We want to bring our soldiers home. But we did leave soldiers because we\u2019re keeping the oil,\u201d said Trump on Friday, [Nov 1], before adding, \u201cI like oil. We\u2019re keeping the oil.\u201d<\/p> https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/world-nation\/story\/2019-11-04\/trump-syria-oil-problems<\/a> <\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n Seriously? Here\u2019s a graph of US oil imports by country: <\/p>\n\n\n\n https:\/\/www.kjmaclean.com\/Newsletters\/US_crude_imports_by_country.jpg<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Syria isn\u2019t even on the list. So why are U.S. troops in Syria? Ask the MIC. War is good for the balance sheet. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Let me interpret Trump\u2019s statement above: \u201cI have no control over where our troops are going. Syria doesn\u2019t export oil to the US. But if I don\u2019t go along they\u2019ll make lots of trouble for me. So I\u2019ll try to tell you this tongue-in-cheek.\u201d If you substitute \u201cmilitary-industrial complex\u201d for the words \u201cwe\u201d and \u201cI\u201d in sentences 2-4 you get the meaning. <\/p>\n\n\n\n On Nov 3, Trump meets with Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan in the Oval Office. He says it again. <\/p>\n\n\n\n We\u2019re keeping the oil. We have the oil. The oil is secure. We left troops behind only for the oil.\u201d <\/p> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2019\/nov\/13\/donald-trump-syria-oil-us-troops-isis-turkey<\/a> <\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n Substitute \u201cmilitary-industrial-complex\u201d for \u201cwe\u201d and you have the meaning. <\/p>\n\n\n\n ABC News explained that keeping Syria\u2019s oil is illegal: <\/p>\n\n\n\n After President Donald Trump said on Monday the U.S. will be “keeping the oil” in northeastern Syria, his administration is looking into the “specifics,” according to a senior State Department official — but it’s prompted renewed cries that doing so is a war crime.<\/p> \u201cTrump has a long history of calling for the U.S. to “take the oil” in the Middle East, in Iraq and Syria in particular. But any oil in both countries belongs to their governments, and according to U.S. law and treaties it has ratified, seizing it would be pillaging, a technical term for theft during wartime that is illegal under U.S. and international law.<\/p> “We’re keeping the oil,” Trump said Monday to a conference of police chiefs in Chicago. “I’ve always said that — keep the oil. We want to keep the oil, $45 million a month. Keep the oil. We’ve secured the oil.”<\/p>https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/keeping-oil-syria-trump-considered-war-crime\/story?id=66589757<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n There it is again. Trump is pointing out that the actions of\nthe MIC are illegal, and there\u2019s nothing a President of the United States can\ndo about it. Did anyone get it? Nope. Appalling? Damn right it is! <\/p>\n\n\n\n Dr. Steven Greer of the Disclosure Project told us a long time ago that the President of the United States is 20-something security clearances below \u201cneed to know\u201d level regarding the black, hidden, special access programs, which are the heart of the MIC. These programs are way, way beyond Congressional oversight and are funded secretly. They are beyond public scrutiny. The president (and Congress) hasn\u2019t a clue what\u2019s happening in these programs. The president has the authority to appoint the Secretary of Defense and other officials in the DoD. But he doesn\u2019t have authority over the MIC. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Did Barack Obama want troops in Afghanistan? My guess is no.\nRemember what happened after President Obama received the Nobel Prize in 2009?\nThe MIC increased troop strength in Afghanistan a few weeks later, making the\naward a complete joke. That was the MIC\u2019s message to Obama: \u201c You\u2019re just the president.\nMake speeches, look presidential. We\u2019ll take care of our business, which is the\nbusiness of profiting from war.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n Do you seriously think Obama had any control over that? I\ndon\u2019t think so. Like Trump, he had to go along. Or else. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Of course, the war criminal George W. Bush happily went\nalong with the MIC. He was the MIC\u2019s man in the White House. No problems there!\nWar on Terrorism, yay!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Trump is trying to tell us this. The tweet below, to me, is\nso absurd it\u2019s proof positive that the president understands his position\nvis-a-vis the MIC and is trying to tell us. It\u2019s the ultimate troll.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ladies and germs, this is called TROLLING the media. Because of course, this dog was a key factor in capturing and killing Baghdadi? How can anyone take this seriously? Most of Trump\u2019s tweets are sarcastic, contemptuous even, of the mass media. He\u2019s trying to send people a message, but it\u2019s not getting through apparently. <\/p>\n\n\n\n So: the president was telling us that he wants troops out of Syria but the MIC doesn\u2019t. Whoever is giving the orders to the troops isn\u2019t listening to the president!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Those reading may be too young to remember JFK. On November 23, 1963, the President of the United States was publicly executed on a street in Dallas, Texas. This was the corporate warmonger state coming out into the open and announcing: \u201cWe’re in charge now.\u201d This was two short years after Eisenhower\u2019s famous \u201cbeware of the MIC\u201d speech in 1961. Coincidence, of course. Just another \u201cconspiracy theory.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n After that we got Vietnam, two wars in the Gulf,\nAfghanistan, Panama, Libya, Syria, attempted coups in Venezuela and Bolivia …<\/p>\n\n\n\n Why are we in Afghanistan? No one knows. We do know that\nafter spending $1 trillion dollars on that pointless war, U.S. officials\nconstantly lied about the \u201cprogress\u201d they were making.<\/p>\n\n\n\n https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/graphics\/2019\/investigations\/afghanistan-papers\/afghanistan-war-confidential-documents\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n It’s pretty simple: War is good for the balance sheets of corporations like Raytheon, Mitre, Lockheed, Haliburton, Booz-Allen Hamilton, etc. All for profit. