these people who were, in part, the cause of this nation's civil unrest? Let me repeat, 100 years of slavery and 100 years of 2nd class citizenship through the 1960's. Would a reasonably prudent person expect the population to eliminate their cultural biases about race, power, class, superiority, and inferiority overnight or even in three generations (60 years)? With the stroke of a pen by Abraham Lincoln, chattel property became destitute, impoverished citizens with no assets, no fiat currency, no wealth, no recompense, and definitely no forty acres, and no mule! Literally, most freed slaves didn't have a pot to piss in nor a window to throw it out of as previous slaves couldn't even own homes. Property can't own property, remember? So what type of estate planning do prior slaves perform to help their future generations? Oh, that's right, freed slaves don't have estates, they used to be chattel property who worked for free on someone else's. {sarcasm} And overnight, the nation embraced African-Americans with open arms into society because collectively the nation wanted them to be free and wanted them to have equal participation in the American dream such as living wage jobs, decent housing, adequate education and legal standing in civil and criminal courts. Second, we have from the 1860's to 1960's where African-Americans were allegedly free citizens and no longer chattel property, but you have a nation that had gotten quite complacent and comfortable with exploiting that readily identifiable permanent underclass. Do you think hiring practices changed overnight? How did the institution of sharecropping pop up so fast in the South? Do you think industries realigned themselves to embrace these new 2nd class citizens whose prior work history was "SLAVE"? Do you think Wall Street and Main Street embraced these individuals for employment prospects, small business lending, and capital wealth building opportunities? Do you think unions quickly embraced these 'colored' citizens into their membership? To make matters worse, in the South segregation prevailed unabated from the 1890s to the 1950s. After the 1890s, nearly all southern blacks lost their right to vote through measures such as poll taxes, literacy tests, and the white primary. For the next fifty years racial segregation prevailed, reinforced by disfranchisement, official coercion, and vigilante terror (ummm, lynching). In addition, starting in 1913 with the presidency of Woodrow Wilson, who had close ties to the South, the federal government imposed racial segregation in government offices in Washington, D.C. So you can tell the public's sentiment about the 'colored' people's socioeconomic status post Civil-War. 'Colored folks' don't sit next to white folks in federal government offices and in Montgomery Alabama 'colored' folks need to sit at the back of the bus even though they paid the same fare as other races. And colored folks need to use different substandard restroom facilities from others. Old Dixie was not going to let go of her ethnic notions of race since she understood who was to be the permanent underclass in America. Old Dixie didn't have to terrorize 'colored people' with white hoods, white robes, and burning crosses to instill fear; she attacked their minds through institutional segregation. What the federal government couldn't legislate and still can't legislate to this day is society's acquisition of attitudes about race and ethnic notions post segregation. The institution of slavery is long gone but the legacy of assigning ethnic notions of sex, power, poverty, politics, social class, and dare I say, intelligence to race remains. Race is the white elephant in the room that most communities prefer not to discuss because it involves charged language and a shameful past that defies logic or any rational explanation for how an oppressed people wouldn't suffer post-traumatic stress disorder or develop a dangerous pathology under such long-term diabolical customs and traditions. Most citizens would rather soon forget that history existed, pretend as if the playing field in the game of life in America was always level among different races, and marvel at the amount of growing social dysfunction in the African-American family. One should look at this dysfunction through the lense of the cumulative effect that structural and persisting slavery and racism had and continue to make on the psyche, mindset, societal treatment, family bonding and development, and transferred wealth of a group of people whose ancestors were chattel property in this great nation. Lincoln's Letter to Horace Grant Source: http://www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/speeches/greeley.htm http://millermockingbird.wikispaces.com/file/view/nick2.gif/386652832/265x274/nick2.gif Just a gentle reminder of the South's sentiment about accepting the Negro into its institutions.

Actually, I think Bush's hire of Michael D. Brown to ultimately be FEMA chief in 2003 is a fine example of demasscracy and nepotism. He, his Katrina emails, and his nonexistent disaster recovery work experience was a HOT ASS MESS as Americans (initially called refugees) lost their lives because of the botched federal rescue response to Hurricane Katrina. http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/11/03/brown.fema.emails/ https://www.usnews.com/news/the-report/articles/2015/08/28/hurricane-katrina-was-the-beginning-of-the-end-for-george-w-bush

http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/orr-academy-basketball-lou-adams-nbc-news-chicago-violence-437663683.html You want analytics and deep analysis from fluff journalism?

We can't get to guilt or innocence until you first establish probable cause which is a legal standard that must be met to gather evidence protected by the Fourth Amendment in the 1st place. We are a nation of laws, not of men. Where is the probable cause? Make the case that you have probable cause that Trump directly has laundered money with the Russians. I would love to hear the basis for a subpoena request of his banking records for say, the last 5 years. I'm all ears....

