Posted on 01/22/2016 1:23:42 PM PST by Kaslin
Back when Walter Cronkite was "the most trusted man in American" Accuracy in Media (AIM) denounced him as a Soviet dupe.
Back when The Washington Post's Watergate "expose'" saw editor Ben Bradlee basking in a worldwide chorus of hosannas AIM's own merciless expose' of the WaPo's bias and cover-ups finally drove the furious WaPo editor to briefly turn away from the multitudes, stifle his smile and publicly denounce AIM founder Reed Irvine as a "miserable, carping, retromingent vigilante!"
Back in 1990 when the U.S. political/media establishment went gaga over Nelson Mandela's visit-- with President Bush greeting him in the White House and the New York Times devoting 24 pages to adulatory coverage as Mandela barnstormed from sea to shining sea, AIM ridiculed the orgy with a bombshell expose' of the "convicted communist- terrorist" titled " Mandela Mania. "
In brief, Accuracy in Media has never been much swayed by national crazes. They have a sharp eye for bogus heroes. That eye, now belonging to the late Reed Irvine’s long-time understudy and successor Cliff Kincaid, has recently focused on Donald Trump. More specifically, this focus concerns what might be behind that "bromance" between the (intermittently) Republican real estate tycoon and the "ex"-KGB Lieut. Colonel Vladimir Putin.
"He is a bright and talented person without any doubt–an outstanding and talented personality." (KGB Colonel Vladimir Putin publicly complimenting Donald Trump, Dec, 17, 2015)
"It is always a great honor to be so nicely complimented by a man so highly respected within his own country and beyond," (Donald Trump publicly responding to compliment from KGB Col. Vladimir Putin, Dec. 18, 2015.)
It may not be too complicated, suggests Kincaid, "Follow Trump's Money to Moscow," he titled a recent article:
'So why has Donald Trump embraced Russian President Vladimir Putin? Why has he denied the evidence of Putin's killing of Russian journalists and dissidents? A savvy businessman, Trump is certainly not dumb. There must be something else to it.
Reports dating back to 1987, during the time of the old Soviet Union, reveal that Trump has been seeking business in Russia and attempting to build a "Russian Trump Tower" in Moscow and perhaps other Russian cities.
In 1987, before the collapse of the Soviet Union, he was meeting with Soviet officials and negotiating the building of "luxury hotels" in Moscow and Leningrad. A story at the time said Trump had met Soviet Ambassador Yuri Dubinin, who mentioned how much his daughter had admired the "opulent" Trump Tower in New York City. This led to an invitation to Trump to visit the USSR. The story said Dubinin wrote a letter to Trump, who hosted a meeting with Soviet officials in New York."
The meetings were not (immediately) fruitful. Soviets then (like Cubans today) demand a majority ownership in any foreign business venture in their fiefdom. Typically, Trump wasn't having any of that. Yet:
"The book, The Global Emerging market: Strategic management and Economics, by Vladimir Kvint, said that as far back as 2008, the Trump Organization had registered its trademarks in Russia in the areas of real estate development and construction."
Fast forward a bit and we find a story in Putin's own captive media organ RT wherein Donald Trump, during his visit to Moscow in November 2013 for the Miss Universe pageant, gushes about building a Trump Tower in Moscow: "I have plans for the establishment of business in Russia. Now, I am in talks with several Russian companies to establish this skyscraper."
The Soviet KGB (including its reign of terror under earlier monikers CHEKA, NKVD, etc.) tortured and murdered a vastly larger number of people than did Hitler's Gestapo and SS. Vladimir Putin proudly rose to the rank of Lieut. Colonel within the KGB–modern history's most murderous organization. Most of Putin's KGB "service" was in East Germany where he worked hand in glove with the notorious STASI, which was the KGB's star pupil and which they appointed as the hands-on tutors to Castro's secret police.
Donald Trump is openly boastful of his endorsement from Vladimir Putin—but denounces Ted Cruz as "nasty guy!"
"Nastiness," we must conclude, is in the eye of the beholder.
In his book, "Blowing Up Moscow; The Secret plot to Bring Back KGB Terror," the late KGB defector Alexander Litvinenko reveals that Al-Qaeda's number two man, Ayman al-Zawahiri, was trained by the KGB. Defector Litvinenko, who was blowing the whistle on Putin and his gang of criminal KGB chums, was poisoned to death back in London back 2006.
