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Kunstler: Halloween Nation
What was with James Comey’s Friday letter to congress? It looks to me like the FBI Director had to go nuclear against his parent agency, the Department of Justice, and Attorney General Loretta Lynch, his boss, in particular. Why? Because the Attorney General refused to pursue the Clinton email case when more evidence turned up in the underage sexting case against Anthony Weiner, husband of Hillary’s chief of staff, Huma Abedin.
Over the weekend, the astounding news story broke that the FBI had not obtained a warrant to examine the emails on Weiner’s computer and other devices after three weeks of getting stonewalled by DOJ attorneys. What does it mean when the Director of the FBI can’t get a warrant in a New York minute? It must mean that the DOJ is at war with the FBI. Watergate is looking like thin gruel compared to this fantastic Bouillabaisse of a presidential campaign fiasco.
One way you can tell is that The New York Times is playing down the story Monday morning. Columnist Paul Krugman calls the Comey letter “cryptic.” Krugman’s personal cryptograph insinuates that Comey is trying to squash an investigation of “Russian meddling in American elections.” Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid chimed in with a statement that “it has become clear that you [Comey] possess explosive information about close ties and coordination between Donald Trump, his top advisers and the Russian government.” How’s that for stupid and ugly? It’s the Russian’s fault that Hillary finds herself in trouble again?
Earlier this week, lawyers at the DOJ attempted to quash a parallel investigation of the Clinton Foundation. They must be out of their minds to think that story will go away. Isn’t it about time that a House or Senate committee subpoenaed Bill Clinton to testify under oath about his June airport meeting with Loretta Lynch. He doesn’t enjoy any special immunity in this case.
Speaking of immunity, when will we learn what kind of immunity Huma Abedin may have been granted in previous cycles of the email investigation? Plenty of other Clinton campaign associates got immunity from prosecution earlier this year, rendering bales of evidence on their own laptops inadmissible in the email server case.
Things as yet unknown: Where is US Attorney (for the Southern District of New York) Preet Bharara in this case? He works for the DOJ, but he is known to be an independent operator, and he must be already involved at least in the underage sexting case against Weiner, meaning he’s had access to an awful lot of collateral evidence from Weiner’s laptop, and must have obtained some kind of warrants of his own.
What appears to be unraveling is the AG Loretta Lynch’s effort to protect Hillary Clinton and now, in this Alfred Hitchcock movie of a presidential election, she’s trying to make it look like James Comey is stabbing Hillary in the shower. (Film buffs note: in Hitchcock’s Psycho the character played by Janet Leigh made off with a bundle of money from her place of employment before Norman Bates worked his hoodoo on her at the motel.)
Trump, of course, is playing the escapade up in his usual idiotic way. It would be unfortunate if it ended up getting him elected — but how would it not be unfortunate for Hillary to wind up in the White House under a cloud of possible indictment? She will be doing Chinese fire drills with a special prosecutor the whole time she is in office, tempted at every moment to start a war with the Russians to divert attention from her legal problems.
Soon we will learn what kind of tensions are roiling between the FBI and the DOJ, and internally within each of these agencies. There are too many pissed off people there to prevent leakage, and probably plenty of email memoranda among the officials that would nicely lay out a trail of incrimination leading into the Attorney General’s office itself.
What a fine mess. And anybody who thinks that any of it might be resolved before November 8 will be disappointed. This story has so many legs, it looks like a Amazonian centipede compared to the lumbering cockroach that was Watergate. The awful proceedings will grind on and on while the US economy and its vampire squid matrix of financial rackets implode in 2017 along with the European Union and global trade. How do you like The Long Emergency now?
63 Comments on "Kunstler: Halloween Nation"
Shortend on Mon, 31st Oct 2016 9:17 am
Hillary got weinnered…finally after all these years
Ghung on Mon, 31st Oct 2016 9:19 am
My grandkids are going trick-or-treating as peasants with pitchforks.
westexas on Mon, 31st Oct 2016 9:27 am
Speaking of Hitchcock movies, this election cycle reminds me of the scene from the movie “The Birds,” where a group of people behind a window at a restaurant witness the progression of events leading toward a huge gasoline explosion, powerless to do anything.
