From the jungles of Vietnam to the deserts of Afghanistan - - -
An American Army helicopter flying over Helmand Province, Afghanistan.
Credit
Andrew Renneisen/Getty Images
The
United States has been at war continuously since the attacks of 9/11
and now has just over 240,000 active-duty and reserve troops in at least
172 countries and territories. While the number of men and women
deployed overseas has shrunk considerably over the past 60 years, the
military’s reach has not. American forces are actively engaged not only
in the conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Yemen that have
dominated the news, but also in Niger and Somalia, both recently the
scene of deadly attacks, as well as Jordan, Thailand and elsewhere.
An additional 37,813 troops serve on presumably secret assignment in
places listed simply as “unknown.” The Pentagon provided no further
explanation.
There
are traditional deployments in Japan (39,980 troops) and South Korea
(23,591) to defend against North Korea and China, if needed, along with
36,034 troops in Germany, 8,286 in Britain and 1,364 in Turkey — all
NATO allies. There are 6,524 troops in Bahrain and 3,055 in Qatar, where
the United States has naval bases.
Active and reserve service members stationed overseas ;
Japan - 39,980, more troop reside here than in any other foreign country.
Afghanistan - 11,965 The US is engaged in training and counter terrorism operations.
Ieaq - 7,602 The US combat missions here ended in 2010, so remaining troops are officially advising and training Iraqi forces.
Note: as of June 30, 2017. Source: Defense Manpower Data Center (NY Times)
The U.S. Has Troops in Nearly Every Country - - -
America’s
operations in conflict zones like Africa are expanding: 400 American
Special Forces personnel in Somalia train local troops fighting the
Shabab Islamist group, providing intelligence and sometimes going into
battle with them.
One member of the Navy SEALs was killed there in a mission in May. On Oct. 14, a massive attack
widely attributed to the Shabab on a Mogadishu street killed more than
270 people, which would show the group’s increased reach.
About 800
troops are based in Niger, where four Green Berets died on Oct. 4.
Many
of these forces are engaged in counterterrorism operations against
the Taliban in Afghanistan, for instance; against the Islamic State in
Iraq and Syria; against an affiliate of Al Qaeda in Yemen.
Total military personnel worldwide - 1,302,941. The figures reported here include personnel serving in the U.S. Army, Navy, Marine Corps. and Air Force. However they do not include military contractors or private army personnel.
So far,
Americans seem to accept that these missions and the deployments they
require will continue indefinitely. Still, it’s a very real question
whether, in addition to endorsing these commitments, which have cost
trillions of dollars and many lives over 16 years, they will embrace new
entanglements of the sort President Trump has seemed to portend with
his rash threats and questionable decisions on North Korea and Iran.
For that reason alone, it’s time to take stock of how broadly American
forces are already committed to far-flung regions and to begin thinking
hard about how much of that investment is necessary, how long it should
continue and whether there is a strategy beyond just killing terrorists.
During earlier wars, including Vietnam, the draft put most families at
risk of having a loved one go to war, but now America has all-volunteer
armed forces. Less than 1 percent of the population now serves in the
military, compared with more than 12 percent in World War II. Most
people simply do not have a family member in harm’s way.
Since 9/11, American leaders have defined the fight against terrorism as a permanent struggle against a permanent threat. But the rise of ISIS in Iraq and Syria and a resurgent Taliban in
Afghanistan led to renewed engagement, though at lower troop levels.
Terror attacks here and in Europe, have reinforced the public’s sense of siege.
The military is essential to national security, but it is not the only
thing keeping America safe. So do robust diplomacy and America’s
engagement in multilateral institutions. The Pentagon, by contrast, thrives. After some belt-tightening during
the financial crisis, it has a receptive audience in Congress and the
White House as it pushes for more money to improve readiness and
modernize weapons. Senators who balk at paying for health care and the
basic diplomatic missions of the State Department approved a $700 billion defense budget for 2017-18.
Whether this largess will continue is unclear. But the larger question
involves the American public and how many new military adventures, if
any, it is prepared to tolerate.
A version of this editorial appears in print on October 23, 2017, on Page A20 of the New York edition with the headline: America’s Forever Wars.
And people are beginning to question - Where is the Threat?
The 2000 Global Report published in 1980 had outlined “the State of
the World” by focusing on so-called “level of threats” which might
negatively influence or undermine US interests.
Twenty years later, US strategists, in an attempt to justify their
military interventions in different parts of the World, have
conceptualized the greatest fraud in US history, namely “the Global War
on Terrorism” (GWOT). The latter, using a fabricated pretext
constitutes a global war against all those who oppose US hegemony. A
modern form of slavery, instrumented through militarization and the
“free market” has unfolded.
Major elements of the conquest and world domination strategy by the US refer to: 1) the control of the world economy and its financial markets, 2) the taking over of all natural resources (primary resources and nonrenewable sources of energy). The latter constitute the cornerstone of US power through the activities of its multinational corporations.
Secret drone bases are proliferating on foreign soil, flying devices like armed MQ-9 Reapers and a myriad of others. The progress of the covert agenda seems to be going as planned.
NOTE - these perceptions were in the immediate aftermath of the event. Some may be disproved now, but most are still relevant and still worth considering..
Shooting in Las Vegas; too many questions already. Motive seems to be elusive.
- One shooter or more? Police scanners reveal police were frantically talking about other areas for source of shots. The fourth floor? Center of the hotel? Other floors? The roof?
- 32nd floor windows were broken in two separate rooms. Shots came from both rooms? Why would Stephen Paddock rent two rooms? Was someone else present in the other? Would he have ran between the two rooms during firing?
- Why does the FBI say he registered one certain day, and hotel records show he was there 3 days earlier?
- Did he try to register in other hotels during other concerts? Did he, in fact, really book rooms personally in Chicago overlooking the Lollapalooza Festival in August? Or was that a set-up ala Lee Harvey Oswald?
- Why 23 rifles in the room? Some AK47s. The massive arsenal was believed to include an AR-15, four DDM4 rifles, three FN-15 rifles and Sig Saur rifles. Were they samples being offered for a potential sale? To terrorists? To who?
- Was Stephen Paddock an illegal arms dealer?
- Maybe they were going to be bought by ISIS?
- Was Paddock converted to Islam on one of his cruise trips to the Middle East? Was Marilou Danley with him?
- Who was the earlier visitor to Paddock's room? The buyer? Food was ordered for two, was that to enable a camera to be placed in the hallway on the food dolly?
