Dear Editor,
A year ago, in “Routing the Globalists: Rescuing the Nation-State” (The Daily Herald, June 29, 2018), I posited that the Mueller investigation was “engineered by senior officials in President Obama’s Justice Department to render the Trump Presidency untenable.” In the wake of the Mueller Report, it looks as if that was, indeed, the case.
Senior officials of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) succeeded in obtaining warrants from the FISA court for a groundless investigation, seemingly in order to frame Mr. Trump, to falsely prove him guilty of a crime: “collusion with Russia.” Those implicated in this effort appear to be persons who harbored animus towards the President and were involved in the “2016 Email Affair,” the FBI’s investigation of Mrs. Hillary Clinton, the former Secretary of State in the Obama administration, the candidate of the Democrats in the 2016 presidential election.
The groundless investigation of collusion with Russia was conceived and set in motion in order to run the new President out of office by driving down his popularity rating (manufacturing consent: a consensus) that would force him to resign, or would render him vulnerable to impeachment. This was a masterly planned and executed “coup d’État”; a crafty, duplicitous “insurance plan” designed to “[...] stop it” (Agent P. Strzok): to “stop” a Trump presidency. This is evidenced by the testimony of FBI Agent Lisa Page, a trial attorney on the Mueller team and by phone messages sent to Agent Page by Agent Peter Strzok the (now fired) former Chief of the Counterespionage Section at the FBI. The phone messages were exchanged between August 15, 2015, and December 1, 2016.
It is crucial to note and consider that Agents Strzok and Page, along with their superiors in command, Andrew McCabe and James Comey, had all been involved in the FBI’s Hillary Clinton email investigation, by all accounts a “whitewash,” a coverup that candidate Trump had riled about during the 2016 presidential campaign.
With the complicity and assistance of the media, of CNN, MSNBC and the New York Times in particular, a posse of conflicted Mueller investigators embarked on their probe. ABC, CBS, NBC, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, and multiple other news providers were also on board with the investigators. A few independent journalists and some of the reporters and commentators at Fox News were the exception. But for the crass partisanship of the media, the Mueller investigation would not have been possible. It would not have been launched. If initiated, such a groundless inquiry would have been scuttled, nipped in the bud.
It is now quite obvious that Robert Mueller, the feeble and confused “registered Republican” who was appointed Special Counsel of that investigation by a conflicted member of the cabal, was a mere figurehead. He was the perfect cover for a posse of conflicted investigators/lawyers under the real leadership of the infamous and highly conflicted Andrew Weissmann, the likely true author of the so-called “Mueller Report.” The “Weissmann Report” may be a more accurate name for the report of that fishing expedition. Investigations into the origins of the Mueller Investigation are underway. Soon, we should learn how those warrants were obtained from the FISA court, the sooner the better.
In his latest best seller Unfreedom of the Press, Mark R. Levin is spot on when he maintains that the American press has abandoned the pursuit of impartial thinking, of all notions of fairness, of integrity, of any sense of responsibility towards liberty and the civil society. Indeed, nowadays distinguishing facts from opinions, trying to present an emotionally detached view of the news, striving for some fairness and balance appear to be obsolete, mere journalistic relics. Today’s media wallow in tribalism (group think), in bias and in omission, in fake narratives (fake news); in the manufacturing of consent: propaganda and power politics.
I venture that very few politicians would have withstood the onslaught visited on this President by such a cabal of elite federal agents and conflicted investigators, aided and abetted by the manufacturers of consent: the American media. President Trump is an exceptional individual. He is also a very lucky man, for the “coup d’État” almost succeeded. It failed because the President and a handful of his supporters fought back ferociously and were able to defeat the cabal and the media in that joint effort to drive down the popularity rating of the President: to manufacture a consensus for impeachment.
Sadly, unfortunately, CNN, MSNBC, the New York Times and too many other news providers seem to have learned nothing from their participation in this failed attempt to frame a duly-elected President. They appear to be blinded by their hatred for Mr. Trump, the man and the President.
Gérard M. Hunt
By Alex Rosaria
Type the most outrageous conspiracy theory you’ve heard of into Google and you’ll find the validation for it. Be it that vaccinations cause autism, fluoride in water will turn you into a communist, some world leaders are reptiles and my favourite, the earth is flat. The Internet age readily delivers. The truth apparently depends on how many persons follow and like you on social media.
We are part of the problem. People, newspapers, media outlets and most politicians only call out the lies and gossip that contradict their own view, not the ones that support it. So long as the lies and gossips vilify our (perceived) enemies, it’s okay. We rather believe anonymous sources and people who prey on the most vulnerable than verifiable empiric data.
Voters here (and elsewhere) happily vote for those who habitually lie, so long as the lies play to their prejudices. We don’t mind lies – so long as it’s what we want to hear. And giving people the lies they want pays off handsomely at elections.