Plantagenet on Mon, 31st Oct 2016 9:36 am
The only news here is that the FBI is standing up to Obama and the Ds, unlike the IRS, BLS, DOJ etc that are now overt minions of the D party.
Cheers!
Davy on Mon, 31st Oct 2016 9:55 am
Everyone looses in these kind of situations at the point in history we are at. The world needs leadership now not tragedy mixed with sick comedy. This is better than any cheap ridiculous reality TV. In fact it has it all and them some: ) + 🙁 This is the real shit with real consequences for the US and the world. What a fine friggen mess as we open the doors to a slippery slope to collapse.
IPissOnApeman on Mon, 31st Oct 2016 10:23 am
I like how Kunstler will easily call Trump idiot but never call Hillary crook, liar, thief.
He is just an old man complaining because he cannot get his way. When did this guy contribute to society?
penury on Mon, 31st Oct 2016 10:33 am
The entire mess that is U.S. politics is a steaming pile of horse manure. If all of the corrupt members of this Admin were removed there would be no one left to turn out the lights. Sorry about Comey, he at least made one attempt to do something honest.
penury on Mon, 31st Oct 2016 10:35 am
And one further question for piss, what have you contributed to society?
IPissOnApeman on Mon, 31st Oct 2016 10:39 am
I helped my neighbor fix his car for free, I fix my neighbor bicycle for free, I modified a Kerosene heater to run on Diesel so people in Northern Ontario can have a cheap heating alternative.
onlooker on Mon, 31st Oct 2016 11:46 am
The entire mess that is U.S. politics is a steaming pile of horse manure. —
P, I am sure people around the world are thinking the same about their local politicians
rockman on Mon, 31st Oct 2016 1:04 pm
If true the FBI director was caught between the proverbial rock and hard place. We may or may not get confirmation but unidentified sources say a number of agents essentially had coup: they had seen enough info for criminal charges to be made against one or more of tyhe principal actors. And not necessarily Secretary Clinton. If he didn’t break federal law (even the Fox legal eagle says he did) and release a statement he potentially might have been charged with obstruction since he supposedly has been sitting on the info for as long as two months. The main target could be her top aid and Weiner’s wife. Again just alleged but there is suppose to be hard edvidence she intentionally lied in her statements to the FBI. Even when not under oath that’s a crtiminal offernse. Whether anything is tied to Secretary Clinton after she takes office is pure speculation at this point. But what a Clinton legacy if both have impeachment hearings brought against them.
Plantagenet on Mon, 31st Oct 2016 1:40 pm
What is wrong with Anthony Weiner having access to all the internal state department email traffic anyway? Hillary was probably just asking Weiner for advice on various issues where he has special personal knowledge….
cheers!
rockman on Mon, 31st Oct 2016 3:16 pm
Plant – If I have the story straight they were emails to Weiner’s wife, her top aid. Either the wife shared them with him or they were on a shared account. I think the FBI had gotten access to his emails via a warrant because of his sexting a 16 yo girl. Grey area: did that allow them to access emails between her and Secretary Clinton even if they were on a shared account? But that’s the unsubstantiated report: FBI agents looking at his emails discovered proof of a intentional coverup regarding Secretary Clinton’s email months ago. And the director chose to ignore those reports from his agents and then made the very public statement that there was evidence of crimanality. And, again unsubstantiated, that’s what sent those agents rogue with a threat to the director to go public.
Think about it: if the director of the FBI intentionally ignored such evidence months before and those agents had the paper trail to prove it what would you do if you were him? And remember the director knows the law and according to the FOX legal expert the director broke two very serious federal laws by making this latest public statement.
rockman on Mon, 31st Oct 2016 3:18 pm
Correction: “…then made the very public statement that there was NO evidence of crimanality.”
Apneaman on Mon, 31st Oct 2016 4:36 pm
What could possibly be more important than another fake election?
Hot Climate Conjures Trio of Nasty Halloween Tricks — Heatwaves, Record-Low Sea Ice, Fall Greenland Melt
“In Barrow, Alaska, Jonathan Erdman reports that Saturday saw the proverbial mercury hit 41 F. This temperature, at about 26 degrees above average, smashed the previous daily high and pushed the latest day Barrow has ever seen a reading above 40 F fully one week forward.”