- How did he install cameras in the hallway without being noticed? Did he have the equipment with him to use wireless camera transmission?
- How did Paddock get all that weaponry into his room without suspicion?
- Why did Police stand down when they were on the 30th floor and wait a long time before moving to 32? Waiting for SWAT? Who told them to wait?
- Videos have different sounds from separate weapons firing? Obviously different weapons. Could ONE shooter use BOTH rifles at the same time?
- Why 1600 rounds of ammo in his car and 50 pounds of explosives? Who put it there and when?
- How did Paddock have a continual run of decades as a successful gambler?
- Was he actually laundering money? Then for who?
- Why haven't his two former wives and two other brothers been interviewed?
- Did the $100K wire transfer go to Japan or the Philippines? If to his girlfriend, Marilou Danley, what did she use it for?
- Who was the 'other woman' seen with Paddock before the event? Was she the one who told concert goers that they were going to die tonight?
- Who is the hotel security guard Jesus Campos who was supposedly shot
in the leg and said, 'he got into it with the shooter.'? The FBI said
200 rounds came through the door! But the door is in pristine condition
in photographs! Campos is not talking since and there are no medics who
can attest that they attended him even virtually all military say even
one .223 round would probably shatter his leg!
- Police shut down elevators quickly but did someone simply leave the 32nd floor suite and just enter a different room on another floor after killing Paddock?
- Why haven't the FBI triangulated the trajectory of the bullets from holes in the concert grounds and other incidental targets?
- Is there a conflict of beliefs between Sheriff Lombardo of the Clark County, Las Vegas Police and the overseeing FBI agent Aaron Rouse?
- Who really shot Stephen Paddock? And was he killed before the shooting actually started?
Why did all this happen? Too many questions and not enough answers.
Who is thinking 9-11?
Not me.
addenda 1 -
[ Someone??? keeps taking videos down from this blog - saying it is unavailable - I will repost when I access them again if I can find it, but meanwhile here is another one - how many simultaneous guns? - with the same info especially the audio! You needn't stay with it all, but pay particular attention to the sounds at the time marks mentioned below. YouTube now has many missing videos of this shooting, and this one has audio which differentiates the weapons during the firing! ]
Are the shots at 3:17 - a handgun shooting out the windows in one room? and then at 3:38 the other window in the adjoining suite? (If you hear one at 3:12, is it the two REAL shooters killing Stephen Paddock)
Listen carefully at 3:50 - an AK-47? Then at 4:40 we hear TWO separate rifles firing simultaneously! an AR-15 with a bump-stock firing AND an automatic? How does one guy do that?
Hmm?
How is it that we only hear the first sirens at 9: minutes in?
addenda 2 - (Oct 10)
The FBI has not released any surveillance video of the Vegas shootings or hotel security video.
What's more, many witnesses who had their cell/smart phones taken by the FBI got them back today, (Oct 12) but they have been completely wiped clean of all info!
Are you starting to think false flag or what?
No, not me either.....?
Is the FBI blowing a smoke screen? Are they the ones we can't trust?
Why did Marilou Danley, Paddock's GF list the FBI as her place of employment?
Hmm (2)
addenda 3 - (Oct. 14)
Now Jesus Campos, the Mandalay Bay security guard who, it was first reported by the police, had stopped the shooting from the 32nd floor suite, 10 minutes after it started, and had been supposedly shot by Paddock, is missing! He disappeared after cancelling several TV appearances.
And it is now revealed that he was shot 6 minutes BEFORE the shooting! Further questions are being asked if Campos was ever actually a real security guard at Mandalay Bay, or indeed, even registered in the State of Nevada as all security needs to be by law!
Reporters at his home were told by someone that they were not allowed to talk about it! Was Campos part of the scheme and up there on floor 32 as a lookout and to ensure that the shooters escaped before police or SWAT got up there?
Is Campos about to be 'suicided'?
Just still wondering.
Hmm (3)
addenda 4 - Oct 15
An eye witness who was at the Route 91 Harvest Festival and was convinced there were multiple shooters has been found dead in her bed at home. Kymberley Sochumel survived the shooting unhurt, went home and posted her report on facebook. She was found by her grandmother in the morning. Her death has been suggested to be caused by a brain aneurysm. She was 28. Her post was going viral until it was taken down.
nervous Sheriff - evil eye FBI Rouse
There has been some suggestion of conflict between Las Vegas Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo and FBI Special Agent in charge, Aaron Rouse. If you see the video of this media, you will see that Lombardo seems absolutely terrified of creepy Rouse and the FBI Agent's evil eye never leaves Lombardo for a minute!
Who wrote the words for Lombardo and why is he under such scrutiny? Hmm (4)
7/14/2020addition some folks have good audio of this and have said you can here Rouse whispering to Lombarbo - 'Don't go there' - at one point.
addenda 5 - (Oct 16)
And now who are these guys at the Tropicana? Cops? They don't act like cops, don't even act like they are trained? FBI? Private security? What are they up to? Why are they carrying a stretcher? Can they point a machine gun at patrons with impunity? Who are the last two guys?
Watch the Outer Light video and see what you think? > real SWAT team? or not? [ Someone??? keeps removing this video from this blog - you might still see be able to click my link and see it here or go to YouTube direct and seach for - SWAT Team enters Tropicana after Las Vegas Strip shooting - watch it then come back decide if that is a real SWAT team or something else? - ]
This is truly a WTF! moment! Notice how nonchalant the casino people are? Body language. Totally NOT believing they were in any danger. Like they KNEW this was going to happen. No one moves away from the main group. Were they taking that stretcher somewhere to remove a body that should not have been there? Also suspect that some of those gangster looking guys with their hands up were part of this action to make the 'parade' seem real???
On the night of the event, there were many police calls of other shooters
in Caesar's, Bellagio, NY NY and several of an active shooter at Tropicana. Were they real or planted
confusions to scatter the first responders?
Hmm (5)
addenda 6 - (Oct 17)
Now the parking valet, Chad Nishimura, after saying Paddock only had regular bags when he arrived and that a car was positioned at the hotel just before the shootings, has also disappeared. The official narrative says he has not disappeared but no one knows where he is.
Paddock had been allowed as a heavy gambler,?? (someone saying this, not me) to have access to a service elevator. Why would a hotel do this? Was it to accommodate heavy packages taken to his room? Who did it? Does that elevator need a key or code to operate? Was it to allow a secret escape when police would be covering all the regular elevators?