Why are some people so vulnerable? According to the Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, delusion-prone individuals, narrow-minded people and religious fundamentalists are more likely to believe lies. This is related to a failure to be actively open-minded and able to think critically.
Truth is that lies undermine democracies. Some countries have introduced legislation to curb lies and disinformation being spread on the Internet. Finland has taken another route. It believes that education and the tradition of reading books are more powerful tools. This approach requires patience, but it could be hastened, if we really want to. Quick fixes and only talk about the problem of lies and gossip, especially when it doesn’t fit our particular goals, won’t cut the mustard.
~ Alex David Rosaria (50) is from Curaçao and has an MBA from University of Iowa. He is a former Member of Parliament, Minister of Economic Affairs, State Secretary of Finance and UN Implementation Officer in Africa and Central America. ~
Dear Editor,
Most people want to make the world a better place, but they use their standard of good which in reality is far from good.
Righteousness is the perfect holiness of Christ. It is an essential attribute of the character of God; quite literally meaning “One who is right”. Think of it as the polar opposite of sin. To commit sin is to go against God’s design for our lives, therefore righteousness is the only living standard that is acceptable for us to stand before the Father. The wages of sin is death, but in the path of righteousness is life, and in its pathway, there is no death. Proverbs 12:28
This goes across all races. When it comes to a subject or matter people look at the person’s color before listening and observing or analyzing the facts.
This is very immature thinking and surprisingly many so-called Christians think like that. Some people think in this manner: If you disagree with something I believe in and you are of a different color you must be a bigot, a racist. That is the victim mentality. Those people have an inferiority complex.
That mentality leaves no room for reasoning and debating. We have to defend good and righteousness, not color.
If you observe politics especially in the USA a group of people will vote loyal to a political party even though that party has done nothing to help their communities in 75 years, because they are brainwashed that the other party is racist.
Some people you can deceive easily by acting like them and telling them you like their color of skin, try speaking like them, when the reality you could care less about them. When your values are not of righteousness you can be deceived easily. Small-minded people see color first before observing the truth and wrong or right. But superior thinking which is righteousness observes the truth of the facts and if something is wrong or right. They look at color last. Color of skin does not decide if you are a good or bad person and education does not decide if you are a good or bad person. Only a righteous character pleasing to God the father of Jesus decides what good is.
The conclusion always defends righteousness, not the color of skin.
The Patriot Miguel Arrindell
Dear Editor,
I have informed our parliamentarians and ministers to reshuffle the cabinets. Labour ministers should not hold the Health portfolio. The same minister should not hold both portfolios in the same term in office.
Cuthbert Bannis
By Alex Rosaria
The North American Dakota Indians have a saying: “When you’re on a dead horse, get off it”. Here, some people seem to have another strategy however: Invite the dead horse over to your house to have him repeatedly say “somos hermanos” and then deliver promises that he will suddenly get healthy so we can all ride off into the sunset, just like in the movies.
This is exactly what happened this week. With the Venezuelan state-owned PDVSA’s contract to run Curaçao’s refinery (Isla) expiring at the end of 2019, Mr. Manuel Quevedo, Venezuelan Oil Minister and president of the Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA, during a blitz meeting at Isla made some vague promises about starting up of the Curaçao refinery – lack of crude oil shipments has left Isla largely inactive – and the interest of PDVSA to remain as the operator after 2019. Those present applauded like giddy school kids and then he left. No one questioned him, no one pressed for details.
Fact is that PDVSA is currently held together by some duct tape. Economic mismanagement of the company and largescale corruption has meant that Venezuelan oil production has collapsed. Deteriorating infrastructure, lack of investment and PDVSA’s inability to even pay some of its workers has led to mass resignations in recent months. PDVSA’s financial disarray is even putting future crude oil supplies at risk. Do we not know this?
Fact is also that Venezuela’s BFF, China, is about to drop PDVSA from a planned $10 billion oil refinery and petrochemical joint project in southern China. The reason is the deteriorating financial status of PDVSA over the past few years.
Do we not remember that in mid-2016 our Prime Minister went to Caracas on what should have been a high-level summit about Isla’s future? Instead he was humiliated, left waiting for hours without being able to talk to anyone. Later, the Venezuelan Energy Minister declared that PDVSA had no money for Isla’s upgrade.
Did we not wonder how PDVSA is going to keep its promises while it’s barely surviving? Do we not see how some groups, unions and individuals are playing cahoots or even worse, are colluding with Caracas to keep PDVSA operating as a bastion of support for the corruption-riddled failed Chavez/Maduro socialism? What’s wrong with us?
If these people are given a free pass, the future of our refinery will be compromised. It is therefore imperative that the process of finding a responsible partner for Isla not be derailed. We need sanity, transparency and accountability, not dead horses.
~ Alex David Rosaria (50) is from Curaçao and has a MBA from the University of Iowa. He is a former Member of Parliament, Minister of Economic Affairs, State Secretary of Finance and UN Implementation Officer in Africa and Central America. ~