“Halloween heatwaves, record-low sea ice extents and possible periods of fall Greenland melt are all indicators that human-forced climate change is starting to generate more and more obvious effects. Though the most extreme impacts are hitting remote regions like Greenland, the Arctic and the Antarctic, the related abnormal warmth has filtered into the middle latitudes and is now affecting millions of people across the U.S. And what’s happening in the U.S. is linked to these related warming events on a global scale.
So happy Halloween, everyone. Enjoy the holiday. But remember that if it’s oddly warm where you are, it’s not just a freak warm weather treat, but one of the many and worsening tricks conjured up by global climate change.”
https://robertscribbler.com/2016/10/31/hot-climate-conjures-trio-of-nasty-halloween-tricks-heatwaves-record-low-sea-ice-fall-greenland-melt/
Dredd on Mon, 31st Oct 2016 5:09 pm
“What was with James Comey’s Friday letter to congress?” – Kunstler
You won’t find the law from the presstitutes.
What Comey did is illegal (In the Fog of The Presstitutes – 5).
Anonymous on Mon, 31st Oct 2016 5:29 pm
If there was NO evidence of criminality in amerikan politics, that would be a first, unprecedented as it were.
Go Speed Racer on Mon, 31st Oct 2016 6:31 pm
Anthony Weiner for President.
onlooker on Mon, 31st Oct 2016 6:31 pm
Anonymous that is like finding no high fructose corn syrup or other sugars in processed packaged food – Highly unlikely here in the US
Go Speed Racer on Mon, 31st Oct 2016 6:32 pm
Trump and Weiner, the perfect ticket.
makati1 on Mon, 31st Oct 2016 7:07 pm
One week to go. Do we choose war or bluster? The capitalist billionaire or the liar, lawbreaker and grifter? What comes next? Stay tuned.
shortonoil on Mon, 31st Oct 2016 7:33 pm
We still haven’t heard from the 5th estate; Aussage!
Sissyfuss on Mon, 31st Oct 2016 7:40 pm
I heard that they seized Weiner’s hard drive so firmly that even Hillary got aroused.
Northwest Resident on Mon, 31st Oct 2016 7:48 pm
The shit show is reaching fever pitch. Then as this shit show fizzles out, the next one begins. One shit show after another is what we’ve got on the agenda, mere sideshows to the main event which is even now being prepared as we speak. And what an extravaganza it will be! Plenty of circus, but where’s the bread?
GregT on Mon, 31st Oct 2016 8:11 pm
“but where’s the bread?”
I believe it’s called SNAP.
Cloud9 on Mon, 31st Oct 2016 8:13 pm
The highly politicized alphabet agencies are starting to go after each other. To assume that all of them are on board with Arthur Anderson bookkeeping and Clinton Foundation foreign and domestic policy is a big assumption. There is sedition in the ranks and where there is sedition mutiny soon follows. Meanwhile as the great unwind continues people will turn to the ballot box and the jury box and in time, they may turn to the bullet box. The majority fear the government more than they fear any other threat. This freak show is beginning to convince the body politic that government has now become a criminal enterprise. All legitimacy is lost. Based on its crime lab issues and this current sham investigation, the FBI may cease to exist.
Northwest Resident on Mon, 31st Oct 2016 8:19 pm
“I believe it’s called SNAP.”
I believe you are correct. I guess I should be happy and content that I’m still able to EARN my bread, versus having it handed to me on a plastic card.
Apneaman on Mon, 31st Oct 2016 8:46 pm
Northwest Resident calls it “The Shit Show”. That works for me. Sometimes I refer to it as a real world theater of the absurd. I wonder if any playwright could come up with shit this ridiculous and degenerate. The gang at “The Onion” is really earning their pay attempting to satirize this farce.
Since it’s about America we’ll let one of the most insightful and great Americans ever have the last word on how meaningful elections are………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKUaqFzZLxU
Apneaman on Mon, 31st Oct 2016 9:23 pm
Economical – This short paragraph nicely explains what happened over the last 40 years and by extension why it doesn’t matter which puppet is in the white house.