Oddly, when referring to CCTV or requests of any video, Mandalay Bay staff say “Video of the incident area was not available due to camera/equipment malfunction”.
[Some people are still wondering what happened to the over 200 videos the FBI confiscated from surveillance cameras the morning of 9/11 at the Pentagon. so it is easy to believe videos disappear] Or GET disappeared in this case too!
- Paddock complained about loud music on floor 31,
below his own suite, the night before. He had to call twice before security had it shut
down. Why would Paddock have complained twice about the music? Was it a
test to see how soon a phone complaint was acted upon? First time XX
minutes? Second call X minutes? Important to know how much time the
shooters had until they needed to escape into that stairwell to go up
one floor into another suite?
Hmm (6)
addenda 7 - (Oct 29)Two witnesses who survived the shooting have been killed in a car crash near their Riverside California home. Their vehicle was immediately engulfed in flames, Dennis Carver, 52, and wife Lorraine,
53, died together less than half a mile from their home after crashing into a metal gate.
According to the Riverside County Fire Department, their vehicle
crashed just outside their community at 10:50 p.m. on the
20000 block of Avenida De Arboles. It took firefighters nearly an hour
to completely put out the fire, the department said in a statement. No comment on why the fire was so intense. WTF?
No report on what kind of car they were driving. The road evidently turned in one direction but their car veered the opposite. Modern cars can be hacked and completely taken over by remote persons.
[Some might recall the crash of journalist Michael Hastings' Mercedes that was suspected to have been electronically hacked in an engineered crash because of his political investigations into military corruption at the top.]
Danny Contreras, another eyewitness present at the concert who identified more than one shooter has been found dead in a vacant home of multiple gun shots.
Nov30
Yet another witness has died in a car accident. No one knows where any other witnesses are, or employees, or cops who were there. Total shut down. Nothing to see here folks, move on ....?
addenda 8 - (Dec 6)
Tucker Carlson in Vegas asking questions which only birthed more questions. Watch this - - -
Hmm (7)
(This video has also been removed, saying it is private. Does YouTube have authority to monitor and dismiss news events? This is NOT action from the time, but reporting at a later date. (03/31/2023)
How did the second adjoining door get locked if Paddock killed himself? The SWAT said they had to breach both doors. Why would a policeman discharge his gun if the window shooter (Paddock?) was already dead? Why was there TWO shooting positions? Why did a Mandalay Bay executive sign the special permit papers for a concert across the street? WHERE was the LV SWAT team on the night? Why were they held back on the 30th floor instead of doing what they are trained for; going into immediate action. Was it to allow the real shooters to simply exit room 32135 into the stairwell where they just went to rooms on the floor below or above to sit out the night?
It never ends but you can now follow by the stink.
addenda 9 - (Jan 15)
It has been revealed that Paddock was an arms dealer, exactly one of my first suspicions, [my theory that he THOUGHT he was going to do an arms deal and that's why he was induced to bring so many weapons into his suite, but he was duped by the real plot and the men he met were the shooters who simply killed him first as part of their plan to kill many others from the vantage point of his suite. By the time the shooters were in action, Paddock may have been already dead.] There is still no accepted motive for the shootings. There are newly revealed emails that prove he was selling weapons, even referring to an AR15, a US military weapon, a Kalashnikov and 17 or more other rifles including with bump-stocks, making them semi automatic. At least two on tripods. Hmm? He also had a huge cache of military Grade .223 caliber ammunition. Seems like no one but the police still believe Paddock was the shooter.
so many weapons
Paddock's girlfriend, Marilou Danley deleted her facebook account; The first calls about the shooting rolled in at 10:08 p.m., according to police. At 2:46 a.m., her account was deleted entirely. But it wasn't until nearly an hour after that — 3:30 a.m. — that police released Paddock's name to the public. The question is what did she know about Paddock really?
More to investigate: Why was the SWAT team held on the 30th floor when the shooting happened from the 32nd floor? (and then they didn't turn out to be a SWAT team at all) Wouldn't you want them closer, like right below? Was that because someone KNEW the shooters were going to take that stairwell so close to rooms to the 31st floor (or 33rd) to their own rooms? We need to know who exactly was registered in those 31st floor and 33rd floor rooms. People need to see the whole guest list! What persons checked out right after the event?
addenda 10 - (Jan19)
Yes, it is never gonna end, each day more questions arise and each day feeble answers and disinformation appears. Now they are blaming the shooting on ISIS, and then the FBI says Paddock had child pornography on his computer, after first saying his computer had NO Hard Drive! how does that work?
Doesn't this sound like a continuing coverup to you? Can we trust the FBI?
Hmm (8)
Study the floor plan on floor 32 - suite 135 -
Scenario - You are an arms dealer, there to make a deal on weapons. You bring them in over a period of days to your suite via a service elevator. But has Paddock been duped? The 'buyers' need to see all of what you are offering including ammo. You'll know the weaponry is very varied. You order food to seem normal. Two men visit to view the products, pretending they are the buyers, satisfied that they have all they need, they simply kill Paddock with a handgun, and set up to shoot people at the concert below. Set two rifles on pods, shoot out the windows and go on with the serious shooting. Who knows who they really are?
Having killed many, they need to escape, but not run for it, only need to hide for a while.
Look where the stairwell is to that apartment suite entrance, (my orange circle) only steps away. They can exit to the stairwell, and go down to floor 31 easily, or up to floor 33 easily. Probably in less than a minute!
Once secreted, perhaps in separate rooms, they need only to act like tourists until they can leave, saw nothing heard nothing, taking no weapons or evidence with them. They tricked Paddock into providing exactly what was needed?
The blame can now be dispersed to anywhere you want it.
addenda 11 (Feb12)
Now it seems that the autopsy on Paddock, concludes that he had anti anxiety medication in his system. This does not seem odd to me if you follow my premise that he was going to meet men to sell arms to, especially that he had so many 'sample' weapons in the suite. You might want to be calm and cool when dealing with international terrorists or hard core criminals buying weapons of mass destruction.
What IS very odd, is that the autopsy says Paddock's time of death was at 1200 hours on Oct 2, 2017 the day AFTER the shooting, 14 hours later! And since it was released, it has disappeared again. So how could that be?
Go back and look at the Tropicana Strange Video above at about 10:00. What is that stretcher for? Who are those guys? Especially the last two? Where are they sneaking off to?