This is a clusterf%%k. We don't vet Trump until he does the unthinkable. When the carnival barker & vulgar yet disgusting snake oil salesman wins the federal election THEN we let the witch hunt and special investigator Mueller loose to really do what should have been done on some level during the Presidential campaign season. Asking to pull Trump's personal tax forms and peruse all of his banking account activity because of the Kushner scandal doesn't make sense because no one has shown that President Trump directly had colluded with the Russians. Innuendo is nice and guilt by association is an even more persuasive logical fallacy but I can't prosecute or indict or call a special investigator or subpoena bank records for Hillary or her foundation for the unseemly unethical behavior of her husband with Loretta Lynch at the Phoenix tarmac. Therefore, unless there is proof that President Trump directly had colluded with Russia, why does a special investigator want Trump's personal bank records to prove that money laundering exists when he doesn't have probable cause that Trump has laundered money? Bill is a disbarred lawyer who allegedly knows the law and knows that the secret rendezvous with Lynch was ex parte communication and a violation of the McDade-Murtha Amendment, but even so, I can't attribute his culpability in this matter to Hillary, even if deep down I believe they are One. Let's remember when this occurred, Lynch didn't recuse herself from the server investigation but agreed to accept the results of the FBI investigation. She also didn't launch a special investigation to get to the bottom of her own professionally unethical behavior at that Phoenix tarmac. That's the beauty of being an Attorney General. You aren't legally obligated to investigate your own transgression and professional misconduct. We are forced to accept her narrative that she was meeting with her former boss in the dark of night to discuss family and old times. Sigh! Show me the smoking gun or probable cause that Trump DIRECTLY laundered money with Russians and then I will understand the personal bank records witch/warlock hunt we seem to be launching.

http://www.pyapc.com/bsa-can-ctr-exempt-phase-vs-phase-ii/ Here are the businesses that can NOT be excluded from the Currency Transaction Report: Auctioning of goods Chartering or operating ships, buses, or aircraft Engaging in gaming of any kind, such as selling lottery tickets Engaging in investment advisory or investment banking services Engaging in union activities Operating a pawn brokerage Operating real estate brokerage, title insurance activities, or real estate closings Practicing law, accounting, or medicine Purchasing or selling a motorized vehicle of any kind Serving as a financial institution, such as a check-cashing company Didn't Trump own a business known as Trump Entertainment Resorts, Inc. and wasn't it a CASINO as in the gaming business. If it was making money OR HEMORRHAGING money from casino gaming, wouldn't it have cash deposits/withdrawals of $10,000 from gaming proceeds/payouts. My guess is that it was hemorrhaging money since it filed for bankruptcy in 2004, 2009 and 2014. (every 5 years). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_Entertainment_Resorts And furthermore, as Trump was in the construction business working with several contractors, some legitimate and some shady as hell, some of them were wanting payment in cash. I'm not buying that the government wouldn't have enough CTR's from both construction companies and his casinos to get a good idea about the going-ons of Trump Entertainment Resorts, Inc. http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/05/donald-trump-2016-mob-organized-crime-213910 ===> He's been tied to the construction industry too long to avoid any and all CTR's. We just haven't acted on it until now.

Each time Trump or any of his business entities that he owns moves over $10,000 between financial accounts, there are electronic Currency Transaction Reports (CTRs) that are sent to the Department of Treasury (IRS) about it. Surely there should be enough CTR's of deposits and withdrawals between 1980 and 2017 to figure this out, by now? That is over 37 years of data for depository and withdrawal information. So you telling me with this stringent reporting standard filed to the Department of the Treasury under the Bank Secrecy Act, we still are in the dark about where Trump's money goes to and comes from for an alleged billionaire? Seriously? If Trump has been laundering money through shell companies that he owns, then someone at the Department of the Treasury has been asleep for decades! But oh that right, the government gets another hall pass. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_Secrecy_Act

So we need a special investigator and contracted consultants to figure out what IRS agents can't even when Trump's filed tax forms for several years are under audit review? Very interesting...

No, sir. You lay off the wine. Stop asking me to accept some dossier file reeking of conspiracy theory on Trump but anything I present to you with the FBI fingerprints all over it about blackmailing US citizens which is PROVEN you are quick to dismiss. Your own supplied quote said Trump was entrapped on acts of sexual misconduct and even mentions blackmail for his business dealings but now you want to suggest that Russia would never use such compromising intelligence against Trump to blackmail him for favorable treatment? Only blackmail for the money laundering, eh? And I show you our own government will blackmail a leader for sexual misconduct and tell him through innuendo in written letter to commit suicide to try to stop the Civil Rights Movement. It was 50 years ago, but you do realize that our own government declassified this horrendous, contemptible letter in 2014, right? How can I prove things to you when our government classifies its own dirt for 2 and 1/2 generations (50 years)? Winston, if you don't want to acknowledge THE TRUTH of some of America's ugly history, then you are doomed to be a victim when our government OR OTHERS repeat similar behavior and you don't ask the tough questions that need to be asked. Earlier, I asked you who in the U.S. government authorized a dangerous former military counterintelligence official from the Kremlin, Akhmetshin, to be granted American citizenship in the 1st place? You provide no answer for the government's incompetence in this matter. The U.S. government gets a hall pass on this Kushner scandal and how this allegedly dangerous man emigrated from Russia to America to even be a part of the scandal. Hmmm.