This “financialization” of the economy reduced taxes on wealth and shrank the tax base by hollowing out the middle classes of the formerly industrialized world. To finance government expenditures in the era of haute finance, politicians turned to debt instead, but government debt is also an asset on the balance sheets of major financial institutions and the one percent, giving them effective control over the politics of nation-states. As I have described it before, we stopped taxing the rich and started borrowing from them instead:
http://hipcrimevocab.com/2016/10/24/mark-blyth-on-the-future-of-capitalism/
Vote forever who you want…………….we own them all.
Grand Vizer on Mon, 31st Oct 2016 9:28 pm
That’s what happens when Anthony’s weiner does the thinking instead of his big head.
Truth Has A Liberal Bias on Mon, 31st Oct 2016 9:30 pm
Trump is a moron but he’s a harmless moron. He’ll fuck everything up good and help the world realize what a bunch of dumb fucks you yanks are, but there won’t be a WW3. He is the lesser evil, which is what American elections are all about. It’s about time somebody who represents the stupid angry people got to be president.
makati1 on Mon, 31st Oct 2016 9:42 pm
Well said Truth. Well said.
Truth Has A Liberal Bias on Mon, 31st Oct 2016 9:43 pm
Someone should get ipissonapneaman a fucking congressional medal of honour or something lol what a fucking hero!
Truth Has A Liberal Bias on Mon, 31st Oct 2016 9:47 pm
Once when Bill Clinton got caught blowing his load on a dress that did not belong to his wife he quickly ordered cruise missle strikes in Afghanistan to deflect the topic. Hillary will cause all kinds of shit and people will die if she needs to deflect legal issues when she’s in power.
Truth Has A Liberal Bias on Mon, 31st Oct 2016 9:55 pm
On July 28, 1998, a substantial delay after the public break of the scandal, Lewinsky received transactional immunity in exchange for grand jury testimony concerning her relationship with Clinton. She also turned over a semen-stained blue dress (that Linda Tripp had encouraged her to save without dry cleaning) to the Starr investigators, thereby providing unambiguous DNA evidence that could prove the relationship despite Clinton’s official denials.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewinsky_scandal
By August 20 the USA was bombing Sudan and Afghanistan. If Bill is willing to bomb nations over a cum stained dress what do you think Hillary will do to stay out of jail?
antaris on Mon, 31st Oct 2016 10:11 pm
THALB most of the time I think you are an ass. But you are probably right on the posts above.
Survivalist on Mon, 31st Oct 2016 10:12 pm
@westexas
I’d be interested to hear how the most recent data on imports/exports looks vis-a-vis the ELM. I’d do it myself but I’m kinda thick in the head when it comes to number crunching.
GregT on Tue, 1st Nov 2016 12:11 am
Lewinsky scandal
“Hillary Clinton remained supportive of her husband throughout the scandal. On January 27, in an appearance on NBC’s Today she said, “The great story here for anybody willing to find it and write about it and explain it is this vast right-wing conspiracy that has been conspiring against my husband since the day he announced for president.””
I guess back in those days it was somewhat implausible for Hilliary to lay the blame on Yeltsin, and those 145 million evil Russian people.
http://c8.alamy.com/comp/FJJ5GG/file-a-file-picture-dated-01-september-1998-shows-russian-president-FJJ5GG.jpg
makati1 on Tue, 1st Nov 2016 1:11 am
Things are heating up in Fascist America.
“Chicago just recorded its most violent weekend of 2016 with 52 shootings and 17 fatalities.”
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-10-31/17-shot-dead-chicago-records-deadliest-weekend-2016
Glad I live in a peaceful city…lol.
GregT on Tue, 1st Nov 2016 2:04 am
Trump vs. Hillary: “If Hillary gets into the Oval Office, I Predict Nuclear War before her First term is Over”
http://www.globalresearch.ca/trump-vs-hillary-if-hillary-gets-into-the-oval-office-i-predict-nuclear-war-before-her-first-term-is-over/5542397
makati1 on Tue, 1st Nov 2016 5:11 am
GregT, I have seen that prediction in so many different sites and articles and I have to agree. She is totally insane and if she gets the chance she will say about Russia: “We came. We saw. Russia died!” Not that she might even consider that the US will be gone at the same time, or if she did, she doesn’t care.