This is not going away.
Hmm (9)
addenda 12 (Mar 8)
On and on it goes. Why are we not getting any forensic information? Now it is being said that Paddock had TWO separate wounds in his head, like he killed himself twice. (sounds like he was suicided to me) Apparently some people were killed with 9 mm bullets, nothing like would come from those AR 15 and AK47 rifles. It is becoming obvious that a complete coverup is taking place with this one and the cry from the hinterlands is that it was all orchestrated by the so called Deep State to enable gun control throughout America. And there is still no video of Paddock around or in his hotel.
Hmm (10)
addenda 13 (Mar30)
Some recently released pics -
L to R - escape to stairwell door - Rm 135 - Rm 134. Notice door light on right door is broken and hanging by its wire.
The main door has been breached but we can't see any bullet holes in it or the standing door as evidence of a shoot out with SWAT?
Are there other pics with the doors full of holes???
Also in this pic, you see Paddock's room 135 straight ahead, the adjoining room 134 behind the food trolley on the right, and importantly, the door to that escape stairwell on the left. (notice the plates - dinner for two. Camera under plate with wire leading into room 134 NOT 135.)
Paddock bringing in more large suitcases, full of weaponry? If he was planning on a simple shooting, why did he bring so many? Unless they were to show as sample wares, like a secret gun dealer might have to show buyers?
Paddock tucked his leg under after suicide?
It would be standard procedure for an illegal gun dealer to always wear gloves so as never to leave prints on a weapon destined for criminal activity? Why are the guns scattered in such a mess? The weapon on the pod is aiming at a CHAIR and yet the shell casings are positioned in such a way as to suggest they ejected right there!
The FBI probably knows but we don't; like how many of those rifles were actually loaded? Which ones were actually used, why would Paddock have used one and then chosen another?
How does a guy kill himself or even be shot by others and then fall down with his leg UNDER the tripod of the rifle?
Why has there been no evidence of anyone analyzing the trajectory of the
shots? Simple TV detective work, find holes in wood, cars, people and
stick a thin dowel in that hole to see exactly where the shots came
from. What if there proved to be two different directions of the shots?
It never ends, does it? And instead of resolving itself through transparency, it only becomes more complex, yet intriguing. Why? Because of cover-up?
Hmm (11)
addenda 14 (Jul 17) 2018
Just when the Main Stream Media (MSM) did what they were told and obediently forgot the mass shootings in Las Vegas, and the FBI, DHS and others were hoping it was over and their coverup was yet once again successful and they thought the public was no longer interested and virtually NONE of the important questions were answered, Here We Go Again;
MGM Resorts International claimed in a new lawsuit that it has no
liability in any of the injuries or deaths in the October 1, 2017 mass shooting
in Las Vegas.
The company, which owns Mandalay Bay and the Route
91 Harvest festival venue, argued that its security vendor took all
necessary precautions, approved by the Department of Homeland Security,
for “protecting against and responding to acts of mass injury and
destruction,” according to the suit acquired by the Las Vegas
Review-Journal.
The company is suing more than 1000 VICTIMS of the attack! Whaaaa?
The media usually jumps on things like this, but silence is the new norm in American media. WTF again?
“I’ve never seen a more outrageous thing, where they sue the victims in
an effort to find a judge they like,” attorney Robert Eglet, who
represents some of the victims, told the Review-Journal, accusing MGM of 'judge-shopping' in federal court, rather than state court where he
believes any lawsuits should be filed.
Any investigations into the shootings seem to be fading into oblivion with the many other violent actions of whomever is doing it _ _ _ _ _ ? (insert your own perpetrator) Although some are still working on what info is available, one analyst has equipment to visually see the audio profile of the shots and has proved without doubt that semi-automatic weapons were shooting from two separate locations. (Taxi with dash-cam in driveway of Mandalay Bay; YouTube)
on a building near the venue
Is the Devil sign always there?
Can you even TRY to believe the narrative assigned to you?
Hmm (12)
(and some prominent players are irate in thinking that Trump doesn't trust the FBI?. Do you?)
addenda 15 (Aug 06) 2018
I know most people don't even read this far. Not because they are not interested, but because many don't want to face the truth of today's society. Or they are afraid the FBI is watching them because they believe this to be an anti-something website that would be under surveillance by the secret police. lol. But if you are with me this far, you might begin to agree about a massive coverup. I have not changed any earlier posts in what I initially believed to match or prove anything with later info, but what I thought at the beginning of the tragedy, and it still holds right now, even though much new info has been added. But you can see why there are so many suspicions right away.
A police report from Vegas comments that they now (finally) believe there was more than one shooter.
And there are new videos just released of police actions on the day. One of them shows police body cam footage, which generally shows the walls and ceiling view, little of what is important, and even a little bit of view showing them going into an STAIRWELL door while the description says they are breaching Paddocks suite! And another of FBI and Security in a stairwell, waiting to head toward the shooter(s) ALL are looking down, even pointing guns down the stairwell as if someone is coming UPWARD to them. Then they go into the carpeted room hallway. Creeping along expecting something, but in no way in a hurry. And they are not SWAT, but police and some plainclothes. Some even say this is staged! We hear audio that tells us they are on the 31st floor! Saying the shooting is from the 30th floor below!
And now there are rumors about the Sheriff Joe Lombardy's actions and integrity. (DISinformation?)
Just more Hmms. (13)
Really? Notice that Aaron Rouse is reporting this.
If anyone saw the press video on the first days, where the Sheriff is talking, and Rouse stares at him the whole time, and if that isn't the evil eye I don't know what is. It is like Rouse has his finger on a button that will cause disaster to Lombardi if he has any variation from the prescribed speech. Lombardi is sweating blood.
Check out the pic of the two of them above.
It may be over for the FBI, but not for the millions who saw it all on social media, much of it before parts were removed.
It will go on because the conclusion shows no sign of investigative imagination or intelligence. And nothing so far points to ISIS, or any other international terrorist organization being involved.
Hard not to despair when some interested people believe the FBI are the new world Mafia.
Addenda 17 (July 21) 2019
So here we are, almost two years later and no one seems any more cognizant of what happened than before, including major news media. What seems more agreed in MSM, alternate media and social media, is that somehow, for some reason there has been a massive cover-up of the true event. The police have now closed the case without a motive for the crime.