Trump used the Twin Towers tragedy to great benefit against Ted Cruz in the latest debate. One very well-informed source claims the masterminds for the mass-murder of Americans in New York were trained by the very outfit where Trump's newfound admirer Vladimir Putin proudly rose to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel.
But "he's fighting ISIS!" we’re told.
Sure.
"Ego-centric people who lack moral principles - who are either too greedy or who suffer from exaggerated self-importance. These are the people the KGB wants and finds easiest to recruit." KGB defector Yuri Bezmenov, 1985.
"Ex"-KGB Colonel Vladimir Putin probably has a good clue about how to get on the good side of somebody like Donald Trump.
British authorities said something probably happened? Wow.
Another angle, another attempt.
Acknowledging is not boasting; he was jabbing Obama. These people are dumb.
Everybody always knew Putin was behind it. Who cars what some judge thinks.
[”Ego-centric people who lack moral principles - who are either too greedy or who suffer from exaggerated self-importance. These are the people the KGB wants and finds easiest to recruit.” KGB defector Yuri Bezmenov, 1985.]
What? Like Bill Ayers, Stanley Ann Dunham, Barack Hussein Obama, Frank Marshal David, plus a few others from the 1960’s?
Lol .. strong evidence there .
The majority of the American people don’t want war and conflict with Russia . Most of the other candidates do want conflict with Russia .
Trump does not , and thus another reason to support Trump
Speaking of “Accuracy”, Putin hasn’t been a KGB Colonel for years. Why the odd title, if this isn’t a hit piece?
Newsflash - the Soviet Union collapsed in 1989. It doesn’t exist anymore.
Oops - Frank Marshal DAVIS - typo!!!!!!!!!!
Sounds darn familiar to me. That's OK. Glad it made it to Townhall!
That is exactly the time that the Communists scrambled over to the USA to take over the Green Movement stated by the Green Peace Founder who resigned when the organization was infiltrated. (Communists will kill and destroy you if you resist).
So-—Communism did not collapse with the Berlin Wall topple-—it just scattered and regrouped itself to take over the World in other venues like “Global Warming” and Agenda 21, etc.
There is a Culture War as stated by W. Chambers and it is “God v. Man” and he said THEN, Man was winning. Yuri Bezmenov stated that the communists already had control over “education” in the US for generations and that the little useful idiots were virtually ready to topple America (his ‘bananas out of the ears’ speech). That was in the 80s when this ex-KGB explained how the Communists infiltrated EVERY corner of the earth. Control of Words (Cultural Marxism) was imposed in America by the 60s-—and the deconstruction of our culture—to tear down Christianity and our Traditions and history to create a vulgar Weimar Republic, has been on STEROIDS, even activated by SCOTUS with the total control of Thought/Speech has been put into the highest law, with their imposition of irrational satanism (religion) onto our children and in publik “education”.
A Cuban writer. I don’t trust any Cubans, left or right. As for the British, the judge had no proof beyond thinking that the Russian leaders considered him an enemy. That’s it.
Meanwhile, he was a KGB officer who defected and worked for MI-5. He was siding with the Moslems who attacked Russia in the Moscow theater. He was working on a story exposing Italian Mafia ties to Italian government officials and the KGB. And last, he was working for a billionaire strongman Russian oligarch.
The day he got poisoned, he had his third lunch with 2 current KGB/FSB men, AND an Italian shady dealmaker who was a known nuclear expert with long ties to Columbia. He tested positive for Polonium 210. Did he get that from poisoning Litvenenko? Or did he get contaminated by the already poisoned Litvenenko? Nobody knows.
His own father thinks his Billionaire benefactor did it.
The fact is, nobody has anything beyond circumstantial proof and there are about 5 or 6 very plausible parties and very different motives for killing him.
Im sure Putin was about as upset as the NSA would be if someone killed Snowden.
Yes, the US Government and our main progressive-left political party seem to be the hosts of mutated marxist DNA now.
That’s an interesting, if short article.
From what I can glean from it, Putin in blaming Lenin for creating an empire where “politics only” or fanciful (presumably marxist) ideas ruled, which destroyed the historical greatness of Russia and her empire.
Thanks for that summary. You’d think this guy would’ve been more cautious.
Whereas, Stalin rejected most of Lenin’s theories, and in many ways was a Nationalist, adopting “Socialism in One Country”, as opposed to Lenin and Trotsky’s Internationalism.
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