IShitOnTruthHasALiberalBias on Tue, 1st Nov 2016 7:41 am
Stop masturbating over your own comments. Is your mommy basement comfortable kiddo.
rockman on Tue, 1st Nov 2016 9:24 am
Well wikileaks may be doing more damage to Secretary Clinton by potentially keeping former Bernie supporters away from the ballet box. Supposedly the head of the DNC gave the Secretary some of the debate questions in advance. Apparently hard enough evidence the campaign is supposedly backing away from the DNC chairwoman.
GregT on Tue, 1st Nov 2016 11:14 am
mak,
When General Joseph Dunford, 19th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, says that imposing a no fly zone over Syria would lead to war with Russia and Iran, and Hilliary continues to call for that same said no fly zone, it should be blatantly obvious as to how completely off her rockers Hilliar Clinton is. The woman is not only a danger to the USA, but to the entire planet. If Trump gets ‘elected’, a full and thorough independent investigation of Hilliary should be his first priority, and once Hilliary is convicted in the US, she should be tried in an international court for crimes against humanity. Evil woman.
Davy on Tue, 1st Nov 2016 12:12 pm
What can you believe today? Anyway believe this or not but it is sure entertaining!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=os4S–dRB-U&feature=youtu.be
Truth Has A Liberal Bias on Tue, 1st Nov 2016 1:48 pm
Sounds like someone’s upset because Trump, a complete moron, is the lesser evil lol and I’ll masterbste to anything I want. You’re not the boss of me. You’re just mad cuz America can’t win wars anymore. If you wish to have body and soul united no longer just go pick a fight with Russia. Russia is taking USA to school. And Trump is your only cowardly hope.
Apneaman on Tue, 1st Nov 2016 2:03 pm
Davy, I don’t believe anyone without fact checking. The link is from yet another alarmist fabricating gang of rightwing fuckheads. Connections with “insiders” and Anonymous sources? Gimme a fucking break. Oh and I have been seeing a lot of commenters who formerly would not post shit like use a similar fake disclaimer. Either you buy into it or you don’t and if you don’t then you are just playing games/stirring the pot/poisoning the well because of your burning hatred of Hillary. I think she is a disgusting human and a totally corrupt and dangerous power hungry witch, but I’m not going to sell myself out by posting shit that is very poorly constructed propaganda that includes made up quotes. Liars plain and simple.
This is about a different incident, but a liar is a liar is a liar.
Demander-in-Chief
An unfounded rumor held that Hillary Clinton threw a tantrum, and a water glass, after NBC’s “Commander-in-Chief” Forum in September 2016.
“Hillary’s meltdown included throwing a water glass at a staffer — narrowly missing her head, and demanding Matt Lauer be fired! She was overheard threatening executives at NBC saying “If I lose, we all go down and that Fascist Fuck will have us swinging from nooses! What the fuck is wrong with you idiots?”
None of this information appeared in the cited Politico report, however.”
“But Politico did not report that Hillary Clinton threw a water glass at anyone’s head, threatened to fire Matt Lauer, or called Donald Trump a “fascist fuck.” All of that was invented by Victurus Libertas in an apparent attempt to smear the Democratic candidate, and it served as the basis for a longer, highly embellished version of the rumor that began circulating via e-mail in October 2016:”
http://www.snopes.com/hillary-clinton-threw-a-tantrum-with-matt-lauer/
No evidence, just more made up shit because they want to “win” so bad – consumed by it and in their minds they will justify the lies, because it’s for the best N all. We all know how corrupt the entire system is and almost every politician and high level bureaucrat is part of it to some degree, but making up shit and posting shit you know is bunk makes one corrupt like the mother fuckers they are getting screwed by, except you ain’t getting paid for it. I get that it’s all very emotional and especially for Americans and many have a preferred candidate, but is it worth it to hand over your reason to their emotion? Davy, you ain’t the only one. There is this guy from New Zealand that has an aggregator type site, SEEMOREROCKS – http://robinwestenra.blogspot.ca/ – that I first went to a few years back and it was about a 60/40 mix between enviromental and political stuff (empire bashing). He always had a few questionable links, but now he has gone full retard – Alex Jones, Superstation 95 and a bunch more of the rightwing retard crew. Some left wing BS too. He even has little disclaimers like ‘I’m not sure about the accuracy of this source, bla bla bla decide for yourself’ No you are pretty sure it’s shit otherwise you would not have said that. He a big time Hillary hater too. Getting otherwise intelligent and rational people all bent out of shape is what the propaganda is designed to do – create useful idiots by scientifically proven manipulation of the emotions……………if one lets it. I dunno, I guess when people want to believe they will believe whatever confirms. A need to believe methinks. Humans.