So many things have come to light that we need at least to acknowledge. It seems that Stephan Paddock, brought as many as 21 hard bags up to his room in a short period of time, most filled with lethal weapons. As well as computer cases and smaller items. Each time they seemed way too heavy for being clothing etc. Mostly they went up on the service elevator on a dolly.
During the week he was there at the Las Vegas hotel and had the two rooms rented, he also drove forth and back to his home in Mesquite, a short distance away, several times, and some of those times he stopped at the Ogden Hotel between home and Vegas, where he had also rented rooms for that week! What was he doing there? And he seemed to bring additional heavy bags, (more like containers) to the Mandalay Bay each time. Who was he meeting there? For what purpose? Was that the transfer point for most of his arsenal of weapons? Was someone bringing all that military hardware to him at the Ogden to make the transfers undetected? Why was there no focus on who else appeared there or had access to his rooms. And why even have the rooms unless it was all part of the plot to remain undetected. Doesn't that seem like illegal arms sales to you?
And after the controversial shooting? of Jesus Campos, where he was shot? in the leg, and somehow went immediately into hiding. And one of the most important witnesses to the biggest killings in the history of the USA was allowed to just go off to Mexico? Then when he did come into view again, and the whole of American media was waiting to ask questions, he appeared on the Ellen DeGeneres show, supervised by a shepherd from the Mandalay Bay people! Ellen Degeneres! Incredible. All the while Fox news was prevented from filming in and around the venue and crime scene.
And most of the law enforcement and ex-policemen interviewed all were asking the same question? Where was the 40 member Las Vegas SWAT team while all this firepower was being used? Many were trying to find the non-existent Control Source for the investigation!
Well, only the so called conspiracy nuts are still at it. And will be undeterred as they put their speculations to each other. And the motive is still undetermined. But to me it seems like the whole episode was a demonstration of what could be done and how to get away with it. And leads many into believing what can be accomplished with the Deep State's secretive help and co-operation.
[No relation to Mandalay Bay, but while the government was GOING to announce what was in those retained files about the JFK assassination this last spring, the CIA objected and the secrecy of those files are now to remain locked for another 25 YEARS, it will be 80 years now, and recent polls show that that as high was 81 percent of the American public believe the government of the USA has a huge hand in it.]
Addenda 18 (July 14) 2020.
So we have seen things LIKE this before. When certain powerful people want to get rid of a serious threat to their plans, they simply take out that person or persons. Suicides. Car accidents. Falls from buildings. etc. Anyone in the way are deemed as 'collateral damage'. Sometimes it is a whole plane crash that killed the one they want silenced, and other passengers die innocently.
Believe it, this has happened many times. So an investigator who does believe this, would be asking about the victims of the shooting and who was among them that might be targeted? Yes I KNOW you couldn't count on the rifle shootings from far off to take out your intended, BUT, at least ONE of the dead was killed with a 9 mm handgun and that had to be at closer range! So who exactly was that person? And who could shoot from within the concert event without suspicion?
And with present knowledge, we see an emerging tactic of finding child porn on a computer when someone wants you to be disgusted and not pursue the story. How easy it is to place info onto the target computer with a flash-drive? Was Paddock really a successful gambler or a money launderer who would be manipulated into the perfect position to serve a sinister purpose?
So what will happen now after the largest mass killing in American history begins to fade into oblivion? Likely nothing, and the sad conclusion that someone, somehow, got away with it .... again.
Maybe this should have been titled, Here We Go On and ON?
Sorry, but you have to stay tuned.
completed in January 2022. Some reporters refuse to give up.
Comprehensive video by investigator Mindy Robinson - the best yet - it is long but covers it all. If you want to know you must watch it, if you ignore info like this, good luck to you, too bad you cannot face life.
Not short, but if you watch you'll you cannot shorten the truth as it
emerges. We expect this one to disappear if the powers that be get the
ability to cover this up too. You'll never find it on YouTube or any of the MSM platforms. Mz Robinson is very brave to have made this, and now broadcast it for everyone.
If you have followed this before, hopefully this will enlighten you to what your world has become. Scary but fascinating, huh?
Addenda 19 (March 31 2023)
FBI: Mandalay Bay shooter in Las Vegas who killed 58 was angry about how casinos treated him.
Tami Abdollah, USA TODAY
·3 min read
A trove of documents recently released by the Federal Bureau of Investigation show that the shooter who killed 58 people at a Las Vegas concert in 2017 was "very upset" about how casinos were treating him. The documents provide the strongest indication yet of a motive for the deadliest mass shooting in modern American history.
Stephen Paddock, 64, a regular gambler who had a penchant for video
poker, killed himself at the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino before he
could be apprehended. The documents provide the most detailed look to
date into Paddock's possible motive and gambling habits, delving into
the weeks and years before he fired from his 32nd-floor windows into a
crowd of 22,000 people at the Route 91 Harvest Festival.
A fellow
gambler told the FBI that "Paddock was very upset at the way casinos
were treating him and other high rollers," noting that roughly three
years earlier casinos had started banning high rollers from certain
events, hotels and even casinos. The gambler described Paddock as a high roller with a bankroll of
approximately $2 million to $3 million who preferred playing video
poker. The report states that the acquaintance believed the stress about
how high rollers were being treated could "easily be what caused
Paddock to 'snap.'"
The Mandalay Bay hotel, Paddock's acquaintance told the FBI, "was not
treating Paddock well because a player of his status should have been
in a higher floor in a penthouse suite." The collection of FBI documents were released last week in response to a public records request by The Wall Street Journal.
'No evidence of a conspiracy'
In 2018, Las Vegas Sheriff Joe Lombardo said that a 10-month investigation by the department resulted in "no evidence of conspiracy or a second gunman" and no definitive motive for the shooter.
(Go back and look at Lombardo and Rouse on the day of Lombardo's first statement)
Is it possible for an observer of this tragic event to slip into a
fantasy and actually believe anything here in 2023 and what we're being
told? Even by the FBI?
From an article of a freelance writer, She just won't go away.
"I was just gobsmacked, wiped out."
former Democratic Presidential nominee Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Ms. Clinton is out pitching her new book, 'What Happened'
- her vision of the reason for her dramatic and unexpected loss to
President Donald Trump. It is the latest in a series of planned and
scripted events designed to blame everyone but herself for her stunning
loss. - according to Slate reporter Daniel Politi.