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Don\u2019t blame Trump for this. People say, \u201cTrump ran on\ngetting our troops out and ending foreign wars, but nothing is happening.\u201d Well,\nhe\u2019s butting heads with the endless war crowd, the people who are making money\nfrom war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Who are these people?<\/p>\n\n\n\n We\u2019re going to find out eventually, and it\u2019s hopefully going to begin in 2020. Eventually the entire sordid history of these warmongers \u2013 sociopaths, every one of them \u2013 will come out. But that\u2019s in the future. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Update 1\/8\/2020: After Trump ordered the killing of Soleimani the Iranians attacked Iraqi bases with missiles. I found this gem today:<\/p>\n\n\n\n So let’s see: who has the power to get U.S. troops out of Iraq? The Commander-in-Chief. That’s the president. Who has the power to countermand that order? Your guess is as good as mine. Somebody in the Pentagon who doesn’t listen to the pres? A group of people who like war because it’s good business? Clearly, if no U.S. troops are in countries that are conflict zones (like Iraq) then no harm can come to them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This image might tell us a little more about the situation with Iran:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Yup. Lots of chances for U.S. troops to come into harm’s way. A perfect scenario for the warmongers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Progressives rightly say that Trump raised the military budget over $100 billion, that he\u2019s a big military supporter, and that this doesn\u2019t serve the cause of peace. All sane persons want peace, not war. But what happens when a president wants troops out, but the people in charge of those troops don’t listen? It’s a problem. <\/p>\n\n\n\n I\u2019ve been defending Trump solely because he\u2019s the perfect guy at the perfect time. He\u2019s here to crack open the darkness and expose the massive, global corruption networks that allow elites who control the world\u2019s financial institutions to create an ocean of fiat money that is used to buy off politicians and entire governments, and to enable the free flow of drugs, arms, and most sickening, human beings and children. <\/p>\n\n\n\n That\u2019s what free and open borders are about for the dark army.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Does anyone think that the Border Patrol controls our southern border? Our southern border is controlled by drug cartels and human traffickers who run drugs into our cities and abuse children and make money trafficking immigrants who come here for a better life.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n Here\u2019s an article from 2015: https:\/\/www.judicialwatch.org\/corruption-chronicles\/dea-most-illegal-drugs-enter-via-mexico-cartels-greatest-criminal-threat-to-u-s\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n And another from 2018: \u201cMexican Cartels \u2018Absolutely\u2019 Control\nthe Southwest Border, Sheriff Says,\u201d https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/mexican-cartels-absolutely-control-the-southwest-border-says-sheriff_2568412.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n The sad fact no one wants to confront is this: To clean up the evil and the darkness on our southern border, and across the planet, eventually our military will have to be used as a threat, or even a blunt weapon, against the drug cartels, the human traffickers, and the arms dealers. These networks are world wide. It\u2019s not something anyone wants, but the magnitude of the corruption and the evil is massive. In Mexico, drug cartels control large swaths of the country. <\/p>\n\n\n\n https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/is-mexico-a-narco-state\/19430<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n I don\u2019t like it but I understand it: We need a strong military for the present. After the dark army networks are exposed and neutralized, we can turn swords into plowshares. <\/p>\n\n\n\n On the political front, Trump is going to keep banging. First came the OIG report about the weaponization of the FBI. Next is the FISA declassification documents, which Trump agreed to in 2018. These may come out in his defense if the House ever delivers the articles of impeachment to the Senate. After that comes the report from attorney John Durham next summer, who began his investigation back in 2017. <\/p>\n\n\n\n All of this to break apart the network of sociopaths who run\nour planet. Donald Trump isn\u2019t just a U.S. phenomenon. Trump is a huge, massive,\nplanetary wild card that no one saw coming. He\u2019s doing what he\u2019s supposed to be\ndoing. He\u2019s a blunt instrument that no person with any sensitivity will like.\nBut he\u2019s necessary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Because of Trump, whether you’re left or right, people aren\u2019t sitting on the fence anymore. People are looking for answers now. Those who still are on the fence won\u2019t be able to stay there for very long.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Things are not always as they seem. A massive intelligence war is being fought in this country behind the scenes, between white and black hats in the intelligence community: the NSA, the CIA, and the FBI. The mainstream media is there for covering fire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Snowden exposed the NSA and its domestic intelligence gathering programs back in 2013. The controversial FISA warrants used data gathered by the NSA. No one needs to be told the sordid history of the CIA, an organization that lies as a matter of course and that has been involved in coup after coup, regime change war after regime change war. The CIA needs the FBI because the CIA can\u2019t spy domestically. Snowden showed us how the FBI gathers data domestically and shares it with the CIA. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Going to the Light is difficult because it means confronting the darkness. Light exposes darkness. Don\u2019t let your knickers get in a twist when some of this info starts coming out. It\u2019s not worse than ever, but better than ever, for the light is beginning to shine powerfully into dark places where the world\u2019s cockroaches are hiding. The worst cockroaches are those who traffic human beings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Light >> Dark. It\u2019s happening. 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The Southern Border<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
The Intelligence War<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Going to the Light Is Difficult<\/h3>\n\n\n\n