Q: WHY ARE SPIES POKING THE BEAR?

A: PEOPLE PAY TO SEE BEAR BAITING

We all should be wary not afraid of the new Red Scare.

War profiteers love military escalation. Period. Peace is the last thing the Military and Intelligence Industrial Complex desires. The bloated DoD and its black ops brethren in the surveillance state departments are a grotesque Ponzi Scheme sold to U.S. citizens through propaganda, so they willingly pour more and more money into it. War industries make HUGE profits for supplying grief and destruction, when they are not being overpaid to provide nothing. What an amazing scam and a horrible waste of resources.

"Bipartisan allegations that Trump is a 'puppet' of or 'compromised' by the Kremlin have grown into latter-day McCarthyism with grave threats to America and the world.

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Meanwhile, Cohen can find no facts or logic to support the following six related allegations leveled against Trump as having been (implicitly) treasonously “compromised” by Putin’s Kremlin..."

Kremlin-Baiting President Trump (Without Facts) Must Stop

(Stephen F. Cohen @ The Nation.com)

"It’s hard to put into words how strange it is to watch the very same people — from both parties, across the ideological spectrum — who called for the heads of Edward Snowden, Chelsea Manning, Tom Drake, and so many other Obama-era leakers today heap praise on those who leaked the highly sensitive, classified SIGINT information that brought down Gen. Flynn."

The Leakers Who Exposed Gen. Flynn’s Lie Committed Serious — and Wholly Justified — Felonies

(Glenn Greenwald @ The Intercept.com)

"The American people have to know that there's a game going on inside the intelligence community where there are those who want to separate the U.S. from Russia in a way that would reignite the Cold War," Kucinich said. "That's what's at the bottom of all this. It's early in the morning, it's Valentine's Day, but wake up America!"

'Wake Up!': Kucinich Says Intel Community Making 'Unprecedented' Effort to Upend Trump

(Dennis Kucinich on Fox News)

We should be waging peace!

Waging Peace/Tax Havens

(RalphNaderRadioHour.com)
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P.S.

Greenwald discussing leak hypocrisy and political insanity
on Democracy Now!
(DemocracyNow.com February 16, 2017 show)

"Former FBI agent and whistleblower Coleen Rowley says there's a difference between leaking and whistleblowing, and it's likely that the former took place in the ongoing power struggle between the deep state and the executive branch of government."
Did the Deep State Facilitate Flynn's Resignation?
(The RealNews.com)

DEVOS = DEBACLE

Her appointment is a travesty.

Here's an excellent summing up by Diane Ravitch, former Assistant Secretary of Education.

Ravitch: Democrats Helped Pave the Way for Privatization Crusader Betsy DeVos

(TheRealNews.com interview)

TRUE FICTION

Civilization has always been a little dystopian, it just seems more in your face these days.

Rethinking Orwell’s 1984 and Huxley’s Brave New World in Trump’s America

(Henry A. Giroux commentary at Ragazine)

ANOTHER BRICK IN THE WALL

President Trump’s “Great Wall” ignores a key reason why desperate Mexicans and Central Americans flee north – the history of U.S. military and economic intervention that has created poverty and repression, notes William Blum.

What Trump's 'Great Wall' Misses

(Consortiumnews.com)

BACK IN THE SADDLE

If you're rooting for the Democrats, you should know they're mostly just Republicans who are lying to you.

Aggressive Progressives
on the weakness of Democrat resistance

(Youtube.com)

Tom Perez Apologizes for Telling the Truth, Showing Why Democrats’ Flaws Urgently Need Attention
(Glenn Greenwald @ TheIntercept.com)

PRESIDENT

Matt Taibbi talks to Chris Hedges about his new book and

The Election Show.

"Insane Clown President"

(On Contact video interview)

It's a Bird... It's a Plane... It's The Donald in the News!
Crimes of the Trump Era (a Preview)
The 25/8 News Cycle Is Already Rolling, 
But the Looting of America Hasn’t Really Begun
(Tomgram: TomDispatch.com)

I FEEL HAPPY

I'm seeing everything pretty clearly now. Trump's plans to empower and protect the little people who supported him start with giving more power to billionaires and cronies. That's never worked before, but our new president seems special.

p.s. Now where did I leave those pesky meds?