The former candidate said she was gobsmacked by her loss to Trump. 'I
went into a frenzy of closet cleaning and long walks in the woods,
playing with my dogs, and as I write - yoga, alternate nostril
breathing, which I highly recommend, tryin' to calm myself down. And,
you know, my share of Chardonnay. It was a very hard transition. I
really struggled, I couldn't feel. I couldn't think. I was just
gobsmacked, wiped out.'
And she was scripted
and rehearsed for that response to CBS' Jane Pauley, a long time friend
and admirer of Ms. Clinton and thus a safe and compliant interviewer.
Scripted and rehearsed right down the the use of the term, gobsmacked.
Which is a a term not common in Ms. Clinton's lexicon but one finding
increased use among Ivy League elites including speechwriters for Ms.
Clinton. Gobsmacked may be a clever phrase but her use of it reinforces
for all that she is less than genuine.
Greg Jarret of Foxnews
has accumulated a list of twenty-six and/or events to which Ms.
Clinton has assigned blame for her loss - none of them include herself.
The list does include the traditional Democratic bugaboos - racism,
misogyny, sexism, as well as the current themes - the Russians, former
FBI director James Comey, Mr. Trump, and on and on. The only two things
missing from the list appear to be former President Barack Obama and the
Muslims.
Republicans have provided their own lists. Most of these lists center
around Ms. Clinton's corruption, (Whitewater, futures trading, the
private email accounts and server used for State Department business, the
missing 30,000 emails, the Clinton Foundation Pay to Play allegations,
lying, stonewalling, Benghazi, etc) Some note her lack of
accomplishments despite the heady positions she has held. And still some
others refer to a list of campaign mistakes centering on where she did
or did not spend her time and campaign funds.
Yes,
Ms. Clinton has accepted nominal responsibility for her defeat. An
acceptance that is then followed by the enumeration of all those people
and the factors she actually blames. In an address to the Code
Conference in California in May, Ms. Clinton stated - "I take responsibility for every decision I made, but that's not why I lost."
She then went on to list media bias, slanted coverage about her
emails, and Russia as being among the real reasons for her loss. In this
and other 'admissions' Ms. Clinton clearly accepts, 'positional
responsibility' while rejecting personal responsibility. She
acknowledges responsibility simply because things happened while she was
the candidate, but rejects personal responsibility that she was the
cause of any of those things.
But all of these
miss the mark. Ms. Clinton is easily the least authentic person to ever
reach national prominence. In the last twenty years there has not been a
public moment for Ms. Clinton that was not tested, scripted,
choreographed and rehearsed. Not just what she says, but her movements,
her facial expressions and even her regional dialect and slang. But the
American people, despite her disdain for Middle America, are perceptive. A
classic moment for Ms. Clinton occurred during the primary season in a
restaurant in Iowa where she stood off to one side of the crowd that
gathered, ignoring them one and all until the lights came on and she
donned her smile, her hearty laugh, and 'locked-in' gaze with each
person to whom she spoke. And when the camera lights went off, Ms.
Clinton was one again detached and remote.
The
last authentic moment for Ms. Clinton was the fit of rage she disgorged
on election eve. Alone with her family and senior campaign staff, Ms.
Clinton awaited the inevitable confirmation of her inevitable election
to be the next President of the United States.
When she lost
Florida and North Carolina and her 'firewall' states, (Michigan,
Wisconsin, Iowa, Ohio and Pennsylvania} began to crumble her anticipated
elation gave way to rage. She cursed, threw objects, assaulted John
Podesta and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, railed about the
unfairness of it all, and cursed any and all who failed to deliver her
to victory. It was genuine emotion - a particularly ugly emotion, but
genuine nonetheless.
What made it even worse for
Ms. Clinton is that because of a collaborative relationship with the
mainstream press she got away with this scripted persona. Only those in
the media predisposed to play 'softball' with her (even to the point of
sharing the questions to be asked before hand) were permitted
interviews. In live appearances should someone deviate from the norm of
adulation, Ms. Clinton donned a grimaced smile, provided a flip answer
and walked away from the microphones. (Remember, Ms. Clinton's first
response about her use of a private email account and the destruction of
emails - they were about yoga classes and her daughter's wedding - and
her quick exit from the microphones when more difficult questions were
asked.
But the American public was never fooled.
We have all encountered phonies in our lives and it generally takes less
than a millisecond to recognize them. And our reaction to them is
pretty common - we don't trust them, we try to avoid them, and we never
willingly invite them.
Ms Clinton is not alone as a well-rehearsed politician but she is so
much so one that she has become a caricature. She earned the defeat she
suffered.
And she has earned the infamy of her moniker, 'Crooked
Hillary', forever.
Say what you might about President Trump. Love him of hate him. In the end most breathe a sigh of relief, 'At least he's not Hillary.'
The FBI has just newly released* 'never before seen' photos from 9/11. It is on Twitter and social media as well as many media outlets, few of them MSM.
Seems like a long time to make a decision like that, considering that they took away over 200 surveillance tapes from local area businesses on the day. And finding out that the Pentagon's own hundred or so cameras were not working or were (mysteriously) shut off on that day. And then the agency only showed us 4 frames of something blasting into the Pentagon on 9/11.
Many will suspect that someone in a US government agency had plenty of time to Photoshop anything they wanted into any pics. But there are still no wings, no tail section, no fuselage, no luggage, no engines strewn on that Pentagon lawn. No dead BODIES! And no belief anywhere that even the best pilots could have flown like a Tom Cruise Top-Gun Air Ace, never mind ANY pilot from al Qaeda or any other terrorist group.
However, a cruise missile (no pun) or an armed Global Hawk is another thing entirely ....
Have a look at these pictures, anything odd looking to you? Like in this aerial view, we see that whatever smashed through the first (outside) building, seemed to get through the second building without a trace, and then resumed its destruction on the third in line building. Which, is effectually through the 6th reinforced concrete wall. Hmm?
I thought I read somewhere that there were LAWS of physics. ???
Seems incredible to me, but there are certain engineers
who will use the same logic from WTC 1 and 2 to explain. They said then that the already
burning jet fuel ran down 110 floors without being absorbed into the
concrete, or the carpeted floors, or the wooden desks or drywall, without burning out, and caused molten steel to be still
burning in the basements four weeks later!
So those same spinner engineers will tell us a missile OR a whole 737 could somehow wiggle through the second Pentagon layer building without damaging it, yet burn the third. Sure, tell that one to Einstein.