Davy on Tue, 1st Nov 2016 2:18 pm
I hear you Ape man but what I referenced shows what happens to people like the Hillbillies and their clan when you have so many loose ends. The extreme starts looking possible. There is way too much foul play going on with them to brush off anything.
Apneaman on Tue, 1st Nov 2016 3:34 pm
Davy, I never meant to imply that every word they utter or print is a lie; just more than enough to disqualify them from the source/reading list. Not one of them is privy to any information one can’t find elsewhere from less crude and alarmist sources. These people live in a tribal fantasy world of their own making. Good luck finding one that’s not a rabid climate denier. How trustworthy are people who, at this late hour, are still barking out their “climate hoax” memes? As for Hillary’s war mongering, she is just the tip of the neocon iceberg and war is going to happen sooner or later anyway. More war. Hell, economic war, cyberwar and proxies are already going on and once the water issues start big time – what do you think will happen?
This guy is not a liberal cheerleader, appears to be a reasonable man and posts on all the same stuff without all the fiction. Hillary is so corrupt that there is no need to make shit up about her.
http://libertyblitzkrieg.com/
I still maintain that none of it matters for regular folks since we don’t count. They pretty much operate with impunity.
Just 10 seconds of that Carlin clip says it all.
“They don’t give a fuck about you! They don’t give a fuck about you! They don’t care about you…at all….at all “
https://youtu.be/i5dBZDSSky0?t=156
This intentional Opioid addicting of the people spans three administration and many in both the government and corporate bureaucracies KNEW it was all bullshit and many would get hurt, but oh! the money we can make! Add up all the victims (dead & living) and their suffering families and friends – how many people is that?
I have been following this since about 2000 (the plotting started in the 90’s) and from start to finish these drug company people acted with so much callousness and contempt – sheeple is an appropriate term for how they see people. If the people ever went French revolution on their ass, who would blame them?
This is just one of hundreds of “legal” rackets they run. This is just the tail end of this story. It was a criminal enterprise from day one.
America’s Opioid Epidemic
Court-released documents show drug makers blocked efforts to curb prescribing
“Roughly 78 Americans die each day from the opioid epidemic…”
“Every year, opioid addiction kills almost 30,000 Americans nationwide.”
“Earlier this year, the publication’s tireless efforts at unlocking court-sealed documents in Kentucky helped bring to light how Connecticut-based Purdue Pharma and Abbott Laboratories, its marketing partner, aggressively promoted the painkiller OxyContin, whose active ingredient oxycodone is both highly addictive and widely held to be responsible for the fatalities.”
“Kentucky’s attorney general’s office “destroyed its copies of documents” that Purdue had been required to make available, though other key papers—including the deposition of a company board member—were filed under seal elsewhere and subsequently retrieved. The documents help explain why fatal overdoses from the prescription painkiller quadrupled between 1999 and 2013, when more than 16,000 Americans overdosed on oxycodone.
Two days ago, in an even more dramatic and significant turn, STAT reported on the role that Purdue Pharma and Abbott Laboratories played in fueling the crisis in neighboring West Virginia, including a system-wide effort to block state medical agencies wanting to restrict Oxycontin prescriptions to those genuinely in need.”
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/side-effects/201610/america-s-opioid-epidemic
“They don’t give a fuck about you! They don’t give a fuck about you! They don’t care about you…at all….at all “
Davy on Tue, 1st Nov 2016 4:32 pm
If you read my original comment I mentioned entertaining. I think George would approve of that. We can skip the drama and the side shows and agree on that probably.