Meanwhile most skeptics will continue the scrutiny of new releases of information or photos from that day. From whomever releases them. All these photos are harmless, show nothing new and are basically irrelevant.
The only thing is when you read the captions, the comments and info seem to be doing nothing except still trying to convince us that a passenger plane full of people, piloted by crazed Arabs with super-hero skills, crashed on that day.
Nice lil round hole. No Boeing junk. They explain any other holes in Pentagon walls to explosions caused by heat. Hmm. They did find some scrap metal parts of damaged fuselage from an American Airlines plane. Find? or put there? But none scorched and all on that famous lawn that didn't burn. Must be rubber to bounce this far from the scene ....
Here is a more revealing photo from that fateful day, which although whatever is under that blue tarp is covered, exposes a lot more than intended ....if it is passenger plane debris, WHY would it need to be covered?
(not among new releases)
Why? Maybe because it is the identifiable remains of a Global Hawk? Or perhaps a Preditor drone? Perhaps even the MQ-1C Grey Eagle, which officially began operating in 2012.
Is that piece under that tarp for the same reason all that WTC 1, 2 and 7 steel went to China in the immediate hours after the demolition? Get it the hell out of here? Someone might find residual thermite? There are now so many watchers that someone might see numbers and ID whatever that piece is. Why are the military, FBI, CIA etc. so afraid?
This ain't over yet.
You can look at the released photos here - keep in mind they are sometimes days after the fact when taken and it is YEARS after the fact now - (Give me enough time with my own Photoshop 7 and I'll put anything you like into those pics.) FBI release photos - BBC
Look especially at the second pic; Water cannons ... the gap seems to be about 20 yards wide. Then the following aerial pic, now the gap is only about 2 yards wide? WTF?
*newly released - - - FBI spokeswoman Jillian Stickels said the pictures were first posted online in 2011. But a technical glitch caused them to disappear from the site for an undetermined period of time, she added. They were restored in recent days to public view once the FBI learned they were missing, according to the FBI spokeswoman.
The old technical glitch again.
Are these really the untouched original photos?
Just wondering.
Also check out the only 3 minutes of a missile hitting the Pentagon - - - even YouTube calls it a missile >
.... but the powers in control didn't.
The morning after blues have never been bluer!
The Main Stream Media (MSM) became so intent on pushing Hillary Clinton into the Oval Office that they threw caution and reason out the window and blatantly promoted her for President of the United States. (POTUS)
Look at the media handling of Donald Trump. As he spoke they took any intent from his words and spun it in another direction. Trump said he would close the USA borders stop the rapists, drug dealers and criminals from entering the USA. Trump didn't say he would toss out ALL Mexicans, only the criminals, others would be offered reasonable ways to stay, but everyone grabbed onto the negative spin and put the figure at 11 million! With SWAT teams bashing in their doors at 3 AM and loading them into old box-cars!
He said he would build a wall and make the Mexicans pay for it. The MSM took that as a gift and ran with it. Saying how ridiculous it was. Why is that? Couldn't they see Trump's obvious intent? If America gives Mexico 100 million dollars in aid, and Trump builds his wall and if it costs 30 million, they simply change their donation of aid dollars to $70 million. Presto! Mexico is paying for it. Will they turn down those 70 millions? Not a chance. Is the Mexican government more likely to police their own side of the border in future instead of allowing the cartels to usurp their authority? Yes.
Did anyone but the Democratic National Congress (DNC) really believe Trump would suddenly send in the military to kick out 11 million Hispanics?
Trump would deport radical Muslims. The voters and regular Muslims got it and agreed with it. But Hillary's team made it just silly and precarious by making it seem all would go, damaging relations with moderate Muslim communities.
Meanwhile the media promoted any poll that showed The Donald losing. No matter how ludicrous! The duplicitous media quoted poll after poll showing Hillary by a landslide.The voters suspected many of those polls to be predetermined for required results.
Here's an idea no one thought of relating to Obamacare; no one seemed to know that health corporations were protected, State to State. But Trump has promised to open the health care system up to competition and allow corporations to enter the fray across state borders for the health dollar. Who doesn't agree that competition is the best way to lower prices! But the MSM spent their time blasting Trump's plans. Understood or not.
Donald Trump made the comment that he would welcome Russia's participation in battling ISIS and other terrorist organizations. Wouldn't it be great if we could work together, Trump said. Clinton jumped on this as Trump being in bed with Putin, when it was Hillary, in response to Russia helping the Clinton Foundation while Secretary of State who allowed them to purchase US uranium mines and export the product to Russia. To be used by who for what? The Clintons needed a bogeyman and Putin was it. When it probably should have been a Saudi Prince! But they'd have had Stalin if they could have reincarnated him! The DNC put out the spin that Russia was hacking their emails. It spread like a gasoline fire, instigated of course by the DNC and embraced by MSM. There never was evidence that Russia hacked anything to do with the American election. And we all know both sides try to hack everything all the time! It is called cyber war. Wikileaks doesn't need Russia.
The Democratic opposition to Trump spent their whole time reacting to name calling. Sure they took the focus off Hillary and her history of dark baggage, but also spent their precious time keeping Trump in the spotlight in their zeal to keep her past out of the media. But his crowds kept growing. And the public anger with it, the voters recognized the media spin.
So-called news organizations spent hour after hour making Trump into a dangerous gun advocate. The second amendment was put into the US Constitution as a fallback position for the people to have a defense against corrupt and oppressive governments. It was Eisenhower who mentioned the danger of the military/industrial
complex; 'the potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced
power exists and will persist.'
The right to bear arms is a given. Doesn't mean that Trump would not control those weapons. Because someone is killed by a car doesn't mean you ban all cars from the road. But the voters are wary of infringements to their sacred constitution after suffering Bush and Cheney.
Now the MSM is lamenting the fact that a woman cannot seem to break the so called glass ceiling and become POTUS. But they ignore the fact of Hillary Clinton's past. It was not about being against women, it was being against a woman under constant investigation by the FBI and other agencies! Hillary didn't break that glass ceiling but it is wide open for an honest woman to get there.
Media who are supposed to know what is going on actually pretend they don't. Media news organizations like CNN have changed the perception of what they actually do. Wolf Blitzer, Erin Burnett, Anderson Cooper all betrayed any idea of unbiased journalism and became the unabashed spin doctors for the Democratic party!
Not me, me either, nor me
A Trump supporter was argued with or cut off when trying to speak, while they left the Democratic supporters to ramble accolades to their choices! Gloria Borger is going to retire from politics, and so she should, being a Hillary shill has totally destroyed her credibility. And the voters saw through her and many others including catching Debbie Wasserman Shultz and Donna Brazile, both indignant until they got caught.
But even then the endless talking heads didn't sway from their agenda, just replaced each other.
Those bobble-heads went after Trump constantly over his personal wealth while intelligent voters asked what it had to do with his ability to run a country? His riches and tax returns were a major concern to who? He didn't cheat on his taxes, only used the system that Obama had eight years to change. They never went after George Soros, Bill Gates, the Waltons or the Rockefellars or the Rothschilds, they all play by those same rules. The voters saw the media's double standard.
And Hillary had one suspect thing after another, with the importance of her email handling as number one. The perception of those who were paying attention, was that yes, she was a crook. Most in the know are aware that no diplomat in America has their own phone or tablet or laptop to use at will. The government Secret Service, FBI, CIA is there with the best technology to protect them against spies and hacking. Not having a phone is the first defense.
But Hillary had up to four servers in her home, unknown to her own State Department! Up to 13 cell phones, which when the heat was turned up, instructed her staff to destroy them! The FBI subpoena for her email was met with the disappearance of those emails. It went on and on and many Dem supporters simply refused to believe that a Secretary Of State could indulge in secret actions against US policy while in office. But the scandal grew like an oil spill.
And even while an FBI investigation was ongoing, Bill Clinton appears at
an airport, has a 30 minute meeting with Attorney General Loretta Lynch
aboard her plane, and the next day FBI Director James Comey announced
no charges against Hillary Clinton! Voters didn't have to know what was
said, they just saw the suspicious result.
The fact that the Clintons took 'donations' from foreign states and world players for speeches hurt her. Ordinary people saw through it. They saw through her secret speeches to Wall Street brokers for huge dollars. And they saw that the MSM refused to pursue that nagging question of ethics. They saw that no bank or huge corporation got reprimanded by Obama and expected Hillary would carry on the same. They saw that the USA gives billions of taxpayer dollars to Saudi Arabia who has no debt and free health care for their people, but is repressive to their own women. Those billions are returned to America as purchases of weapons by the Saudis, you see? A foreign country buys American weapons with American tax-payer's money! And it has long been suspected that they support ISIS by handing US military weapons out to terrorists like Halloween candy! Your military industrial complex in action.
Wikileaks released emails with regularity, all revealing the ongoing corruption and intent of the insiders in Washington, and the reaction from the powers-that-be, was to shoot the messenger. Over and over again. The emails showed the DNC to be conspiring against Bernie Sanders as a candidate and anyone else who loomed as a threat to HRC. The knives were out and the insiders of the party condoned it. The media ignored it. The voters knew it.
And there was that niggling little fact that her faithful companion and close aid Huma
Abedin was a Muslim raised in Saudi Arabia had some implications. Abedin has been fingered as having access to classified documents without clearance, along with others with no official standing. Hillary was aware of the requirements of government officials and defied them. At her own peril as it seems. And always hanging there were Hillary's actions in Libya, deposing yet another head of state for some nefarious purpose. And the voters were supposing that her stance of confrontation with other countries was growing.
The pollsters are lamenting their mistakes now. Everyone aghast that the polls could have been so wrong. But the polls have been suspected for years of being carefully manipulative tools for whomever and whatever they are promoting. Whomever is paying. The voters know it and reacted by either lying or refusing to give reliable information to pollsters! There is no rule that says you must speak the truth to media, or speak to them at all, whether it be pollsters of TV news people. They are not Gods and have no real intent but to feed off the populace. It turns out that a lot of TV news is generating it's own news, not reporting on it. The voters got it. The MSM and the Democratic supporters didn't.
all into one equals one
Time and time again we are reminded that the small one percent of the rich and powerful are in total control of media, they can steer and fabricate what you see and hear. They shape and form your opinions and directions. Again we think of the above mentioned billionaires and Rupert Murdoch and the Koch brothers. Hillary's 'familiars'.
The good thing about this last election is that the voters did get it. They saw the manipulation, deception and attempts at controlling their lives. You can see this for yourself if you are capable of digging out those truths. It seems that millions of people are just incapable or unwilling to face the truths evident in society today.
Social media played a huge part in this election. The internet was abuzz with information, but you must take the time to distill it, sift through the planted articles and slanted writing and misleading headings. Hard to do and easy to give up on.
People would be surprised how quickly bad news about certain people disappears from Google or Bing. Headings that were there yesterday are gone today. You have to know where to look and how to look.What Trump had going for him was that he was not one of them! The problem for the existing elite in Washington with their secret agenda, is that because of the internet, people can find out things for themselves. There are things like Congressional records, Democracy Now and Wikileaks.
And the vote was not necessarily for love of Trump or his policies. Voters saw him as untrained, unprogrammed, sometimes embarrassing and without diplomatic know-how but also as a chance to rid the vermin from Washington and change the mode of power.Trump was not establishment. And that was his big plus. Drain the Swamp became a great catch phrase and tapped into the public anger.
The point is that the people are not what the power insiders think they are, they are way smarter. They have been there, done that, and are sick of the same old same old. If you listen carefully you will hear the lies through the lies. You can even see when the messenger doesn't believe their own words, thanks to reviews on YouTube. (We all saw that with Colin Powell and the WMDs in Iraq) The new Main Stream Media is right there on your own laptop. You can catch out the liars, expose the cheats and that's when you shoot them via the ballot box.
As a voter you don't have to be a Hillary Clinton OR a Donald Trump supporter, you only need to be a truth supporter.The results show that the diminishing Middle Class has no faith in the Main Stream Media, the Democrats or the Republicans and simply no longer trusts government. And specifically the elite insiders who have stealthily controlled America's government for their own special needs.
It is an ongoing battle for the public mind but reassuring to see that the voter is up to the challenge and the fight.
Voting is the ultimate anger management.
Addenda Feb. '17 Trump's Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson is going after the Deep State – sometimes also called the Shadow government – but it is hard
to define, essentially part of the political establishment
that are permanent power factions operating within Washington. These
factions guide policy according to a unified agenda regardless of who is
in office, often exercising their power secretively which frees them of
any sort of accountability. It is known that these 7th Floor insiders stopped the FBI investigation of Hilary Clinton during the campaign. SOS Tillerson has fired many of them already. Ask yourself why this is not reported in MSM?
